There is a natural order to what can be considered life’s biggest thrills when you are growing up.Much like a video game, we seem to advance to higher levels and while gaining experience, we also earn privileges.It all starts in the fifth grade.
I would like to address Joe Pennell’s opinion letter “Columnist was highly offensive” (SN 1/26). I understand you took offense to Brian Emerson Jones’ column, but what exactly did you take offense to?
I am an MSU graduate. I am also an alcoholic. The university did not teach me how to become one, I just am.
The Lansing police’s attempt to stop racial profiling is a step in the right direction, but it will not get to the core of the problem. The police will be using demographic data from all traffic stops to help track racial profiling.
On Tuesday I attended a pro-choice meeting that, from the information in The State News, I assumed to be open to the public and of general scope in content.
Then President-elect George W. Bush announced his nomination of Ashcroft for attorney general Dec.
Once again the winds are fanning the flames of the abortion debate with the newly selected president’s decision to keep federal money out of the pockets of abortion-supporting organizations.
In the Wednesday issue of The State News, a police brief stated a robbery suspect was a masked man and described him as Asian Pacific. This is an amazing and disturbing description of a criminal perpetrator that could have serious repercussions in a community with a small population of Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander students, staff and faculty. I would like to know how a masked man could be described as Asian Pacific.
I really see why Martin Luther King Jr. dared to dream what he did. I can’t even describe how I feel every time I read a book, a paper or see someone on television who insists on promoting stereotypes about my people and/or maintaining them. In Wednesday’s State News, the Rev.
I usually manage to stomach the uniformly liberal editorials on The State News’ Opinion Page, but I found Brian Emerson Jones’s column (“Bush’s appointees enforce his ‘magical myth,’” SN 1/24) on Bush’s cabinet appointments to be especially offensive. Jones rails against the ostensible diversity of the Cabinet while attacking the politically incorrect views of Bush and his nominees.
I am writing in response to Brian Selewski’s letter “Christ’s beliefs not felt by all” (SN 1/23). Obviously, he has never taken a history class in his entire life, or he would realize much of our evidence from 2,000 years ago comes from the Bible itself. I don’t see why he finds it hard to believe in a man who lived 2,000 years ago - does he find it hard to believe Homer, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra or Aristotle existed?
This letter is in response to Jeremy W. Steele’s article “Woman sexually attacked on campus” (SN 1/23). In the article, there was a comment by the police: “She was not injured.” Why would the MSU police make such a statement if this woman was sexually assaulted?
I truly hope that Eric Bjornstad’s letter, “Christ Deserves Day off like MLK” (SN 1/22), was some sort of a joke.
A law passed in 1990 requiring colleges and universities to publish alcohol-related criminal statistics gives MSU the distinction of being the No.
While in East Lansing last weekend, I was introduced to “Studentangle.” I later spent time online reading through older strips.
Students have the right to know the course material and teaching style of their professor from the first day of class.A group of about 20 students filed a formal grievance regarding their Religion 205, Myth, Self and Religion class.
I am writing in response to Eric Bjornstad’s letter about having a day off in honor of Jesus Christ (“Christ deserves day off like MLK,” SN 1/22). The last time I checked, this was a public university, not a private one.
Picture it: a Republican National Convention with racial minorities parading on stage, a cabinet full of women and racial minorities, and sexy Latino star Ricky Martin singing at President George W.
After reading Eric Bjornstad’s somewhat perplexing letter (“Christ deserves day off like MLK,” SN 1/22) concerning the presence of a university holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., but the lack of a holiday celebrating the “original civil rights” leader Jesus Christ, I could only think of this to say: Dude, what are you thinking? Call me daft, but I do not understand the rationale that Dec.
John Ashcroft shouldn’t have to defend himself against attacks of racial profiling. His track record speaks loudly that despite race or political lines, his purpose is to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Why then did he vote against Judge Ronnie White in his promotion to lifetime federal judgeship?