Facebook and Twitter aren’t only people sharing what they’re doing with friends and family; social media also is an effective admissions tool for MSU.
This time of year, living rooms everywhere are marked by large evergreen trees, yet most people don’t really know why. The Christmas tree has a long and controversial history.
This year, ASMSU has done a better job of trying to serve students. However, it didn’t lay the proper groundwork when it set out to develop a mobile app students could use to find times and track Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA buses.
U.S. House Republicans are attacking a recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, to require new insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays.
The economy will be the dominant issue in the 2012 presidential election, and rightfully so. This has been the longest time of unemployment staying above 9 percent since the Great Depression.
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction not only failed to lower the national debt but also failed in helping students. The committee’s recent lapse in reaching an agreement regarding how to address America’s steadily rising national debt triggered several planned cuts to federally funded programs.
I am appalled that a piece of drivel like that written by Mitch Goldsmith would even be published in this newspaper (“Try turkey-less Thanksgiving,” SN 11/22). There are so many errors and outright lies in his article, I almost wonder if it is actually satire.
You see, if you describe the parking department as a disease, I must be a virus. I am employed as a parking booth attendant. I’m not an enforcer.
I am sure someone somewhere could use help serving food, because you can never have enough free help. So this holiday season, get your family together and find a place to serve a delicious hot meal to those in need.
This semester, more so than in past semesters, issues of free speech were ignited by a campuswide discussion about race. It undoubtedly is important for students to learn the difference between hate speech and free speech.
Each Thanksgiving, an estimated 45 million turkeys are thought to be reared and killed in American factory farms, destined to be the holiday centerpieces on American families’ dinner tables.
For years, I’ve claimed that if MSU ever got a consistent winner on the football field and fans’ loyalty was repaid, watch out — the alumni, students and the state would go absolutely nuts and prove men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo right that we are a football school ranking with the best of them.
With the end of the semester sneaking up on students, for some it’s their last few weeks as a Spartan. Although most students dread the thought of leaving, a new MSU report should lessen that trepidation.
No student should feel unsafe walking home at night. Although making that happen is impossible, taking action to empower students to keep them from feeling unsafe is the next best step for MSU.
The holiday season is fast approaching. Come 2 p.m. Wednesday, I am officially free to head home. Home for me is Tecumseh, Mich.
Pennsylvania State University used to represent the pinnacle of morality in college athletics. In an instant, that illusion shattered into a million pieces.
In embracing the concept of brotherhood by accepting responsibility for partygoers, MSU’s Interfraternity Council, or IFC, practices the values held by each MSU fraternity. The accountability system put into place by the IFC, after the untimely passing of a fraternity brother in 2009, was a great step to take.
The Coalition Against Sexual Violence recently gathered to discuss the editorial board’s article, “Commit to stopping sexual assault at MSU,” planning to write a letter to the editor in response.
Tea Party, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Communists or Socialists — it really doesn’t matter in today’s climate. Everyone seems to want to get out in the streets and scream and yell, camp out in a neighboring park or gather in unwashed groups and rant.
It shouldn’t be a hassle for students to live on campus because of too much or too little security. Having the same security in place across campus is something RHS should have done a long time ago to make the lives of students safer.