Walking gingerly downhill on a narrow, winding street in Cadiz, Spain, paved in incredibly smooth and shiny stones bigger around than softballs, one of my companions, D.G. Schiltz, commented, “There are no championship rollerskaters from Cadiz.”
Now that our bill statements for spring semester have come in, I wanted to remind my fellow students about the fact that our tuition went up again this fall.
When ASMSU passes a bill of this nature, it is important that the university implements it, or it defeats the purpose of having a student government. There is no point in having a student government when the policies they propose that will help students aren’t implemented by the university.
I love social media because it’s the ultimate Rorschach inkblot test; it’s anything and everything users want it to be.
Employees of the Clinical Center are not allowed to park on the adjacent parking lot, which is assigned exclusively to patients, but instead use the parking lot on the other side of Service Road.
It has become apparent to me that this insignificant division, known simply as “parking,” has introduced itself more recently as a nuisance and disease to the populace of East Lansing.
Part of any generation’s responsibilities is to correct the mistakes made by the last. We usually tend to think of this responsibility in the context of examples taught in grade school, such as the woman’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement.
To help students find the right major, MSU should consider requiring freshmen to come in with no defined major and choose one after one year. This would allow students to take the required courses needed to graduate and help in not letting students go two years into college before realizing they have no interest in their chosen major.
As the attorney representing the city of East Lansing in the pending litigation regarding mailboxes, I can tell you that I was disappointed to read the tone of your editorial “Take alleged illegal mail search seriously” (SN 11/3). It then occurred to me that the editorial was more likely a matter of you being misinformed rather than any lack of due diligence on your part. While there is no doubt that Ann Ezop made a number of allegations regarding conduct of Housing Enforcement Specialist Robert Dutcher, the fact is, Mr. Dutcher specifically testified that he did not, does not and never has looked through the mail of student residents.
This week marks the start of one of the most exciting times for many Michiganians and a time of great nostalgia for me.
MSU is a research university whose administrators talk about going green, so it would make sense for the administration to embrace the goals of MSU Beyond Coal and lead the charge toward clean energy. Unfortunately, the administration is dragging its feet with regards to clean energy.
There currently are 47,954 students enrolled at MSU; 25,008 of those students are women. This means one in four of them, or 6,252, has been or will be the victim of rape or attempted rape during her MSU career, according to the Department of Justice.
I’m a 1969 MSU grad and a veteran. I was in the U.S. Army, infantry, in Vietnam. I think Veterans Day has been subverted from its original intent and now is just one more tool used to build the myth that the solution to conflict is military action.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government and MSU administrators are questioning the effectiveness of student representation in the Academic Governance system. The administration deserves criticism for its inability to make students feel heard, but students also should be criticized for not contributing much to the conversation.
SB 137 is now before the Michigan House. I encourage you to contact your State Representative and encourage them to vote against any version of SB 137 that includes the clause introduced by Republicans. Religious or moral conviction should not be a legitimate excuse for bullying, and any legislation that condones it is reprehensible.
Unlike its neighbor Libya, Tunisia’s transition from authoritarian rule has been largely peaceful. They were the beginners of this revolutionary wave, and now they are the first winners of this spring going on in the Arab world. The question now becomes “Who will be the next leader replaced in the Arab world?”
There shouldn’t have to be press involved for the truth to come out at MSU. At the beginning of the situation at Penn State, local police were not involved at all. In both cases at MSU, law enforcement was involved from the beginning, but the athletics department refrained from taking immediate action until after widespread media attention.
“Do you agree with (the Black Student Alliance)?” This type of statement, which has come of fashion of late and originally was attributed to quarterback Kirk Cousins, can be applied to a lot of recent events that have happened on campus, most noticeably those spearheaded by BSA.
Math is hard, but we don’t like to admit it. Remember when Mattel got in trouble for programming Barbie to say, “Math class is tough?” Let her dream about size 0 clothes all she wants, but don’t insinuate that the girl can’t solve an equation for “x.” Yet, we shy away from math as soon as it gets over our heads.
The MSU community’s commitment to stopping sexual assaults should be stronger and even more resolute today because of the recent alleged assault in Armstrong Hall. Both male and female students must know and perceive the difference between a regrettable decision and a sexual assault.