Recent Articles
Against linear education
My time as an undergraduate at MSU has come to an end. It wasn’t a bad two years. I worked for a competitive publication, met good people and, through the help of professors and classmates, found new ways to look at the world. All that being true, I still wish I had taken more time to smell the roses.
Liveblog: Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State Address
Join The State News’ opinion editor David Barker as he discusses Gov. Rick Snyder’s first State of the State Address.
Martin Luther King Jr. still helping people
I don’t know what to think. I didn’t live through any of it. I don’t know what it’s like to live under Jim Crow in the south. I’ve been discriminated against, but rarely is it institutionalized. Dr. King’s relevance to me stems mostly from his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” because it practically is required reading in every philosophy class I’ve taken.
Newly elected ASMSU chairperson resigns
One week after he was elected Student Assembly Chairperson, Eric Branoff has resigned. Branoff gave up his seat at ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to accept a scholarship to study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
Pressing On
Despite cuts in funding, staffers at the Red Cedar Log are optimistic for the yearbook’s future. A 2 percent reduction in funding by ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government and the publication’s primary financial supporter, is part of a trend in reduced funding spanning the past several years.
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- State of the Union reactions
- Constituents must look for specificity in State of the State address
- Mental illness is not the be-all, end-all to shooting
- ‘Huckleberry Finn’ needs merit-based judgement
- Cuts must be made in the right places for the right reasons
- The 'best' comments of the week — July 8 edition
