V-Day Losing its Spark?
28 January 2010
Plenty of single women are taking the opportunity to have a girls’ night with good friends instead of chasing the traditional Valentine’s Day dream of dinner, chocolates and budding romance. Whether it’s an expression of independence or a stand against those dates that have gone wrong in the past, it’s happening, and it might just [...]
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“Safe Styles” Separating on Cultural Lines
28 January 2010
Whether or not we mean to, we are constantly judging, stereotyping and labeling and then making assumptions based on fashion. These standards then play a part in defining who we are as individuals. “Stereotypes exist because there are people that would rather create labels and groups then get to know someone,” said apparel and textiles [...]
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Kewl Enough 2 Kindle?
27 January 2010
When I first looked up the tutorial for an e-reader, the Amazon Kindle, I thought that it was absurd. A tutorial to read a book? E-readers kill the simplicity of the novel. A book doesn’t need a tutorial. You pick it up and you read. A book is a physical thing with pretty covers and [...]
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Esperanza Spalding: Pop Goes Beauty and the Beast
26 January 2010
I don’t know if Esperanza Spalding is real. Surely the bassist-singer is real in the sense that I saw her and her badass band play the Wharton Center on Jan. 20th. And surely she’s the “real deal,” attesting to any avocation of her sizable skills. And yet, someone seemingly capable of anything cannot be, forgive [...]
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Students Against Drunk Driving
23 January 2010
When Joshua Clark’s parents arrived at Sparrow Hospital, the first person they talked to was a pastor. It wasn’t a reassuring sign – their son had been hit by a drunken driver so hard that although he was driving, police found him on the passenger-side floor. “I was in a coma for the next month,” Clark, [...]
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Taming the 21st Birthday
22 January 2010
Katie Frey celebrated her 21st birthday for four days. Sounds like the perfect formula for an epic hangover, right? However, the MSU student decided to only drink during one of those days. The rest of the time she chose to spend with family and friends, completely sober. “I’m really glad I chose the way I did. [...]
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Not There Yet: Minority Faiths Still Have to Work Around a Christian-centric University
17 January 2010
// This fall, Michigan State University created a ‘reflection room’ in Anthony Hall, which students of any faith can use for prayer. Certain faiths, such as Islam, require daily prayers during the hours classes are normally held, which can be difficult to fulfill on days when students have classes and have to find a quiet [...]
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Sex Traffic: Directly Toward Michigan?
17 January 2010
Human trafficking is defined by The United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving [...]
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Message of a Missionary Lost in its Stereotype
05 January 2010
Editor’s Note: This article is a creative non-fiction piece, and details one person’s journey in understanding young missionaries. The sources, therefore, are her friends- her brother and TBG all-star and Associate Editor Mallory Hines. Please direct any questions toward tbgletters@gmail.com. A missionary looks like a straight-laced kid. Neatly-pressed khakis, tucked in collared shirt, hair perfectly in [...]
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What’s with the new Museum? Six Questions Answered
30 December 2009
With a brand new year here, everyone seems to be off to a fresh start – including MSU. Construction will start on a new art museum for the University this spring. So while all of us are busy rethinking, reevaluating and then completely disowning our new year’s resolutions, the MSU campus and Art Department are [...]
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