Opinion


Tuition increase likely in face of budget deficit

As June comes to a close, SVSU is still struggling to finalize a budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year. This is largely because of the state legislature's inability to resolve a looming budget deficit for the fiscal year of 2008. »

Pro managers should act more professional

Imagine that you're having a bad day at work, and something just doesn't go your way. What would you do? Maybe you would stomp into your boss' office, scream in his face, and throw his papers off the desk. Maybe, if the boss wasn't feeling good-natured about the intrusion, you would yell, "Yeah, well I don't like your attitude!" Maybe you would even start crawling around on the ground in sheer anger. Then again, maybe you wouldn't. In fact, you most certainly wouldn't. Which leaves me to wonder...why can Phillip Wellman do that - and get away with it? »

Every day a learning experience

Each day we add 24 hours to our life. We do things we may not have thought possible. We go places we couldn't have imagined. We meet people we didn't know existed. »

State doing little to fix budget

The seemingly endless debate over how to deal with Michigan's recession has finally been adjourned - for a while.

After much debate and filibustering on how to defeat the $800 million problem, Michigan legislatures, along with Governor Jennifer Granholm, finally settled on a resolution in late May. »