Excellent service: Students should take advantage of volunteering
While University students start volunteering for a variety of reasons, they share a common experience of helping others and getting as much out of it as they put in, if not more. This is certainly true for Circle K, a campus community service group whose hard work earned them an opportunity to travel to Jamaica last month and receive the first-place International Gold Cup of Achievement Award.
Mass mentality: Referendum should not dictate personal choice
In the upcoming November elections, one of the ballot measures seeking public confirmation, labeled Proposal B, is a plan to legalize assisted suicide. Currently, assisted suicide is illegal in Michigan. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's highly publicized campaign of helping the terminally ill end their lives resulted in backlash by some in the medical and religious communities, which led to a 1997 Republican-prompted vote in the Michigan Senate to formally criminalize the practice.
Your one-stop guide to the events of the year to come
I know exactly what's running through your mind right now: Fear, anxiety and uncertainty about the year ahead. For the next eight months, your destiny will fall squarely in the hands of nature, fate, God and Lee Bollinger. And it's scary as hell.
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