MSU students can make living in E.L. more enjoyable by registering to vote locally
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This is my fifth year at MSU. I will be graduating this spring and I will definitely miss MSU. I will not, however, miss East Lansing. I cannot wait to leave this city.
East Lansing is building new condominiums to attract young professionals and recent graduates to come live in the city, but I have some thoughts that might work better. Perhaps if the city treated students as their lifeblood instead of a population to abuse for financial gain, maybe then students would stay. Perhaps if there were somewhere for visiting friends and relatives to park, maybe then students would stay.
The Parking and Code Enforcement Web site says, “Each year the City is proud to welcome MSU students … back to East Lansing for another exciting year …” So I ask myself, what is more welcoming: the scores of police officers busting parties and writing minor in possession tickets (for your safety of course), or the $40 parking tickets and tow trucks?
I’ve almost finished my time at MSU, but I have some advice for younger students. Register to vote in East Lansing; you’re going to be dealing with the aforementioned garbage until you graduate.
Kyle Elliott
mechanical engineering senior
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Flip Side
(11/04/08 7:10am)Report
That does make since however what if you are planning on returing to your home community. As you mentioned we live here for several years (I’ll be here 8 years) however once that time expires I could give a damn what hair brained ideas the city comes up with. I am more interested in the hair brained ideas that my home community come up. So in that regards I would encourage you to vote locally.
Spellcheck
(11/04/08 10:22am)Report
Flip Side- you’ve been here for 8 years yet you don’t know the difference between “since” and “sense”?
Wow- either MSU is slacking in their admission requirements, or you just never understood Spelling & Grammer 101.
potkettleblack
(11/04/08 11:58am)Report
First rule of insulting someone’s spelling online: Make sure your comment does not have any spelling errors.
Second rule of insulting someone’s spelling online: Don’t. It makes you look like a dick.
lmao@spellcheck
(11/04/08 12:37pm)Report
well said
Idiot
(11/04/08 2:43pm)Report
It’s grammar not grammer.
spellcheck is a moron
(11/04/08 3:40pm)Report
Wow, how in the hell did you get into MSU?
Townsend
(11/04/08 4:36pm)Report
It’s better to stay on message rather than troll and attack someone for spelling errors. Blogs and message boards are for quick message and I’ve seen spelling errors by reporters even on New York Times’ blogs — it happens/doesn’t make the writer(s) stupid… Get a life!
reality
(11/05/08 2:01pm)Report
I lived in East Lansing within the past ten years as an MSU student. Once you graduate, you’ll realize that in the real world, a lot of cities, not just college towns, issue parking tickets, noise violations, and MIPs. Sounds like the writer is bitter about Cedar Fest?
David
(11/06/08 7:29am)Report
What hell is wrong with you?
EL is amazing!!!
You must be an Obama supporter.