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Time for U-M to stop excuses, realize underdog can be better

I can’t speak for everybody, but I’m really getting tired of the bias toward the University of Michigan whenever it comes to MSU. It seems like every time the Spartans make the maize and blue look bad, there are a million excuses why it happened, except for the reason that MSU just came out on top. According to a friend of mine in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines are absolutely livid about Saturday’s last-second touchdown play that handed victory to MSU.

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Former maize, blue fan reforms to Spartan ways, greener school

Saturday will mark another unforgettable experience in my life - my first live MSU vs. Michigan football game. Growing up, I cheered for the guys wearing maize and blue - and I mean I cheered.

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Life lessons learned, Ferris Bueller style

I watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” on Sunday morning while I was trying to figure out who I would start on my five fantasy football teams.

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Important for campus to commemorate Dia de los Muertos

For the past seven years, the ancient holiday Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, has been celebrated on campus.

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Railroad companies should take responsibility for bad crossings

Earlier this semester, when I was supposed to finish reading a journal article that needed to head for an editor, prep a lecture for class and evaluate a bunch of papers for my students, I was instead consumed with thoughts of something that affects everyone’s lives on campus. It concerned the railroad situation at MSU and the possibility of more deaths than we have had because of the seeming lack of concern by the railroad interests that grind the university to a halt before 8 a.m.

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Loss of trees sad, but shows circle of life

Wednesday night, as I watched the storm on the Doppler radar approach my home, I headed downstairs to sit on my porch and watch.

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For the folks who stole my cell phone - crime just doesnt pay

A couple weeks ago, I noticed that my cell phone was missing. I didn’t think too much of it at first, as I’m notorious for losing things - pencils, money, train of thought - nothing is safe from my lack of organization.A couple days later, it dawned on me that despite my clumsiness with my personal property, I’m usually a bit more careful with devices and items that generally cost as much as my entire usable paycheck.So after a day of retracing my steps, and a careful search of drawers, boxes and pants, I concluded that my phone was lost.

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Columnist finds college to be a time of hard work and dedication, not a time to slack off and party

After high school commencement, many graduates think of one thing and one thing only - college. What’s odd is the fact that when people step foot on their college campuses, they revisit the days when they were in high school.

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Dont listen to barrage of ignorance from people giving just my opinion

With all that has happened in the last month and the events that continue to escalate hour by hour, I began to listen closer to things that perhaps never captured my attention before. I have started to focus on the diatribes that go on with characters who have the power to influence large numbers of fairly ignorant and uninformed people.

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Squirrels hate drunk students, and other bedtime stories

Smashed. Bombed. Wasted. Blown out. They all mean pretty much the same thing - drunk. College campuses look similar on weekends.

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Rishi: No issues, just ways the world can stop annoying me

I want to begin this column by apologizing to everyone who’s about to read it. Normally, I spend a decent amount of time organizing and composing a column that I think will entertain, inform or persuade all of you.

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Music, even if loud, helps identify self

After four years on this campus, there isn’t much that intimidates me. But there is one thing that scares me above all else - I get nervous driving in the area when I play my music loud. I’m not worried about the police giving me a noise violation ticket, although I have gotten a few in the past.

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Ignore polls, opinion probably doesnt matter

I remember the first time I ever voted. It was the presidential election of 1984. I was only 12 and it was a mock election, but I voted and I felt important.

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Campus shouldnt make anyone cringe, join mom in effort

In April I interviewed Shawn Newstead for a story in The State News. More than six months earlier, her son, Brandon D’Annunzio, had been severely beaten while at a bachelor party in an East Lansing bar. The 24-year-old died 10 days after that Oct.

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When ready-made foods attack, convenience leads to sacrifices

I’ve often wondered from childhood through adulthood why people put some of the things they do in their mouths.

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Core of LBGT oppression lies in silence

Our silence is our most menacing enemy. That silence allows society to make the rules for us by defining who we are, and what we hope to accomplish in our lives.

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Generation didnt have monumental day; now wishes it didnt

America. The land of the free, and the home of the brave. Those familiar words rang in the back of my mind as I watched in horror at Sept.

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Nation should not celebrate Columbus Day, terrorism of native people

America was attacked.The innocent lives of countless Americans were lost as the result of acts of violence incomprehensible to most people.

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Black, white, gay, straight; labels do little except kill plans, goals

Call me a dreamer, but I don’t think it is necessary for people to be confined to labels or the categories placed on them by others.

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Time for the dissolution of organized religion?

It has been three weeks since we watched America become the victim of unbridled hatred and misguided devotion.