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Current voting guidelines for students acceptable
Despite Mr. Triplett's confusion and the misleading headline by The State News, "University students deserve the right to vote" (SN 5/23), university students already have a "full and unfettered" right to vote. It is reasonable and logical that one's voter registration card and driver license match in order to vote.
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Protection for all
Americans are being bombarded with different plans to fix the nation's health-care system. After a decade-long dry spell, almost every politician, every large employer, every consumer and industry association and, of course, every presidential candidate, has a health-care reform idea. Isn't it wonderful?
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Economic problems reveal government flaws
There is a major budget crisis going on in Lansing, and the last thing Michigan needs right now is a tax hike. Michigan continues to be an environment that is unfriendly to businesses and continues taxing our hard-working families.
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Redevelopments are hurting students
It is the inherent nature of any college town to have an abundance of cheap housing available for students.
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Markets making way
Farmers market season is up and running, and I couldn't be happier. It feels like Michigan is finally waking up from the long, cold winter and blossoming into the glorious green days of early summer. I believe in the United States we've grown far too removed from the land.
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Use of cell phones is harming bee population
I am writing in response to "Bee loss affects Mich.
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Columnist's claims about oil were misinformed
In "A world beyond oil" (SN 5/22), Chris Matus reflected what's been drummed in the media, there was nothing new said. This is the problem: We have a nation of technologically savvy young people who are only really talented at consuming.
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University students deserve the right to vote
The Michigan House of Representatives is currently considering a pair of bills - HB 4447 and 4448 - that would give university students back their full and unfettered right to vote, which has been denied since 2000 and the passage of Public Act 118, otherwise known as the Rogers' Law. Currently, Rogers' Law requires that the address on your driver's license and voter registration card match.
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Trustee does not deserve praise for his donations
I am writing with regard to the article on George Perles, "MSU trustee celebrated" (SN 5/22), from the perspective of someone who attended MSU back in the 1980s and now as a season football ticket holder (Sec.
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College expansion is a good choice
Nobody likes to share, and now that the College of Osteopathic Medicine is expanding to the Detroit Medical Center, some cannot stop complaining. The decision to select both DMC and Macomb Community College's University Center as satellite sites for the college was made Friday by the MSU Board of Trustees.
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Women still face employment inequity
Women have certainly come a long way in the workforce, but their pay hasn't yet caught up. In fact, the gender gap in earnings has remained unchanged for the past decade despite the fact there are more women in the labor force than ever before and they are more productive and better educated than they've ever been. Full-time working women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn for doing the same work.
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Science education faces opposition
We all have seen the cars adorned with "Jesus fish." Likewise, we've seen them countered by cars with a similar icon sprouting legs and sporting Darwin's name. The debate between evolutionists and supporters of intelligent design is nothing new. But when this debate leaves the bumpers of cars and emerges in public schools, real ramifications can occur.
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A world beyond oil
The pit of my stomach falls out whenever I have to fill up my tank. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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Immigration bill must work out flaws
Immigration has been the topic of discourse for years, and today a new bill will go to the Senate regarding the issue. The bill is a bipartisan deal with the White House and is a step toward resolving the problem of illegal immigration.
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Fire department's response was justified
As East Lansing fire chief, I have been reluctant to comment on the 2001 Linton Hall anthrax scare and the subsequent lawsuit due to an acute awareness that any response I give could easily be interpreted as insensitivity to the individuals who underwent the decontamination. In response to "E.L.
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Articles require more input from professionals
I'd like to advocate for The State News hiring some sort of science advisor to work with you on your scientific articles. Perhaps it is because I am a physics major and am more familiar with the topics discussed in articles about the Cyclotron, but it always seems to me that those articles are the largest festering grounds for inaccuracy - not only in content, but also in language. For example, in your latest article "Researchers design improved Cyclotron magnet prototype" (SN 5/18), it is stated that, "A cyclotron is a device that spins around faster than half the speed of light." I would be horrified to go near the Cyclotron building if that were the case, because the equipment would fly apart and kill people.
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Distasteful pranks
Imagine this: It's just another day at work or school, and suddenly someone rushes in and tells you there is a shooter nearby.
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Falwell practiced hate, should not be mourned
Rabidly anti-gay crusader the Rev. Jerry Falwell has died. As a gay man, I'm torn. On the one hand, I want to take the moral high ground and remain the better person.
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Columnist's views on limbo repeal incorrect
In "No longer in limbo" (SN 5 /16) John Bice, once again, gets on his soapbox in a tirade against organized religion - this time focusing on the Roman Catholic Church.