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Conflicting emotions
It's the end of the semester. It is almost over. Just a week left of finals or a few projects to wrap up. Many of us will be running out of here.
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Arrests racially biased, university is 'complicit'
I am outraged by the way protesters were treated during a speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, on April 19.
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Redevelopments should not drive students away
Recent statements by The Pierce Company president Fred Pierce in "Company's mock-up gets mixed reactions" (SN 4/18), indicate that Pierce does not understand the area of East Lansing his company seeks to redevelop, and confirms concerns that East Lansing will move students out of the prime student rental location in East Lansing.
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Nondisruptive students forced to leave event
As a student in attendance of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps lecture, I feel obliged to inform the student body of the atrocious violation of students' rights, overt exhibition of racial profiling and unnecessarily excessive use of police force that occurred.
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SN coverage of event left out Simcox speech
The stories on the April 19 speech of Minuteman President Chris Simcox, "YAF-sponsored event draws 5 arrests" (SN 4/20), and "Students express anger, concern over conduct of administrators, police with YAF-sponsored event" (SN 4/20), focused on disruptions by protesters.
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Mentally ill should not possess guns
When it comes to issues like gun control and carrying firearms, it's safest to take a moderate standpoint with room for compromise. General statements like "no one should carry a gun" and "everyone should carry a gun" lack both balance and reason.
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Broken news outlets
The phrase "Breaking news" doesn't even have meaning anymore. It's like the boy who cried wolf. It seems like every time I turn on the news, it says "Breaking news" across the bottom of the screen.
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Speakers incited crowd, didn't follow MSU rules
While reading the article titled "YAF-sponsored event draws 5 arrests" (SN 4/20), I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows progressively higher as I read farther down the page.
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Giving citizens guns will not solve shooting issues
Since I am an owner of several different firearms and am an avid sportswoman, I firmly believe in my privilege to own and use them.
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Art funding freezes sadly necessary
As Gov. Jennifer Granholm is stopped at every turn in her efforts to fight Michigan's budget deficit, it seems any program receiving state funds is fair game. Next up on the chopping block? The arts. On April 18, 200 people showed up at the Capitol Building in Lansing to protest Granholm's executive directive to freeze $7.5 million in grants promised to arts and cultural organizations.
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Key cards for dorms not effective security system
While I commend Meredith Leake for wanting to make the campus safer, her suggestions for building access are a little too impractical, "MSU administration must take preventive action" (SN 4/18). At several other schools, dorms are simply just that: dorms.
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Vocal transitions
Whether it was Don Imus' slur of "nappy-headed hos" or former Sen. George Allen's reference to an Indian man as a "macaca," a slip of the tongue in recent times has never been more controversial.
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Protesters at Simcox event hypocrites
The group of protesters at The Minuteman Project speech April 19 amazes me, along with its response to what police did. First, the protesters who tried to shut down Chris Simcox's speech are hypocrites.
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Generation united
As a youngster, I followed politics and news more than most my age. My first Breaking News Alert was a yellow sticky note my mom placed on my bathroom sink when the '92 election results came in. But as we witnessed last week, there are some events that touch us all.
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Police officers did their job at event
Like the student protesters of the Young Americans for Freedom-sponsored event on campus last week, I am strongly opposed to the organization's beliefs and values.
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Campus environment is filled with hate
Sometimes this country really leaves me deflated. Earlier this month, Chris Matus pointed out the beauty of free speech in "It goes both ways" (SN 4/10), but based upon the arrests April 19, it seems that fascism is a one-way street.
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Judges' votes not fairly scored at competition
First, thanks to the UAB and its well-organized team for inviting me to guest judge this year's Battle of the Bands.
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Student body must end words of hate
We need to stop saying hateful things to each other. I am writing in response to Thea Neal and Tara Thoel's article "Students protest with silence" (SN 4/19), on The Day of Silence.
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Driving at posted speeds would reduce tailgating
I am responding to a couple of letters concerning the speed limit on Grand River Avenue, "Speed limit ill-suited to West Grand River Avenue" (SN 4/10), and "Raising speed on avenue will not curb problem" (SN 4/17), which complain for and against raising the speed limit on Grand River Avenue.
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Fighting to catch up
Washington — The rites of spring bring warmer weather, baseball and the time when women's annual earnings finally catch up to what men earned last year. Because full-time working women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn, it takes them nearly 16 months to earn what men make in a year for doing the same work. For minority women, the wage gap is even larger, so black women don't catch up to white men until late May, and Hispanic women don't catch up until mid-September. Equal Pay Day is observed today.