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COMMENTARY

HRC here to help those faced with discrimination

The Human Relations Commission of the city of East Lansing strongly condemns the Young Americans for Freedom group's intent to hold "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" at MSU. Founded to promote positive relations among racial and cultural groups in the city, the HRC was created to help protect the rights of all MSU students and visitors.

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Letter was wrong about Benedict's comments

In response to Jeff Stempel's letter "Cartoon wrong; pope's remarks not insensitive," (SN 9/26), his assertion that Muslims "broke out in protest … without even finding out what Pope Benedict XVI had actually said" is one of fantastic irony. It lies in ignorantly digesting an influential religious figure's words without questioning their context, purpose and validity and then accusing the targeted party of doing the same.

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Focus on minority health good for Mich.

Last week, health officials from across Michigan met at the Kellogg Center to discuss issues related to health care for minorities. Hosted by the Michigan Minority Health Coalition, or MMHC, and GlaxoSmithKline Inc., the mission of the meeting was to promote a better understanding within our community of diseases people might be prone to and resources to help them. In a state with a diverse population and a disturbingly high obesity rate, meetings like this are vital for promoting a healthy community.

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MSU student behavior after games isn't all bad

It seems that every Monday following a home football game, The State News has at least one letter to the editor condemning students' behavior before, during or after the game. But what some people seemingly fail to realize is that there are always two, perhaps even more, sides to every story. Yes, the Illinois fans who chose to sit in the Spartan student section were treated poorly.

COMMENTARY

It's embarrassing for MSU to lose to Illinois

Let's see … The football team struggled against Idaho, played just good enough against Eastern Michigan, uncharacteristically well against Pittsburgh, didn't come out of the locker room for the second half of the Notre Dame game and embarrassed themselves against Illinois — a team that hasn't beaten the Spartans in nine years or won a conference game since 2004. There are five ways to describe the football program this year: sorrowful, misdirected, inconsistent, tattered and haphazard. Something is beginning to smell at Spartan Stadium.

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YAF group glorifies same activities as fascists

The State News reported that an organization called Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, has sought endorsement from the campus Republican organization for "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" in the story "MSU, U-M plan 'Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,'" (SN 9/21). There would be a cash prize to zealous students who uncover the one or more students with an "illegal immigrant" sign.

COMMENTARY

Gubernatorial debate observations

Tom Keller tuned in and kept a running diary of his impressions of the gubernatorial debate. 8 p.m. — In his opening comments, moderator Tim Skubick says of the night's debate, "There are no rules." I excitedly contemplate the possibilities.

COMMENTARY

Ignoring Foley only made it worse

It's pretty ironic that a person, formerly the co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and a prominent backer of legislation that cracks down on online predators and criminalizes child pornography, is now in hot water for allegedly sending inappropriate e-mails to teenage boys. But then again, most of politics is just smoke and mirrors. It would probably seem that former Rep.