Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Commentary

COMMENTARY

Columnist should buy own food, not whine

In response to Lindsey Poisson's "Totally Takeout should offer more selection, higher quality food" (SN 10/7), instead of complaining that not every Totally Takeout carries your pickles, I suggest you learn to feed yourself.

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Shaken

It's starting to feel like the Apocalypse. Day after day we hear about disaster after disaster.

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Writer naive, should drink to judge others

I am writing in response to Kristen Daum's opinion piece "Alcohol poisoning is not 'cool'; why must students brag about booze?" (SN 9/27). As a fellow Spartan, I can understand the points she makes about the stupidity and danger of debauchery and binge drinking in general.

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Women's rights don't supersede unborn's

This letter is not in the hopes of starting an abortion debate, but rather to correct the misinterpretation of the 'religious right' in the political cartoon by Mike Ramsey (SN 9/28). The cartoon depicts the religious right as trying to topple women's rights as the end result of their campaign against abortion, etc.

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Fired up

We're all grown up now. Let's act like it. This means being responsible: Taking care of your belongings and making sure you don't catch anything on fire - such as your dorm room. A lit candle was left unattended, which caused a small fire in Bryan Hall on Friday.

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Fire in Bryan Hall helped put possible hazards into perspective

Few things can wake you up as effectively as a fire alarm. Some thoughts hit your mind at once: "Geez, another fire drill?" "What idiot pulled the alarm?" "Where's my jacket?" "What a pain in the -." When you get outside and see police cars and vans pulling in, fire trucks arriving and a lot of nervous students chattering in the cold, the reality still doesn't quite hit you. Walking around, my thoughts were still focused on my preconceptions of what a fire was supposed to look like.

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Visual tactics

Bloody and torn-apart fetuses on giant posters are shocking and disturbing. But it's an effective tactic. Missionaries to the Preborn, an anti-abortion group, used gory, post-abortion images to show their stance on campus Thursday. We support the right of women to choose to have an abortion, but we also hold the right to free speech in high regard.

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Intelligent design a scientific possibility

I'm not sure what all the buzz was about in the article on intelligent design ("MSU profs oppose intelligent design as science" SN 10/5). I've always tended to lean toward evolutionary theory, but to assert that evolution is fact and that intelligent design should not be considered at all, seems a bit extreme to me. I don't claim to be a scientist and I can't tell you what sort of standing intelligent design has in the scientific community, but why should it be shut out of consideration?

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Buyer beware

There's no way drug dealers can take the blame for purchasers' overdoses. Are they supposed to hold the buyers' hands? A new Michigan law mandating tougher sentences for drug sellers whose drugs cause people to die from an overdose was signed into legislation on Thursday.

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Column lacks truth, claims unfounded

At the request of some of my friends, I read an opinion piece written by Kristen Daum about alcohol ("Alcohol poisoning is not 'cool'; why must students brag about booze?" SN 9/27). They thought the column would be of interest to the group because Daum lives down the hall from us and it appears that she wrote about some of my other floor mates.