Friday, January 2, 2026

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Commentary

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Racist slang has no place in SN articles

"Suggested listening: The Blanks' album would be great to listen to when riding in the car, having some friends over or just for the times when the listener wants to be a porch monkey ("Local band's latest album good mix of musical genres" SN 6/16)." You all do realize that this is a very, very nasty racial epithet, right?

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Censored guide

MSU's campus can be a big, confusing place for incoming college freshmen. For this reason, MSU has the Academic Orientation Program, a two-day briefing on courses, living arrangements and more.

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Letter lacks logic, sincere sensitivity

Kasey Moyes, you're right. Your letter is unsuitable for readers ("War necessary, can rarely be avoided" SN 6/9). To say in most cases that "going to war and putting soldiers in harm's way is not the last resort - it's the only resort" is absurd and dangerous.

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Iraq war started on fallacious premises

So is that the new fad? Thanking the United Nations for giving "Saddam Hussein plenty of time to hide and get rid of" the WMD, as Kasey Moyes claims ("War necessary, can rarely be avoided" SN 6/9)? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole purpose of the 1991 cease-fire and resolutions were for precisely that purpose - to get rid of the WMD.

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Beat it, again

Weighing the pros and cons of the not guilty verdict in the Michael Jackson child-molestation case is befuddling.

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No dice, guys

Last time we checked, we don't have police badges - nor do our paychecks distribute through the East Lansing Police Department.

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'Peace talks' not sign of weakness

I am writing in response to Kasey Moyes' article, ("War necessary, can rarely be avoided" SN 6/9). Forgive me, but after reading the opening paragraph, I find it hard to understand that after your "experiences" of so many losses of lives through war, that you should be so anxious to dismiss negotiations and go straight to war.

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ESPN 2, Fox News bad for campus TV

I am absolutely flummoxed as to how the university drew the conclusion that a substantial minority of responses requesting Fox News be added to the "U-Tube" lineup translates into a mandate to replace a time-honored and trusted news source, The New York Times, with a cable news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch ("Fox News, ESPN 2 added to campus TV" SN 6/13). When I took the Residence Halls Association survey, I was under the impression that it would merely be a reshuffling of the channels.

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Earth-mobiles

Buying a new car involves weighing priorities, weighing your wallet and sometimes a little bit of impulse.

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Area overhaul

We've said it a hundred times, but we'll say it again - there would be no East Lansing without MSU.

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Left justices turned down medical weed

I noticed in your opinion ("Weeded out" SN 6/7) you seemed very quick to bash President Bush and his anti-drug conservatism ("tyrannical reign," actually.) You failed to note, however, that the 6-3 majority against medicinal marijuana was passed by mainly liberal justices and that the three who voted for medical marijuana to remain a states issue were conservatives Clarence Thomas, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor (a sometimes-conservative). Bush's anti-drug "tyranny" really didn't have anything to do with this case; liberal-minded justices who are more apt to oppose Bush on many issues were the majority decision.

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Brutal enough

Investigations by police officials into the conduct of certain officers during the April 2-3 disturbances cleared three police officers of any brutality or wrongdoing.

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Bush had no say in marijuana decision

While I agree with The State News' editorial concerning the disservice the Supreme Court has done to the American people with the recent ruling on medicinal marijuana, I find his or her knowledge of the American judicial system to be laughable ("Weeded out" SN 6/7). Blaming President Bush and his "tyrannical reign" for the ruling is about as silly as a pro-lifer blaming former President Richard Nixon for the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe vs.

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Don't blindly follow columnist's ideas

I read Drew Robert Winter's column regarding the use of stem cells in biological research ("Bush's stance on stem cell research illustrates backward mentality" SN 6/6). It seems that the people of Winter's frame of mind are not seeing part of the larger picture.