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Right move
Congratulations are in order for the student groups that have campaigned diligently for almost five years in an attempt to get MSU to join the Worker Rights Consortium.
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Students must speak out against Saturday's unjustified, unfair events
As I sit down to think and write about Saturday night's events, the familiar lines of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Who'll Stop the Rain?" keep replaying in my mind. Frontman John Fogerty's line, "Clouds of mystery pourin'/Confusion on the ground," typify the experiences of soldiers who went to war in Vietnam and faced enemies they couldn't find and gases they didn't understand.
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Police actions were entirely reasonable
I can only speak for what I saw at M.A.C. and Albert avenues Saturday night and not at Cedar Village.
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Wrong move
It's apparent no East Lansing City Council members were around to personally witness the tear gas attacks police officers launched against peacefully celebrating students following the MSU men's basketball team's loss to the University of North Carolina on Saturday.
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ELPD made up of 'anti-youth thugs'
MSU plays in the Final Four and people celebrate, but then cops attack. Just as they've always been, the East Lansing Police Department and other local cops are still anti-student, anti-youth thugs.
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Editorial addressed several good points
The editorial "Excessive force" (SN 4/4) is right on the money.
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Critical alumni were not here Saturday
According to East Lansing ordinances, "assembling or acting with four or more other people for the purpose of engaging in a riot, or being nearby and remaining there with intent to riot, is illegal" ("Experts: Police used tear gas legally" SN 4/5). Unfortunately, the police got to decide if my intent was to riot, when it actually was showing MSU spirit and navigating the maze of blocked-off streets to get home. Can I make assumptions, too, and say the four or more officers assembled outside on Saturday were intending to riot?
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A great run
The Tar Heels out-gunned and out-finessed the MSU men's basketball team in the second half on Saturday, but they never broke the team's spirit.
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Law enforcement was overzealous
Following the basketball game on Saturday, my friends and I decided to go to another friend's house to visit and continue celebrating in a reasonable, responsible manner.
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MSU brew
Coffee is the simple, everyday beverage that provides that much-needed boost of caffeine for getting through morning classes or late-night study sessions.
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Student actions are an embarrassment
As an alumnus, it disturbs me to wake up on a Sunday morning, turn on the computer, and be greeted with headlines on every news site about the "riots" at MSU following the loss to North Carolina.
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Police measures not over the top
Your editorial requesting an apology from area police for using force is both misguided and baseless ("Excessive force" SN 4/4). If anyone should apologize, it should be The State News for such an overstated and overly dramatic editorial position.
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Use of tear gas was very inappropriate
Quoted from page 2A of The State News from April 4: "Large groups of people gathering in the roads and on sidewalks is illegal, police said" ("Police, student actions disputed"). I will confess that my knowledge of the law is limited to what I've read in, well, the U.S.
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Catholic looks back on influential brush with deceased pontiff
When I first read the news of the pope's death on an away message Saturday, I immediately felt a sense of loss and relief.
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Excessive force
In the wake of multiple institutional e-mails cautioning against it, after weeks of speculation on whether or not it would occur, and in light of spoken warnings from professors, a riot did not take place in East Lansing this weekend.
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Society would benefit from people keeping beliefs to themselves
Imagine how much more peaceful human history could have been if people kept religious beliefs to themselves. Jesus seemed to agree: "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret" (Matthew 6:6). Many religious people live in general harmony with that wise advice.
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Police 'attacked' students Saturday
For 21 years, I had subscribed to the delusion that police existed for the protection of the innocent.
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Police reaction to students disturbing
I am deeply disturbed and upset at the way things went down at the end of the Final Four game against the University of North Carolina.
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Tear gas use was not at all necessary
When our basketball coaches e-mailed the students to behave responsibly this past weekend, I think they forgot to send a copy to the police officers of East Lansing.
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Ticket fiasco had positive outcome
I am writing on behalf of all the Izzone members who will be driving down to St. Louis this weekend - especially on behalf of those who faithfully sacrificed time and class Sunday night and Monday morning while waiting in line for Final Four tickets at the Union. We all received great news in our inboxes Wednesday afternoon.