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Side by side
Editor's note: Beginning today, The State News editorial board will address key issues of the presidential campaign every Wednesday edition.
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Cell phone saturation is new reality
After successfully struggling to stay awake throughout history class, I was waiting at the bus stop with four female students from the same course.
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Stay centered
Combining the currently scattered integrative studies centers is an excellent idea, but it must be done correctly.
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Drafty ideas
The Association of Michigan Universities sent the right message to lawmakers when they unanimously passed a bill that opposes a draft, or selective service act, for students.
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Going green
In the future, MSU could be a very different place. According to the university's 2020 Vision plan for MSU's near future, there might be a near absence of student cars on campus, green space that would abound and parking police thankfully out of work ticketing student cars. These goals - to be initiated by 2020 - will most likely not be seen, even by MSU's youngest students.
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Expediting youth franchise inspiring
I am heartened to learn of significant new voter registration of young people in Michigan. As you realize, and by all predictions, youth will have an unusually important role in the upcoming election. As an MSU alumnus (Landscape Architecture, 1962), I wish to do my part to encourage you, the MSU student body and the staff, to expand the registration momentum with at least three personal actions. Become activists now for concerted peer voter registration not only on the MSU campus but for all students. Actually vote in November and thereafter. Exercise your democracy.
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Rap not to blame for societal pitfall
After reading the article "Rap culture influences women, society" (SN 9/22), I became a little upset to see that this problem is still being attributed to rap music.
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Too much faith being invested in religion; have faith in yourself
I believe there is a God, and I bet he's disappointed. Do you know what the "culture war" is?
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Not all underage students sip booze
I am responding to a few articles and letters about changes being made to tailgating on game days. I seem to be one of the ever-declining few that make it a point here at MSU to not partake in under-age drinking.
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Bush's U.N. speech marked humanity
As I read "Wrong address" (SN 9/22), I found myself wondering: Was this the same address that I watched?
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Invite-only needed for Bush daughters
From the editorial "Moore, please" (SN 9/24), "There were a great number of Democrats and undecided voters who would have liked to hear what the Bush daughters had to say when they were on campus, but it was a Republicans-only event.
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Motor or voter
It's easy to vote. But for college students, it could be easier. Unless the numbers outside your front door are identical to the address on your driver's license, you're the victim of a voting obstacle. A raw perspective on civic duty would tell us to vote where we live and live where we vote.
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Cornerstone of conservative politics host to modern contradictions
True conservatism is an eclectic philosophy, spanning years of thoughts and works of infinite geniuses and handed down through countless generations in an effort to preserve established truths. But what are these truths?
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In no rush
The tennis court tailgating situation at MSU ranges in opinion from vaguely problematic to the forefront of many minds, but in both cases, rushing a quick fix to the MSU Board of Trustees would be unwise. ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, is technically the official student voice in college administrative proceedings, but there are times where the general student population might not share its exact views.
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College voters will decide president
As an alumna, I'm very concerned about the youth vote - particularly the MSU vote - in this election year, which will, beyond a shadow of a doubt, represent a turning point in the history of our country.
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No absolutism in abortion debates
The problem with discussing abortion is most people don't realize how other people aren't capable of dealing with the consequences of pregnancy and birth.
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Potential tailgate
In response to the proposed ideas on tailgate regulation ("Officials discuss tailgate regulation" SN 9/23), I have to say that some of the ideas presented were needed long ago to help many of the problems with the Wilson tennis courts tailgate area. I have worked football parking for the MSU Athletics Department's Ralph Young Fund for three football seasons at donor Lot G across from the tennis court area and I've seen much of what happens.
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Moore, please
There's no better way to get out your political agenda during an election year than making yourself accessible to everyone.
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America, world not any safer because of Bush's war on terror
Sometimes I almost envy the thoughtless certainty and blind faith that religious zealots willfully rely on.
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Peace plane
The no-fly list is not being used as effective terrorism prevention. It is instead being used as a form of discrimination. Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, bore witness to that Thursday when he was denied entry into the United States from aboard a United Airlines flight to Washington, D.C.