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Web addicts

Stop looking at porn. Well, maybe not entirely, but cut back. In this age of information-sharing and unrivaled technological advance, interpersonal communication is taking a hit.

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Offensive food

Racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes are everywhere - some are perpetuated through ignorance, while others are blatant attacks. The recent Martin Luther King Jr.

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Bice makes religious people doubt Pope

The United States is a nation founded on a political system that asks us to question our leaders. In order to prevent any one person from having too much power, we have a system of checks and balances and limits on terms in office.

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Equal chance

Equal rights, not special rights. It's a common mantra when it comes to civil rights in America.

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Race not big factor in 'U' admissions

This is a response to Lydia Brodeur's letter, "Race too large a part of admissions". The response is simply this: No, your Guatemalan brother doesn't have a better chance at being accepted to college than does your white brother.

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Dean attacked because he's best

Have you asked yourself why, among all the Democratic presidential candidates, Howard Dean is the only one that the conservative advocacy group "Club for Growth Political Action Committee" has singled out to run attack ads against? And why has the right-wing media spent more than twice as much time bashing Dean than they have his rivals? Why did Karl Rove tell the media that Dean would be the easiest to beat?

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Izzo the Great

Tom Izzo has an edge over most MSU professors - students believe in what he says, does and thinks. Perhaps more than he'd like to admit, the word of Izzo is the gospel in East Lansing, passed down to him from the heavens by Basketball Jesus to his perch atop Breslin Center.

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No amount of faith can make belief fact

Some kudos to Marc Levitt ("Bice falls flat in his latest argument") for good points supporting the view that science and religion are "not as far apart as so many like to claim." After all, both put forth theories about the universe and our role in it, right?

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Columnist diversity argument ignorant

I'm writing in regards to Jim Lala's article, "Diversity doesn't promote better education, system flawed" (SN 2/3). Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but if they are going to be published, they should be well-thought out.

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Today's threats

As if Americans didn't need more proof that the world is a drastically different place than it was before Sept.

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Dorm outlaws

If dorm drinking is outlawed, only outlaws will drink in the dorms. That's how it's been for years, no, generations of students.

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Graduate sorry for comments, actions

At Friday's Michael Moore guest lecture, I encountered a group of protesters standing outside, one of them bearing a sign reading, "Michael Moore is a communist." Upon seeing this man's sign, I made an off-hand remark to which he sharply responded.