Monday, December 29, 2025

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Gender identity clause not enough

I applaud MSU for adding gender identity to the harassment clause of their anti-discrimination policy, but chide the administration for not including gender identity in the discrimination clause.

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No excuses

In their heyday, the Los Angeles - now Oakland - Raiders had the notoriety as the dirtiest football team in the league.

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Writer's claim is invalid to scientists

Steve Duane asserted in his letter to the editor ("Creationism a belief, can't be disproved" SN 12/4) that creationist views are not debated in scientific settings due to "philosophically challenged scientists." More astonishing than this broadside against scientists is the fact that his sentence immediately preceding this one accurately proclaimed why creationism is not taught or debated in the scientific realm.

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Fair trial

When America woke up on Dec. 14, a shaggy face crawled from a hole in the ground dominating the airwaves and our attention. Fugitive Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was now neutralized and the ideological culmination of the second Gulf War seemed apparent. When he was captured, he wanted to bargain.

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Nobody is prepared to enter Spartan Country

Though few gray threads weave through his hair, my father, a model product of the 1950s' school of thought, sat me down on the eve of my departure to this university four years ago. "Kevin, you're going to experience and witness new things in college," he said from beneath his serious brow.

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Winners & Losers

A lot went down in 2003, from Operation Iraqi Freedom to our own university president heading off to Baghdad to rebuild the country's economy.

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T-shirts protected by free speech

In regard to this whole "offensive" T-shirt debacle, I need to lend in my two cents. Yes, the shirts were offensive; they didn't offend me personally, but apparently, some people (albeit, it appears to be a small group) found the shirts offensive.

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Kyoto cop out

Industrialized nations would be smart to dust off their spectacles and realize the problem of global warming is looming much closer than it might seem. The United States and Russia, two of the world's biggest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, have rejected the accord aimed at putting an end to global warming.

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Americans fail to think critically, fooled easily

According to Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, "Americans are three times as likely to believe in the virgin birth of Jesus (83 percent) as in evolution (28 percent)." Somehow, Americans find a claim with no evidence more compelling than a scientific theory with a vast mountain of supporting data gathered from varied disciplines.

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Trimming budgets

Just hope that MSU President M. Peter McPherson doesn't start sitting down with University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Gov.

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Creationism a belief, can't be disproved

This is in response to Katie Lander's letter, "Creationism has been disproved". In it she contends that creationism has no place in scientific debate because it's "been disproved by modern science." That's a bald-faced lie.

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Columns need to have more research

I am tired of reading the same inaccuracies in opinion columns, most recently in Jim Lala's "Libertarians might not win, but they still have good goals". The first is that Congress is handing Iraq $87 billion.