Monday, November 11, 2024

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Commentary

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SN overlooked other sport teams

The State News can always be counted on for extensive MSU sports coverage. I found Monday's article demanding more noise from MSU football fans especially important ("Fans can't just come to games, need to be louder"), along with the blow-by-blow analysis of MSU's overwhelming defeat of the weakest football team in the Big Ten.

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Commandments statue is offensive

This letter is in response to the letter to the editor by Eva Bohler"Columnist wrong in religious debate". As a freethinker, I found her arrogance and ignorance on the issue offensive.

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Hey Arnold

The people of California replaced Gray Davis with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the "Terminator," and will have to live with that decision. Their dissatisfaction with Davis led them to elect someone from the opposite end of the spectrum.

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Ban hazing

Some people don't know when to say when. For their own safety, it's about time Michigan joined in the fight to stop hazing.

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Mocking of pious figures not right

How refreshing it was to see Nate Allen's cartoon in The State News on Monday. I'm glad that with all the problems and issues in the world, there's still time to make a crack at the Pope.

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Program sales aren't goal of 'U'

When I first started to read Dale Hitchcock's letter to the editor "Uniforms without names need to go" (SN 10/3), I found it very amusing, but when I realized that he was being serious about the situation with the new uniforms, I felt sad for his na

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Ballot proposal

The annual East Lansing primary election is on the chopping block and we're hoping voters swing the hatchet.

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Team-over-self idea behind jerseys

This season, the MSU football team is looking for an identity. When head coach John L. Smith first came to MSU, he noted that MSU had a lot of good football players, but not a good football team.

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Writing lawmakers not a good idea

We are writing in response to Dale Hitchcock's letter "Uniforms without names need to go" (SN 10/3). Hitchcock's notion that the university has taken the names off of the football players' uniforms to sell more programs is asinine.

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'The Edge' not only good local station

In response to Rachel Burling's comment ("New station music doesn't have 'Edge'" SN 9/25) that The Edge was the only station around that played "this awesome mix" of good new and old music, I would like to ask, what about our dear old campus radio station, The Impact?

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Supporting 'U'

The quality of education makes quality of life in this day and age. But the federal government seems to have different expectations for the future of this generation and the nation. Future doctors, lawyers, teachers and even economists of our nation could be forced to forfeit their college degree because their goals are undermined by reductions in state funding and grants for higher education.

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'Me first' mentality changed by Smith

This is in response to Dale Hitchcock's letter regarding names on the uniform ("Uniforms without names need to go" SN 10/3). First and foremost, this is not a marketing ploy by the university to get you to buy a program.

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Valiant efforts

It is a refreshing sign of healthy activism that students are running for the East Lansing City Council.

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'U' citations

The increase in underage drinking citations shows that the East Lansing police are doing their job and enforcing laws rather than allowing East Lansing residents to run wild.

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Noise complaints hurt E.L. venues

I would like to inform you why East Lansing is a bad college town. On last Saturday night, there was an awesome show at The 547 Place (near Espresso Royale on Grand River Avenue) featuring local bands such as Ettison Clio, Within Four Walls and KO my love.