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QB or not to be
He's baaaaaack. It's widely known that Jeff Smoker has returned to his position as starting quarterback for MSU's football team.
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Point Counter Point: Mayoral race crucial for capital city (part 1)
When a friend of mine mentioned that I should come down to the Mayor Tony Benavides campaign headquarters, I nearly laughed at him.
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Launching dreams
Apparently Houston has a problem. In a 248-page report compiled after the fall of the Columbia space shuttle last February, investigators said that without major changes to NASA's safety procedures, another accident could occur.
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Role models absent on small screen
"Five gay men, out to make over the world - one straight guy at time. "They are the Fab Five: An elite team of gay men dedicated to extolling the simple virtues of style, taste and class.
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United Way OK
One bad apple spoils the bunch, says the adage. But in this case, the apple can simply be thrown out.
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Lawmaker: Keep your hands off my university's curriculum
By now, many students at MSU and throughout Michigan's 15 publicly funded universities have heard or read about your proposed bill to permit the state Legislature to refuse funding for any specific university classes deemed "inappropriate." Among the classes that you cite are nine at this university, including History 420: History of Sexuality since the 18th Century and Psychology 310: Human Sexuality. This May, barring any unforeseen mishaps, I will graduate with a dual degree in chemistry and political science, with a small course-load of economics on the side.
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Mass destruction deals with people, not high-tech weapons
I saw an interesting cartoon the other day that had a soldier facing a large group of angry Iraqis. Both he and the group were armed, and the soldier was saying to himself, "Well, I've found the weapons of mass destruction!" It really got me thinking about our single-minded focus on large-scale bombs and biological devices.
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Blackout allowed for self-reflection
Excuse the pun, but being in the dark helped shed light on some very important issues for me. While officials on both sides of the border were scratching their heads over the Great Blackout of 2003 and playing the blame game, my roommates and I were busy playing the find-a-new-house-because-ours-burned-down game.
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Keep classes
The purpose of education is to improve one's knowledge by discovering new ideas. Every student should be able to explore different realms of life, sexual or otherwise.
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Syllabi solutions
Spartans now have another excuse to play on their computers. Many professors are opting to skip the paper and ink and use electronic resources to provide syllabi to students this fall.Being able to access a class syllabus online is both cost-effective and time-saving for the university and students.
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Court cameras spark controversy
Growing up in a single-parent household, I spent a lot of time with my late grandmother. When she baby-sat me, she always made sure that she tuned in to her "stories," which the rest of us know as soap operas.
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Virus emergency
Big man on campus - try big virus on campus. A veritable worldwide epidemic of computer viruses has wiggled its way to MSU just in time for the first week of classes. The worms are hitting campus at a time when students, faculty and staff are especially in need of computer and Internet access.
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Reality review
Welcome to Michigan State University. We hope you left any type of fun, merriment and any other enjoyable pleasures at home. Well, that's what the Princeton Review wants you to think.
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Allowing courtroom coverage forces people to analyze issue at hand
Americans of all ages and backgrounds were glued to their television sets as O.J. Simpson stood trial for double murder.
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Job not done
Anyone who knows the words to the Michigan State Fight Song is no doubt familiar with the third verse: "Spartan teams are never beaten, all through the game they fight." MSU President M.
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Missing students search not shameful
I am writing this in response to comments made by Lt." Steven Xiarhos in the recent article,"Return of couple not yet known" (SN 8/13). In it, Xiarhos is quoted as calling the expense of the search effort for MSU students a "shame." Perhaps he could better justify the expense if the search effort had ended in tragedy.
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Revenge for riots
Fires, flashing and felonies, oh my. The students involved in the March 30, 2003, riots following MSU's loss to Texas in the NCAA men's basketball tournament probably had no idea they would later be poster children for how not to celebrate a sporting event.
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Affirmative action initiative poses problems for politicians
In response to the Supreme Court's opinion that upheld affirmative action but not the University of Michigan's point system - preferring instead a wink and a nod that pretends we live in a color-blind society rather than making admissions race free - civil rights activist Ward Connerly has started a ballot initiative to end racial preference in college admissions in Michigan.
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What if God told 1 of us what to do?
For months, I have been wondering about the hidden motivations for the preemptive attack on Iraq. Our addiction to Saudi oil and the opportunity to pull our troops from the "holy land" played a large and unspoken role.
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'Ex-gay' class ridiculous idea for people
What if I said I didn't want tax dollars to pay for a religious studies class at MSU on non-Christian religions, because that would support sinners who chose not to be Christian? It sure sounds ridiculous to me.