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Stop the hate
The time is long overdue for Americans to stop tolerating leaders who make derogatory comments about any group of citizens - including homosexuals.
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United Nations needs to be involved in rebuilding Iraq
With states across the nation struggling to balance their budgets, cutbacks have negatively affected nearly every conceivable state-funded program. Not even Springfield Elementary School is immune to the decline in government revenue.
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Web riot coverage is too sensational
Regarding your Web site, the "Madness at MSU" icon and information that it links to is out of control.
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'U' has primarily sunny environment
I did an informal study last semester and the results were that we had a sunny fall ("
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Religious freedom
When the United States went to war with Iraq, it set out to liberate the Iraqi people from oppression.
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Scouts gets help from government
Something Michael Hayes neglected to concern himself with in Tuesday's letter to the editor, ("
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Partial-birth abortions inhumane, unsafe; ban long overdue
It's about time. Senators and congressmen from both sides of the aisle probably said this when the bill to ban partial-birth abortion passed with a 64-33 vote in the Senate on March 13 and sailed through the House.
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Singled-out abortion doesn't exist; ban a step backward
On March 13, the U.S. Senate took a colossal step backward, not only in terms of reproductive rights, but as an institution, it undermined the health and well-being of every woman in this country.
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Back in Iraq
It would be prudent for U.S. diplomats to curb their squabble with the United Nations and begin mending America's botched relationship with the global order. Our nation's leaders made a bad choice Tuesday when they shot down a request from U.N.
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Ads are propaganda, serve no purpose
The return of the campustruth.org ads brings up many issues. The first being the validity of the ads.
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Cheap shot at Grand Rapids uncalled for
Rishi Kundi has written his last pointless, uninformed column for The State News ("Departing wisdom from a seasoned columnist, Spartan" SN 4/22). In Kundi's Tuesday piece, he shares with us all the final thoughts he's been waiting to enlighten our lives with since he's been writing his columns.
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Local officials only trying to help 'U'
The State News should do its homework before it publishes editorials. Your editorial "Uncontrollable" (SN 4/17) is riddled with inaccuracies.
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Golden Rule doesn't just apply to kindergarteners
First things first - I must confess. In my column last week ("Word-bumbling president a genius; turns out we are fools" SN 4/16), I attributed a quote concerning the ability of war propaganda to both boil the passions of patriotism and narrow the mind to Julius Caesar; however, those words cannot be traced back to the great Roman general. I wish to thank the number of people who responded to that column and directed me to www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm, a Web site that explains the quote's urban legend status and traces the saying to unknown Internet origins in 2001.
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Higher ed funding editorial on target
Right on the money, State News. Your explanation of the higher-education funding gap ("Mind the gap" SN 4/22) details the truly unfair system MSU has been dealing with in both good and bad economic times.
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Earth to 'U'
Earth Day has come and gone and perhaps the only people to even remember it were elementary school students and citizens of foreign countries who have proven they care more about the environment than the United States. With all of our technological advances, it's unacceptable how we've missed the boat as far as recycling is concerned.
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Private society is allowed to its rules
Darrell Lambert can and should be kicked out of the Boy Scouts ("Irreligious minority needs to be respected in society" SN 4/17). The Boy Scouts belong to a private organization with rules and regulations.
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E-reliance
We as a society and as students don't realize it, but our lives revolve around technology. When it is taken from us we panic - we don't know what to do or how to cope.
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Mind the gap
When it comes to the debate about cuts to next year's deflated higher education budget, lawmakers should be sure to mind the gap while making their decisions.
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SN questions insult McPherson issue
"Should McPherson leave to help rebuild Iraq?" What kind of pointless question is that? Does it matter what a few hundred students think about that question ("'U' reacts to McPherson's move" SN 4/18)? Why don't you ask a question more like "Should McPherson receive his MSU salary while in Iraq?" or "Will McPherson's absence hurt MSU's fund-raising schedule?" I understand The State News is supposed to be a learning experience for its student employees, thus, it, as any newspaper, is allowed to make certain mistakes.
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Scouts is intolerant to kick out Lambert
This letter is in response to Dave Jackson's letter to the editor "Scouts is openly Christian society," (SN 4/17). Jackson pointed out to us, "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." It seems to me, just to avoid any more controversy, the scouts should also add "straight" and "Christian" to that long list of attributes.