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War wisdom
Now that America's war with Iraq has commenced, the time and need for its end grows nearer every hour.
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Video games aren't war propaganda
While I realize many reporters attached to The State News have very strong anti-war feelings and that these feelings inevitably shine through in war-related articles, I feel the column "Video games often blatant propaganda" by Megan Frye crossed the line into propaganda in and of itself (SN 3/19). There are several points on which I disagree with the author.
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Under-21 crowd can go to coffeehouse
I would like to enlighten Elysia Smith and the under-21 crowd that there is a venue to hear great local music right on campus: The Common Grounds Coffeehouse.
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Green goof
It seems the cancer that plagued last season's football team has spread to Spartan Stadium's student cheering section.
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Spartan tattoo not worth section name
A friend told me the new name for the student cheering section was Gang Green, and I did not believe it ("'U' football fan section renamed Gang Green," SN 3/19). Name our cheering section after a disease?
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Anti-war doesn't equal unpatriotic
I am truly disappointed in the way some recent State News letters to the editor have portrayed anti-war sentiments.
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'Skip day' is not responsible protest
I was disappointed when I read the article "Group plans skip day to protest" (SN 3/18). I am opposed to the budget cuts Gov.
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Proposals such as Eco's have no chance under policy
Reducing our dependence on foreign oil is a process that will require sacrifices. It means we will need to concentrate on other available sources of domestic energy. This is part of the reasoning used by the MSU environmental student group Eco in its proposal to implement a $5 tax on undergraduate students to be used for the purchase of cleanly produced wind, solar and biomass energies for the university. Maybe you agree with this proposal and maybe you don't.
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Benefits need to include students
I was deeply saddened to read in Tuesday's edition of The State News that Carolyn O'Laughlin felt she had to resign her position as an assistant hall director because MSU has failed to come to terms with the issue of domestic partner benefits and equal treatment of LBGT students on campus ("Hall director resigns over lack of same sex benefits," SN 3/18). I know this problem was raised more than five years ago, when students realized trustee approval of domestic partner benefits did not extend to them.
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Snoozing slip-up
Students, lawyers and professors were in attendance at Tuesday's discussion on affirmative action, but the most important attendee was asleep during part of the event And many people agreed: MSU President M.
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There is absolutely nothing to constitute a column this week
By the time you read this, our nation will be at war. With this in mind, I've been sitting in front of my computer stymied for some time.
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We are humans, not just Americans
This letter is in response to two statements that really turned my stomach in Tuesday's edition of The State News.
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Saddam seems less harmful than Bush
After hearing the statements from President Bush on Monday I was appalled. How is Saddam Hussein a greater threat to the American people than Bush is to Iraqi people?
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Couple is right to take serious action
Carolyn 0'Laughlin and Rebecca Linz seem to have received rotten treatment by MSU in that 0'Laughlin must choose between her job and her personal life ("Hall director resigns over lack of same sex benefits," SN 3/18). If I were in this couple, I would run - not walk - to the nearest reputable civil rights attorney or organization and file a lawsuit as soon as possible.
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Grad students need same-sex benefits
At MSU, all students are treated equally, and each department within the university supports the diversity of its employees and students. Right?
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Unfair treatment
Carolyn O'Laughlin is battling discrimination by MSU and the former Mason Hall assistant director is to be commended for not going quietly. O'Laughlin has been facing university discrimination because she is in a same-sex relationship with French graduate student Rebecca Linz.
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Worthless war
On Tuesday, President Bush reminded Americans of the oath he took to uphold the Constitution and defend the great democratic experiment born nearly 227 years ago. But the commander in chief is dangerously close to faulting in his duties and destroying the American dream. If the president pre-emptively orders an invasion of Iraq and implements American military rule in that country for any period of time, he will have effectively helped the United States become everything it fought against for freedom more than two centuries ago.
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ASMSU tax increase deserves support
What a farce. There is nothing that burns me more than misinformation, and The State News Opinion Page has been riddled with it lately.
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Top 10 reasons not to have Iraq war
My top 10 reasons not to invade Iraq: 1. According to the CIA World Factbook, the average male life expectancy is 66.31 years, and Saddam Hussein is 66 years old.
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Impending war sends friend overseas to serve the U.S.
Somewhere in the middle of Missouri, Pvt. Andrew P. Johnson (Andy to me) spends his days learning how to prevent and respond to biological attacks. My 18-year-old friend from high school is training to be a chemical soldier - the first line of defense in the event of chemical warfare. He graduates from his training in May and was supposed to come home for a while before heading off to his first duty station. But all of that has changed now. My cell phone rang Sunday afternoon with an unfamiliar number on the screen and a strange voice on the other end. "Who is this?" I asked. "Andy." "ANDY!" I shouted. A co-worker agreed to fill in while I stepped away from my desk to talk to the voice I hadn't heard since Jan.