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Slam-dunked

The University of Michigan came down with a heavy hand on its athletic department. The harsh punishment is a sad reminder of the embarrassment that comes when universities allow games to get out of hand. U-M announced Thursday it would forfeit all men’s basketball victories accumulated during the 1992-1993 season and from fall 1995 to spring 1999, return $450,000 to the NCAA for money earned by tournament appearances during those years, remove related championship banners from Crisler Arena and disqualify itself from the 2003 postseason.

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Green only color considered in firing

When some people ask themselves why an organization behaves the way it does, such as MSU in firing Bobby Williams, some people immediately consider personal malicious intents, such as race issues.

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Wise words?

In August 1998, a Manistee woman spent four days in jail for making an anti-Hispanic slur outside of a Pepper Mill restaurant.

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Greens hope again for equal coverage

Another election has passed us, and it has been another disappointment for all of America. Two similar parties with a ridiculous monopoly on our political system, preaching essentially the same things, have kept control of the country they seem to have little regard for. The economy weakens by the day, war is just around the corner and civil liberties are being threatened with regularity. One of the only true opposition parties, the Green Party, was again ignored by the media and therefore by the average voter.

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Allen shouldnt have made joke of issue

I was appalled to see Nate Allen’s cartoon in Tuesday’s edition of The State News. MSU quarterback Jeff Smoker might have made bad decisions, but that does not mean we shouldn’t support him on his road to recovery. But Allen chose to make fun of Smoker and make his journey to recovery that much more difficult. In the coming weeks, the MSU football program will come under much criticism.

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Play the game

With most of Michigan’s government set to be dominated by Republicans after Tuesday’s election, its seems the governor-elect will have a tough road ahead of her. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Booers should be ashamed of selves

First, I would like to say what a shame it is that Spartans jump off the band wagon as soon as it starts falling apart. A few years ago when Bobby Williams was named football head coach, his players stood behind him and worked hard to prove all of the naysayers wrong. Williams was put under a lot of pressure to change something in a blink of an eye when it normally takes weeks or months to turn teams around. Williams is not responsible for the personal lives of the athletes.

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Ferguson has odd sense for diversity

As a Hispanic MSU alumna, I have never felt I was treated unfair because I am a minority. It really upsets me that MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson would lash out at Athletics Director Ron Mason and basically call him a racist. Ferguson discusses the importance of diversity, but when he speaks of this, he only discusses one minority group. I have never heard him stand up for Hispanics, who are a larger minority than African Americans. It’s sad that this has to turn into a race issue.

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Serious situation was aided by laughs

Even though I really can’t stand Nate Allen’s cartoons - which obviously are pro-Democratic and pick on a president who is, in my opinion, doing the best damn job he can - I must say that when I opened Tuesday’s paper, I had a smile on my face accompanied by a childish giggle.

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Ferguson seems to be stirring trouble

I was embarrassed reading MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson’s statement that the (inevitable) dismissal of Bobby Williams boiled down to a racial issue in the article “Trustee says race played role in dismissal” (SN 11/5). Shame on him. Where else in the Big Ten has another African-American coach had the opportunity that Williams had?

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Work to be done for cultural education

I have spent my entire college career educating people about multicultural organizations. Carrie Hoover’s “Separation doesn’t promote unity” (SN 10/25) and Nathan Top’s “Columnist brave to make honest points” (SN 10/28) prove I still have work to do.

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Spartan drive

While lately it seems people only talk about MSU’s losses on the football field, students have the chance to collectively garner a win against the Nittany Lions. The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge began Monday and will run until Nov.