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Pay attention

Pedestrians and drivers alike need to pay better attention when they are traveling through the streets of campus and East Lansing.

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Union, U just need to read agreed rules

Steve Duane’s letter to the editor “TAs trying to abuse power of unions“ (SN 10/03) and the State News editorial “Talk it out” (SN 10/01) are marred by two fundamental misunderstandings to which I must speak.

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Americans should debate Iraq policy

This letter is in response to Shawn Dhar’s ideas in his letter to the editor “Those against war should move to Iraq” (SN 10/9) that Americans who are against expanding the war in Iraq should move there. Thankfully, many Americans are refusing to submit to irrational scare tactics and thinly veiled threats such as these used to justify a war that will galvanize much of the world against the United States and make terrorist attacks against the USA more likely than ever before. It is simply irresponsible and disgusting to suggest that Americans who dissent from the Administration on issues should move to or are a part of the “enemy.” This inane logic quickly reveals its true purpose: to stifle internal dissent, and encourage blind, slobbering obedience to a president and administration that runs the country more and more like a personal fiefdom every day. I think the Dead Kennedys said it best: “you want a banana republic that bad, Why don’t you go move to one? Christopher W.

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GEU contract clear about promotion

According to the contract signed May 16, between the Graduate Employees Union and MSU officials, level-three pay is set for employees with a master’s degree or equivalent and at least four semesters’ experience as a graduate assistant - or equivalent at the faculty level - in the employing unit or in a department considered relevant by the chairperson of the employing unit. Reread that contract language again if you aren’t convinced that “four means four.” Some MSU departments changed the requirements to eight semesters and others changed it to 12.

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Outlawing abortion wont save lives

I find it very ironic that people who identify themselves as pro-life and work to pass pro-life legislation publicly declare they are against killing and murder. I find this ironic because with a little research, one will find before Roe v.

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Open discussion

The university community is right to begin discussing whether it is ethical for MSU to have some of its money invested in Israeli companies. On campuses throughout the nation - including the University of Michigan, where students recently lashed out because administrators refused to divest in Israel - students are beginning to question why universities have investments in an area riddled with conflict. The movement is similar to one that helped lead to the end of Apartheid in South Africa.

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Those against war should move to Iraq

I am troubled by comments like the ones expressed in the letter to the editor “Dems need to be voice of November” (SN 10/8). It’s blatantly obvious that people who think like this have a very skewed view of reality.

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Agree or not, choice is a American right

After reading the letters to the editor “Campaigners right to join pro-life rally” and “‘U’ should choose to vote pro-life” (SN 10/8), it seems obvious people are missing the point of what “pro-choice” means. Being pro-choice means believing in one of the main principles this country was founded upon, which is the freedom to make your own decision, and in turn the freedom to agree or disagree with anybody else’s decision.

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Quieter times

A significant drop in noise complaints might be music to the ears of many East Lansing residents and leaders, but they should not be singing their own praises just yet.

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Dems need to be voice of November

Democrats must absolutely not become complicit in an illegal and immoral war on Iraq. There is no compromise that the Senate can make with Bush without violating human rights and the Constitution. Only the Senate can declare war, according to the Constitution, and only in self-defense, according to the principal tenets of international law. War on Iraq cannot be a just war - we are the aggressors, and our unbridled thirst for oil is no excuse for the vicious murder of Iraqis and our own troops that will undoubtedly result from an attack. Now, more than any time in recent history, the Senate in general and Democrats in particular must stand strong against a renegade president who seeks to expand his own power at the expense of our democracy and the lives of people across the globe. And we as citizens need to check the outrageous extremism of the White House. Elizabeth Jordan social relations senior

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Basic rights

As a country governed by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, we value the freedom for people to choose their own religion.