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Understanding
It’s pretty much a fact of life - things don’t often work out the way people expect them to, especially the first time around.
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American evils forgotten as country remembers Sept. 11
Tomorrow is Sept. 11, but I will not be joining the blathering voices flooding the media with calculated sentimentality.
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Hot Seats
It seems like enjoying football games at Spartan Stadium is becoming more of a hassle, especially for students. As MSU kicked off against the Rice Owls on Saturday, many students were stranded in line on the ramp to the upper deck, while ushers tried to maintain order and ensure people were going to their assigned seats.
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Leftys day made by southpaw coverage
Dan Julian’s article “Left out” (SN 9/4) made my afternoon. Being a girl, a Filipino and a lefty amongst friends who are white righties gives me a lot of material to rip into.
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Bells Greek Pizza among best in town
In response to Jason Shaw’s letter, “Pizza review out of touch with reality” (SN 8/28), concerning the pizza review, his opinion about Bell’s Greek Pizza is out of reality. Bell’s has been in East Lansing for more than 30 years - most likely before Shaw was born.
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City of Blues
East Lansing is beginning to look more like corporate America as small, locally-owned businesses close to make room for larger, chain-owned stores. The latest victim: Blue Note Coffee Café. After four years of trying to sell the store, its owners are being forced out of their 623 E.
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Life experience proves most Americans not polite people
This may be too ambiguous a societal facet to judge, but I wonder what happened to the value of having manners - or at least caring about other people. It just seems like a many of people are rude and impolite. Maybe I’m not the only one who feels courtesy and decorum are becoming a bunch of old-fashioned “rules” taking a back seat to modern modes and indecency. I’m not contending I’m the world’s most civilized person.
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Disabilities dont make people heroes
Although Aaron Miller’s attempt to bring the MSU community’s attention to the challenges faced by people with disabilities in this country and on this campus is well motivated (“Memories of Sept.
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Loaded plans
Guns have no place on airplanes - in the cabin or the cockpit - despite the Bush administration’s plan to test run a program that will arm America’s commercial pilots. Sources close to the White House told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the administration’s plan will be announced soon and Congressman John Mica, R-Fla., said that Bush said he will work with Capitol Hill to arm pilots.
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Destroy Earth, kids will thank you
Be prepared. In this column, I am going to give props to sport-utility vehicles, factories and people who litter. SUVs are so cool.
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Memories of Sept. 11 help to appreciate people with disabilities
Most days are a blur of motion and activity, beginning with the buzz of an alarm at 7 a.m. and not stopping until I collapse in bed at about 1 a.m.
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Right fight
Michigan should become a leader as far as equal rights are concerned. And the time is never better than now.
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Pro-life extremists ruining genuine message of movement
Ever since my days as a high-school opinion columnist, I have avoided writing about abortion. It’s an emotionally charged, polarizing issue on which the idea of compromise is usually lost.
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True fans dont leave before half
Those that left the Woodshed early Saturday might as well not show up for this week’s game either. I am ashamed of the Spartan student section.
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Tailgater would like tent returned to site
When tailgating at MSU, Spartans should feel like they are among family. Most of the time, that’s the way I feel.
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CATA center not worth its trouble
I’m writing in regard to the Capitol Area Transportation Authority’s new transportation center on Shaw Lane.
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Police looking to bust student parties
I have been reading the latest stories about undercover East Lansing police planning to be at parties - notice I said undercover, not plain-clothed.
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Voters choice
Michigan voters should be able to decide Nov. 5 whether the state should alter its Constitution to ensure 90 percent of the 1998 tobacco-settlement money is earmarked for health care. On Tuesday, the Citizens for a Healthy Michigan proposal failed to gain the Board of State Canvassers’ approval to go on the November ballot.
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Shaw living about location, not perks
In response to Amy Bartner’s column “Move in to renovated Shaw Hall highlighted by furniture, heat lamps, gum” (SN 9/3) and the hype of Shaw Hall - many people living in other halls might feel envious of residents, like myself, who reside in the center of campus with hot tubs, televisions, heat lamps, etc.
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Let them fly
MSU athletics officials’ efforts to renew a ban on low-flying aerial advertisers over Spartan Stadium are unnecessary. The Federal Aviation Administration recently removed the ban placed in response to the Sept.