Monday, December 15, 2025

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Commentary

COMMENTARY

Paper too liberal, pledge needs God

I’m sorry that the State News feels the way about the Pledge of Allegiance as stated in the editorial “Ill Allegiances” (SN 7/1). Despite the fact that our nation’s government is secular, our country was founded on the principle of religious belief.

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Tough dealings

The recent deal to share 1,056 acres in Bath Township with East Lansing was not as much of a voluntary agreement as it was an unwilling submission.

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Tenacious testing

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent public schools down a dangerous road that leads to infringing the rights of thousands of middle and high school students.

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MSU needs help for heat, dorm too hot

In lieu of this heat wave, I would like to pose this question to the MSU administration: Why is it that faculty and staff offices and most buildings with classrooms are air-conditioned, but dorms used for summer housing are not?

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Expanding space

Buffalo Wild Wings may face some unexpected opposition to its seemingly innocent proposal to expand its Albert Avenue location. In recent months, the East Lansing City Council has pushed an effort to reduce the number of seats in downtown available at businesses serving alcohol.

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Other groups need close examination

Due in part to a recent conversation, I have gained an interest in answering the question of why the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, and the World Bank are seen as evil institutions to people in my age group, but the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, a multinational oil cartel bent on profits at the expense of the most common people of member countries, seems to escape both dissent or thoughts of consternation.

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Ill allegiances

The federal appeals court ruling declaring the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional is, despite popular opinion, one of the most responsible decisions made in recent history.

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Freedom to choose vitally important

I am writing in regards to Craig Gunn’s column, “Freedom comes with accepting responsibility,” (SN 6/26). It is interesting that the first word of the title was “freedom.” The way I think of freedom is the right to choose.

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Better plan needed for college classes

MSU has a large number of classes where the total enrollment of students is well into the hundreds. These are classes where seats are scarce and the only interaction a student has during class might be yelling out an answer when the professor offers a rhetorical question.

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Protected info

Campus safety advocates hope a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will begin to open the doors to disciplinary records and proceedings at colleges and universities. The ruling prevents students and parents from suing universities that violate the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, which protects students’ educational records from public disclosure.

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Ridiculous rioting

Raphael Adley wants people everywhere to incite a riot. With the publication of his card game, “Riot!,” he takes a jab at campus riots everywhere, though the game was loosely based on the riots at MSU in the late 1990s.