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Messy motives
The FBI is treading a thin line with the regulations announced last week designed to combat terrorism.
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Bike registration, stickers a waste
You know, the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety has always made me feel very safe on campus, what with handing out parking tickets, minor in possession of alcohol tickets, parking tickets, and, um, well, MIPs.
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Republican education policy has brought about good things for U
A Democrat may tell you that Republicans and the their party don’t care about or do anything for higher education. Like many Democratic claims, the facts speak otherwise. Under Republican leadership, higher education funding has grown to its highest level ever in Michigan.
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Impounds lousy, action infuriating
I am one of many students who does not have an easy time paying the monthly expenses that come along with going to MSU.
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Empty bike racks prompt wonder
Last Tuesday morning, I rode to my 9:10 a.m. class on my bike, as I do every morning. When I left class at noon, I came outside to find my bike gone.
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Opening doors
In a 6-1 vote Tuesday evening, the East Lansing school board decided Spartan Village Elementary School will remain open next year - but it will not be the same school the community has come to identify with. Major changes include reducing the school from a kindergarten through fourth grade program to K-2 curriculum only. Closing the school was one of 72 ideas suggested at earlier budget discussions to help the city make up for a $3.5 million deficit.
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Problem pipes
Central Michigan may well need an improved infrastructure to deliver gasoline products to the region.
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Theres no problem with religion - but no need to recruit either
The other day, I was running late for work. I was literally running full-bore down Grand River Avenue to a crosswalk to get me across the street to the building where the lair of The State News is located.
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Turmoil all over the world may lead to disaster
I was not raised in a world darkened by the shadow of Armageddon but in one illuminated by its certainty.
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Oil greediness may lead to downfall, salvation of newest country
The nation of East Timor territory has just recently been changed into the Democratic Republic of East Timor - a signifiable name for the world’s newest country must hold a great deal of meaning to the Timorese people who have lived, and fought, in one of the worst civil wars a nation has ever faced.
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Spare changes
The East Lansing City Council’s suggestion to raise evening parking prices throughout the city is only a temporary situation to a larger problem.
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Religious concerns need perspective
Jacquelyne Froeber’s column on faith (“Religion, faith is what you make of it,” SN 5/22) struck me as a bit naive.
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New intoxication bill very necessary
I respectfully disagree with the editorial criticizing legislation that would essentially eliminate the intoxication excuse as a defense for criminals (“Drunken disorder,” SN 5/23). Although I do concede the bill is a little redundant in word usage, its meaning is not trivial by any means.
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MEAP matters
It looks like the Michigan Educational Assessment Program, or MEAP, tests have one less problem. The Michigan Department of Treasury, which oversees the program, learned from its mistake last year, when officials released the names of 71 schools being investigated for cheating on the state’s standardized tests.
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Dont be fooled by job offers on fliers
Looking for that great summer job? I thought I’d found one. But what I really found was a joke.
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Drunken disorder
Michigan legislators recently passed a bill to eliminate the excuse “I was drunk” as a possible legal excuse for a crime.
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Classroom results responsibility of all involved
“I am faculty. I am one step beneath God. You will do what I say whether I’m wrong or right.
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Even though changes are inevitable, still good things around E.L.
If this week’s column seems more a memoir than usual, forgive me; I promise it gains relevance toward the end. I was raised about 20 miles north of here, in St.
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Coach concerns
Minority recruitment efforts for faculty and students have been highly publicized in recent years, but another area of university life hasn’t seen as much press, racial inequality in athletics. A symposium organized by MSU athletics director Clarence Underwood at Kellogg Center this week aimed to begin to correct that.
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Terrorism a reality everywhere, nations must defend before negotiations
How quickly we forget the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Remember the fear, the astonishment, the utter hopelessness that we all felt watching passenger-laden aircraft decimate the World Trade Center, murdering thousands of men and women whose only crime was to rise with their alarm clocks and journey to another day of work? Now imagine if we had to experience this feeling again, not in another isolated, dramatic episode of terror, but every single day, not knowing which of our friends or family would next find themselves under the murderous ax of militant extremists.