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Youth of America have best ability to be a positive voice of change
Youth have always been the voice of change. I am not saying that we don’t have a lot to learn from our elders.
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Live the dream
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday should be a day of reflection and celebration. Students should keep this in mind during Monday’s holiday. The university canceled classes during MLK Day for a three-year trial period, which ended last year.
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Dont promise what U cant deliver
I was very distraught when I read about tuition being raised again (“Tuition Guarantee troubled,” SN 1/17). I come from a small town and I really don’t know much about big-city living, but where I come from a guarantee is only as good as the man who gives it. That really doesn’t say too much about the trustees.
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Driver sees need for sign improvements
I’m sure David Levine and I are not the only unsuspecting students to have been snagged by the no parking from 2-6 a.m.
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Cancellations show wrong priorities
As a former study abroad student, I am proud to say I attend one of the most culturally diverse universities in the nation.
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No guarantees
The Tuition Guarantee is dead. It’s been dead. Somebody please bury it so we can move on to better things. In the face of the dismal state budget forecast released Tuesday, it is unlikely MSU will receive a preferred level of funding from Michigan lawmakers.
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SN wrong in stance on Lansing issue
It was disappointing to read the editorial “Shorter retorts” (SN 1/16) on the Lansing City Council’s decision to take away three minutes of speaking time from the public.
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Ramp restriction unfair to students
I was recently made aware that parking in one of the parking decks on campus between 2 and 6 a.m. is an offense.
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Booting play shows lack of compassion
While the church is not at all obligated to host the play and they do not “support homosexuality,” I do agree with The State News in that shutting down the play makes the church appear intolerant (“Bad Break,” SN 1/9). In reality, if a play with homosexuality cannot be performed in this church, then neither should one with divorce, theft, murder, sexual immorality, eating rabbits or pigs, or wearing clothing woven of two different kinds of materials. Truthfully, we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
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Class cuts
It’s agitating that a major university can’t do a better job managing class scheduling and show more respect to its students who enroll in them. More than 350 spring semester classes were canceled by university officials, and many sections within departments have been combined.
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Lab limits
Restricting the hours off-campus students have access to computer labs will create a variety of inconveniences. Beginning this semester, computer labs are no longer being monitored by lab assistants.
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Transgender issues mocked by show
I waited for weeks for the premiere of the new CBS drama, “First Monday,” starring James Garner.
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Dont judge Duckett for draft decision
Anyone who knows me could tell you that I’m not a sports fan. Actually, anyone who sees me could tell you that.
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Aid programs need better promotion
I read Alison Barker’s article, “Students find hope in aid” (SN 1/14). Like Mike Skamiera, I was a low-income and first-generation college student.
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Play should go on, let God be judge
Whoever said that the church was right in not allowing the play to go on as planned must be pretty strict Christians (“Play seeks a home,” SN 1/8). What are you afraid of?
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Life lessons prove its wise to leave opinions open to change, growth
So let it be said. I need help. I’m not a good columnist. Well, I don’t exactly mean I’m not good.
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Football star should have stayed for U
T.J. Duckett should be thinking about his long term future, not the quick money he might get from an NFL contract (“T.J.
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Creationists dont listen to science
No matter what evidence is cited, creationists will never believe in evolution. They believe that all humans on earth have come from just two people who managed to avoid the genetic defects of inbreeding.
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Shorter retorts
The public’s right in a democracy is the ability to speak its opinions to its elected officials.
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Police pals
The new Student Support Division at the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety sounds as if it has the potential to be a positive bridge in the relationship between police and students. But we fear the new division may end up being nothing more than lip service - another wedge in the relationships among members of the MSU community.