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Coaches coach
The revolving door to the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has been spitting out athletics directors faster than President M.
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Mall case deserves attention in press
I’m writing in response to the letter (“Meridian Mall case gets too much play,” SN 11/7”) by Mike O’Bryan.
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Positive exchange
ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting with the East Lansing City Council on Thursday was the first time in a year the undergraduate student government had met with city officials.
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Take math courses at other colleges
My fellow students, there you have it. The reason we all do so horrible in math is because we are not trying hard enough (“Math problems left unsolved,” SN 11/16). What a load. First off, approaching the instructors is of little good when you can’t understand them in the first place.
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Savor turkey meal, SN reader says
In response to “Save turkeys from death this holiday,” SN 11/12: Yeah, I too am looking forward to sitting around in our new home with our family watching the Detroit Lions and treating ourselves to a delicious, moist, 20-pound turkey and mashed potatoes covered in gravy. Man, I know what you’re saying, I agree I can’t wait either.
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Real Americans dont just wave flags, they care for each other
What kind of insensitive idiots dress up as black men for Halloween? Photographs from a fraternity party at Auburn University surfaced recently on the Internet showing white students wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes and in blackface. More pictures, this time from a University of Mississippi fraternity, surfaced showing a student dressed as a police officer holding a gun to the head of a student in blackface. Maybe they were exposed to toxic chemicals as children.
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Setting the record straight...
The State News wrongly chastised seven members of the MSU Board of Trustees in an editorial Wednesday for not sending word to ASMSU that they couldn’t attend a forum to discuss if there is a need for a voting student member of the university’s governing body. Contrary to what we said, all eight trustees sent word to the undergraduate student government, either directly or through the board’s campus office that they couldn’t make it. We apologize for the error. But that doesn’t change the lack of communication that exists between trustees and students.
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Kids need better gun safety lessons
I am writing in response to the article “Protect our kids” (SN 11/14). In this situation a 17-year-old took a teacher and student hostage with a .22 caliber rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun north of Detroit.
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Protect children with various beliefs
You’d think the Lincoln Park School District would learn from the bad publicity brought about in the wake of the 1999 court ruling allowing a girl to wear her pentacle.
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Thanks, Chi Theta, for help at event
I would like to express my gratitude, on behalf of staff members in University Apartments Residence Life, to those volunteers from the Phi Chi Theta Business Fraternity.
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Sick of hearing about recent news
On the subject of terrorism, anthrax and racial profiling - I’m sick of hearing about it in every paper, on the radio and TV.
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Harken to childhood, TV has become wasteland of recycled garbage
I’ve come to notice two main things about TV these days: It has a lot of channels and it sucks.
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Protect rights
President Bush signed an executive order Tuesday that allows the government to try any foreign terrorism suspect in a special military commission instead of going through the usual legal channels. How hypocritical of our government to support a process that effectively sets aside the way of life and constitutional rights we fight for when we put terrorists on trial. The White House makes the argument that these special commissions would make it easier to protect the methods and sources of investigators, and it would enable trials to be held overseas.
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Reject Izzos raise, protect employees
I cannot agree more with S.A.E. Miller (“Izzo paid too much during tough times,” SN 11/12) regarding Izzo’s paycheck.
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Wrong values
Supremacy organizations are getting fresh blood in their ranks, researchers say. A study conducted by a faith-based organization in Chicago revealed that during the last year in the Midwestern states, 33 percent of the 338 white supremacist groups actively recruit young people, 10 percent higher than in 1999. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s race or heritage, whether it be black, white, Asian, Indian or anything else.
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Restore security
The task of freeing Kabul of Taliban rule may have come to a close, but a new, more urgent task must now begin - the establishment of a fair and stable government to represent the people of Afghanistan.As Taliban forces retreated early Tuesday morning, northern alliance troops made their way into the city without dispute.
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24 lessons in 24 years, Rishi looks back
I promise this will be my last column about my recent birthday. Read this, and you will never have to read anything more about it.
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Izzo earns salary through attention
In response to people’s accusations that men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo’s pay raise is unnecessary (“Izzo paid too much during tough times,” SN 11/12), it is obvious this person and many others do not understand how important Tom Izzo is to this university. You don’t have to be a basketball fan to appreciate this or even reap his benefits.
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Salary for coach not appropriate
The announcement by MSU that it will reward its basketball coach millions in compensation not only insults those of us who value merit over celebrity, but reveals how those who operate our universities have ignored their core educational missions. The idea of rewarding a coach for the marketing ability to recruit selfish and pampered athletes is truly insane.
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No shows
ASMSU’s touted need for better student interaction with the MSU Board of Trustees has never been more clearly illustrated.The Board of Trustees was invited by the university’s undergraduate student government to a forum Wednesday night to discuss the potential of a voting student on the board.