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Pro-life exhibit

I was shocked and disgusted Monday to be subjected to such an utterly and ignorant one-sided display in front of Wells Hall.

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Anti Antibiotics

Many American citizens are buying into the anthrax scare gripping the country - and by their reactions, they are only making it worse.

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Activist Education

There’s nothing wrong with being a little more informed about a topic. When the topic is the Black Panther Party, some may disagree.

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Genocide not an appropriate analogy

The comparison of abortion to genocide is outrageous and completely inappropriate. Of course it is true that both genocide and abortion are graphically disturbing to witness, but are two completely unrelated controversies. Are these activists trying to achieve more support in the battle against abortion or are they just trying to stir controversy and start skirmishes with no goal in mind?

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Still a deal

Students don’t need a national survey to tell them college tuition rose an average of 7.7 percent last year, including an 8.9 percent raise at MSU.

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Coach disgraceful, dismiss Williams

I am calling for the immediate, unconditional dismissal of MSU head football coach Bobby Williams. He has been disgracing MSU’s football program for too long. Week in and week out I listen to or watch MSU football hoping that we will not do our best to give a win away.

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Cash strapped

As we face down a fiscal year fraught with possible deficits and revenue shortages, state lawmakers need to take a careful look at the way they manage the budget. At Tuesday’s financial conference, economists predicted an overall deficit of about $1 billion in 2001, but they expect the state’s economy to recover in 2002.

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Students dont want to read about attack

I know, “Not another 9-11 article.” For those who feel that way I apologize, but when I took a look around me for some ideas, I was surrounded by headlines reading anthrax reports, “America strikes back” and the latest clues leading to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror network. But the terrorist attacks have been covered in papers across the country over and over again.

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Important to see ugly photo display

The truth is ugly, but the reality of abortion is important for people to realize. The displays near Wells Hall showed the gruesome truth of abortion in a way that words cannot easily reveal.

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Bad display

If the goal was to spark discussion and surprise, the supposed “genocide pictures” posted around Wells Hall on Monday and Tuesday certainly accomplished their task. MSU Students for Life and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform organized “The Genocide Awareness Project,” a photo exhibit of aborted fetuses alongside historical examples of genocide, including victims of the Holocaust and Rwandan and Cambodian massacres. The Wells Hall courtyard is known for startling displays and protests, and the last couple of days have proved to be no exception. But this was not the best way to make a point.

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Abortion display obscene, wrong

After leaving Wells Hall for one of my classes I was astounded by very explicit images. All around me were signs declaring “Genocide Pictures Ahead” and not knowing what was going on I moved closer to the display.

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Juice on the loose

The Juice is loose - and this time it’s absurd. O.J. Simpson is in court again, as the sole defense witness for himself against charges of auto burglary and battery charges. In his testimony in a Florida courtroom Tuesday, Simpson asserted, among other things, that he never had to lie with his life depending on it, and that he had never been accused of being an actor - a comment that produced laughter throughout the courtroom. Facing up to 16 years in prison if convicted, Simpson answered a series of questions in cross-examination, some of which were barred as Prosecutor Abbe Rifkin began treading the line on items relating to his ex-wife, and the criminal trial in which he was accused of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. During normal times this news might make more prominent headlines, although it really shouldn’t.

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U group friendly to family values

I agree with Jason Munford (“Parade wrong place for pro-life group,” SN 10/18) that the Homecoming parade was a “family event” that “should yield family content.” That is precisely why MSU Students for Life decided to participate when invited.

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Dont listen to barrage of ignorance from people giving just my opinion

With all that has happened in the last month and the events that continue to escalate hour by hour, I began to listen closer to things that perhaps never captured my attention before. I have started to focus on the diatribes that go on with characters who have the power to influence large numbers of fairly ignorant and uninformed people.