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U sends message safety unimportant
On a campus where women have memorized the exact location of every green light phone, the issue is not whether Eric Knott deserves a second chance.
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Envy with green
Once again, MSU’s faculty will receive an increase in their salaries in October. But the question many are raising is if this increase will be enough. Despite lower-than-average state appropriations, for the third year in a row, the university has increased faculty salaries by 5 percent across the board.
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Mister Rogers | Neighbors say bye
He got into television because he hated the medium. Children, he felt, were allowing their minds to decay because of it.
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SIRS questions help at semesters start
Do you sometimes think you have no power whatsoever, that you are at the mercy of everyone who stands ahead of you in line, that your destiny is pretty much a done deal because you have no way to influence anything that goes on around you? Well, I think we have all had that feeling in our lives at one time or another, and sometimes we have that feeling a lot more than we should.
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Coverage of athlete academics unfair
Do you think going to classes is hard? What about preparing for and taking exams? Every study at this university has dealt with the stress our education gives us.
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Panel report in, but campus needs investigation policy
OK, so now what? The panel appointed to examine the circumstances surrounding last year’s poorly executed undercover investigation of Students for Economic Justice has offered the university its coveted findings. The members - a professor, a former state legislator, a former trustee and a student government leader - say the ordeal was likely carried out inadequately. Perhaps, the panel wrote, MSU administrators need to take a more thorough approach the next time they consider stomping so freely on the liberties granted to student activists. The big finish?
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Leftist campuses censor free speech
MSU’s campus should champion free speech and welcome an assortment of viewpoints. Unfortunately today, sparked by challenges against liberal thought, university administrators and a minority of their leftist students have acted maliciously to create a culture opposing the virtues of free speech. The campus left has undeniably censored ideas that its ideology opposes.
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Diversity lesson
Whatever the reason, Michigan has become one of the four most segregated states in the nation in terms of education. The origin of this trend ranges from simple misinformation to the more serious threat of residential segregation.
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Groups stance embarrassing to U
The infiltration of Students for Economic Justice was harassment and intimidation just like during the 1960s and 1970s.
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New road offers traffic headaches
You are not alone in your Trowbridge Road extension complaints (”Reader gets red at Trowbridge Road,” SN 8/29). I personally called the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety on Tuesday last week to complain that traffic was backed up onto southbound U.S.
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Chance at peace
Another day in the West Bank ends amid tank shelling and the crackle of rifle fire. Having seen the destruction and strife plaguing the Middle East firsthand, Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers has decided the United States needs to take a larger role in peace negotiations. As a respected up-and-coming GOP lawmaker, Rogers, of Brighton, needs to use the influence he’s gaining to prod the Bush administration to take a more active role in the Middle East conflict.
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For sale | But should it be?
But when you attach the name of a superstar like, oh, say Madonna to that 2,739 square-foot colonial-style house, the price suddenly skyrockets.The blonde bad girl’s childhood home has been listed on the Internet auction site eBay.com.
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Senior will miss fall semester rituals
There is something new about the beginning of each semester that is almost as challenging as finals are at its conclusion.
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Sidelined
It’s unfortunate academic trouble has sidelined MSU cornerback Cedric Henry for this season, but his situation teaches an important lesson to all students involved in athletics and other activities. The merchandising management senior was ruled academically ineligible after he failed a summer class, coach Bobby Williams said this week. Henry, who holds a scholarship from the university, will have to sit out this season but could return to play a final year of athletic eligibility next year - if he can fix his academic trouble. It’s a privilege to play football - or any varsity sport - at a Big Ten university.
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Drop cell phones, enjoy surroundings
As I walk around campus following the return of students, I am reminded of the reach of technology whenever I hear a cell phone go off.
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Setting up the new pad in 6 easy steps
With Welcome Week - or Welcome Weekend, as it was - over, 40,000 students at this university are slowly recovering. Hangovers are being drowned in bottled water.
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Tax cut plunders surplus
Less than a year ago, we told each other it didn’t matter if we elected George W. Bush or Al Gore and then proceeded to make sure we’d never be able to tell who actually got elected - thus saving the trouble of having either one of them as president. Unfortunately, George W’s daddy’s friends on the Supreme Court handed him his daddy’s old job, screwing people out of the “neither of two evils” situation. Seeking to legitimize himself as the rightful heir, George W.
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Distracted
Some members of MSU’s undergraduate student government have a plan to enable students who feel underrepresented among the university’s leadership. At the Aug.
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Knotts admission worthwhile debate
In response to the large number of letters regarding Eric Knott, I agree that none of us were there, so we don’t know exactly what happened.