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Wrong move
The National Collegiate Athletic Association should not allow high school athletes to play professional sports and then return to college.On Jan.
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System teaches problem solving
I have to disagree with Mark Pulver’s view of the new community standards and resident mentor system (”Dorm standards need discipline,” SN 1/17). I also am living in the dorms for a fourth year now, but I feel the mentor system is a vast step in the right direction.
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Drug excuses responsibility
This is in response to the editorial (“Our Voice” SN 1/16) expressing the opinion that the morning-after pill should be made an over-the-counter drug. Once again, Americans are trying to finding an easier way to not take responsibilities for their actions.
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Mentors need to make U better
As this year draws nearer to a close, I find myself reflecting more and more. This is my fourth year here at MSU, and my second year serving the community as a senior mentor.
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Americans can idolize King, not protest like him
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would bellow words eloquent and provocative if he knew now, in this American political climate, that his birthday is celebrated as a token gesture of “diversity,” or whatever Band-Aid platitude politicians like to slap on our diseased society. Yes, lauding King is preferable to saluting somebody like murderous imperialist Christopher Columbus and yes, Monday’s celebrations did enliven many citizens but there is a catch to King’s day and the American interpretation of his legacy. Americans can celebrate King but our totalitarian society forcibly limits our involvement with King’s philosophy to idolatry.
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U overlooks sweatshop work
I have been lied to many times before, but few of those lies really trouble me as much as the ones told to me by this school’s top officials.
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Ashcrofts nomination raises many questions
John Ashcroft. The very name strikes fear in the hearts of all red-blooded Democrats across America.
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Dorm standards need discipline
I agree with Michonne L. Omo’s view on the community standards and resident mentor system (“Dorm standards should be higher for all,” SN 1/16). This is my fourth year in the dorms, and as far as my living situation is concerned, the worst.
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Cigarettes harm more than smoker
Nicole Winton’s column on Thursday expressed the most selfish argument I have ever heard for pro-smokers (“Cigarettes are a choice, not morality issue,” SN 1/11). Everyone knows the harmful effects smoking has on the body.
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Day of honor
The university should continue to give students the day off to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.In 1999, the university canceled classes for the first time on the holiday, beginning a three year trial period.
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Eminem deserves artistic recognition
Here I am in my final year at MSU and am thinking how amazing it is that nothing in The State News has irritated me enough to write in.
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Dorm standards should be higher for all
I tried to let it go, I tried to be understanding about it. But I just can’t stand it anymore.
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A guide to find out what kind of drunk U are
“Braaaad! Braaad in apartment one! Wake uuup!” I’m not Brad, and I don’t live in apartment one, but I woke up anyway.
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Other options
The United States should follow the lead of the British government and allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill.The morning-after pill, a form of emergency contraception, releases two strong doses of progestogen.
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Newspaper brings Christmas year round
There are a few things I have learned in my three-and-a-half years at MSU that are concrete: Unless I have an 8 a.m.
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Breaking ties
The Jewish Reform movement should be commended for calling its members to break ties with the Boy Scouts.In a letter to Reform movement congregations earlier this month, the Joint Commission on Social Action said the Boy Scouts of America’s stance on gays is “incompatible with our consistent belief that every individual - regardless of his or her sexual orientation - is created in the image of God and is deserving of equal treatment.” In June 2000, the U.S.
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Clintons visit didnt allow free speech
While I agree with The State News (”Our Voice” SN, 1/9) that President Clinton’s visit to campus Tuesday brought honor and positive attention to MSU, more attention must be paid to the denial of citizens’ constitutional right to free speech that coincided with this visit.First, the order that no signs be allowed into Breslin Student Events Center, enforced by security at the entrances, is a denial of an American citizen’s right to free speech.
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Column neglected Maddens statistics
I am writing in regard to Keith Dunlap’s column “‘U’ sports give fans big relief” (SN 1/10). While I agree with his points that the major Detroit franchises are either on the decline or have been in shambles for years, I have a problem with his usage of John Madden’s name in his column.
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Rap music unfairly criticized by press
It’s funny how rap music is always under the microscopic eye of the public and politics. No one criticized Quentin Tarantino about his overtly violent and controversial films.
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New Year brings evaluation of new resolutions
Dear diary,Hi. It’s me. You know, Krista, the girl who writes in this diary? Yeah, you got it.Anyway, besides driving more than 24 hours to cover a women’s basketball game, life has been pretty normal lately.