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Anti-Jewish graffiti paints picture of intolerance
One of the things that I have always noticed about college life is the tremendous isolation one feels from the outside world.
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Do not criticize sections tradition
This letter is in response to a sports column by Krista Latham (“Student section is becoming unoriginal” SN 10/9). I’m not sure Latham gets the idea behind what it is she is writing about, so I’d like to clarify a few things for her. Latham, the very things you are complaining about and deem unoriginal are quite the opposite - they are what true football fans at MSU consider tradition.
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Fix the system
To keep up the ideals of fair and equal justice, states with the death penalty need to pull the plug on their forms of capital punishment.Protesters rallied outside of the Texas governor’s mansion Monday and the Texas state Capitol on Sunday, asking for a moratorium on capital punishment.
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Women should think twice about marriage
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” What woman hasn’t smiled after hearing that quote?Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the woman who proclaimed it, feminist Gloria Steinem, married at the age of 66.
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Tread lightly
The United States should re-evaluate its participation in Middle East affairs in wake of the recent attack on the USS Cole.Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 injured in Thursday’s blast, which ripped a hole into the military ship during a routine refueling in Aden, Yemen.
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Traveling costs a pretty penny, but it's worth it
Television commercials lately have been so frustrating that I have been forced to switch to the radio.
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Go for it
MSU should not trip over the decision to use natural grass in its stadiumIn 1991, MSU was commissioned to design a natural turf field inside the Pontiac Silverdome for the 1994 World Cup.
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SN alcohol column has U responding
I am writing in response to the opinion column (“‘U’ drinking surveys seem unbalanced,” SN 10/10) written by Tim Mosley.
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McCain has survived, revived American politics
The son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals survived torture from both the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War and debating Texas Gov.
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Homecoming is a time to reflect about U
Last Sunday, I had occasion to return to campus from Cincinnati, jewel of the Ohio River. On the way back, I stopped by my house, just a stone’s throw from I-75 once it winds its way into Michigan.
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SN editorial shows fault of industry
I found reading a State News editorial to be interesting (“Hard drive,” SN 9/28). I did not know about the attempts from artists to have schools block the Napster server.
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Right turn
Ford Motor Co.’s image is totaled. The automaker was ordered Wednesday by a California state judge to recall as many as 1.7 million Ford cars and trucks.
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Club rules have changed over years for first ladies
They are not only their husbands’ closest advisers, they are the only ones privileged enough to call them by their first names. The role played by the women of the White House has changed.
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Rock incident was worth attention
A recent letter to the editor by Ellen Sciba (“Rock article was not newsworthy,” SN 10/10) appallingly tried to downplay the painting over of a Hispanic Heritage Month display on the rock on Farm Lane by fraternity pledges.
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U needs to teach diversity better
I am writing in response to Ellen Sciba’s letter to the editor printed in The State News (“Rock article was not newsworthy,” SN 10/10). After reading Sciba’s letter I couldn’t help but scratch my head in wonderment at how a journalism senior could view the events that transpired with regards to the rock in such a shallow, narrow and superficial light.
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Columnist did not understand plan
This letter is regarding Jessi Phillips’ column (“There’s no such thing as a free lunch at a private school,” SN 10/3). I support Proposal 1.
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Native issue
Native Americans - and everyone else - have the right to protest Columbus Day. On Monday night, roughly 200 people gathered at the rock on Farm Lane to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, which protests the federal observance of Columbus Day.
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U must not hurt trees on campus
Two years ago, after a prolonged hospitalization with many open-heart surgeries, our 6-week-old son Benjamin died of complications of congenital heart disease.
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American history is not objective
It is funny how America only lives by what it thinks is right regardless of the facts disputing its theories.
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Binsfeld is not person for position
Michigan’s former Lt. Gov. Connie Binsfeld is now a candidate for the MSU Board of Trustees. Before you cast your ballot please consider not just name recognition, but Binsfeld’s past record. The Lansing State Journal and Detroit Free Press described, in detail, how Binsfeld used her position of power to pressure the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency to grant permits. Binsfeld’s longtime friend Michael Hendrickson of Munising was twice denied a permit by the DNR for a landfill that was near a wetland connected to Lake Superior.