Friday, December 20, 2024

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MSU deserves Big Ten championship

I was in Lincoln, Neb., for the Nebraska-MSU football game, and I was impressed by all the Spartan fans I talked to that day — each one I talked to said they were having a great time, were received well and were happy about Nebraska being in the Big Ten.

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Some inflate own importance

It seems like the not-so-subtle rallying cry of many individuals across the countryside in the past few days is that fantastic phrase, “I am ImpOtent!” Now I realize that you may have looked at this a couple of times and thought that the writer is an idiot and can’t even spell “important.”

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Larger capacity not necessary at stadium

Football fans on campus are buzzing about the upcoming Big Ten championship game the Spartans will play Saturday. The game won’t be played in Spartan Stadium, but changes to MSU fans’ game-day experience are on the horizon.

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Song for big ten championship

Congratulations to the Spartans! Along with our beloved “Michigan State Fight Song,” here’s a little ditty I’ll be singing on Friday as I drive south on I-69 through Hoosier Land.

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Students need more on-campus parking

With the temperature dropping and snowflakes beginning to fall, many students are going to turn to their cars as an alternative form of transportation ­— yet parking is a hindrance. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, recently passed a resolution in an attempt to expand available parking for students on campus.

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Practicality matters in research

In the race against global warming and the quest for energy independence, biomass has long been touted as a sort of Holy Grail. It’s easy to see biomass as an infinite resource — plants grow everywhere.

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ASMSU overreached on CATA mobile app

This year, ASMSU has done a better job of trying to serve students. However, it didn’t lay the proper groundwork when it set out to develop a mobile app students could use to find times and track Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA buses.

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Women have right to birth control

U.S. House Republicans are attacking a recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, to require new insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays.

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Untold reasons for unemployment

The economy will be the dominant issue in the 2012 presidential election, and rightfully so. This has been the longest time of unemployment staying above 9 percent since the Great Depression.

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Grad student funding cuts could hurt US

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction not only failed to lower the national debt but also failed in helping students. The committee’s recent lapse in reaching an agreement regarding how to address America’s steadily rising national debt triggered several planned cuts to federally funded programs.

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Turkeys not abused, poorly kept

I am appalled that a piece of drivel like that written by Mitch Goldsmith would even be published in this newspaper (“Try turkey-less Thanksgiving,” SN 11/22). There are so many errors and outright lies in his article, I almost wonder if it is actually satire.

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Give beyond family for holidays

I am sure someone somewhere could use help serving food, because you can never have enough free help. So this holiday season, get your family together and find a place to serve a delicious hot meal to those in need.

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Free speech rights important to know

This semester, more so than in past semesters, issues of free speech were ignited by a campuswide discussion about race. It undoubtedly is important for students to learn the difference between hate speech and free speech.

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Try turkey-less Thanksgiving

Each Thanksgiving, an estimated 45 million turkeys are thought to be reared and killed in American factory farms, destined to be the holiday centerpieces on American families’ dinner tables.

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Support Spartan football success

For years, I’ve claimed that if MSU ever got a consistent winner on the football field and fans’ loyalty was repaid, watch out — the alumni, students and the state would go absolutely nuts and prove men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo right that we are a football school ranking with the best of them.