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Commentary

COMMENTARY

Positive jobs report not reason to relax

With the end of the semester sneaking up on students, for some it’s their last few weeks as a Spartan. Although most students dread the thought of leaving, a new MSU report should lessen that trepidation.

COMMENTARY

Rules should curb irresponsible parties

In embracing the concept of brotherhood by accepting responsibility for partygoers, MSU’s Interfraternity Council, or IFC, practices the values held by each MSU fraternity. The accountability system put into place by the IFC, after the untimely passing of a fraternity brother in 2009, was a great step to take.

COMMENTARY

Editorial board wrong about rape

The Coalition Against Sexual Violence recently gathered to discuss the editorial board’s article, “Commit to stopping sexual assault at MSU,” planning to write a letter to the editor in response.

COMMENTARY

Stop abusing political recalls

Tea Party, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Communists or Socialists — it really doesn’t matter in today’s climate. Everyone seems to want to get out in the streets and scream and yell, camp out in a neighboring park or gather in unwashed groups and rant.

COMMENTARY

Dorm security update needed, long overdue

It shouldn’t be a hassle for students to live on campus because of too much or too little security. Having the same security in place across campus is something RHS should have done a long time ago to make the lives of students safer.

COMMENTARY

Don’t hesitate to ask about culture

Walking gingerly downhill on a narrow, winding street in Cadiz, Spain, paved in incredibly smooth and shiny stones bigger around than softballs, one of my companions, D.G. Schiltz, commented, “There are no championship rollerskaters from Cadiz.”

COMMENTARY

Enact new preferred name policy swiftly

When ASMSU passes a bill of this nature, it is important that the university implements it, or it defeats the purpose of having a student government. There is no point in having a student government when the policies they propose that will help students aren’t implemented by the university.

COMMENTARY

Service Road dangerous for all

Employees of the Clinical Center are not allowed to park on the adjacent parking lot, which is assigned exclusively to patients, but instead use the parking lot on the other side of Service Road.

COMMENTARY

Open letter to parking department

It has become apparent to me that this insignificant division, known simply as “parking,” has introduced itself more recently as a nuisance and disease to the populace of East Lansing.

COMMENTARY

Reforms would benefit society

Part of any generation’s responsibilities is to correct the mistakes made by the last. We usually tend to think of this responsibility in the context of examples taught in grade school, such as the woman’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement.

COMMENTARY

No-preference option allows exploration

To help students find the right major, MSU should consider requiring freshmen to come in with no defined major and choose one after one year. This would allow students to take the required courses needed to graduate and help in not letting students go two years into college before realizing they have no interest in their chosen major.

COMMENTARY

City handling allegations properly

As the attorney representing the city of East Lansing in the pending litigation regarding mailboxes, I can tell you that I was disappointed to read the tone of your editorial “Take alleged illegal mail search seriously” (SN 11/3). It then occurred to me that the editorial was more likely a matter of you being misinformed rather than any lack of due diligence on your part. While there is no doubt that Ann Ezop made a number of allegations regarding conduct of Housing Enforcement Specialist Robert Dutcher, the fact is, Mr. Dutcher specifically testified that he did not, does not and never has looked through the mail of student residents.

COMMENTARY

MSU should continue work toward no coal

MSU is a research university whose administrators talk about going green, so it would make sense for the administration to embrace the goals of MSU Beyond Coal and lead the charge toward clean energy. Unfortunately, the administration is dragging its feet with regards to clean energy.

COMMENTARY

Sexual assault persists on campus

There currently are 47,954 students enrolled at MSU; 25,008 of those students are women. This means one in four of them, or 6,252, has been or will be the victim of rape or attempted rape during her MSU career, according to the Department of Justice.