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Ignore this
Communication problems between MSU's administration and faculty have become a highly visible national issue.
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Side by side
Editor's note: Each Wednesday, The State News editorial board will address a key issue of the presidential campaign.
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Need notice
The decision not to notify residents immediately upon receiving a report of a sexual assault on campus was poor judgment on the part of university officials. A full day after a sexual assault reportedly took place outside Holden Hall, university officials and hall directors still had not notified residents and other students of the occurrence.
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Pong patrol
The price MSU officials paid for a safer tailgating was to, in effect, destroy tailgating as it once was.
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C'mon out
National Coming Out Days proudly commemorates lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender lives on a nationwide scale.
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Brave choice
On Saturday, millions of Afghan citizens bravely defied the threat of physical harm and death to do for the first time what we here in America have come to take for granted. They voted. When, despite threats of Taliban violence, Afghan men and women stepped out to the polls by the hundreds to participate in the country's first presidential election, democracy took a step forward.
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Pride point
The creation of the MSU LBGT Students of Color Scholarship becomes all the more meaningful when put in context. The scholarship was the product of one student - LaJoya Johnson - standing up to address a real need. A person who is both a racial ethnic minority and lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender faces discrimination from two fronts.
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Being direct
After America was attacked at home, we lived in fear. Fear of being attacked again and fear of doing the unpatriotic.
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Bremer bust
Paul Bremer, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, deserves to be protested. He was a key figurehead of an unjust, or at least questionable, war.
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'Get a life'
In a twisted attempt to steal some spotlight, the Michigan Republican Party is asking prosecutors in Ingham, Wayne, Antrim and Isabella counties to file criminal charges of voter fraud against filmmaker Michael Moore.
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Vice squad
It's rare that a vice presidential debate actually commands attention. Tuesday's debate did more.
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Side by side
Editor's note: Each Wednesday, The State News editorial board will address a key issue of the presidential campaign.
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Our thanks
To all of you who got out and registered to vote, thank you from the bottom of our ink-stained hearts.
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Wide open gate
In an effort to regulate campus-wide tailgating into a responsible, "healthy, family atmosphere," MSU officials have decided to focus on the Wilson tennis courts.
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No surrender
Democracy in action is a beautiful thing. When the majority, or minority, are compelled to risk their social status in the name of promoting what they feel is important, so be it.
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Signing up
In a country that values freedom, it is hard to believe that residents of some cities - East Lansing included - cannot show their support via yard signs for a candidate prior to 30 days before the election.
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Winning edge
Thursday's presidential debate was by no means a blowout for John Kerry. Many people, including some conservatives, were worried that President Bush's intrinsic lack of public speaking ability would crumble under the pressure of Kerry's well-tuned debate tactics, but that didn't exactly happen. Needless to say, the damage was done.
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Apply within
If anything has caused fewer applicants to Big Ten schools in Michigan, it is not student laziness or student apathy.
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Beltway ball
Baseball is back; or at least it is in Washington, D.C. For a city that has not seen a home run or a fly ball in 33 years, the movement of the Expos from Montreal to the nation's capital is good thing, for both D.C.
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All-spin zone
As if we needed yet another reason that Bill O'Reilly needs to keep his mouth shut. When Jon Stewart, host of the "The Daily Show," appeared on the Sept.