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Welcoming U
Welcome to college. No doubt you’ve gotten hundreds of bits of advice in the last few months. “Always go to class,” the people say.
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Welcoming U
Welcome to college. No doubt you’ve gotten hundreds of bits of advice in the last few months. “Always go to class,” the people say.
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Keep the change
Along with the recent inflation of rent, gas and tuition, pizza joints might soon make their own raid into students’ pocketbooks. Domino’s Pizza is considering raising the cost of a hot, delivered pizza.
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Offensive art
Local coffeehouse patrons have truly struck a mighty blow against the evil of Satan. His influence spreads everywhere - even to local percolation stations. Paintings deemed “disturbing” and “satanic” were removed from the walls of The Cappuccino Café, 1500 W.
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Seperate room
Beginning this week, some workers in Ingham County will get a breath of fresh air as a countywide ban on smoking in break-rooms used by smokers and nonsmokers alike takes effect.
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Saving Sparty
Ceramics experts have given Sparty an ominous diagnosis - he only has eight years to live if his lifestyle doesn’t change soon. But help is on the way for MSU’s terra-cotta icon, believed to be the world’s tallest free-standing ceramic statue.
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Delayed count
As election officials continued to count votes into Wednesday afternoon from the day before’s primary, some criticized state measures that require ballots thrown out in past elections to be examined more closely. Detroit election officials said a state-mandated program that identifies flawed ballots slowed down the counting of absentee ballots.
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Planning ahead
The consequences of Gov. John Engler’s vetoes of more than $850 million in state payments to local governments is started to be driven home. East Lansing city officials began looking hard at the numbers this week, and started talking about how they can make up for $4.6 million in lost state-aid.
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No place to go
It is disappointing to see the hip-hop theme night at Old Town’s Spiral Video Dance Bar end because of the ludicrous lack of judgment of a single person that early Thursday morning.
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Bad medicine
A new study shows the top three programs used to educate and prevent school-age children from using drugs - Drug Abuse Resistance Education; Here’s Looking at You, 2000; and McGruff’s Drug Prevention and Child Protection - are either ineffective or haven’t been sufficiently tested.
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Hitting the poles
The time has come again. The candidates have campaigned, the issues have been debated. All that remains is for voters to make their decision. But with Tuesday’s election only being a primary, it may seem as though an individual vote does not matter.
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SN endorses
With continued budget shortfalls expected in Michigan’s immediate economic future, the decision of who will be the state’s next governor is one voters shouldn’t take lightly.
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Enough, already
The Lansing City Council should get a move on it and approve Wolverine Pipe Line Company’s request to build a gasoline pipe within the city limits.
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Sloppy Spartan
Current efforts to clean up and repair MSU’s aging Sparty, believed to be the largest free-standing ceramic statue in the world, are necessary and, unfortunately, a regular event.
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Power Play
Lame-duck Gov. John Engler is using what’s left of his political weight in Lansing to grasp onto control of the state government - and trample the rights of the state’s residents in the process. On Thursday, Engler vetoed more than $850 million in state payments to local governments for the 2003 fiscal year, threatening to nearly bankrupt local governments if three November ballot initiatives are approved.
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Level playing field
The debate over the Michigan’s high school girls’ athletics seasons returns to court Thursday as a federal judge plans to rule on a blueprint to end discrimination in interscholastic sports.
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Timing Trouble
While it’s commendable that East Lansing is asking questions about whether there’s a problem with discrimination when buying or renting property in the city, the way city officials are going about it serves only to keep up the appearance of action, instead of getting to the root of any problem. East Lansing hired an outside firm to look into fair-housing issues within the city.
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Lawful mistake
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of GHB - more commonly known as the “date-rape drug” - to treat narcolepsy is a big step in the wrong direction. GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate, is a drug known to trigger unconsciousness and cause short-term memory loss, which has led to its notorious reputation as a tool to take advantage of women at parties.
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Inevitable justice
Sexual harassment is no laughing matter in an educational environment - regardless of where that education is taking place. Two male Eastern Michigan University students and a professor’s assistant are accused of sexually harassing six female students while on a 1999 study- abroad trip to South Africa. Although the male students were suspended nearly two years ago, the women, who have since graduated, are suing the school for violating Title IX, the 30-year-old civil rights law prohibiting gender discrimination at schools that receive any federal funding.
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Pressure cooker
No one would leave a chocolate bar sitting in their car on a hot day, yet nearly every summer there are reports of children who die because they’re left alone in a vehicle. A Detroit mother is on trial for involuntary manslaughter after her children died in her car.