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Minimum wage hike overdue
What difference can 70 cents make? If you're making minimum wage, 70 cents could make a big difference in your future paychecks.
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Emergency contraceptive should be available
The next time you walk into a drugstore, you may have access to the morning-after pill without a prescription.
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Program helps tackle gender inequalities
Name five female engineers. If you're having a hard time coming up with names, don't blame yourself — blame the numbers. According to MSU data from the spring, 54 percent of MSU students are female.
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Get over 2003, prevent future riots
What were you doing in March 2003? If you were a student at MSU, you may have been celebrating the men's basketball team's winning season.
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Self-Defense Act promotes violence
Quick — think fast. What do you do when your life is in danger? If someone else is threatening your life, do you have the right to end theirs?
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United States responsible for citizens
Imagine being in a foreign country when it is at war. Picture shells exploding nearby and bombs flattening buildings just miles away.
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Treatment should be patients' choice
When is it all right for the government to step into your life? When a person is struggling economically, we look to the government to step in and help lift that person out of poverty.
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Health is your responsibility too
When you get a prescription from your physician, you expect to start feeling better — not worse.
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Sex education should look beyond morals
Sex is everywhere. From television commercials to music videos, sex has become a large part of our society.
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Goodbye junk mail, hello free market
How many times do you throw away junk mail without even opening it? If your answer is a lot, then you might be interested in signing up with Tim Pfannes' new company, 41pounds.org. Pfannes, along with his two brothers, began the company in an attempt to help subscribers eliminate junk mail delivered to their houses.
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Tuition increased, are you surprised?
As fall comes around, college students can expect to pay more in tuition. The MSU Board of Trustees announced on Monday that tuition will increase by 5.9 percent for in-state undergraduate students and by 6.9 percent for out-of-state undergraduate students.
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Boating restrictions promote safety
Boating is a way of life in Michigan. From Labor Day to Memorial Day lakes throughout the state are peppered with boats.
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Stem cell research good idea
Imagine a cure for spinal cord injuries. In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the man who popularized "Superman," fell from a horse and broke his neck.
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Healthy foods make healthy kids
Pick any building on campus, and you can be sure to find a vending machine stocked with multiple soda and candy bar choices.
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Google good for Michigan
Do you Google? Chances are you're familiar with the popular search engine. With offices spanning the globe from Australia to Brazil to Denmark, Google has become a powerhouse when it comes to searching on the Internet.
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Court system should look beyond age
While teenagers may like to think that they're grown up, they're not. In Michigan you're not allowed to buy cigarettes or get a tattoo until your eighteenth birthday rolls around.
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Bad guys covered by Constitution too
It's easy to hate the bad guy. When someone is deemed a bad guy by society, people lose all respect for him or her.
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Legislation bad idea for Internet freedom
On the Internet, there is something for everyone. Whether you're looking for pot roast recipes or Wimbledon scores, the Internet has been providing loads of information to a large and growing audience for years.
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Cell phone benefits outweigh negatives
Hold on one second — let me answer this call. It's hard to separate ourselves from our cell phones.
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Spelling made not-so-easy
Ther iz mor then one wae to do most thinz. Take for exzample speling. The Simplified Spelling Board was created about 100 years ago with the help of Andrew Carnegie.