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Poor protest

The Graduate Employees Union has been known for protesting in creative ways. From marching around campus beating buckets like drums and carrying picket signs, to marching to past former President M.

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Sparty (w)on

Some congratulations are in order for Sparty. For the second year in a row, the mascot reigns high and supreme above all other mascots in the nation after defending his title as number one mascot in the country at the College Mascot National Championship held in Orlando, Fla., on Jan.

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Global warning

It seems as though some of the world's brightest minds are pleading before the United States one more time to change its policies on environmentally harmful gas emissions. An international climate change task force warned Monday that the planet's global warming is rapidly approaching a critical point.

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Vote rocked

Stereotyped to be uninformed and uninterested in political issues, college students are not usually considered important to an election.

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Terror talk

Osama bin Laden might be coming to a bookstore near you. At least his beliefs might. That's because "The Al Qaeda Reader," a book that contains translated interviews with bin Laden and some of his al-Qaida counterparts, is scheduled to be made available in English next year.

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We want you

With intense competition in the college admission process, some universities are doing more than just sending out mass mailings of pamphlets inviting prospective students to enroll. Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., offered potential students a free weekend getaway to go skiing or snowboarding.

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Equal sight

Hey you, pay attention. Stop ogling pictures of Maurice Ager and take notice of the other Big Ten basketball team tearing it up at Breslin Center. Although the No.

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No SIRS

E-mails asking recipients to fill out surveys, regardless of what they are about, are deleted almost as fast as junk mail.

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Tone it down

President George W. Bush will be sworn in today, but it will mark the third day of celebratory activities honoring his second inauguration.

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Help wanted

Sometimes, numbers speak louder than words. Eight out of the 10 staff members of the MSU Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, located in Lansing, left earlier this month.

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Safe texts

There's no debate that good decision-making comes from understanding every operation available.

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Be heard

In ancient Greece, in the city-state of Athens, there were the rowers, who served in the navy, and the soldiers, who fought in the phalanx.

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Imbibe indoors

With its own power source, police force, cafeterias, convenience stores and places to live and workout, MSU's campus is like a small city.

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Dead end

Did you hear? Iraq didn't actually possess any weapons of mass destruction. Given the amount of attention the media has given the subject, we sincerely hope that you have. In the same month that the first bombs fell on Iraq, a report surveying the country found there were no WMDs. After the discovery in March 2003, the first preliminary report from Charles A.

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True aid

The Whole World is One Family. That was the theme on Wednesday evening when MSU students, international student leaders and nine local religious leaders gathered outside the Wharton Center, holding candles to remember the lives lost in Tsunami in Southeast Asia.

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Tasty tobacco

Different flavors of cigarettes hitting the shelves have a lot of people talking. Recently, Michigan Department of Community Health Director Janet Olszewski and Surgeon General Kimberlydawn Wisdom sent a letter to R.

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Stuck abroad

Cost of traveling to Peru on study abroad: $2,262 Cost of the passport application fee: $85 Leaving a student behind, terrified, without money and a place to stay: heartless. MSU's Study Abroad program to Peru did just that to Julie Crane.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Respect. Where is it? Apparently it wasn't at the rock on Farm Lane on Sunday around 4 p.m. While a group of MSU students held a vigil for Julie Koivisto - an MSU graduate accounting student killed in a car accident over winter break - their gathering was disrupted by members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. The fraternity paints the rock each year on Jan.

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Right to know

It wasn't meant to happen, but it did. You are not quite sure what to do next. It's hard enough just to get over the shock and confusion.

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Peace at last?

More than 200 years ago, a group of fresh-minded revolutionaries decided they didn't quite like the way they were being governed.