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COMMENTARY

Encourage peers to vote, get involved

Voting organizations wish young adults would say, “OMG, like, Obama just tweeted at me to go out and vote, and, like, I can’t wait to now.” Unfortunately, that reaction only happens in their dreams. Interest in voting doesn’t stem from any politician telling youth to go out and vote — it stems from friendships and family.

COMMENTARY

US justice system not broken

Justice is an ideal, a subjective opinion that varies from one person to the next, a concept of moral rightness based on ethics. Asking for justice is the equivalent of asking for happiness. One person may say justice for a murderer is death — an eye for an eye — where another person might say that a murderer deserves life in prison to sit with their guilt.

NEWS

Lay of the law

When Sean Schmidt stumbled out of a Snyder Hall community bathroom and stood face-to-face with three MSU police officers, only one thought entered his mind: “My life is over.”

NEWS

Police Brief 09/28/11

A suspect in the 1999 arson attempt on MSU’s Agriculture Hall plead guilty to federal charges yesterday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, according the Grand Rapids Press.

COMMENTARY

Protest discriminatory state bills

Usually, the ignorance exposed by the “down home values” crowd is pretty predictable, and I’m able to shrug it off as I go about my day. That is, until I learned about the newest Republican onslaught against equality and fairness, this time in the form of House bills 4770 and 4771.

MICHIGAN

Burglary trial moves forward

One of the two men accused of breaking into Hubbard Hall dorm rooms and stealing laptops was bound over to Ingham County’s 30th Judicial Circuit Court on Tuesday following his pretrial conference in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.

MSU

Two colleges prepare for new deans

As the College of Education continues to prepare for the arrival of a new permanent dean in January 2012, the college is searching to fill several open faculty positions including that of Deborah Feltz, a long-time chair of the Department of Kinesiology.