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COMMENTARY

Plastic bags bad for environment

Consumer waste comes in all shapes and sizes, but perhaps the most damaging has come from a generally unnoticed source — plastic shopping bags. According to GOOD Magazine, the U.S. uses 60,000 plastic bags every five seconds, which adds up to some heavy environmental consequences.

COMMENTARY

Cab drivers must be responsible

From party to party we hopped. The gusting winds swirling in East Lansing that night — my very first night as a college student — had blown my buddies and I square across the city.

MSU

Will Ferrell to come to Breslin Center

Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die Comedy Tour Presented by Semi-Pro Tour will make a stop on campus at 8 p.m. Feb. 5 at Breslin Center. It features Ferrell, Demetri Martin, Zach Galifianakis and Nick Swardson.

NEWS

Judicial boards violate MSU rule

When Michael Leahy e-mailed student judicial board nominees Nov. 26 to invite them to begin interviews for appointments three days later, the ASMSU Student Assembly chairperson was informed the undergraduate members were already hearing cases.

MICHIGAN

Students lobby Legislature

Marci Baranski was a long way from class Wednesday morning. Instead of professors, equations and notebooks, the bio-chemistry junior found herself facing another lesson: how to influence state legislators.

COMMENTARY

Venezuelan vote a victory for all

This week, the best editorial opinion in any newspaper on the Hugo Chávez election defeat was in The State News. I simultaneously want to praise my fellow college students and chastise our mainstream media “big brothers” for focusing attention on far more parochial issues of the day.