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COMMENTARY

Student-created e-mail system good for MSU

After endless complaints about the problems of the current MSU e-mail system, it appears the plight of students, faculty and staff could be over. Computer science and engineering senior Daniel Fiordalis has created State-Mail.com, a new e-mail service that offers more features than the current e-mail system, including a mailbox-search feature and a chat tool.

COMMENTARY

Advertising for Tasers absurd

Taser International, Inc., uses Santa on the front of its Web site saying, “What does Santa bring you when you have been good but the world is getting bad?” Really, is this necessary?

COMMENTARY

Political 'mudslinging' tactics 'irritating' but serve purpose

I am writing in response to Nathan Calverley’s letter Difference between political bickering, intelligent debating (SN 11/27). I would certainly agree there exists a certain degeneration of politics in our world today: Mudslinging and swift-boat tactics become very irritating when trying to debate what really matters.

NEWS

Victim survives abduction from outside E.L. game parlor

A botched abduction near an East Lansing arcade Saturday morning left a Clawson man with a stab wound to his head and a Lansing resident in jail on charges of assault with intent to rob while armed, felonious assault and kidnapping, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department said.