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Separate consideration appropriate

As Michigan continues to struggle with a combined $3 billion budget deficit, a squabble has broken out between lawmakers and universities about funding. As it stands, Michigan's "Big Three" universities — University of Michigan, Wayne State University and MSU — receive 57 percent of state funding, with the remaining 43 percent to be divided among the 12 remaining schools. And while those numbers will remain constant, Gov.

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A liberal underdog

For an election that hasn't even hit the primaries, the 2008 run for the White House has been quite a show. The undisputed stars of that show, getting more press and sparking more speculation than all other candidates combined, are Sens.

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Prisoner release will not solve deficit

The fact that Michigan's economy is crumbling is not news. Anyone who has been keeping up with the auto industry is aware of our state's financial woes.

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All races can enjoy music by African Americans

When reading Etienne Fields' article "The biggest threat" (SN 3/21), I was shocked that he would be so "frightened and dismayed" by white people listening to African American artists while driving.

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Destructive behavior to protest war misguided

As citizens protest the war in Iraq all across America from Washington to our hometown, one would hope this exercise of free speech would yield a positive impact.

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Group not beneficial for MSU students, vote no

Although it came a year later, I applauded the decision by ASMSU to disband Great Issues. I like to think my four years at MSU has taught me how to successfully conduct research, but no matter how hard I search The State News or the ASMSU Web site, I still have no clue what Great Issues' purpose was or why it was ever created. The only speaker I ever heard of who was sponsored by Great Issues was Joe Carr.

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Adoption dialogue

Justus is an 8-year-old boy from Florida, with bushy hair and a crooked smile. His bio says he enjoys writing and animals, and in his free time, he likes to go to the movies. Fedeline, 8, and her sister Kettelove, 5, patiently glare upward in a picture.

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Promote change in war strategy with peace rally

The war in Iraq is starting its fifth year, and we in Lansing kicked it off with an anti-war rally held at the Capitol.

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Mich. job market forces graduates to relocate

As a senior about to graduate and be in the job market, I am acutely aware of the severe economic crisis the state of Michigan is currently facing. Recently, we all have heard the news that Comerica is moving its corporate headquarters from Detroit to Texas, most of the Jackson prison complex will be closed and unemployment has increased again.

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Tobacco tax decrease is destructive

Last week, Rep. Phil LaJoy introduced a bill that would decrease the state cigarette tax by 50 cents in hopes of generating revenue.

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Protests are not only way to voice opinions

I struggle to find the words necessary to fully communicate the knots felt in my heart as I was an unfortunate witness to the anti-war protest Tuesday afternoon on Grand River Avenue.

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Distorted damages

Global warming is a reality, and there is nothing Philip Cooney or the rest of the blundering executive branch can do to keep it quiet any longer. It turns out that Cooney, the former chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality and a one-time oil industry lobbyist, got a little too red-pen happy with some of the federal government's official documents about climate change, including 294 separate edits to one governmental strategic climate change plan. And as Rep.

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Vote against readmitting Great Issues to ASMSU

When ASMSU elections start this week, all students will have an opportunity to vote on Proposal 3. This proposal is to keep Great Issues off Programming Board, as our ASMSU representatives had already voted.

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The biggest threat

It stills amazes and disturbs me how often people use historical words of hate in everyday language.

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MSU administration must investigate campus group

It is time for MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and the administration to take immediate action. When a student organization has been constantly labeled as highly controversial and intolerant, it raises eyebrows and can bring question to the university.

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Media strategy by YAF leader is hypocritical

In "YAF not hate group, law center should be accused" (SN 3/16), Anthony Mantova expresses his disdain at the Southern Poverty Law Center for putting the MSU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom on a list of hate groups.

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Shake up power in ASMSU election

With 32 seats open between ASMSU's Student and Academic assemblies, there are a lot of opportunities for students to vote for change.

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Environment evaluated by objective scientists

Jessica Byrom's column "An indefinite truth" (SN 3/15), is a spit in the face of scientists across the globe.

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Beliefs are mainstream, YAF not a 'hate group'

I cannot believe MSU's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom is now classified as a "hate group" in "Law center lists YAF as 'hate group'" (SN 3/15), or as I refer to it, a group that has views shared by the majority of Americans, which left-wing based institutions don't agree with. After all, since when have supporting our troops, advocating immigration reform and standing up for moral values been considered hateful acts?

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Leader cause of damage done to YAF reputation

The author of the letter "YAF not hate group, law center should be accused" (SN 3/16), is clearly out of touch with how the leadership has been directing the group. Despite how the Young Americans for Freedom was run in the past, the current chairman, Kyle Bristow, is running what may have once been a respectable organization into the ground.