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Right direction

While it seems the highest court in the land has not taken a firm stance on affirmative action, it's encouraging to see the U.S.

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Rioting useless

It's a sad day when tragedy begets tragedy. Last week, 28-year-old Terrance Shurn, a black Benton Harbor resident, was killed in a high-speed chase with white police officers from a neighboring city, Benton Township. Benton Harbor residents responded by setting fire to about 21 houses and attacking police officers for two nights.

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Leaders should be honest to followers

This is in response to Stephen Duane's letter "Weapons regardless, war is necessary," (SN 6/18). Regardless of the legality of what President George Bush and his administration did, we should all see those actions have been undermining the public's knowledge of American affairs and should be construed as lying.

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Policy blunders

MSU has been quite the trend-setter. The University of Minnesota adopted a riot policy last week following the violent melee that erupted April 12-13 on the Twin Cities' campus when its hockey team won the national championship.

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Columnist skewed conflict's history

While Joseph Clark is entitled to his opinions, he is not entitled to rewrite history and invent facts that seriously distort the origins and evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict ( "Unrest between nations childish, peace must overcome war," SN 6/18). Contrary to Clark's claim, the Jewish nation is not "a new kid" who has only recently appeared in the Middle East "neighborhood." As a matter of fact, the Jewish presence in what is now Israel/West Bank antedates the presence of Arabs in that area by at least 2,500 years.

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Puritan settlers started off American society on wrong foot

Way back when, in the days of a long time ago, church and state were intertwined. In fact, they were all but one in the same.The Vatican had a large influence on all kinds of public policy, and they were corrupt - taking money from the common man for confessionals, in order to "absolve" he or she of his or her sins. This would eventually end.

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Student athletes hard working too

This is in response to the letter from D.M. Zielinski ( "Athletics shouldn't be favored by 'U,'" SN 6/18). I would first like to point out the vast majority of student athletes are good students and contribute greatly to the community of MSU.

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Women need to stop competing, start getting along better

I have an ongoing argument with my boyfriend. When I question him about confusing "guy things," I'm refused an answer. "Why is it because I'm a guy, why do you make classifications like that?" My response is always that I've never actually seen a woman who holds her silverware like a caveman.

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Still United

Being charitable is giving money, or any aide to people who need it. But when those who can spare the money take away from the charity, they're given a jail sentence. Jacquelyn Allen-MacGregor was ordered Monday to serve four years in prison, three years of supervised release and pay $2.08 million in restitution for embezzling more than $2 million from the East Lansing-based Capital Area United Way, which employed her for 20 years.

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Bad drivers create summer chaos

Summer brings more people to the road because of family vacations and students taking road trips. And despite all the construction on campus, the roads are still alive with students driving to their summer classes.

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Lawless lawmakers

Lawmakers quickly forgot the principles in which this country was formed. The government's policies seemed to have changed after the Sept.

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Got mail yet?

Finally the university has discovered a way to eliminate spam mail: end access to your e-mail for hours.The amount of times mail.msu.edu has shut down is ridiculous, and it doesn't seem to be getting better anytime soon.

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If Bush lied, he should be punished

In response to Brett A. Gillespie's letter ("Bush weapons 'lie' differs from Clinton," SN 6/16), he's correct, Bill Clinton was found to have given false statements while under oath.

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Weapons regardless, war was necessary

President Bush did not lie. He did not exaggerate and he did not bend the truth. Bush told the world, through Defense Secretary Colin Powell at the United Nations, everything we knew that wouldn't jeopardize the security of our operatives in the field.

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It's coming

The First Amendment to the Constitution is one many people hold dear. Among the freedoms guaranteed in this amendment is the right to peaceably assemble.And people across the country, especially students, should do just that when the Supreme Court soon hands down its ruling in the University of Michigan affirmative action case.

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President should be tried for crimes

In a recent letter Brett A. Gillespie states, rather incredulously, that Bush "has not broken any American law," and unlike Clinton, is not eligible for impeachment ("Bush weapons 'lie' differs from Clinton," SN 6/16). Whether or not weapons of mass destruction are ever found in Iraq, it is clear at the time of the war they were not readily accessible in any quantity, or they would have been already discovered by now, even though Iraq is, by Bush's assertion, "a big country." But lying about weapons of mass destruction is not the only reason Bush should be impeached and then removed from office.