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Fans should stay home until new coach is found

It all comes down to dollars and cents. I am truly considering relinquishing my season tickets for football next season.

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People need to watch their mouths; racist comments not OK

Recently my friends and I were watching “The Real World,” as we do together almost every Tuesday evening - spectators to the squeezed-out drama of seven messed-up strangers living together in a Las Vegas casino suite.

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Coach had chance, but hes blown it

This letter is in response to Monday’s letter to the editor that said football head coach Bobby Williams will develop into as good a coach as he is a recruiter (“Don’t dog Williams, give him a chance” SN 10/14). What a joke. Good coaches don’t develop in the Big Ten.

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Crime stoppers

The Michigan State Police is making use of the Internet to provide easy access to information about Michigan’s most-wanted criminals, a move that could prove beneficial to the capture of these individuals.

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Team deserves good coach, not cupcake

I think I speak on behalf of 95 percent of the student body when I say football head coach Bobby Williams should be relieved of his duties at MSU.

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Look at Williams academic success

Football head coach Bobby Williams must be given the same chance as his predecessors. The tone of letters written to The State News as of late, calling for Bobby Williams’ head on a platter, are upsetting, but not surprising.

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Williams not worthy of Izzo comparisons

I am getting sick of people comparing Bobby Williams’ first few years as head football coach to the first few years of men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.

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Williams debacle will prove tough on U

After another dismal performance by the Spartans on Saturday, fans again want Bobby Williams’ head on a platter.

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United front

A notable team of Michigan leaders has been assembled to lobby the federal government for MSU’s bid to bring a significant scientific tool to campus.

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Time to start talk of Williams future

When will the talks begin about the head football coaching position next season, and who will fill it? I realize the season isn’t over, but the frustration with football head coach Bobby Williams is spreading among many fans and alumni.

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Countrys leaders making a dangerous world, reforms needed

Last week, I found myself looking through a pile of old political cartoons and came upon one with a tombstone that read “50 Million War Dead, 1900-1999” as its shadow lay over a map of Europe. It made me wonder: After Congress gave President Bush the OK to use unilateral force against Iraq, could there be -in 100 years, or even in 50 years - a political cartoon with the same tombstone and the same number, but a different shadow spread over Africa or the Middle East? Or, worse yet, a shadow hanging over North America?

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Money makers

With lawmakers facing what many expect to be a major money crunch, it seems the MSU Board of Trustees is dreaming to request an extra $1,000 per student in the state’s next budget cycle. But it is good to see Spartan leaders lobbying with gusto as Michigan is set to see many leadership changes because of term limits. Spartans have been at the short end of an appropriations gap among Michigan’s three research universities - Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and MSU - for too long.

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America lost a great historian in Ambrose

Sunday was a sad day for America, as national historian Stephen Ambrose lost his battle with cancer. Ambrose was an avid proponent of learning about and spreading America’s rich cultural heritage to people throughout the country.

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Team in disarray, Williams at fault

It’s frustrating to watch the Spartan football program continue to crumble when the simple remedy is to call for the “coach’s head.” The question can be made why the athletics director would equate this lack of performance to his own first two years as a coach and term the program as in a “rebuilding” stage.

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Fire Williams, return sport to glory days

I have been an MSU sports fan since 1957, when I was 10 years old. That was back in the era of Biggie Munn and Duffy Daugherty. Most of you only know these people by the buildings that carry their names.

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Apologize

Community leaders need to quit sidestepping the issue and apologize to the women involved in last year’s Linton Hall anthrax scare. The bottom line is that emergency officials were not well prepared to handle such an incident, and their inabilities have caused the women involved emotional distress. The women and the Lansing branch of the American Civil Liberties Union met Friday to address concerns over the handling of the situation. On Oct.

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Mason should put Williams on hot seat

Athletics Director Ron Mason has pledged unwavering support for football head coach Bobby Williams in Sunday’s Lansing State Journal regardless of what happens the rest of this year.

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Mediocrity wont end under Williams

As an MSU student and a big football fan, I am tired of our football team’s success always pending on whether we beat the University of Michigan. When preseason rankings came out in August, all of us Spartan faithful saw our team picked to be in the Big Ten race and a possible dark horse for the National Championship.

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Dont dog Williams, give him a chance

I am writing to stand up for someone that everyone will be slandering in the next week or so. That person is football head coach Bobby Williams.

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Proper publication

Another major U.S. newspaper joined the list of publications that are announcing same-sex partner commitments and therefore bringing important issues out for social discussion.