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Taylor Swift: The country star to pop icon that shaped the last 13 years of my life
Reminiscing on a dynamic Taylor Swift and her career throughout the years.
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Editorial: MSU should financially commit to halting climate change
Michigan State should reorient its investment portfolio from fracking, mining and oil production — but there has to be more than that. The university should set a date for committing to 100% renewable energy and lay out an updated Energy Transition Plan.
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COLUMN: Generalizing OCD is unacceptable
Administration reporter Maddie Monroe's experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder provides insight beyond generalization.
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The Dinner Table Column: Our 'Jaded' Egg
Tessa Osborne and Griffin Wiles debate the ethics of Goop, a lifestyle brand founded by celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow, in lieu of the new Netflix original "The Goop Lab" series.
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Editorial: Student deportations set harmful precedent
This shouldn’t have happened, and it shouldn’t continue to happen. These unjust deportations have to end.
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'Smooth as raven's claws': On the deaths of Kobe and Gianna Bryant
Trying to make sense of a tragedy and a complicated life.
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Column: 2 years later, this is how I reconcile my time at Michigan State
"As a concerned senior, I ask you not to forget the period of history in which this university's school colors became teal and white instead of green and white."
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Reclaim MSU: 'We believe that the legacy trustees have failed MSU'
"We call on them to step aside and make way for others who can better meet the needs of our university."
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Column: Men’s experiences of sexual assault are too often erased
"I needed narratives from people I could identify with, but instead, experiences like mine are erased, glossed over, an afterthought."
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The Army of Survivors: 'We as survivors are taking back our power'
"By advocating for change and working to support other survivors, my story was no longer about him but about survivors and the community working together to create something more powerful than he ever was."
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Firecracker Foundation: ‘We need allies to rise up’
"Survivors will never be able to end sexual violence on their own. We need you."
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Editor's note: This community still stands by survivors
The State News' editor-in-chief introduces the 2020 survivors issue.
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Column: It's our responsibility to seek out forgotten history
"Black history is very relevant now as we as a nation sort out a way to level the playing field. The past needs to be considered, and the American people need to have all the information."
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Column: Being a minority student at Michigan State
"Sometimes at MSU, you can’t help but feel like an outsider."
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Column: I knew my major from the start, and I’m choosing to stick with it
"I was going to become a journalist, and I am going to be really good at it."
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Column: How I knew it was time to change my major
"Changing my major felt like this monumental thing; like I was changing a part of my identity. All my family members, old teachers, friends, and acquaintances knew me as a journalism major."
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Column: CORES & COPS and their services are essential to the university
"Much of the programing revolving around marginalized communities fall under our responsibility, not the university's."
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Column: Recognizing Latina Equal Pay Day as November comes to an end
"Unluckily for me, as a Hispanic woman, my “Equal Pay Day” doesn’t technically come until November. A whole 11 months after the ball drops on New Years, I will only just come to see the same amount of money my white male coworker saw while they were sipping on champagne at midnight under the fireworks."
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Where to drink without draining the bank: Inexpensive East Lansing bars
It can be expensive to go out — here are East Lansing bars that won't break the bank.