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Saturday November 7, 2009

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Editorials

From the Daily: Progress makes perfect

By: The Michigan Daily

A year after their approval, positive developments are occurring on both the stem cell and medical marijuana fronts — and Michigan must continue to be a leader on these issues.

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From the Daily: Gay marriage will win

By: From the Daily

Advocates must stay strong and keep fighting while the rest of the country grows steadily more cognizant of the discrimination inherent in anti-gay marriage laws.

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From the Daily: Backing up education

By: From the Daily

In tough times, many people are lending a hand to local schools, and more people — including college students — should do what they can, too.

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From the Daily: A calculated strategy

By: The Michigan Daily

Creating a strong intellectual community isn’t accomplished solely by evaluating math, natural sciences, history and English — the fine arts and other areas are a part of that, too.

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From the Daily: Vote Elhady, Briere

By: The Michigan Daily

As vital members of the community with unique ideas for what the city should look like, students have an obligation to silence claims that we don’t care. So head to the polls tomorrow, and as you do, keep the following information in mind.

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From the Daily: Mercury rising

By: The Michigan Daily

Michigan’s environment is under attack by a dangerous chemical: mercury. But new state regulations could curtail its effects.

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From the Daily: Back to school

By: The Michigan Daily

Any program that helps Michigan workers to keep their jobs while preparing the state economy for a brighter future is clearly a success.

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From the Daily: Trigger happy

By: The Michigan Daily

The only likely scenario of increasing the presence of guns on campus is that more danger will be created due to accidental shootings.

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Columns

Leah Potkin: Sophomore year slump

By: Leah Potkin

The truth is that the transition from coddled freshman to self-sufficient, independent sophomore isn’t as easy as one might expect, and the challenges and growing pains may make it the most emotionally difficult of the college years.

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Robert Soave: School spending solved

By: Robert Soave

We don’t need to reduce curricula, downgrade textbooks, increase class sizes or cut arts programs. We simply need to pay our public teachers — who are already paid better than those in other states, and vastly better than private school teachers — slightly less.

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Chris Koslowski: The final frontier?

By: Chris Koslowski

A one-way ticket would eliminate the need to transport fuel for the return trip, for a system to escape Mars’s gravity, and for a vehicle that could withstand re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

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Viewpoints

Viewpoint: Breaking the B.S. detector

By: Nick Clift

When it comes to health care and fixing the economy, we must choose to be exposed to ideas we find contrary to our own.

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Viewpoint: No excuse for racism

By: Matthew Blanton

What makes it okay to wear a black person as a costume?

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Viewpoint: Keep homophobia out of 'U' sports

By: Larry Harvilla

It pains me that my love for the University is met with such hateful words by fans and that the hateful words are met with indifference by the Athletic Department.

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