2008 Woodie Awards
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Sex scandals replace real news
By Anita Creamer McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) Anything to distract us from what's really serious. It's a clever nickname, but I forget which disgraced politician from the Northeast is supposed to be the "Luv Gov." Is it Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as New York's governor almost two weeks ago in the midst of scandal after he was linked to an alleged high-priced call girl ring? Or is it former New Jersey Gov.
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Voter lists violate privacy
The New York Times just ran a story titled "New Michigan Primary: It's Really Most Sincerely Dead." But its Oz-based headline didn't go far enough. If it's right, then this should be a day of independents! And the Times should also have let the joyous news be spread that a wicked new law at last was dead - thanks to Michigan Greens, Libertarians and Reformers, and the no-party-at-all majority.
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Three Dull Guys, one dull letter
In Friday's issue of Central Michigan Life, I came across the letter to the editor by the Three Dull Guys. I was thoroughly unimpressed with the sub-par humor of their article entitled "The Dinosaur was never funny." To the authors of this article, while you may want to belittle Evan Shaner with your "humor" in order to use your editorial as a promotion for your next amateur comedy event, your slanderous tone is completely unnecessary and disrespectful.
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What would be the benefits if passports functioned as driver's licenses?
"It's America. If I don't have to take a driver's license test, it would be good." -Geng Chen "I don't think they would be different." -Jessica Geyser "I think the benefit would be more convenience. If you forget one you could have the other." -Hanzhu Jiang "It would be harder to carry around a passport because you would have to make room in your pockets.
Learn FERPA
Perhaps you've heard a lot about how fear of violating Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act rules prevented officials at Virginia Tech from connecting the dots in time to prevent a tragedy. But Virginia Tech officials were not limited by FERPA, only by their misinterpretations of FERPA, according to last year's Virginia Tech Review Panel and the separate presidential report.
Tearing up
Cedar Fest became out of control
Police are calling Cedar Fest a riot. The event, which gathered a vociferous bunch of 3,000 to 4,000 people at an off-campus apartment complex in East Lansing, at the very least qualifies as 'out of hand.' The crowds swelled peaceably enough. As they began to fill roadways, one attendee worried that a particularly obnoxious batch of violent participants would ruin the event, according to the Lansing State Journal.
