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Your View: Spanking Could Be Seen as a Biblical Mandate

| October 1

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanI thoroughly agree with the two articles in last week's Plainsman that the matter of spanking children is important.It is so important that God gave us specific instructions in His Word as to how we are to train children.It is essential to understand that discipline must be preceded by instruction concerning the child's sin and followed by an opportunity for repentance.Proverbs 22:15 reads, "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him."Notice that this does not say to leave the child alone because physical discipline will only bring harm; in fact, it specifically says that this discipline will drive away his or her foolish sin.Further insight is given in Proverbs 29:15.

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Your View: Idea for how to pay for new nationalized health care

| October 1

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanSo, how would we pay for a single-payer national health care plan?Easy.For starters, roll back the enormous tax cuts given to the wealthiest of Americans during the Reagan and Bush Administrations and increase the tax on unearned income from the present 15 percent to 25 percent.How about rescinding the provision in the Medicare Modernization & Improvement Act that prohibits Medicare from negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies?That provision alone incurs countless billions of dollars in additional costs to Medicare.And why not plug up tax loopholes that allow American corporations to avoid paying U.S.

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Your View: Fan angry about past Mountaineer behavior

September 24

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanI am a proud life member of the Alumni Association and love my Tigers.Last fall, I went on the Total Sports Travel trip to the West Virginia game.I must admit, I was excited about the prospect of the trip, going to West Virginia for the first time and hoping that our boys would win.How the trip ended is another story.After the game was over, many of us were treated so rudely by the students of West Virginia.One of them spit on one of the Alumni Association's representative as she was walking back to the bus.

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Your View: Editing, writing in Plainsman not up to where it should be

September 24

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanI am a 9th grade composition teacher, a former journalist and the son of an AU journalism alumnus, and I would flunk any student (including those I taught in a Third World context) who submitted anything as egregious as The Plainsman's account of the West Virginia game.Only my love for Auburn football saw me through a painfully ill-considered monstrosity that reminded me of the semi-literate ramblings of ignorant ex-jock sportscasters who want to sound important.Get over yourself, son, and learn to write a decent sentence.Why tell us that the kicker "would miss" the extra point?Just tell us he missed it - and while you're at it, do away with "would connect" and "would rush."I was especially, ah, impressed with the riveting passage in which we were informed that the AU "running game...were held to 100 yards rushing (missing comma) causing the passing game to have a big night." It were?And do running games no longer specialize in rushing, so that they may be held to 100 yards of something else?And does a weak ground attack guarantee a strong passing game?Gosh, I'll have to tell my colleagues who coach football.I also read with great interest that BOTH Auburn and West Virginia combined for 900 yards of offense instead of just combining with each other in the normal way.With whom did each combine for this impressive total?The writer's way with words also results in our being informed that the Tigers not only will play Ball State next Saturday, they will "finish the month of September" in that fashion.We never would have figured that out on our own, and it was a great clincher sentence for a brutally incompetent article notably under-equipped with punctuation and over-equipped with the stale colloquialisms of bad sports journalism and kid-speak.But I don't wish to single out the writer, Mr. Van Der Linden, who somehow has managed to be named Assistant Sports Editor; surely there is a proofreader somewhere who deserves to retake English 101 with him (assuming he has indeed taken it).This is not The Plainsman I grew up reading, and it is a gift to anyone who wants to perpetuate the jokes about Auburn people being hicks.Paul CulpTempe, AZ

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Your View: Tailgating Way of Life Ending

September 17

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanI'm not sure if my letter will be read or even glanced at, but I feel as an Auburn supporter and avid fan I must write expression of my feelings in regards to the tailgating experience at Auburn.I'm a 28 year old Auburn fan and I bleed orange and blue.

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Your View: Letter From a True Tiger Fan

September 17

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanI was overcome with a sense of profound disgust during my gameday experience this past weekend with Louisiana Tech.No, not during the game since the football team, the game and all the stadium activities were admirable.I'm talking about when we arrived at 8 a.m.

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Your View: Student Union Issue Still Alive

September 17

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanAuburn treasures Caroline Draughon and Evelyn Jordan, in a capital campaign video more than a decade ago, observed independently that ourUniversity's students were losing appreciation for Auburn's past.Not R.

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Your View: 'Frat Guys' Ruin Football Game for a Grad Student

September 10

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanAU played a great game Saturday and I would guess most fans thought it was one of the best game-watching experiences in a while.There was, however, a notable group of students that did their best to ruin the experience for those around them.

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Your View: Retired Professor Takes on Jocks, Issues Challenge

September 10

Editor, The Auburn PlainsmanThe trustee diversity debate is completely off the mark.There should be a lot more people with interest in developing minds, not just winning football teams, regardless of race, gender, eye color or blood type.

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