Stories filled the air yesterday in Kent. They echoed over the grassy commons and Blanket Hill. They bounced off the walls of the Kiva. They got lost in the day’s steady breeze. They were all about the same thing— the events at Kent State on May 4, 1970.
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Student members of the May 4 Task Force kicked off the 40th anniversary commemoration by issuing a strong message to President Lester Lefton — items they deem “unfinished business” on behalf of the university.
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Student weren’t mad at the administration, said Patrick Mullen, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees and a Kent State alumnus. They were mad at the governor.
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Room 101 of Taylor Hall was the office for the Daily Kent Stater in 1970. Today, it is the future site of the May 4 Visitors Center, a three-room exhibit planned for completion in no less than two years.
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We’ll never fully grasp what happened 40 years ago today, but we can show respect and reverence to those who faced some of the biggest unanswered questions in the history of our nation.
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Kent State would never have made a nationwide statement the way it unintentionally did on May 4, 1970. The school wasn’t and still isn’t ready for such attention. David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young, on the other hand, were the prime candidates to make such a statement.
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"We think it is a good thing to know something about and realize that the students that these things happened to 40 years ago were Americans and not that much different from where students are now,” said university archivist Stephen Paschen.
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A candlelight vigil has been held on every anniversary since the shootings, but the event was first initiated in September 1970 when students returned to Kent State for the first time since the tragedy.
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Like Kent State, the cause of the Jackson State shootings remains unclear. Some say the officers saw a sniper in Alexander Hall, the girls’ dormitory. The rumored sniper was never found.
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The “May 4 Voices Play” debuted last night, attempting to bring to life the personal testimonies found in the May 4 Oral History Project. Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler spent the summer listening to each testimony found in the May 4 Oral History Project.
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The May 4 Task Force wants Kent State to fulfill a promise made in 1978 by an ex-president to remove four trees between Taylor Hall and the Gym Annex that were planted to commemorate the slain students of May 4, 1970.
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