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The bar inside Over Easy.

Best breakfast

Alton Northup, Reporter April 11, 2022

FIRST: Over Easy At The Depot Located in the historic train depot on Franklin Avenue is Over Easy At The Depot. This woman-owned and operated business is a favorite for Kent students, especially those...

A pepperoni pizza from Lucci’s Place located at 405 E. Main St., Kent Ohio.

Best pizza

Mariah Alanskas, Reporter April 11, 2022

FIRST: Lucci’s Place Walking into Lucci’s Place, you’re hit by the sight of flipping pizza dough flying around in the air and the smell of fresh baked dough filling the Main Street located shop. Annie...

Graduate student’s connection to Ukraine raises money at Ray’s Place

Troy Pierson, Reporter April 11, 2022

A Kent State alumna hosted a fundraiser at Ray’s Place April 6, 2022, to fund medical supplies for Ukrainian soldiers and citizens affected by the war in Ukraine.   Graduate student Lydia...

Kent State graduate student Madyson Cole bats during the second game of the double header on March 25, 2022.

Softball prepares for stacked MAC schedule, aims to improve for championships

Isabella Schreck, Reporter April 10, 2022

Kent State softball coach Eric Oakley said this year’s team is unlike any he has had before. The Flashes lost six starters and seven players total from a team that finished third in the Mid-American...

BOK Scribbles

Best coffee shop

Alexandra Golden April 10, 2022

FIRST: SCRIBBLES The family-owned coffee shop in Kent won first place this year for best coffee shop. The buisness relocated to Kent from Cincinnati in 2007. Beth Budzar bought Scribbles Coffee Co.,...

Students and their younger siblings participated in the Sibs and Kids event this weekend.

Sibs and Kids comes back to campus after a hiatus from COVID-19

Morgan McGrath, Reporter April 10, 2022

"Everyone loves an inflatable,” said Kent State sophomore Briley Rhinock.   Rhinock wore colorful lemon earrings and clear-rimmed glasses as he welcomed happy visitors to the Kent State...

Senior digital media production major Andrew Suttman debates Seth Drayer, the vice president of Created Equal. The nonprofit organization held an anti-abortion protest today on the K at Risman Plaza.

Anti-abortion group tries to persuade students at protest on the K

Alton Northup, Senior Reporter April 8, 2022

Dozens of students gathered on the K at Risman Plaza Thursday in opposition to protesters from the anti-abortion non-profit organization Created Equal. The Columbus based group displayed large, graphic...

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author to appear at May 4 Presidential Speaker Series

Kelly Krabill, Managing Editor April 8, 2022

Kent State’s Presidential Speaker Series, scheduled for the evening of May 4, 2022, will host Jon Meacham, a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Meacham has knowledge of politics,...

Republicans propose new state legislative maps after long debate on Jan. 22, 2022.

Ohio Supreme Court reviewing fourth redistricting map proposal

Anthony Zacharyasz, Reporter April 8, 2022

After the Ohio Supreme Court rejected three previously proposed maps, the Ohio Redistricting Committee brought in outside personnel to assist in the configuration of a fourth map. The Redistricting...

Steve Sefner reminisces on 20th anniversary of Kent State men's basketball Elite Eight run in his new book

Steve Sefner reminisces on 20th anniversary of Kent State men’s basketball Elite Eight run in his new book

Jimmy Oswald, Sports Editor April 8, 2022

In this season’s March Madness, the No. 15 Saint Peter’s Peacocks were the Cinderella story of the tournament after upsetting No. 2 Kentucky in the first round of the tournament and advancing all the...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., left, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, center, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., right, speak to reporters outside the Senate chamber just after the vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to Supreme Court

April 7, 2022

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court,...

Created Equal to host ‘controversial’ anti-abortion protest on Risman Plaza

Zaria Johnson, Editor-In-Chief April 7, 2022

The anti-abortion group Created Equal will be on Risman Plaza Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to display signage depicting “the gruesome reality of abortions,” and to “engage students in conversation...

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