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REFLECTION: This is our Endgame

Brandon Bounds May 1, 2019

This is it — I can’t believe it’s here. After May 11, I will officially be a Kent State graduate.It’s crazy; I remember walking into Olson Hall my freshman year and thinking to myself, “Wow,...

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Words from the editor:

Valerie Royzman May 1, 2019

Dear ones,It’s me — Valerie, Kent Stater editor — again. I addressed one of these to readers 15 weeks ago for the first edition of the revamped Stater, promising my staff would deliver stories that...

"Our May 4 Coalition who occupied Blanket Hill for 62 days in 1977 to protect the May 4 site from destruction — protesting at a Board of Trustees meeting to demand they move the gym," Chic Canfora said.

May 4th Task Force faces uncertain future

Madison MacArthur May 1, 2019

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four students and injuring nine others.The university was ordered to close. In 1975, the university...

ANDREA SCALI FACTS

May 1, 2019

- Missed all of the 2018 season due to an injury. - Set a school record in high school at Parma with 857 strikeouts with a 0.58 ERA while recording a .558 batting average and 158 RBI.- Two-time Great...

Photo illustration by David Foster.

May 4 through the decades: A timeline of the journey to acceptance and its effects on Kent State students

Abigail Miller, Taylor Robinson, Cameron Hoover, Mariah Hicks, McKenna Corson and Hailee Carlin May 1, 2019

As the 50th anniversary of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State approaches, the university and its students are gearing up for a week full of remembrance, commemoration and celebration. But the university...

William Schroeder’s letters to his mother are on display in the “Bill: An All-American Boy” exhibition at the May 4 Visitor Center.

‘Bill: An All-American Boy’ focus of May 4 Visitors Center

Alexandra Sobczak May 1, 2019

An Eagle Scout, Junior Safety Patrol officer, ROTC student, lettered athlete, musician and poet: It’s easy to see why William Schroeder was seen as an all-American boy.The third of four exhibitions featuring...

From left to right: Macey Ungrady (bottom row), Dan Meder, Emily Ankenbrandt (bottom row), Christine Morrison, Sarah Horvath (bottom row), Brynn Roberts, Bryanna Meloon 

EHHS living-learning community helps freshmen find their place on campus

Augusta Battoclette May 1, 2019

Located in Manchester Hall, a housing-based community helps students from a wide variety of majors inside the College of Education, Health and Human Services find their place at Kent State.Students with...

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The ‘adopted midwesterner’: President Warren says goodbye

Laina Yost May 1, 2019

Editor's Note: Some changes have been made for clarity. During President Beverly Warren’s five-year tenure at Kent State, she has sat down with student media twice every semester. That’s about 20...

OPINION: Blood and Ink: Kent State 49 years later

Paul Keane May 1, 2019

The Kent State killings are about to pass into history. May 4 will be the 49th anniversary of that shocking 1970 event.If you live long enough, you watch time do its “thing”­— and its thing is to...

Adriona Murphy

The times they are a-changin: protest music from May 4 to today

Adriona Murphy May 1, 2019

When tragedy strikes, music is often a place where it is immortalized. The aftermath of the tragedy at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, caused national outrage and continued the ever- growing sentiment...

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