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KentWired

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & TV2

KentWired

The Career Closets welcoming sign sits on the bottom floor of the Womens Center in the Williamson House.

Career Closet to close in Women’s Center, still serve community in other buildings

Bristol Lily, Reporter April 6, 2024

After opening in 2017, the Career Closet in the university’s Women’s Center will be closing its doors in late April, but two locations will remain on campus.  Initially, the closet opened when...

Aeronautics and Engineering Graduate Research runs open house

Tyler Schlosser, TV2 Reporter April 5, 2024

Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering held its first Graduate Research Open House. This gave their graduate students the opportunity to expose their year’s work to the public and...

A look behind the lanes of the bowling alley located in the Eastway Dining Hall on Oct. 30, 2023.

Conversations to reopen Eastway bowling alley begin

Andrew Bowie, Reporter April 5, 2024

Work began to potentially reopen the Eastway bowling alley at the start of the spring semester. The Eastway bowling alley is located underneath the Eastway Dining Hall to the left of the mailroom.  The...

KentWired Illustration by Sydney Spickard

Have video game adaptations gotten better?

Joseph Dziak, Reporter April 5, 2024

When it comes to taking video games and putting them on the big screen, it would seem they’re leveling up. The 1993 “Super Mario Bros.” movie received a 28% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes out...

Jeff Richmond, a 1988 Kent State graduate and Emmy-award-winning musical composer, gave the commencement speech at the universitys 2013 spring graduation.

From Ohio to Hollywood: Emmy-winning musical composer reflects on time at Kent

Michael Neenan, Beat Reporter April 5, 2024

Before composing for “SNL,” and for the Emmy-award-winning show “30 Rock” and for the new musical-adaptation of the “Mean Girls” film, Jeff Richmond was a theater kid at Kent State.  Richmond,...

The Governance Chambers located in the Student Center.

Mock Trial team finishes competition season, wins several awards

Kaitlyn Sanders, Reporter April 3, 2024

The Mock Trial team’s competition season started the first week of December and ended in February when team members took home individual awards at the Penn State Regional Competition.  “The team...

Wall scrolls hanging in the Center for Performing Arts.

Students embrace college as dance majors

Olivia Woods, Reporter April 3, 2024

Being a dance student may be a different, less traditional experience than what people think of when envisioning the typical college experience. Dance students are pursuing a career in a more niche area,...

The Kent State Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, located at 475 Terrace Dr.

VITA program helps students, community members file taxes

Kayla Gleason, Beat Reporter April 3, 2024

Accounting students are helping the Kent community this tax season through the university’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA).    The program was started in 2011 by Paula DiVincenzo, manager...

The final moments of a sunset on the Kent State campus on March 4, 2024.

Is a long-distance relationship in college possible?

Olivia Montgomery, Digital Tech April 2, 2024

"28 days to go" is a notification that Meghan Westerh, a senior sports administration major, has started seeing often, since her relationship became long-distance in Oct. 2023. Using an app to countdown...

The River Eclipse, a work by Danny Likar is on display on the side of Grazers in Downtown Kent on March 20, 2024. The work is meant to depict a view of the Cuyahoga River from above during the eclipse.

Downtown eclipse artwork gives artists full circle moments

Adriana Gasiewski, Beat Reporter April 1, 2024

Before crossing or turning on various streets downtown, individuals may notice a brightly colored print of a planet or replica of a woven print with clouds surrounding the sun as the moon eclipses it. Aided...

Flowers begin to bloom on a nice spring day.

Spring feelings are in the air as students prepare for spring break

Molly Hoffer, Campus Editor March 24, 2024

Spring break is right around the corner, officially beginning March 25, and students are already planning how they are going to spend their week-long vacation away from school. Robyn Green, a senior...

Students highlight never-ending fight against burnout

Students highlight never-ending fight against burnout

Tanner Poe, Reporter March 23, 2024

Sixty percent of college students have experienced burnout, according to a study done by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines burnout as “Physical,...

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