In the past couple of weeks, students have been flooded with opportunities to enhance their undergraduate experience. From pep rallies and Blastoff to Student Center tabling and the Black Squirrel Festival,...
As you are reading this, being a university newspaper, I can safely assume you either attend, teach or are somehow involved or associated with Kent State University. Thus, being a school of higher education,...
Voting regulation has become one of the main issues in the 2014 Ohio Secretary of State race. Incumbent Secretary of State Jon Husted has implemented various voting regulations during his term, including...
About 21 years ago the late David Foster Wallace said in an interview, “I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”In Wallace’s...
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, July 2:———Creepy doesn’t begin to describe Facebook’s 2012 psychological experiment on 700,000 of its unwitting users....
CVS Caremark has changed its name to CVS Health and ended its sale of cigarettes and tobacco products on Sept. 3, which sets a precedent that other drug stores will hopefully follow.CVS Health’s retail...
Skinnier, faster, prettier, tighter, smarter, wealthier, sexier, funnier; all things women strive to be. As we all know, the beauty/fashion industry is at an all time high for body image distortion. Why...
The sight of a body lying on the ground, in any context, is unsettling. From the body of an ebola victim lying forgotten in the street of Sierra Leone, to an elementary school child huddled during crisis...
Last year’s Video Music Awards was essentially the Miley Cyrus show. She sang her hit song “We Can’t Stop,” while wearing nude colored spandex under a teddy bear leotard. She then sang a duet of...
If you’re a fan of the Whopper then you’ve probably heard about Burger King’s latest decision to move its headquarters to Canada. The fast food giant is discussing taking over the Canadian franchise,...
In light of recent events in the world involving social conflicts, I have decided to examine the film “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” Let’s take a look at the main character, Caesar, the leader...
Campus construction may be causing some angst among students who have to take different routes to class in order to get around the closed-off sidewalks. Although it is an annoyance, Kent State has made...
