After nearly seven years at Kent State, President Lester Lefton announced Wednesday he plans to retire when his contract expires in July 2014. This announcement, distributed to students and faculty via...

Maybe because we are still hurting, but it seems as though the last year has been fraught with thoughtless, violent acts that have taken many lives. Newtown. Aurora. Oak Creek. It feels like the destruction...

Will someone please explain the Obama administration's policy on Syria? After watching two top State Department officials try to explain it during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday,...

Summary: Although cyber bullying starts in middle school and high school, the harassment can have adverse affects on adults, as well.Cyberharassment is much more than playful jokes and teasing. Cyber harassment...

Is there a way that we, as Americans, can improve our ability to stop guns from getting into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill, without denying the freedom of law-abiding people to...

The U.S. Senate is about to begin debate on legislation that would expand background checks to all commercial gun sales. We hope the bill passes, and the reason is not difficult to understand.Currently,...

Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property rights and, therefore, profits. Big companies fighting over big money...

Elie Wiesel, a professor, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke to the Kent State community and more than 100 Holocaust survivors Thursday in the M.A.C.C. Center for the Spring 2013 Presidential Speaker...