Christina Bucciere Christina Bucciere is a junior journalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected] Recently, my aunt recounted her experience with a picture...

It's been quite a while, fortunately, since anyone was caned into unconsciousness on the floor of the Senate. These days, politicians who take up arms tend to present a greater risk to themselves than...

Why is a Kent State professor with two felonies on his record still teaching here? What does that say about our university?Daniel Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to “carrying a concealed weapon, a fourth-degree...

Plenty of Kent State students had an episode of sticker shock before the beginning of this school year when the university decided that anyone who takes more than 17 credit hours should pay an additional...

The city of Kent has really turned things around the past year with renovations to its downtown projects. Only a couple years ago, downtown Kent was only about two streets with a handful of quirky shops...

Last month, Cuba opened its doors a little wider. President Raul Castro announced that Cuban citizens would no longer need to obtain notoriously hard-to-get exit permits to leave the country, just a passport.Many...

In 2010, the university launched a successful advertising campaign, which featured alumni recognizable by students — Josh Cribbs, most notably — with its first commercial appearing during the Kent...

Last summer, David Garcia was sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 murder of rookie Burbank, Calif., police officer Matthew Pavelka.Pavelka and another officer, Gregory Campbell, had approached two...