The documentary “Waiting for Superman” was released in September with a lot of buzz. It gives needed exposure to the problems in American public education. Last year’s Sundance Film Festival attendees...
I am a very pessimistic person. I tend to dwell on worst-case scenarios.Why am I so pessimistic? It’s probably because I’m a Cleveland sports fan. Throughout the years, we northeast Ohioans have suffered...
During the June 2 Board of Trustees meeting, President Lester Lefton described the recent commencement as “an extraordinary success with a couple thousand students graduating.” However, he did not...
OK, I’ll admit it: I drink beer. Before you start to think I drink the kind of cheap beer one gulps down to get drunk and avoid the taste, allow me to clarify. I like to imagine that I’m somewhat of...
It’s been all over the news for the last week. The World Health Organization has labeled cell phone usage as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”I’m not altogether surprised by this finding, but...
Regina Garcia Cano Regina Garcia Cano is a Senior newspaper journalism major and the editor of the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected]. I find myself in airports and airplanes at least...
Nicole Stempak Nicole Stempak is a senior magazine journalism major and assigning editor. Contact her at [email protected]. One warm June evening last summer, I asked what I thought was a simple and...
In high school, everything was simple. Milk was only 35 cents, people?were good for the most part and I couldn’t wait to get started at Kent State.? Four years and 200 chicken fingers later,...
DKS Editors Three Ohio printing companies have refused to print the spring issue of Fusion Magazine, Kent State’s LGBTQ publication.According to campusprogress.org, the controversy has cost the 2010...
Kaylee Remington Kaylee Remington is a senior magazine journalism major and Web editor for KentWired. Contact her at [email protected]. I received a rather unusual graduation gift this past week that...
After four long months of hard work with Fusion this semester, it all came down to the F-bomb. While we were spending hours interviewing, photographing and creating a product that we were proud of, we...
May 4 Symposium on Democracy 2011: Why talk about Democracy and Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?This year’s Symposium on Democracy focuses on the 15-year-old conflict in the eastern...
