GRENOBLE, FRANCE — I’ve been doing nothing but traveling this week and dropping euros for 15 minutes at Internet cafés once a day — far from my usual compulsive e-mail checking.So I don’t have...

I went to Chicago for a couple of days over spring break. It was my first time in the Windy City, and despite its acclaim as such, I wasn’t prepared for the biting cold.Chicago has many ethnic neighborhoods,...

Lucky stars have just seared my shoulders and made my hair frizzy again. In one of my last classes at Kent State, a teacher gave me a break when I got depressed thinking I was in too much of a point deficit...

It’s become a yearly problem at Kent State: Ever-increasing enrollment has caused a lack of available on-campus housing for students.To deal with this issue the past two years, the university has tripled...

Catholicism’s largest religious celebration occurred yesterday, and we hope everyone out there enjoyed the day very much. We also hope it wasn’t overshadowed by the recent sexual abuse scandals.Every...

Nope. That’s not a typo.And it’s a good thing because words need to be chosen carefully, and any confusion on their meaning can lead to unnecessarily exaggerated consequences.Language has the power...

A love of music is something that, in this age where people are behaving increasingly like free agents, still ties us together. No one seems to be able to agree on the origin of music, just like the beginning...

For the past several weeks, we’ve watched as the political commentators on cable news declare that the cover-up scandal in the Vatican is “much worse than it seems.” And for the most part, they are...

Now that the health care reform is more certain than ever in the United States, concessions are being made and the battle lines are being drawn between the Republicans and the Democrats. We watch as the...

Within the next couple days, students will be deserting Kent State’s campus as they prepare to move forward with their spring break.Many of us will be going someplace warm (read: not Northeast Ohio),...

Before you start reading this, stop and take a look around you. What do you see? I bet a lot of people with their heads down texting, updating their Twitter accounts, commenting on Facebook posts using...

I don’t know about you dear reader, but by the time the health care bill was passed by the House of Representatives this week, I had long since stopped following the discussion.Last spring and through...