The next time you walk into the library, take a good look at the first floor. Come next fall, it will likely look a lot different.Kent State will upgrade the library’s current look in order to make it...
Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff, riveted the crowd with his rhetorical magic. The group, “Friends for Liberty,” an umbrella group under the famed “Tea Party Movement,” was held at bay with...
I am on Facebook too much.I am both a diehard Facebook user and observer. (Some would call me a Facebook stalker, but they don’t realize how much valuable information one can obtain from social media.)After...
I bought this laptop a few weeks ago. My life is still the same. One exciting change, though, is that now I can write my columns at work while hiding back behind the deep fryers, always ready to jump up...
Remember how you used to answer the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question? You were probably specific. You wanted to be a firefighter with big muscles just like Hulk Hogan. Or you wanted...
LEICESTER, United Kingdom — Don’t get my friend from South Africa started about American exceptionalism. Don’t mention Western influence, either. And the United Nations is a touchy subject, too.A...
As students read over their course syllabi during the first week of classes, they may come upon the university’s plagiarism policy, printed at the end of almost every class syllabus. Sometimes professors...
Dear Editor,I am a student at Kent State and feel quite uneasy about the article “Drug busts just a coincidence” (Feb. 23) in the Stater. The article suggests that Kent’s large population and location...
It’s lonely and gray in Northeast Ohio, especially if you’re not from these parts.In the last month there have been three major storms that have hit our little corner of Northeast Ohio, and every time...
Kent State is promoting itself as having the safest public university campus in Ohio according to an FBI Uniform Crime Statistics report and information from the Consortium for Campus Crime Research.That’s...
Why do we go to college? Ostensibly it is to get an education in a field we are passionate about and wish to pursue as a career. But in a culture where you practically need a degree to get any job that...
Whenever I see that Sarah McLachlan American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals commercial on TV, I have to change the channel in protest.It’s not that I have anything against her song...
