If I ever meet Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the guy with the explosives sewn into his underwear, I definitely have a few things to say to him.Recent events from Christmas Day have violated one of the last...
L ast week, President Lester Lefton released the findings of a university study that sought to measure how much money Kent State adds to the local economy.The results said the university brings $1.96 billion...
The world has responded with tremendous generosity to the destruction in Haiti after last week’s earthquake, but the breakdown of security and order there threatens to multiply the already terrible death...
To be honest, most of us had seen this coming.The first terrorist incident in the Obama presidency was sure to spark a massive wave of criticism from the right, and the attempted Christmas Day attack by...
Procrastination. We all do it at one time or another. College students, as a breed, have it down to such a well-practiced art form that it sometimes seems to be the natural order of things rather than...
I wish I could say Pat Robertson’s comment last week pegging the earthquake in Haiti as a punishment from God was bizarre even for him, but it seems to go right along with his twisted logic.In case you...
Sure, sports rivalries can seem kind of silly (how different can we really be from the students who attend classes 11.8 miles away?), but as a chance to display school spirit, it’s hard to top a basketball...
Unless you spent your winter break in a cave, you should have heard of the film “Avatar.”The plot is easy enough for a 5-year-old to understand, yet the movie is on the brink of surpassing “Titanic”...
In the wake of the stunning loss of Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, next Wednesday’s State of the Union speech can’t come too soon for President Barack Obama.That annual, high-profile...
Let’s face it: You’ll never hear Kent State-Akron mentioned in the same breath as Duke-North Carolina.Neither Kent State nor Akron can attract A-list prospects, neither school has the greatest facilities...
I have gotten used to receiving puzzled looks from acquaintances after telling them I’m a conservative. Those looks are usually followed with the question, “Oh, so you like President Bush?”The questions...
For college students, our use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are merely extensions of our social lives. However, social networking has taken on a new meaning in how the world responds to crisis situations....
