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Matt Poe

Opinion: Alright, let’s talk about that Pepsi commercial

Matt Poe April 5, 2017

There’s a lot of big news transpiring this week, such as the possibility of Senate Republicans invoking the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and the atrocities of reported chemical...

Sophomore multimedia journalism major, Jack Kopanski, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016.

Opinion: Chief Wahoo needs to stay until the rest go

Jack Kopanski April 4, 2017

As another Major League Baseball season dawns in Ohio, the perennial argument about whether the Cleveland Indians should remove or change their logo, Chief Wahoo, resurfaces. Let me start this by saying...

Matt Poe

Opinion: After Holocaust Memorial Museum visit, noticeable parallels in today’s nationalism

Matt Poe April 4, 2017

A brief update before we get started: I, Matthew Poe, won my bracket pool this past Monday night. I thought I was out of the money once University of South Carolina lost to Gonzaga University in the Final...

Anthony Erhardt is a Paralegal Studies major and a memeber of the Kent State College Democrats. Contact him at aerhard1@kent.edu

Opinion: Honoring President Kennedy’s legacy

Anthony Erhardt April 4, 2017

The 100th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy's birth will be celebrated next month on May 29.In honor of Kennedy’s centennial, I think it is important as the president of the College Democrats...

Opinion: Protecting the press

Madison Newingham April 2, 2017

The press is experiencing a very unusual time; President Donald Trump’s tweets have become news, and he's made strides to tailor the news in his favor. Trump calls the media liars, and his constituents...

Nicholas Hunter

Opinion: A week without politics: My spring break journal

Nicholas Hunter April 2, 2017

Editor's note: The following column contains satire. The events mentioned in the piece are fictitious.The following is a journal I kept over the past five days, documenting my personal thoughts as I embarked...

Bobbie Szabo

Opinion: The dangers of relative deprivation

Bobbie Szabo April 2, 2017

I have recently been reading a fair amount of texts written by heterosexual, cisgender, white men who feel frustrated by our current political climate. They feel they are being shunned from the left and...

Matt Poe

Opinion: I may win my bracket pool, and I’m freaking out

Matt Poe March 29, 2017

Get in here and shut the door behind you. Hurry up, dammit!OK, have a seat — I’ve got something I need to disclose.Dear reader, I am in unprecedented territory during this year’s March Madness. Every...

Stephen D'Abreau

Opinion: Analysis of ‘Get Out’

Stephen D'Abreau March 28, 2017

Over spring break, I went out on a date night with my fiancee and saw the new Jordan Peele movie, “Get Out."As a matter of movie review, the music was well selected, the script was strong, the acting...

Opinion: Don’t stop listening: A response to “The vilified majority”

Andrew Atkins March 27, 2017

To the readers who may have missed Lucas Misera’s piece, “The vilified majority,” here’s what his argument boils down to: As a straight, white male, he feels as if empathy is taxing because he’s...

Matt Poe

Opinion: A lesson in humility, courtesy of Donald Trump

Matt Poe March 26, 2017

Humility is one of those virtues that has seemingly fallen by the wayside for many of us. Society and our outward portrayal of ourselves is more ‘me-centric’ than ever before, and that’s coming from...

Our View: Diversity: More than skin color

Editorial Staff March 22, 2017

During the production of Thursday’s Diversity Features Edition issue of The Kent Stater, uneasiness surfaced among staff members concerning the top half of this front page’s design.To some, the close-up...

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