The following Letters to the Editor were sent to Daily Kent Stater editor, William Armstrong, following the May 4 shootings at Kent State.The Daily Kent Stater did not publish for the summer of 1970 as...
In 2012, Kent State opened the May 4 Vistors Center as a way to remember the events of May 4, 1970, and the lives of students Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer who were...
Five years after the May 4, 1970 shooting, the May 4 Task Force formed to organize commemoration events.The Task Force, one of the longest-running student organizations on campus, aims to be the student...
Jerry M. Lewis, a professor emeritus in Kent State’s sociology department, has been studying May 4 and its effects since the events unfolded before him 45 years ago. He’s written numerous articles...
Females from all walks of life got together in the Student Center on Saturday to speak about women’s activism, how they perceive it and how it relates to the events of May 4 at the May 4 Task Force’s...
PBS premiered two documentaries that focused on the events leading up to and surrounding the May 4 shootings at Kent State as well as its aftermath.“Dick Cavett’s Vietnam,” which premiered Monday,...
As President Beverly Warren and the university identify aspects of the Kent State rebranding process, perhaps one of the most controversial parts of the discussions remains what to do with May 4, 1970.Warren’s...
Captain J. Ronald Snyder of the 145th Infantry, Company C of the Ohio National Guard, started toward Kent on the Akron Expressway after being called in due to riots downtown. He vividly remembers the sky...
Riots broke out across Baltimore on Monday, and several buildings and cars were burned and stores looted.The riots, which revolved around police brutality are somewhat similar to how roughly 2,000 Kent...
The May 4 Task Force sponsored a conflict management workshop on Saturday to discuss what conflict really is. “Wherever there are human beings, there is going to be conflict,” said Jacquelyn Bleak,...
Listening to the Strubbe audio tape recording of what transpired that fatal day (May 4, 1970), one can fairly easily trace the sequence of events.What prompted the guardsmen to fire appears to be their...
