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More than 11,000 pounds of electronic waste, including computers, phones and gaming consoles, collected during RecycleMania await disposal at the University Facilities Management store room on Summit Street on Wednesday, April 17. Photo by Shane Flanigan.

Kent State University hosts eight-week recycling competition

Lauren Biertempfel February 20, 2015

Recyclemania is a yearly eight week-long national competition between residence halls to encourage students to reduce waste and recycle that began Feb. 1.Kent State has taken part in the program for the...

Kent State red shirt senior guard Derek Jackson (center)  takes a shot, under defense from University of Akron sophomore center Isaiah Johnson at the James A. Rhodes Arena in Akron, Ohio, Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Kent lost to Akron, 61-52.

Kent State loses after second half slump

Stephen Means II February 11, 2015

Kent State (16-8, 7-4 Mid-American Conference) and Akron (17-7, 8-3 MAC) played a fairly competitive first half, but the second half was all about the Zips. Akron used a second half push to beat the Flashes...

Senior forward Darren Goodson attempts to defend the ball from an Akron player at the game Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. The Flashes are set to face the Zips again this Friday, Mar. 7, 2014 at the University of Akron. It is the last game before the M.A.C. Championship.

Akron-Kent rivalry worth more than bragging rights for men’s basketball

Stephen Means II February 8, 2015

With the Mid-American Conference tournament being one month away, the Kent State-University of Akron rivalry game has an incentive more than pride and bragging rights.Kent State (16-7, 7-3 MAC) and Akron...

Women’s basketball loses battle for the Wagon Wheel after good fight

Quentin Smith February 1, 2015

Kent State women’s basketball got off to a hot start early on in Saturday’s game against rival Akron, shooting about 45 percent from the field in the first half, and kept the streak going into the...

Ebola is gone, but not forgotten

Samantha Ickes January 11, 2015

News of the largest Ebola outbreak in history consumed the media last semester.Yet with no current cases of Ebola in the United States, Americans no longer see the virus in the daily news. However, the...

Acid Cats

Acidic jazz with a romping groove

Mark Oprea December 2, 2014

During a recent Acid Cats performance at the Stone Tavern, the five-piece closed its hour-long set with a vibrant version of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Justin Tibbs, donning aviators, tilted...

Flashes aim to beat rival Akron in battle for Wagon Wheel

Taylor Rosen November 27, 2014

After spending four long days in Buffalo’s treacherous weather conditions last week, and not not even having a game to show for it, the Kent State football team has grown hungry.The Flashes hope to hoist...

Collaborative campuses

Stater editors November 2, 2014

Universities and colleges are seemingly always in competition with one another. Whether it’s athletics or academics, each school is trying to be the best at something.Last week, in a move opposite the...

Amber Joy Vinson

Family spokesperson releases statement about Ebola patient

Samantha Ickes October 20, 2014

Amber Vinson, the Kent State nursing graduate diagnosed with Ebola, checked her temperature and followed protocol before traveling last weekend, her family said in an updated statement Sunday.The family...

Terell Wilson, a senior applied communications major, sits on the steps of Cinecittá Studios, a film production studio in Rome, Italy, on Feb. 27, 2014.

KSU’s senior ‘gentle giant’ remembered

Madeleine Winer October 8, 2014

Terell Wilson’s naturally caring nature went beyond his infectious laugh and warm smile.“The night before he passed, he called me and said I’m going to the store do you want anything?,” Wilson’s...

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Chelsae Ketchum September 23, 2014

If someone asks me where I am from, the answer is always “all over.” I moved around a lot while growing up because I was a military brat. Not a brat as in a badly behaved child, but one who has a parent...

Megan Brown is a senior magazine journalism major and the opinion editor for The Kent Stater. Contact her at mbrow121@kent.edu.

Opinion: The Black Keys bring it home to Ohio

Megan Brown September 1, 2014

This Friday the Black Keys will kick off their North American tour in Columbus with a Cleveland show on Saturday. Because the duo is native to Akron, I expect to see the crowd alive and very welcoming. As...

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