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Members of Phi Sigma Pi attend their retreat in the Spring of 2023.

Scholarship, leadership and fellowship: Honors fraternity Phi Sigma Pi plans service events

Chloe Harich, Reporter October 14, 2023

Phi Sigma Pi, an honors fraternity, is one of several gender-inclusive fraternities on campus, and it is based on the values of scholarship, leadership and fellowship.  According to its website, the...

OPINION: Diary of the fat friend

Kaitlyn Finchler, Campus Editor May 11, 2023

Editor’s Note: The following article contains discussions of eating disorders and self-harm.  Walking down the halls of my middle school, I was 12 years old wearing a “Wizards of Waverly Place”...

Dennis Campbell  is the Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life at Kent States Center for Student Involvement.

Kent State defines plans for implementing Collin’s Law on campus

Raygene English Reporter September 20, 2021

Kathleen Wiant and Shari Foltz, the mothers of Collin Wiant and Stone Foltz, two students who died in Ohio college hazing incidents, spoke at the July 6 signing of Collin’s Law about what it means and...

OPINION: Until leaders dismantle their own violent systems, we’ll keep burying hazing victims

Lyndsey Brennan Opinion Writer April 3, 2021

Some fraternities are dangerous places that harbor dangerous people. This isn’t a preposterous or malicious assertion. It is a fact.We were reminded of it again last month when 20-year-old BGSU sophomore...

The crests of several Greek life organizations on a wall near the dining hall known as the Hub in the Kent Student Center. Collins anti-hazing law in Ohio will criminalize hazing by any organizations, including campus Greek life.

Ohio college presidents are in unanimous support of stronger hazing legislation, President Diacon says

Ian Jameson Reporter March 13, 2021

Kent State President Todd Diacon reaffirmed the position of Kent State and other state universities regarding hazing followed by his support of more strict anti-hazing legislation. “As leaders, we all...

New club offers opportunities for pre-law students

Taylor Peach Reporter February 14, 2020

Kent State welcomed Phi Alpha Delta to campus in the fall 2019 semester. The academic fraternity is part of an international law fraternity. Introducing the first law fraternity on campus creates new...

Steve Harvey interacts with students in the Kent Student Center on Friday, April 5, 2019.

Steve Harvey visits Kent State, speaks about his fraternity family

Ben Pagani April 5, 2019

Steve Harvey from KentWired.com on Vimeo.When his security team told the waiting group of ecstatic fans he would be out in a moment, an otherwise quiet hall on the third floor of the Student Center erupted...

Kent States Delta Tau Delta fraternity house on East Main Street.

Delta Tau Delta suspended pending university investigation

Delta Tau Delta’s central office issued a cease and desist notice to its Kent State Delta Omega chapter, instructing the chapter to stop all fraternity-related activities.“The university subsequently...

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Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity has first event for sexual assault victims

Hannah Kelley September 30, 2018

Alpha Sigma Phi hosted its first-ever balloon release for sexual assault awareness at Manchester Field on Friday.The event was planned in honor of Hazing, Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Week at...

Devin Moore (left) and DeMarcus Jordan. 

Students, friends remember ‘always smiling’ Devin Moore for kind spirit, devotion to fraternity

Cameron Gorman December 7, 2017

To those who knew him, Devin Moore was someone who loved laughing, his hair and his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., where he won "Man of the Year." He was also someone whose impact has become...

Members of Phi Beta Sigma pose for a portrait during the Sleep Out for the Homeless event Friday, Oct. 20, 2017.

Phi Beta Sigma holds Sleep Out for the Homeless event

Tierra Thomas October 21, 2017

Large blankets, food, board games and layered clothing kept students out all night as they accepted donations for the homeless during Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity’s first ever Sleep Out for the Homeless...

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