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Social distancing at Eastway.

Eastway employees and students adjust to everchanging COVID-19 protocols

Ethan Cohen Reporter February 23, 2021

At the Eastway dining hall, employees feel safe and students dine without concern because of increased COVID-19 safety guidelines.Charlie Simecek, a psychology major and employee at the Eastway dining...

OPINION: What is an expert nowadays?

Gregory Hess Opinion Writer February 23, 2021

What’s the best case for what makes someone an expert and someone not an expert in something? We could say that physically Lebron James is a basketball expert or Bennet Omalu is an expert in neurology...

Screenshot from Tuesday’s A.I.D. meeting

A.I.D. training provides mental health awareness and education to students, faculty and staff

Cassidy Gladieux Reporter February 23, 2021

“Sam is very well-liked in your hall, with lots of friends, extracurriculars and a significant other who they spend a lot of time with. Over time, though, they start to become more withdrawn, quit most...

Musicians have hope that live events, such as concerts, can resume in the near future.

Musicians remain optimistic despite pandemic threatening return of live events

Lindsey Vlasic Reporter February 23, 2021

According to Nielsen, about 32 million people attend at least one concert every year in the United States, and now that number is almost non-existent. There is, however, hope for a recovery of live events...

Left: Moore's senior photo in the 1973 Chestnut Burr yearbook. Middle: A headshot of Moore used in a 1994 edition of the Daily Kent Stater. At that point, he was 43 years old and the acting chairman of the Department of Pan-African Studies. Right: Moore’s most recent Kent State headshot. 

KSU community mourns E. Timothy Moore, leader who upheld tradition of empowering Black students

Lyndsey Brennan, The Kent Stater Alex Gray, UHURU Magazine February 23, 2021

E. Timothy Moore, associate dean emeritus in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences and emeritus professor of Pan-African Studies, died unexpectedly on Feb. 1 from an aortic dissection, a tear in...

KentRidge Senior Living in Kent, Ohio.

Long-term care facilities continue vaccinations, plan for reopening

Rachel Gross TV2 reporter February 23, 2021

As much of society is seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, Ohio’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities are dealing with the brutal aftermath of the pandemic.Even as cases are decreasing,...

USG released tentative candidate list for 2021 election

Blake Westover Reporter February 22, 2021

Blastoff, Homecoming and Flashfest: most students have at least one great memory from these Kent State traditions. Whether it was DaBaby, Chloe x Halle or Do It For The Culture, USG planned and implemented...

A group of students and student workers walk around the Recreation and Wellness Center on a snowshoe hike on Feb. 17, 2021.

Kent State Adventure Center offers campus snowshoe hike after big snowfall, preparing for larger hiking trip

Kenzie Johnston Reporter February 22, 2021

With each step, a crunch sound echoed off the nearby building as a group of students made their way around the Beverly J. Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center Wednesday afternoon in large spiked...

Super Smash Bros. Tournament

Local Super Smash Bros. Tournament Raises $1000 for Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank

Zach Shepherd Reporter February 22, 2021

More than 70 players from across the country played in a Super Smash Bros. online charity event held on February 5th. The event, created by the combined efforts of the Kent State University Smash Community...

Catalytic converter thieves strike throughout Kent State

Melissa Meyers TV2 Reporter February 22, 2021

Over the weekend Kent State University sent out an advisory warning students that catalytic converters are being stolen from vehicles on and off campus.“So far on campus within the past few days we’ve...

The Student Multicultural Center brings a new initiative to student leaders of color on campus

Cassidy Gladieux Reporter February 22, 2021

For students of color on campus, finding mental health resources where someone could truly relate to the challenges they face every day as not only a student of color on campus, but in America, was difficult....

Rudy Bachna, co-founder of KSU gymnastics, passes away at 93

Owen MacMillan Sports Editor February 21, 2021

Rudy Bachna, one of the true legends of Kent State sports, passed away on Saturday at the age of 93.Along with his wife Janet and brother Joe, Bachna co-founded the Kent State men’s and women’s gymnastics...

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