Over 50 anti-war activists sent a letter to President Todd Diacon demanding a revision of the May 4 50th commemoration plans due to a lack of attention given to the Vietnam War and hundreds of anti-war...
A missile defense site may be built 20 miles east of Kent State after the U.S. Department of Defense announced it is looking to add a third location to the country’s missile defenses.A missile defense...
At the 48th annual commemoration of the death of four Kent State students killed by the National Guard, the keynote speaker, William C. Hine, addressed that we can not forget what happened almost fifty...
Seth McNutt, then a college freshman, sat at his desk in his “Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe “class when his phone began to ring. Trying to keep up with taking notes, he forwarded the call to...
Victory Media, the publisher of G.I. Jobs, STEM Job and Military Spouse, has named Kent State a Military Friendly School for the seventh consecutive year.Kent State is in the top 20 percent of schools...
Devotion, intensity and spirit sum up the word passion. Senior Army ROTC cadet and theater major, Keeley Augsburger, sees passion in both her Army ROTC and theater life.“I think the most memorable thing...
The events of May 4, 1970 are engrained in the history of Kent State. Five years after the four students were killed on campus by members of the National Guard, the May 4 Task Force was created.“The...
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...
There is one suicide every 18 hours among all active duty, reserve and National Guard members, according to NBC News in April of 2013. The military and veteran suicide rate continues to rise despite prevention...
A grand jury decided Monday night the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9 would not be indicted. After two days of deliberation, Darren Wilson,...
When the National Guard was brought in to quell rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, some critics began to compare the turbulence there to Kent State’s May 4, 1970 shooting.The city of Ferguson, Missouri has...
Jarrett Guysinger was born on Dec. 3, 1988. No more than two minutes later, his brother Josh was also born.As twin brothers, Jarrett and Josh are mirror images of one another: With their dark hair, light...
