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A sign outside the Center for the Performing Arts guides students to the School of Music for their audition April 5, 2025.

Kent State’s School of Music auditions a new round of potential Flashes

Olivia Weber, Reporter April 16, 2025

Twenty-three anxious students approached the Center for the Performing Arts on a Saturday in early April, and whether they needed to go over song lyrics, assemble their instrument or prepare for their...

Kent Interhall Council hosts Earth Month thrift swap

Hayden Cruz, KSTV Reporter April 15, 2025

As part of Kent State's Earth Month celebration, Kent Interhall Council hosted a thrift swap for students to swap their old clothes for other thrifted and donated clothes. The event was free for all students...

The "Teach Peace: Jerry Lewis Exhibit" at the May 4 Visitors Center offers an in-depth look at Lewis and who he was as a professor of sociology at Kent State.

Teaching peace: The legacy of Jerry Lewis and May 4

Samira Brown, Reporter April 13, 2025

Only four years into his career at Kent State in 1970, Professor Jerry Lewis witnessed the tragedy of May 4. Lewis was in the Prentice Hall parking lot when four students were shot and killed and nine...

Melody Tankersley, Kent State executive vice president and provost, poses for a portrait on Thursday, April 3, 2025.

‘We’ll continue to thrive’: University administration, faculty share thoughts on final T28 plan

John Engoglia, Beat Reporter April 13, 2025

After the Board of Trustees passed the Gold+ plan on March 19, the initiative to reduce administrative structure and costs in the Division of Academic Affairs is in full swing.  The Gold+ plan, the...

Kent State's Andrew Paton Field is the airport for the aeronautics program.

Airports evolve with new facial recognition technology

Kaleb Clark, Reporter April 12, 2025

More airports are implementing facial recognition into security, creating less congested airports and allowing a faster alternative for passengers, with results taking less than ten seconds.  Although...

Miranda Hanavan dresses in Hankook, traditional Korean clothing, at Korean Folk Village.

Kent State students overcome culture shock both abroad and at home

Samantha Abate, Reporter April 11, 2025

Studying abroad offers Kent State students a chance to explore new cultures and gain life-changing experiences, but students often face culture shock upon arrival and after returning.  Homesickness...

One of the models stops to pose in the 2024 KSU Annual Fashion Show on April 25, 2024.

Kent State annual Fashion Week to showcase student work

Aryn Kauble, Reporter April 10, 2025

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the starting date of fashion week. Kent State’s annual Fashion Week features a week full of events leading up to the 2025 Annual Fashion Show and Hall...

State funding changes to Ohio libraries: What it means for the Kent Free Library

Sydney Brown, KSTV Reporter April 10, 2025

Placing a book on hold at the library is a common practice. Now, Ohio public libraries are the ones closely watching a hold in the Ohio Legislature on the state's biennial budget.  Proposed cuts to...

A waterfall flows among green fields during the first faculty-led Iceland trip.

Study abroad destinations expand with faculty-led trip to Iceland

Samantha Abate, Reporter April 10, 2025

Kent State College of Arts and Sciences is planning a faculty-led trip to Iceland this May, offering an exploration of the country’s landscape, sustainability, culture and geology for the first time...

Illustration by Clare Rodgers.

Kent State students buy through TikTok Shop as platform grows

Robyn Taylor, Reporter April 10, 2025

Americans spend an estimated $32 million per day on TikTok Shop, CapitalOne Shopping Research said. The shopping platform has categories for clothing, beauty, electronics, household goods and more with...

Bailey Fair (left), Saida Lewis (center) and Stella Naymik (right) posing for a picture at the premiere of "A Positive Outcome."

Kent State student wins national film award

Joi Sims, Reporter April 4, 2025

This semester, the Broadcast Education Association awarded a Kent State junior an award of excellence for the quality of her film, making her the first member of the Female Filmmakers Initiative to win.  Bailey...

Dressed in preppy clothes and wig caps, students lined up on Risman Plaza Thursday to compete in the Todd Diacon look-alike contest organized by Her Campus.

Diacon doppelgängers: Students suit up for presidential look-alike contest

Sydney Craig, Reporter April 4, 2025

A small but enthusiastic crowd of students gathered on the K at Risman Plaza to show off their costumes during a Todd Diacon look-alike contest hosted by Her Campus Kent State. While some students didn’t...

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