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Hazing, sexual assault scandal shocks Youngstown area Catholic high school

Gage Wellman and Nikki Gasiewski September 25, 2025

There’s nothing quite like high school football in American culture. The shaking of cowbells, the shouting of angry parents and coaches and the smells and chills of the autumn breeze — these are nostalgic...

The Kent State University library elevators on Sept. 19, 2025. The library elevators are over five 
decades old, as they are the original models from 1970.

Kent State to see new library elevators after five decades

Aryn Kauble, Reporter September 24, 2025

If one had to describe an elevator in three words: leaky, shaking and untrustworthy wouldn’t be the first thing most students think of – unless you’re talking about the Kent State library.  Over...

Cuyahoga Valley National Park lets visitors explore local wildlife

Talia Milewich, Reporter September 23, 2025

Heading out of the city, a dense collection of trees and vegetation overwhelms your sight, getting closer and closer, green leaves filling the sky ahead. Only minutes outside of bustling cities, Cuyahoga...

National Hazing Prevention Week kicks off with an event on ending harmful campus culture

National Hazing Prevention Week kicks off with an event on ending harmful campus culture

Alexis Hood, Reporter September 23, 2025

On the evening of Sept. 22, students filled the KIVA to hear from College Student Leadership and Harm Reduction Speaker Billy Boulden, whose presentation, “You Don’t Have to PROVE Anything,” urged...

Emily Watroba, owner of Mush Monsters, chats with a customer shopping at the Mabon Market pop-up event on Sept. 21, 2025.

Mabon Market brings whimsy to Kent’s Acorn Alley

Ava Drozd, Reporter September 22, 2025

On Sept. 21, the Whimsigoth Night Market, owned by Stevie Riffle, and the Mystic Fairy Market, owned by Natasha Kardos, came together to host the Mabon Markets in Kent’s Acorn Alley. The first Mabon...

Community gathers for ‘Walk & Poetry Reading’ to celebrate recovery

Alexis Hood and Sofia Helena September 21, 2025

On the quiet Saturday morning of Sept. 20, community members gathered at the Kent United Church of Christ for the “Celebrate Recovery! Walk & Poetry Reading,” now in its second year, honoring the...

Hillel at Kent State, a Jewish life center on campus, is located at 613 E. Summit St.

Hudson community rallies against antisemitism 

Savannah Carroll, Beat Reporter September 21, 2025

More than 250 people filled the Hudson Green for a community rally organized by Jewish and Christian congregations, rejecting antisemitism and pledging solidarity, days after a confrontation by Nazi protestors.  Rabbi...

Kent Student Ambassadors decorate the K with kindness

Ava Drozd and Sofia Helena September 21, 2025

The Kent State University Student Ambassadors helped spread kindness around the campus Friday, Sept. 19, hosting the “Written with Kindness” event. At this event, students were able to leave messages...

Illustration by Emily Riebe.

Rotten Peach Studios celebrates its second anniversary

Ava Dunn, Reporter September 21, 2025

Rotten Peach Studios commemorated its second year of business with an event that contained live music, local vendors and food trucks Sept. 13, 2025. Rotten Peach is a local female-owned small business...

'The Nature of Our Times' allows poetry and science to intersect

‘The Nature of Our Times’ allows poetry and science to intersect

Melora Shue, Reporter September 20, 2025

Contributors of the anthology “The Nature of Our Times” celebrated the release of the book with a poetry reading in the Student Center Ballroom Balcony Sept. 18, 2025. All three co-editors, David...

Illustration by Clare Rodgers.

New Ohio law limiting cellphones in K-12 schools could influence college students

Loreal Puleo, Reporter September 20, 2025

Ohio law now requires K-12 schools to have a cell phone policy due to the signing of House Bill 250.  The bill, signed into law May 15, 2025, by Gov. Mike DeWine, mandated K-12 schools have a policy...

Sports administration professor Dr. Theresa Walton-Fisette shares data regarding student athletes in the NIL at the Equal Protection Under the Law Constitution Day event, Sept. 17, 2025.

Kent State celebrates Constitution Day 2025

Ava Dunn, Reporter September 19, 2025

About 238 years ago, the Founding Fathers signed the document that would eventually become the law of the land. To commemorate Constitution Day, the University Libraries offered educational programs and...

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