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Opinion: Do not forget Senate Bill 5 in 2014

Ryan McCarthy September 30, 2014

Ed FitzGerald has run a troubled gubernatorial campaign from the beginning, aided not in the slightest by his first bout of major name recognition stemming from media reports of his nearly a decade-long...

Ray Paoletta is a junior political science major. Contact him at rpaolet1@kent.edu.

Opinion: Kent State College Republicans celebrates 20 years

Ray Paoletta September 29, 2014

This past Saturday, the Kent State College Republicans celebrated 20 years as a campus organization. Alumni, current members and supporters of the club came together for an anniversary dinner where they...

Our View: Being informed during election season

KS Editors September 28, 2014

The Kent community is known for being green. We are a tree city and Kent State is a Tree Campus USA, the architects of the university’s new buildings are striving for Leadership in Energy & Environmental...

Guest column: Carbon producers can meet EPA’s limits as they have in the past

Past is prologue, and as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moves forward with new limits on carbon pollution from the nation’s electric power plants, familiar alarms are sounding that the limits...

Carley Hull is a senior magazine journalism major and a columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact her at chull9@kent.edu.

Opinion: Finding purpose

Carley Hull September 28, 2014

Throughout our lives we are asked an important question: “What do you want to do?” The first time we were asked this question was possibly in the 1st grade when our teacher asked us what we wanted...

Opinion: Kent State College Republicans celebrates 20 years

Ray Paoletta September 28, 2014

This past Saturday the Kent State College Republicans celebrated 20 years as a club on campus. Alumni, current members and supporters of the club came together for an anniversary dinner where they reminisced...

Opinion: Get after fitness

Skyler Chill September 28, 2014

Something I am very passionate about is working out. I love nothing more than feeling the rush of endorphins, wearing my Nike gear and sweating up a storm.  I hope that reading my column can help you...

Opinion: An attempt to ban our language

Mike Richards September 25, 2014

There are a few things I’d wish to cover about Banned Books Week, but with the fear that someone may find an expletive out of context, or a questionably written line that could be perceived as overtly...

Katie Smith is a senior public relations and a columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact her at ksmit138@kent.edu.

Opinion: #HeForShe

Katie Smith September 25, 2014

It’s 2014. Gender equality should be the least of our worries as a country because, quite frankly, men and women should have been treated as equals from day one.Here we are, almost 100 years after women...

Megan Brown is a senior magazine journalism major and the opinion editor for The Kent Stater. Contact her at mbrow121@kent.edu.

Opinion: A temporary goodbye to The Vinyl Underground

Megan Brown September 24, 2014

One of the first places I explored the summer before freshman year at Kent was The Vinyl Underground on Water Street. The past Tuesday the store closed their doors until a new location is found. I traveled...

Our View: Apple decides to no longer sell the iPod Classic, taking a piece of our childhood with it

KS Editors September 24, 2014

With all of the talk about the new iPhone 6/6 Plus, Apple Watch and iOS8, Apple simply forgot to mention that they were no longer making the iPod Classic, the last iPod available with the click-wheel design.The...

Opinion: Letter to the editor

Joan Marold September 24, 2014

I was distressed to read the article in the Monday, Sept. 15 issue of The Kent Stater, “Tenure protects professor’s employment.”  The article used Julio Pino as an example.The episode used by the...