The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Monday, April 21:As the nation celebrates Earth Day on Tuesday, it's an excellent opportunity to highlight the positive initiatives taken in...
Chances are, you’ve probably never seen President Lester Lefton taking a stroll around campus or engaging with students. However, his long list of improvements and achievements at Kent State prove...
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel warned China several days ago, “You cannot go around and redefine boundaries, violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation...
It looks as if the support for legalizing marijuana is flying high. This year’s 4/20 has made more news than ever before. With two states permitting pot for recreational use and 21 others permitting...
University officials have declared they’re done talking about the presidential search that found President-Elect Beverly Warren. We wish we could be done too.We wish we didn’t have to remind the top...
How many times have you decided how well or poor your grade in a class was based on everyone else’s grades in the class? We often look at the class average to decide how well we did in that course. It...
The past two weeks have been plagued with unfortunate tragedies around the world, with many innocent lives lost or put in danger suddenly.Earlier this month, a stabbing at a Pennsylvania high school left...
The news that a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is suspected of shooting and killing three people near Jewish community centers in Kansas seems, at first glance, like a disparaged past flaring...
John Heflin, former department chairman in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services, transitioned April 11, 2014. For many years, he taught at this institution and served with the utmost...
I was saddened to learn from your front-page article entitled “Language barriers prevent abroad opportunities” Wednesday that Kent State students now increasingly prefer to “study abroad” while...
A young girl stood up at the microphone in front of a theater packed with adults and asked the speaker how she could ensure that she receive an adequate science education. Richard Dawkins, world-renowned...
Twelve snapchats, four Twitter notifications, three Facebook messages and one Instagram alert awaited me after I went 24 hours without using social media, and none of them were important.We are a part...
