As we approach President Lester Lefton’s retirement July 1, 2014, the presidential search is underway with a 16-member team working with a private executive search firm. While it’s easy to reflect...

Summary: Kent is changing, and so are we. This semester, we promise to bring our readers a more relevant, more interactive version of the Stater than ever before.Welcome back to Kent! (Or welcome, for...

Right this minute, everybody needs to stop chanting that blueberries are healthy and full of antioxidants. The next person who announces this gets his or her nose poked with a fork. Enough already with...

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Aug. 23:The world may be heading toward a showdown in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack launched by government forces, killing...

Elania Sauber This has been a year of numerous high-profile court cases and shocking verdicts. The media often face public outrage for looking in-depth into these cases and criminals to the point of...

There’s a sequence in “Frances Ha” in which Greta Gerwig, an actress who has spent the last few years on the fringes of recognizability, runs through the crosswalks of Brooklyn, pirouetting and leaping...

Although I probably know more than anyone else about the historical significance of May 4, I will not be attending tomorrow night's panel discussion. For the 23rd year since my book on May 4 was published,...

This evening, Bill Ayers will be speaking at a May 4 lecture panel. For those of you who do not know him, Ayers is a radical activist from the 1960s and 1970s, and the ringleader of the Weather Underground,...

It’s been a semester of ups and downs at Kent State, and we at the Daily Kent Stater have followed and reported the news every day. We’re looking back on the semester and reflecting on some of the...