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Our View: Skidding by on fame

DKS Editorial Staff August 30, 2011

Matthew Fox, best known as Jack Shephard from the popular TV show “Lost,” was accused of assaulting a Cleveland bus driver early Sunday morning. Fox was in the city for the filming of “I, Alex Cross.”Cleveland.com...

 

Opinion: From Potter to Pierrepont

Emily Perrott August 29, 2011

Emily Perrott Emily Perrott is a photojournalism and dance performance major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected]. Whether we like to admit it or not, we all are...

Our View: Campus sees more housing headaches

DKS Editorial Staff August 29, 2011

At the start of each semester, it’s inevitable that some students will have to deal with housing problems both on and off campus, but this semester it seems the number of issues is growing.Like in previous...

 

Opinion: Irene: the new Katrina

Seth Cohen August 28, 2011

Seth Cohen Seth Cohen is a senior magazine journalism major. Contact him at [email protected] With all the warnings and media coverage on Hurricane Irene, most people assumed the worst, as they should....

Our View: A whole new experience in not being boring

DKS Editorial Staff August 28, 2011

Quit being your father’s newspaper.That’s what one design expert told us when he critiqued the Daily Kent Stater last spring. In the world of college journalism, it’s easy to lose sight of your audience....

Guest Column: Greetings from a Peace Corps volunteer

Chelsea Dulaney August 28, 2011

Have you ever lived in a place where it was hot like summer all year long? Where you had more mangoes in your possession than you could eat in a day? Or where people chose to eat spicy fish (with hard...

Opinion: GOP losing touch with reality

Bryan Staul August 28, 2011

Bryan Staul Bryan Staul is a junior political science major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected]. It’s been only a few months since my last column here at the Daily...

Opinion: Pledging allegiance to the team

Jody Michael August 27, 2011

Jody Michael Jody Michael is a junior broadcast journalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected]. In case you missed it, Jim Tressel, Ohio State football coach,...

Our View: Kent finally becoming what a college town should be

SKS Staff August 8, 2011

With the downtown development well underway, our staff can’t help but be excited for the new changes coming to the City of Kent.That’s right, we’re a city; we finally seem to be acting like it. It...

Opinion: Ex-convicts deserve better employment opportunities

Dominique Lyons August 8, 2011

What’s so bad about convicts? Other than the fact that they’re convicts, they aren’t any different from all the other people in society. Some convicts are better at their jobs than law-abiding citizens,...

Opinion: Will Obama ever secure new tax revenues?

Robert Thomas Young August 8, 2011

An agreement was reached between Democrats and Republicans, effectively enabling the United States to raise the debt ceiling, which allows the country to borrow more money and would ideally retain the...

Opinion: First world stupidity

Jody Michael August 8, 2011

I love the Internet meme “first world problems,” which are complaints only the world’s most privileged people could ever have.Among the most popular first world problems submitted to a list on the...