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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...

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: 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....

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,...

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...

Opinion: Stephen Colbert to create 2012 campaign ads

Robert Thomas Young August 8, 2011

Political satirist Stephen Colbert is taking part in the election process by forming a super PAC, a special political action committee that can raise unlimited money.“Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow”...

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: Why all the empty seats?

Robert Thomas Young August 2, 2011

The Cleveland Indians took on the Kansas City Royals Friday night, and this was my first game of the season.The weather was perfect. The mugginess of the day had faded into a nice warm evening. The smell...