At this time last year, the city of Kent and the university suffered a major black eye after the riots of College Fest, when students threw bottles and set a bonfire in the middle of College Avenue in...

I’m not exactly sure how I am going to survive without college.For the past four years, I’ve relied on some key factors that simply won’t be in my life anymore. I could count on a friend in class...

Why does our opinion of a thing or person so affect our ability to enjoy it? Michael Jackson is one of those subjects that never fails to get a rise out of people; everyone has an opinion. He is a gifted...

Kent State students living on campus with the university-mandated meal plan know all too well the outrageous prices the school charges for food.Our school requires all freshmen and sophomores to live on...

Rabab Al-Sharif is tying her shoe, putting on Chap Stick, updating her status, blinking and breathing. OMG. LOL. ROFL. BRB.This is a pretty good model of the status updates that flood my Facebook feed...

Anybody who knows an older person who went to college has heard him or her talk about how college is the time where you meet your lifelong friends.While that may be true, college is a time where you meet...

Tomorrow is College Fest.Last year, as you may remember, the festivities got more than a little out of hand, leading to fires, vandalism and arrests. That means people will be wary of the party this year,...

Exactly a year ago I was actually excited to wake up at 6:30 a.m. in Washington, D.C., because I had to dress up to meet Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States in person....

I was crying as I paced the driveway in my purple button-down shirt and orange Keds. I wouldn’t even look at my mom when she told me the black 1997 Chevy Cavalier was ours for good.I wanted a purple...

Do you know what this Saturday is? Besides College Fest? It’s also Portage County’s Earth Day Festival (this year themed “Who’s your mama?”). There will be a festival on Main Street in downtown...

I walked by the M.A.C. Center Tuesday to find that Hillel and Kent Students for Israel were celebrating “Israel Fest,” the student groups’ annual celebration of the creation of the state of Israel....

We first began with the potatoes. Next were the carrots. Then we chopped up onions, chives and opened a can of black beans. Each step was an act of meditation. We combined the ingredients, sprinkled some...