As students read over their course syllabi during the first week of classes, they may come upon the university’s plagiarism policy, printed at the end of almost every class syllabus. Sometimes professors...

Dear Editor,I am a student at Kent State and feel quite uneasy about the article “Drug busts just a coincidence” (Feb. 23) in the Stater. The article suggests that Kent’s large population and location...

It’s lonely and gray in Northeast Ohio, especially if you’re not from these parts.In the last month there have been three major storms that have hit our little corner of Northeast Ohio, and every time...

Kent State is promoting itself as having the safest public university campus in Ohio according to an FBI Uniform Crime Statistics report and information from the Consortium for Campus Crime Research.That’s...

Why do we go to college? Ostensibly it is to get an education in a field we are passionate about and wish to pursue as a career. But in a culture where you practically need a degree to get any job that...

Whenever I see that Sarah McLachlan American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals commercial on TV, I have to change the channel in protest.It’s not that I have anything against her song...

(This column is a response to Anastasia Spytsya’s Feb. 25 column, “Country first.”)I have never been one to call out a fellow columnist on, well, anything. This may be in part because I, perhaps...

Nearly a year after the 9/11 attacks, a pair of government lawyers produced memos that gave cover to the Bush administration’s subsequent use of waterboarding and interrogation techniques widely considered...

It’s official. Nickelback is in fact less popular than a pickle.The battle started earlier this month when the Facebook group titled “Can this pickle get more fans than Nickelback?” (Spelled incorrectly...

Although downtown Kent has been receiving a face-lift, both with the new Acorn Alley and upcoming plans, other parts of Kent have been forgotten.Some students don’t even realize there is more to the...

On Monday, Jay Leno will return to “The Tonight Show,” a show he and millions of others know rightly belongs to Conan O’Brien.It is a show Leno began hosting in 1992. In 2004, he made a deal with...

There’s a certain romance to “the college trip to Europe.” Armed with nothing more than a green hiking backpack filled with one change of clothing and a toothbrush, gallivanting around this fabled...