L ast week, President Lester Lefton released the findings of a university study that sought to measure how much money Kent State adds to the local economy.The results said the university brings $1.96 billion...

The world has responded with tremendous generosity to the destruction in Haiti after last week’s earthquake, but the breakdown of security and order there threatens to multiply the already terrible death...

In the wake of the stunning loss of Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, next Wednesday’s State of the Union speech can’t come too soon for President Barack Obama.That annual, high-profile...

Let’s face it: You’ll never hear Kent State-Akron mentioned in the same breath as Duke-North Carolina.Neither Kent State nor Akron can attract A-list prospects, neither school has the greatest facilities...

I wish I could say Pat Robertson’s comment last week pegging the earthquake in Haiti as a punishment from God was bizarre even for him, but it seems to go right along with his twisted logic.In case you...

Sure, sports rivalries can seem kind of silly (how different can we really be from the students who attend classes 11.8 miles away?), but as a chance to display school spirit, it’s hard to top a basketball...

Unless you spent your winter break in a cave, you should have heard of the film “Avatar.”The plot is easy enough for a 5-year-old to understand, yet the movie is on the brink of surpassing “Titanic”...

I have gotten used to receiving puzzled looks from acquaintances after telling them I’m a conservative. Those looks are usually followed with the question, “Oh, so you like President Bush?”The questions...

For college students, our use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are merely extensions of our social lives. However, social networking has taken on a new meaning in how the world responds to crisis situations....

Snow is a vicious cycle in Kent.Sometime during November or December, the first snow falls. It continues sporadically through the end of the year, and, by the time students return for the spring semester,...

You can bet that political strategists in both parties will be parsing the meaning of the Massachusetts senatorial struggle for some time to come. If there was a slam dunk left in American politics, it...

 The flush of the toilet down the hall lifted the weight of sleep off my mind and my eyes slowly came to the present. My friend walked into the living room where I spent the night comfortably asleep on...