One year ago, the American people elected President Obama supporting the notion of change. That November election was a public referendum rejecting Republican policies about the economy, social justice...

Every time you meet someone new, you eventually must answer that inevitable, wretched question: “What kind of music do you listen to?”I suppose this is a fair thing to ask someone. Everyone has at...

If I ever meet Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the guy with the explosives sewn into his underwear, I definitely have a few things to say to him.Recent events from Christmas Day have violated one of the last...

My roommate in Olson Hall freshman year was from Tokyo, and once I asked him what the Japanese thought about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was only beginning to learn English, and my Japanese is limited to...

To be honest, most of us had seen this coming.The first terrorist incident in the Obama presidency was sure to spark a massive wave of criticism from the right, and the attempted Christmas Day attack by...

Procrastination. We all do it at one time or another. College students, as a breed, have it down to such a well-practiced art form that it sometimes seems to be the natural order of things rather than...

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...