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A screenshot of the introduction of the Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración de los Graduados on May 7, 2020. 

Student Multicultural Center celebrates graduates with virtual pre-commencement ceremony

The Student Multicultural Center recognized graduates and their achievements during the virtual Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración de los Graduados ceremony on Thursday. “Usually with Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración...

Temperature Forecast

CNN Weather May 7, 2020

Talk about a tale of two extremes across the country, with temperatures well below normal in the East and triple-digit temperatures bringing temps well above normal in the Southwest.

Betsy DeVos

SAUL LOEB May 6, 2020

US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the fifth meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety, focusing on the best practices for school building security, active shooter training for...

Ellen Glickman, the director of the School of Health Sciences at Kent State, hugs her husband, Harold Greenberg, who as a Kent State student was an edtior of The Kent Stater, at the conclusion of the annual ringing of the Victory Bell to remember the four students killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970, and the two students killed 10 days later at Jackson State. Despite the cancellation of events related to the May 4 50th anniversary—alternatives were offered online—the annual tradition of a candlelight march and the vigil in the Prentice Hall parking lot continued with face masks and social distancing in place.

Community gathers to commemorate 50th anniversary of May 4 shootings

Jerry Lewis, a professor whose name is synonymous with the May 4, 1970, shootings where four Kent State students lost their lives, rang the Victory Bell on the Commons below Taylor Hall in their honor...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

Jerry Lewis, a witness to the shootings and an emeritus professor of sociology at Kent State, bows his head after ringing the Victory Bell on the Commons in memory of the four students killed at Kent State...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

Bill Arthrell, a witness to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State, pats some dirt down as he finishes burying a copy of the Constitution in front of the Victory Bell on the 50th anniversary. Arthrell...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

Bill Arthrell, a witness to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State, digs a hole in order to bury a copy of the Constitution in front of the Victory Bell on the 50th anniversary. Arthrell gave an impassioned...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

A Kent State police sergeant winds yellow rope that was used to cordon off the immediate area around the Victory Bell on the Commons at Kent State University. Jerry Lewis, an emeritus professor of sociology...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

A yellow rope is lifted out of the way so the candles representing the four students killed on May 4, 1970, can be carried to the Victory Bell on the Commons at Kent State. Jerry Lewis, an emeritus professor...

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Susan Kirkman Zake May 4, 2020

Ellen Glickman, the director of the School of Health Sciences at Kent State, hugs her husband, Harold Greenberg, who as a Kent State student was an edtior of The Kent Stater, at the conclusion of the annual...

Screenshot from the Facebook Livestream of the Zoom call with Shelby Pratt (top left), Colt Hutchinson (top right), Bernardine Dohrn (bottom left) and Bill Ayers (bottom right).

SDS holds online event to discuss activism movements

Sara Crawford Assigning Editor May 4, 2020

As Kent State University works to remember May 4 and the lives lost, Students of a Democratic Society [SDS] works toward not only remembering what happened 50 years ago, but the student activism that was...

Candlelight vigil brings people together, six feet apart, to remember May 4

Each year, the night before May 4, there is a candlelight vigil for the students killed in the Prentice Hall parking lot in 1970. While the university canceled the event this year due to COVID-19, people...

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