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Cheers and Jeers

September 2, 2015

Cheers to...McDonald’s announcing they will serve all-day breakfast starting in October.Jeers to...hackers gaining access to more than 225,000 Apple accounts from jailbroken products.

Pope: Priests in Holy Year can absolve ‘sin of abortion’

FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press September 1, 2015

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is applying his vision of a merciful church to women who have had abortions, easing their path toward forgiveness and saying he realizes some felt they had no choice...

Cheers and Jeers

September 1, 2015

Cheers to… Mount McKinley, the tallest peak in Alaska, which is being renamed Denali.  Jeers to… Kanye West, announcing his presidential run in 2020.

BlastOff 2015

Cassaundra Jackson August 30, 2015

Left to Right: Bryon Black, graduate Music Education major, Tyler Coy, junior Musical Theatre major, Zeb Jones, sophomore Music Education major, Matt Fiors, senior Music Production major and Anthony Cooley,...

Jason Bitsko

MaKayla Brown August 20, 2015

Kent State football kicker April Goss (left) hugs Jason Bitsko’s father, Randy Bitsko (right), after the Kent State football team painted the rock. Goss wrote “stay focued” on the rock in honor of...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens new exhibit to honor Alternative Press Magazine

Jenna Kuczkowski July 22, 2015

Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened a new exhibit Tuesday in honor of Alternative Press’ 30th anniversary this year as a music magazine.

Bob West

Leah Klafczynski June 25, 2015

Bob gets his nutrition through enteral feeding through a stomach tube, which allows the food to enter directly through his gastrointestinal tract. “If I could do this myself, and was able to standup,...

ASCEND

Barbara Broome (front row, fourth from left), dean of Kent State University’s College of Nursing, and Lisa Aurilio (second from left), vice president of Patient Services and chief nursing officer at...

Campus workers strike avoided

Matthew Merchant June 4, 2015

Members of campus union AFSCME and student organization USAS picket outside the M.A.C. Center on May 1, 2015, as President Beverly Warren is inaugurated inside. The Board of Trustees and AFSCME both accepted...

WordSmiths

MaKayla Brown May 15, 2015

Lisa Hart (left), who has been working at Wordsmiths for the past year and a half, and Mary Friess (right), who has been managing Wordsmiths for the past 20 years, work their last day at WordSmiths, which...

Superman Feature

Brian Smith May 1, 2015

BRIAN SMITH | DAILY KENT STATER Heather “Super Fan” Strittmatter runs to the Flash mascot after the Men’s Basketball game against Akron on Saturday, Feb.1, 2014 in the MAC Center. Kent State won...

Marissa Mehal

Women of the sky: Female pilots thrive in aeronautics

Juliane Calapa April 30, 2015

Being a woman in a predominantly male career field might steer some down a different, more comfortable path. Not Marissa Mehal.Mehal, a Pittsburgh native and a senior aeronautics major concentrating in...