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Cheers and Jeers

March 1, 2017

Cheers to ... a proper send-off. A video surfaced of students in Scotland giving their deceased class pets, two goldfish named Bubbles and Freddy, a viking funeral.Jeers to ... growing up. A library...

Hard work pays off as fashion alum finds success

Rachel Duthie March 1, 2017

Blake Campbell moved to New York City with no money and no job. It was 2015 and she graduated from Kent State with her fashion merchandising degree two weeks earlier. Her family did not favor the decision,...

One of the first exhibits in the Kent State University Museum in 1985. Photo via the Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives.

Rodgers and Silverman: The lives of Kent State’s influential fashion duo

Payton Moore March 1, 2017

In 1982, a pair of donors gave Kent State a gift that stunned residents, students and fashion collectors worldwide. Jerry Silverman and Shannon Rodgers donated more than 5,000 artifacts, costumes and accessories...

Trump Immigration

Christina Kenney February 28, 2017

Immigration lawyer Madhu Sharma speaks at a Safe Spaces event in Kent Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. “It’s kind of amazing that I have been doing this for 18 years and now suddenly everybody cares...

Kent State President Beverly Warren reads Dr. Suess’s “The Cat in the Hat” to school kids for Read Across America at the University Bookstore on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. 

President Warren reads ‘Cat in the Hat’ during Dr. Seuss event

Quaylyn Hairston February 28, 2017

The legacy of children's author Dr. Seuss took over the University Bookstore Tuesday morning for a Read Across America event.Large paw-shaped footprints around the store led to different activities and...

Clouds reflect off of the Cuyahoga River as a man fishes into on Feb. 24, 2017. The temperature reached into the seventies, unusually warm for February in Ohio.

Perspectives: Winter takes a pause

Clint Datchuk February 28, 2017

Let's face the reality of our circumstances as residents of planet Earth. The concept of seasons is dead. There's only weather now, and it is decided on a day-by-day, need-to-know basis.The average high...

Cheers and Jeers

February 28, 2017

Cheers to ... a big breakfast. Russian company JSC MAFKA made over 12,000 pancakes to claim the world record for the largest serving of the floury treat.Jeers to ... drunk driving. An Australian man was...

Revolution Pie performs during the downtown Kent Beatlefest on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.

Sun came for 4th annual Kent BeatleFest

Madeline Crandall February 25, 2017

Beatles music and blue skies brought crowded streets for the fourth annual Kent BeatleFest Friday. The unseasonably warm February evening was filled with locals and out-of-towners celebrating free live...

Career Fair

Career Fair

Christina Kenney February 23, 2017

Kent State marketing graduate Nick Yopko (right) speaks to Kent State graduate and Geometry Global project coordinator Ryan Kekela (left) about job opportunities during the Spring Internship, Co-op and...

AP: Bill filed to loosen knot over N Carolina ‘bathroom bill’

Gary Robertson, Associated Press February 22, 2017

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers filed bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at breaking an impasse over the state's "bathroom bill," but it's likely to face tough going in the...

AP: State lawmakers channel grief into fight against opioids

Kyle Potter, Associated Press February 22, 2017

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation's deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic...

Cheers and Jeers

February 22, 2017

Cheers to ... a Walmart employee in Columbia, South Carolina, who paid for half of the grocery bill for a family of five.Jeers to ... pineapple pizza. Icelandic President Guoni Thorlacius Johannesson...