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Jeffery Gamberling and Hallie Walker, juniors at Kent Roosevelt High School, sit together at Taco Tontos on Monday, April 6, 2015.

Best Vegetarian/Vegan Food: Taco Tontos

Jenna Kuczkowski April 7, 2015

Taco Tontos“Typical tacos” is not a phrase you would use to describe Taco Tontos.On top of serving all of the Mexican-American basics, Taco Tontos offers a huge variety of vegetarian and vegan options,...

Euro Gyro. April 6, 2015.

Best Drunk Food: EuroGyro

Felicia Guadagni April 7, 2015

EuroGyroA classic bar atmosphere, quick service and greasy food are all the ingredients needed to win in the best drunk food category, and EuroGyro has taken the No. 1 spot once again.The Downtown Kent...

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Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, speaks to participants in a workshop about overcoming trauma through creative writing. The event was held at the Wick Poetry Center on April 6, 2015.

Wick Poetry Center, May 4 Visitors Center find clarity through poetry

Payton Moore April 6, 2015

With May 4’s 45th anniversary of the May 4th 1970's shooting less than a month away, the May 4 Visitors Center and Wick Poetry Center joined to discuss what trauma really is and how to nurture it and...

Alexis Wohler is a junior journalism major. Contact her at awohler@kent.edu.

Opinion: The Lord’s Passion and Easter

Alexis Wohler April 5, 2015

God’s passion is you. God longs to have a relationship with you and all people as His children. He loved every single one of us so much that he sent his only son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for...

Brianna Bradley

Jenna Watson April 1, 2015

Communication studies junior Brianna Bradley poses for a portrait at the Kent State-Stark campus, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Bradley has keratoconus, a vision impairment caused by a thinning in one or both...

Brianna Bradley

Jenna Watson April 1, 2015

Communication studies junior Brianna Bradley poses for a portrait at the Kent State-Stark campus, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Bradley has keratoconus, a vision impairment caused by a thinning in one or both...

Brianna Bradley

Jenna Watson April 1, 2015

Communication studies junior Brianna Bradley poses for a portrait at the Kent State-Stark campus, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Bradley has keratoconus, a vision impairment caused by a thinning in one eye's...

Faux beauty trends can be platforms for establishing confidence

March 31, 2015

Most of our faux beauty trends aren’t actually fooling anyone. Those acrylic nails, pencil-perfect eyebrows and inches of eyelashes can be spotted as unnatural with or without a fashion malfunction....

Jennifer Hutchinson

Opinion: Obamacare: Going nowhere but down

Jennifer Hutchinson March 31, 2015

March 23rd marked the fifth anniversary of Obamacare. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade columnist, Jack Kelly, wrote an excellent piece detailing how even after five years Obamacare is still...

Members of the Kappa Epsilon fraternity perform in the Delta Zeta lip sync on March 1, 2014.

Watch your mouth: Artists who lip-sync shouldn’t sing

Megan Brown March 31, 2015

When it comes to lip-syncing, I would prefer it if artists refrained from the act. Either sing live or don’t sing at all, that’s my motto.The only argument I can make for lip-syncing is for entertainment...

BSR Beats: New, old and in between

"Fairly Local" -Twenty One PilotsAt first listen, it’s hard to believe that this is actually Twenty One Pilots as it is definitely not a follow-up song from their last album “Vessel.” With that said,...