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Fall into Exquisite fashion

Felicia Ssempala November 24, 2014

Students filled the Kent State Ballroom waiting to experience the world of Exquisite Inc. at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24.Fall Into Fashion is an annual fall fashion show put on by Exquisite Inc. This year’s...

Kent mayor Jerry Fiala gives a proclamation renaming what is known worldwide as "Black Friday" to Black Squirrel Friday in the city of Kent. The proclaimation stated Black Squirrel Friday will create an opportunity to show support for local business owners by spending the holiday dollars locally.

Shop small with local businesses

Kelsey Husnick November 24, 2014

Avoid the long lines and packed supermalls this weekend by using Black Friday and the following Saturday as an opportunity to shop local. Main Street Kent is sponsoring Black Squirrel Friday and Small...

Opinion: Ferguson protests or civil rights movement?

Albert Fisler November 24, 2014

This week in Ferguson, Missouri, protests and riots have exploded. It has spread across the country, as far as Portland. While I will make no opinion on the incident itself, what is interesting to observe...

BSR Beats: Black Friday Anthems

Alyssa Haberman November 24, 2014

All of the feels you will go through while Black Friday shopping, compiled into one playlist. Happy Black Friday, and as Effie Trinket would say, may the odds be ever in your favor! All Night Longer...

Contact Neville at nhardma1@kent.edu.

Opinion: Cleveland five-piece set to visit Kent

Neville Hardman November 24, 2014

Heart Attack Man, a name taken from a Beastie Boys song, is a five-piece band one would expect to find playing in someone’s living room, surrounded by kids with thrift shop flannels and a decent buzz....

Officer Miguel H. Witt praises bomb dog Dexter in the parking lot of the Kent State University Police Department on E. Summit Street on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Dexter will partner with Officer Witt and Coco, a 3-year-old German Shepherd that became Kent State’s first police dog last fall.

All work is ‘play’ for newly recruited bomb dog

Mark Opera November 24, 2014

At a recent press conference at Kent State on Wednesday, Nov. 19, a 6-month-old Belgian Malinois puppy named Dexter was the center of attention. Officer Miguel Witt, the dog’s new handler, showed off...

Top four graduation cap pins

Audrey Young November 24, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving week, Buzz readers! I don’t know about you, but I am pumped to sit on my couch back home, eat and take naps for five whole days. Unfortunately, this excitement is killing my creativity...

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Kelsey’s Flick: ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’

Kelsey Husnick November 24, 2014

It’s simply not a real Thanksgiving unless Charlie Brown takes a few running kicks at the football and then goes over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. I will never, ever grow...

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Matt’s Flick Pick: ‘The Holiday’

Matthew Merchant November 24, 2014

Despite the outrage that stores are stocking Christmas accessories before Thanksgiving, my pick this week is called “The Holiday.” It’s a Christmas movie. And it’s a chick flick. Whatever, I loved...

Illustration by LaQuann Lee Dawson Jr.

Metal and ‘ThanksKilling’ mayhem on bill for local tavern’s holiday celebration

Mark Oprea November 24, 2014

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?Not being stalked by a blood-thirsty, murderous turkey should be on that list.“ThanksKilling,” a comedy-horror cult film directed by Jordan Downey, will...

Kent State Volleyball

Graham Smith November 23, 2014

Kent State freshman outside hitter Kelsey Bittinger spikes the ball toward a Bowling Green State University player during their final game of the regular season in the M.A.C. Center on Saturday, Nov. 15,...

Smoke-Free Campus?

Emily Mills November 23, 2014

Junior environmental conservation biology major Sean Nichols and junior German/French translation major Kyle Darrah smoke outside the Student Center on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Nichols said Kent State becoming...