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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater
The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

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All content by Emily Mills

(Orientation) Dorm Life 101: Living with a roommate

Emily Mills
August 9, 2016
Samaria Rice delivers the keynote speech during the May 4 Commemoration Ceremony on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

Samaria Rice calls for solidarity and social change in May 4 address

Emily Mills
May 4, 2016

3OH!3 to perform at FlashFest

Emily Mills
April 10, 2016
Photo courtsey of Twitter

Instagram adds longer video option

Emily Mills
March 29, 2016
Photo courtsey of Twitter

Snapchat launches chat update

Emily Mills
March 29, 2016
Maintenance crews work on a broken water main at Manchester Field on Thursday, March 3, 2016. The water main break caused the Student Center to close early Thursday night.

Water service restored to Student Center, will reopen Friday morning

Emily Mills
March 3, 2016

Trump Rally

Emily Mills
March 1, 2016
Police Chief Michelle Lee talks to media at a press conference about an officer-involved shooting on Dec. 17, 2015.

Kent police officers involved in fatal December shooting return to work

Emily Mills
February 14, 2016

Title IX requires university to investigate sexual assault claims

Emily Mills
February 10, 2016
Who is Julio Pino?

Who is Julio Pino?

Emily Mills
January 20, 2016
Pino screenshot

Accused professor denies alleged links to ISIS

Emily Mills
January 19, 2016
Photo courtesy of Kent State University

FBI investigating Kent State professor for alleged link to ISIS

Emily Mills
January 19, 2016
A man armed with a machete was shot and killed by Kent police early Thursday morning. Four Kent city police officers have been placed on administrative leave during the investigation.

Four Kent police officers involved in shooting identified

Emily Mills
December 22, 2015
Members of the Area Wide Protective Street construction company dust off the road and work in the ditch on the corner of Summit and Lincoln on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015.

Summit Street closes until Wednesday

Emily Mills
December 21, 2015

Armed suspect killed in officer-involved shooting off-campus

Emily Mills
December 17, 2015
Photo courtesy of the Kent Police Department

Police investigating robbery at The Exchange

Emily Mills
November 23, 2015
Election Officials wait in line to turn in ballots at Portage County Board of Elections on November 3, 2015.

Portage County posts election results after delay

Emily Mills
November 4, 2015
Poll workers arrived at the Portage Board of Elections office in Ravenna on Tuesday night, October 3, 2015, after polls had closed. The poll workers organized the ballots before bringing them to the election office.

Portage County election results delayed due to server issue

Emily Mills
November 3, 2015
Fashion merchandising major Todd White (left), fashion merchandising major Donovan Vaughn (center) and criminal justice major Kelvin Bey (right) stand on The K outside of the Student Center on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, as part of The Classic Gentleman’s Club. 

Classic Gentlemen’s Club pushes for diversity in fashion

Emily Mills
October 14, 2015
Photo courtesy of Kent State Athletics

Kent State women’s golf ranked 7th in nation

Emily Mills
September 29, 2015
Photo courtesy of Kent State University Library's Special Collection.

#ThrowbackThursday with The Kent Stater

Emily Mills
September 2, 2015

Lockdown at Regional Academic Center at Twinsburg lifted

Emily Mills
September 1, 2015
St. Patrick Catholic Church is located at 313 N. Depeyster St.

Kent boasts nearly 30 churches and religious communities

Emily Mills
August 28, 2015
Senior entrepreneurship major Kevin Otubu reacts as he becomes the director of programming for Undergraduate Student Government as results of the elections are streamed in the Student Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

USG acts as voice for Kent State student body

Emily Mills
August 28, 2015
Members of Delta Zeta, Kappa Sigma and Phi Kappa Tau dance in a Candyland-themed number at Songfest in the Student Center Ballroom on Nov. 15, 2014.

To rush or not to rush: Kent State Greek Life

Emily Mills
August 28, 2015
Emily Mills

Opinion: What I wish I knew my freshman year

Emily Mills
August 28, 2015

Fire department hosts fire training at Allerton Apartments

Emily Mills
August 20, 2015
The Kent State football team prays around the rock on Aug. 20, 2015 before they paint it in honor of Jason Bitsko. Bitsko was a starting center on the football team and passed away on Aug. 20, 2014. 

Football team paints rock in honor of Jason Bitsko

Emily Mills
August 20, 2015
Screenshot of announcement video posted to Kent State University Alumni Association's YouTube account

NFL player Julian Edelman announced as Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal

Emily Mills
August 3, 2015

No update on homicide at off-campus apartment complex

Emily Mills
July 23, 2015

Police investigating homicide at off-campus apartment

Emily Mills
July 13, 2015
Emily Mills is a senior journalism major and the editor of The Kent Stater. Contact her at emills11@kent.edu. 

Opinion: Confederate flag should have been removed long ago

Emily Mills
June 30, 2015
Workers continue to work on transplanting a tree outside Cunningham Hall on Friday, June 19, 2015. During the transplanting process, workers struck a shallow natural gas line, causing a gas leak that led to the evacuation of the Student Center, Cunningham Hall, Smith Hall and the University Library.

Natural gas leak caused by construction workers striking shallow gas line

Emily Mills
June 19, 2015
Eboni Pringle is the dean of University College at Kent State University. 

Eboni Pringle named dean of University College

Emily Mills
May 15, 2015
Photo courtesy of Kent State University

Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs to split into two separate divisions

Emily Mills
May 15, 2015
Photo courtesy of the Toledo Blade

KSU grad found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2013 fatal turnpike crash

Emily Mills
May 15, 2015
Photo courtesy of Kent State University

New interim dean of EHHS announced

Emily Mills
May 13, 2015
Phones throughout Kent State's campus will be enabled to display text alerts on their screens during campus emergencies. Phones with this capability will be labeled with a red sticker that says "MNS," which stands for Mass Notification System.

KSU police department to test emergency notification system Wednesday

Emily Mills
May 12, 2015
Screenshot from Flash @ Work website

Career Services launches new employment database

Emily Mills
May 12, 2015

Petition for no-confidence vote against provost introduced at Faculty Senate

Emily Mills
May 12, 2015
People gather in the University Bookstore in the Student Center for their "Spring Blowout Sale" on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. The bookstore closed Saturday, May 9, and will reopen Monday, May 18.

Kent State bookstore closed this week

Emily Mills
May 11, 2015

Rec center to close May 9-May 17 for cleaning, addition of new equipment

Emily Mills
May 8, 2015
Professor Dale Richards presents audio projects produced by his class during his College Writing I class, Dec. 3, 2014.

A good class to B in

Emily Mills
December 3, 2014

Black United Students rally campus in protest of Ferguson decision

Emily Mills
November 25, 2014

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 smoke-free could potentially help him quit smoking, while Darrah said she thinks enforcing the policy would distract campus security from more pressing issues.

Smoking ban talks remain in president’s cabinet

Emily Mills
November 23, 2014
Kent State Fashion School located at Rockwell Hall was vandalized with message reading "sweat-shop slave styles trending.”

Rockwell Hall vandalized with sweatshops message

Emily Mills
November 14, 2014
Photo courtesy of Kent State University

Pino resigns from editorial board of academic journal

Emily Mills
November 9, 2014
Democratic candidate Vicki A. Kline and her daughter, Lisa Kline, react to her lead in the race for Portage County Commisioner at The Italian American Society watch party in Ravenna on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

Local recap: Portage County issues and candidate results announced Tuesday

Emily Mills
November 5, 2014

Kline wins County Commissioner

Emily Mills
November 4, 2014
John and Jean Jacobs are members of the Pioneer Cemetery Preservation Group for the Pioneer Cemetery on Stow Road in Kent. Jean Jacobs is a decendent of Joshua Woodard and her family have been Kent residents since the 1800s.

Pioneer Cemetery crumbling away due to lack of funds

Emily Mills
October 29, 2014

More than 100 monitoring for symptoms after potential contact with Dallas nurse with Ebola

Emily Mills
October 19, 2014
Architecture professor Charles Harker takes a look at senior architecture major Danielle Jones's project during her studio time Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014.

Students struggle to complete degrees in four years

Emily Mills
October 8, 2014
Joseph Vealencis from the National Counterterrorism Center answers questions from the audience about countering the terrorist threat in the age of transparency during the 10th annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop on Thursday, Sept 18, 2014.

Government doesn’t monitor everyone, but citizens don’t buy it

Emily Mills
September 18, 2014
Jessie Carduner, associate professor of Spanish and French, plays pinball at Stonehedge Family Fun Center in Cuyahoga Falls Friday, Sept. 12, 2014.

Pinball-playing professor brings competition to arcade classic

Emily Mills
September 14, 2014
Julio Pino

Tenure protects Pino’s employment after controversial Israel/Palestine comments

Emily Mills
September 14, 2014
Visitors to the Flight 93 Memorial participate in the annual presentation of the Flight 93 Flag in memory of those who lost their lives in the plane crash on September 11, 2001. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the attacks.

9/11: How our world has changed in 13 years

Emily Mills
September 10, 2014

Second-largest freshmen class forces students to live in lounges

Emily Mills
August 27, 2014

HUD charges KSU with housing discrimination over support animal

Emily Mills
August 24, 2014
A demonstrator waves an upside down American flag in front of a boarded up store on West Florissant Avenue on Wednesday, August 20, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

National Guard one of only similarities between Ferguson and May 4

Emily Mills
August 24, 2014

Special topics courses offer variety at KSU

Emily Mills
August 20, 2014

Who’s who at Kent State

Emily Mills
August 19, 2014

Rootstown woman charged in July hit-and-run

Emily Mills
August 8, 2014

Information Services offers KSU students free Microsoft Office

Emily Mills
August 7, 2014

Governor appoints two members to Board of Trustees

Emily Mills
August 6, 2014

Former Kent economic development director dies at 45

Emily Mills
July 25, 2014

KSU named “Great College to Work for”

Emily Mills
July 21, 2014

Water St. hit-and-run kills Ravenna man

Emily Mills
July 18, 2014
President Beverly Warren reaches to shake the hand of a Flash Guide outside the Kent State Student Center on July 1, 2014. Warren spent her first day focusing on university students. 

“Together We’ll Stand Tall”

Emily Mills
July 2, 2014
Kent State University's new President Beverly Warren shakes hands with Chief Michelle A. Lee on the Esplanade on July 1, 2014.

On her first day, Warren reaches out to community

Emily Mills
July 1, 2014

City plans to purchase College Avenue properties for new police department

Emily Mills
June 26, 2014
Kent Economic Development Director Dan Smith talks about the balance of new construction while preserving historic buildings using the example of the construction on Water Street across from the Kent court house which was the former main post office.

Park dedicated to former Kent economic development director to be created

Emily Mills
June 24, 2014

News on the go: May 2, 2014

Emily Mills
May 1, 2014

News on the go: April 18, 2014

Emily Mills
April 17, 2014
Flash Alerts System Text Messages Sent Out During the Lockdown

Flash Alerts misinformation causes confusion during gun incident

Emily Mills
April 3, 2014

USG member’s post sparks controversy

Emily Mills
April 3, 2014

Kent State sinkhole filled in, water main break cause not known

Emily Mills
March 14, 2014
Kent State employees examine a sinkhole that opened up in an area between the student center and M.A.C. Center, caused by a waterline break. As a result, power was lost in the Student Center, M.A.C. Center, and M.A.C.C. Annex, Wednesday morning, March 12, 2014. All three were closed Wednesday due to the power loss, and as a safety precaution.

Sinkhole closes Student Center, power restored

Emily Mills
March 12, 2014

News on the go: March 7, 2014

Emily Mills
March 6, 2014

News on the Go: Feb. 21, 2014

Emily Mills
February 20, 2014

News on the go: Feb. 7, 2014

Emily Mills
February 6, 2014
Kent State experienced extreme cold and snowfall over the weekend with snow accumulating approximately five inches. Temperatures for the next few days are expected to plummet into the negatives.

Temperatures plunge over next few days

Emily Mills
January 26, 2014

News on the Go: Jan. 24, 2014

Emily Mills
January 23, 2014

College of Podiatric Medicine dean search narrowed to three candidates

Emily Mills
January 14, 2014

KSU professors weigh in on metabolism-gene findings

Emily Mills
November 26, 2013

Health Services receives national honor

Emily Mills
November 22, 2013
Submitted photo.

KSU College of Nursing’s self-care program to help students focus

Emily Mills
November 22, 2013
Submitted photo.

KSU College of Nursing’s self-care program helps students focus

Emily Mills
November 21, 2013
Barbara Broome, a candidate for the dean of the College of Nursing, speaks on Tuesday Sept. 17, 2013. Broome received her masters at Kent and taught previously at the university. Photo by Tim Si.

KSU’s College of Nursing names alumna as new dean

Emily Mills
November 13, 2013

CDC official says antibiotics ineffective

Emily Mills
November 12, 2013
Sophomore nursing students Justin Kaczmarek practices taking a pulse on a mock patient in the Sim Lab on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 6, 2013. The mock patients allow nursing students to practice taking blood pressure and pulse and also have lung sound and arrhythmias. Photo by Leah Klafczynski.

Male nurses break old stereotypes

Emily Mills
November 12, 2013

Meditation can lower blood pressure, study says

Emily Mills
November 5, 2013

Kent State’s Center for Public Policy finds trend in health care consolidation

Emily Mills
November 4, 2013

KSU faculty, students to attend country’s largest public-health conference

Emily Mills
October 31, 2013

How to find KSU’s healthy food

Emily Mills
October 23, 2013

Robinson Memorial Hospital to host medication take-back program Saturday

Emily Mills
October 23, 2013
 

Funeral services for Dining Services executive Friday, Saturday

Emily Mills
October 21, 2013

American Academy of Nurses to induct KSU nursing professor retiree

Emily Mills
October 17, 2013

Kent State to get hearts pumping at Akron fundraising walk

Emily Mills
October 14, 2013

KSU to hold National Depression Screening Day on Thursday

Emily Mills
October 8, 2013
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