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REFLECTION: An anxious start to a bittersweet finish: My college journey

Lyric Aquino
May 1, 2019
Franklin Square Deli employees Danielle Schwat and Adam Van Heyde wait behind the counter for customers on Friday, April 15, 2016.

Best Sandwich

Lyric Aquino
April 17, 2019
Kayla Sellers and her son, Lennon, 6 months, shop inside the Off the Wagon toy section in downtown Kent on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Sellers is from Rootstown.

Best Shopping

Lyric Aquino
April 17, 2019
The interior of EuroGyro on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.

Best Drunk Food

Lyric Aquino
April 17, 2019
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OPINION: Women work just as hard as men

Lyric Aquino
March 20, 2019
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REFLECTION: Looking for heritage

Lyric Aquino
February 20, 2019
Students gather on campus to listen to university administration in 1970.

Black History Month: A Kent State legacy

Lyric Aquino
February 20, 2019
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OPINION: Sex, a societal taboo that shouldn’t exist

Lyric Aquino
February 13, 2019
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REFLECTION: All I ever wanted to be was a shining star

Lyric Aquino
February 3, 2019
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OPINION: Natives, news, and nuisances: A look at the Indigenous Peoples’ March at a larger scale

Lyric Aquino
January 21, 2019

OPINION: Minority hypersexualization: It’s not us, it’s you

Lyric Aquino
January 12, 2019
Kevin Lacz explains physical risk-taking at his book signing event at the Student Center Ballroom Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. "I wanted to be better at the position than when I showed up," Lacz said, referring to his prior work ethic. 

Former SEAL Kevin Lacz discusses life before war in Veterans Day speech

Lyric Aquino
November 9, 2017
Members of OutSupport Inc. march during the Akron Pride parade on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.

Akron bursts with color during inaugural LGBTQ Pride festival

Lyric Aquino
August 26, 2017
Hal Walker and David Hassler perform a song at the 16th annual Giving Voice poetry event, hosted by the Wick Poetry Center. Third through 12th-grade students attended the poetry reading, and shared the work they created in collaboration with Kent State students in the Wick Outreach Program.

Wick Poetry Center encourages young poets at annual Giving Voice event

Lyric Aquino
May 3, 2017
Jimmy Bufalino is a senior flight technology major and is one of a dozen or so other pilots who are giving visitors rides in small aircraft at the 20th Kent State Aeronautics Fair Saturday Sept. 10, 2016.

Flight degrees delayed by instructor shortage

Lyric Aquino
April 18, 2017
The crowd watches as awards are given to women who have had the role of a mother, a mentor or a muse. The event in the KSU ballroom on April 4, 2017, Mothers, Mentors and Muses, is the eighth annual fundraiser that honors and recognizes females who have made a positive difference in the community.

Mothers, Mentors and Muses reception honors 46 women

Lyric Aquino
April 4, 2017

Wick Poetry Center hosts reading for scholarship winners, students

Lyric Aquino
March 22, 2017
Kent State Women’s Empowerment Conference participants “squirrel squat” for a group photo on Saturday, March 18, 2017.

Women’s Empowerment Conference sparks discussion, inspires women

Lyric Aquino
March 18, 2017
Poet Lesley Jenike reads selected works from her collection as part of the Wick Poetry Center's Reading Series in the Student Center on Thursday, March 9, 2017.

Prize-winning poet brings eeriness to KSU

Lyric Aquino
March 9, 2017
Lyric Aquino Scientista advisor Robin Sellinger presenting an award with Parastoo Maleki , the Scientista president to one out of three winners, Zeinab Parsouzi at the Scientista Symposium on March 8th, 2017.

Scientista orgnization hosts research symposium, empowers women

Lyric Aquino
March 8, 2017
Turning Green co-founder Erin Schrode speaks in the Kent Governance Chambers on Thursday, March 2, 2017. 

Speaker inspires students to be active in environment, politics

Lyric Aquino
March 2, 2017
Kent State alumna, Cassie Phillips, stands next to one of her pieces that she showcased at the Women's Symposium on Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Kent State Library Hosts 4th Annual Women’s Leadership Symposium

Lyric Aquino
March 1, 2017
Jan Radar and Diana Ryman, attendees of the Women's Center's Quilling Workshop, put their skills to work during the event on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. 

Women’s Center holds quilling workshop and Native American discussion

Lyric Aquino
February 8, 2017

Kent Conference Center showcases artwork from Kent State alumni, artist and CEO Laurence Armstrong

Lyric Aquino
February 4, 2017
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