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OPINION: Listening isn’t about having the answers

Cameron Gorman February 17, 2019

Growing with yourself is strange. You start to understand things that a younger version of you might not have or might have overlooked entirely. Why don’t you like the beach? Well, maybe 21-year-old...

Clara Varndell, a sophomore public health major, adjusts her "condom fairy" wings during Condoms on the K Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. The event kicked off Kent Interhall Council's annual Sex Week.

Let’s talk about sex — and how young people might be having less of it

Nicholas Hunter February 13, 2019

Experts say dating apps could be killing your sex driveAt Kent State, we’re not shy about sex.We’ve had Sex Week on campus in previous years, which included Sextoberfest, Condoms on the K, a “Sex...

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OPINION: Love in the time of PrEP

Cameron Gorman February 13, 2019

While we were sitting in the newsroom and brainstorming column ideas for this paper, Editor-in-Chief Valerie Royzman brought up an interesting topic for a Valentine’s Day edition. “You guys could write...

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OPINION: The turning of a Valentine’s Day hater

Cameron Gorman February 3, 2019

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a Valentine’s Day hater. The kind of kid who would throw away her Valentine’s mailbox because it was stupid to compare who was getting the most cards. The...

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REFLECTION: Save it for a snowy day

Cameron Gorman January 27, 2019

The summer has a way of making things hazy. It certainly did with this past one, for me. Maybe the heat finally got to my head, or the amount of pizza I was eating made its way into my brain. Either way,...

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OPINION: As journalists lose their jobs, we need you to care

Nicholas Hunter January 27, 2019

This week, a lot of journalists lost their jobs.Gannett, a media company that owns more than 100 newspapers across the United States, laid off a slew of journalists from a number of media outlets, including...

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REFLECTION: Scars healed, but not gone

Cameron Gorman January 23, 2019

When I look down at my left hand, I see the usual to someone with a critical eye. My fingers are a little fat, and most rings don’t fit over them. I have a light dusting of hair on the first segment...

Research applications, funding on hold during shutdown (INCLUDE IN PACKAGE)

Nicholas Hunter January 23, 2019

Shutdown fact sheet:Information from House Appropriations Committee fact sheet.What is the shutdown? Because a budget appropriations bill has not been passed by Congress, several federal government agencies...

Kent State faculty union shows support for possible Wright State strike

Nicholas Hunter January 15, 2019

The American Association of University Professors-KSU (AAUP-KSU) union released a letter in support of faculty at Wright State University (WSU), who may begin striking Jan. 22.After nearly two years of...

Faculty Senate chair Deb Smith speaks during the first meeting of the semester on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018.

Faculty union requests fact-finder to move contract negotiations forward

Nicholas Hunter January 15, 2019

HOW FACT-FINDERS WORK1.) The State Employee Relations Board will produce a list of five fact-finding agencies for the university and union to consider2.) Both sides will come together and agree on an agency...

Contract dispute between faculty union, university hits slow point over winter break

Nicholas Hunter January 13, 2019

The university’s tenured and tenure-track faculty will begin the semester without a new contract.Despite mediation sessions Dec. 11 and 17, Kent State’s tenure and tenure-track faculty union and the...

OPINION: To ally without flattening

Cameron Gorman January 10, 2019

Love is a strong, deeply good thing. It is the catalyst for so much selflessness in the world, for so much red positivity. Of course, like so many other things that are good at their roots, this doesn’t...

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