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Kent State to offer free eating disorder screenings

Gershon Harrell General assignment reporter • February 18, 2020

Kent State will offer free eating disorder screenings for National Eating Disorders Screening Day in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Thursday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.Students will have the opportunity...

Phi Beta Sigma to host Stroll-Off

Malcolm Murray • March 17, 2017

Phi Beta Sigma Inc. will host its first Greek Stroll-Off Saturday, March 18, in the Kent State Student Center Ballroom.Phi Beta Sigma Secretary Franklin Chesney said the show will start at 7:14 p.m. —...

USG announces speakers for February TEDx event

Benjamin VanHoose • January 9, 2017

Big ideas and inspirational minds will fill Kent State's Student Center next month.The Undergraduate Student Government announced the speakers for its TEDx conference, scheduled for Feb. 18 in the Student...

Kent State celebrates Women’s History Month

Nicholas Garisto • February 29, 2016

Kent State’s Women’s Center, alongside other campus organizations, are holding events throughout the month to explore the history and impact of women at Kent State as well as the world at large.These...

Cox recounts identity and gender transition

Brittany Rees • November 6, 2014

Through the telling of her personal experiences with shame, suicide and hate speech, actor and advocate Laverne Cox told students the night of Wednesday, Nov. 5 that in order to become truly just and nondiscriminatory,...

Former female college football player discusses gender inequality in sports

Jamie Brian • October 29, 2014

Katie Hnida, the first woman to play Division I college football, told students about her struggle with harassment on and off of the field in the ballroom Wednesday night.“I grew up a huge football fan,...

Reception to honor Lefton set for Friday

Elizabeth Randolph • March 31, 2014

A reception will be held this Friday to honor retiring President Lester Lefton, who announced last year that he will retire this July.The Board of Trustees is hosting the event, which will be held in the...