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Rockwell Hall is home to the fashion students at Kent State.

Students, professors await this year’s looks for the Met Gala

Destiny Torres, Reporter May 7, 2024

The Met Gala, one of the most anticipated and prestigious fashion and fundraising events of the year, is approaching May 6.  The Met Gala is a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Northeast Ohio band stays true to themselves, their music

Northeast Ohio band stays true to themselves, their music

Destiny Torres, Reporter April 6, 2024

One thing about People in the Daytime, an "eclectic" Northeast Ohio band, is that they aren’t afraid to be who they are. After a month-long tour, Evan Shonauer, Owen Barba, John Polace and Anthony Liotta...

Dozens of community members protest for Palestine in Cleveland

Destiny Torres, Reporter January 26, 2024

Traffic was stopped near the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Friday, as a Pro-Palestinian march called for a permanent ceasefire to the Israeli-Hamas war and for city representatives to speak...

(From left to right) Rocky Horror cast members Audrey Warren, Sphrintze and Cassius perform Saturday.

Community members come to Kent Stage in antici…pation for Rocky Horror Picture Show

Destiny Torres, Digital Tech January 22, 2024

Virgins and non-virgins alike came to Kent Stage Jan. 20 as the theater put on its first production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show of the year. “The Kent Stage had a previous Rocky Horror cast,...

Canva Illustration by Grace Clarke

OPINION: From the mind of a mentally ill person

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer January 16, 2024

“Something is wrong with me. My chest feels hollow, I don’t want to get out of bed, I don’t think I wanna be here anymore.” - An excerpt from my diary at 14. I am mentally ill. This is something...

KentWired Illustration by Gabrielle Lutz

OPINION: Don’t support the art if you can’t support the artist

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer November 29, 2023

I used to be the biggest fan of Harry Potter. I read all of the books, watched the movies multiple times and begged my mom to buy me every piece of merchandise possible. That was until the news came out...

Photo Courtesy of Destiny Torres.

OPINION: Parasocial relationships aren’t always unhealthy

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer November 14, 2023

Were you sad that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up in August? Did your definition of love falter? Or did you hate that she went off to date Matty Healy? Were you a little too excited when Zendaya and...

Canva Illustration by Grace Clarke

OPINION: Why you should believe in soulmates

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer October 18, 2023

Let’s talk about love. I’m not talking about that fleeting feeling you felt for your high school sweetheart, but the real kind. The kind that makes your heart flutter and your smile widen just thinking...

Campus preacher Cindy Smock speaks to a gathered crowd at Kent States Risman Plaza on Sept. 26, 2023.

Students share concerns on messages from TikTok campus preacher ‘Sister Cindy’

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer September 27, 2023

Editor’s note: This article contains language readers may find offensive.  While calling women ‘sluts’ and reading from a Bible plastered with the words “HO NO MO,” Cindy Smock, a campus...

TikTok campus preacher ‘Sister Cindy’ attracts crowd of over 100 people to Risman Plaza

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer September 25, 2023

Cindy Smock, a campus preacher known as "Sister Cindy," drew large crowds to Risman Plaza Monday with her vulgar and derogatory language, opposition to premarital sex and feminism, discussions on sexuality...

In memory of Maj Ragain, the park outside of the Wick Poetry Center has been renamed to the Maj Ragain Poetry Park as of Sept. 14, 2023.

Wick Poetry Center dedicates park in memory of Maj Ragain

Destiny Torres, Opinion Writer September 15, 2023

Poetry was in the air Thursday night as the Wick Poetry Center dedicated a park to deceased faculty member and poet, Maj Ragain. “Remember not to leave this world without ceremony,” David Hassler,...

First-year students get settled into college life

Destiny Torres, Reporter August 21, 2023

Students lugging boxes, clothes and other essentials poured onto campus last week as first year students embarked on a new adventure: moving into their first college dorms.  For some, moving into a...