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Conflicts arise between Greek Village, Parking Services

Alex Tinline October 18, 2017

Parking spaces across campus are constantly in high demand, but to a select few students, the limited spaces have even followed them home.The Greek Village parking lot, which is located directly in front...

Greek life members wrap up Hazing Prevention week with award winning speaker

Miranda Marinello September 23, 2017

The academic year has just begun, yet already hazing has allegedly lead to two deaths nationwide — a figure given by Michelle Guobadia, the Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University...

Sigma Chi chapter president, Jimmy Gross, talks to Fox 8 news after a vandalism incident which occurred early Monday morning. Tues. Jan, 19, 2016.

Kent State fraternity house vandalized

Ian Flickinger & Stephen Means January 19, 2016

The brothers of a Kent State fraternity returned home Sunday night to find their Main Street house vandalized.An unknown intruder broke into a basement window and spray painted the "n-word" on the wall...

Open door policy brings new fraternities to campus

Kayla Sturm December 9, 2015

The Greek life community at Kent State added a new fraternity called Phi Kappa Psi this semester.“We, as a fraternal community, cannot say no to fraternities because of our open-door policy,” said...

New fraternity makes its mark on Kent’s campus

Zabrina Hvostal April 19, 2015

Alpha Sigma Phi, which started Fall 2014 as a student organization, has now become a fraternity after recruiting and initiating 27 new members this semester.Zach Weidensaul, president of Alpha Sigma Phi,...

Our View: Actions of a few

KS Editors March 15, 2015

Summary: Greek life as a whole should not be held responsible for comments or opinions made by individual organizations within the community.Last Thursday, we discussed the recent complications of the...

Our View: SAE chants not reflective of work done on our campus

KS Editors March 11, 2015

Summary: After the leaked video of University of Oklahoma surfaced, many blamed the entire fraternity of SAE, but this blame is unwarranted and should not be applied to Kent State’s chapter — or other...

Oklahoma fraternity under fire for racial remarks

Julie Selby March 9, 2015

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Cold Temps, Colder Beer: Despite the cold and heavy snowfall, students made time (and a table) to have fun outdoors

Rachael Le Goubin February 23, 2015

As snow pelted Northeast Ohio on Saturday, some college students got create with what they could do with the excess snow. Members of a fraternity house on College Avenue used the heavy snow to build a...

Greek Music Awards to raise money for charity

Zabrina Hvostal February 11, 2015

Kappa Sigma’s 5th Annual Greek Music Awards will be held this Friday at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.The GMAs are Kappa Sigma’s big philanthropy for the spring semester to raise money for...

Kent State Greek chapters awarded for academic success

Zabrina Hvostal January 25, 2015

Two Greek Kent State chapters were recognized as the top grade performers for fall 2014.For the Panhellenic council, Delta Zeta was awarded the highest overall GPA, which was an average of 3.25. As for...

Michelle Guobadia asks Carmela Mostardi, junior finance major and a member of Chi Omega, what pledging is during her discussion on hazing to the Kent State Greek Community in the Student Center Ballroom Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014.

Kent State Greek life learning from mistakes

Erin Zaranec September 30, 2014

The first slide of Michelle Guobadia’s presentation read “Who is this woman and why is she so cool?”  Tuesday, Sept. 23 in the Student Center Ballroom. The Ballroom was filled with members of Kent...