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OUR VIEW: We demand an end to school shootings

OUR VIEW: We demand an end to school shootings

How many more? How many more students have to die? How many more school shootings need to happen? When will we see change? As of Thursday, there have been 84 mass shootings in the United States...

Hot take: Valentine's Day is overrated

Hot take: Valentine’s Day is overrated

Grace Springer, General Assignment Editor February 9, 2023

Erykah Lofton, library and information science graduate student Lofton is very open about their distaste for Valentine’s Day. They see Valentine’s Day as a performative holiday where people in...

The Kent State Student Section cheers on the Golden Flash football team during the Homecoming game. The men won against Ohio University 31-24.

Food, fun and Flashes as thousands celebrate homecoming at Dix Stadium

Katherine Masko, Social Media Manager October 1, 2022

Hot dogs on grills, students in navy blue and alumni hanging out can only mean one thing: homecoming. Tables, tents and grills packed Dix Stadium parking lot Saturday while music blared from different...

Two award winners embrace after the first in-person fashion show since Covid hit on Friday, April 29.

Twelve fashion design seniors take home awards Friday night

Katherine Masko, Reporter April 30, 2022

Designs created as a tribute to their home country and fashions made for people with nonverbal autism were some of the chosen collections for awards given at Friday’s School of Fashion award ceremony.   Twelve...

T-shirts decorated by allies and victims of sexual violence to bring awareness were hung up on April 27 and 28 in the student center.

T-shirts displayed to bring awareness to sexual violence

Katherine Masko, Reporter April 29, 2022

Editor's Note: The following article contains discussions of sexual violence, assault and incest.  T-shirts on a clothesline hung in the student center Wednesday April 27 and Thursday April 28 symbolize...

Protest sexual assault by wearing denim April 27

Protest sexual assault by wearing denim April 27

Katherine Masko, Reporter April 23, 2022

Kent State encourages students to fight back against sexual assault by wearing denim clothing on April 27  in solidarity with Denim Day. Denim Day started in 1999 after the Italian High Court acquitted...

Top 7 Kent State workouts

Madison Goerl, Reporter April 21, 2022

Exercise rates have continued to drop even after a 2018 study that found only 23% of adults in the U.S. meet physical activity guidelines. With a rise in nationwide obesity rates, the U.S. faces a greater...

Graduate assistant, Olivia Grahman, hands out carnation flowers to women attending the International Women's Day event inside the Center for Undergraduate Excellence on Mar. 8, 2022.

Women share international disparities on International Women’s Day

Katherine Masko, Reporter March 9, 2022

Five women on the International Women’s Day panel compared gender inequality, women’s rights and educational access in the country they represented Tuesday. When asked if there is sex education...

Kent State's women discuss breaking gender bias

Kent State’s women discuss breaking gender bias

Katherine Masko, Reporter March 8, 2022

The hustle and bustle of Kent State’s campus is well known to many students. They have heard vibrant conversations while waiting for coffee at Starbucks or laughter from classmates as class is about...