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A group poses for a photo after tossing around a football in Kent, Ohio, on Summit Street, March 16, 2019. Editor's Note: Everybody in this photo is over 21. 

Best of Kent: best event/festival

First place: Fake Paddy's Day Typically held the week before St. Patrick's Day, Fake Paddy's Day is a celebration that occurs in many college towns across the United States. According to KSNT.com, Fake...

Audience watches various short films at the Kent Stage Saturday evening.

Best of Kent: places to hear live music

First Place - Kent Stage Located on E. Main Street downtown, the  Kent Stage is home to many unique annual events such as the monthly Rocky Horror Picture Show, the January film festival and the Kent...

Students study on the fourth floor of the University Library on Friday, April 7, 2017. FILE.

Best of Kent: Study Spaces

Best of Kent 2020Winner: University LibraryFor the eighth year in a row, University Library is a favorite for studying. It hosts a variety of resources for students, including computer labs, study spaces...

Dane Paris, senator of the Honors College candidate for USG. 

Candidates present new ideas and platforms at USG debate

Annie Zwisler Reporter March 5, 2020

There were no winners or losers Wednesday night as USG candidates vowed to implement more mental health resources, environmental protection and better restrooms for Kent State students at the annual USG...

Norm is the best barber around!

One step at a time: Norm

I will never forget the first time my brother Mitchell and I walked into Jason’s Barber Shop in Acorn Alley in Kent. Jason’s is a one of a kind establishment. Tons of sports apparel fill the walls...

Downtown Kent’s First Pride Festival ‘Rainbow Weekend’ to take place in March

Theresa Lovrak Reporter February 14, 2020

Main Street Kent is preparing for its inaugural Rainbow Weekend which will be a celebration festival of the LGBTQ+ community.  This event will be held downtown on the weekend of March 6 and 7. Various...

Sophomore guard Hannah Young (32) drives the ball during the women’s basketball game on Feb. 12, 2020 against the the University of Akron. Kent State won the game 60-55.

Kent State victorious over Akron on the road

Kathryn Rajnicek Sports reporter February 13, 2020

With 1:39 to go in the game, sophomore guard Hannah Young grabbed her sixth offensive rebound and dished it out to sophomore forward Lindsey Thall who drained the clutch triple to put Kent State up 54-53...

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus virus was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019.

Kent State announces travel restriction to China

Kent State announced Monday a temporary restriction on university-sponsored travel to China because of the 2019 novel coronavirus. In an email sent to the Kent community, interim Senior Vice President...

The expected look of the Hasawai Building. 

6-Story Multipurpose Building Comes to Kent

Theresa Lovrak Reporter February 1, 2020

Scheduled to come to Kent in the summer of 2021 will be an all-new multipurpose building. This new project will be six stories tall and sit at the corner of Erie St and Franklin Ave. What was previously...

College students are often faced with making a crucial decision when trying to find their first home away from home. Knowing the pros and cons of renting a house versus an apartment can be a difficult assessment.

How to choose between renting a house versus an apartment

Gianna Consenti January 26, 2020

College students are often faced with making a crucial decision. For students who start their higher-learning experience living in a dorm, eventually they are charged with choosing to either continue to...

Yingfei Jiang

Kent State graduate student publishes research paper on dual-mode smart window

Every person who has ever gotten inside a car that’s been sitting in the sun for a period of time knows the annoying, dreaded pain that follows when they sit down on the hot car seat. It can be a similar...

End of semester drag show hosted by PRIDE! Kent

Kennedi Combs Diversity reporter December 5, 2019

PRIDE! Kent put on an amateur drag show for Kent State students Wednesday night in the Kiva. The show, showing pride for the LGBTQ+ community, consisted of four students dressed in drag singing and dancing...

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