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Women’s Center begins ‘Masculinity Project’ with panel discussion

Rachel Duthie October 13, 2015

The Kent State Women’s Center presented the film “The Mask You Live In” and a following panel discussion in the KIVA on Tuesday evening to kick off the organization’s semester-long “Masculinity...

Zeta Phi Beta to host benefit concert for Black Lives Matter

Daria Gaither October 13, 2015

Kent State’s Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. will be hosting the “Our Time is Now" Benefit Concert on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Kiva to raise awareness about the #blacklivesmatter movement.The event is...

Speaker to address threats to freedom at KIVA Saturday

Tess Cottom October 12, 2015

Kent State plans to hold a speech from Richard Stallman addressing the threats to freedom in a digital society at the Kiva Saturday from 1-3 p.m.Stallman is a software freedom activist and the main author...

Air Force ROTC Detachment 630 to commission five cadets

Sky Fought April 29, 2015

After four years of hard work and dedication, Air Force Detachment 630 will commission five cadets at the end of this semester. Dedicated to their mission, Detachment 630 wants to develop quality leaders...

Talent showcase to promote cultural awareness

Dara Sander April 8, 2015

The Dunya Jeane Student Organization will present the “Explosion of Culture Talent Showcase” on Monday, April 13 at 7:15 p.m. in the Kiva. There will be poetry, singing, traditional dancing and fashion...

Freedom Rider Joan Mulholland speaking to an audience at the KIVA. Mulholland and her son, Loki (not pictured) spoke about her time as a Freedom Rider during the American Civil Rights movement. March 9, 2015.

Freedom Rider recounts fight against segregation

Lydia Taylor March 9, 2015

A Freedom Rider who participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Joan Mulholland, spoke about her experiences in the Kiva Monday night.The Freedom Riders took many bus trips throughout the South...

Joel Beinin, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University speaks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank in the Kiva on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Kent State discusses Israeli-Palestine conflict

Skye McEowen March 3, 2015

Among the many conflicts in the world, nearly all of them have a polarizing effect on the direct population they concern. The conflict between Israel and Palestine is no exception.“It is one of the most...

The audience claps and sings along to singer/speaker Johnathan Celestin in the Kiva on Feb. 25, 2015 during Nation Eating Disorders Awareness week. Celestin presented his Beauty Redefined: Be-You-Tiful campaign. The event was presented by Body Acceptance Movement and funded by Undergraduate Student Government.

Kent State is ‘Be-You-Tiful’

Lydia Taylor February 25, 2015

“Beauty Redefined: Be-You-Tiful,” an event that supported National Eating Disorders Awareness week, left sophomore fashion design student Monie Lewis saying, “I am beautiful and I’m going to say...

Courtesy of Sister Outsider Poetry

Poetry deepens the sisterly bonds

Mark Oprea February 3, 2015

They resist. They exist. And they have a lot to say about injustice.Two of the most popular female performance poets alive can be found in Sister Outsider, a power poetry duo comprised of writer-activists...

Activist Lisa Shannon speaks on her efforts to help the women in the Congo during her lecture "Do It Yourself World Leadership" in the Kiva on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014.

Women’s activist Lisa Shannon shares story of congo war

Olivia Young November 18, 2014

It started with Oprah and led to the war-torn country of the Congo. Lisa Shannon, a women’s activist and grassroots campaign organizer, told an audience of nearly 70 on Tuesday in the Kiva that her “make-a-difference”...

"Orange Is the New Black" cast member and transgender advocate Laverne Cox, speaks in Kent Student Center Ballroom for her “Ain’t I A Woman: My Journey to Womanhood” presentation on November 5, 2014.

Cox recounts identity and gender transition

Brittany Rees November 5, 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,...

Junior applied communications major Megan Carrasco was elected as the senator-at-large for USG on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.

USG approves new senator-at-large

Erica Batyko October 29, 2014

Undergraduate Student Government approved Megan Carrasco as the new senator-at-large during its Oct. 29 meeting.Carrasco is a junior applied communications major with minors in Spanish and public relations....