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Kyle Rittenhouse talks to the audience about his experience in Kenosha, WI, on April 16, 2024.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We must deal with the issue of people owning more sophisticated weapons

Joe Bialek April 19, 2024

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Obviously...

Letter to the Editor: Thank you to Delta Gamma

Carol Pozuc September 1, 2020

A shoutout to the 27 sisters of Delta Gamma sorority who put in 70 volunteer hours at the Kent United Methodist Church Trash and Treasure rummage sale Aug. 28 and 29. In addition, they posted flyers around...

Letter to the Editor: Kent State University: ‘Quarterback U’

Jake Adams February 7, 2018

Kent State football has been rough.Over the last five years, the team has won just 14 games, which calculates to 2.8 wins per season.It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong. Is Kent State not...

Letter to the Editor: ‘Right-leaning students still feel unheard in wake of Trump presidency’

Samantha Durr April 19, 2017

On behalf of Black United Students, I am writing this letter to show our solidarity with PRIDE! Kent (People Respecting Identity, Diversity and Equality), as well as address the misrepresentation of various...

Letter to the editor: Board of Trustees chair responds to Stater editorial

Dennis E. Eckart December 16, 2015

To The Editor:Your recent editorial entitled “Warren deserved bonus, but process is flawed” is replete with its own set of flaws and misunderstandings.1. There is nothing “secretive” about the...

Letter to the Editor: Masculinity’s role in pop culture, history

Dr. Julio Cesar Pino October 20, 2015

Editor’s note: This is in response to Amanda Anastasia Paniagua's opinion piece titled "A rebuttal, toxic masculinity" published on Oct. 18, 2015.Dear Editor:First, permit me to send out mucho and macho...

Letter to the Editor: In response to articles covering the Strubbe audio tape recording of 1970 Kent State shootings

Joe Bialek May 1, 2015

Listening to the Strubbe audio tape recording of what transpired that fatal day (May 4, 1970), one can fairly easily trace the sequence of events.What prompted the guardsmen to fire appears to be their...

Letter to the Editor

Grace Goodluck April 29, 2015

Dear Editor,Ohio has recently been falling behind in how much the state invests in higher education. From 2006 to 2012, the state appropriation for higher education per student has declined by 30.9 percent,...

Letter to the Editor: Kent Dance Ensemble

Geoff Broadhead April 6, 2015

Dear Editor,I join those who congratulate the KSU Dance Division's Kent Dance Ensemble for many years of performance excellence. Yet the Ensemble came into being 27 years ago, not 25.It was in 1988 when...

Letter to the Editor

Frank Drellishak March 10, 2015

As the icepack melts and students emerge as butterflies spreading their wings, for the first time being freed of their winter cocoons and of their fear of the outside world — if only temporarily —...

Letter to the Editor: A Challenge of Acceptance

Daniel Grueber February 22, 2015

I had the pleasure of attending the recent candlelight vigil that was created to show solidarity with the victims of Chapel Hill. After the initial moment of silence, the gathering proceeded into the Student...

Letter to the Editor

Keith S. Lloyd December 8, 2014

Dear Editors of the Kent Stater,This letter is in response to your recent article, “A good class to B in.”As a composition professor for 26 years, 12 in the KSU system, I find the recent article, “A...