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Karen Linder, former Kent State softball coach.

Softball coach receives payment after resignation

Karen Linder Update from KentWired.com on Vimeo.When former Kent State softball coach Karen Linder resigned in August, she was paid a percentage of her salary, according to her resignation letter.Linder...

Ty Sugick

The famous Jameis payout

Ty Sugick January 26, 2016

News broke on Monday afternoon that Florida State University agreed to pay out $950,000 to Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused former Seminoles football star Jameis Winston of sexual assault. Now why...

Kent State receives grant for sexual assault prevention

Ian Flickinger January 18, 2016

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine presented Kent State with more than $90,000 to improve campus sexual assault victim services.The grant comes from a $3 million federal Victims of Crime Act fund allocated...

A Call for Help

A call for help: University says more students reporting sexual assaults

Ian Flickinger November 18, 2015

Three months ago, Sarah* matched with a man on Tinder who stood out from all the rest. He seemed “special.” He took interest in her life, listened when she talked and cared about her family. As the...

A Call for Help

A call for help: University says more students reporting sexual assaults (WRONG)

Ian Flickinger November 17, 2015

Three months ago, Sarah* matched with a man on Tinder who stood out from all the rest. He seemed “special.” He took interest in her life, listened when she talked and cared about her family. As the...

Guest column: What we talk about when we talk about rape

Carol Tavris, Los Angeles Times October 7, 2015

When I was a young social psychologist and feminist in the 1970s, I never imagined that I would be asked to testify for the defense in a rape case. Rape laws at the time still included the "marital rape...

Students toss papers with names of perpetrators into a fire outside of the M.A.C. Center during Take Back the Night on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

Sexual and relationship violence support services host take back the night march

Carson Kleinman October 6, 2015

More than 50 students gathered at the M.A.C. Center to join the Take Back The Night vigil and march on Monday.Take Back The Night is an event hosted by the office of Sexual & Relationship Violence...

Opinon: Why colleges should report sex crimes, pronto, to police and prosecutors

Chicago Tribune August 31, 2015

Sexual assault has doubtlessly occurred on college campuses at least as long as there have been coeducational institutions.But only in recent years have schools, students and parents begun to grasp just...

Green Dot to increase training in violence prevention

Brittany Anderson July 9, 2015

The Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services drives the nationwide Green Dot Bystander Program to Kent State, with hopes of doubling the amount of people trained in violence prevention.In...

Carley Hull is a senior magazine journalism major and a columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact her at chull9@kent.edu.

Opinion: Are there skeletons in Bill Cosby’s closet or fame-hungry accusers?

Carley Hull November 17, 2014

The quintessential sitcom dad, Bill Cosby, hasn’t been in the news for his fatherly persona, but instead has come under scrutiny for possibly being a rapist. After comedian Hannibal Buress accused Cosby...

Our view: Victim-blaming is not taking responsibility

KS Editors October 26, 2014

Saturday night was Kent Halloween, the night when students from Kent State and other northeast Ohio universities flock to downtown Kent dressed in costume, or lack thereof. Halloween is the time for fun...

Green Dot Movement

Map your ‘Green Dot Moment’

Erin Zaranec September 23, 2014

Red dots fill infographics of maps, each one representing some type of horror — crimes, diseases, death or other depressing statistics. Kent State’s Green Dot program aims to fill the map of our community...