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Kent State student walking through the grass on campus wearing UGGs on Feb. 13, 2025.

Braving the cold in style: UGGs take over college campuses

Robyn Taylor, Reporter February 25, 2025

Kent State students are finding themselves balancing style and safety. While icy conditions increase the risk of slips, many students are choosing fashionable footwear like UGGs, despite warnings about...

Snow covers walkways near benches outside the John Elliot Center for Architecture and Enviromental Design building on Jan. 29, 2025.

Campus in the cold: How students handle snowy challenges

Savannah Carroll, Reporter February 4, 2025

Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil officially predicted six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2. Winter storms will continue to cover Kent State’s campus with sheets of...

Plow tracks between Eastway and the MACC covered with fresh snow during the campus closure on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.

Snowfall presents issues for Kent State students navigating on and off campus

Not many people were walking around campus Thursday afternoon as frigid winds started to pick up and snow continued to fall. In preparation for the impending storm, the university canceled classes for...

TV2 News

TV2 News: Feb. 16, 2016

February 16, 2016

TV2's Michael Bratton and Paige Katrinchak anchored today's newscast with a report on the slick weather conditions from this morning, a live report of the road conditions for tonight, and a look at Portage...

Snow day gives students winter reprieve

Katie Chilson February 2, 2015

Freshman finance major Brycen Wise lays out in an attempt to catch the football in the endzone during a pick-up game on Centennial Field on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Kent State and much of Northeast Ohio...

Robert Carroll demonstrates how a TV2 weather cast voiceover is usually recorded, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in a Franklin Hall audio lab.

Predicting Play Days

Erin Zaranec February 19, 2014

One thing seems to make facing the bitter cold at the start of spring semester a little more bearable: The hope of snow days. Somehow, weeks of bundling up and trudging to class with bright red noses seem...