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Stater reporter Katie Young spent yesterday covering FlashFest 2009 from the M.A.C. Center. These are her observations. (2) comments
Police and rescue crews are searching for the body of an 18-year-old male from Akron after two friends watched as he apparently drowned in the lake at West Branch State Park. (0) comments
WATCH user submitted from College Fest. (2) comments
KASA celebrates African heritage
Last night, students and faculty packed the Student Center Ballroom to see African culture with their own eyes. After the dancing, female models of all backgrounds and skin tones worked the runway and fashioned brocades from Guinea, Senegal. Other women wore urbas and ashoks, and the men modeled dashikis.
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Some call it the mini-marathon. But 13.1 miles sounds like anything but mini. This weekend, sports reporters Pam Crimbchin, Chris Gates and Josh Johnston will find out exactly what it's like to run a half-marathon. While Pam heads south to compete in the Columbus Marathon tomorrow morning, Chris and Josh will go east on I-76 for Sunday's Pittsburgh Marathon. (1) comment
During her visit to Kent State Thursday, Judy Pearson, a College of Communication and Information dean candidate, met with a small group of communication studies graduate and doctoral students for a question and answer session in the Moulton Hall ballroom. (0) comments
VIEW the very best in photos from this week's papers.
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The most important thing I have learned in my five years at Kent State is that life is not easy. Classes can be hard, teachers can be difficult and sometimes there is just not enough time in the day to get everything done. With that, though, I have learned that it is all worth it, especially once you start working toward something you love. (1) comment
Lester Lefton's weekly message to students. (1) comment
As Neil Dukes hangs clothing racks on the wall, passersby keep stopping and staring at the airbrushed T-shirt taped to the inside of the storefront window. On the shirt is the silhouette of a twisted-limbed tree backlit by a hot pink and orange sunset. The words "Tree City Clothing" frame the image. (2) comments
Manager Kevin Grace wanted to make rock band Red Sun Rising's last concert in Kent different than the rest. "A show's a show," the junior exploratory major said. "We got to make money. What else can we do besides a show?" (2) comments
The Robin Hood is hosting its first annual Hoodstock music festival Saturday. Doors open at 4 p.m., with the first band kicking off at 5 p.m. and the last act going well into the morning hours after the bar closes. Tickets are $5 for individuals 21 and over, and $7 for others. (0) comments
Law enforcement and city officials are taking a proactive approach this weekend for the Drinkin' on North Lincoln and Shermania parties in hopes of preventing an incident like last weekend's College Fest. (0) comments
When Ann Rutherford found out David Selznick was producing the movie version of "Gone With the Wind," she made it her job to make sure he did it right. The year was 1939, in the midst of Hollywood's Golden Age, and it was custom for makeup artists to pluck out women's eyebrows and draw them back on. (0) comments
Kent officials said the total cost of damage to city property during last weekend's College Fest activities on College Avenue was $5,392. (1) comment
Gov. Ted Strickland visited Kent yesterday to present his plan for education reform, pushing for changes in testing requirements, a longer school year and an increased partnership between the education system and private businesses. (1) comment
More people arrested at Saturday night's College Fest riots were arraigned yesterday at Portage County Municipal Court, including 18 people who were charged with failure to disperse. (6) comments
Kent Anti-Racist Action, PRIDE! Kent, Women's Liberation Collective, Bash Back! and Kent Roosevelt High School Gay Straight Alliance are holding a conference against homophobia from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday in rooms 315 and 316 of the Student Center. (0) comments
In yesterday's Daily Kent Stater, it was reported in a profile about Professor Laura Davis that students were daring the guardsmen to fire again after the shootings on May 4, 1970. Davis did not say this. (0) comments
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