LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM Thursday, April 15, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Sunny HI 80, LO 59 DAILY KENT STATER THE CENTENNIAL SERIES Jurors acquaint themselves with scene of the crime PHOTOS BY TESSA BARGAINNIER | DAILY KENT STATER LEFT: Adrian Barker, on trial for the murder of Christopher Kernich, and his defense attorneys, Brian Murray and Scott Michael Lear, stand in the center of Main Street Wednesday afternoon, watching as the jury is shown the crime location. RIGHT: Adrian Barker watches as the jury is shown the crime scene at the 200 block of East Main Street. Prosecution to begin case today in Barker trial Denver Collins Samantha Laros Daily Kent Stater The prosecution will begin calling witnesses today in the trial of Adrian Barker at the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna. Barker is charged with two counts of murder in con- nection with the fatal assault of Kent State student Chris- topher Kernich. During yesterday’s opening arguments, friends and family of Kernich observed tearfully from the back row of the court- room as prosecuting attorney Connie Lewandowski accused Barker of committing a “hate- ful, ugly act of violence” against Kernich. Jury selection was finalized around 1 p.m., and after a short break, jurors were bused to the scene of the crime. While police blocked off the 200 block of Main Street, the bai- liff showed jurors the fra- ternities and businesses in the area to familiarize them with the scene to help them better understand evidence as it is presented. The prosecution and defense began opening arguments after the jurors returned. Lewandowski said on the night of the assault Barker, 22, and Ronald Kelly, 20, both of Akron, met up with two female Kent State students at their off- campus apartment and started drinking. Later, they went to a party at a fraternity house. Lewandowski said Barker and Kelly were kicked out of the party at about 2 a.m. and met up with Glen Jefferson, 21, of Men- tor, who was driving a white Honda Civic. At the time Jefferson pulled out of a nearby driveway, Lewandowski said Kernich and three of his friends were walk- ing toward the car from downtown on E. Main St., and a member of Ker- nich’s group yelled “what the hell, you almost hit us.” The car pulled over and an altercation ensued. Lewandowski said eyewitnesses accused Barker of throwing Kernich to the ground, and alleged that both Kelly and Barker kicked him repeatedly. Defense attorney Scott Lear argued that the eyewitness accounts were unreliable because it was dark and many witnesses had been drinking. He added that most of the eyewitnesses said there were two attackers, one in a red shirt and one in a white shirt. Both Barker, who is black, and Jefferson, who is white, were wearing white shirts that night. Lear argued that when police arrived, several wit- nesses pointed to Jefferson as the other attacker. One young woman pointed to him and said, “I saw him, he was the one kicking him.” Lewandowski described witnesses’ reports of Ker- nich’s head hitting the con- crete, and then faced the jury as she stomped on the floor of the courtroom, portraying how the defendant allegedly delivered “curb stomps” to Kernich’s head and ribs, while Kelly allegedly kicked from the other side. She said when EMS arrived, Kernich was “unresponsive,” and as rescuers attempted to place him on the stretcher, he repeatedly vomited, indicating that he was already in a coma. She added that the defen- dant was also seen “attempt- ing to initiate fights with other bystanders.” See BARKER, Page A5 Opening remarks heard yesterday Jessica White Daily Kent Stater For those who heard rumors of no air-conditioning until mid- May: There’s no need to worry. Air conditioning will be on across campus today. Last week, some classrooms were hot because temperatures out- side ranged from 35 to 80 degrees. “Temperatures are so inconsis- tent this time of year, so it’s hard to say when to switch from heat to AC,” said Bob Winkler, assis- tant director of Campus Environ- ment and Operations, adding that because of the complexity of the transition, his team usually waits until April 15, unless temperatures become unbearably high. Winkler said by then, tempera- tures are often warm enough to warrant air conditioning and to keep the water and pipes in the cooling towers from freezing. Cool- ing towers are filled with water and use evaporation to remove heat from inside buildings. Before the switch day, the towers are drained, cleaned and repaired. Air handlers that bring in outside air and carry chilled water for air conditioning are also drained and cleaned with anti- freeze to protect them from cold winter months. Around mid- to late-March, everything is refilled, and chillers inside the cooling towers can be “fired off.” “We actually like hot days some- times so we can test-fire,” Winkler said. “But sometimes it gets risky when temperatures drop the next day. We don’t want pipes to freeze and break — that’s why we stick with the April 15th date,” he said. Some students said they were annoyed with some of the hot classrooms last week, but they said they’re satisfied with the mid-April goal. “The M.A.C. building was awful last week,” said Nikki Gilmore, senior integrated health studies major. “But it could’ve been fixed if someone had opened some windows.” Cold front rolls into campus University turns on air conditioning See AIR, Page A5 Bo Gemmell Daily Kent Stater The Citizens Advisory Com- mittee for the Summit Street Improvement Project met last night to define existing problems with the road and determine the level of service desired after improvement. If the city can produce plans to solve problems of congestion, safety and access management, it will receive 80 percent of the fund- ing through state awards. The city and university agreed to split the remaining 20 percent required for the multi-million dollar project. Increasing service The 20 attendants tentatively agreed to a level of road accessibility and traffic flow that at peak hours would have some restricted move- ment to vehicular traffic, but would still be better than the status quo. URS Corporation, the design firm handling the project, ranked levels of service from A to F, with an A rating being free-flowing traffic and an F causing complete conges- tion. Jeff Noble, Highway Develop- ment Manager for URS, said design- ers generally shoot for level C or D. Members of the committee agreed to level D. Unlike getting a D in a class at Kent State, City Engineer Jim Bowling said this D rating is a good thing. “If we have a level of service D, we don’t consider it a problem,” Bowling said, adding that the intersection of Willow Street and Main Street has a D rating, and this rating would create traffic flow that is better than it is now. According to URS, drivers can expect 30 to 55-second wait times at peak hours during peak times of the year on a level D street. The URS definitions guide stated that “lower demands occur often enough to per- mit clearing, thus preventing exces- sive delay” with level D. Committee defines Summit St. problems Agreement for increased service See SUMMIT , Page A5 Kristine Gill Daily Kent Stater Yesterday, the rock at the front of campus read, “Let us die young or let us live forever. Justice for CK,” in reference to Christopher Kernich’s ongoing murder trial. By the weekend, it will likely be painted over again. There’s no telling how many lay- ers of paint have coated the stone. Since the 1930s, students have tak- en buckets and cans of paint to the front of campus to make their mark on the iconic fixture. As William Golding brought stability to campus during his short term Hildebrand wrote in his book, “A Most Noble Enterprise: The Kent State Story, 1910-2010,” the rock was so much a part of daily cam- pus life that it was “tenderly hefted a safe distance back onto the cam- pus,” when the city widened Main Street in 1972. It was one of many campus traditions preserved or started between 1970 and 1990. In 1981, Hildebrand writes that black squir- rels had “achieved iconic status.” In their honor, the first Black Squirrel Festival was held in Risman Plaza. This past fall, the university cel- ebrated its 29th festival in honor of the pervasive rodent. Student safety became a new concern in the early 80s, “but not because of political social or civil rights unrest,” Hildebrand writes, “but because of human appetites --theft, drugs, rape and violence ... “ Section B The modest beginnings of what would become a full-fledged and student-run campus secu- rity department began. Students with flashlights who were part of a group known as The Volunteer Ambulance Service (VAS) patrolled campus during set times and escorted students to their dorms. And while Hildebrand writes that the majority of those crimes were not of the same character as student protests leading up to May 4, campus and city police had to deal with the new host of crimes. Around that same time, a tradi- tion was lost. The Chestnut Burr had been the campus yearbook published at the end of each semes- ter dedicated to recreating the semester in its pages. Due to finan- cial reasons, it has since become a general interest magazine still pub- lished each semester. The university hadn’t always been on a semester schedule. It had operated on quarters until Presi- dent Brage Golding’s term. Golding came to the univer- sity from San Diego State where he served as president. He was determined to spend only five years setting Kent State on a straight course. “In his assessment of himself he thought there was no job he couldn’t get done in five year’s time,” Hildebrand said. “He had started one university up from scratch and made it very suc- cessful, and brought one in San Diego up from the ropes and he thought he could do the same in Kent even though his task was very formidable.” See CENTENNIAL, Page A5 New president restores the university COURTESY OF KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES KSU President Brage Golding in his office. “ Jefferson was sitting on his car, and police let (him) leave with evidence that could have been on his body or his clothes. SCOTT LEAR DEFENSE ATTORNEY 100 YEARS LOOKING BACK Not your typical picnic: unconventional ideas for the seasonal staple.
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DAILY KENT STATER
THE CENTENNIAL SERIES
Jurors acquaint themselves with scene of the crime
PHOTOS BY TESSA BARGAINNIER | DAILY KENT STATERLEFT: Adrian Barker, on trial for the murder of Christopher Kernich, and his defense attorneys, Brian Murray and Scott Michael Lear, stand in the center of Main Street Wednesday afternoon, watching as the jury is shown the crime location. RIGHT: Adrian Barker watches as the jury is shown the crime scene at the 200 block of East Main Street.
Prosecution to begin case today in Barker trial
Denver CollinsSamantha LarosDaily Kent Stater
The prosecution will begin calling witnesses today in the trial of Adrian Barker at the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna.
Barker is charged with two counts of murder in con-nection with the fatal assault of Kent State student Chris-topher Kernich.
During yesterday’s opening arguments, friends and family of Kernich observed tearfully from the back row of the court-room as prosecuting attorney Connie Lewandowski accused Barker of committing a “hate-ful, ugly act of violence” against Kernich.
Jury selection was finalized around 1 p.m., and after a short break, jurors were bused to the
scene of the crime. While police blocked off the 200 block of Main Street, the bai-liff showed jurors the fra-ternities and b u s i n e s s e s in the area to f a m i l i a r i z e them with the scene to help them better understand evidence as it is presented.
The prosecution and defense began opening arguments after the jurors returned.
Lewandowski said on the night of the assault Barker, 22, and Ronald Kelly, 20, both of Akron, met up with two female Kent State students at their off-campus apartment and started drinking. Later, they went to a party at a fraternity house. Lewandowski said Barker and Kelly were kicked out of the party at about 2 a.m. and met up with Glen Jefferson, 21, of Men-tor, who was driving a white
Honda Civic. A t t h e
time Jefferson p u l l e d o u t of a nearby d r i v e w a y, Lewandowski said Kernich and three of h is f r iends were walk-ing toward the car from downtown on
E. Main St., and a member of Ker-nich’s group yelled “what the hell, you almost hit us.”
The car pulled over and an altercation ensued. Lewandowski said eyewitnesses accused Barker of throwing Kernich to the ground, and alleged that both Kelly and Barker kicked him repeatedly.
Defense attorney Scott Lear argued that the eyewitness accounts were unreliable because it was dark and many witnesses had been drinking. He added that most of the eyewitnesses said there were two attackers, one in a red shirt and one in a white shirt. Both Barker, who is black, and Jefferson, who
is white, were wearing white shirts that night.
Lear argued that when police arrived, several wit-nesses pointed to Jefferson as the other attacker. One young woman pointed to him and said, “I saw him, he was the one kicking him.”
Lewandowski described witnesses’ reports of Ker-nich’s head hitting the con-crete, and then faced the jury as she stomped on the floor of the courtroom, portraying how the defendant allegedly delivered “curb stomps” to Kernich’s head and ribs, while Kelly allegedly kicked from the other side.
She said when EMS arrived, Kernich was “unresponsive,” and as rescuers attempted to place him on the stretcher, he repeatedly vomited, indicating that he was already in a coma.
She added that the defen-dant was also seen “attempt-ing to initiate fights with other bystanders.”
See BARKER, Page A5
Opening remarks heard yesterday
Jessica WhiteDaily Kent Stater
For those who heard rumors of no air-conditioning until mid-May: There’s no need to worry. Air conditioning will be on across campus today.
Last week, some classrooms were hot because temperatures out-side ranged from 35 to 80 degrees.
“Temperatures are so inconsis-tent this time of year, so it’s hard to say when to switch from heat to AC,” said Bob Winkler, assis-tant director of Campus Environ-ment and Operations, adding that because of the complexity of the transition, his team usually waits until April 15, unless temperatures become unbearably high.
Winkler said by then, tempera-tures are often warm enough to warrant air conditioning and to keep the water and pipes in the cooling towers from freezing. Cool-ing towers are filled with water and use evaporation to remove heat from inside buildings.
Before the switch day, the towers are drained, cleaned and repaired. Air handlers that bring in outside air and carry chilled water for air conditioning are also drained and cleaned with anti-freeze to protect them from cold winter months. Around mid- to late-March, everything is refilled, and chillers inside the cooling towers can be “fired off.”
“We actually like hot days some-times so we can test-fire,” Winkler said. “But sometimes it gets risky when temperatures drop the next day. We don’t want pipes to freeze and break — that’s why we stick with the April 15th date,” he said.
Some students said they were annoyed with some of the hot classrooms last week, but they said they’re satisfied with the mid-April goal.
“The M.A.C. building was awful last week,” said Nikki Gilmore, senior integrated health studies major. “But it could’ve been fixed if someone had opened some windows.”
Cold front rolls into campusUniversity turns on air conditioning
See AIR, Page A5
Bo GemmellDaily Kent Stater
The Citizens Advisory Com-mittee for the Summit Street Improvement Project met last night to define existing problems with the road and determine the level of service desired after improvement.
If the city can produce plans to solve problems of congestion, safety and access management, it will receive 80 percent of the fund-ing through state awards. The city and university agreed to split the remaining 20 percent required for the multi-million dollar project.
Increasing serviceThe 20 attendants tentatively
agreed to a level of road accessibility and traffic flow that at peak hours would have some restricted move-ment to vehicular traffic, but would still be better than the status quo.
URS Corporation, the design firm handling the project, ranked levels of service from A to F, with an A rating being free-flowing traffic and an F causing complete conges-tion. Jeff Noble, Highway Develop-ment Manager for URS, said design-ers generally shoot for level C or D.
Members of the committee agreed to level D. Unlike getting a D in a class at Kent State, City Engineer Jim Bowling said this D rating is a good thing.
“If we have a level of service D, we don’t consider it a problem,” Bowling said, adding that the intersection of Willow Street and Main Street has a D rating, and this rating would create traffic flow that is better than it is now.
According to URS, drivers can expect 30 to 55-second wait times at peak hours during peak times of the year on a level D street. The URS definitions guide stated that “lower demands occur often enough to per-mit clearing, thus preventing exces-sive delay” with level D.
Committee defines Summit St. problemsAgreement for increased service
See SUMMIT, Page A5
Kristine GillDaily Kent Stater
Yesterday, the rock at the front of campus read, “Let us die young or let us live forever. Justice for CK,” in reference to Christopher Kernich’s ongoing murder trial. By the weekend, it will likely be painted over again.
There’s no telling how many lay-ers of paint have coated the stone. Since the 1930s, students have tak-en buckets and cans of paint to the front of campus to make their mark on the iconic fixture. As William
Golding brought stability to campus during his short term
Hildebrand wrote in his book, “A Most Noble Enterprise: The Kent State Story, 1910-2010,” the rock was so much a part of daily cam-pus life that it was “tenderly hefted a safe distance back onto the cam-pus,” when the city widened Main Street in 1972.
It was one of many campus traditions preserved or started between 1970 and 1990. In 1981, Hildebrand writes that black squir-rels had “achieved iconic status.” In their honor, the first Black Squirrel Festival was held in Risman Plaza. This past fall, the university cel-ebrated its 29th festival in honor of the pervasive rodent.
Student safety became a new concern in the early 80s, “but not because of political social or civil rights unrest,” Hildebrand writes, “but because of human appetites --theft, drugs, rape and violence ... “
Section B
The modest beginnings of what would become a full-fledged and student-run campus secu-rity department began. Students with flashlights who were part of a group known as The Volunteer Ambulance Service (VAS) patrolled campus during set times and escorted students to their dorms.
And while Hildebrand writes that the majority of those crimes were not of the same character as student protests leading up to May 4, campus and city police had to deal with the new host of crimes.
Around that same time, a tradi-tion was lost. The Chestnut Burr had been the campus yearbook published at the end of each semes-ter dedicated to recreating the semester in its pages. Due to finan-cial reasons, it has since become a general interest magazine still pub-lished each semester.
The university hadn’t always been on a semester schedule. It had operated on quarters until Presi-dent Brage Golding’s term.
Golding came to the univer-sity from San Diego State where he served as president. He was determined to spend only five years setting Kent State on a straight course.
“In his assessment of himself he thought there was no job he couldn’t get done in five year ’s time,” Hildebrand said. “He had started one university up from scratch and made it very suc-cessful, and brought one in San Diego up from the ropes and he thought he could do the same in Kent even though his task was very formidable.”
See CENTENNIAL, Page A5
New president restores the university
COURTESY OF KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVESKSU President Brage Golding in his office.
“Jefferson was sitting on his car, and police let (him) leave with evidence that could have been on his body or his clothes. ScoTT LearDefense Attorney
100 YEARSLOOKING BACK
Not your typical picnic: unconventional ideas for the seasonal staple.
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Kent police want unity, cooperation with communityPolice promote local crime watch groups
Darren D’AltorioDaily Kent Stater
The Kent Police want the city’s residents to get to know one another and the police in an effort to keep the community safe.
Kent Police Chief James Peach said the residents have the most knowledge and ability to prevent crime in Kent because they know what is and isn’t normal on their streets. Further, he said, watch-ing out for one another and being aware of your neighbors puts eyes and ears on every street, making it easier for police to best serve the city.
Some residents, like Sharon Pittman, are putting this message into practice by organizing formal neighborhood watch initiatives.
“We want to gain safer neighbor-hoods and a safer community,” Pitt-man said.
She and her neighbors are trying to reinvigorate the “Loop Group,” a watch group in their community near the intersections of Loop and Summit streets.
Pittman said in the past the “Loop Group” had a strong watch that was effective in reporting and stopping drug dealing near their homes. She said after the problems subsided, however, the group dissolved.
But the perceptions in the com-munity, given the recent reports of assaults and car thefts, are mak-ing Pittman and others concerned about their safety again.
Still, Pittman said people are reluctant to participate in the watch efforts for various reasons.
“I have people who are inter-ested,” she said. “But some of my neighbors said meetings aren’t their thing, or they are scared to participate because of repercussions. Even I’m scared of repercussions.”
Seats were mostly empty in the training room on the second floor of the Kent Police Depart-ment Tuesday night for its second neighborhood watch meeting.
At the first meeting in March, Kent Mayor Jerry Fiala asked the 30 people in attendance to each bring a friend back next month. Only 13 people attended the sec-ond meeting.
“I’m disappointed about the attendance,” Fiala said after the meeting. “But for the people who are here, I hope as the weather gets nicer they’ll start putting this watch together.”
Pittman was at the first meet-ing and she took the mayor up on his offer, bringing two friends with her Tuesday.
Peach said residents should not be reluctant to call the department to report anything, no matter how small or insignificant the problem is perceived to be.
Peach shared anecdotes of visits he’s made to residents’ homes for stolen snow shovels and flower-pots. He said when he responded, the callers believed the thefts to be the worst violation to their safety they could have experienced.
“What impacts us impacts us on different levels,” Peach said. “We want to improve the quality of everyone’s lives. No call is too insignificant, even squirrels and
ducks in fireplaces.”Other issues like domestic violence,
assault and Kent State students’ partying were topics of discussion residents in atten-dance addressed to Peach.
Peach informed the audience that 82 per-cent of KPD officers are university gradu-ates. He said they understand the college experience and know how tend to the unique problems of a campus.
“Students are not the troublemakers,” Peach said. “The campus attracts people from outside Kent who don’t have the same roots or value systems, and they do things they don’t do in their hometowns. Drinking and social problems come along with this territory.”
Peach said the university has a great influence on Kent’s community, with stu-dents who enrich and add value to the city.
In an effort to make the department more transparent, Peach illustrated the respon-sibilities of his officers and how they are
able to assist residents at any capacity. Peach showed the audience the KPD’s 10-year crime index and statistic report, which is part of a report given to the FBI that is used to analyze crime patterns in the city.
The report includes eight categories that are considered major crimes, like murder, rape and assault. According to the report, reports of major crimes in Kent are the same or decreased sine 2000.
Neighborhood watch meetings are sched-uled for the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Kent Safety Administration building. Next month’s meeting will focus on how to involve neighborhoods in a watch effort and what the police can do to assist communities in implementing a watch.
Contact public affairs reporter Darren D’Altorio at [email protected].
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Murder
Rape
Robbery
Assult
Burglary
Larceny
Auto Theft
Arson
Crime Index
Clearence Rate %
0 0 0 0 1
12 8 7 7 12
19 24 11 20 15
248 258 275 270 263
201 179 186 165 129
571 596 478 436 431
62 30 33 38 28
67 47 45 39 32
1180 1142 1035 975 911
31.36 32.31 24.35 21.13 30.85
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n English Conversation CornerWhere: Student Center Room 313When: 11:30 a.m.
n Movie: “Sherlock Holmes”Where: KivaWhen: 3 p.m.
n Chat Book ReadingWhere: Student Center Room 310ABWhen: 6 p.m.
n “A Night in Harlem”Where: Oscar Ritchie Hall Room 250When: 7:30 p.m.
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City of Kent five-year crime index and statistics
Source: Kent Police Department
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POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of charges
filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off campus arrests, charges and inci-dents of interest to the public.
CITYTUESDAYn Damien J. Willis, 26, of Cleveland was charged with criminal trespass at the 700 block
Silver Meadows Boulevard.
n Thomas D. Moore, 72, of Kent was charged with drunken driving at the 800 block of Marilyn Drive.
WEDNESDAYn Jeffrey D. Nichols, 24, of Kent was charged with domestic violence and child endangering at the 1400 block of Fairchild Avenue.
n Jimmie Ironcloud III, 26, of Kenmore was charged with drunken driving at the 300 block of West Main Street.
n Martin A. Cook, 20, of Newark was
charged with underage drinking at the 500 block of East Main Street.
CAMPUSTUESDAYn Criminal mischief was reported at the Tri-Towers Rotunda.
n Disorderly conduct was reported at Verder and Manchester halls.
n Criminal damage was reported at Verder Hall.
n Theft was reported twice at Lake Hall and once at the M.A.C. Center and the Centennial Court S-37 lot.
DANA BEVERIDGE | DAILY KENT STATERStudents learn how to “stroll” from the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity outside of the M.A.C. Center yesterday afternoon. The Stroll Off with the Kappas was organized by the Panhellenic Council and Black Greek Council as part of Greek Week.
ROCK ‘N’ STROLL
Lydia CoutréDaily Kent Stater
Francis E. Dorsey, interim chair for the Department of Pan-African Studies, has resided over the induction of students into the Alpha Kappa Mu National Hon-or Society every year since 1981, when the Mu Mu Chapter was installed at Kent State.
The Department of Pan-African Studies and Black United Students presented the 29th annual induc-tion ceremony and the 34th annual BUS Ebony Achievement Awards in the Kiva last night.
Timothy Moore, associate dean for the College of Arts and Scienc-es, introduced Dorsey, calling him “one of the hearts of the depart-ment of Pan-African Studies, the Institute for African American Affairs and the Center of Pan-African Culture.”
Dorsey, who founded the Mu Mu Chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu at Kent State, inducted 10 students into the chapter with the help of Traci E. Williams, director of the Center of Pan-African Culture.
The purpose of Alpha Kappa Mu is to “recognize and reward high academic achievement,” Wil-liams said. Students inducted into Alpha Kappa Mu are of junior or senior standing and have a mini-
mum 3.3 GPA. Graduate students inducted have an overall GPA of 3.7 of greater.
“We have come here to cel-ebrate those who we recognize so often in terms of their physi-cal attributes,” Dorsey said. “But one of the things that we don’t do often enough is to recognize our students in terms of their men-tal attributes. I think that is most critical. It’s in terms of what we do in terms of minds. That’s what becomes critically important in terms of moving us forward.”
After the induction, several students and faculty members spoke of Dorsey’s contributions to and impact on both the commu-nity and individuals. Williams and Bruce Mitchell, assistant director of Upward Bound, presented Dorsey with the first annual Dr. Fran E. Dorsey Excellence and Allegiance Award, named in his honor.
“I’m shocked, cause that’s not the program you’re supposed to do tonight, but I just want to say to those who spoke and for the stu-dents I’ve had the opportunity to work with over the years … I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you,” Dorsey said through tears.
Shana Lee, director of the Stu-dent Multicultural Center and BUS adviser, then introduced the newly
elected BUS Executive Board for 2010-2011.n President: Dylan Sellersn Vice President: Ebonie Parksn Programmer: Olivia Ryann Political Affairs Chair: Eliza-
beth Ajunwan Secretary: Jamilia Bushn Community Affairs Chair:
Nathanial LewisSellers, current BUS president,
said they are still looking to fill the positions of treasurer, academic affairs chair and publicity affairs chair.
Alfreda Brown, vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, delivered a speech, speaking of the importance of students.
“Tonight is our opportunity to thank you for becoming great scholars,” Brown said.
Brown went on to share five principles of excellence: “height-en your sense of purpose, mission and direction;” “build self con-fidence in impossible situations by looking beyond problems and focusing instead on solutions and on opportunities;” “achieve your goals by turning your dreams and visions into crystal clear future expectations;” “improve your abil-ity to manage time, ridding your-self of distractions, interruptions and preoccupations;” “eliminate procrastination by taking bold
Student organization of the year:KSU NAACP
Sorority of the year:Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated
BUS leader of the year:Robin Wright
Ebony achievement awards celebrate academic successaction to triumph over fear, uncer-tainty, and doubt.”
As Brown concluded, she said she wants students to know “reaching for excellence begins with you.”
The Hulda Smith-Graham Academic Excellence Awards were presented to freshmen with a 3.0 GPA or better and the Ebony Achievement Awards were pre-sented to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 GPA or better.
Special awards were announced at the ceremony as well.
“The event tonight went extremely well,” Sellers said. “We got a packed house of people who
were coming to celebrate the aca-demic achievement of the AALA-NA (African American, Latin American, and Native American) population.”
Special awards presented at ceremonyShirley Crosby Service Award:
Taiwo Adesina
Athlete of the year:Lee Stalker
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SUMMARY: The new START treaty signed last week by the U.S. and Russia is a good sign for the world because we simply don’t need thousands of
nuclear weapons. We just hope the Senate approves it as quickly as possible.
For the last two weeks in my Public Policy class, we’ve been debating several current U.S. policies and issues including gun rights, women’s reproduc-tive rights, the death penalty and health care, just to name a few. The issues are very American and very contentious, pertaining to legislation that has remained hotly debated for decades. While listening to my classmates’ opin-ions based on their experiences, personal beliefs and research they acquired, I couldn’t help but think about the implications of these issues remaining unresolved for so many years in the United States.
I could throw statistics out at you, disparage past presidents, complain about disenchanted youth or throw my fists up in rage at the mismanagement of govern-ment. But the bottom line is the United States has a complete and utter lack of progressive social movements since the Civil Rights Movement, and I haven’t the patience for it.
What is it about American poli-tics and policy making that limits us to the 18th century? Perhaps it’s that we still feel a strong sense of loyalty to the Founding Fathers, men who set the course of Ameri-can politics and history. This country was established on ideas of liberty, freedom and justice, but we are going astray by taking the structural mechanisms of our gov-ernment too literally. Gun rights are a perfect example, an incred-ible American “dilemma” due to the awkward and uneasy wording of the Second Amendment.
Every state government and legislation has struggled for years to make concrete decisions about gun ownership regulations and rights, because we are so fixated on the legality of the issue in rela-tion to the Constitution. Granted this is how the American judicial system works, and I’m not naïve to this nor am I disparaging the system in place. However, what’s the harm in taking the issue of gun rights, or any other rights issue, out of the context of a document written in 1787?
With gun rights, shouldn’t we address the issue of gun owners being more responsible about safety and usage? And instead of blaming guns on the high crime rates and violence in the United States, shouldn’t we question the root of such violence and why people feel compelled to com-mit it? There is a point when we should move past the polarizing of opinions and focus on overall social welfare.
DID YOU KNOW?
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. — History.com
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DON WRIGHT’S VIEW
Tear down those weaponsIt’s the year 2010, and we’re a long way
removed from the Cold War. Some students weren’t even alive
when the Berlin Wall fell, and many of us were still in diapers at the time. And those people who remember the Cuban Missile Crisis or Nikita Khrushchev’s shoe inci-dent are mostly limited to faculty, staff and administrators.
Regardless of all that, however, America and Russia are still dealing with some of the fallout from that 40-year war of words and one-upmanship. That kind of thing doesn’t just go away overnight.
But that’s what makes the new START treaty signed last week by the U.S. and Rus-sia so promising.
By signing the treaty, which came a few days before this week’s nuclear summit in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to reduce nuclear war-
heads by one-third and cut the number of missiles in half.
If both America and Russia live up to the bargain, that’s good news. With the amount of nuclear buildup both countries did during the Cold War, it’s hard to picture the amount of weapons they have stockpiled. Reducing that number can hardly be a bad thing.
The treaty is especially nice to see because these days, we’re mostly worried about coun-tries gaining nuclear weapons. We’re glad some countries are agreeing to have fewer weapons, instead of striving to get more.
And we hope people of both liberal and conservative leanings will support this treaty instead of falling into partisanship. The work for the original START treaty began under Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and it was signed by the first President Bush in 1991.
Unfortunately, the Senate may not approve the treaty until early 2011. Some senators want to upgrade nuclear laborato-
ries and modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal before ratifying the treaty.
We understand upgrading missile defense because it’s always good to remain vigilant. But the nuclear weapons the U.S. had were destructive enough to level two cities in Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of peo-ple in the process, in 1945. How more “mod-ern” do they need to be?
Ultimately, we hope the Senate does the right thing and ratifies the treaty as soon as pos-sible. After all, we don’t need enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a million times over; we’d rather not destroy it at all.
The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board
whose members are listed to the left.
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Christopher Hook
Anastasia Spytsya
A changing of the guard
Institutionalized dilemmas
I don’t understand the “origi-nalist” philosophies of Antonin Scalia, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who views the Constitution as a “living, breathing document.” According to him, this document holds all the answers to the 21st century’s social problems. I have to disagree.
As society changes and grows through time, is it possible for the language of such an aged docu-ment to the hold truths of today? I’m skeptical that it can appropri-ately address current social issues that weren’t even in existence when the Constitution was adopt-ed. For example, the concern over sodomy laws in the 1970s were left unresolved until Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, and abortion rights in Roe v. Wade were decided on in 1973. Both cases where decided on the basis that they are issues of the right to privacy, but the amount of hassle and hoop-jumping that occurred in order to make those decisions are astounding.
The muddled judicial system in this country and the complacency of the American people accepting government-enforced discrimina-tion and bias needs to stop now. If you’re homosexual, you could get your prom cancelled! You could get fired from your job and kicked out your apartment! If you’re in the lower-income bracket, get another job! If you’re a black male in your early 40s, you’re most likely to end up on death row for a crime you probably didn’t com-mit! If you want a union in your workplace, good luck! If you’re a working woman, you get 70 cents for every dollar a man makes in the same profession! If you want an abortion, you must justify it to an entire nation!
We are the United States of America, and this is our reality.
Thisanjali Gangoda is a senior political science major and a
columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected].
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My dad and I made it a point to watch the final rounds of every major golf tour-nament each year. I grew up watching “the greats” of the 90s — Tom Couples, Padraig Harrington, Jim Furyk, Tom Lehman, David Duval and, of course, Tiger Woods.
A 21-year-old Tiger roared into the lime-light just before my ninth birthday, winning the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes. I remember watching this moment on my basement couch with my father, who sat incredulous.
Soon after, Nike unveiled the famous Tiger Woods commercial, which showed kids of different ethnicities grabbing golf clubs and saying into the camera, “I am Tiger Woods.” Stories were written about him. Playing at age 3. Hitting 200-yard drives before his 10th birthday. Going on talk shows and beating the host. His intense personal relationship with his father. Our generation had our hero.
The legend of our hero grew. Prior to 2010, Tiger had amassed 71 tour wins, including 14 majors. Everyone knows Tiger. Seriously. He is ranked by ESPN’s Craig Kornheiser as the best-known athlete in the world. “He could walk into any remote vil-lage in the world and be recognized,” Korn-heiser said.
Unfortunately, that may be even truer now, but for reasons other than his golf game. With Tiger’s admission that he cheat-
ed on his wife with multiple women, using his fame and fortune to acquire mistresses all around the world, Tiger the celebrity officially eclipsed Tiger the golfer. A gen-eration wept.
The sad thing is, athletes disappointing the public seems to be a trend. Kobe Bryant has acknowledged his own marital infideli-ties. NBA and NFL players seem to have a problem with illegal firearms: think Gilbert Arenas, Plaxico Burress, Delonte West and Shaun Rogers. The “Steroids Era” of sports has left scads of athletes in its wake, espe-cially in baseball. The laundry list of busted athletes includes multiple Cy Young award-winner Roger Clemens, home run champion Barry Bonds, and MVPs Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez.
Tiger’s admission was shocking, to say the least. We tend to think of celebrity ath-letes as invincible individuals, who seem to float on air. It’s disappointing to find out that these athletes are, well, human.
But despite our disappointment, we shouldn’t lose all faith in the celebrity ath-lete. Though Tiger ’s comeback dominated the media coverage in the early rounds of the Masters, it was another golfer that grabbed our attention. Phil “Lefty” Mickelson, shot 5-under par in the last round to win his third Masters, including a birdie on the 18th as his wife, Amy, diagnosed with breast cancer ear-lier this year, cried silent but joyful tears at her husband’s accomplishment. After he finished, he immediately went and shared a long emo-tional hug with Amy and his kids. Mickelson later said: “To have her here and share this moment and share the joy of winning on 18, and to share this with my kids, is something that we’ll look back on the rest of our lives.”
Today, kids have fewer and fewer heroes in the sports world. But on that fateful Sunday, a new hero emerged. The right guy won — “Lefty,” motivated to win not by money or fame, but by the presence of his family.
Hope springs eternal.
Christopher Hook is a junior international relations and French major and a
columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected].
Thisanjali Gangoda
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I often write about classes I was fortu-nate to take at Kent State that influenced me and made me think outside of the box. Usu-ally they introduce new concepts that I never knew of, but this time, after a semester of For-eign Languages and Culture Studies class, I realized how much we don’t know about our-selves. Or maybe we do, but just don’t think of ourselves like that.
Did you know that the word “I” in Ameri-can English is ranked No. 18 in the list of most commonly used words? In British English the same word is ranked at No. 143.
What do you think it means? Geert Hofstede, an influential Dutch orga-
nizational sociologist, believes that American culture possesses the highest degree of indi-vidualism. And I agree with him. Individual-ism is the foundation of the American culture. This concept affects every single aspect of our daily lives.
The very principle of the foundation of the U.S. begins in the concept of personal freedom. All of the American founding documents are aimed to make an individual feel unique by giving him a right to freely express him and to pursue his interests to his own benefit. The American economic system was established to satisfy personal needs instead of community needs.
Such politics on a macro level lead to the same politics on a micro level that we often do not notice.
Have you guys ever noticed how Asian students, whose cultures are collectivistic, stand close to each other when they are hav-ing a conversation? Now, next time pay atten-tion to how far you stand from your American friend when talking. It’s the privacy we’re so obsessed with.
Do you have a problem with taking a cup of coffee to class? Doubt it. It satisfies your personal need to wake up and to pay extra attention in class. But maybe someone in class cannot stand the smell of coffee. Or maybe your professor considers it a distraction. But we don’t care because it pleases us.
You wear sweatpants and hoodies to class because you don’t care what people think of your appearance. As long as you’re personally comfortable, why would you care to please somebody else’s eye?
You can schedule your own personalized class schedule depending on your sleeping or working habits. You wouldn’t be able to do all of this overseas. Everything that is American is
designed to please every person individually. Have you ever noticed how TV report-
ers communicate between themselves when reporting? It’s like, “Hello! You got millions of viewers and you’re having a personal conversa-tion!” In collectivistic cultures, I cannot describe to you how official the news reports are. Col-umns are very rare to find in different cultures because they are very individualistic.
This concept of “me, myself and I” is liter-ally everywhere. The “self” is the supremacy. Everything is made to stress our mental inde-pendence from the rest of the group.
This column was written with much love, guys. By no means am I judging you and say-ing what you do is right or wrong.
The only aspect of such individualism that sometimes pisses me off is communication. When I try to share a sad story about my life, you don’t need to say, “Oh, I know exactly what you mean because this is what happened to me…” Come on now, I’m probably in a mad mood and seeking a support. Instead I get an “about you” story. Sometimes, you need to get over yourselves.
Anastasia Spytsya is a senior Russian translation major and political science minor and
columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected].
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Lear said within a minute of police arriving, Barker was placed in handcuffs, and Kelly was cuffed shortly after. Then, police took eyewitnesses aside in what he called “show-up identification.” The police pulled both men out of the car in cuffs and asked wit-nesses to identify the attackers. Jefferson was not cuffed.
“It’s overly suggestive,” Lear said. “Jefferson was sitting on his car, and police let (him) leave with evidence that could have been on his body or his clothes.”
Barker and Kelly were arrested by Kent police and held as “per-sons of interest” that night. Both had blood on their clothing.
Lewandowski cited a booking procedure videotape in which Barker allegedly wiped blood from his hands and shoes after officers turned their backs. She said an officer commented that he looked like he had been fighting. His right hand was swollen.
The next day Mark DiJerome, lead detective for the case, ques-
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BARKERProsecution to begin case today in Barker trial
tioned Jefferson. He was wearing the same shoes as the night of the incident, but DiJerome did not take the shoes into evidence.
“This was another missed opportunity,” Lear said.
Previously, the defense has argued that Jefferson is an unreliable witness because he failed a poly-graph before admitting to kicking Kernich the night of the assault.
According to an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Jefferson was arrested in Willoughby and charged with drunken driving on March 28. Afterward, he was placed on house arrest in connec-tion with the Kernich case. Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coul-son also issued an arrest warrant after he violated probation from a 2007 theft case.
Barker’s mother Barb Barker said she is concerned about the reliability of the witnesses.
“There are a lot of drunk eye-wit-nesses,” she said. “To have 10 drinks and say that you can see from 25 to 30 feet away seems impossible.”
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Junior advertis ing major Demetri Nerris said the Campus Environment and Operations staff is doing a good job.
“The weather in Ohio is impos-sible to predict,” Nerris said. “I think it’s fair for them to make a safe bet with April 15th.”
Winkler said some areas of campus will be without air-con-ditioning during steam shutdown week, which begins May 16, the Sunday after commencement.
Once every year, the boilers, which produce the steam that
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runs heating and air condition-ing, have to be shut down to be cleaned and repaired, Winkler said. He said the boilers must be turned off because they can reach 400 degrees — too hot to be touched by the maintenance crew. However, Winkler added, about 80 percent of the buildings on campus have electric chillers that can provide air-conditioning during steam shutdown week.
“He was able to cut courses, cut programs and increase the fac-ulty teaching load by one hour,” Hildebrand said of the switch to semesters. He wasn’t able to fully focus on the university until the ongoing Tent City situation settled. The legacy of Tent City had not dis-appeared by 1977, though Golding had been told he would not have to deal with the aftermath.
Months after the makeshift town had been demolished, con-struction began on the new Gym Annex. Despite Golding’s attempts to renegotiate its location with the Board of Trustees, there was not money left to explore new plans or locations. So construction went as planned and students and outsid-ers rallied once again in protest.
Greg Urchek, a captain at the Kent City Police Department, worked for the Portage County Sheriff’s department at the time.
“I think those were some stressful intense times considering what hap-pened on May 4, and tensions were running high years afterward,” he said. “Law enforcement really was kind of walking on egg shells.”
Urchek and others took shifts protecting the Gym Annex con-struction site from protestors.
“For the most part we just did perimeter security and made sure there was no vandalism and no one jumped over the fence,” he said.
“That demonstration didn’t have the numbers,” Urchek said. “Interest kind of waned other than the core group (of protes-tors.) I think that activities did decrease or diminish somewhat over the years.”
Tensions ran high again when 500 protestors gathered on the Commons on Oct. 24, defying a court order, which had been put in place to prevent rallies at the site.
Portage County Sheriff David Doak was a patrol officer with the city of Kent at the time.
“They were attempting to move the crowd back with hors-es,” he said. “Some protestors had started to throw some rocks and some sticks and things and moved toward the horses.”
The mounted unit was used to disperse the crowd, and Doak said it was a proven method.
“With an 1,100 pound animal, you’re not going to just stand there,” Doak said.
While local law enforcement was called in regularly during the ‘70s for crowd control dur-ing political and social rallies, the
need for control of such demon-strations is lesser.
“You can bet if the draft were reinstituted tomorrow there would be a lot of these things repeated,” Doak said. “That’s my opinion.”
Hildebrand said the entire cam-pus culture shifted in the 1980s from that of a service-minded mentality.
“There was a more humanistic outlook on the part of the student body,” Hildebrand said of the 1970s. “The attention had shifted to getting a job after college and taking courses that would put them in line for a job rather than a public service. The liberal arts courses and programs and politi-cal science and sociology were no longer drawing the enrollment they had in the 1970s.”
But after Tent City had been resolved, Golding could focus on changing the course structure and improving campus life. The dorms and grounds received a facelift during his tenure, which greatly improved the look of campus.
“The dorms had become really kind of animal houses,” Hildeb-rand said. “They were neglected physically and hadn’t been kept up. The rules of conduct had been relaxed so much so that almost anything went. Golding cleaned them up and cleaned them out.”
Hildebrand said he also improved the look of the grounds
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CENTENNIALNew president restores the university
by tending to the plants and sig-nage around campus.
“He knew parents wouldn’t be willing to take their kids to a university that was so ugly,” Hil-debrand said. “It made every-one feel better to see the dorms look good and the grounds look pretty again. It was a morale booster. It also helped its public image immensely.”
But Golding’s priority was fixing the financial crisis. The switch to semesters coincided with the increased enrollment and brought more revenue and effective practices to campus. In a symbolic move, he reduced the number of vice presidents from six to three, cutting some of the top salaries at the university.
In 1982, his five years was up and Golding left Kent better than he found it, in his opinion. Hildebrand appropriately titled his chapter on the president “The Golding Restoration.”
“When he left, it was a smooth running operation, and he had it running sensibly,” Hildebrand said. “The motors were purring and the tank was full of gas.”
URS safety researcher Judy Bennett said the D rating is meant to represent traffic in the next 20 years, which URS pre-dicted will increase by half a percent per year.
Addressing the problemsResidents collaborated with
staff from the city, university and URS to pinpoint the current problems and shoot ideas to URS Corporation, the design firm cur-
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SUMMITCommittee defines Summit St. problems
rently researching the road.“We have to give URS a goal that
they can achieve,” Bowling said.The main concerns for the cur-
rent road were access management and the high number of crashes.
Noble said that “lots of ambigu-ity” at the intersection of Summit and Lincoln streets creates a safety concern. The awkward angles of the intersection coupled with the Sum-mit Street’s sharp downhill drop make the intersection Kent’s second most frequent spot for crashes.
Noble said two problems that contribute to crashes are the absence of left-turn lanes and numerous driveways connected to the road.
Noble and community mem-bers also noted the jaywalking on
Summit Street.“There’s just uncontrolled
crossing,” Noble said.He said pedestrian traffic could
be improved by adding more push buttons, painting more defined cross-walks and adding more sidewalks.
Increasing the number of cross-walks could also help. Tom Euclide, vice president for facilities planning and operation at Kent State, noted that the addition of increased cross-walks at the medians on Main Street reduced jaywalking.
“It’s about the habits of the people,” he said.
Euclide said another factor that curbed jaywalking on Main Street was the university’s decision to move the sidewalks farther from the street.
Future meetingsBowling said the committee,
which is open to the public, will hold several meetings throughout the next three months to discuss concerns. He said construction won’t start until March 2013, but he wants as much community input as possible.
The group will meet the sec-ond and fourth Wednesday of each month. Its next meeting will be at 7 p.m. April 28 in the PARTA building on Summit Street.
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The College for Kids program at Kent State Tuscarawas campus gives students and community members an opportunity to teach area children about certain topics they might not learn in a traditional classroom setting.
The weeklong program is in its 20th year at the Tuscarawas cam-pus, and it is looking for applicants for the summer session. Classes will be offered June 14-18 and July 12-16. It is a two-hour program that not only serves Tuscarawas County, but Harrison, Carroll, Coshocton and Holmes counties as well.
JoEllen Sanders, outreach pro-gram coordinator in the Office of Business and Community Ser-vices, handles the applications for the program and has seen a multitude of different topics pass over her desk.
“The topics vary,” Sanders said. “We try to do some science and some language, engineering, math and things like that, but we also try to have some fun. We
have had classes in reptiles and amphibians and Tae Kwon Do.
“I make the selection based on if the students are interested or it’s something students have asked for.”
The instructors are not only Kent State students, however. Pub-lic relations coordinator Pam Patac-ca used to help run the program.
“Some of the instructors are our own professors,” Patacca said. “Some come from the community and some are just experts in their respective field.”
The average class size is between 18 and 20 students, keep-ing the student-to-teacher ratio small. Those who are not education majors can also apply.
“Anyone can apply who has a hobby or a talent or something they are really good at with kids,” Sand-ers said. “We have one gentleman who is teaching a guitar class. It does not have to be education majors, but they do have to be fingerprinted and background checked.”
The response over the past 20 years has been favorable from both students and parents
involved in the program.“(The community) comes out
in great support,” Sanders said. “We average about 300 to 315 students a year. We have grand-parents who have kids stay with them for a week during the sum-mer, and during the day they can come to College for Kids so the grandparents can get a break.
“We do evaluations at the end of every program and some of the responses have been like, ‘My son came home every day excited about what he learned and excited for the next day to begin,’” she added. “Most of our College for Kids stu-dents are returning students, and I think that says a lot.”
The program is also an oppor-tunity for instructors to have real experience working with children, something they might not get enough of in a classroom setting.
“It’s going to be able to go on your résumé for experience,” Sand-ers said. “It’s such a great way to be able to say to your new school dis-trict that I’m involved in my com-munity, and I’m willing to give up a week for this.”
College for Kids offers children new opportunitiesThe program is not only a good
line on one’s résumé, however. “(The instructors) get paid for
it,” Sanders said. “They get paid $30 per hour, so if you teach a morning session, you make $300. It is just like any other job.”
It is a program that is not only good for the students, but for the parents as well.
“Parents love to enrich their stu-dents’ educations by having them attend fun summer workshops,” Patacca said.
Students interested in applying for the program can call (330) 308-7434 for an application, or online at www.tusc.kent.edu/business-communityservices, then click on the Youth Programming link. The deadline for applying is today. A complete schedule of classes will be available on the campus’ Web site beginning May 10.
Students can throw pies in the name of charity from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Risman Plaza.
Alex Mott, president of Col-leges Against Cancer, and Kent State alumnus Ray Campbell will be getting hit with pies to raise money for the Relay For Life. The cost is $1 per throw.
The event will count toward Greek Week points, and the team who throws the most pies will have half of the profit put directly toward their team’s fundraising for Relay For Life. The other half of the proceeds will go directly to Relay for Life general donations.
“This event is combining Col-
Throwing pies for the fight against cancer
leges Against Cancer, Relay for Life and the Greek community all in one,” said Mott. “I really want campus to be able to view Greeks more respectively by seeing what we can do when we come together for a cause.”
Mott said participants have one task before throwing a pie.
“People just need to answer a true or false question,” said Mott. “Then they can throw a whip cream plate at either one of us.”
— Katie Moore and Amanda Klitsch
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Today’s birthday (4/15/10)From today on, you sense a sea change in one or more relationships. You may take on a responsibility that requires daily attention. Get plenty of instruction early in the game. You don’t have to become a robot to get the job done. It could even be fun.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19)Today is a 6. Spend time today mending fences and soothing emotions. You fi gure out how to satisfy each person’s needs.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 7. This is no time to gamble. Make sure you’re comfortable with all the details. By tomorrow or the next day, you’ll want to be on to bigger, bet-ter things.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is a 7. Because you took care of important matters earlier, you have an opportunity to see a new movie, try a different restaurant or simply hang out at home.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 6. Get your body and mind on the same track, even if you’d rather be a couch potato. Movement today is essential. Take care of business early, then take a walk.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7. The timely completion of tedious work requires that you put a new opportunity on hold and revise nearly completed documents. This frees up time for inspiration later today.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 6. Your signifi cant other pro-poses activities that promise excitement as well as comfort. Get work done early in order to take advantage.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is an 8. If you’ve done your fi nancial homework, you can make the package look pretty. Consider yourself lucky to be fi nished with a task you’ve worried about.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 5. You need to get down to basic principles if you want to progress. You have tons of ideas competing for attention. Choose one and run with it.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 7. It looks like you took care of business, so now you can reap the benefi ts by enjoying a relaxing lunch with an amusing friend.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 6. Take advantage of today’s choices. Even though you feel you should be doing something important, playing around improves your mood immensely.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6. A last-minute surprise could cause anxious moments. Hope-fully you have all the paperwork you need. If not, request an extension.
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Tutors/SI Leaders Needed!
The Academic Success Center is accepting SI Leader, Peer Mentor, and Tutor applications until Monday, April 19th for Fall Semester 2010.SI Leaders are needed for courses in the areas of Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Geology, Math, Psychology, and Sociology.Peer Mentors (tutors) are needed for Biology, Chemistry, Nursing, Economics, and Study Skills.Tutors are needed for courses in the area of History, Psychology, Seven Ideas, Sociology, and Writing.You must have a 3.0 GPA and be available to work 8-12 hours per week. Starting Pay: $8.50To apply or for more information, visit 207 Schwartz Center or www.kent.edu/asc
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NOW LEASING FOR FALL5,4,2,1 bedroom Houses.Efficiency. Good Location Near KSU.Call (330) 554-8353
Whitehall East Townhomes - 4 or 5 bedroom leases, with 3 bathrooms, great rent options with all inclusive plans. Some newly rennovated, all units washer/dryer and dishwaher included. Call or text today 330-990-4019. www.whitehall-east.com
4-BEDROOMS SUMMER OR FALL$1200 includes most utilities and washer/dryer. (330) 714-0819
Now leasing for fall. 2br apt $699-750 a month includes gas, water and trash. Many great amenities. Hurry in now, before you get locked out. (330) 673-8887
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Enjoy spacious 4&5 bedrooms duplexes with 2 full baths. Great condition, great location, A/C, W/D, dishwasher, deck, garage. $350/bedroom includes all utilities. 330-808-4045
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Now Leasing for Summer and Fall.2 BR Apts. Heat, Trash & Water pd.Pool, Pets welcome, $665-$725.Close to KSU 330-673-5364
Kent- 3&4 bdrm townhouses for fall, $375/room includes gas & trash 330-678-3047 or BuckeyeParksMgmt.com
NO WATER BILL! NO GAS BILL!4&5 Bedroom duplex available for fall starting at $330/mo!Each side has 2 bath, W/D. Dishwasher, deck, garage, etc. Close to campus and on bus route. Last one I have available! Call Sweeney (740)317-7294.
Stow: 2 & 3 bed townhomes with one car garage. Pets welcome, 10 min from KSU. Prices $665-$850 call (330)686-2269.
KENT/BRIMFIELD. Newer 3 & 4 Bdrm duplexes. 1 car garage. $900-$1100 per month. 330-338-5841 or 330-329-1118 kentarearentals.com
Kent near downtown and campus 2 bedroom apartment, all utilities paid except electric, $350/bedroom + security deposit. (330)676-9440
Apartments for Rent:3 bedroom apartment Half of a home. Living Room, kitchen,bath. No pets. One bedroom available now $330/month. 330-673-85051 bedroom apartment in a house. Kitchen, living room, bath. Separate entrance. No pets. One year lease. Available in August. 330-673-8505
All real estate advertised herin is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” State and local laws forbid discrimination based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you feel you have been wrongfully denied housing or discriminated against, call the FHAA at 330-253-2450 for more information.
Kent- efficiencies for fall, starting at $250/month includes ALL UTILITIES 330-678-3047 or BuckeyeParksMgmt.com
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Spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath duplex. LR and Family Room, W/D, A/C, $960/mo, Available July (330)630-9285.
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Available Fall 2010. Act now!Looking for 5 responsible
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Very Clean, quiet 2 bedroom, 1 bath, gas, heat, water, appliances included. Available May 1. 330-760-1884
2 bedroom 1.5 bath apartment $585/month + deposit & electric.Heat, water and trash included(330) 312-0066 or (330) 968-4930
Two bedroom, 1.5 bath condo, updated, all appliances, FREE HEAT. One block to KSU. Units available starting in June. No Pets. 330-957-3083.
Available in Fall! 3 bedroom units close to campus. Well-maintained starting at $800/month. Call today 330-329-2535
Ravenna. 2 bedroom apartment, 1 bath. Includes water and trash. $500/month. Willing to lease for semester. 330-703-1525
2 Bedroom upstairs apartment. Close to campus. $500 +utilities. 245 Cherry St. 330-677-9684. Ask for Mark after noon.
Rooms for Fall 1 block from campus. $350/mo includes ALL utilities, cable and internet. Non-smoking house. Chris Myers (330) 678-6984
Great campus condo. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath. Available August. Call Dr. Miller at (330) 618-7764
Duplexes available for Fall semester beginning August 1. East Summit, across from campus. 3 bedrooms, Washer/Dryer. $345/person plus utilities. 216-407-6703
Nice 5 Bedroom House, (330) 697-5170
1 & 2 bedroom apts. All utilities included except electric AND we have ample parking! Call to schedule your tour today. (330) 678-0972
Available 08/01. Large 2 bedroom, Clean, $650 including utilities. Near campus. 330-626-7157
Now Leasing for Fall. Kent 4 bedroom house. 330-626-5910
Kent—Nice House Close to Campus and Downtown, 6/7 people, Available Fall 330-297-6539
Available For FallHuge 4 bedroom units in great condition. Deck, garage, large yard, washer/dryer hook up. $275/bed includes water and trash. (330) 612-4057
Three Bedroom House on Lincoln, Call Josh at 419-357-4897. Very close to campus.
S. Lincoln St. condo, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, no pets, heat included, $725/month. 216-524-0745
4 bedroom, $1375+ utilities, pets welcome. Available now. 330-388-0325
FALL—1 Bedroom Apartment. $425/month all utilities included. 1 year lease. NO PETS. 330-678-3489.
3-4 Bedroom Duplex, Very Clean and efficient. 1 mile from KSU, Quiet
location, Available August, $900, Free Water, Brian (330) 802-4000
Very Clean & Efficient, Special and Spacious! 2 & 3 bedroom
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2 bedroom apartment 5 miles from campus. $800 a month gas, cable, internet, and beach pass included. Call Seth, (419)651-1775.
Kent Duplex, Two large bedrooms, on bus route , $525 plus utilities plus deposit. Call for appointment 330-329-3029. For information and pictures http://home.rr.com/sandymei
Nice 2 bedroom apartment. Close to downtown. Mature tenants, non-smoking, no pets. $625 + utilities. 330-688-1187.
Renting for fall 2010, Whitehall East Townhome, 4-5 bedrooms, Starting at $285 per room. 440-336-6761
Nice 2 bed condo, one block from campus. $725 with
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Roommate needed for August. $350/mo plus utilities. Behind
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GET IN EARLY! 2 subleasers needed for 2 bedroom, 2 bath Pebblebrook apartment. Available May 23. Lease ends August 15, but available for renewal. $974/month + $487 for month of August. Call Adam 330-524-5430.
Taking Summer Classes? Need a room? One room open in house on College Avenue with two female roommates, available May 17-August 8. $400 + utilities. E-mail [email protected] if interested.
$400/month everything included. May 16- August 25. WiFi, Central air, and TiVo. Call 419-202-4859. Close to Franklin Hall.
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4/15/10 ARTS. LIFE. LEISURE.
Tips beyond the basketDarren D’AltorioDaily Kent Stater
Here’s a challenge: Plan a badass picnic.I’m not talking about an afternoon
in a field with a wicker basket and an assortment of cheeses. I’m talking about a picnic that gets talked about months after the final stray tortilla chip has been carried away to an anthill to feed the colony for months.
For some folks, the idea engine for planning a picnic to remember may be stagnant. This is thanks to the boring, cliché, stereotypical notion of a picnic, which is corrupting your mind and soul.
So envision a wicker basket. Imagine cold cuts and paper plates. Now, con-jure matches and gasoline and set your visions ablaze. It’s time to plan an epic picnic.
The Picnic Challenge
The BasicsThere are two things that are a must at every
picnic: food and alcohol. If you like burgers and dogs, good deal. If you prefer mimosas to jack and Cokes, bring on the champagne. If hummus and pita sounds better than chips and salsa, go nuts. It is imperative there is food and alcohol.
The Planning This is where things can become overwhelm-
ing. Planning entails selecting a location, thinking about who you will invite and making sure not too many laws are broken. Picnics can be divided into three categories: romantic, casual and Festi-val. Selecting your category first will help deter-mine where you want to have it and how many people it should be advertised to.
The Date-nicFor all the lovers out there, romantic
picnics are a great way to learn about one another and strengthen a relationship. Location is everything for a picnic like this because the setting will determine the mood. Believe it or not, this region is a goldmine of amazing places to picnic. Kent is situated close to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park system, a gem of wil-derness packed with endless trails, caves, cliffs and lakes.
The key with a romantic picnic is to make the experience a journey, with the pinnacle being a destination to enjoy your meal. For the ambitious and thoughtful planner in a relationship, take a scouting mission. Do some research on a park or trail — Virginia Kendall, Towner’s Woods and Hocking Hills are three great loca-tions. Go alone and explore.
Find a secluded lookout atop a cliff that faces west to admire a perfect sunset. Ven-ture into a cave, where sounds of nature are slowly replaced with swirling air, dripping water and the echo of your footsteps.
The Crazy-nicCasual and festival picnics can be
planned the same way. The only differ-ence between the two is how many peo-ple you want to attend. Casual would be only close friends and family. Festival means sending e-mails and using Face-book to promote the event.
Get creative with these. Who says a picnic has to be on land? If a close friend has a boat of any kind — canoe, pontoon or speedboat — take that sucker out and do a picnic floating in the middle of a lake. Mogadore Reservoir, a string of water located south of Kent, is great for canoes and small horsepower engines. And there are islands all over the place. Row out to an island with a cooler full of food and beer. Or take fishing poles and try to catch your picnic. Set up shop on one of the islands and build a small bonfire to cook your food. There is nothing better then kicking it with friends, island style, while enjoying food, drinks and great conversation. If a friend doesn’t have a boat, Mogadore Res-ervoir has canoe rental places nearby with prices as low as $15 for a boat for the day.
For the festival picnic, secure some land and some bands. Check with your
local city ordinance about outdoor live music. If there are no rules, be respectful and stop rocking out when the sun goes down. If you have to register an event with live music, do so properly to avoid legal action. Most city Web sites have the proper forms and instructions for regis-tering events.
Invite everyone you know and tell them to come early. Invite family, and tell all your friends to bring their families, too. Set up some badminton, corn hole and horseshoes.
Crack the first beer no later than 11 a.m., and fire up the grill before noon. Once the crowd is there, start the live music around 3 p.m., and have it wrapped by 8 p.m. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen your 90-year-old grandmother danc-ing with your best friend’s grandmother to a cover of “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine (I’ve witnessed this. Take my word, it’s amazing).
Tell your significant other you have a surprise trip planned and execute. Spend the day hiking, exploring and having fun while slowly leading the way to the deter-mined destination. When you arrive, bust out the food and wine and soak up the subsequent sounds of adoration from your partner.
Play it safe and plan your route back to civ-ilization. Bring a map, compass and flashlight just in case darkness creeps into your fun.
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PHOTOS BY DARREN D’ALTORIO | DAILY KENT STATERImagine your backyard crazy-nic being this popular with bands, food and booze for everyone.
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AprilMONTHLY SPECIALS
Water Street TavernBud Light pitchers — $7. Tootsie Pop Bomb — 3 Olive Chocolate dropped into Monster Khaos Orange Energy Drink — $3.50. Monthly $3 shot and beer specials: Sauza Tequila, Patron XO, Cherry Pie Shots, Apple Pie Shots, Wild Turkey American Honey, Blue Moon Honey Moon, Stella Artois Chalice drafts, Red Stripe and Red Stripe Light bottles.
157 LoungeMiller Lite — $2 bottles. Vodka tonic — $2.50. SoCo and Lime — $3. Grape and cherry bombs — $3.
MugsGrape Kool-Aid shot—$3.25. Bordon— $3.50. Miller Lite draft—$2 16oz, $3 24oz. Blue Moon draft— $3.50 short, $4 tall. All bombs—$2.75.
BW3sBeer of the month: Coors Light Draft—$2.75 tall. Thursdays: margaritas — $2. Fridays: bombs and cosmopolitans — $3.
Digger’sTuesday—Long Island ice tea $3. Wednesday—Bahama Mama $3. Thursday—Jimmy Buffett Night with Corona bottles for $1.75 and Bud Light bottles for $1.25.
Ray’s Place
Show of the week: 4 Guys, One ShowEvery Tuesday from 10 p.m. to midnight,
tune in with DJs Eric, Evan, Zach and Anthony to hear a healthy, manly mix of talking, news, jokes, stories and, of course, music.
Events, guests and giveawaysToday: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. — BSR will be mobile DJing the Kentwired party in Acorn Alley.8 p.m. to 10 p.m. — The Speed-
bumps will appear on Pregaming with Brittany and Whitney.
Saturday:Hal Walker will perform
at the Kent Stage. Walker will also be accompanied on
a few songs by BSR’s general manager, Gabz Ciofani.
Wednesday, April 21:8 p.m. to 10 p.m. — Laine Seliga
will appear on D.I.T. Radio.Saturday, April 23:BSR will DJ the annual Relay for Life at the Liquid Crystal Track.
To view a full schedule and listen to all of Black Squirrel Radio’s shows visit
Directions:1) Mix sage and thyme with ground beef.2) Divide meat into eight patties, set four aside.
Recipes for your picnic Citrus Mint Cooler
Ingredients: 1 cup fresh lemon juice1 cup fresh orange juice2 cups sugar2 1/2 cups water10 sprigs of mint32 oz. ginger ale
Directions: 1) Place lemon juice, orange juice, sugar, water and mint in a saucepan.
Easy Fruit SaladIngredients:
1 Dole tropical fruit container1 Dole pineapple chunks con-tainer1 Dole mandarin orange con-tainer1/2 can Marciano cherries1/2 watermelon, or watermelon chunks1 bag grapes3 kiwis— Feel free to substitute your favorite fruits, but remember that strawberries can make the salad too sour and bananas, apples and pears turn brown quickly, which can give the salad an old appear-ance.
Directions:1) Cut kiwi in half and scoop out green insides with a spoon.2) Cut the kiwi insides into slices, then each slice into quarters.3) Cut grapes in half.4) Cut watermelon into chunks.5) Drain the juice from the tropical, pineapple and mandarin orange containers. Set this juice aside.5) Place tropical fruit, pineapples, mandarin oranges, kiwi, water-melon, grapes and Marciano cher-ries into large bowl.6) Pour a little bit of the juice from the Dole containers onto the fruit.7) Place bowl in fridge for a couple hours or overnight. The fruit will release a lot of its own juices while it sits.8) After the fruit has set, if neces-
Directions:1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and grease baking pan.2. Cut rhubarb in 1-inch pieces, reserve in large bowl.3. Use mixer or mix by hand half of the sugar with cornstarch until
Budweiser— $2.50 pint, $2.95 tall. Stella pints glass— $4.95 pint and comes with a glass. Sex on the Beach shot — $2.95. Cherry bomb — $2.95. Chilled Shark Water shots — $3. Long Island Ice Tea — $3.50. Spiced rum and Coke — $2.95. Tropical rum and Coke — $2.95. Amaretto Sour — $2.95.
The LoftHappy hour is from 4 to 9 p.m. with $2 off pitchers, .75 off pints and .50 off mugs and liquors.Bud Light— $7 pitchers, $1.50 mugs. Natural Light— $6 pitchers, $1.25 mugs. Cherry and grape bombs—$2.50. Jack Daniels, Jose Cuervo, rocket pops and lemon drops—$3.
Dominick’sFree pool Tuesday and Thursdays. Red Stripe and Red Stripe Light—$3 bottle. Grape and cherry bombs—$2.50. Pabst Blue Ribbon—$2 pints.
Professor’s PubHalf off drafts for the first half of every Cavs game. All bombs—$2. Pabst Blue Ribbon— $3.
Franklin Square DeliMonday—Ungrilled turkey reuben. Tuesday—Riverview meatloaf. Wednesday—Kent’s best reuben. Thursday—Louisiana BBQ Pork. Friday—Deluxe fried bologna. Saturday and Sunday—Sesame garlic chicken.
Riverside WineHappy hour is from 4 to 7 p.m. with $1 off drafts. Mondays and Tuesday have no corking fee so patrons pay retail price to drink wine in restaurant.
Euro GyroSmall one-topping pizza — $5. Philly Steak sub — $5. Chicken hoagie sub — $5. Gyros — $5. Any pizza pita — $5. Wednesday — $5 large one-item pizza for pick-up only.
3) Cut each slice of cheese into quarters; place one slice on each patty.4) Place one tablespoon of mush-rooms on each burger.5) Top with remaining cheese and cover with a remaining patty.6) Pinch the edges of the two pat-ties to seal the mushrooms and cheese inside.7) Place burgers in a microwave safe baking dish. Cover with wax paper.8) Microwave on high for 4 min-utes.9) Flip burgers and sprinkle with burger seasoning. Microwave for 3 more
minutes. Enjoy on a bun with lettuce, tomato and your favorite condi-ments!
— Margaret Thompson
2) Bring liquid to a boil; stirring until sugar dissolves. 3) Cover saucepan and remove from heat.4) Let liquid sit until cool.5) Strain liquid.6) Cover sauce pan and refrigerate.Fill glasses or a pitcher with equal amounts of fruit juice, ginger ale and water. Add ice and serve immediately.
— Kelley Stoklosa
sary, pour more of the Dole fruit juices onto the fruit to make sure the fruits are not dry.Enjoy on a sunny afternoon with friends!
— Pamela Crimbchin
combined.4. Add to the rhubarb, toss to coat and spread on bottom of the pan. 5. Process flour, butter and remaining sugar just until crum-bly.6. Sprinkle evenly over rhubarb.7. Bake for 50-60 min or until top is brown and rhubarb is bubbly.8. Cool in pan on wire rack, serve warm or at room temperature, topped with strawberry sauce.
1. Puree strawberries with sugar until smooth. Chill in fridge. Yields ten 4 oz. servings. Prep time is 15 minutes. It’s 138 calo-
ries per serving, without sauce. Sauce is 14 calories per 2 table-spoons. Add whipped cream for an extra special treat!
--Allison Smith
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Students work toward a healthy weight and lifestyleKelley StoklosaDaily Kent Stater
Television shows like “The Biggest Loser,” magazine covers that proclaim, “I lost 60 pounds in three months, and you can too!” coupled with around-the-clock access to all things fried and nev-er enough time for the gym have made weight a very heavy issue for Americans.
College students are certainly not immune to these influences. They also have the added stress of being on their own for the first time. Now that students are wired in at all times, there is no escaping body image issues.
Freshman nursing major Kevin Ball saw a poster for the nutrition outreach program while he was in the library and knew he had to make an appointment. Ball had been struggling with his weight since childhood and was ready to make a change.
The nutritional outreach pro-gram sees about 100 clients a semester, said program coordina-tor Jodie Luidhardt.
Ball has lost 25 pounds in a lit-tle more than a month and plans to lose about 100 pounds more. Growing up, Ball said his parents did not really keep healthy food in
their home. Unhealthy eating and an inactive lifestyle led Ball to the weight he was a month ago.
Ball’s career aspirations have inspired him to get healthier.
“As a nurse, I will be giving other people advice, so I need to be healthy too,” Ball said.
Senior communications major Laura Payne also decided to get into better shape after strug-gling with her weight the past several years. Unlike Ball, Payne rarely thought about her weight until college.
Payne was a cheerleader in high school and ate the healthy food her mother made. Now that she is about to graduate, Payne wanted to establish healthier eating habits and increase her fitness level.
“I want to be able to run around the block and not feel like I’m going to pass out,” Payne said.
Luidhardt’s job is to encourage people to make healthy lifestyle changes and not resort to danger-ous crash diets. Life will always be hectic, but it is important to make personal health a priority.
“You have to get to the point where you don’t want to eat things that are bad for you,” Luidhardt said.
Having treats once in a while is fine, she added. Finding a balance in life is the key.
Payne knew she reached her breaking point when she realized everything she did came back to her weight.
“I have been struggling with
Kelley StoklosaDaily Kent Stater
Spending spring break at a friend’s apartment made eating healthy difficult for Laura.
“I had to be more cautious. On campus, I know what I can and can’t eat,” she said.
As a result, Laura gained one pound. “I didn’t work out as much, but I walked and tried to stay active’” she added.
Laura’s ultimate goal is still to lose 60 pounds and said she thinks she has a long way to go where fit-ness is concerned. She looks forward to having more time to devote to workouts after graduation. Despite having a few challenging weeks, Laura said she is very happy with the progress she has made.
“I’ve learned so much about nutrition,” Laura said. “Every-thing you do changes when you try to lose weight. I now believe if you learn about nutrition, weight loss will follow.”
A weight loss of 60 pounds would put Laura at what is con-sidered a healthy Body Mass Index, but she said she wonders if that is a realistic size for her body.
“I think the goal will always be there,” Laura said.
Current weight: 188.2 lbs (as of Apr. 9)
New book is harsh but worth the readKelley StoklosaDaily Kent Stater
The public relations maven turned reality television star Kelly Cutrone recently added author to her resume with the release of her first book, “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Moth-er Never Told You.”
Don’t let Cutrone’s stint on “The Hills” fool you. This “power girl,” as she would say, is serious when it comes to success. Curtone chronicles her crazy life beginning in a small town near Syracuse, N.Y., to owner of an in-demand public
relation’s firm, People’s Revo-lution. Along the way, Cutrone marries and divorces an Andy Warhol protégé, loses every-thing to a heroin addiction and finds herself reading palms at Venice Beach.
Cutrone offers her advice on clawing your way to the top of your game —whatever your game might be. Her advice is honest, like “the only thing your boss owes you is a pay-check” and sometimes harsh, like “if you have to cry, go outside.” But, the advice is sin-cere and not usually preachy. A product of suburbia, Cutrone has a soft spot for kids from the middle of nowhere.
“If you have to Cry, Go Out-side: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You” is a surprisingly worthwhile read.
Struggling with body imagemy weight and the image of myself for a couple of years now, and I have finally come to the breaking point,” Payne said.
Ball and Payne both acknowl-edge comparing themselves from time to time with friends or even with celebrities. Ball thinks women are usually tougher on themselves than men.
Loved ones can have a great impact on body image. Payne has turned to her mother for encour-agement and advice.
Both Payne and Ball said they occasionally have friends try to persuade them to skip a workout or have an extra slice of pizza. On Payne’s birthday, her friends and family gave her three different cakes.
“Some friends tell me I can make up for it later,” Ball said.
Losing weight or getting healthy comes down to mind set.
“When you are losing weight, your entire outlook has to change,” Ball said.
Body image is a sensitive topic, but it is important to remember health must come first.
“When a student comes to see me and isn’t concerned about weight, but wants to be as healthy as they can, that is wonderful,” Luidhardt said.
Contact features correspondent Kelley Stoklosa at [email protected].
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Cassandra AdamsDaily Kent Stater
When Elizabeth saw him, she dropped her books and almost spilled her Coca-Cola on the new, pretty blue dress her moth-er had sent her in the mail.
While the dress had been spared, the same luck wasn’t granted to the books. The loose papers between the pages scat-tered across the floor in disar-ray. Elizabeth’s face turned an unflattering shade of red as she dropped to her knees and clum-sily graveled to recollect what she had lost.
“Need some help with that miss?” A throaty voice asked.
Heart pounding, Elizabeth looked up to see a familiar dark figure.
“Yes , thank you ,” she answered, nervously twirl-ing long, strawberry-blonde strands.
“That’s a mighty fine dress you have on.”
Elizabeth looked down at the peace offering her mother had given to her after months of silence.
While many of the other girls in the dorm had gotten plenty of packages and letters, the dress was the only thing her mom had sent her since leaving for col-lege. Elizabeth knew her mom wasn’t exactly overjoyed about the decision and would have much rather had her married off to a nice southerner (what about that Johnson boy she had gone to the Sadie Hawkins dance with sophomore year?) A good family name and plenty of money guar-anteed success.
Elizabeth explained that was not the life for her — she was going to college up north. Needed change like a fish needed water.
Devastated, her mother wrung her hands in anguish. Her thin frame shook as she
argued and pleaded with her only daughter to be rational.
“Your father would turn over in his grave!”
Elizabeth had expected things to change with time — what was a cliché saying if it wasn’t true? — but all summer before she left for college her mother barely spoke to her. She even forced poor Maria, the housekeeper, to relay messages to her in Span-ish. Then it was only cold state-ments such as “Su madre quiere la libre” and “Pasa la azucar!” At one point, Elizabeth noticed Mrs. Wright discretely scolding Maria for not using the correct tone inflection. Her voice was “much pleasant and perkier.” Her mother could be ridiculous like that.
Attempting to find stimulat-ing conversations had not been an easy task. Eventually Maria’s broken English got tiresome (Elizabeth’s Spanish wasn’t exactly in the best condition after being out of school.) The gang of girls from school chattering about fiancés and wedding plans was plain torturous. Even check-ers games with sweet-as-pie Mr. Walker didn’t cheer her up in the usual way.
The chilly silence wasn’t the only thing Elizabeth had to endure; summer in the south was unmercifully hot. The days seemed to pass as slowly as the breezes. It became a sin to be anything other than lazy in that sort of heat. And gossip with neighbors over tall glasses of cooled iced tea became a neces-sary luxury, as well as frequent trips to the lake.
When walking to the lake that summer afternoon, she made out a mysterious shadowed figure by the lake and was every bit curious. Eager for the possibility of fresh company, Elizabeth ven-tured across the railroad tracks.
The mysterious form was camped out at the lakeshore. His smooth, dark skin glittered
Lakeshore
Bravo TV star tells women ‘don’t cry’ in self-help book
Beginning weight: 190 lbs (as of Feb. 5)
Contact features correspondent Kelley Stoklosa at [email protected].
Contact features correspondent Kelley Stoklosa at [email protected].
from under the sun’s rays, a straw hat shielded dark eyes as he held a fishing pole.
“Well hello there,” the figure said in a southern drawl, not look-ing up.
“How did you know I was here?” Elizabeth asked, startled.
“Heard ya walking,” he answered.
“Oh, well, I’m Elizabeth. I came over here to, um, read.”
She looked at him expectantly, but he didn’t move.
“Sorry to bother you, but I won’t make much more noise, don’t want to scare any of those fish away.”
“No bother, I ain’t really doing much fishing anyways.”
Taken aback, Elizabeth sat down and opened up her book. A short while later, she shut the book noisily, sighing loudly.
“It’s a nice day out.” “Mighty fine.”“So why are you out here if
you’re not doing much fishing?” she asked.
“I said I wasn’t doing much fishing. I’m still fishing.”
“I see,” Elizabeth answered, annoyed. “Well are you going to look at me and introduce your-self?”
“Thought you’d never ask misses.” He tipped his straw hat up and looked at her with friendly, chocolate-brown eyes and a wide smile.
“I’m Samuel,” he said, thrust-ing out a hand.
Shaking his hand, she smiled back at him.
“Your quite a pretty thing.” Stiffening, she turned and
opened her book again.“Ah, don’t let it go to your
head, I was just making an obser-vation. I didn’t mean nothing harmful from it.”
“I w-wasn’t,” she stammered, embarrassed.
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Lapo Elkann: ever heard of him? Well, Style Eye wants to bring light onthis sartorial genius. Lapo Elkann, nicknamed “Lapo of luxu-ry,” is the Style Eye of the week.
What makes this guy so impor-tant? Well, besides being an heir of the Italian automaker Fiat, Elkann has a natural talent for catch-ing the eye of the fashion media for his fashion sense. From his bespoke suits to masterfully mix-ing colors and stripes, Elkann has a style that makes any fashionisto (or fashionista) want to dig deep into his wardrobe.
His style is innovative, creative and certainly one-of-a-kind. His style is very distinctive, but yet very eclectic. One day he’ll wear a double-breasted jacket with satin lapels and a spread collar paired with a silk knit tie, and the next he’ll wear striped pants and tur-quoise socks with brown loafers
He appears to dress so effortless-ly, even when “dressing down.”
Elkann, 32, has distinguished himself in the fashion industry. In a recent interview, Tom Ford was asked who he believed was “the chicest man in the world?”
With not a moment to think, Ford replied “Lapo Elkann,” going on to explain, “He is very, very styl-ish. The reason he’s stylish is he wears very outlandish clothes, but
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Simeon Soul Charger will be holding an Extended Play release show on Saturday at the Kent Stage at 8:30 pm.
Tickets are available at Spin-More Records and Woodsy’s Music for an advanced charge of $5 or can be purchased at the door for $7.
“All Rather Dead,” Sim-eon Soul Charger ’s second release, is an EP that contin-ues off the story from their previous self-titled EP in 2009, presenting a variety of distinct yet compelling sounds.
“The album segues the last EP with this one,” the band members said. “If you listen to them (“Simeon Soul Char-ger” and “All Rather Dead”) back-to-back without spaces, they play as one.”
This f ive-piece Akron-based ensemble notes such influences as early David Bowie, Jethro Tull and The Kinks, along with correla-tion with Pink Floyd and the Beatles.
One thing special about “All Rather Dead” is the
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fact that it can be characterized into more than just one musical genre.
The second track off the album, “Fabulous Hand-Made Emotionless Robotic Man,” falls under the category of psyche-delic/punk/grunge, while oth-ers, like “Coffin Party” and “A Dance for the Moon God,” offer a more rock/futuristic arena rock sensation.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Aaron Brooks provides the band with a smooth, dulcet voice with crisp backing tracks from bass-ist Jim Garibaldi and drummer Joe Kidd.
Adding an even fuller sound to the album is guitarist Rick Phillips, who teamed up with Simeon Soul Charger follow-ing the success of their previous album.
“Rick brings a lot of depth and psychedelia to the music,” the band said.
Phi l l ips , a long with the orchestration of numerous cel-lo, piano and electronics parts, is what separates this master-piece from all other works in the past.
Simeon Soul Charger is set to travel to Germany for a 10-day tour following the release of “All Rather Dead” on Saturday. They
confident about his look, of what he’s doing and who he is as a per-son, he has very individual style and that’s what becomes iconic.”
Elkann has been listed on Vanity Fair’s “Best Dressed Hall of Fame 2009,” GQ named him a “style icon,” and he has recently made it on the infamous “International Best Dressed” list.
Style seems to be in his DNA. His aunt is powerhouse fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, but his wardrobe is not all that makes him famous.
In 2005, Elkann experienced a near fatal overdose when party-ing with questionable company in Italy, causing him to be exiled from Italy for 18 months. He is a frequent subject in the gossip col-umns for his fast-lane lifestyle, but this hasn’t stopped him from mak-ing a statement.
Despite his way of life, Elkann has set his own meaning to style. He is one of the rare early adopt-ers of fashion. Lapo Elkann is the modern-day Cary Grant, which is a hefty, honorable title to carry.
Contact Style Eye columnist Remah Doleh at [email protected]. plan to follow up their tour with
a release of a full-length album sometime in the next year.
