LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM Section B Thursday, April 8, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Rain HI 62, LO 38 DAILY KENT STATER Samantha Worgull Daily Kent Stater Lake Hall residents had to pay $5.66 to the university to cover more than $1,000 in damages done to the residence hall. In February, vandalism occurred in the hall when the water fountain on the fourth-floor women’s wing, a window in the third-floor women’s restroom and a glass panel on a first-floor entry door was damaged, according to an e-mail sent to resi- dents March 18. Floor meetings were held Feb. 28 and March 1 to discuss the damages 100 YEARS LOOKING BACK 100 YEARS LOOKING BACK 100 100 YEARS YEARS 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 October: PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, airs. Jan. 1: Cigarette advertisements are banned on national television. June 14-23: Hurricane Agnes kills 117 along the U.S. East Coast. Jan. 22: In its Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court makes abortion legal in the first trimester. Sept. 8: Gerald Ford grants a presidential pardon to former President Richard Nixon. “Jaws” becomes the first movie to gross $100 million in North America. July 4: Americans celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Aug 16: Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tenn., at the age of 42. Artificial insulin is invented. Jan 13: The YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name. Jan. 20: The United States announces that its athletes will not attend the Summer Olympics in Moscow unless the Soviet Union withdraws troops from Afghanistan. Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius and Randall Miller Streaking, mooning and flashing across Kent State Kristine Gill Daily Kent Stater It was a hot day much like yes- terday that greeted protestors at Kent State on July 11, 1977, when unarmed campus police were called in to dismantle Tent City. A makeshift community of students had been camping out near Tay- lor Hall and the proposed site of a new gym annex. The students were protesting the building of the annex because it would overlap the site of the May 4 shootings, which happened just seven years before. “The Board of Trustees didn’t think it was sacred territory,” said William Hildebrand, author of “A Most Noble Enterprise: The Story of Kent State University 1910-2010.” “Students thought anything that had to do with Blanket Hill was sacred land.” The students had been told to leave the site, but they resolved to stay in a display of nonviolent resistance when the university announced that police would be arresting all trespassers. The pro- testors accepted their arrests, and of the 250 who gathered in Tent City that day, 193 were almost peacefully arrested. THE CENTENNIAL SERIES PHOTOS COURTESY OF KENT STATE ARCHIVES TOP: Police disperse protesters during the Memorial Gym Annex controversy. Photograph appears on Page 228 of “A Book of Memories.” BOTTOM: Tent City on Blanket Hill was created as part of the protest over the proposed Memorial Gym Annex. Photograph appears on Page 225 of “A Book of Memories.” See CENTENNIAL, Page A5 It was an exhausting task for the police in the summer heat. Emeritus sociology professor Jerry Lewis was there, communicating with police and students. “The police asked me to talk to the kids in the middle because they wanted to take a break,” Lewis said. So he approached the students at Residents pay for dorm damages Vandalism in February remains unattributed and the potential for billing, and to seek out possible suspects. After the meeting was held, vandalism occurred again. The water fountain on the second floor of the women’s wing was damaged and the same window was broken again. “Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful at identifying an individual or a group responsi- ble for the damages,” said Leah Shaw, residence hall director at Lake and Olson halls. When the vandalism occurred, four suspects were questioned but no concrete evidence was found, said Josette Skobieranda Dau, coor- dinator of residential communities. A section of the Hallways Hand- book explains what happens if some- one does not come forward. The section reads: “Students may be billed for damage to univer- sity property, whether by vandalism, horseplay or accident. All floor/com- munity residents can collectively be held responsible for damages to pub- lic areas that cannot be attributed to specific individuals.” Residents were given until March 22 to come forward with any infor- mation regarding the vandalism. Since no one has come forward, Lake Hall residents collectively must pay the total cost in damages. COST OF DAMAGES The replacement fee charges of $1,302 were calculated based on the following: ■ Second floor water fountain: $570 ■ Fourth floor water fountain: $507 ■ Third floor window (broken twice): $150 ■ Fourth floor water fountain: $507 Courtney Kerrigan Daily Kent Stater With college comes indepen- dence. Students finally escape the grasp of parental control, which in most cases, means the loss of financial support as well. Every car malfunction and clothing mishap comes from the pockets of students themselves. But it doesn’t need to. Instead of breaking the bank when a taillight goes out or when a drink is spilled on the rug, students can learn how to achieve the simplest tasks without spending a fortune. Clothes Clothes don’t come cheap these days, and with every rip and stain, the value goes down along with the item in the trash. Instead of pitching battered clothes and ultimately throwing away money, a simple needle and thread or some household products can fix any rip or stain. Mike Jabbour, owner of Jab- bour’s Clothing and Tailoring in Stow, said students can easily sew seams or buttons on any piece of clothing. “It’s pretty easy to sew a button — I mean, you could teach a kid to do it,” he said. “I see kids come in here, and they don’t even know how to do that.” A spool of thread at Wal-Mart costs 96 cents and a package of nee- dles costs 97 cents. So for about $2, students can thread their own nee- dle and reconnect a button to a coat or shirt in less than five minutes. Jabbour’s charges about $12 to hem pants, but he said with some help, students can hem their own. “If you have someone stand behind you and mark your pants, then all you have to do is cut about half an inch below that, fold under and sew it,” he said. Jabbour suggested students go to a professional to taper pants, replace zippers and hem jeans. Rips and tears are easily fixed, but when students find stains on their clothes, most tend to pitch them without thinking twice. Junior fashion merchandising major Samantha Gray said she uses household products to get most stains out instead of store products. “Well, most people know that club soda removes stains, but I once spilled red wine all over me, and I actually used white wine to get the stain out,” she said. She added that she uses hydro- gen peroxide to get coffee stains out and vinegar for beer stains. For upholstery, shaving cream also works to lift stains. Cleaning products Cleaning isn’t generally on col- lege students’ “To Do” lists, but when the motivation finally kicks in, they can spend money elsewhere by making their own cleaning prod- ucts. Cleaning specialists site Mrscleanusa.com offers various formulas made from household products. Do it yourself instead of breaking the bank Cut costs by learning DIY tips POORINPORTAGE RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATER Kent State fined the residents of Lake Hall $5.66 to cover more than $1,000 in damages done. Damages include a broken water fountain on the fourth floor, a window in the third-floor women’s restroom and a glass panel on a first-floor entry door was damaged. See LAKE Page A5 See DIY , Page A5 Students discover new freedoms as university recovers from deficit the center of the group who were standing together, arms linked, awaiting their turn to be carried off to jail and told them the police were going to cool off for a bit. The students unlinked their arms and rested too. Then it was back to business. Kelly Petryszyn Daily Kent Stater It’s no secret that the economy has created a spike in poverty in recent years. Right here in Portage County, the percentage of impover- ished individuals increased from 9.3 to 12, according to estimates from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2006-2008 American Community Survey. The percent of impoverished families raised from 5.9 to 7.1, according to estimates from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2006-2008 American Community Survey. The rise of poverty in Portage County has created a strain on social services. Portage County Family and Community Services is being particularly stretched because the agency has reduced its workforce. More people relying on social services The remaining employees are working longer hours to serve their clients, said Christie Anderson, special projects coordinator at Por- tage County Family and Commu- nity Services. Fewer employees are responsible for handling a higher demand for services. “The situation has been more dire than it has been in the past because when the economy is downturned it impacts not only the people who need services, but it also impacts our contributions as an agency,” Anderson said. “Our donations go down as people have fewer resources to devote to charity. It’s a double negative impact when the demand is going up and the resources are going down.” See SOCIAL SERVICES, Page A5 Fourteen ways to figure out what you’re about. d a u g h B r o t h e r B r o t h e r B r o t h e r s Y o u Y o u Y o u A u n t A u n t A u n t A n t c o u s i n c o u s i n c o u s i n n e p h e w n e p h e w n e p h e w n i e c e n i e c e n i e c e u n c l e u n c l e n c l e
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Thursday, April 8, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Rain HI 62, LO 38
DAILY KENT STATER
Samantha WorgullDaily Kent Stater
Lake Hall residents had to pay $5.66 to the university to cover more than $1,000 in damages done to the residence hall.
In February, vandalism occurred in the hall when the water fountain on the fourth-floor women’s wing, a window in the third-floor women’s restroom and a glass panel on a first-floor entry door was damaged, according to an e-mail sent to resi-dents March 18.
Floor meetings were held Feb. 28 and March 1 to discuss the damages
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October: PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, airs.
Jan. 1: Cigarette advertisements are banned on national television.
June 14-23: Hurricane Agnes kills 117 along the U.S. East Coast.
Jan. 22: In its Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court makes abortion legal in the first trimester.
Sept. 8: Gerald Ford grants a presidential pardon to former President Richard Nixon.
“Jaws” becomes the first movie to gross $100 million in North America.
July 4: Americans celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Aug 16: Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tenn., at the age of 42.
Artificial insulin is invented.
Jan 13: The YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name.
Jan. 20: The United States announces that its athletes will not attend the Summer Olympics in Moscow unless the Soviet Union withdraws troops from Afghanistan.
Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius
and Randall Miller
Streaking, mooning and flashing across Kent State
Kristine GillDaily Kent Stater
It was a hot day much like yes-terday that greeted protestors at Kent State on July 11, 1977, when unarmed campus police were called in to dismantle Tent City. A makeshift community of students had been camping out near Tay-lor Hall and the proposed site of a new gym annex.
The students were protesting the building of the annex because it would overlap the site of the May 4 shootings, which happened just seven years before.
“The Board of Trustees didn’t think it was sacred territory,” said William Hildebrand, author of “A Most Noble Enterprise: The Story of Kent State University 1910-2010.” “Students thought anything that had to do with Blanket Hill was sacred land.”
The students had been told to leave the site, but they resolved to stay in a display of nonviolent resistance when the university announced that police would be arresting all trespassers. The pro-testors accepted their arrests, and of the 250 who gathered in Tent City that day, 193 were almost peacefully arrested.
THE CENTENNIAL SERIES
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KENT STATE ARCHIVES TOP: Police disperse protesters during the Memorial Gym Annex controversy. Photograph appears on Page 228 of “A Book of Memories.” BOTTOM: Tent City on Blanket Hill was created as part of the protest over the proposed Memorial Gym Annex. Photograph appears on Page 225 of “A Book of Memories.”
See CENTENNIAL, Page A5
It was an exhausting task for the police in the summer heat. Emeritus sociology professor Jerry Lewis was there, communicating with police and students.
“The police asked me to talk to the kids in the middle because they wanted to take a break,” Lewis said. So he approached the students at
Residents pay for dorm damagesVandalism in February remains unattributed
and the potential for billing, and to seek out possible suspects.
After the meeting was held, vandalism occurred again. The water fountain on the second floor of the women’s wing was damaged and the same window was broken again.
“Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful at identifying an individual or a group responsi-ble for the damages,” said Leah Shaw, residence hall director at Lake and Olson halls.
When the vandalism occurred, four suspects were questioned but no concrete evidence was found, said Josette Skobieranda Dau, coor-dinator of residential communities.
A section of the Hallways Hand-book explains what happens if some-one does not come forward.
The section reads: “Students may be billed for damage to univer-sity property, whether by vandalism, horseplay or accident. All floor/com-munity residents can collectively be held responsible for damages to pub-lic areas that cannot be attributed to specific individuals.”
Residents were given until March 22 to come forward with any infor-mation regarding the vandalism. Since no one has come forward, Lake Hall residents collectively must pay the total cost in damages.
COST OF DAMAGES
The replacement fee charges of $1,302 were calculated based on the following:■ Second floor water fountain: $570■ Fourth floor water fountain: $507■ Third floor window (broken twice): $150■ Fourth floor water fountain: $507
Courtney KerriganDaily Kent Stater
With college comes indepen-dence. Students finally escape the grasp of parental control, which in most cases, means the loss of financial support as well.
Every car malfunction and clothing mishap comes from the pockets of students themselves. But it doesn’t need to.
Instead of breaking the bank when a taillight goes out or when a drink is spilled on the rug, students can learn how to achieve the simplest tasks
without spending a fortune.
ClothesClothes don’t come cheap these
days, and with every rip and stain, the value goes down along with the item in the trash.
Instead of pitching battered clothes and ultimately throwing away money, a simple needle and thread or some household products can fix any rip or stain.
Mike Jabbour, owner of Jab-bour’s Clothing and Tailoring in Stow, said students can easily sew seams or buttons on any piece of clothing.
“It’s pretty easy to sew a button — I mean, you could teach a kid to do it,” he said. “I see kids come in here, and they don’t even know how to do that.”
A spool of thread at Wal-Mart
costs 96 cents and a package of nee-dles costs 97 cents. So for about $2, students can thread their own nee-dle and reconnect a button to a coat or shirt in less than five minutes.
Jabbour’s charges about $12 to hem pants, but he said with some help, students can hem their own.
“If you have someone stand behind you and mark your pants, then all you have to do is cut about half an inch below that, fold under and sew it,” he said.
Jabbour suggested students go to a professional to taper pants, replace zippers and hem jeans.
Rips and tears are easily fixed, but when students find stains on their clothes, most tend to pitch them without thinking twice.
Junior fashion merchandising major Samantha Gray said she uses household products to get most stains out instead of store products.
“Well, most people know that club soda removes stains, but I once spilled red wine all over me, and I actually used white wine to get the stain out,” she said.
She added that she uses hydro-gen peroxide to get coffee stains out and vinegar for beer stains.
For upholstery, shaving cream also works to lift stains.
Cleaning productsCleaning isn’t generally on col-
lege students’ “To Do” lists, but when the motivation finally kicks in, they can spend money elsewhere by making their own cleaning prod-ucts.
Cleaning special ists s i te Mrscleanusa.com offers various formulas made from household products.
Do it yourself instead of breaking the bankCut costs by learning DIY tips
POORINPORTAGE
RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATERKent State fined the residents of Lake Hall $5.66 to cover more than $1,000 in damages done. Damages include a broken water fountain on the fourth floor, a window in the third-floor women’s restroom and a glass panel on a first-floor entry door was damaged.
See LAKE Page A5
See DIY, Page A5
Students discover new freedoms as university recovers from deficit
the center of the group who were standing together, arms linked, awaiting their turn to be carried off to jail and told them the police were going to cool off for a bit. The students unlinked their arms and rested too. Then it was back to business.
Kelly PetryszynDaily Kent Stater
It’s no secret that the economy has created a spike in poverty in recent years. Right here in Portage County, the percentage of impover-ished individuals increased from 9.3 to 12, according to estimates from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2006-2008 American Community Survey.
The percent of impoverished families raised from 5.9 to 7.1, according to estimates from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2006-2008 American Community Survey.
The rise of poverty in Portage County has created a strain on social services. Portage County Family and Community Services is being particularly stretched because the agency has reduced its workforce.
More people relying on social services
The remaining employees are working longer hours to serve their clients, said Christie Anderson, special projects coordinator at Por-tage County Family and Commu-nity Services. Fewer employees are responsible for handling a higher demand for services.
“The situation has been more dire than it has been in the past because when the economy is downturned it impacts not only the people who need services, but it also impacts our contributions as an agency,” Anderson said. “Our donations go down as people have fewer resources to devote to charity. It’s a double negative impact when the demand is going up and the resources are going down.”
See SOCIAL SERVICES, Page A5
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FOR YOUR INFORMATIONTODAY’S EVENTSn U.S. Census Bureau Q-and-A When: 9 a.m.Where: Library Room 18
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n Speaker, Eva SchlossWhen: 11:30 a.m. Where: Kiva
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Ashley SepanskiDaily Kent Stater
Close quarters and shared equipment can be a breeding ground for bacteria.
The Student Recreation and Wellness Center hopes to remind visitors of this with recently posted signs that display prevention and awareness tips for staph infections.
Although Jason Hawk, rec center marketing coordinator, said the signs are a precautionary measure and not an indication of an outbreak. He said staph infections can be easily contracted in any close quarters if students are not careful.
Jennifer D’Abreau, interim medical director at the DeWeese Health Center, said the Staphylococcus bacterium, and its common variety Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is commonly found on people’s skin. The bacteria, she said, can be spread through skin-to-skin contact, touching a surface in contact with staph or sharing a per-sonal item with someone carrying the bacteria.
“What often happens is there’s a
break in the skin and the organism enters in that fashion and it causes what is commonly known as a boil,” D’Abreau said. “It usually has puss, although not necessarily. It’s usually red, it’s usually hot and elevated, some-times almost like a pimple.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site, the MRSA variety organisms are bacteria resistant to certain antibiotics.
“MRSA got that name because it is resistant to methacillin, which is an extremely strong antibiotic that is used in hospitals,” D’Abreau said. “It also therefore implies that it is resistant to most of the common antibiotics that we use for staph, which are usually the penicillin classification of drugs, any of the cillins.”
Once a person is infected with a staph infection, D’Abreau said to seek immediate treatment before the infec-tion has time to enter the blood stream. Once the infection goes systemic, it could spread to and attack other areas of the body and cause death.
“Patients always say whenever you ask ‘How long have you had this?’ ‘Oh, about two weeks.’” D’Abreau said. “You
know, if it’s starting to look infected, come in right away. Don’t wait.”
The infections, including MRSA, are typically treated with a combination of oral and cream antibiotics, D’Abreau said.
For prevention, D’Abreau and Hawk advocated hand washing and sanitizing equipment.
“Wash, wash, wash your hands,” D’Abreau said. “Soap and water is still the most effective means, hand sanitiz-er is the next best thing, but wash your hands.”
D’Abreau also said to cover open or unhealed wounds, avoid sharing personal items and to wear long sleeve shirts or pants at the rec center if infect-ed with a staph infection. She also said the benefits of exercising outweigh the risks of contracting infection and not to stop attending public facilities like the rec center.
Ashley Ramsak, junior hospitality management major, said she still works out at the rec center, but makes sure to clean the equipment before she uses it.
“Well it’s definitely something that I worry about, so I wipe everything down first because sometimes people don’t
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think about it,” Ramsak said. “They might just get a little portion of the machine, like some people don’t wipe down the handle bars, or you know, the back of it. I mean, you’re sweating on it, so you should always clean it.”
Hawk said to remember staph can be contracted in any large venue.
“Basically it could happen here (the rec center), it could happen in a rest-room in Bowman Hall,” Hawk said. “It’s just sanitary precautions we’re try-ing to make people aware of.”
D’Abreau said in addition to sani-tizing and avoiding contact with other people’s personal items, students should continue to practice healthy habits to avoid infection.
“Just other healthy things you can do for disease prevention as a whole would be to live healthy, exercise, eat right, do all those kinds of things to keep your immune system strong,” she said.
MONTCOAL, W.Va.— Two full days after the worst U.S. mining disaster in a generation, dangerous gases underground prevented rescuers Wednesday from ven-turing into the Upper Big Branch coal mine to search for any survivors of the explosion that killed at least 25 workers.
Crews drilled holes deep into the ground to release the gases, but by late afternoon the levels of lethal carbon monoxide and highly
explosive hydrogen and methane remained far too high for searchers to look for the last four people missing.
“We just can’t take any chances” with the lives of rescuers, said Kevin Stricklin of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. “If we’re going to send a rescue team, we have to say it’s safe for them to go in there.”
Officials could not say when rescuers might be able to go in.
Stricklin said relatives of the miners backed the decision to hold off for now.
“We’ve asked the families to be patient,” he said.
Gov. Joe Manchin and others saw only a “sliver of hope” that the miners survived by reaching one of the shaft’s rescue chambers, which are stocked with food, water and enough oxygen to last four days. Workers planned to drill another hole so they could lower a cam-era into one of the airtight chambers to see if anyone managed to get inside.
“We’ve been working against long odds from day one,” Manchin warned.
The federal mine agency appointed a team of investigators to look into the blast, which officials said may have been caused by a buildup of methane.
The mine’s owner, Massey Energy Co., has been repeatedly cited for problems with the system that vents methane and for allowing combustible dust to build up. On the very day of the blast, MSHA cited the mine with two safety violations — one involving inadequate maps of escape routes, the other concerning an improper splice of electrical cable.
Lethal gas stops rescuers from entering W.Va. mine
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Upstart groups face challengesKyle NelsonDaily Kent Stater
Student organizations at the Kent State Stark Campus are growing, but they still face unique challenges the main campus does not face.
Trying to organize students at a campus that is composed of only commuter students has proven to be tricky. Erin Hol-lenbaugh, faculty co-adviser for the group Communication Soci-ety, experiences these challenges first hand.
“It really is a difficult thing for student organizations,” Hollenbaugh said. “We have to catch students while they’re on campus and try to schedule things at varied times to match with their schedules. It’s a hur-dle that residential campuses don’t necessarily face.”
Advertising for the different organizations on campus is a main component of membership.
“We started advertising with more traditional measures like posters, and that didn’t get much buzz,” Hollenbaugh said. “To be honest, the most successful tool has been word of mouth.”
There are a total of 23 stu-dent organizations at the Stark campus, with a few more in the pipeline. The guidelines for a
student organization prevent an overload of organizations; however, the parameters are not insurmountable.
“We require the students to have at least five members and a full-time faculty or staff adviser,” said student activities coordinator Kristi Yerian. “They have to meet with the Student Government Allocations Committee to present their ideas and constitution.”
Despite the presented chal-lenges, the organizations give and do a lot around the Stark cam-pus. Ashley Meinke, sophomore applied communications major and secretary for the Communi-cation Society, is involved in help-ing get the word out to students about what they do.
“We’re involved in a lot of great things right now,” Meinke said. “Soles for Souls is our big one where we’re collecting shoes for needy people. We did a letters for active soldiers program, where students made letters and cards for soldiers over the holidays. It really got everyone involved.
“We’re right now focusing on Earth Day and our bulletin board. Our board will be up for two weeks. There are several bulletin boards on each floor of Main Hall and we’re taking one over. It’s to let people know who we are since we’re a newer cam-pus organization.”
All the advertisements have helped the Communicat ion Society increase its membership over the past year, even though
Eva Schloss, stepsister to Anne Frank and author of “The Promise: The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust” will be speaking about her experiences during World War II at 12:15 p.m. today in the Kiva.
Schloss’s mother married Otto
Frank, Anne’s father, in 1953. “We are delighted to have Ms.
Schloss coming to the campus,” said Richard Steigmann-Gall, associate professor of history and director of the Jewish studies pro-gram at Kent State.
“As one of the last living
links to Anne Frank, her voice is an invaluable contribution to Holocaust memory,” he said.
After speaking, Schloss will be signing her books. The event is free and open to the public.
— Ryan Friend
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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 incidents of inter-est to the public.
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many of the members do not go to every single meeting.
“Events are more attended than meetings,” Hollenbaugh said. “On the actual list, there are 35-ish students. In terms of people we see on a regular basis, it’s more like 15.”
Student organizations have taken a giant leap in Yerian’s tenure, and she has been happy with its resurgence.
“There are so many positive aspects that it’s hard to name just one,” Yerian said. “We’ve created a student government in the last three years. This is the first time we’ve had a student government in about 15 years or so.
“It’s been great seeing student life grow,” she added. “There are always students coming in that want to do different things and have different ideas.”
With the growth of student life comes the uneasiness from stu-dents resistant to change.
“It definitely takes awhile for students to get used to having different things they can do on campus,” Yerian said. “I can see a difference in participation in student life even from when I started here.”
DANIEL MAXWELL | DAILY KENT STATER James Pristov, a junior electrical technology major, receives a pie in the face during Pie-A-Chi at the Student Center yesterday. The event is part of Sigma Chi’s week-long philanthropy benefitting Children’s Miracle Network.
It’s for the kids!
Nick GluntDaily Kent Stater
Members of Kent State’s Col-lege Democrats have started a non-partisan student organization on campus with the hope of improv-ing environmental awareness through events and programs.
Organization president Erika Schneider said she and vice presi-dent Laura Vanzo, as passionate environmentalists, realized there were no environmentalist student groups at Kent State. They found members and built the Kent Envi-ronmentalists Group from the ground up barely a month ago.
“Humans really do have a serious impact on the Earth,” Sch-neider said. “We need to lessen our impact and fix what we’ve already messed up.”
Among many discussions, the group has begun deciding what it will do for Earth Day, which will be celebrated April 22. Schneider said she hopes to do something noticeable because it is the 40th anniver-
sary of the first Earth Day.The Kent Environmental-
ists Group meets Mondays at 8 p.m. in Room 302 of the Stu-dent Center.
The plans for Earth Day are still under discussion. Sch-neider said the group is think-ing about hosting a campus clean-up event and showing some documentaries.
“We want to make sure people know environmentalism isn’t all about global warming,” Schneider said. “Even if global warming was disproved, there would still be environmentalism.” Recycling, cleaner energy and pollution are just some examples of other envi-ronmental issues.
As an organization, founding member Stephanie Pike said they hope to make Kent State more green-oriented.
“It feels like we create a lot of waste,” Pike said. She said instead of throwing out its excess food, Dining Services could either mulch it or give it to a shelter.
Pike said other college cam-
puses have much better recycling programs than Kent State’s. She thinks the Kent Environmentalists Group could improve the univer-sity’s program.
Schneider said she thinks the university should adopt green fees, an optional fee of five dollars to the cost of tuition, which would go toward making the campus more environmentally friendly.
Though most of the founding members are also members of the College Democrats, Schneider said she wants to stress that the group is nonpartisan. She said environ-mentalism is a human issue, not a political one. The group can still be involved in politics, just not affiliated with either the liberal or conservative agenda.
“We don’t have another plan-et,” Schneider said, “so we kind of need this one.”
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SUMMARY: Although Obama’s new education overhaul won’t seem to directly affect students at Kent State immediately, it is important for students to know what it means for
them down the road. Understanding the ways of the old system and how the new one will take affect is the first step in understanding what this change means for Kent State.
The education system in America is taking a turn for the worse in the handling of student insubordination and discipline. By enacting zero-tolerance poli-cies in school districts all across the United States, hundreds of students have been expelled, arrested and taken to court for offenses as mild as bringing a fork to school.
Designed to combat issues of disobedience and rule break-ing, zero-tolerance policies often have severe punishments that are unfair and inappropriate in address to the offense. The idea is that in order to maintain con-trol, there are no exceptions to the rules under any circumstance.
Last month, 12-year-old Alexa Gonzalez of Queens, N.Y., was escorted out of her Spanish class in handcuffs for doodling on her desk with an erasable marker. On the desk she wrote, “I love my friends Abby and Faith.”
In March, a kindergartner was suspended for making a finger gun, another kindergartner was handcuffed and taken to a psychi-atric ward for being “rowdy” in class in New York, and last Octo-ber, 6-year-old Zachary Christie was suspended from school for having a camping utensil with him at school in Newark, Del.
Why is it that school districts are being so inane in their disci-pline policies that they are will-ing to handcuff 12-year-olds and suspend kindergartners? What is the harm in letting children learn from their mistakes in a produc-tive and appropriate manner?
Zero-tolerance policies in the United States are getting strict-er and more outrageous in the handling of drug and violence problems in schools, as well as simpler matters of recess scuffles and quarrels. There is no con-crete evidence that by taking such staunch actions against students it will deter further offense that could be made by other students who break the rules consciously or by accident.
There is a mindset in many cultures that by severely enact-ing a policy that is inflexible in its dealing with the situations at hand, people will do their best to follow accordingly. If people are aware of the serious consequenc-es to their actions, then they will modify their behavior to avoid breaking the rules.
But isn’t it part of human nature to misunderstand, make mistakes and at times be insub-
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On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers.— History.com
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DON WRIGHT’S VIEW
What Obama’s new loan means for college students
While we were on spring break, President Obama and Congress did their part to alter the way college students pay for their educa-tion. And while health care reform currently occupies the political center stage, students shouldn’t overlook the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.
That’s because some experts say the bill will forever change the way a college education is funded.
President Obama said in order to keep the United States competitive in the global job mar-ket, higher education needs to be both afford-able and accessible for the American public. The new law aims to simplify the lending pro-cess and make federal loans more competitive with their unregulated private counterparts.
As of July 1, the new law effectively elimi-nates the Federal Family Education Loan Pro-gram, which was the private/public hybrid model for students to borrow for college. In its
place, the law expands Direct Loans and Pell Grants, streamlining students’ options.
In the Direct Loans program, the federal government acts as the lender, offering lower interest rates and longer grace periods for stu-dents to pay back money.
Private lenders and banks waged an aggres-sive lobbying campaign against the bill’s pas-sage and for good reason: The bill strips private lenders from their ability to issue federal loans. It basically eliminates the middleman.
President Obama has the best interests of students in mind with this act. And many esti-mates show that it won’t deepen the country’s massive national debt. So while banks and lend-ers might oppose it, students should under-stand that the bill, with its caps on repayment and potential for loan forgiveness, could benefit them in the long run.
The change will cap college graduates’ annu-al student loan repayments at 10 percent of their
income, spends more at community colleges and awards $2.55 billion to historically black colleges and universities.
President Obama has the best interests of the students in mind. Plus, this does not seem like it will affect the federal debt. Although most banks and direct lenders oppose this bill, students should care because they will benefit later.
Kent State students won’t see a drastic change just yet — the university has used Direct Lend-ing for the past 15 years and phased out its use of the FFEL a long time ago. However, it’s impor-tant for students to understand the effect
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Christopher Hook
Science under the scalpel
Zero-tolerance policies: Illogical
ordinate to the law? Whether it is zero-tolerance policies or the death penalty, blanket legal mechanisms we allow our judicial systems to use aren’t conducive to fostering a peaceful, under-standing environment. Instead, it promotes fearful living and dis-trust of others, keeping people on pins and needles about what authoritative figures could do to them next.
The way to combat such unnec-essary, volatile legal action is by making it apparent to the media and by fighting the policies in court. Many of the children who were suspended and expelled from school because of zero-tol-erance policies have taken their cases to court on the grounds that the punishments interfered with their constitutional right to educa-tion. Several school districts that have punished students under zero-tolerance policies denied sending tutors to their homes to help them catch up with missed homework.
If the purpose of zero-toler-ance policies is to keep students safe and focused on school, it really isn’t effective if everyone is expelled or suspended for minor infractions. School authorities should handle issues of disobe-dience and violence with more effective counseling programs and peer mediation. Those involved in incidents would then have the opportunity to express their feel-ings and work toward resolutions to fit their specific situations.
It isn’t a difficult concept to grasp. Even a 5-year-old could see the logic in creating a supportive network of authoritative figures to trust and believe in.
Thisanjali Gangoda is a senior political science major and
columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected].
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As I write this column on a late Tuesday night, I am inspired, or rather spurred on, by my cocker spaniel Toby who has, to my knowl-edge, lay unmoved from his doggie bed since I left the house at 9 a.m. The sight of my lazy and bleary-eyed puppy friend reminds me of his apathy toward the world. Toby doesn’t fret about relationship issues or alternative energy standards or health care bills. My first impulse is, and I think many overworked college stu-dents might agree, is to be jealous. Oh, to be unhindered and devote one’s life to simple amusement!
But we are human. We are distinguished from amoeba, jellyfish, lions, tigers and cocker spaniels by our intelligence, which allows us to observe patterns in nature and adjust our lives accordingly. Unlike the tiny rodents scrambling around during winter’s trying months seeking shelter during a blizzard, our intelligence has granted us the gifts of central heating, shingled roofs and hot cocoa to keep us warm and cozy. We have vaccines to pre-vent smallpox, polio and malaria; defibrilla-tors to revive the unconscious and prosthetic limbs to help soldiers walk again.
Our intelligence has also allowed us to move past basic survival and actually improve our lives. I think about an invention as simple as the wheel in the Stone Age, to the birth of the printing press in the late 15th century, to automobiles in the 20th century and to micro-chips that have revolutionized the world today. Society has evolved as our intelligence has, opening up new possibilities for human-kind that allow us to live longer and better than was possible two generations before.
But historically, there has always been a push back against scientific revolution. In the 1600s, Galileo Galilei was sentenced to house
arrest for life by the Catholic Church after sub-mitting his theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe. A century later, Isaac Newton refrained from releasing his three laws of motion for 20 years out of fear he would be shamed by the authorities of his time. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin faced enormous resistance upon the transmission of his theory of evolution, which, for some, con-tradicted the creation story of the Bible.
Criticism of scientific ideas is healthy for the scientific process. In fact, science wouldn’t advance were it not for the scads of scien-tists who question the norm. Our very own Dr. Owen Lovejoy demonstrated this in his research on the evolutionary chain. His work, which uprooted existing theory of human evolution, embodies Albert Einstein’s idea that “to raise new questions, new possibili-ties, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
Today, just like in the world of Galileo, there is push back to progress. Though 99 percent of scientists, including a body of United Nations experts, have concluded that humans are caus-ing the Earth to warm at a faster than natural rate, still 46 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, don’t believe this. More startling statistics: According to Gallup, 48 percent of
Americans don’t believe in the theory of evo-lution, despite it being as widely accepted by scientists today as Newton’s laws are.
I don’t mind that science is being disput-ed. I do mind, though, that people without knowledge of science are challenging global warming and evolution, both scientifically verified ideas.
I can’t tell you how many times I heard peo-ple saying that global warming is clearly not happening because we just experienced one of the coldest winters on record. If they read the science, they would know that global warming increases the severity of all seasons: Summers are hotter, winters are colder. And, evolution, well, it is a very sticky issue. I will just say this: It is irresponsible of people to denounce evolu-tion completely without using science to back up their statements.
In closing, people use science all the time. They put out grass seed in the spring, and a few weeks later, little green sprigs began to show themselves on the lawn. We rely on gravity to keep us on the ground. We construct buildings to withstand natural disasters. We feed our cocker spaniels healthy dog food and give them ringworm shots. We need science to help us live our lives, to progress society. We cannot trust science sometimes, and other times not.
I invite your comments.
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
Anastasia Spytsya
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We are still not done arguing over the health care reform. We still cannot get over either negative or positive euphoria. Repub-licans scream it’s too expensive and we can-not afford it. Democrats don’t care about the financial situation; they just had to pass something so November will look a little bet-ter for them.
Whether I agree with the reform or not, it is a serious matter.
People are protesting the reform without even understanding that billions of their dollars are wasted on stuff I think is absolutely unnec-essary (unlike affordable medical coverage).
The federal government spent $423,500 to find out why males don’t like to wear con-doms (that’s at least 170 medical insurances right there). I am sorry, but right now, in the middle of economic recession when millions are unemployed, I couldn’t care less to know why men don’t like condoms. What is it going to change?
Our government also would like to know why we do not ride bikes to work. Moreover, the government is ready to spend $1 million to find out the answer. Should I give you my bank account number, dear federal govern-ment? Because I am about to answer that question for you right now.
I am not about to contribute to the argument whether animals are or are not humans that my fellow columnists have had, but man, I would like to see the federal government spend $1.2 million on uninsured Americans and instead of studying the breeding habits of the woodchuck.
In January, the government decided to spend $1 billion to build a new American embassy in London. London is pretty enough without a new crystal building “sponsored” by American taxpayers. The American gov-ernment could have covered at least 400,000 uninsured Americans.
And the list can go on, and on and on.What sucks, is that this is our money. It
is our money that we worked very hard for. And then someone else gets to decide how to waste it. It really blows my mind away when I read the “excuses” for such spending. And more over, all these politicians sound so damn serious about it. Fools. For real, our government is having a serious lack of com-mon sense.
Apparently, the government thinks that if we know what makes men hate using con-doms, we might be able to invest more money into new types of condoms, or any type of protection, that will be more pleasing to men. And that will resolve all issues that sex causes because men will want to use protection. Can I just say, “WTF? SMH.”
The government is now responsible for 32 million uninsured Americans, and yet politi-cians waste money on something that will change absolutely nothing. I don’t know if they understand what is really up in the country.
The logic is simple: Dear federal govern-ment, the dollars you waste are our money. You need to spend our money on us or on research that will directly affect us. You need to take care of people whose lives are at risk and who don’t have money to pay for treat-ment in the first place, and stop worrying about making men’s sexual lives more pleas-ant. You need to understand that a human life is a priority. And if you don’t understand this common sense, you’re just plain “stoopid.” Get your priorities straight.
If you, federal government, had some common sense, we probably would have had at least some money to pay for the reform, instead of making up billions of dollars from nowhere (or borrowing the money from the Chinese, for that matter).
And I am not just specifically talking about the health care reform — it was just an exam-ple. It’s about every single damn bill they pass that doesn’t affect us.
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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An all-purpose cleaner can eas-ily be thrown together with 1/2 tea-spoon of baking soda, a dab of liquid soap and two cups of hot water.
To freshen up carpet, sprinkle a little baking soda over dry carpet and let it sit for about 15 minutes and then vacuum.
“I’ve sprinkled baking soda in my shoes before and let them sit outside for a couple hours to get rid of the smell,” Gray said.
Window cleaner can be made with 1/2 teaspoon of liquid deter-gent, three tablespoons of vinegar and two cups of water.
Also combining lemon juice with mineral oil serves as a nice furniture polisher.
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DIYDo it yourself instead of breaking the bank
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CarsGlenn Sanders, manager of
AutoZone in Kent, said students could do easy car fixes on their own, such as checking their fluid and oil, changing headlights and putting air in tires.
“It depends on the ability of the student,” he said. “If you first know how to open the hood of your car, you could change your washer fluid or windshield wipers.”
If students took their cars to a garage for the same fix, Sand-ers said the garage would most likely charge for about a half hour or hour of work, costing students about $60 to $80.
At Wal-Mart, Blue Coral wind-shield washer fluid costs $2.50, and AutoZone does the job for free.
FurnitureWith local flea markets and used
furniture stores nearby, students can buy inexpensive items and fix them up themselves.
Gray said when she moved into her apartment, she took an old kitch-en table and spray painted it black and then painted the chairs red and pink to complement it.
Students can also cover coffee or end tables with thrifty drapery or blankets and place picture frames or candles on top. Items can then be stored underneath the table.
John Spindler, owner of Home-place in Kent, sells used and antique furniture such as tables, chairs, dressers and lamps, ranging in price from $6 for a shelf to $300 for an antique chair.
“Most often students realize that Ohio is a great place to buy stuff because a lot of them will come in and buy some stuff to take back home,” he said. “I have items all over the country.”
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• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda• dab of liquid soap• two cups of hot water
All-purpose cleaner
The total cost of damages was $1,302. Splitting that between the 230 residents of Lake Hall, each resident was asked to pay $5.66.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, so I shouldn’t have to pay for some-one else’s mistakes,” Kaitlin Foris-ter, a Lake Hall resident said. “At the same time, I understand that the resident hall director had to do something to pay for all the dam-age, but I don’t think it should have to come out of my pocket.”
“Most students were surprised that they only had to pay the $5.66,” Skobieranda Dau said.
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LAKEResidents forced to pay for Lake Hall damages
S h e a l s o s a i d s h e o n l y received about a half dozen appeals to the charge.
If an individual wished to appeal the charge, a letter had to be submitted to Skobieran-da Dau within 48 hours of the assessment notification.
“Overall, it is concerning that someone, whether a resident or not, has such disrespect for the Lake Hall community,” Shaw said. “I do hope that these acts of vandalism stop and that we end an otherwise great school year on a positive note.”
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“Here were these 20-and 30-year-olds locking arms against these mid-dle aged cops all,” Lewis said. “They just wouldn’t let go. It was funny.”
But the purpose was a serious one, and Kent State would make national headlines once again for the display and the mess of legal consequences would take years to resolve. Tent City was dissolved that day, and the Gym Annex was con-structed soon after.
While most decades at Kent State have fluidity about them, making it difficult to pinpoint the beginnings and ends of movements and shifts in culture, the 1970s have more con-crete markers.
Lewis said the shootings on May 4, 1970, became the first shocking bookend, and the protests surround-ing the buildings of the Gym Annex in 1977 brought it to a close for the university. At the fulcrum, the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War ended in 1975, marking a sig-nificant shift in culture on campus.
“Some professors and students were so wrapped up in the war that we were trying to cut students some slack,” Lewis said. “There was no meeting or policy, but there was a collective movement to raise stan-dards after the war.”
Political activism wasn’t the only aspect of student life that was changing. Until the 1960s, students at Kent State had curfews. Girls couldn’t go into the boys’ dorms and boys had to steer clear of the girls’. Catching your cute neighbor in a towel on the way to the shower wasn’t even a feasible daydream.
But when President Glenn Olds decided to the lift the rules that had tightly governed residence halls since the university’s start, students breathed a sigh of relief.
“Men and women circulated freely in each others’ dorms,” Hil-debrand said. “In effect there were no rules; the handcuffs were off.”
“For us it was just, OK, this is fine,” said Timothy Moore, now the associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. “It wasn’t like we had been in a restricted environment. To me it wasn’t a big deal. I’m sure for a lot of parents it had to be.”
The university was merely responding to a changing culture on campus. Students expected certain freedoms, and they were getting them. Hilebrand writes that students expressed the desire for another kind of freedom in a more shocking display. A group of 20 men took to streaking through campus one night in March of 1977.
“For a brief period, that embar-rassment of britches known as “shooting the moon” or “mooning” was the ‘70s equivalent of goldfish swallowing,” Hildebrand writes. “But when dropping britches proved to be insufficiently shocking, it was supplanted by ‘flashing’ and ‘streak-ing,’ which spread like a rash over Kent’s campus in 1977; months after, it had become the ‘in’ craze on other campuses.”
Also sweeping the nation’s col-leges was the Civil Rights move-ment. Moore was president of Black United Students in 1971 and took part in events following those efforts. Moore was a graphic design major who graduated in 1973 before attending grad school at Kent State for his second degree. He’s been working for the university since.
“Students today have changed substantially, exponentially,”
Moore said. “They have chosen to be more open to new experiences, new friendships and new bonds that never would have been con-sidered then. I had white friends and white roommates, but never the kinds of relationships students have today, and it increases with each generation.”
When Moore was a student, he said the library was just a skeletal structure of steel beams, and Oscar Ritchie housed the Student Union where hundreds gathered each day. Some of his fondest memories took place on Thursday nights.
“We used to say ‘Sure happy it’s Thursday’ instead of “Thank God it’s Friday,” Moore said. “Then we started referring to them by the initials.’”
“We would rent a room above Woodsy’s downtown and had the most phenomenal dances that you could imagine,” Moore said. “It would get so hot in there from all the dancing that you could see the steam coming out of the windows from Water Street.”
While Moore and friends had Thursdays to look forward to, Olds was struggling to find the positives. The president was struggling to help Kent State through its financial woes. Former president Robert White had retired in 1971, and Olds was chosen after a search for candidates.
“He was very idealistic,” Hil-debrand said. “He had perhaps too many ideas about how to expand the curriculum and exciting things to do — more than could be done, at least given the economic stringencies under which they had to operate.”
He had inherited a deficit, and its effects were trickling down through the departments and beginning to affect students. His handling of the situation proved of great concern to faculty who didn’t feel Olds was
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CENTENNIALStreaking, mooning and flashing across Kent State
doing it correctly. “The majority of faculty
weren’t too sure about Olds,” Hildebrand said. “They were not sure he knew what he was doing, and they were hard on him.”
“The budget problems were extremely severe,” Hildebrand said. “There was always the threat of more fee increases. Students did a lot of march-ing around town and to Olds’ house and he’d come out and talk to them too, which would have been unthinkable in White’s time.”
State revenues were down because student enrollments had dropped, a direct effect of May 4, 1970.
While he failed to commu-nicate with faculty, Hildebrand said Olds was “a breath of fresh air” when it came to communi-cating with students.
“He opened lines of commu-nication with the students,” Hil-debrand said. “You could talk to him, and he could listen. It’s a rare guy who likes to talk but also listens well. He didn’t talk their language but could talk to them nonetheless.”
Despite his relations with stu-dents, Olds would retire in 1977, a defeated man.
“I think he was frustrated and felt he had done all he could,” Hildebrand said. “He was dis-heartened when he left, and it’s a shame he left so sad because he made a lot of contributions even though they weren’t always rec-ognized.”
She added that there are fewer funding opportunities from the state and federal government and the demand has caused people to wait longer for services. The economy has also forced people who were comfortably middle class to the brink of poverty.
“There are people who are com-ing who have not found themselves in desperate straights before,” said Daryle Fullum, assistant director of food services at Kent Social Services.
Below is a summary of how dif-ferent social service agencies are han-dling the increase in need in Portage County.
Kent Social ServicesThe amount of hot meals served
increased from 31,256 in 2005 to 33,816 in 2009, according to statistics from Kent Social Services. Commit-ted volunteers in addition to people serving court-ordered community service and Kent State students
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SOCIAL SERVICESMore people relying on social services
make it possible to keep up with the demand. Churches have been a big help in providing people and giving money, Fullum said. Donations are dwindling, but the agency still receives dona-tions from individuals and local restaurants that donate to the hot meal program.
Center of HopeSister Denise Stiles, manager
of the Center of Hope, a local food bank, decided to be lenient to ensure that everyone gets served. Under regular policy, people are allowed to come in once every 30 days to take from the pantry. Recently, people have been coming back more than once a month.
“We never turn people away,” she said. “If they say they are hungry then they can come.”
The number of families served from the period between January and October rose from 3,135 in 2008 to 4,713 in 2009. Stiles said donations are steady within the pantry.
County Clothing centerProgram manager Candy Pol-
lard has seen an overall increase in need, but especially in people who came from the middle class. The amount of people receiving clothes from the center increased from 41,514 in 2008 to 48,320 in 2009, according to records from the County Clothing Center. At the center, shoppers are allowed to take 16 items of clothing. Donations have been slower, but the center is still able to provide a con-stant supply to people who need to pick all 16 items of clothing.
Miller HouseWhile other service providers
said they are able to keep up with the increase in demand, the Miller Community House had to turn away 61 percent of its callers in 2009. The shelter can accommodate up to 22 people. The number of people it serves is always the same.
“There are not enough resources to go around,” program manager Anne Lofaro said.
She said the lack of subsidized housing and affordable housing are some of the reasons for the spike in need. Lofaro added that the Miller Community House is generally the last step for people and people only
come here when they have no other option for housing.
What’s aheadUntil the economy recovers — if it
does — Portage County Family and Community Services is working to accommodate a larger need. Ander-son said the agency is recruiting more volunteers, but does not have the budget to hire more employees. In addition, the agency is also shar-ing resources between programs so nothing goes to waste. Similar ser-vices also share donations, but try to keep the donations to the city it was given to. Fullum is working toward spreading an understanding of the individual in poverty.
“Many of us probably know someone who is in need without realizing it,” she said. “It isn’t some-one across town anymore. It could be your neighbor, someone in your family, someone who is a friend, someone you know.”
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Today’s birthday (4/8/10)Your challenge this year is to build self-esteem for yourself and for any children in your life. Independence comes fi rst. Find ways to generate enthusiasm for activities that don’t require anyone’s help. Then, cultivate your powers of observation and imagination.
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 7. Although money isn’t the real issue, that may be how you’ve been keeping track of who loves whom more. A better way is to see who can be most creative in expressing their caring.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 6. You may want to run away from home, but you need to focus on household matters. Handle practical issues early, then escape to a movie.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6. Although you want to get your ideas out, now’s the time to carefully consider all the ramifi cations and modify your message.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 5. Everyone digs in, entrenched and stubborn. This would be a good day to pursue personal matters and save your enthusiasm for later. It will work out.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 6. Today is all about appearances. Hair and accessories do matter. Achieve a unique look using materials already in your possession. You fi nd yourself on stage.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 5. Your desire for independence takes you out of your normal work routine. You don’t have to leave the country, though. Just let your imagination wander.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 6. The challenge now is to love what you’re doing for as long as you’re doing it, and to let go as soon as it’s fi nished. Release any negativity.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7. Use your talents to resolve disagreements about the basics. Be prepared to restate your arguments for the sake of clarity.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 6. The only way to get anywhere today is through team effort. Focus on the most practical means you can fi nd. Then, throw yourself fully into it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 6. To get the most out of a relaxing time, display enthusiasm for someone else’s suggestion. Spend money judiciously, but don’t pinch pennies.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is a 5. Keep the home fi res burning today. You need space to pursue independent action. Ask someone else to manage plans for this evening.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 5. Consider ways to keep everyone focused. Creative minds (including yours) have a way of wandering off. Reiterate the purpose.
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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: $8.50
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Four Bedroom House on Lincoln, Call Brent at (330)608-4396. Very close to campus.
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Jennifer ShoreDaily Kent Stater
Instead of daydreaming, doo-dling and text messaging in class, students can put down their cell phones and pick up a clicker to better understand the material presented by professors.
Mandy Lawman, training spe-cialist from Turning Technologies, LLC, held a workshop for profes-sors yesterday to teach them how to utilize clickers in the classroom for student benefit.
“What I found is that the students, in general, are more engaged during the class and the constant interaction with the lecture as opposed to just sitting there and taking notes,” Lawman said.
Sociology professor David Pur-cell has been teaching at Kent State for three years, and this is the first time he made the $45 Response-
Card XR clicker a requirement for one of his classes.
In Purcell’s Introduction to Sociology class, he said he polls students for sociological dem-onstrations relating to what he will be teaching. He said that asking questions and getting students involved spurred in-class discussion.
“The biggest complaint that students tend to have with (in class quizzes is) when the profes-sors say ‘Oh OK, that’s nice, only 20 percent of you got it right’ and then (they) just move on anyway,” Lawman said.
Purcell said he uses the click-ers in every class to help students learn and get them talking.
“I’ll do a lecture and say, given this scenario, what would be the right answer? Sometimes there is no right answer, but I want them to argue for their choice,” Purcell said.
Clickers encourage student participation during class
JENNIFER SHORE | DAILY KENT STATERMany professors now require clickers in the classroom to enhance student participation.
Purcell said he issued a mid-term evaluation and he came to the conclusion that 75 percent of students are enthusiastic about using the clickers, 15 percent are indifferent and less than 10 per-cent hate them.
Sophomore accounting major Jessica White said she has been using clickers since her freshman year. White said one of her profes-sors used the clickers to survey how students were doing to find out if he needed to review some of the material.
“(Professors) can get a lot more information into the class in a shorter period of time,” White said.
Contact College of Arts and Sciences reporter Jennifer Shore
“Even when I was a boy, I had gone out and had interviewed my grandparents and had taken notes and had a lot of informa-tion which I had put in a notebook,” he said. “Somewhere over the years it got lost.”
It bothered Manley that he had lost the notebook because his grandparents have since died, and his father and aunts and uncles had died as well.
“I thought all of that information was lost forever,” Manley said. “But I was happily wrong about that.”
At about the same time Manley started tracing his roots, the rest of the country was becoming interested as well. A lot of informa-tion became available online, whereas before a person would have to go to libraries to find handwritten copies of census records.
“At this time I also learned that there was a national, maybe international, project for genealogy known as The USGenWeb Proj-ect,” Manley said. “This is sort of a grassroots project where volunteers in each state and each county of each state basically contribute information, and then it’s posted online.”
Manley’s twin brother also took an inter-est in genealogy, and they decided to split up the branches of the family to make it easier.
“By networking with family members, I’ve also been able to get huge amounts of information in terms of old photographs and information about family lines that I did not know,” Manley said.
Manley said the best way to get started with genealogy is to talk to your relatives.
“Talk to your parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles if they’re alive,” Man-ley said. “Even though when I started this both of my parents were dead and all of my grandparents were dead, I got on the phone and phoned up my aunt, who was able to give me a lot of information.”
Manley also used networking and blogs
to find information, and he came across a lot of photos and records that he thought were long gone.
Other resources that can be used to trace your ancestors are Web sites such as ances-try.com and findagrave.com. Manley said a free Web site created by the Mormon Church Family Search Record Site (Familysearch.org) has access to Ohio death certificates, marriage records and census records. He said they also have information for a few other states as well.
Manley said the most interesting thing he found out about his ancestors was a young woman whose stepfather was abusive. One time before her stepfather was going to beat her, she shot and killed him.
“So she was thrown in jail. And while she was in jail, she and another group of women inmates started a country music band,” Man-ley said. “And apparently it was extremely popular at the time.”
Manley said he found out from the Inter-net that a movie was going to be made on his ancestor’s life, and Sandra Bullock is sup-posed to be playing his ancestor.
“There were many stories like that that came out,” he said.
Manley said his main tip for finding information about your family is to make sure what you find is true.
“When you’re doing genealogy, if at all possible, always try and double-check your information,” Manley said. “A lot of what you find is not accurate, although a lot of it is, so it’s a good starting place.”
n Ancestry.com – www.ancestry.com – Paid subscriptionBirth, death, census records, etc. n Rootsweb.com – www.rootsweb.ancestry.com – FreeVarious records n Find a Grave – www.findagrave.com – FreeCemetery records, tombstone photos, obituaries
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Ryan SheridanDaily Kent Stater
The only experience I’d ever had with a psychic was at a car-nival.
I t was with one of those robotic gypsy-looking women encased in glass who would predict your future. As a snarky kid, I’d pass her by, withhold-ing my tokens better spent on a rollercoaster.
Years later I’m still a skeptic – especially when your business’ overhead costs include crystal balls and hoop earrings. But I’ve admittedly grown curious of those who claim to know one’s future. I’ve often pondered, as we all do, about my future career, spouse and health. At the very least, I’m always in the mood to be humored.
A psychic told me I will live to be 80
Allison SmithDaily Kent Stater
An adaptation of the British documentary show “Who Do You Think You Are?” premiered March 5 in the United States. The NBC show traces the family trees
of celebrities and has already looked at Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Broderick. But genealogy isn’t a new hobby in the United States.
Mark Manley, a Kent State physics professor, became interested in genealogy after his mother died in 2002. His older sister had taken a class on genealogy before and gave him a notebook with all of the information she had found.
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So for the purposes of this column and my rising curios-ity, I made an appointment with Phyllis Born, advertised as “a gifted licensed reader and advi-sor,” who had several favorable reviews in her online listing.
Located across from a ceme-tery in Tallmadge, I was expect-ing a small-town creep show like something out of “Tales from the Crypt.” But as I drove up to a white-painted house with pot-ted flowers outside, my fears
were quickly dismissed. A stout, smiling older woman
greeted me at the door, and for $25 (debit cards unfortunately not accepted), I was allotted four “partial character readings.” Born first prayed with me. She placed her hand over mine and said God was the only one who truly knew life’s answers. I was initially put off by this imme-diate prayer reminiscent of a church service. However, as if sensing the growing awkward-ness, Born quickly threw out several anecdotes that were all, believe it or not, frighteningly accurate.
“You butt heads with your father,” she pronounced.
“You argue over money wi th your g i r l f r iend,” she exclaimed.
“You feel you’re ready to
n Familysearch.org – www.familysearch.org – FreeWeb-submitted info, 1880 census records Birth, death, census records, etc. n Census records, Ohio death certificates, marriage and death records n USGenWeb Project – www.usgenweb.org – FreeCemetery records, obituaries
n Tarot cards are “good for telling you what you already know in a way you hadn’t thought of,” said Stephanie Giammanco, an associ-ate at Empire, a tarot, henna and chocolate shop in downtown Kent. For example, tarot cards won’t tell you why you didn’t get a callback from that job interview, but they may give you insight into how you presented yourself. Maybe you were you too boastful? The tarot will know, said Giammanco, adding it’s an easy and inexpensive way to learn how to use your intuition.
move out of this area,” she bel-lowed.
Only my c losest f r iends would know such private infor-mation, but all I had told her up to this point was that I was there to write an article.
Born, a character reader since the age of 16, didn’t get every-thing right. Some readings just didn’t apply like when she said she saw me practicing law and living in the South. But Born, whose office is attached to her home, was as keen as a thera-pist in pinpointing my hopes, fears and personality traits. To my surprise, I found myself responding to this stranger with honest inquiry.
After about twenty minutes, our session was over. I still don’t know if I believe in psychics, but I left feeling validated and
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO TAROT CARD READING n To get started reading your friends and family, Giammanco said all one needs is a tarot deck and an introductory book, which can both be purchased at Empire for abut $30. The store, located at 135 E. Main St., also offers free tarot readings every Thursday.
Ryan Sheridan
optimistic. For $25, I suppose I earned it.
Now I just have to find a way to tell my girlfriend Phyllis Born sees twins in our future.
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AprilMONTHLY SPECIALS
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.
BW3Beer 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 PlaceBudweiser— $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. Wednes-
day— $5 large one-item pizza for pick-up only.
Dominick’s: Bud light— $2 pints. Pabst Blue Ribbon— $2 pints. Cherry and Grape Bombs— $2.50. Conway Irish ale— $4 pints.
Show of the week: Every Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. join DJ Phil for Dr.
Phil’s Afternooner. The show features interviews with well-established musi-cians and of course, the best of your favorite music.
Events, guests and giveawaysThursday:Noon to 2 p.m — Go-hio will have
special guests Bushwalla and J-Mo.
8 to 10 p.m — Annabel will appear on Pregam-
ing with Britany and Whit-ney.
Monday, April 126 to 8 p.m — Kent State gymnast Christine Abou-Mitri will appear on The Stat Sheet.10 p.m. to midnight — Sim-eon Soul Charger will perform an acoustic set on Musical
Mayhem. The band will also give out two pairs of tickets and a copy of their new
album during the show.
To view a full schedule and listen to all of Black Squirrel Radio’s shows visit blacksquirrelradio.com
For a full list of monthly specials,
visit KentWired.com.
The key to happiness is to remain in the here and now. A state of mindfulness can bring peace to even the most hectic of lives. “You are Here: Discov-ering the Magic of the Present Moment” maps out practical tasks to achieve a state of mind-fulness.
The steps laid out by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen buddhist monk, include conscious breath-ing, thoughtful speech, medita-
tive walking and deep listening. Hanh also advises not to
run from suffering but rather embrace and find true under-standing of the problem. Only once we are able to be mindful of our own. body and mind, are we able to be there for our loved ones, says Hanh. Sorrow is often brought on by pride. Hanh writes, “ In true love, there is no place for pride.”
The book ends with The Five Mindfulness Trainings, which is
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Happiness: a Zen approach
Nicole HennessyDaily Kent Stater
Handwriting analysis, also known as graphology, presents handwriting as a brain pattern. It studies how personality can be revealed through a person’s hand-writing style. Here are a few things to look for:
ZONES:Upper, middle and lower zones
are the sections graphologists break words into so they can ana-lyze handwriting.
For example, a lower zone would be the tail of a “g.”
Upper zones deal with your mentality, such as desires and dreams.
The middle zone of your hand-writing deals with your heart, and the lower zone deals with things like sexual desires, greed and material possessions.
SLANTS:The way your handwriting
slants (backward, forward or cen-ter) deals with the past, future and present.
For example, if your slant is leaning to the right, you are look-ing to the future and moving in a positive direction. Slant can reveal repression or fortitude.
MOOD:Mood can be revealed by the
pressure of a person’s handwrit-ing or by the stroke of their pen.
Circular movements show
What writing revealscalmness, while angular move-ments show anger.
SPACING:The amount or lack of spacing
between words and letters can indicate whether a person is an introvert or an extrovert.
Spaces in letters themselves also carry implications.
A tightly closed letter “a” or “o” indicates someone who can keep a secret, while openings in these letters indicate a gossip.
SIGNATURES:A signature is a person’s pub-
lic display of themselves. People’s signatures indicate the way they feel about themselves.
For example, if it is a bold or powerful signature, they feel that way. If it is just a scribble, it could mean they don’t feel defined.
On the other hand, the para-graphs a person writes is how they really are behind closed doors.
It should be kept in mind that you need more than one example of a person’s handwriting to get a truly accurate analysis. Look for repetitions of style and you might find out things about people that they don’t even know about them-selves.
People are always talking about ways to improve their lives or make themselves a little more exciting. There are the “I need a spontaneous road trip” conversations. There are the “I’m feeling fat and need to diet” conversations. There are the “My love life sucks and needs to change” conversations.
One common thread of all these conversations is the inten-tion behind them — to escape a state of stagnant boredom and find the refreshed, renaissance person at the end of the jour-ney.
A few folks from the Kent community are on their own personal and continuous jour-neys to self-understanding. They have chosen to share their stories.
The tale of my body is a canvas
Tasha Mordue is a fair-skinned freshman studying early childhood education. She has the kind of skin that bold-colored ink looks great against. At least that’s what tattoo artist Jake Davis of Smokin’ Tattooz told her when she was debat-ing whether to add some color to the phoenix — the mythical bird of immortality — tattoo she wanted on the side of her waist.
She said the inspiration for her tattoo came from her cousin, who recently died of cancer.
“Even when he was dying, he was still cracking jokes,” Mordue said. “He was loving life.”
The vision for her design incorporates a tattoo she already has on her side, a James Dean quote that embodies her phi-losophy on life — “Dream like you’ll live forever. Live like you’ll die today.”
Mordue wanted the wings of the phoenix wrapping the quote, creating a crest or shield of sorts and an extension of her self-expression.
“I like art,” Mordue said, sitting on a plush couch in the center of the tattoo shop while self-described feelings of anxi-ety and “having to go to the bathroom” filled her stomach in anticipation of her new piece. “Art is the way I express myself, and my body is my canvas.”
She said every time she looks at herself in the mirror after she gets a new tattoo, she feels sexy.
“I’m drawn to people with tattoos,” she said while admir-ing Davis’ full right arm sleeve of oceanic inspired art. “They are beautiful.”
Beyond the i r aes the t i c appeal, Mordue said tattoos give people the ability to see into others’ souls before even talking to them.
“Tattoos offer a glimpse of who someone is and what they stand for,” she said before going under the tattoo gun.
The tale of my kid made me do it
Twenty-three years ago, Neva “Sam” Brandon got pregnant.
When her son was born, he experienced regular ear infec-tions, a major concern for Bran-don because she said she hated to see her baby in pain.
The doctors offered their
remedy — putting plastic tubes into his little ears.
“I couldn’t take the thought of him having plastic in his ears,” she said. “So I started to look into Ecanasia and other herbal treat-ments.”
She said she started adminis-tering herbal treatments to her son, and his ear infections quick-ly subsided. The success of this treatment awakened Brandon’s spiritual respect of nature, lead-ing her to embrace natural foods and herbs as important parts of her and her family’s diets and lifestyles.
Shopping for fresh coffee at the Kent Natural Foods Co-Op, Brandon talked about the ways natural foods affect her life.
“It makes me feel better,” she said about eating organically. “I’m in control of what I put in my body because I know where it came from. I feel lighter, healthier and I smile more.”
She said Kent in the summer is a wealth of fresh foods, from everything the Co-Op offers to the Haymaker Farmer’s Market, where you can buy local foods and herbs at great prices, directly helping local farmers do what they do best, grow food.
The tale of a professor turned skydiver
Assistant professor of psy-chology Dan Neal had a somber face while discussing alcohol and addiction research in his cluttered office on the third floor of Kent Hall.
But his nonverbal communica-tion quickly changed as soon as the word “skydiving” escaped his lips.
“Skydiving has changed my entire approach to life,” Neal
said. “You learn to put aside all the bullshit, and for those five minutes you’re in the air, nothing else matters.”
It started three years ago when Neal made his first tandem jump in an effort to spice up his adven-turous side. He said the ques-tions were plentiful as he stood at the door of the plane and looked at the Earth’s surface two miles away.
“Will I live? Will my equip-ment work? Can I trust this jump supervisor?”
But after landing safely on the ground, Neal ran with the adren-aline rush he experienced, enroll-ing in classes to get his license to skydive solo.
Now he has more than 75 solo jumps to his name, and his life is improved with every jump, he said.
“This sport teaches you things about yourself,” he said. “Beyond the pure enjoyment, there is disci-pline, commitment and overcom-ing the physical and mental chal-lenges of fear.”
He said his area of expertise in alcohol addiction and research have made him hyper aware of his addiction to skydiving.
“I won’t deny it,” he said. “If I go more than two or three weeks without jumping, I get irritable and grouchy. My body is craving that adrenaline and dopamine. It’s no different than people who have that desire for drugs, eating, sex or working out. It’s a very similar draw.”
“You are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment” is a great introduction to the teachings of Zen Buddhism. Hanh spends a lot of time speaking around the world about mindfulness, peace and humanitarian efforts.
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Web sites like Last.fm, You-Tube and Facebook search through your likes, dislikes and personal information to tailor themselves to you.
Last.fmLast.fm is an Internet radio
site that recommends music to you based on what you have pre-viously listened to on your com-puter and MP3 player.
Once you sign up and down-load the Last.fm software, the site will track and record or “scrob-
Web sites are becoming personalSites appeal to the tastes of users through personal info and history
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Life path numberTo find a life path number one
uses a person’s birthday. Accord-ing to astrology.com, the life path number indicates a person’s tal-ents and abilities that will help him or her along the way.
Source: www.ehow.com1. Write your birth date on a
piece of paper. This includes the month, day and full year of your birth.
Example: Aug. 20, 19872. Rewrite the birth date in
numbers. Example: 8, 2,0,1,9,8,73. Add each of the numbers
together.Example: 8+2+0+1+9+8+7=
354. Add the resulting two num-
bers together, unless the number
Learn how to find your life path and destiny
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Names — everyone has one, and they are found in every cul-ture. And most importantly, names have meanings. Even the children of celebrities like actress Shannyn Sossamon, who named her son Audio Science and actor Jason Lee, who named his son Pilot Ins-pektor have meanings to their odd names.
The history of names is so ancient that it’s hard to pinpoint the day it began, but it’s a tradi-tion that spans cultures and gen-erations. Many names are chosen based on heritage, religion or sim-ply a trend.
According to socialsecurity.gov and the BabyCenter.com, the most popular names in the 2000s have been Ethan, Jacob, Emma and Emily. The 1990s seemed to favor Jessica, Brittany and Saman-tha; Michael, Daniel and Joshua. And the 1980s saw more of Jen-nifer, Melissa and Sarah; Michael, Christopher and Jason.
But these names we’ve become so accustom to seeing — what do they really mean? The answer can be found through etymology, the study of the history of words.
For instance, take the first name of President Lester Lefton. Accord-ing to both Behindthename.com and Meaning-of-Names.com, Les-ter is a name of English origin that is “derived from the name of the city of Leicester, originally denot-ing a person who was from that place”.
Taking it a step further, Kabalar-ian Philosophy (the study of who we are), states that the name Lester gives someone a very individual, reserved, serious nature.
What’s in a name?
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According to Kabalarians.com, the Kabalarian Philosophy, which was founded by Alfred J. Parker in Canada in 1930, states that all we are and will become is found in our names, birth dates and cycles of time. Kabalarians.com provides some free tools online to help people interested in finding out not only the meaning of their first names, but how their names affect their inner being. People can type their first names into a data-base and receive a brief analysis detailing some of their personal-ity traits.
Meaning-of-Names.com pro-vides a list of names by gender and their meanings. Visitors can type in either their first or last name and receive information about its ori-gin and meaning. Behindthename.com also provides the meaning of names and breaks them down by gender or nationality. This site also allows you to search for the mean-ings of various words that are not names.
The online etymology diction-ary at www.etymonline.com is an extensive research database that provides meanings, origins and the approximate date of origin for words.
Ancestry.com, known for help-ing people discover their fam-ily ties, also provides a free name database that offers the origin and meaning behind names as well as a chart that shows how many families in regions of the U.S. and U.K. have your surname.
is 11 or 22, which are considered “master numbers.” This is your numerology number
Example: 3+5=8If your birthday is Aug. 20,
1987, your life path number is 8.
Expression or destiny number
To find an expression or des-tiny number, a person uses the letters in his or her full name. Astrology.com says this number reveals potential talents that may have been there since birth and develop as a person matures.
This number is said to be a big component of individuals’ careers.
Source: www.ehow.com1. Find the numerical value
of your full birth name. Each let-ter corresponds to a number in sequence. When you arrive at 9, start again at 1. A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7 H=8, I=9, J=1, K=2, etc.
Example: Pamela=714531, J o a n n e = 1 6 1 5 5 5 , C r i m b -chin=399423895
2. Starting with the first name, add together each single num-
ber. If the number comes out to be a double digit keep adding those two numbers to reduce it to a single number.
Example: 7+1+4+5+3+1= 21; 2+1= 3
3. Do the same for the middle and last name, so you have a single number for each name.
Example: Pamela= 6, Joanne= 5, Crimbchin= 7
Master numbers include 11 and 22. If you encounter any of these numbers as a result, leave them as they are. Do not reduce them to a single digit. Master numbers have a significance of their own.
4. Add each number together and reduce it to a single number if it is a double digit.
Example: 6 +5+7= 18; 8+1= 9
Here is what each number represents according to astrology.com
1 — Independence, individual-ity, attainment, leadership, pioneer-ing and administrating.
2 — Cooperation, closeness, sensitivity, balance, harmony and supportive.
3 — Expressing self, joy of liv-ing, enthusiasm, optimism, creativ-
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ity and sociability. 4 — System and order, service,
sense of limitation, managing, hard-working, practical and down-to-earth.
5 — Constructive use of free-dom, variety, excitement, progres-sive, creative.
6 — Balance, responsibility, love, supportive, comforting, serv-ing and helping.
7 — Analysis, understanding, introspective, search for truth and spiritual understanding.
8 — Material satisfaction, accomplishment, desire for success, power and recognition.
9 — Selflessness, humanitari-anism, giving without thought of return, compassionate.
11 — Illumination, spiritual channel and spiritual teacher.
22 — Master builder, latent power, nervous tension, spiritual understanding of material world and high ideals.
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Students looking to explore their spirituality more in depth may consider shamanism for an alternative approach.
Native to indigenous cultures as well as Central and South America, Shamanism is a founda-tion of beliefs and practices rela-tive to the spiritual realm. Accord-ing to Herb Stevenson, founder of life coaching program the Natu-ral Passages and president of the Cleveland Consulting Group, Inc., the shaman is a holy man able to go into an altered state similar to a lucid dream.
“The shaman exists in two worlds, day-to-day life and the other part of the time,” Stevenson said.
During this “dream-like state,” the shaman is able to access vari-ous spiritual tools, Stevenson
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said. One of these spiritual tools is accessing a power animal.
“A power animal is a spirit form equivalent to the Christian guardian angel. The difference is, in indigenous cultures its form is an animal,” Stevenson said.
Power animals exist in every individual, aiding in the person’s power, protection and providing wisdom. Each animal contains certain gifts and unique character-istics, according to shamanlinks.net. Examples include a hawk’s wisdom, a panther’s patience and the wolf’s family loyalty.
Channeling the inner power animal can be done through med-itation, consulting a shaman or research.
Sources:Astrology.com“What your birthday reveals about you” by Phyllis Vega“Do it Yourself Relationship Astrology” by Lyn Birkbeck
— Melissa Dilley
ble” the music you play to your online music profile. Last.fm will then “recommend you new music you’ll like, upcoming events of your favorite and other related artists, as well as other users with a similar music taste to yours.”
The site compares your music to that of others on the site in order to suggest new artists that may appeal to you. Last.fm “can connect you to other people who like what you like — and recom-mend songs from their music col-lections and yours too,” accord-ing to the site.
You can then listen to suggested artists on your Last.fm personalized recommendation stations. Last.fm also keeps a running list of your most often played songs and artists.
YouTubeAfter watching a video on
YouTube, the site provides a list of videos that may interest you
based on the video just viewed. This list is then placed on the You-Tube homepage under the heading “Recommended for You.”
These personalized recommenda-tions are an “algorithmically selected set of videos based on past views and favorites,” according to YouTube.
Typically the related videos are created by the same YouTuber as your previously viewed videos or are based on the same topics that were tagged in your previously viewed videos.
For users with a YouTube account, videos are also recom-mended based on videos they marked as favorites.
FacebookFacebook advertisements can
appeal to your tastes since the site uses information from your profile to target you specifically.
Facebook allows advertisers to narrow their audience to individuals
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who will be most likely interested in their product or service through, what Facebook calls, “demographic and psychographic filters.” These include geographic location, age, sex, relationship status and educa-tion level, which can be found on your Facebook profile.
Advertisements can also be determined through listed likes and interests. This includes the “information from the Activities, Interests, Favorite Music, Favorite TV Shows, Favorite Movies, and Favorite Books sections of the pro-file,” according to Facebook.
Advertisers even have the abil-ity to market ads on your birthday or through your friends’ connec-tions to the advertiser.
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the color test say results will vary every time to reflect
a person’s ever chang-ing mood. Lüscher
based his test on four categories:
B l u e ( c o n -tentment ) , green (self-re s p e c t ) , red (self-c o n f i -d e n c e ) a n d y e l l o w ( d e v e l -opment). Discover y o u r mood at
www.col-orquiz.com.
Contact features cor-
respondent Kelley Stoklosa at kstoklos@
kent.edu.
Fry, had the visitor ’s locker room painted in soft pinks for this very reason. The mixed reactions Fry and his Hawkeyes received from their paint choice is an example of how greatly color perception var-ies from per-son-to-person, and mood-to-mood.
T h e L ü s c h e r Color test , d e v e l o p e d by psycho-therapist Max Lüscher, exam-ines a person’s p s y c h o p h y s i -cal state. The test aims to determine a person’s physical and emotional response to various colors. Experts of
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Feeling blue? Green with envy? Tickled pink? See-ing red?
Color has long been associated with mood, but color therapy remains slightly controversial due to the subjective nature of results.
Recently, researchers at BMC Medical Research Methodology put color theories to the test. The researchers added shades of black, gray or white to six basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. A random selection of anxious, clinically depressed and mentally healthy people selected which color they felt “most drawn to.”
The results seemed to back up some of the long-standing color associations. A bright, sunshine yellow was usually selected by happy people. Healthy people often chose light blue, while depressed people were drawn to dark blue
The most important findings, according to one researcher, say that, “The shade of color is more impor-tant than the color itself.” So if someone says they are feeling blue, it may be more correct to say they are feeling dark blue.
Pink has been well known for calming effects. Reportedly, former Iowa basketball coach, Hayden
What color are you feeling today?
How to read your palmThe left hand rep-
resents the emotion. The right hand rep-resents the practical. Read both hands for the best results.
1. Life Line- Explains a person’s vitality. A solid line suggests a life full of reward. The higher the line toward the index finger, the more ambitious a person tends to be. A chained or wavy line indicates a mental or physi-cal weakness.
2. Head Line- Mental capacity is depicted through a head line. A person with a long line is ambi-tious. Someone with a short line is likely intellectual and contem-plative. The deeper the line, the better the memory. A straight line might mean someone is too materialistic. People with double lines are very talented. The absence of a line is a good indication of laziness.
3. Heart Line- This line deals with all matters of the heart. True love is in the future for someone with a deep heart line. If a heart line joins the head line, that person’s head rules their heart. Chained lines likely belong to the flirta-tious types. If the line begins high on the hand, this indicates a very passionate and often jeal-ous person. Someone with a very low line may come off too cold toward romantic partners.
4. Fate Line- This line holds the truth about a person’s destiny. Breaks in the line stand for life changes a person will incur. If the line breaks at the head line, a successful career change is in store during middle-age. A life line that begins at the head line means the person sets his or her destiny. If the line is well pro-nounced, fate strongly impacts a person’s life.
5. Will/Logic- The top section of the thumb corresponds with will. The bottom section corresponds with logic. The longest section is the dominant force in a person’s decision-making skills.
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How your mood works for you by incorporating these colors into your life
n Green- will bring you back to nature with its healing qualitiesn Blue- for those looking for a little serenity in their livesn Red- will help you appear confident and in controln Orange- bring out your creativity with shades in the citrus family n Purple- helps channel wisdom, so wear some to your next examn Yellow- throw on something yellow and say goodbye to the rainy day blues
Color and the Zodiac
Each astrological sign has a color associated with it. Astrologers suggest dressing or decorating with your astrological color can help make you feel more empowered.
