Friday, February 26, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow HI 28, LO 26 LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM 1 DAILY KENT STATER SPORTS: Indoor track and field teams head north for MAC Championships PG A6 Michelle Bair Daily Kent Stater Despite the heavy snow, Jay Sean and DJ $crilla made their way to the M.A.C. Center last night to perform for students. “We do a lot of shows,” Kent State graduate DJ $crilla said. “But there is nothing like com- ing home to Kent State.” The second song played was dedicated to Kent, called “I am KSU.” T-shirts promoting the song and CDs were thrown into the crowd, and “I’m Hollywood” was performed as well. The center vibrated from the high energy jumping, dancing, sirens and other $crilla sound- effects. Pink and purple lights beamed from the stage and into the audience. The girls were all dolled up in their dresses, leggings and high- heeled boots. People on the floor in the front row reached for the rappers, who grabbed hands in return. “I want everybody ‘bouncin’,” yelled $crilla. “If you’re ready to party, make some noise!” The crowd was definitely making a lot of noise, especial- ly when Jay Sean came out. He opened his performance with “Down,” and played some of his favorite songs, including covers and his first-ever single called “Eyes on you.” “Just in case you didn’t know,” Jay Sean said. “I’m from London, England, and it’s beautiful to be here in Ohio. Sometimes when I get on stage and start talking Jay Sean rocks the M.A.C. Center people get confused.” Colleen Habib, a freshman fashion merchandising major, said she heard of Jay Sean when he was still in Europe. “I knew about him before he came here,” she said. “I had all of his songs on my iPod before he was popular.” Jay Sean said he is all about having fun. “I want you guys to leave here feeling like you know me a little bit,” he said. “I want you to sing with me, dance with me and lose your mind.” Contact the on-campus enter- tainment reporter Michelle Bair at [email protected]React to this story and more at KentWired.com Kelly Petryszyn | Daily Kent Stater W hen Marlene Broyles worked at Fashion Bug in University Plaza 20 years ago, business was booming. The businesses helped each other out. If someone was shopping for a size that Fashion Bug didn’t carry the employees would recommend that customers check the other cloth- ing store, 10 Below. The other businesses would return the favor and recommend Fashion Bug if it had something their store didn’t carry. That rarely happens today because many stores have left the plaza including Giant Eagle, Jo-Ann Fabrics, a hair salon, drugstore and oth- ers. Today six spaces are empty, two of those are office spaces, property manager David Weil said. Part of the reason for the shift from booming to bare is lack of big businesses bringing people to the plaza. Broyles, now a part-time sales leader at Fashion Bug, said about 75 percent of the store’s business is affected by the flow of people in the plaza. She said the movie theater is currently the biggest draw; however, many of the businesses that brought foot traffic into Fashion Bug in the past have left. “There is really no reason to come to the plaza unless you’re going to go to a movie or get your taxes done,” she said. The decline is a low point on a business cycle that plazas encounter, community development director Gary Locke said. The economy’s sluggish effect on busi- ness makes it challenging to get new tenants. When Giant Eagle left the University Plaza it was hard to find a new tenant to fill its space, Locke said. Businesses weren’t interested in competing with super- stores such as Walmart, in which two exist within in a five-mile radius of the plaza. Michael Cose, assistant manager of Dollar General, agreed that superstores have changed the dynamics of plazas. ‘Plazas have taken a dive’ Josh Johnston | Daily Kent Stater M ary Woodyard has watched the stores come and go. Hills, Ames, Tops Department and grocery stores build at 1600 S. Water St. and then disappear. The location today is a nearly vacant shopping plaza with a vast, empty parking lot. “I guess I had thought that perhaps another store would take over,” said Woodyard, who has been at the neighboring Tires and More for 18 years. “When it (the building) was open, it was clean, it was shiny, it was brand new, it was state of the art. I really didn’t think it’d be empty this many years.” The plaza that stands today was built by Tops Markets after the New York-based grocery store bought the former Hills building and demolished it. The Kent store opened on May 22, 2002 — the 50th Tops location in Northeast Ohio, according to the Tops Web site. The new building included a 49,000 square foot gro- cery store and smaller storefronts connected to it. Kent City Councilman Wayne Wilson, whose ward includes the empty plaza, said businesses from other parts of town picked up and moved into the plaza. “When Tops went in down there, the hair salon (Famous Hair) was (by University Plaza),” he said. “They moved down there thinking newer building and better traffic and all that. Then Tops moved out on them.” Tops closed in February 2004, not even two years after opening. In the surrounding area, most of the Tops stores were shutting down as well, said Dan Smith, Kent eco- nomic development director. “Apparently their expansion plans across the area were a bit overreaching,” Smith said. “Ravenna, Kent, Akron — all of them closed about the same time.” Stores moving in and out of the location isn’t uncom- mon though. As far back as Wilson can remember, the site, at the south end of Kent near state Route 261, has been a revolving door of businesses. ‘A lost part of town’ Suzi Starheim Daily Kent Stater Kent State named Mark James, professor and vice chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medi- cine, as its new founding dean of the College of Public Health yes- terday. James will begin as dean of the college on July 1, 2010. “The opportunity at Kent State University is ideal in that it allows one to build the col- lege in the vision of a founding dean, together with a committed administration, faculty, staff and students,” James said. Prior to the naming of James as dean, Robert Frank, provost and senior vice president of aca- demic affairs, served as interim dean of the college since its inception in 2009. James has been with Tulane University in New Orleans for 21 years, which he said is “prac- tically my whole professional career.” Prior to becoming president of Kent State, Lester Lefton served as Provost at Tulane University. James said Lefton’s move from Tulane to Kent State was not the reason he was recruited. “We met professionally only, and he probably doesn’t recall me in meeting me personally,” James said. Lefton “was responsible for beginning the undergraduate Public Health program at Tulane in 2004,” James added. James, who specializes in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, said he is very happy to have gotten the position at Kent State. “I came to a school that exactly matches my technique,” James said. “Over the course of 21 years, I have developed the cumulative experience necessary to become a dean of a College of Public Health.” James said the process of obtaining the position started in September 2009 when he saw an advertisement that went out for a new dean of public health at Kent State. James said Kent State then “ When it (the building) was open, it was clean, it was shiny, it was brand new, it was state of the art. I really didn’t think it’d be empty this many years. MARY WOODYARD TIRES AND MORE EMPLOYEE KELLY PETRYSZYN DAILY KENT STATER Since Tops moved out in 2004, businesses have left the plaza at 1600 S. Water St. Currently, only two businesses remain in the plaza. Plazas left out in cold from lack of big business state Route 261 East Summit Street state Route 59 South Water Street 1 2 3 Map Key 1. Kent State University 2. University Plaza 3. Plaza at 1600 S. Water St. KENT’S PLAZAS See LOST , Page A4 See DIVE, Page A4 James named dean of public health COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH selected eight to 10 individu- als and had a search committee interview them at the Cleveland airport. “I had an hour-long inter- view,” James added. “It was then narrowed down to a group of four.” After the last four were cho- sen, James visited Kent State for a second interview, which took place Nov. 9 through 11. He said there was then “a period of silence” in which the administration must have been making up its mind. James’ last trip to Kent State was Feb. 19. On this day, he gave a presentation to faculty and met with Lefton, Frank and senior associate provost Tim Chandler. “This was just a quick, one day trip,” James said of his most recent visit to Kent State. After James left, faculty dis- cussed his hiring for two to three days, and he received the confir- mation call from Frank the after- noon of Feb. 24. “I’m feeling wonderful,” James said. “It helps when some- body has a big interest in you and vice versa.” James signed the official agreement yesterday morning by fax and said it was an easy choice for him partially because of the faculty at Kent State. “I felt very comfortable with the faculty there,” he said. “There is a very strong collegiality.” Frank said he is very “really delighted to have (James) here,” and thinks he will be a big asset to the College of Public Health. “Kent State University’s Col- lege of Public Health is poised to prepare students to meet the region’s and nation’s need for trained public health profession- als,” Frank said. “Dr. James’s knowledge of what it takes to build an accredited program of public health will guide the col- lege to meet those needs and leverage the educational and research strengths of its faculty.” James’s resignation from Tulane is effective June 30, 2010, and he will begin at Kent State during the first week of July. During the summer, James said he will meet with other important units on campus. See DEAN, Page A4 KSU ‘exactly matches my technique’ CAITLIN SIRSE | DAILY KENT STATER Jay Sean performs songs from his album ‘All or Nothing’ in front of an enthusiastic crowd last night at the M.A.C. Center.
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DAILY KENT STATERSPORTS: Indoor track and field teams head north for MAC Championships PG A6
Michelle BairDaily Kent Stater
Despite the heavy snow, Jay Sean and DJ $crilla made their way to the M.A.C. Center last night to perform for students.
“We do a lot of shows,” Kent State graduate DJ $crilla said. “But there is nothing like com-ing home to Kent State.”
The second song played was dedicated to Kent, called “I am KSU.”
T-shirts promoting the song and CDs were thrown into the crowd, and “I’m Hollywood” was performed as well.
The center vibrated from the high energy jumping, dancing, sirens and other $crilla sound-effects. Pink and purple lights beamed from the stage and into
the audience. The girls were all dolled up in
their dresses, leggings and high-heeled boots. People on the floor in the front row reached for the rappers, who grabbed hands in return.
“I want everybody ‘bouncin’,” yelled $crilla. “If you’re ready to party, make some noise!”
The crowd was definitely making a lot of noise, especial-ly when Jay Sean came out. He opened his performance with “Down,” and played some of his favorite songs, including covers and his first-ever single called “Eyes on you.”
“Just in case you didn’t know,” Jay Sean said. “I’m from London, England, and it’s beautiful to be here in Ohio. Sometimes when I get on stage and start talking
Jay Sean rocks the M.A.C. Centerpeople get confused.”
Colleen Habib, a freshman fashion merchandising major, said she heard of Jay Sean when he was still in Europe.
“I knew about him before he came here,” she said. “I had all of his songs on my iPod before he was popular.”
Jay Sean said he is all about having fun.
“I want you guys to leave here feeling like you know me a little bit,” he said. “I want you to sing with me, dance with me and lose your mind.”
Contact the on-campus enter-tainment reporter Michelle Bair at
When Marlene Broyles worked at Fashion Bug in University Plaza 20 years ago, business was booming. The businesses helped each other out.
If someone was shopping for a size that Fashion Bug didn’t carry the employees would recommend that customers check the other cloth-ing store, 10 Below. The other businesses would return the favor and recommend Fashion Bug if it had something their store didn’t carry.
That rarely happens today because many stores have left the plaza including Giant Eagle, Jo-Ann Fabrics, a hair salon, drugstore and oth-ers. Today six spaces are empty, two of those are office spaces, property manager David Weil said.
Part of the reason for the shift from booming to bare is lack of big businesses bringing people to the plaza.
Broyles, now a part-time sales leader at Fashion Bug, said about 75 percent of the store’s business is affected by the flow of people in the plaza. She said the movie theater is currently the biggest draw; however, many of the businesses that brought foot traffic into Fashion Bug in the past have left.
“There is really no reason to come to the plaza unless you’re going to go to a movie or get your taxes done,” she said.
The decline is a low point on a business cycle that plazas encounter, community development director Gary Locke said. The economy’s sluggish effect on busi-ness makes it challenging to get new tenants.
When Giant Eagle left the University Plaza it was hard to find a new tenant to fill its space, Locke said. Businesses weren’t interested in competing with super-stores such as Walmart, in which two exist within in a five-mile radius of the plaza.
Michael Cose, assistant manager of Dollar General, agreed that superstores have changed the dynamics of plazas.
‘Plazas have taken a dive’Josh Johnston | Daily Kent Stater
Mary Woodyard has watched the stores come and go. Hills, Ames, Tops Department and grocery stores build at 1600 S. Water St. and then disappear. The location today is a nearly
vacant shopping plaza with a vast, empty parking lot.“I guess I had thought that perhaps another store would take
over,” said Woodyard, who has been at the neighboring Tires and More for 18 years. “When it (the building) was open, it was clean, it was shiny, it was brand new, it was state of the art. I really didn’t think it’d be empty this many years.”
The plaza that stands today was built by Tops Markets after the New York-based grocery store bought the former Hills building and demolished it. The Kent store opened on May 22, 2002 — the 50th Tops location in Northeast Ohio, according to the Tops Web site.
The new building included a 49,000 square foot gro-cery store and smaller storefronts connected to it.
Kent City Councilman Wayne Wilson, whose ward includes the empty plaza, said businesses from other parts of town picked up and moved into the plaza.
“When Tops went in down there, the hair salon (Famous Hair) was (by University Plaza),” he said. “They moved down there thinking newer building and better traffic and all that. Then Tops moved out on them.”
Tops closed in February 2004, not even two years after opening. In the surrounding area, most of the Tops stores were shutting down as well, said Dan Smith, Kent eco-nomic development director.
“Apparently their expansion plans across the area were a bit overreaching,” Smith said. “Ravenna, Kent, Akron — all of them closed about the same time.”
Stores moving in and out of the location isn’t uncom-mon though. As far back as Wilson can remember, the site, at the south end of Kent near state Route 261, has been a revolving door of businesses.
‘A lost part of town’
Suzi StarheimDaily Kent Stater
Kent State named Mark James, professor and vice chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medi-cine, as its new founding dean of the College of Public Health yes-terday. James will begin as dean of the college on July 1, 2010.
“The opportunity at Kent State University is ideal in that it allows one to build the col-lege in the vision of a founding dean, together with a committed administration, faculty, staff and students,” James said.
Prior to the naming of James as dean, Robert Frank, provost and senior vice president of aca-demic affairs, served as interim dean of the college since its inception in 2009.
James has been with Tulane University in New Orleans for 21 years, which he said is “prac-tically my whole professional career.”
Prior to becoming president of Kent State, Lester Lefton served as Provost at Tulane University.
James said Lefton’s move from Tulane to Kent State was not the reason he was recruited.
“We met professionally only, and he probably doesn’t recall me in meeting me personally,” James said.
Lefton “was responsible for beginning the undergraduate Public Health program at Tulane in 2004,” James added.
James, who specializes in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, said he is very happy to have gotten the position at Kent State.
“I came to a school that exactly matches my technique,” James said. “Over the course of 21 years, I have developed the cumulative experience necessary to become a dean of a College of Public Health.”
James said the process of obtaining the position started in September 2009 when he saw an advertisement that went out for a new dean of public health at Kent State.
James said Kent State then
“When it (the building) was open, it was clean, it was shiny, it was brand new, it was state of the art. I really didn’t think it’d be empty this many years.
MAry WoodyArdTires and more employee
Kelly Petryszyn Daily Kent staterSince Tops moved out in 2004, businesses have left the plaza at 1600 S. Water St. Currently, only two businesses remain in the plaza.
Plazas left out in cold from lack of big business
state route 261
East Summit Street
state route 59
South Water Street
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Map Key1. Kent State University2. University Plaza3. Plaza at 1600 S. Water St.
KENT’S PLAZAS
See LOST, Page A4See DIVE, Page A4
James named dean of public health
COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
selected eight to 10 individu-als and had a search committee interview them at the Cleveland airport.
“I had an hour-long inter-view,” James added. “It was then narrowed down to a group of four.”
After the last four were cho-sen, James visited Kent State for a second interview, which took place Nov. 9 through 11.
He said there was then “a period of silence” in which the administration must have been making up its mind.
James’ last trip to Kent State was Feb. 19. On this day, he gave a presentation to faculty and met with Lefton, Frank and senior associate provost Tim Chandler.
“This was just a quick, one day trip,” James said of his most recent visit to Kent State.
After James left, faculty dis-cussed his hiring for two to three days, and he received the confir-mation call from Frank the after-noon of Feb. 24.
“I’m feeling wonderful,” James said. “It helps when some-body has a big interest in you and vice versa.”
James signed the official agreement yesterday morning by fax and said it was an easy choice for him partially because of the faculty at Kent State.
“I felt very comfortable with the faculty there,” he said. “There is a very strong collegiality.”
Frank said he is very “really delighted to have (James) here,” and thinks he will be a big asset to the College of Public Health.
“Kent State University’s Col-lege of Public Health is poised to prepare students to meet the region’s and nation’s need for trained public health profession-als,” Frank said. “Dr. James’s knowledge of what it takes to build an accredited program of public health will guide the col-lege to meet those needs and leverage the educational and research strengths of its faculty.”
James’s resignation from Tulane is effective June 30, 2010, and he will begin at Kent State during the first week of July.
During the summer, James said he will meet with other important units on campus.
See DEAN, Page A4
KSU ‘exactly matches my technique’
Caitlin sirse | Daily Kent staterJay Sean performs songs from his album ‘All or Nothing’ in front of an enthusiastic crowd last night at the M.A.C. Center.
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■ Kent Anti-Racist Action Tea PartyWhere: Risman PlazaWhen: 1 p.m.
■ Manic MondayWhere: Eastway Center lower loungeWhen: 7 p.m.
■ Amnesty International meetingWhere: Student Center Room 310CWhen: 7 p.m.
■ Evil Geniuses meetingWhere: Student Center Room 313When: 7 p.m.
■ H2o Ministries meetingWhere: Student Center Room 302When: 8 p.m.
■ College Republicans meetingWhere: Student Center Room 309When: 9 p.m.
■ Speaker, Susan FaludiWhere: KivaWhen: 5 p.m.
■ Speaker, Mark Foster GageWhere: Cartwright Hall Room 306When: 7 p.m.
■ Speaker, Dr. BerryWhere: Michael Schwartz Center Room 177When: 7 p.m.
■ Speaker, Dr. Steve PerryWhere: KivaWhen: 7:30 p.m.
■ Kent Political Union meetingWhere: Student Center Room 309When: 7:30 p.m.
■ Habitat for Humanity meetingWhere: Henderson Hall Room 201When: 9 p.m.
■ May 4 Visitors Center Press ConferenceWhere: KivaWhen: 10 a.m.
■ Housing FairWhere: Student Center lobbyWhen: 11 a.m.
■ American Marketing Association meetingWhere: Business Administration Building Room 106When: 4:30 p.m.
■ Women’s Basketball vs. AkronWhere: M.A.C. CenterWhen: 7 p.m.
■ History Club meetingWhere: Student Center Room 311When: 4:30 p.m.
■ College Democrats meetingWhere: Student Center Room 316When: 8 p.m.
■ Graduation FairWhere: Student Center Room 204When: 11 a.m.
■ English Conversation CornerWhere: Student Center Room 313 When: 11:30 a.m.
■ “2012”Where: KivaWhen: 3 p.m.
■ PRIDE!Kent meetingWhere: Student Center Room 304When: 7 p.m.
■ Biology Club meetingWhere: Student Center Room 317When: 7:30 p.m.
■ Jay Sean concertWhere: M.A.C. CenterWhen: 8 p.m.
■ Resume and InterviewWhere: Student Center Room 312 When: 10 a.m.
■ Student Success meetingWhere: Student Center Room 320When: 10:30 a.m.
■ Oxfam Hunger BanquetWhere: Moulton Hall BallroomWhen: 11 a.m.
■ United Way Academic Challenge LuncheonWhere: Student Center Room 306ABCWhen: 11:30 a.m.
■ Fashion ShowWhere: Rockwell Hall Room 231 When: 8 p.m.
■ “2012”Where: Kiva When: 11 p.m.
■ Graduation FairWhere: Student Center Room 204When: 10 a.m.
■ Varsity K Hall of Fame inductionWhere: Student Center BallroomWhen: 1 p.m.
■ Tournees FestivalWhere: Michael Schwartz Room 177 When: 7:30 p.m.
■ “2012”Where: Kiva When: 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
■ Dinner and DanceWhere: Student Center BallroomWhen: 2:30 p.m.
■ Kent Anti-Racist Action meetingWhere: Student Center Room 320When: 8 p.m.
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POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of charg-
es 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 interest to the public.
CITYTHURSDAYn Michael G. Farmer, 25, of Southing-ton was charged with drunken driving on Rhodes Road.
FRIDAYn Lyndsay D. Mays, 21, of Cleveland was charged with public intoxication on North Water Street. n Robert J. Cvelbar, 21, of Euclid was charged with public intoxication at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Summit Street.
CAMPUSTHURSDAYn Theft was reported at Terrace Hall. n Criminal mischief was reported at the Student Center. n Ryan W. Ruby, 19, of Vermilion was charged with underage drinking at the May 4 Memorial. n David T. Eskins, 19, of Berlin Heights was charged with underage drinking at Centennial Court A. n Bobi Jo Homer, 18, of McKees, Pa., was charged with underage drinking at Centennial Court A.
Bryson is the sixth Kent State ath-lete this year to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Indoor Champion-ships. The others are Heasley (men’s 800-meter run), Dean Wood and Kenneth Agee (men’s high jump), Diana Dumitrescu (women’s pen-tathlon) and Alex Lizarribar (wom-en’s 5000-meter run).
Wood and Dumitrescu, both sophomores, also took first place in their respective events. Wood boosted his qualifying mark up to 7’1.5” in winning the high jump, and Dumitrescu won the women’s triple jump with a distance of 40’6.25”, also
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TRACKRelay teams break long-standing records
“You do want to use ads, but I don’t rely on them and I wouldn’t suggest relying on ads alone,” Brown said. “I think until most recently that’s all Kent State did.”
Each department has a search committee responsible for selecting candidates. After being selected by the committee, candidates are usu-ally interviewed by phone and then called for an interview in person. Then the deans decide whether the candidate will be hired.
Brown said her office has pur-chased two databases of minor-ity doctorates across disciplines to search for candidates and has been conducting diversity seminars to assist faculty in the hiring process. She said she wants to implement a diversity scorecard starting this fall to help departments keep track of how they are doing.
Brown said defining the criteria for the positions — deciding what are the required and the preferred skills — before the hiring process starts, is key to a diverse pool of applicants and a process free of bias. While a doctor’s degree in a subject is what is important for a job, teach-ing experience may be more impor-tant for other positions.
“So people may think, well, ‘We are not getting the best,’ but you don’t know the best until you actu-ally interview and see what that per-son brings,” Brown said. “You have to balance the whole thing. You have to weight everything, that’s why affirmative action is so important, because all things are not equal.”
Brooks said it is the responsibility and the goal of faculty and staff at Kent State to provide equal employ-ment opportunities and help the uni-versity become more inclusive. She said affirmative action staff looks at department pools during hiring pro-cesses and checks whether a depart-
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DIVERSITYDiversity sought in faculty positions
“I didn’t even know what I was hearing,” Krocek said. “I stopped and listened and it was something I never even knew I would enjoy.”
Eppink and The President’s Quartet were pleased with the first performance.
“It was exactly what I was hoping for,” Eppink said.
Michelle Ullman, freshman fashion design major, watched the performance from the bal-cony overlooking the first floor of the Student Center.
“I think it’s awesome,” Ull-man said of the WKSU Players program. “I think it gets peo-ples’ attention, and it really adds to the art. It’s nice to hear.”
WKSU continues to hold auditions for performers inter-ested in the program. While classical music is the main focus, Eppink said auditions are open to all types of musicians.
There’s no telling when the next pop-up performance will happen, but then again, that’s the point.
Contact performing arts reporter Kyle McDonald at [email protected].
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QUARTETPop-up performances to appear at KSUKent State started the sec-
ond half with a 34-33 lead, which would be taken away by the Catamounts in the first minute.
The Flashes would trail until the final 12 minutes of regulation when Singletary recorded five straight assists on five straight Kent State possessions. The Flashes took a 50-49 lead capped off by an assist from Singletary to Greene.
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BASKETBALLFlashes ‘bust’ for 20th win
Kelly MaileDaily Kent Stater
In honor of National Entre-preneurship Week, a week that allows communities and univer-sities from across the country to promote entrepreneurship, the CEBI is hosting an Entrepre-neurship Fiesta from 4 to 7 p.m. today in the McCauley Lounge and is open to all students who are interested in new business opportunities.
“We are looking for people to get involved with us and to be exposed to our program,” said Julie Messing, director of the Center for Entrepreneur-ship and Business Innovation (CEBI). “We want to reach out to students across Kent’s campus and let them know that these opportunities exist.”
The CEBI wants to reach out, not only to business students who know about its opportu-nities, but to non-business stu-
CEBI to host program about business opportunitiesdents from different backgrounds.
Messing said the entrepreneur-ship program offers classes that are open to any student on cam-pus. Out of 140 students who take Introduction to Entrepreneurship classes, 40 percent are non-business majors.
Tyra Byrd, a 19-year-old pub-lic relations major who graduated high school at age 16, sees a new opportunity offered to her, and said she takes it.
“Students should start taking advantage of the opportunities that they are given, especially if they want to be successful in life,” Byrd said. “Every time someone asks me what I want to do after I graduate, I tell them I want to own everything and be my own boss.”
Byrd has always wanted to dou-ble major in something and found out about the business program from her adviser.
“I want to be successful in life and that is why I know this would be a really good program for me,”
Byrd said. “And I never knew about it until now.”
The CEBI is working to make students more aware of the oppor-tunities that are there for them.
“If you are in journalism, biology or fashion you don’t hear about our programs everyday like our busi-ness students do,” Messing said. “We want students to know because we feel a lot of students would be interested in a minor or working in a business to gain experience.”
For example, Messing said there is only a slight chance students who are majoring in music are going to become a professional musician. The entrepreneurship program will give you the opportunity and expe-rience to start a business to teach music lessons or build a business around the idea for a music store.
“Even though they are musi-cians at heart and that is their disci-pline, they have the opportunity to gain some business exposure, and they will learn how to take their passion and turn it into an opportu-
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nity,” Messing said. “That is really what entrepreneurship is.”
At the Fiesta, faculty, entrepre-neurs in residence, advisers and current entrepreneurship students will be available to help and talk to students about job opportunities, student-run businesses, scholarships, entrepreneurship majors and minors and how to become more involved.
“There are many job opportu-nities, including four student-run businesses, on and off campus, that need students to work in the busi-nesses,” Messing said. “The work covers every aspect of running a business from deciding what kind of inventory should be there to put-ting together a budget to selling things to customers.”
Contact Business administration reporter Kelly Maile
a personal best.Other first-place finishers in the
women’s events included Lhotsky in the 1000- meter run, junior Ava Haynes in the 60-meter hurdles and senior Samantha Fetter in the shot put.
The Flashes travel to Central Michigan this weekend looking to win top honors in the conference, with the men’s team going for a second consecutive title.
“I’m not going to make predic-tions,” Lawson said, “but if we can take a snapshot of our perfor-mances from the last three weeks, we’re going to do a great job.”
ment is under-represented.Brooks said a diverse faculty
also helps retention because stu-dents feel they are learning from someone who understands them and have more reasons to interact with professors, share ideas and stay at Kent State.
“We want students to hear from all backgrounds and we also want to represent the com-munity that we serve,” Brooks said. “The students want to see faculty diversification, meaning they want to see someone who looks like them.”
Richard Kolbe, associate dean of the College of Business Admin-istration, said the college looks for candidates at professional confer-ences, but most resumes received come from ads posted on profes-sional journals or are unsolicited.
“We try to make sure that we are looking at a group as diverse as possible, ultimately it does comes to we are trying to find the very best person,” he said. “Ideally, we would like to have all groups of people in our class-rooms.”
Kolbe calls attention to the difficulty of finding applicants of different groups, especially blacks and American Indians, in specific areas.
He said Kent State’s human resources notifies colleges and departments when they are “light” in some groups and sug-gests which ones should be tar-geted when a new position is opened.
“You do have to keep in mind that diversity is a multi-perspec-tive thing,” Kolbe said. ”When I look to diversity in the classroom, I want students to be exposed to all kinds of different thinking. Part is based on race diversity but also is based on cultural diversity.”
E. Timothy Moore, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who has been at Kent State for 41 years, first as a stu-dent and now as faculty, said we live in a global community and
students need to see more fac-ulty who look like them rather than the typical faces.
“Information can be deliv-ered from the brain of these fac-ulty regardless of their ethnic or cultural background,” Moore said. “We need to get past these barriers and limitations of per-ceptions that make us think that we can’t gain knowledge from a particular person because of their appearance.”
The game remained close for six minutes, but Western Carolina would go on a 6-0 run giving the Catamounts a 62-56 lead with 4:07 left in regulation.
“I thought we really improved our intensity in the last four min-utes,” Kent State coach Geno Ford said. “We’re just not playing as well as we were a few weeks ago. To be honest, I thought we got out-toughed.”
Back-to-back stops by Kent State tied the game at 62, and then after a missed foul shot by Single-tary, he received the ball in front of his bench and drained a three-point shot for a 65-62 lead.
“Once we get close enough where we know we got to get a stop we do a great job getting that stop,” Singletary said. “Some-times we know we can lock down at the end of the game so some-times we relax for the first 35 min-utes of the game.”
Kent State travels to Bowling Green on Wednesday to continue the final round of Mid-American Conference East play.
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VIEWour SUMMARY: The planned multi-modal PARTA facility will be
great for the economy, the environment and the culture of downtown Kent. Let’s just hope they’re fixing the basics, too.
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NATE BEELER’S VIEW
Haiti or bustWe are a nation that loves disasters. We
flock to them like nothing else except maybe the Super Bowl and a Black Friday sale at Best Buy. Some of the first tragedies that come to mind are of course 9/11, New Orleans and now Haiti. It’s not that I think people don’t care or are incapable of feeling genuine empathy, but it does seem that the greater majority only get involved because it’s either “in” or “hip.”
We all feel terrible when bad things happen — those of us who aren’t sociopaths anyway — and sometimes the conscience-plagued will donate their time and money to aid those in need. But how much of that comes from our being “told” to care and how much is born of a real desire to make the world a better place?
The most ironic story to come out of the Haiti disaster I’ve heard of lately was about a U.S. Bap-tist group. They were arrested for trying to take Haitian children over the border to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. As it turns out none of them were orphans at all; their parents had handed the children over themselves. So who knows what will happen to them now.
Were these people wrong for trying to help? No. But they were certainly shortsighted, because they should have expected trouble when they got to the border without proper documentation certifying their right to the
Stop hating governmentFor weeks, there has been a huge political
scandal brewing in my hometown.Not surprisingly, the small village of about
2,000 people — who are mostly conservative Republicans — is upset with the government, but in a totally different way than I expected.
Back in November, the townspeople elected a new mayor right after a big trucking compa-ny pulled out of the village, leaving us without our major source of tax revenue.
As soon as the new mayor came into office, she fired the parks supervisor and an office secretary in order to get the village’s finances in order.
Now, many of the townspeople are furi-ous. They have been writing letters to the local newspaper for weeks accusing the new mayor of awful stuff, including bragging about her family’s income among other personal things (she makes $12,000 a year for being mayor, in case you were wondering).
These critics are mainly upset because of the lost jobs, and I suspect they are close friends of the people who were laid off.
Being one of only a handful of Democrats in my town, I can’t help but smile. Many of the townspeople are conservative and are quick to say the government should shrink down and stay out of our lives.
But when it comes to local government, apparently it’s a different story. I guess smaller government is not as fun when someone you know loses his or her job.
I’m almost tempted to write to the news-paper and remind everyone that conservatives prefer smaller government, so the new mayor is actually doing what her constituents want. After all, it seems as though everyone in Amer-ica wants smaller government these days.
When the huge blizzard hit our nation’s capital a few weeks back, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) called the government shutdown a “dream.”
“The best thing is we’re not passing any legislation, which ultimately will save the
Hey Baby What’s Your Sine?: Hybrid cars satisfy smugness of suburbanites
I hate hybrid cars. Don’t get me wrong, I love sav-
ing the environment as much as Al Gore, but hybrid cars are used in all the wrong ways.
Most people who can afford to cough up $25,000 reside in the suburbs of cities. They travel lon-ger distances to work, because God forbid they put businesses within a five-mile radius of the suburbs.
What most of those suburban-ites conveniently forget is that the longer the distance you travel, the less efficient their hybrid cars are.
Whenever you push the brake pedal in your hybrid car, you absorb energy from the vehicle. As you drive faster, you increase the car’s kinetic energy. The brakes remove this energy and dispel heat.
Hybrid cars, however, capture some of this heat and store it in the battery for later use. The car reduc-es energy you used and makes planet Earth less polluted.
In theory, this holds true. But when you spend the majority of your trip driving on the highway, there is little stopping and no ener-gy saving. Using a hybrid car in the inner city where you constantly stop saves the most fuel. In prac-tice, hybrid cars on the highway are as efficient as my 1989 Accord.
Another problem facing hybrids is their aerodynamics. The reason anything needs energy to move is because everything on Earth trav-els through a medium.
On the freeway, the majority of your engine’s work is to push the car through air. This is why papa’s SUV uses more fuel to keep up with your liberal brother’s tiny Ford Focus. Hybrid cars were orig-inally designed to be lighter and less bulky than other cars. Yet, with mammoth hybrid cars introduced to the market and more time driv-ing at higher speeds on highways, this saved energy is now lost.
Although hybrid cars are a won-derful idea, their cost compared to their energy spent does not bode well for today’s society. With more people moving out of the city and traveling a longer distance, hybrid cars don’t work.
So, once again, it is up to engineers and scientists to come through and save our fast-paced civilization.
One of our ideas is introducing purely electric cars. According to the Energy Information Admin-istration, electric cars produce 28 pounds of carbon dioxide with every 35 miles of driving. It also
That’s more like a multi-purpose centerPARTA is about to get a new home.The state of Ohio received $50 million
through the Federal Transportation Invest-ment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant.
The Kent downtown revitalization project received $20 million of total.
The money will go toward the building of a multi-modal PARTA facility in down-town Kent. And although it sounds like a big, pointless building, it may be better than its title sounds.
Although many of us won’t be here by the time it’s done, it will make a great impact when site preparation begins in 2011. The project is projected to employ 265 people dur-ing the building process and then another 700 people post-construction.
And not only is it good for the economy as it gives folks jobs, it’s also going to be good (well, better) for the environment. Although the PARTA buses will likely continue spewing fumes as they travel about, at least the build-ing will be reducing its carbon footprint. The structure is slated to use solar panels and geo-thermal heating and cooling.
The building may also pave the way for more efficient public transportation, bringing more people downtown. It is also set to make PARTA more accessible to possible riders as well.
The multi-modal facility will also include small stores, in case Acorn Alley isn’t enough for you yet.
Overall, the plan sounds great. It’s the next step in the downtown revitalization project
and a big step for a part of Kent that’s a rather big eyesore right now (the future location is the current home of the closed Record-Courier building on Depeyster Street).
But we hope before this project begins, PARTA corrects some pre-existing problems. Many students still complain about the buses that run both on and off campus are often late or don’t arrive at all. So we really cross our fingers that those much simpler problems can be corrected — regardless of a new facility.
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Molly Cahill
children. I doubt we’ll know the whole story for a while yet, but it just seems that taking a risk like that only impaired their ability to help in the future.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t care about other people’s misfortunes or take no action to ease it when we can, because I believe it to be a great thing when people can set aside their innate self-centeredness to help others. Just throwing help at a problem isn’t enough; it needs to be effective help.
Donating money is all well and good, but what use are you going to be if you end up leaving yourself broke or wind up in jail like the people from that Baptist group? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Not so much because people were stupid to butt in, but because they don’t always think things through or use what they have effectively.
Frank Yonkof
government a lot of money.”I suppose not doing his job has an upside
for the senator, but what he failed to mention was that the shutdown cost us $100 million per day in lost productivity.
Even so, many people in America today share this logic. A recent Washington Post/ABC news poll found that 58 percent of Ameri-cans favor a smaller government.
One of the things I find most appealing about America is that our federal govern-ment is dependable. As Americans, we can be assured that the government will keep func-tioning even amid a major disaster or attack.
When a new president is elected, we know there will be a peaceful change of power, and that the new leader will be able to finish his or her term without the worry of a coup. The thing that makes America such a great country is that our government is strong and yet we still enjoy more freedoms than most everyone on earth.
I would never trade our political stabil-ity for smaller government. As we’ve seen throughout the past year, people are crazy. Heck, some guy just flew a plane into an office building last week because he was allegedly upset with the IRS.
And yet, these are the same people who want government out of their way? I think I speak for many Americans when I say we would rather have the higher authority in place instead of the anarchy of the “every man for himself” mentality.
What amazes me about our federal govern-ment is how incredibly efficient they are, given the monumental task they have ahead of them. Considering the United States is the third larg-est nation in the world in terms of population and size, one would only imagine nothing would get done.
I mean, when a country like Haiti (which is approximately the size of Maryland) can’t even provide basic security for its people, it’s an absolute miracle that our federal government gets anything accomplished.
When I had to compile gas price averages from the last decade for our high school paper and Google wasn’t being kind, I e-mailed the Energy Information Administration and quick-ly received a reply. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would hear back even within a year, but that is one popular misconception about our system.
I am even going as far as to say that I am amazed with how well of a job Congress does. After all, I challenge anyone to gather 534 of your closest friends and come up with a way to spend a million dollars. And yet, Congress is able to agree and coordinate how our tax dol-lars are spent (whether you agree with what they spent it on is another debate).
People today are quick to pounce on gov-ernment for being too large and too restrictive, and many feel it is finally getting out of control. Unfortunately, they never stop to appreciate all of the little services we take for granted.
There is a reason America is the greatest nation in the world, and our government and political system have a lot to do with that. My advice to all the government haters is this: Stop complaining and thank God you live here.
Frank Yonkof is a sophomore newspaper jour-nalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent
The well-known phrase about everyone get-ting their 15 minutes of fame can be held true for more than just humans. Just as it occurred with its predecessors, the fervor we experi-enced over Haiti is diminishing and the poten-tial stories are drying up. No doubt we will still be hearing about it for some time as people find what new angles are left, but eventually there will be another earthquake, flood or devastat-ing disease. And people will turn their attention to that instead.
Then the world will rush in carrying blan-kets, medical supplies and hemorrhaging mon-ey in their wake, at least until the next disas-ter comes along. So, if you’re a bit cynical like me and prefer to stick to donating your spare change to people begging outside of a 7-Eleven, don’t let yourself be guilt-tripped into feeling bad. Do what you want whether that’s texting the Red Cross, buying a CD to benefit Haiti down at the Exchange or even nothing at all.
Molly Cahill is a senior pre-journalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact
takes 17-kilowatt hours to charge it for 35 miles. A 17-kilowatt hour charging requires about 25 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission.
All in all, it makes for a pretty good deal.
The downside comes from the short distances electric cars travel. They need constant recharging and cannot reach the distance you could travel with a tank of good ol’ gasoline.
Not only do electric cars travel short distances, but also are rela-tively silent. This proves hazard-ous when cruising down suburban streets and pedestrians strolling on sidewalks cannot hear your car veering near them. This has proved so problematic that cars now come with personal noisemakers, mim-icking the sound of a moving car.
The other main option for an alternative car streams from sub-stitute fuel sources. Fuel cells were proposed as the solution to our gas needs. They operate through the electrolysis of water to produce electricity.
Once again, we hit a brick wall. Hydrogen must be used for this property to work. Hydrogen is very difficult to transport and store. This would mean hydrogen refuel-ing stations be placed all over the country, a small commodity with a cost of billions.
More importantly, with extreme-ly combustible hydrogen comes an explosion of 932 degrees Fahrenheit when ignited.
Not all, however, is bleak in the not too distant future. New tech-nologies are already in develop-ment for powering cars. Here at Ohio University, one of my own professors, Dr. Gerardine Botte is working to fix the problem. She’s experimenting with ammonia, which streams from our own pee, to power cars.
Even though alternative fuel sources are rapidly being devel-oped, maybe society has always had the solution to our transporta-tion needs.
For me, walking is fairly cheap and efficient.
The above column was originally published Feb. 17 by Ohio
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Today’s birthday (2/22/10). Family matters come to the forefront his year. You’re certainly capable of expressing your beliefs. Now it’s time to listen and find out what other people are feeling. Don’t speculate. Get them to talk about problems so you can offer help or moral support.
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 an 8. Yesterday’s medita-tion can now be shared with a part-ner or close friend. You see how to change your work habits to achieve more without additional effort.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 6. If you don’t adapt, you could feel trapped at work. Practical ideas take over, so save an inspired plan for later, after the dust has settled. Go with the flow.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is a 6. You’ll get more done if you work in seclusion today. A team player suggests a change that you have to ponder before saying yes. Choose balance over glitz.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 7. Change your tune but make sure you were on key to begin with. Imagination removes limitations and extends boundaries.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7. Who has control over your decisions? This is no idle ques-tion. If you feel out of control, try a tiny adjustment. It may be as simple as an attitude shift.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 7. You don’t face the War of the Worlds. The situation calls for adaptation, not annihilation. Go-ing around the bush is easier than charging through it.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 7. Work and play flow remarkably well today. You’re say-ing exactly the right words, with the correct logic and colorful flair. But don’t hog all the glory.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8. Don’t plan on getting your way with everyone. A female challenges your assumptions. State your case clearly and offer several alternatives.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 5. You may want to ease into work but instead find yourself in deep water. Today’s life pre-server is made of logic and reason.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is an 8. You begin the day with an image of your goal. Cre-ative energy takes you a long way, but you also need to get the feel for the material you’re using.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8. Check the schedule early. Verify appointments. A pri-vate meeting with an older person points you in the right financial direction.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 6. Plan on taking baby steps today as the only way to make forward progress. Challenges come in the form of private con-versation. Maintain confidentiality at all costs.
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Kent State junior Matt Cathell (149) tries to pin Central Michigan’s Tony D’Alie during yesterday’s MAC regular season championship. Cathell won his match with a pin with 44 seconds left in the third period. The Flashes lost the meet 13-21.
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Lance LysowskiDaily Kent Stater
Three times this season, junior forward Taisja Jones and junior guard Jamilah Humes have reached the 20-point mark in the same game.
The Flashes’ two leading scor-ers did just that in the team’s come-from-behind victory over Ohio on Saturday, 80-74.
Humes’ 23 points and eight rebounds highlighted the win for Kent State (17-8, 10-3 Mid-American Conference), while Jones added 20 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bobcats led 67-65 with 3:28 left to play when Flashes’ senior forward Yoshica Spears sank her first free throw. Spears missed the second but was able to grab her
Katie CorbutDaily Kent Stater
The Kent State gymnastics team’s win against Northern Illinois and Rutgers Friday night wasn’t the only thing to celebrate in the M.A.C. Center. Along with the victory, the Flashes raised thousands of dollars while beat-ing the Scarlet Knights (187.925) and the Huskies (192.775) with a score of 194.575.
“It was a great night because of a great cause,” assistant coach Sharon Sabin said. “But our team only did their job on three events.”
The team had to overcome a vault rotation that was unfairly judged, according to Kent State coach Brice Biggin.
“It’s frustrating going out on vault and starting like that,” said Biggin. “We can’t even break a 9.8? To me, that’s an awful job of judging.”
Brittany Kopp was the first gymnast to vault. The first judge had her score at a 9.8, the other judge had her at a 9.55 so the average was taken. The lower-scoring judge set the precedent for the other judge, who began scoring the following gymnasts lower.
“After things like that hap-pen, you just tell them that you can only control what you can control,” Sabin said.
Placing third on vault was senior Brittany Kopp (9.750) and tying for first were juniors Chris-tina Lenny and Christine Abou-Mitri (9.775).
The next rotation was bars, and things seemed to reset, as the team counted all scores above a 9.75. Kent State swept the first five places on bars, with three tying for first. Senior Lydia Barrett, junior Erin Rothrock and Christine Abou-Mitri all had scores of 9.85.
The beam was next for Kent State. The first three Kent State gymnasts fell off the beam, and two of those fallen scores had to be counted, docking a point from the team’s final score.
“Thank God for Brittany Kopp, Lenny and Abou,” Biggin said. “Those kids said to the rest of the team, ‘you need to learn how to fight.’ We fought and
Jody MichaelDaily Kent Stater
As the track and field athletes were polishing their performances for next week’s conference cham-pionships, the Kent State Tune-Up ended on a high note when both 4x800 meter relay teams earned first place and broke long-stand-ing school records.
The women’s team of sopho-more Audrey Maheu, freshman Melinda Sawnor, and seniors Kel-ly Gephart and Jessica Lhotsky went first and finished in 9:00.20, 13 seconds faster than the 17-year record.
The men answered by eclips-ing a mark that had been in the record book for 38 years. Fresh-man Steve Fischer, sophomore Colin Pettiford, sophomore Patrick Gorby and junior Destin Heasley ran their race in 7:38.12, topping the previous record by three sec-onds.
Kent State coach Bill Lawson
there was no way we were com-ing off the beam.”
Biggin said that until some girls get that attitude, they’re in a lot of trouble.
“That’s all beam is, is atti-tude,” he said. “It’s not physical-ly any more difficult. Mentally it is if you let it be.”
Abou-Mitri was the only Kent State gymnast to place in the top three on the beam, and she won the event with a 9.85.
“It’s a battle every weekend,” Abou-Mitri said. “You have to yell at them and ask if their heart is into it because it doesn’t look like it is. I can’t get up there and do it for them. There’s only so much I can do.”
Abou-Mitri added she won-ders why her teammates don’t look at her as an example, because she’s fighting for every element on the beam.
Biggin pulled the girls aside after beam, and prepped them for the last rotation as the breast cancer survivors told the crowd their stories.
Once again, the Flashes swept the floor exercise. Lead-ing the event was Abou-Mitri, who posted a season-high 9.9. Following closely behind her in second place was senior Lydia Barrett (9.875) and in third was senior Sam Heydlauff (9.85). In her first floor routine of the season, junior Danielle Durbin scored a 9.825.
“That was the routine of the night,” coach Biggin said. “That kid stepped up and did what she needed to do.”
A b o u - M i t r i w a s v e r y impressed by Durbin’s routine, stating that the team should also look at her as an example.
“Someone who hasn’t even been in the lineup, goes up there and does her job,” Abou-Mitri said.
In the all-around competi-tion, Abou-Mitri and Lenny took top honors. Abou-Mitri earned a 39.375 and first place finish while Lenny placed sec-ond with a 39.025.
own rebound. The senior called a timeout, giving Kent State an addi-tional possession.
Following the timeout, Spears received a pass at the baseline and sank a 3-pointer, giving Kent State the lead for good. On the Bob-cats’ following possession, Spears forced an Ohio turnover, which Jones turned into two Kent State points on a layup.
Spears finished with 14 points, while her turnover assisted the Flashes’ 23 points off of turnovers.
Ohio managed to pull within two with five seconds left in the game, but free throws by senior guard Rachel Bennett and Humes sealed the game for Kent State.
Kent State coach Bob Lindsay said the team’s slow start was dis-appointing, but the second-half
push carried the team to the confer-ence victory.
“I thought we came out a bit flat-footed today and didn’t play with as much energy as we should,” Lindsay said. “That being said, we still found enough in the second half to make the plays we needed to down the stretch.”
The first half included six ties and four lead changes, until the half ended with a 38-32 Kent State lead. Ohio started the second half with a 12-2 run led by 3-ponters by Ohio senior guards Jenny Poff and Jenni-fer Bushby, but the Flashes’ late 10-0 run was too much for the Bobcats to overcome.
Bushby, who finished with 23 points on the game, recorded her 1,000th point for Ohio (6-20, 2-11 MAC).
Lindsay said the Flashes must begin to learn from their mistakes and do a better job defending.
“We need to learn from (what) we didn’t do well,” Lindsay said. “We need to play better defensively and get points on easy baskets. We were giving up too many second chances.”
The win pulls Kent State to with-in one game of MAC-East leading Bowling Green, who the Flashes lost to on Jan. 16, 89-61.
Kent State will play their final home game Wednesday when Akron visits the M.A.C. Center at 7 p.m.
The No. 15 Kent State wrestling team ended its nine-meet home winning streak and its hope at a repeat regular season conference title with a loss to No. 6 Central Michigan yesterday.
The Chippewas (17-2, 5-0 Mid-American Conference) left the M.A.C. Center with a 21-13 victory over the Flashes (15-4, 4-1 MAC) and the title of MAC regu-lar season champions.
Kent State coach Jim Andrassy said the loss is a learning experi-ence for the team.
“Our guys fought really hard,” Andrassy said. “(I need to) go back and look at the tape and figure out where can we make up ground at and where are situations where we could’ve done better.”
Redshirt sophomore Dustin Kilgore (30-1) said he is taking the loss as something he can grow from.
“Any loss you have, (you have) to turn around and turn into some-thing positive,” Kilgore said. “You have to look and see what kinds of
mistakes you’ve made and work off of those so the same thing doesn’t happen next time.”
The Chippewas brought seven nationally ranked wrestlers to the meet. Although the Flashes won only three matches yesterday, most of the losses were close.
Junior Matt Cathell (6-1) com-peted in his first MAC regular season match after regaining eli-gibility by the NCAA Feb. 15. At 141 pounds, Cathell pinned Tony D’Alie (14-4), who is ranked 12th nationally, with 44 seconds left in the third period, for his third pin of his career.
“I was trying to keep moving and give myself a chance to win the match later in the period and wound up on top,” Cathell said.
Andrassy said it was one of the biggest moments in the meet for him.
“I think the pin helped us out and made our guys feel bet-ter about getting back into the match,” Andrassy said. “He’s very hard to handle, hard to wrestle, and he proved it right there.”
Cathell said he was not try-
ing to get a pin and was surprised when he did.
“I was trying to add the score (while) I was laying there,” Cathell said. “I was just trying to think how I could bring out a win.”
Redshirt f reshman Chase Skonieczny (19-15) won the 141-pound match against Connor Beebe (19-6) 5-4.
“We all know Chase is good,” Andrassy said. “I think this match will help give him confidence going into the MAC tournament. I know he has the ability to win it, he just needs to wrestle seven minutes hard.”
Kilgore, who is ranked fourth nationally at 184 pounds, had Kent State’s final victory of the meet. He defeated Central Michigan’s Dillon Kern (7-10) 11-3.
“I wanted to dominate but wres-tle a smart match as well,” Kilgore said. “It was a pretty good match, and I was happy with it.”
Kilgore said he is going to eat healthy, stay strong and try not to get hurt before the MAC tourna-ment.
“Other than that, (I’ll) just do the school thing, keep my weight
down and everything will come together,” Kilgore said.
The team will have a couple days off before they start prepar-ing again for the tournament, which will take place March 6 and 7 at Central Michigan. Almost every wrestler from Central Mich-igan who competed yesterday will be at the tournament.
“They’re a better team than us right now, so we had to figure out a way to close that margin a little bit,” Andrassy said. “That’s part of what we’re going to do in the next two weeks to give our guys the best chance they can in the MAC tournament.”
Andrassy said his goal is to keep the wrestlers healthy and in great shape.
“Our guys are right where we want them to be,” Andrassy said. “We just have to find some way to make up some ground.”
said although that particular event is hardly ever run anymore (the NCAA discontinued its use at the national level in 1994), breaking those school records is a big feat.
“They were having a lot of fun,” Lawson said. “They beat marks that were set by great relay teams that had All-Americans on them.”
Sophomore Princeton Bry-son earned an NCAA provision-al qualifying mark in the men’s 200-meter dash. He won his race in 21.14 seconds, a personal best.
He was one of several Flash-es to improve their individual performances in the final meet before next week’s Mid-Ameri-can Conference Indoor Champi-onships.
“I held my breath (during his race), but he proved he feels great and he should be able to rock and roll next weekend,” Lawson said. “We are going to need him.”
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MATTHEW GRCIC | DAILY KENT STATERSophomore Princeton Bryson leads the pack as the gun goes off. Bryson finished first in the 200-meter-dash on Saturday afternoon in the fieldhouse and earned an NCAA povisional qualifying mark.
