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Michelle Bair Daily Kent Stater Tonight and tomorrow, students can get “down, down, down, down, down” to Jay Sean and the rest of the artists and comedians coming to Kent for Cabin Fever weekend. Cabin Fever Weekend starts tonight with Jay Sean and DJ Scrilla performing in the M.A.C. Center. Tickets are $10 for Kent students, and general admission tickets are available through Tick- etmaster. One dollar of each ticket sold will go to UNICEF. Scott Sherwood, executive direc- tor for USG, said this is part of their “ten on ten on ten” campaign, a collective collaboration on campus where the goal is to make $10,000 in 10 weeks in 2010. “It’ll be a good show and contrib- ute to relief efforts,” Sherwood said. Freshman exploratory major Angelia Teseo said she is excited because she has never seen a famous rapper perform, and it will be nice to get out with her friends. “I can’t wait to see Jay Sean per- form,” Teseo said. “It will be the highlight of my month.” Tomorrow night, comedians John Caparulo, Chad Zumock and Mike Polk will perform stand-up free for Kent State students, and $10 for the general public. Caparulo has been on the TV show “Chelsea Lately.” Polk, 32, said that he has never met Caparulo, but he thinks he is hilari- ous. He said that he and Zumock hung out at Kent State together and remain friends. Polk graduated from Kent State in 2001 with a communications and psychology degree. “I have a full time job writing ads for a series of Web sites,” said Polk. “Comedy is something that I do for fun.” Polk said he spends a lot of time with ladies, “kissing them on their mouths and what-not.” He said that he is also in a motiva- tional rock band called Falconheart, which takes up a lot of time. “I’m not excited about this Fri- day,” said Polk. “But that’s not a knock on Kent. I don’t get excited about much of anything. I’m kind Kent State ‘down’ with entertainment this weekend of dead inside. I would say that they should probably anticipate me get- ting uncomfortably intoxicated, like to the point where they sort of pity me, and then they can expect me to try to convince them to let me sleep in their dorm rooms. That’s sort of a little tradition of mine.” Contact on-campus entertainment reporter Michelle Bair at [email protected]. React to this story and more at KentWired.com Women’s team flips Zips Lance Lysowski Daily Kent Stater Before last night’s game, the Kent State women’s basketball team held a firm 33-3 record against Akron in Kent State coach Bob Lindsay’s 20-year tenure. Lindsay and the Flashes con- tinued their success over the rival, defeating the Zips 67-64. Akron led 31-28 at the half, but Kent State (18-8, 11-3 Mid- American Conference) built a 38-36 lead with 15:39 remaining in the game before the Flashes put together a 12-4 run. A fadeaway jumper by junior guard Jamilah Humes capped the run, and accounted for two of her SHAYE A. PAINTER | DAILY KENT STATER Junior guard Jamilah Humes drives past an Akron defender during the second half of last night’s game in the M.A.C. Center. Humes had 31 points on the night. The Flashes won 67 to 64. Flashes topple Falcons 31 points on the night. Humes said the success came with the pace of the game, and she looked to challenge her opponent on every possession. “I guess it was just one of those nights,” Humes said. “Everything just flowed right, and I wanted to challenge their smaller defenders.” With just over a minute to play, Akron (15-12, 9-5 MAC) narrowed the deficit to five and looked to cut it to three, but senior forward Yoshica Spears grabbed a rebound on a Zips’ missed lay-in. See WOMEN’S, Page A6 Cody Erbacher Daily Kent Stater The Kent State men’s bas- ketball team pulled out its third straight comeback victory yesterday, defeating Bowling Green 75-69. The win secures a first-round bye for the Flashes in the Mid-American Confer- ence tournament. “We showed some heart tonight,” Kent State coach Geno Ford said. “I thought in the first half, guys were into themselves and that’s all we talked about at halftime. We didn’t make any strategic adjustments (in the sec- ond half).” The beginning of the second half gave the few Kent State fans in Anderson Arena a feeling of displeasure as the Flashes (21-8, 11-3 MAC) trailed the Falcons (14-13, 6-8 MAC) by 12 points. But the Flashes, who have looked like a seasoned comeback team in the team’s previous two games, refused to go away. It took the Flashes nearly half of the game’s second half until they dipped into the Falcons’ double-digit lead, and it wouldn’t take much longer for the momen- tum to favor Kent State. See MEN’S, Page A6 DAILY KENT STATER Thursday, February 25, 2010 The independent student newspaper of Kent State University Weather: Snow showers HI 27, LO 23 LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM See how fashion fits into all aspects of your life Section B 100 YEARS LOOKING BACK 100 YEARS LOOKING BACK 100 100 YEARS YEARS 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 The first McDonald’s opens in Pasadena, California. May 1 | Cheerios is first produced as CheeriOats by General Mills The Manhattan Project is developed to aid the United States in its effort to design and build an atomic bomb. To prevent inflation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes prices, salaries and wages. Congress passes the GI Bill of Rights, providing benefits for armed-service veterans. The U.S. drops atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively. Nov 12 | The first drive-up bank teller windows are opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is formed. George A. Gamow introduces the “Big Bang” theory to explain the creation of the universe. Color TV is introduced to mainstream American society. Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz is first released. Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius and Randall Miller A bombing and a revolution Kristine Gill Daily Kent Stater T he Sept. 11 attacks stirred something in Josh Collins, then a criminal justice major. “I don’t know what stopped me from enlisting instantly,” he said. “Maybe a little bit of fear.” But three years later, when Collins was a senior, he joined the Army. “I really felt like I had to do my part as an American,” he said. “It was something I was proud to do. I was excited to do it. I want- ed to go over and serve.” Such was the sentiment of thousands of students across the nation on Dec. 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. “I remember when the news came that they had attacked the fleet,” Phillip Shriver, author of the Kent State history book called “The Years of Youth,” who was a student at Yale Uni- versity at the time. “The atti- tude had changed 180 degrees on campus.” Students went from viewing the war as a foreign concern to feeling they had to defend them- selves. “The line from recruiting station on Monday after Peal Harbor was more than a block long of students volunteering to go into the military service,” he said. While the war would mean economic prosperity for the country as it rallied in war production efforts, it would be disastrous for Kent State. “Enrollment was at 2,700 before the war,” Shriver said. “That figure dropped to 600 during the war.” “For the most part college and university attendance went down significantly,” said history professor Bradley Keefer. “The war effort required both men and women power.” Extension classes, which were still being held at the time, suf- fered more. “Many of them virtually dried up,” Keefer said. “They didn’t disappear, but they were cut back to the point where they were at the bare minimum, bare bones.” If the university escaped a fate as an insane asylum during the Great Depression by the skin of its teeth, it was by an even small- er margin that it escaped a worse fate during World War II. The devastating dive in enrollment made employing fac- ulty and staff difficult. The same THE CENTENNIAL SERIES See REVOLUTION, Page A6 men in uniform who had rushed to the defense of the country after Pearl Harbor would come to rescue the university. “It appears to me that the Army was seeking sites on university and college campuses on which Army air cadets could engage in military training, but also take coursework in the classroom,” said Cara Gil- genbach, head of Special Collec- tions. “KSU seems to have applied to be considered as one such site and in March 1943 was informed that it had been selected as an army air cadet training site.” The KSU Annual Catalog, dated 1943-1944, said the uni- versity’s dorms and classrooms were found in excellent condi- tion for the training of aircrew trainees. The recent develop- ment of an aerospace program on campus and the newly acquired Stow airport put Kent State over the top. PHOTOS COURTESY OF KENT STATE ARCHIVES An unidentified coed stands in front of a Military Restricted Area sign. “The 336th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) came to Kent from Miami, Florida, in March 1943 to take advantage of Kent’s experience in training civilian pilots.” Photograph appears on Page 101 of the 1944 Chestnut Burr and on Page 73 of “A Book of Memories”. KSU war participants: 5,000 KSU spring of 1941 wartime enrollment: 696 US men in war: 16,112,566 US battle deaths: 291,557 US wounded: 670,846 Most popular boy’s names 1940: James, Robert, John Most popular girl’s names 1940: Mary, Barbara, Patricia Credit: Phillip Shriver, The Years of Youth and infoplease.com WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Michelle BairDaily Kent Stater

Tonight and tomorrow, students can get “down, down, down, down, down” to Jay Sean and the rest of the artists and comedians coming to Kent for Cabin Fever weekend.

Cabin Fever Weekend starts tonight with Jay Sean and DJ Scrilla performing in the M.A.C. Center. Tickets are $10 for Kent students, and general admission tickets are available through Tick-etmaster. One dollar of each ticket

sold will go to UNICEF.Scott Sherwood, executive direc-

tor for USG, said this is part of their “ten on ten on ten” campaign, a collective collaboration on campus where the goal is to make $10,000 in 10 weeks in 2010.

“It’ll be a good show and contrib-ute to relief efforts,” Sherwood said.

Freshman exploratory major Angelia Teseo said she is excited because she has never seen a famous rapper perform, and it will be nice to get out with her friends.

“I can’t wait to see Jay Sean per-

form,” Teseo said. “It will be the highlight of my month.”

Tomorrow night, comedians John Caparulo, Chad Zumock and Mike Polk will perform stand-up free for Kent State students, and $10 for the general public. Caparulo has been on the TV show “Chelsea Lately.” Polk, 32, said that he has never met Caparulo, but he thinks he is hilari-ous. He said that he and Zumock hung out at Kent State together and remain friends.

Polk graduated from Kent State in 2001 with a communications and

psychology degree.“I have a full time job writing

ads for a series of Web sites,” said Polk. “Comedy is something that I do for fun.”

Polk said he spends a lot of time with ladies, “kissing them on their mouths and what-not.”

He said that he is also in a motiva-tional rock band called Falconheart, which takes up a lot of time.

“I’m not excited about this Fri-day,” said Polk. “But that’s not a knock on Kent. I don’t get excited about much of anything. I’m kind

Kent State ‘down’ with entertainment this weekendof dead inside. I would say that they should probably anticipate me get-ting uncomfortably intoxicated, like to the point where they sort of pity me, and then they can expect me to try to convince them to let me sleep in their dorm rooms. That’s sort of a little tradition of mine.”

Contact on-campus entertainment reporter Michelle Bair at [email protected].

React to this story and more at KentWired.com

Women’s team flips ZipsLance LysowskiDaily Kent Stater

Before last night’s game, the Kent State women’s basketball team held a firm 33-3 record against Akron in Kent State coach Bob Lindsay’s 20-year tenure.

Lindsay and the Flashes con-tinued their success over the rival, defeating the Zips 67-64.

Akron led 31-28 at the half, but Kent State (18-8, 11-3 Mid-American Conference) built a 38-36 lead with 15:39 remaining in the game before the Flashes put together a 12-4 run.

A fadeaway jumper by junior guard Jamilah Humes capped the run, and accounted for two of her

SHAYE A. PAINTER | DAILY KENT STATERJunior guard Jamilah Humes drives past an Akron defender during the second half of last night’s game in the M.A.C. Center. Humes had 31 points on the night. The Flashes won 67 to 64.

Flashes topple Falcons

31 points on the night.Humes said the success came

with the pace of the game, and she looked to challenge her opponent on every possession.

“I guess it was just one of those nights,” Humes said. “Everything just flowed right, and I wanted to challenge their smaller defenders.”

With just over a minute to play, Akron (15-12, 9-5 MAC) narrowed the deficit to five and looked to cut it to three, but senior forward Yoshica Spears grabbed a rebound on a Zips’ missed lay-in.

See WOMEN’S, Page A6

Cody ErbacherDaily Kent Stater

The Kent State men’s bas-ketball team pulled out its third straight comeback victory yesterday, defeating Bowling Green 75-69. The win secures a first-round bye for the Flashes in the Mid-American Confer-ence tournament.

“We showed some heart tonight,” Kent State coach Geno Ford said. “I thought in the first half, guys were into themselves and that’s all we talked about at halftime. We didn’t make any strategic adjustments (in the sec-ond half).”

The beginning of the second half gave the few Kent State fans in Anderson Arena a feeling of displeasure as the Flashes (21-8, 11-3 MAC) trailed the Falcons (14-13, 6-8 MAC) by 12 points.

But the Flashes, who have looked like a seasoned comeback team in the team’s previous two games, refused to go away.

It took the Flashes nearly half of the game’s second half until they dipped into the Falcons’ double-digit lead, and it wouldn’t take much longer for the momen-tum to favor Kent State.

See MEN’S, Page A6

DAILY KENT STATER Thursday, February 25, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow showers HI 27, LO 23

LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM

See how fashion fits into all aspects of your lifeSection B

100 YEARSLOOKING BACK100 YEARSLOOKING BACK100

LOOKING BACK100 YEARSLOOKING BACK YEARS

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950

The first McDonald’s opens in Pasadena, California.

May 1 | Cheerios is first produced as CheeriOats by General Mills

The Manhattan Project is developed to aid the United States in its effort to design and build an atomic bomb.

To prevent inflation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes prices, salaries and wages.

Congress passes the GI Bill of Rights, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.

The U.S. drops atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively.

Nov 12 | The first drive-up bank teller windows are opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is formed.

George A. Gamow introduces the “Big Bang” theory to explain the creation of the universe.

Color TV is introduced to mainstream American society.

Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz is first released.

Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius

and Randall Miller

A bombing and a revolution

Kristine GillDaily Kent Stater

The Sept. 11 attacks stirred something in Josh Collins, then a criminal justice

major. “I don’t know what stopped

me from enlisting instantly,” he said. “Maybe a little bit of fear.”

But three years later, when Collins was a senior, he joined the Army.

“I really felt like I had to do my part as an American,” he said. “It was something I was proud to do. I was excited to do it. I want-ed to go over and serve.”

Such was the sentiment of thousands of students across the nation on Dec. 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor.

“I remember when the news came that they had attacked the fleet,” Phillip Shriver, author of the Kent State history book called “The Years of Youth,” who was a student at Yale Uni-versity at the time. “The atti-tude had changed 180 degrees on campus.”

Students went from viewing the war as a foreign concern to feeling they had to defend them-selves.

“The line from recruiting station on Monday after Peal Harbor was more than a block long of students volunteering to go into the military service,” he said.

While the war would mean economic prosperity for the country as it rallied in war production efforts, it would be disastrous for Kent State.

“Enrollment was at 2,700 before the war,” Shriver said. “That figure dropped to 600 during the war.”

“For the most part college and university attendance went down significantly,” said history professor Bradley Keefer. “The war effort required both men and women power.”

Extension classes, which were still being held at the time, suf-fered more.

“Many of them virtually dried up,” Keefer said. “They didn’t disappear, but they were cut back to the point where they were at the bare minimum, bare bones.”

If the university escaped a fate as an insane asylum during the Great Depression by the skin of its teeth, it was by an even small-er margin that it escaped a worse fate during World War II.

The devastat ing dive in enrollment made employing fac-ulty and staff difficult. The same

THE CENTENNIAL SERIES

See REVOLUTION, Page A6

men in uniform who had rushed to the defense of the country after Pearl Harbor would come to rescue the university.

“It appears to me that the Army was seeking sites on university and college campuses on which Army air cadets could engage in military training, but also take coursework in the classroom,” said Cara Gil-genbach, head of Special Collec-tions. “KSU seems to have applied to be considered as one such site and in March 1943 was informed

that it had been selected as an army air cadet training site.”

The KSU Annual Catalog, dated 1943-1944, said the uni-versity’s dorms and classrooms were found in excellent condi-tion for the training of aircrew trainees. The recent develop-ment of an aerospace program on campus and the newly acquired Stow airport put Kent State over the top.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KENT STATE ARCHIVESAn unidentified coed stands in front of a Military Restricted Area sign. “The 336th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) came to Kent from Miami, Florida, in March 1943 to take advantage of Kent’s experience in training civilian pilots.” Photograph appears on Page 101 of the 1944 Chestnut Burr and on Page 73 of “A Book of Memories”.

KSU war participants: 5,000 KSU spring of 1941 wartime enrollment: 696 US men in war: 16,112,566 US battle deaths: 291,557 US wounded: 670,846

Most popular boy’s names 1940: James, Robert, John Most popular girl’s names 1940: Mary, Barbara, Patricia

Credit: Phillip Shriver, The Years of Youth and infoplease.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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FOR YOUR INFORMATIONTODAY’S EVENTSn Graduation FairWhere: Student Center Room 204When: 11 a.m.

n English Conversation CornerWhere: Student Center Room 313 When: 11:30 a.m.

n “2012”Where: KivaWhen: 3 p.m.

n PRIDE!Kent meetingWhere: Student Center Room 304 When: 7 p.m.

n Biology Club meetingWhere: Student Center Room 317When: 7:30 p.m.

n Jay Sean concertWhere: M.A.C. CenterWhen: 8 p.m.

Have an event you want to see here? Send it to [email protected] by Thursday the week before.

Suzi StarheimDaily Kent Stater

Just when students thought they were finished with standard-ized testing after high school, Kent State decided to administer the Collegiate Learning Assessment — a standardized exam measuring students’ critical thinking skills.

This exam is administered to fresh-men and seniors to see how capable students are of problem-solving skills in daily life when entering college and when leaving college.

“What we liked about the CLA was that it’s what we might call authentic assessment,” said associ-ate provost Stephane Booth. “It’s not just fill in the blank or multiple choice. The student is given a prob-lem to solve, they are given sets of materials to work with and then they have to write what their solution is, or could be, to the problem.”

The CLA is a two-hour exam taken on a computer. The exam gives students written resources to look at and open-ended prompts to solve their way through. Students who participate are given a $25 gift card for the University Bookstore. A proctor is always present during the exam.

Jacob Roope, a teaching fellow in the exploratory advising center, is one of the proctors for the CLA.

Roope said overall this exam is much more qualitative than the ACT or SAT.

“You don’t need a calculator. All

Standardized test measures critical thinkingStudents who take exam receive gift card

they need to do is come,” Roope said. “You can’t study for it. It’s about the skills you already have.”

It is part of Kent State’s four-year pilot with the Voluntary Sys-tem of Accountability, Booth said. The VSA is a movement by public four-year universities to provide basic information on the under-graduate experience through online reports.

Getting enough test takersFreshmen were tested from

September through October to get a baseline of critical thinking skills of new students, said Gary Padak, dean of undergraduate studies.

“We tried to entice up to 200 stu-dents and had to send out informa-tion to approximately 700 students to get that number,” Padak said.

A total of 139 freshmen took the CLA. Seniors began taking the test Feb. 23 and will continue through March 24.

Roope said he also remembers how difficult it was to entice fresh-men last fall.

The process included advertis-ing by e-mail, going into first-year experience classes and distributing handouts to professors.

“A lot of (professors) worked in that if the whole class goes they get extra credit or a pizza party,” he added.

Padak said a big part of using this exam at Kent Sate is recent “pressure being put on higher edu-cation institutions by legislatures to demonstrate that they can produce results, and this is the way of show-ing those results.”

He said no one ever used to measure this information in the

Goals of the Cla:1. To see how good students’ problem-solving

abilities are when faced with real-life situations.2. To find out what is needed for us to improve

students’ problem-solving skills if they are weak.3. To make sure every student graduating from

Kent State has problem-solving skills for the profes-sional world.

Source: Associate Provost Stephane Booth

What is the Voluntary system of aCCountability?The VSA is a voluntary initiative developed by

the higher education community to:1. Provide a useful tool for students during the

college search process.2. Assemble information that is transparent,

comparable and understandable.3. Demonstrate accountability and manage-

ment to the public.4. Measure educational outcomes to identify

and enhance effective educational practices. Source: Voluntary System

of Accountability Program

past, but with today’s cost of higher education, people want to know if their schooling has paid off .

Students taking the exam will receive their scores during the sum-mer and will be able to compare them with other students across the country on the VSA Web site.

Getting more students involved

Amanda Thomas, graduate assistant in the provost’s office, also played a large role in getting the CLA to Kent State.

Thomas found proctors, set up the student registration forms and made sure to get communications out to students.

Thomas said a big accomplish-ment for the program would be to have more students participating.

“I see it as a way of giving back and helping Kent State in figur-ing out what we did right, what we did wrong and where we can improve,” Thomas said.

Thomas said she would have wanted to take an assessment like this when she was a business major at Kent State.

“As a former business manage-ment major, I would be curious where I stand against peers across the nation,” she said. “Business is very competitive.”

Students can register for the exam at the CLA registration Web site: https://app-dev.us.kent.edu/test-web/default.aspx.

Contact academics reporter Suzi Starheim at [email protected].

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POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of

charges filed by the police. The listings do not represent convic-tions 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.

CITYFRIDAYn Brandon L. Meyers, 28, of Irving, Texas, was charged with public intoxication at the 400 block of South Water Street. n Scott E. Zack, 35, or Ravenna was charged with drunken driving at the 300 block of West Main Street. n Natalie E. Walker, 19, of Dover was charged with underage drinking at the inter-section of East Main Street and Midway Drive. n Lamont Holland, 18, of Cheltenham, Md., was charged with driving under suspen-sion at the intersection of East Main Street and Midway Drive.

SUNDAYn Richard A. Stonerock, 21, of Barberton was charged with drunken driving at West Main Street along the city limits. n James E. Starks, 23, of Toledo was charged with drunken driving at the 600 block of East Main Street. n Tearle L. Pierce, 20, of Kent was charged with underage drinking at the 600 block of East Main Street. n Andrew R. Martin, 20, of Brook Park was charged with underage drinking at the 100 block of South Water Street. n Kassandra J. Smith, 28, of Streetsboro

was charged with public intoxication at the intersection of South Water and West Erie streets. n Charles E. Mills, 36, of Kent was charged with public intoxication at the 200 block of South Water Street. n Darren P. Horvath, 36, of Aurora was charged with public intoxication at the 200 block of South Water Street.

MONDAYn Sharon B. Fisher, 70, of Kent was charged with theft and obstructing official business at the 400 block of Wolcott Avenue.

TUESDAYn Christy M. Reinhart, 29, of Ravenna was charged with driving under suspension and possession of drugs at the 1500 block of South Water Street. n Jason D. Tomblin, 26, of Ravenna was charged with drunken driving and driving under suspension at the 200 block of Franklin Avenue. n Brent J. Fuller, 28, of Kent was charged with drunken driving and driving under suspension at the 800 block of North Mantua Street.

WEDNESDAYn Jeffrey R. Jones, 40, of Brimfield was charged with public intoxication at the inter-section of North Water and Brady street.

CAMPUSTUESDAYn Theft was reported at the Student Recre-ation and Wellness Center. n Disorderly conduct was reported at Koonce Hall. n Criminal damage was reported at the Music and Speech Center.

Nicole StempakDaily Kent Stater

As a Kent State freshman, Chris Harris thought the athletic atmo-sphere needed a spark.

“It was more of a thing about school spirit,” he said. “I was just going to the game, enjoying myself, but feeling like something was missing.”

Harris asked himself what he could do, what could he bring to the table.

“I started out creating songs for the football and volleyball teams just as a way to show my love and respect for what all those teams did,” he said.

Today, Harris is known as DJ $crilla and the Kent State alum-nus is the opening act for the Jay Sean concert tonight at the M.A.C. Center.

The Cleveland Heights native won an award for best album “Me, Myself and I” at the Ohio Hip Hop Awards in September. The album has current hits “So Digital” and “What It Is Tho.” He was the first rapper to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.

To show his appreciation for Kent State at tonight’s concert, he will debut a song written especial-ly for the university titled “I Am KSU.”

Harris wrote the song based on his own experiences while a stu-dent. He is a 2006 electronic media production alumnus.

‘“I Am KSU’ is something I cre-ated about a pure love and affec-tion towards Kent State University, the people there, the students, the buildings — everything,” Harris said. “I created something fun and energetic. I just needed to bring it back.”

KSU alumnus to open tonight’s concertSoon after Harris crafted

his football and volleyball songs, other Kent State teams — including men’s basketball, soccer, softball and gymnastics — started asking for their own personalized songs.

Harris continued perform-ing for the athletic teams and at local venues like The Robin Hood and the Rathskeller. He also performed at Midnight Madness and during halftime of the ESPN BracketBuster game.

Harris said he catalogued his songs on his Web site. That and word-of-mouth soon landed him other jobs.

Universities across the coun-try asked Harris to write songs for their athletic programs after he graduated. Harris has cre-ated songs for the University of Southern California, Arizona State University and University of Maryland. He also wrote a personal recruitment song for Les Miles of LSU right after the 2008 National Championship Game.

“Some of the other schools saw what I was doing for Kent State University and thought this would be great for (them),” he said. “Kent State, by allow-ing me to perform at a Bracket-Buster halftime, really opened me to other opportunities and experiences. I wouldn’t be where I am today without Kent State.”

Harris still writes songs for other colleges and universities. He said he does a lot of research to write a song.

“Being from Kent State, I know Kent State like the back of my hand,” he said. “I highlight a lot of the good things of the university.

When I’m creating a song, I’m out there in the field. I’m talking to peo-ple about what makes your school unique and use word play to use what they say in a positive energy.”

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Q: How long has it been since you’ve been back at Kent State?A: This is my first time in a couple years. I haven’t had a chance to

come back for Homecoming or Halloween due to shows and traveling. I’m pretty excited.

Q: Did you live on campus?A: I lived in Munzenmayer Hall and Tri-Towers. I moved off campus

after that.

Q: What was your favorite class?A: Intro to Sociology. Just coming in as a freshman, you’re taking

these LERs. It just gave me a different perspective on issues in the world. A close second was the History of Jazz, an upper-division course. I learned so much about jazz and everything that goes into the com-position. It really helped me learn about what makes jazz music, the improvisation. That was something I didn’t know about before. It has helped me when I’m recording in the studio or jamming with my friends; I can take different elements that I learned. I have a greater appreciation for music as a whole.

Q: Where is your favorite spot on campus?A: The Rathskeller. It’s the kind of spot that you would find me hang-

ing out. I just remember the pizza. There’s a picture of it in my head. I just thought it was a really nice atmosphere in the basement of the Student Center. Also the Music and Speech Center building, consider-ing my major, and Franklin Hall before the remodel, when it was old and cold. You were going to class with a winter jacket on. I definitely remember that as well.

Q: What’s a memorable moment you remember at Kent State?A: Overall, it’s hard to pinpoint one memory at Kent State. I remember

when the Sept. 11 attacks happened. I remember waking up in my dorm in Munzenmayer. We were still relatively new, still feeling each other out. I remember everyone just coming together and being there for one another in such a tragic time. It just really hit home. We were a hallway of complete strangers, but we were all together as one.

Q: Is there any place special you plan to visit while in Kent?A: After the concert, I’ll go downtown to the Water Street Tavern and

maybe an after party if there is one. I’ll really enjoy my day in Kent.

A question and answer session with DJ $crilla

Ray HenryThe Associated Press

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — The blue-and-white banner exclaim-ing “anticipation” on the front of Central Falls High School seems like a cruel joke for an institu-tion so chronically troubled that its leaders decided to fire every teacher by year’s end.

No more than half those instructors would be hired back under a federal option that has enraged the state’s powerful teachers union, earned criti-cism from students, and brought praise from U.S. Education Sec-retary Arne Duncan and some parents.

The mass f i r ings were approved by the school district’s board of trustees Tuesday night after talks failed between Super-intendent Frances Gallo and the local teachers union over implementing changes, includ-ing offering more tutoring and a longer school day. The teachers say they want more pay for the

additional work.“If it’s only an hour or two a

week, I think teachers can afford to do that,” said Robert Rivera, 40, who worries about sending his 13-year-old daughter to the troubled high school next year. He dropped out of school as a teenager and works more than 60 hours a week as an appliance repairman.

He’s determined his daugh-ter will go to college, although he sometimes feels her teachers have a nonchalant attitude when he seeks help.

“I just feel like maybe they’re not putting in the effort,” he said.

The shake-up comes as Rhode Island’s new education commis-sioner, Deborah Gist, pushes the state to compete for millions of dollars in federal funding to reform the worst 5 percent of its schools, including in Central Falls. State law requires schools to warn teachers by March 1 if their jobs are in jeopardy for the following school year.

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SUMMARY: Earlier this week, it was announced that the May 4 Memorial at Kent State

would be added to the National Register of Historic Places, showing the significance of the historic date.

There’s a certain romance to “the college trip to Europe.” Armed with nothing more than a green hiking backpack filled with one change of clothing and a toothbrush, gallivanting around this fabled continent by rail in search of new experiences and to kill, or perhaps maim, familiarity. The romance is in the sensations — tasting new food (and drink!), smelling the freshly fertilized farmland, touching old Gothic cathedrals and being one with history, feeding pigeons pieces of baguettes out of your hand. And I did these things. I had the romance. But the feeling I got out of the experience, the lasting wisdom, is what will be with me forever.

Back in Kent, I live at home in an effort to save money and stay connected with my family. The university is within walking distance; my father has been my professor twice. No doubt, walk-ing around town, I will see many people I know. It is warm, it is inti-mate and it is familiar. I am thank-ful for it.

But at some point, a boy looks beyond his horizons and begins to see gray shapes moving in the background, shapes he never noticed were there. At some point, he begins to reject his upbring-ing simply because his parents raised him a certain way. I went to Europe because I wished to live for me, to live for new experience and new sensation and just break out of familiarity, to move closer to distinguishing my “gray shape.”

As part of my study abroad program, we were given two-month train passes, which gave us free passage through 20-some countries all around the conti-nent, from Portugal to the Czech Republic to Norway to Greece. Trains were the medium by which I experienced Europe.

“Hush-hush,” breathed the train as it eased through crum-bling Polish steel yards and sad gray train stations with high grass growing in between the tracks. “Hush-hush” went the train pass-ing French vineyards abound with ripened grapes and with it the toothless men covered in red juice waving goodbye, goodbye. “Hush-hush” it said whisking through the Swiss mountain range, trundling through tiny mountain villages with tiny mountain peo-ple seemingly unaware (though this can’t be true) of the beautiful snow-capped peaks around them. “Hush-hush” through Spanish countryside wet with dew, “hush-

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On Feb. 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocked the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout.— History.com

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Significance of historic site was never a questionThe site of the May 4 shootings at Kent State

was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Tuesday.

The site was deemed so significant that the Register ignored the requirement that the his-toric event had to happen at least 50 years ago. Now the site will be on the Register in time for the 40th anniversary of the event.

In 2006, communications professor Car-ole Barbato, English professor Laura Davis, emeritus sociology professor Jerry Lewis and anthropology professor Mark Seeman wrote a proposal to get the site on the national list. They argued the significance of the shootings overwhelmed any age requirement.

“America knows about this. The world knows about this,” Davis told the Daily Kent Stater. “This is a story that marks an important turning point in American history.”

We agree, and apparently so did the Nation-al Park Service, which administers the Register. Before the announcement, Gov. Ted Strickland, Rep. Tim Ryan and the Kent State Board of Trustees endorsed the group’s efforts to nomi-nate the site.

What happened on our campus in 1970

shook the university, the state and the nation. When Ohio National Guardsmen killed

four and wounded nine others, the whole world took notice. The rights of citizens to protest the policies of their own government, or even gather peacefully on public property, were being threatened in a way they had never been before.

The event led to a major student strike at hundreds of universities and colleges and fur-ther weakened public support for the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration’s policies toward protestors.

Recognizing how important the site was to American history is important, even if some would rather forget this brutal chapter. The lives of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder deserve to be remembered.

Alumni, professors, students and others gather every year on May 4 to memorialize those who were killed. But the addition of the 17.24 acre site reminds us that the event’s sig-nificance can not be expressed in one day.

Any time you exercise freedom of speech, freedom of assembly or simply the freedom to

pursue life, liberty and happiness, remember those four individuals were denied that right.

It’s almost impossible to determine what actually happened that day, but the basic fact is that four college students were killed by agents of their government seemingly at random. Remember that when you’re walking across campus the next sunny day.

Hopefully the addition of this site to the National Register of Historic Places reminds that the event was not just the one fact everyone knows about our university. It should remind us that not so long ago, a tragedy occurred that affected thousands, maybe millions of people worldwide.

It’s history, but it’s still alive. We’re living with results of the event still

today. It’s hard to imagine a time when Kent State, and the nation itself, won’t still be reflect-ing on that tragic day.

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Anastasia Spytsya

Country first

Government should handle all student lending

hush” along quaint Belgian canal ways, and “hush-hush” along the Danube River where sunbathers soaked in the first rays of spring.

I saw all these things through the dingy windows of train cars. What excited me and frightened me at the same time were how many people the train simply passed, as if their lives were just so insignificant. Loud families bunched together on train plat-forms waiting for the 12:24 p.m. to Eisenach, or the lone business-man contemplating morning meetings, or the blond-haired child who, escaping her snoozing mother, wanders the aisles and stares unabashedly at other riders. I asked to myself, “What are these people’s lives like? Who are they?” And maybe they were asking the same thing about me.

My thirst to get out of my com-fortable Midwest American life, this common and natural desire, was quenched by the unassailable observation that everyone lives in Small Town, USA, everyone lives in rural Poland, everyone lives in big city Berlin. Everyone lives everywhere. We are deeply intertwined in each other’s lives through our common humani-ties. Identifications like national-ity, or race or religion are nothing compared to my broad realiza-tion. Me, the formerly sheltered kid that said, “Look at all of these random people. Aren’t we all just so random? Just so insignificant?” Yes, we are. But most importantly, we are also interconnected in this common thread. And through this, I found my peace with a lot of things.

People they come togetherPeople they fall apartNo one can stop us nowBecause we are all made of stars

— from “We Are All Made of Stars,” by Moby

Christopher Hook is a junior international relations

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Oh, beautiful America. How much do you give me? You give me everything I need and more. Because of you, I have an opportunity to pursue happiness. Because of you, I have an opportunity to become who I want to be. You give me an opportunity to go as far as I want. You even give me a right to change you for the better. You give my fellow citizens and me something other people won’t have in their lifetime: a chance.

You, America, have given us a chance. But is there anything we, as citizens, can do to give back?

The people who built America gave their hearts to develop this nation. We can contribute the same. There are so many different ways to give back; however, I believe giving your char-acter is the most priceless gift you can give to America.

All of us hold our own political beliefs, and it’s wonderful. But we all need to share com-mon sense to help America to overcome dif-ficulties. And this sense lies within our hearts.

I often ask myself, “What makes a good citi-zen?” And I feel the content of our character is the most important and fundamental aspect of citizenry. There are just very few traits that will help America to become a better country. Yet they are so difficult to develop.

Integrity: Where did integrity go? Nowa-days people who have no empathy or love for others surround us. We live in a country full of selfishness, and most people will do harm to others to benefit themselves. We live in an “all about me generation.” What we fail to understand is that integrity is not simply about standing for your beliefs and ideals. It is also standing for principles that will benefit this country. You benefited from these values, now please make sure your children will, too.

Honor: Honor this country. Stand up when

Given a choice, would you use taxpayer money to subsidize banks, or to help students pay for college?

It’s rare for a public policy question to be this big a no-brainer. But that’s the right way to describe the Obama administration’s proposal to save an estimated $80 billion over 10 years by making all student loans directly through the government rather than private lenders, and direct that money toward education pro-grams.

The House has passed legislation to elimi-nate the middleman — companies such as Sal-lie Mae — from the process, but the proposal is stalled in the Senate amid filibuster threats.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants to use the money for programs that help students get to college and succeed there, cru-cial steps for the country if U.S. companies are to compete globally long-term. The biggest of these programs is a $40 billion increase in Pell Grants, which would improve affordability for students now and reduce indebtedness later.

The plan also includes $8 billion for early childhood education, an essential ingredient for success later in life, and more money for community colleges, low-interest Perkins loans

the anthem is playing; take a moment to thank a soldier. Honoring America is like honoring your parents. They gave you life, but Ameri-ca decided for you how you’ll live your life: the way you want to. Not too many citizens of the world have such privilege. Honoring America is important because you show that you value a country you belong to and all the great people who made this country for you. By honoring America, you show your support for its fundamental principles and that you are proud for its accomplishments.

Commitment: If you have your stuff unpacked in the U.S., you might as well want to unpack your mind. If you hate this country, I can recommend you move to Canada, where they don’t care about anything because no one cares for them. In America we lack unity, some-thing that I often write about. If all of us com-mit to build America, it will unite us.

Respect: We should respect fellow citizens to the best of our abilities. I get that you might hate Republicans or Democrats. But the lack of respect leads to a lot of hate, which creates more problems. We are facing so many dis-agreements today because we do not pay atten-tion to what other people say and do — we’re too focused on making our point a priority.

Loyalty: I would imagine that most of you have said the Pledge of Allegiance at some point in your lives, which means that you

and college-tuition tax credits.In concept, the proposal isn’t that dramatic;

the government already makes the majority of student loans. However, a very profitable slice currently goes through private companies that lend out federal money and collect fees and interest, even though taxpayers bear the risk of default. This piece of the market would be eliminated.

Lenders, supported by some lawmakers from both parties, are arguing against the plan, trying to protect what Duncan calls their “free ride.” Perhaps sensing that public opinion isn’t on their side, they’ve suggested an alternative that would limit their profits but also save the government far less.

One of the primary arguments against the bill is that it represents a government takeover. But this argument is purely political, not sub-stantive, as the government provides virtually all the capital for student loans already.

The industry also says the bill will cost jobs. Sallie Mae estimates it would be forced to lay off some 2,500 people, though it doesn’t account for positions that would be regained because the plan calls for private companies to service the loans. Regardless, saving these jobs

promised to be loyal to your country. But what does it really mean to be loyal?

Being loyal to your country does not mean to be loyal to its government or whoever is running this nation. Sometimes being loyal to your country requires being disloyal to the government. In 2010, we are seeing the exact form of government from what it’s supposed to be. And, if we pledged allegiance, it is our responsibility to keep our word. Being loyal to your country means doing everything it takes to make it better.

Duty: It is our duty to be responsible about this country’s future. I hope that all of you sup-port democracy as the most legitimate form of the government; therefore, you are responsible for maintaining the democratic process by vot-ing. I see it an appeal to integrity. Your vote is a vote for democracy.

People in the 21st Century lost the true meaning of citizenship. We take advantage of our rights yet ignore our responsibilities. The Declaration of Independence guarantees us three rights, “life, liberty and pursuit of hap-piness.” However, we now don’t care about keeping our country safe, which “life” stands for; we have forgotten about the importance of freedom, which is represented by “liberty,” because we are that damn obsessed with the pursuit of happiness.

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

— President John F. Kennedy

Anastasia Spytsya is a senior Russian translation major and political science minor

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isn’t worth $80 billion.The lenders argue they can serve students

better, and they’re at least partly right, which is why the government would still contract with them to service the loans.

But during the economic collapse, many pri-vate lenders stopped offering loans altogether, forcing colleges to turn to the more reliable direct lending programs instead — hardly a shining example of excellent customer sup-port.

It’s one thing to lose your car loan when credit markets freeze up. It’s quite another to be unable to attend college. Student lending is too important to be left to market vagaries.

This plan eliminates corporate welfare and funds key education programs without adding to the deficit. The Senate should pass it without delay so that colleges will have time to imple-ment it in time for the next school year.

The above editorial appeared was originally published Feb. 23 by the San Jose Mercury News.

Content was made available by MCTCampus.

The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial

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Nicole StempakDaily Kent Stater

The city of Kent has stepped up its efforts on issuing citations for not clearing plowed snow from sidewalks.

n Code enforcement officer Troy Loomis will issue the business or property owner a written warning that he is in violation. If the violation poses an immedi-ate safety hazard, he will have 24 hours to clear the snow. If the violation doesn’t pose an immediate safety hazard and

City enforces sidewalk snow removal code

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Tim O’Neil is a victim of cir-cumstance.

He runs O’Neil’s, a drive-thru located near the corner of Lake Street and Second Ave-nue, right next to the closed-off Lake Street bridge repair project. Since the road closed in January, O’Neil has seen his sales drop dramatically as those coming from Brady Lake into Kent are detoured to state Route 59.

“As a small business own-er, there’s only so much you can do to keep customers,” he said. “So when something like this happens for a long period of time, businesses can’t survive.”

Ironically, O’Neil had first-hand experience with this when he took over the business 15 years ago. His father started the drive-thru in 1988 and ran it himself until that point.

But in the mid 1990s, the city started making repairs to Lake Street, and that’s when he left the drive-thru business to his son.

“It put him into such debt that he was forced to go find a job somewhere else,” O’Neil said.

Now the problem has come full circle. O’Neil is struggling to keep his customers coming back because of the latest con-struction project on Lake Street. He’s tried a Facebook fan page, putting up signs and selling O’Neil’s T-shirts.

“You have to be willing to do everything to serve the customer’s needs. Nowadays that’s what it takes,” he said. “Hopefully you survive. Hope-fully you make it through, or if you’re like me, you don’t have a choice, you just have to do it, no matter what it costs and no

matter how it affects your life.” The Lake Street project has

been shortened due to phone calls O’Neil made to the County Engineer’s office. Portage County Assistant Engineer Scott Miller said the county is willing to work with small businesses when they have problems, but ultimately these projects must get done.

“We actually reduced the amount of time the bridge can be closed from 6 months to 5 months,” he said.

So O’Neil had to shift the way he does business, often working from open to close and trying to find avenues for cost reduction in every aspect of his business from phone bills to snow plow-ing. O’Neil’s was already suffer-ing from the poor economy. Many of its regular customers have lost their jobs in the past year.

Also, there are more corporate gas stations coming into town, whose prices are impossible for a small business to compete with.

On top of all of that, there are now two bridge projects that will divert traffic away from his busi-ness. It’s all begun to weigh very

heavily on O’Neil’s livelihood. “I run a good business, an hon-

est, clean business,” he said. “I didn’t create this problem; it was a problem created for me. I have a hard time dealing with the fact I didn’t do anything wrong, yet my business is suffering tremen-dously,” he said.

Sue Helming, owner of Dig-ger’s Bar & Grille on North Man-tua knows all too well about this struggle. She opened the restau-rant more than 13 years ago in one of the busiest intersections in all of Portage County.

Now, with the construction of the Crain bridge project starting, Helming is worried her business could be seriously affected.

“I can tell with just the little bit of construction that they’ve done out here, I’d say my sales have practically dropped by half,” she said.

Helming is worried about how accessible her business will be during construction. She has had problems recently with the city putting road closing signs around her business, even as the roads stay open.

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Heather ThomasDaily Kent Stater

In an effort to become more environmentally aware, mem-bers of the Greek community are working together to change individual habits as well as those in the house.

“Going green is an impor-tant global initiative,” said Matt Cohen, a junior history major and president of Alpha Epsi-lon Pi. “It seems like a lot of the community outreach programs are to go green.”

Cohen, a Greek life intern for the Center of Student Involve-ment, created Go Greek Go Green, an organization of Greek members encouraging Greek houses and individuals to be more efficient.

“I’m hoping at the very least it gets individual members of the dif-ferent houses thinking about ways they can reduce their own carbon footprint,” he said. “Our ultimate goal would be to push for green housing for Greeks in the future.

Cohen said Go Greek Go Green is a complex project that involves four subcommittees. Members of each will be tasked with either producing “Green Baskets” that will be filled with “green” items and sent to all the Greek houses, connecting with Kent parks or forming a press team.

One of the subcommittees is planning the organization’s main goal—to launch their “Green Week” events during Greek Week in April.

The organization has been brainstorming ideas for “Green Week” events since early February, and is finalizing plans to attract chapters to join their efforts.

“It seemed like a project that we could really get people inter-ested and involved in,” he said. “I thought it would be a good idea to involve the community.”

Cohen is working on coordi-nating with parking services to offer free parking to those who can prove they carpooled to a Greek

The Greeks gear up to go green

By state law, the city can’t force a property owner to clear his sidewalk after a snowfall, but code enforcement officer Troy Loomis said if piled snow makes walking difficult for pedestrians, the owner has to

clear it or faces a fine.A property owner does not

have to clear natural snowfall but must clean sidewalks if plowed snow covers the walkways.

Loomis has issued 21 snow violations this year to area busi-

ness and property owners. Two of the violators were fined.

All properties have since taken care of their problems, he said.

In January, Kent City Coun-cil gave Loomis the authority to issue citations and fine violators himself. Previously, violations had to be filed by the police and pro-cessed through the court system.

“I guess you could say, when-ever it’s observed, that’s when we take action,” Loomis said. “Even if the snow is still falling and someone has made a huge pile, we’re going to take action pretty much right away.”

The city has also added a “Snow on Sidewalk” complaint form for residents on its Web

site. — http://www.mygovhelp.com/kentoh/_cs/RequestSelect .aspx?sSessionID=

The form can be found on the Make A Request option under the Citizen Center tab. Com-plaints are automatically sent to Loomis for a follow-up.

Sarah Rilling, associate pro-fessor and undergraduate stud-ies coordinator for the English Department, lives between East Main Street and Crain Avenue and walks to campus every day. She said the commute can be difficult in the winter because businesses clear parking lots but pile snow along the perimeter, thereby reducing traffic visibil-ity at the crosswalk. Often, side-

HOW THE ORDINANCE WORKS:the owner can be directly contacted, he will have three days to clear the snow. n If the owner cannot be con-tacted directly and the snow poses an immediate safety hazard, the city will have a contractor remove the snow and bill the owner.

n If the violation doesn’t pose an immediate safety hazard, the notice will be sent by mail and the owner will have seven days to remove the snow. n If the owner hasn’t cleared the snow by the deadline, he is fined $100. If the snow is cleared within 24 hours of the citation, the fine can be cut in half.

walks are not cleared.Ward 4 Councilman John

Kuhar has seen the positive impact of Loomis’ efforts dur-ing the last snowstorm.

“ I ’ v e s e e n w h e r e h e ’ s (Loomis) talking with business owners and then the next day you see where there’s a clear path,” Kuhar said. “That’s a good thing. That’s what we’re trying to accomplish.”

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Week event. Although the project began last

fall, representatives from sororities and fraternities did not participate actively until this semester. They are now encouraging their own houses to become environmen-tally efficient because of it.

“(Going green) might save money for the house,” said Rachal Mann, a sophomore special educa-tion major. “It’s also important to me that the Greek community is trying to help the environment.”

Mann, a member of Alpha Xi Delta, said she’s interested in helping the planet and saving resources, and she thought Go Greek Go Green would be a good way to get involved. She is work-ing on the subcommittee making “Green Baskets,” and will be mak-ing a pamphlet about how Greek houses can go green.

Cohen said Go Greek Go Green is important because the Greek community is often nega-tively portrayed, and both he and Mann said they hope this project will change students’ opinions for the better.

“I think in part we have a greater responsibility to be the role models and leaders for the campus,” Cohen said. “Hopefully (the project) will make the campus see Greeks in a different light.”

If Go Greek Go Green contin-ued from year to year, Cohen said it would be tremendous. He said he wants the project to encourage both Greek and non-Greek indi-viduals to be thinking consciously about the environment.

“Hopefully the Green Week itself will generate its own buzz to keep it going,” Cohen said. “I hope individuals get sparked with an interest to go green, and take it up on their own and take it in their own direction.”

Contact Greek Life reporter Heather Thomas

at [email protected].

“There were many days they were working and they’d have my driveway blocked off, and I’d have to go ask them to open it up for me,” she said.

And with a project finish date of December, 2012, Helming will have a long road to recovery.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it closed me, to be honest,” she said. “I’m really concerned about it.”

The Crain/Fairchild Bridge Project is budgeted at $23 million, with $3 million coming from fed-eral stimulus money and the rest from public funding sources and project partners.

The cost of the Brady Lake bridge repair is about $1.9 million with $1.125 coming from stimu-lus money, according to Miller. The project is expected to be com-pleted by Memorial Day. The two projects are coordinated so that Crain will not close until Brady Lake reopens.

Contact public affairs reporter Denver Collins at

[email protected].

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The third annual Tournées Fes-tival is bringing films from across the ocean to splash Kent State students with something they are familiar with — movies.

“The people in those movies are, in a sense, more like themselves, their friends or their families than the Hollywood figures we see,” said Françoise Massardier-Kenney, professor of French translation.

The French film festival is a four-day event that will begin today and take place in Room 177 of the Michael Schwartz Cen-ter. The films are free and open to the public.

With students in mind, cosponsors Kenney and history professor Rebecca Pulju picked five films from a list given to them by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

“There aren’t a lot of opportuni-ties to see foreign films, or French films in particular, very close to campus or to Kent,” Pulju said. “We thought it would be a great chance for them to be introduced.”

Kenney said she travels to France quite often and sees a lot of movies, and she picked ones with different genres that would inter-est students. She said these are different from Hollywood movies, which are made to attract the big-gest name and audience possible to generate a large profit. In France and many other countries, grants are given to some filmmakers by the government.

“They are able to worry less

“Therefore, on April 1, five hundred uniformed men were brought to the campus to study physics, mathematics, English, history, and geography under the civilian university faculty in preparation for their flight train-ing,” the catalog read.

The 336th Training Detach-ment breathed new life into a crippled school. Its doors remained open despite the almost 5,000 students, faculty and staff who had enrolled in the war effort.

Meanwhile, William Hildeb-rand, author of “A Most Noble Enterprise: The story of Kent State University 1910-2010,” said the university had stopped most all student activities.

“There was very little activity on campus from 1943 on,” he said. “It was a pretty desolate place.”

Football, theater, fraternity and sorority activities ceased. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, students had arranged an annual Rowboat Regatta on the Cuyaho-ga and began the Sadie Hawkins Day and Dance tradition.

Student life may have suf-fered, but Shriver said the war did much for the school’s reputa-tion. The 336th Training Detach-ment had become a model for other universities in America, and Kent State found another way to help the war effort.

Shriver writes that the univer-sity leased the top floor of McGil-vrey Hall to the B.F. Goodrich Company for the development and research of synthetic rubber to aid in the shortage.

“There, a group of Kent State

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students, most of them chemistry majors, assisted in experiments which led to the development of GRS-10 (Government Rubber, Styrene, Type 10),” he wrote.

Amidst the all-encompassing effect of a world war, the univer-sity continued to deal with its own problems.

James Engleman had retired after 10 years as president of the university, and a new man was in charge.

“He finally decided to retire because he stood in the way of rebuilding,” Hildebrand said. “He was tired too.”

Karl Leebrick was chosen to replace him. Leebrick had a background in liberal arts and the trustees were confident he could steer the school in its effort to transition from college to university. He did so, but at the expense of his relationship with the faculty.

“He was prickly, he was suspi-cious, he was impatient,” Hildeb-rand said. “He was abrupt, and he was very rude in his behavior toward the education faculty.”

But he had an energy that pro-pelled the school forward.

“He was an outstanding ora-tor,” Shriver said. “He liked being on the stage and the focus of public attention.“

Hildebrand writes in his book that at a pep rally during his first fall semester he “surprised the students by leading cheers with the abandon of an undergradu-ate cheerleader.”

Engleman had been a con-servative man, a Republican in strong opposition to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal. So despite the fact that the school was growing and in need of new dormitories and class-rooms, nothing was built during his presidency.

“He hated the New Deal, and he was a man of integrity,” Hil-debrand said. “He wasn’t going to be trapped into applying to the New Deal for money.”

Under Leebrick, and with fed-eral and state money, the school added a new science building, which they named after John McGilvrey, new baseball and foot-ball fields, a dormitory named after Engleman and parking lots for the students who now regu-larly drove to campus.

The new president rearranged

the curriculum, the colleges and the faculty to fit the liberal arts mold.

As Hildebrand writes, “He moved always boldly, if seldom tactfully, to reconfigure the basic structures, programs, and academ-ic relationships of the school.”

His era was called the “Lee-brick Revolution.”

Contact enterprise reporter Kristine Gill at [email protected].

Photo courtesy of Kent state archivesJulie ‘Peggy’ Curry (front) and another coed greet Royal Air Force flyers in Kent for the Defense Day Festivals. Photograph appears on Page 174 of the 1942 Chestnut Burr and Page 73 of “A Book of Memories”.

French film festival free to students

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about pleasing most people,” Ken-ney said.

Aside from a personal inter-est in watching movies in other languages, Sarah Cook, freshman French translation major, watches them to gain a better understand-ing of the French language.

Kenneth Bindas, professor and chair of the history department, said experts from the area are part-nered with a film and will lead a discussion before and after the viewing. He said that the discus-sion leaders will lay down a con-textual foundation for the people who are watching the film.

Kenney said as students are watching, they can relate to the specific characters and what they go through, even though they are French movies with English subtitles.

“I think sometimes students are intimidated by watching a film with subtitles or a film in a different language,” Pulju said. “We picked films that were very accessible and would be entertaining to American students so that they, perhaps, will find foreign film less intimidating. They’ll realize when you watch a film with subtitles, you very quick-ly get used to it, and it’s not intimi-dating or hard to follow.”

Contact College of Arts and Sciences reporter Jennifer Shore

at [email protected]

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Akron sophomore center Kyle Baumgartner connected on a 3-point-er on the ensuing possession; pulling the Zips within two with 33 seconds left in regulation.

Following an Akron timeout, the Flashes drained 11 seconds on the clock before Humes added two free throws to give Kent State a four-point lead with 22 seconds remaining.

Humes said the coaches moti-vated the players to begin taking advantage of Akron’s defensive weakness.

“Our coaches were really empha-sizing the driving opportunities,” Humes said. “We wanted to exploit their slowness of foot on the defen-sive end. When they collapse we have to penetrate and pitch.”

Baumgartner missed a 3-pointer with eight seconds left, but was fouled by Humes on the shot. After missing the first free throw, Baum-gartner brought the Zips within two points by making her second and third attempts.

Spears added a free throw to give

the Flashes a 67-64 lead, and Akron freshman guard Taylor Ruper’s buzzer-beating attempt hit the rim and sealed a Kent State victory.

Lindsay said the team’s play in the second half was impres-sive, but they failed to close out the opponent.

“I wasn’t very happy at the half with the way we competed, and defended the ball,” Lindsay said. “We had a discussion with that at halftime, and I think we responded. We did a good job, especially in the first seven minutes.”

The Zips held a firm nine-point lead on the Flashes with 7:05 left in the first half, but Humes led Kent State to a 13-2 run on a 3-pointer with 25 seconds left.

Akron ended the half with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, but the Zips’ 12 turnovers turned into 12 Kent State points.

“Obviously Humes had a great game and Spears had a great game,” Lindsay said. “They obviously carried us from an offensive perspective. “

The Flashes will tip off against MAC-leading Bowling Green at noon Saturday in Anderson Arena.

Contact sports reporter Lance Lysowski at [email protected]

Senior guard Mike McKee hit a huge 3-pointer to give the Flashes a 48-47 lead. The shot was answered with a shot clock buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Bowling Green freshman guard James Erger, which was quickly followed by McKee’s third successful attempt from behind the arc, which gave Kent State a 51-50 lead.

“I thought that he showed some senior maturity to jump up and have some courage to make some big shots for us,” Ford said.

The Falcons would not be able to overcome that lead for the remainder of the game, but they would put pressure on the Flashes as they cut the lead down to four points with 23.3 seconds left in regulation.

Senior guard Chris Singletary totaled 12 points and five assists on the night, but fouled out with 2:18 seconds left in regulation.

Singletary was in foul trouble

early, as he was whistled for his third personal foul in the first half.

“It’s going to hurt us,” Ford said about Singletary’s foul trouble. “He should be player of year in the league if we continue to win. He’s certainly the one guy that you got to game plan the most against to guard.”

Kent State struggled in the first half, as the Flashes trailed the Fal-cons after starting the game 4-0.

After the Flashes started with buckets by junior guard Rodriquez Sherman then sophomore guard Jus-tin Greene, Bowling Green went on a 10-0 run that troubled the Flashes for the rest of the half.

Kent State followed up with four straight points, but Bowling Green answered by taking a 19-10 lead. From there, the Falcons bullied the Flashes to maintain a large lead until taking a 35-24 lead with under three minutes left in the half.

In an attempt to edge closer to Bowling Green before half-time, Singletary hit a wide-open layup. But he followed up with his third foul of the game, which would limit his productivity for the remainder of regulation.

Back-to-back scores in the paint by Bowling Green gave the

Falcons their biggest lead of 38-26 going into halftime

Greene scored a game-high 26 points in the game, while adding six rebounds.

Kent State returns to the M.A.C. Center on Saturday for the senior

day match-up against Miami.

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racheL KiLroy | DaiLy Kent staterSophomore forward Justin Greene jumps for the rebound against two Bowling Green defenders. Greene had 26 points and six rebounds in the Flashes 75-69 victory.

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Today’s birthday (2/25/10)Shift your attention toward creativ-ity this year and you can’t go wrong. Your powers of perception steer you to the right possibilities, guided by that creative energy. You could become obsessive about personal relationships. Drop the pressure for best results.

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. You have the power to create whatever you want today. Infuse your actions with excitement. Leave correspondence for another day.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8. Extend your love to oth-ers through the tender expression of your feelings. There’s no need for flam-boyance, but gifts are always welcome.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7. You wake up with an idea that could change the balance or inten-sity of love in your life. Whatever you do, the outcome feels just right.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 6. Join a female associate to move your agenda forward. You need visible, satisfying results by day’s end. That’s all.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7. Accept your role as social butterfly, even if you feel cramped or agitated inside. Once you hit the stage, you relax and begin to enjoy the spotlight.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8. There’s a lot happening inside your head today. Don’t expect other people to know that. You can maintain the secret or share with a special someone.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 6. You probably can’t get romance off your mind today. So, plan for the weekend and then refocus on work.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7. This is a good day for filing and organizing. You have a pile of stuff that could be put away (or thrown away). Only you can make these deci-sions. Don’t leave it for the cleaning crew.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is an 8. Creative efforts shift toward personal relationships. Stifle any tendency to criticize. Instead, talk about how each person’s contribution enhances the whole.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 8. You edge closer to a ma-jor goal. Your thoughts take you in mul-tiple directions, so your actions need to focus on the logic of your priorities.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8. The efforts you’ve put in over the last few days pay off now. You’re far more comfortable in your role, and others support you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8. Find your groove and stay there all day. Everyone contributes to make today memorable. And you thought it was all about work! Silly you.

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Mariana SilvaDaily Kent Stater

Graduate student Dametraus Jag-gers wasn’t surprised by the results of a study he conducted last fall.

Yesterday, alongside his research adviser Susan Iverson, assistant professor of foundation, leader-ship and administration, Jaggers presented his findings.

“Addressing the Crisis: Sup-porting African American Males at Predominately White Institutions,” an event of the Soup and Substance Dialogue Series, exposed the barri-ers black students have to overcome when pursuing a college education.

The results of the research comes from four focus groups con-ducted last fall when Jaggers and Iverson interviewed 23 black and three Latino male students about their experiences and perceptions

with staff, faculty and programs at Kent State.

Jaggers said he wanted to speak with black, Latino and Native American students, but he wasn’t able to find a large population of Latino and Native American stu-dents on campus.

“Diversity is the mission state-ment,” Jaggers said, “but for stu-dents, where is diversity?”

The researchers believe Kent State is missing out on oppor-tunities to create a more diverse community. Students in the focus groups pointed out the lack of stu-dent organizations and programs to get students to interact with other ethnicities.

In the focus groups, students talked about how some activities seem to bring only Caucasian, black, Asian or Latino students. They also told the researchers how

they felt “out of the box” in the res-idence halls, and how sometimes they believed they were perceived differently by professors and staff.

Students also said that often when they walk to a classroom they expect to be the only black male there. During a focus group, a student told the researchers a professor told him that, giving his background, he was surprised he was getting an A for the class.

“His presentation was extremely powerful in bringing how African American males feel about being on campus and about stereotyp-ing,” said Shana M. Lee, Student Multicultural Center director.

Lee said she has heard of stu-dents with the same issues pointed out in the presentation. She said college is already a struggle to many students, but stereotyping and different treatment impacts the students’ transition to college even more.

Jaggers and Iverson said they believe the solution for the issues black male students face is making connections with other students and learning from other people. Iverson said it is also a challenge to get Caucasian students to real-ize that making these connections is also their responsibility.

“ I think if we start this discus-sion and if we start talking about it,” Jaggers said, “we will be creating a sense of awareness … and increase the consciousness of these issues.”

Contact diversity reporter Mariana Silva at [email protected].

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LAURA BROWN | DAILY KENT STATERGraduate student Dametraus Jaggers presented the results from his research study on how black males were treated on campus. He addressed the issue of diversity being scarce among students and even faculty.

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2/25/10 ARTS. LIFE. LEISURE.

The fashion continuum

Knowing what to wear and whenRyan SheridanDaily Kent Stater

Men need it and girls want it from them. GQ and Esquire have built maga-zine empires around it. It’s called style. And Bradley Springfield, senior adver-tising and fashion mer-chandising major, has a lot of it.

“I have been a featured in (the Daily Kent Stater’s) ‘Style Eye’ and ‘College Fashionistas’ simply based

on what I was wearing to class,” he said.

Springfield’s typical outfit consists of worn-in jeans, an oversized wool coat, a cardigan and deep V-neck T-shirt.

“I don’t believe fashion is necessarily as important as possessing personal style,” said Springfield, who plans on interning with Calvin Klein’s media relations department before graduating. “Fashion is a subjective term used to sell products.”

However, not every man need possess the latest fashion trends. There are only a few bare necessities

every man should have in his closet, explained Noel Palomo-Novinski, an assis-tant professor at the Fash-ion School. “A nice fitting blazer and a white button down,” he said. “The pri-mary thing is to feel com-fortable. If you don’t look at ease, no one around you feels relaxed either.”

Springfield agreed a sense of fashion is an exten-sion of yourself.

“Personal style can only be achieved when one is fully comfortable with his or her direction in life and proud of the accomplish-ments achieved,” he said.

Though it can be stressful

picking out the appropriate outfit for certain occasions, Palomo-Novinski said just asking the hosts can clear up a lot of confusion.

“It is always appropri-ate to ask the dress code: formal, casual or semi-for-mal. If it is a serious occa-sion, choose formal: tie and dress pants,” he said.

The right outfit also depends on how many peo-ple are attending the event.

“It really is about who you are going with or how many,” said Palomo-Novinski. “(Large) num-bers suggest a tie.”

Springfield offered some advice to those still holding

on to their old T-shirts and baggy jeans.

“For the guys that are uncomfortable to throw on a blazer and jeans that fit, I would highly suggest get-ting over this phobia and wear clothes that comple-ment one’s physique,” he said. “Being dressed appro-priately for the occasion is necessary for a confident, collected individual.”

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Sarah JamesDaily Kent Stater

Five years ago, Sharon Dranko, sophomore fashion merchandising major, wore tutus to school. Junior English major Erin Miller was gothic in high school.

As the two bloomed during college, their wardrobes changed, too. Fashion actively expressed or suppressed. Fashion revealed or concealed. Fashion was the symptom and the cause, one’s internal metamorphosis on display for the world to see.

A man’s fashion should be reflective of himselfA BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FOURINHAND TIE KNOT

■ It became a British fashion staple in the 1850s.■ Though the origin of its name is debatable, it either came from carriage drivers who would tie their horse reigns with a four-in-hand knot or from members of an elite London driving club called the Four-in-Hand.■ Because of its simplicity, it is one of the more popular tie knots.

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From wild to trendyWhen Sharon Dranko was 15 years old, her style was far different from what

was considered normal. One outfit consisted of a neon blue Lycra top and a black miniskirt with appli-

quéd stars overtop a purple tutu, a leftover from an old ice skating costume. She wore black tights, black knee socks and homemade sequined shoes. She used fabric glue and more sequins to create a sparkly mosaic on the side of her face. She applied a thick layer of black eyeliner and finished off her look with bright pink lipstick and giant “doorknocker” earrings.

She didn’t make it past the front lawn. Her father came running after her.“You have to get back in the house,” he said. “You look ridiculous!”That was five years ago, when the sophomore fashion merchandising major was

a freshman in high school. “I thought it looked good,” she said. “It set me apart. I just wanted to show my

interest in fashion. I wanted people to know I was different.”These days Dranko can be seen walking through the halls of Rockwell in pencil

skirts, cardigans and flats.“I think my style now reflects my personality,” she said. “It’s girly and still kind

of quirky.”Karen Dranko recalls her daughter’s former wardrobe less than fondly. She

did not approve of Sharon’s heavy makeup or short skirts. She tried throwing away some of her daughter’s tutus, but Sharon just ordered more from dance supply catalogs.

“She’s gotten much better,” Karen said. “She still comes out with some crazy outfits, but amazingly, I will see them in a magazine a month later. I guess she knows what’s in style.”

From goth to classicErin Miller used her clothing as a way to rebel against what she called “the mainstream.”

When Miller was 16, she wore black from head to toe.When Miller was a freshman in high school, her family moved to Georgia. Miller and

her sisters hated it there, and all three of them began dressing in bondage pants, corsets and fishnet stockings.

“That’s when I started getting depressed and wearing all black,” she said. “It was a way to be invisible. I was trying to stick out at the same time.”

Although she’d been depressed before moving to Georgia, the move did not help her cope.

“I couldn’t really relate to many people,” Miller said. “Even though I had a lot of great things in my life, I still thought negatively about everything.”

The next year, the family moved back to Ohio, and Miller’s classmates were shocked by her transition. The high school principal pegged her as a troublemaker despite her quiet nature and good grades.

“Everyone was kind of shocked that I changed so abruptly,” she said. “I got judged a lot based on how I dressed.”

Miller began changing her style during her freshman year at Kent State. She’d broken up with her high school boyfriend and wanted her appearance to reflect her shifting attitudes. As a result, Miller chopped 11 inches of her hair off and let it grow back to her natural brown.

“I felt like I needed a drastic change in my life,” she said. “I was pretty depressed in high school. I’m a much happier person now.”

Now, Miller embraces color. She can be seen wearing long, brightly colored floral print dresses.

Although Miller’s mother did not approve of her daughter’s clothing, she never placed any restrictions upon it. She said she understood her daughter was going through a phase she was likely to grow out of.

“I think she was trying to convey that she was unique,” Cindy Miller said. “Because of her being a triplet, she was afraid she blended in.”

Cindy is relieved her daughter now embraces color and likes the way she dresses.“She definitely still has her own mind about things,” she said. “I like the way she dresses now.”

Contact features correspondent Sarah James at [email protected].

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FebruaryMONTHLY SPECIALS

Show of the week: Horsey NoisesEvery Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. join DJs Kyle and Ben for local

music with modern rock, classic rock and a little bit of geekiness.

Events, guests and giveawaysThursday Feb. 25: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.— Pre-gaming with Brittany

and Whitney will have special guest Ashley Brooke ToussantTuesday March 2 night: 12 a.m. to 2 a.m— A pair of G. Love and

Special Sauce tickets will be given away during the Comfort Zone.Wednesday March 3: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m— Bruce Kulick and Andrew

W.K. will be calling in to Dr. Phil’s Afternooner6 p.m. to 9 p.m.— A vinyl listening party will take place in the

music listening center on the second floor of the student center. Stu-dents can bring their favorite records to enjoy with the BSR DJs.

8 p.m. to 10 p.m. —A pair of G. Love and Special Sauce tickets will be given away during D.I.T. Radio. Rozco and Max Stern will also be performing on D.I.T. Radio

To view a full schedule and listen to all of Black Squirrel Radio’s shows visit blacksquirrelradio.com

Ray’s Place: Draft of the month: Molson — $2.50 pint, $2.99 tall. Guinness — $3.95 pint, $4.50 tall and $4.95 for a tall with a 20-ounce keepsake 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 Loft: Natural Light — $1.25 mugs, $6 pitcher. Bud Light — $1.50 mugs, $7 pitchers. Cherry and Grape bombs — $2.50. All Stoli flavors, Dr. Peppers, Long Beach, Washington Apples and A Starry Nights — $3.

Mugs: Soco and Lime shot — $3.25. Jack and Ginger drink — $3.75. Honkers Ale — $3.50 pint, $4.25 tall. Miller Lite — $2 pint, $3 tall.

Professor’s Pub: Half off drafts for the first half of every Cavs game.

Dominick’s: Free pool on Tuesdays and Thursday. Happy hour is from 3 to 9 p.m. with Bud Light — $2 pints. Cherry and Grape bombs — $2.50.

BW3s: Beer of the month: Bud Light — $2.75 tall. Happy hour is from 3 to 9 p.m. with talls priced as pints and $2 house liquors. Thursdays: margaritas — $2. Fridays: bombs and cosmopolitans — $3.

157 Lounge: Miller Lite bottles — $2. Vodka Tonics — $2.50. Cherry and Grape bombs — $3. SoCo and Lime shots — $3. Riverside Wine: Happy 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.

Franklin Square Deli: Monday— $3 half subs. Tuesday — combo with chips, slaw and a medium drink for $1.50. Wednesday — $5 Reubens. Thursday — $1 off Louisiana BBQ Pork. Friday — $4 bagel sandwich. Saturdays and Sundays — $1 off any whole sub.

Euro Gyro: Small one-topping pizza — $5. Philly Steak sub — $5. Chicken hoagie sub — $5. Gyros — $5. Any pizza pita — $5. Wednesday — $5 large one-item pizza for pick-up only.

Fashion students design organic lineMargaret ThompsonDaily Kent Stater

Organic labels aren’t just for food anymore. Students are look-ing for a more eco-friendly cloth-ing solution as well.

Laura Toomey and Rachel Genderson, both junior fashion merchandising majors, designed their own organic line of clothing for a product development class last semester in Florence.

The class taught the students “all the steps to put a line of cloth-ing together,” Genderson said.

Genderson, Toomey and three other students decided to make everything in their line either organic or sustainable.

Toomey explained that sus-tainable clothing is made from plants that have either not been harmed by chemicals or are recy-cled materials. Organic clothing, also called eco-friendly clothing, falls into this category. It is made from hemp, bamboo, cotton and other plants grown without pes-ticides.

The fabric must be tested to meet very specific government standards, Toomey said.

She said when the students designed their line, called Allora, they planned to use fabric from an organic certified Web site.

The group produced a proto-type by altering an organic cotton t-shirt from American Apparel.

“The chemicals used for grow-ing cotton affect the soil and pol-lute the air,” Genderson said.

“Organic is beneficial to the environment; beneficial to farm-ers, their families and their com-munities and gives added value for retailers,” according to the

Organic Exchange Web site.Toomey and Genderson also

said organic fabric is softer and because it is made without the use of pesticides, it is also better for your skin.

Genderson said she tries to wear organic clothing and is “con-scious of the fibers” in the cloth-ing she buys but said, “it is hard on a college budget.”

Organic clothing can be more expensive than typical clothing. For example, organic t-shirts cost around $20 at Nordstom and American Apparel compared to a non-organic t-shirt for $5 at Old Navy.

“The more people use (organ-ic clothing), the less expensive it gets,” said Genderson.

Both Toomey and Genderson agree organic clothing is not as readily available in the Midwest, as it is on the coasts where they are from.

Some stores, such as Esper-anza Threads in Cleveland and Organics Beyond in Poland are committed to only selling organic clothing.

Department stores, including Nordstom and Kohls, are also beginning to offer organic lines in their stores.

Genderson said when it comes down to it, the impact of buying organic outweighs the increased price.

Contact features correspondent Margaret Thompson

at [email protected].

Going green with styleONLINE ORGANIC CLOTHING SITES

■ www.thegreenloop.com■ recycleatee.com■ www.shopequita.com■ www.jonano.com

Photos will appear in ’11 Sports Illustrated

Allison SmithDaily Kent Stater

Nishi Patel just got her big break. A few weeks ago she signed a contract with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2011.

“Once I complete the photo-shoot for Sports Illustrated, I’ll officially gain supermodel status with my agency,” Patel said. “I’m more pumped about that (than being in Sports Illustrated).”

Patel didn’t always want to be a model. She used to be a broad-cast journalism major at Kent State before she signed a contract with Elite Model Management.

“Actually, I never thought about modeling my entire life,” Patel said. “I was always so focused on broadcast journalism.”

Patel got her first gig by work-ing at Abercrombie & Fitch. Nishi and her coworkers had Polaroids taken while working for the store, and a few months later the com-pany contacted her to ask if she would model for it.

“I ended up doing some work for them,” Patel said. “But I end-ed up only on a gift card and one picture on their online catalogue, so they may not have liked me all that much.”

While visiting her parents in her hometown of Atlanta in April 2009, a scout from Elite Model Manage-ment approached her at the mall. The scout asked if Patel had ever done any modeling and told her she should consider sending in some pictures to the agency.

“So my mom took some Pola-roids of me and we sent it in

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Both are tortured, inspired, inseparable

Darren D’AltorioDaily Kent Stater

Alexander McQueen, Britain’s prized fashion designer and pop icon, took his own life in his London apartment earlier this month, send-ing a shiver through the worlds of fashion and music.

Less than one week later, Lady GaGa took the stage at the 2010 Brit Awards. Her body was sparsely covered in white lace. Her hair was stacked atop her head in a dishev-eled beehive of blond. And her face was masked, completing the look of a decadent female phantom.

She dedicated both an award and a performance to the late McQueen that night. She had every right to. Both their styles and their lives were intertwined as of late. The most blar-

ing example of their relationship, aside from GaGa’s eccentric style, were the lobster claw shoes, a prod-uct of McQueen, marching up and down a white runway in the video for her song “Bad Romance.”

This story begins, ends, begins and ends over and over. For many people, it never gets old. It’s been called Victorian, Renaissance, Flap-per, Hippie, Mod, Disco, Grunge, Punk, Hip-Hop, Hipster, Indy, Emo. The faces, colors, sounds, moods and attitudes have constantly changed, evolved. But the common thread remains: music and fashion exist in a timeless union, preserving and con-quering one another just the same.

But which entity of personal expression drew first blood? Which became the muse for the other? Which will hold more beauty and importance in the world when it’s all said and done — the lingering notes of a funeral hymn, or the perfectly dressed body in the casket?

Good thing Kent State is a micro-

cosm of fashion in it’s own right. Perhaps there are some people with some answers, or at least some insight, to these pressing questions of popular culture.

Enter sophomore fashion design majors Rita Yoder and Margaret Bedell. On a cold Thursday night in Kent’s belly of fashion, Rockwell Hall, they sewed and surged original designs for their “little black dress” project.

“I’m going for a 1960s sheath dress,” Yoder said while wrapping her headphone cord around her iPod. “It’s a product of the mod era.”

The word “mod” may sound like drivel, a vague description in the absence of the precise words.

Enter The Beatles, The Kinks and David Bowie. They are the forefront of mod rock, musically and stylisti-cally.

“Mod is an attitude,” Yoder said. “You want to make yourself noticed, but not too noticed. It’s classy, but forward. It is a strong, bold and

independent style, especially for that time.”

“It was more futuristic,” Bedell explained. “It was a movement away from the hippie layering and long hair. It was about unity.”

Mike DeCarlo, junior electronic media production major and bassist for the band Stiletto, sees music and fashion as a united front.

“For musicians, fashion is a pro-motion tool,” DeCarlo said. “Shirts and bags, people wear the fashions and it gets people into the music.”

As united as he perceives the two art forms to be, he admitted styles and genres are replaced and sacri-ficed by one another.

“Things come and go,” he said. “Baggy jeans changed to skinny jeans. And I never saw hip-hop com-ing in 1999, but now it’s on the top.”

Hip-hop is on top of music and style. Lil’ Wayne’s the Carter III sold almost 1.3 million copies it’s first week on the shelves. According to MTV.com, no artist has sold one mil-

lion records in the first week of an album’s release since 2005, and that honor goes to another rapper—50 Cent for his album “The Massacre.”

Enter Rocawear, Sean John and Ecko Unltd. These are three fashion houses fueled by music, each mak-ing urban fashion a global trend. In fact, Jay-Z owns Rocawear, and P. Diddy owns Sean John. These art-ists will most likely be in the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame, and their legacies will be immortalized through music and fashion.

Enter sophomore fashion design major Shannon Miller and the inspi-ration for her newest children’s line of clothes. The song “Magic Wand” by the band Little Wings set her vision in motion.

“The song is about a magic wand,” Miller said. “My favorite line is ‘When I walk/The treetops grow.’ When I listened to that song I imagined what a kid would be wear-ing in it, and I said I want to make those clothes.”

Enter sophomore fashion design major Natalie Manion who thought it would be a good idea to throw a Lady GaGa party for her birthday.

“I like throwing parties, and Lady GaGa is crazy,” Manion said. “I wanted to have a crazy party.”

Manion said GaGa’s personality is what makes her the icon she has become.

“Lady GaGa takes risks,” she said. “She is bold and different and not living up to expectations. She inspires a lot of people.”

Madonna inspired. Jimi Hendrix inspired. Kurt Cobain inspired. Yves Saint Laurant inspired. Alexander McQueen inspired.

In the quest for understanding, it’s still uncertain how fashion and music affect one another. It seems they are competing to be the fuel and the fire.

Contact features reporter Darren D’Altorio at [email protected].

An essay: Examining the mingled worlds of music and fashion

to Elite New York,” Patel said. “Before I knew it, I was in New York signing a contract with (the agency), and ever since then, the journey has started.”

After leaving Kent State and moving to New York City, Patel’s next step was a go-see, where models go see a designer to try on their clothes, for 3.1 Phillip Lim. She said they approved of her walk and the movement of the clothing on her, but they still thought she needed to lose weight.

“Despite that small complaint, I booked his fashion show,” Patel said. “I began doing yoga, cardio and this little thing called Brazil-ian Butt Lift. I ended up losing

10 pounds right in time for the show.”

Patel said her parents were wary, but supportive of her mod-eling career. She said her mom is proud of her, but worried about her weight loss. Patel’s dad is skeptical about her swimsuit gig because it’s such a well-known Sports Illustrated issue, and Patel will be in a bikini.

“It’s just modeling,” Patel said. “Nothing that big.”

Patel said her scantily clad modeling deals are not the only thing that worries her parents.

“They were very hesitant at first because they didn’t think I could just rely on modeling itself,”

she said. “They thought I needed school, and even I thought I did.”

Patel said she decided to move back to Atlanta and continue her career there with Elite Atlanta. She’s taking online classes at Emo-ry University on the side to contin-ue her journalism education. Two weeks ago, she did a charity fash-ion show for Dolce & Gabbana, and, of course, she has her Sports Illustrated gig coming up.

“So I’m trying to balance it out a bit,” Patel said. “In the end, though, my passion is modeling.”

Contact features reporter Allison Smith at [email protected].

Courtesy of Nishi Patel

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Allison SmithDaily Kent Stater

How to iron a shirtWhat you need: iron, spray

bottle, ironing board

1.) Plug in iron and let it heat up. Start by laying out the collar, the back of it facing up. Spray it so it’s damp and, once the iron is heated up, iron the back of the collar, working in from the edges. Hold the fabric taught to prevent even more wrinkles.

2.) Turn shirt over and iron the top side of the collar again, work-ing in from the edges. If the shirt has cuffs, unbutton, spray and iron them.

3.) Lay out the sleeves and line up the seams and smooth the fab-ric flat. You will probably want to do this one sleeve at a time. Try not to make a crease while iron-ing. You want your sleeve to be a smooth cylinder.

4.) Place shirt face down on the ironing board. Spray and iron from the shoulders to the shirt tail.

5.) When finished with the back, spray and iron the right front panel, followed by the left. Be careful when you go in between buttons.

6.) Place the shirt on a hanger to let it cool down.

How to take in pantsWhat you need : sewing

machine, tape measure, fabric marker, pins, a small pair of scis-sors, a bobbin and thread (make it heavy duty when working with denim).

1.) You’ll want to put the darts, or folds in your pants, in the back so they are less noticeable. For example, if you’re taking in two inches, you will make two one-inch darts. Measure the amount you need to take in and mark them on the outside and the inside.

2.) On the first dart, fold the pants so the two outside marks touch. Pin the fold together far enough away from the marks so

Everyday tailoring basics Kelley StoklosaDaily Kent Stater

“I’m an easy going person and my hair is easy going. I don’t fol-low hair trends too often. Since it’s long it acts like an accessory.”

— Alli Hess, junior fashion merchandising

“My hair has both positive and negative connotations to it. People ask me ridiculous things about drugs and older people look at me like a dirty hippie. The positive connotation is that I sort of bend my gender. White people aren’t supposed to have dreds, so some people see me as more open.”

— Beth Vild, senior English major

“I’ve had long hair for six or seven years. I play music in a heavy metal band. My mom likes my hair. The wife doesn’t any-more. She wants me to cut it, but I wont.”

— Chris Lorinchack, Dining Services employee

“ I have long hair because I like it. I went to a Catholic high school and they told me long hair was evil.”

— Joe Malovasic, freshman computer science major.

Contact features correspondent Kelley Stoklosa

at [email protected].

How fashion canaffect your hairstyle

Sewing buttonsSewing buttonsyou can sew. You will be sewing on an angle. This helps round out the pants so it’s made for a human shape and not a square.

3.) Now it’s time to sew. The inside marks you made should be showing. Begin from your first mark. Put the pants under the foot of the sewing machine. Sew for-ward and then backward and then forward again so you won’t have to tie the thread off at the end.

4.) Repeat step three.

How to sew on a button

What you need: Thread to match the color on your garment and a needle.

1.) Measure out about 16 inches of thread and thread the needle. A commonly used technique to make threading the needle easier is wetting the thread with your tongue or water before putting it through the needle. This makes it stick together so it slides easily

through the eye of the needle.

2.) Fold the thread in half and tie a knot at the end. You’ll have six or seven inches of thread to work with. You might only need four inches, but you always want more thread than you need.

3.) Mark where you’re going to put your button, and make sure it lines up with the corresponding button hole and the other but-tons.

4.) Hold the button tightly against the fabric as you make your first stitch. Start sewing from the back, where you won’t be able to see the knot. Bring your needle through the right hole in the but-ton. Try to keep as close to the cen-ter as you can.

5.) Stick the needle through the left hole in the button. Some people put a toothpick down the center to keep from sewing too tight.

6.) Repeat the stitch about 10 times. Make sure you have enough thread to tie a knot and tie it off.

7.) Before trimming, thread your needle through the stitches on the back of your piece of cloth-ing, this will keep your thread taught and help prevent it from fraying.

8.) Trim the excess thread.

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Taking in pantsTaking in pantsPhotos by Allison sm

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Style Eye on Kent

Remah Doleh

With the death of the leg-endary designer Alexander McQueen, New York Fashion Week started out with sorrow in the air last week. But despite the loss, fashion week had to go on. Simon Spurr, Marc Jacobs and Thom Browne rocked New York’s Fashion Week with a taste of innovation and creativity.

Spurr ’s col lect ion repre-sents the modern-day English-man. His collection dominated the runway with a variety of double-breasted everything:

blazers, topcoats, pea coats and even leather jackets; it was a double-breasted extravaganza. The runway was bombarded by

all different colors: purple, pink, blue, gray, brown. Fall 2010 will be a colorful season.

Thom Browne is a rebellious, American designer known for his outside-the-box antics. He exploded on the runway with his exaggerated proportions in hopes of accomplishing a sense of lux-ury. Browne challenges us as the viewer to decipher his puzzling designs. His collection included an array of overcoats, some with fur and others with raccoon tails (yes, raccoon tails). Other pieces included his signature shrunken three-piece suits and sweater dresses. Thom Browne never fails to deliver a strong, yet interesting, theatrical performance.

Marc Jacobs, shall I say more? Marc Jacobs released his mens-wear line in 1994, but in 2001 he released “Marc by Marc Jacobs,” a line that targets a slightly young-er generation. Jacobs, the creative director of Louis Vuitton, mixed a range of earth tones in his fall 2010 line. Ignoring a fitted silhou-ette, Jacobs revealed a more for-mal look, derailing from his col-legiate look in previous seasons. The runway was filled with over-sized cardigans, Goth-inspired trench coats and brilliantly tai-lored suits. Jacobs continues to be the critics’ favorite.

As I wrapped up my journey in New York City, I came across Max Kessler of San Francisco. Kessler is the Style Eye of the week. His outfit is all about the fit; he per-fectly highlights his silhouette.

RD: What is your interpretation of style?

MK: Collecting things that you think you can wear for a long time and that also make you feel good.

RD: Where do you believe is the most fashionable city?

MK: I would have to say New York, definitely.

RD: Explain what you are wearing.

MK: Right now, I am wearing a scarf from a thrift store, a coat by Jil Sander, skinny jeans by Num-ber (N)ine and shoes by Prada.

Contact Style Eye columnist Remah Doleh at [email protected].

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