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DAILY KENT STATERMonday, February 28, 2011 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Wintry mix, HI 50, LO 21

Participants jump into frigid water to support local charityNick Walton nwalton1@kent.edu

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Lindsay Nagy and Chelsea Henry arrived late for their scheduled time to jump into a small circle of water at the Portage Lakes State Park. The Kent State graduates’ tardiness held up the line of people behind them.

“It was very rushed,” Nagy said. “Once you get up on that platform, you can’t turn back. There’s people waiting behind you, so we held hands and jumped.”

Nagy and Henry were two of the more than 350 people who participated in the eighth annual Polar Bear Jump in Akron on Saturday afternoon. Dressed in summer swimwear, suits and superhero outfits, participants from across the state flipped, dived and cartwheeled them-selves into the water to help raise money for the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank.

The event has raised more than $160,000 over the past seven years and Kelly Pariso, co-found-er of the Portage Lakes Polar Bear Club, said this year’s jump raised more than $35,000. Charities the event has helped in previous years include

the Akron Children’s Hospital, American Can-cer Society and the March of Dimes.

The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is the source of emergency food for over 450 soup kitchens, homeless shelters and food pantries across eight Northeast Ohio counties including Portage County.

Dan Flowers, president of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, said the donation will help feed people during the current economic climate.

“We’ve had about a 50 percent increase in the amount of food that we distribute over the last three years at the food bank,” Flowers said. “The recession has been hard on a lot of people, so every dollar and every contribution makes a difference.”

After 20 years of service at Kent State, Timothy Chandler, senior associate provost, will be moving south to take on his new position as provost of Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Chandler said he accepted the position as the second provost of Kennesaw on Friday and will start working July 11.

“I think it’s a good move for me,” Chandler said. “It’s a good opportunity.”

According to Kennesaw’s web-site, the search process started in August. Parker Executive Search, a firm that assists in the search for

executives, post-ed the job open-ing September 16, and members of Kennesaw’s search commit-tee narrowed the applications to 103 candidates.

Chandler said he will be leaving many friends and a good community.

“I’m hoping the transition will be smooth,” Chandler said.

— Britni Williams, academics reporter

Kent State’s priority deadline for the Free Application for Fed-eral Student Aid is March 1 by midnight. Students can complete the FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed/gov.

According to Kent State’s Stu-dent Financial Aid website, filling out the FAFSA allows students to be considered for both state and federal grants, loans, work-study programs and, in some cases, scholarships. For students who miss Kent State’s priority date, the state deadline for FAFSA applica-tions is October 1, 2011.

Mark Evans, director of stu-dent financial aid, said he encour-ages students to fill out the FAFSA by the priority date to receive the

most financial aid possible. “The whole reason that stu-

dents complete the FAFSA is for the government to take a look at the family size, how many are in college, the income and the sav-ings to determine, hypothetically, how much of those resources should a family be able to con-tribute towards these expenses,” Evans said in a February inter-view.

Students with questions can contact Kent State’s financial aid office at 330-672-2972.

— Leighann McGivern, student finance and College of

Business reporter

Kent State priority deadline for FAFSA Tuesday, March 1

Chandler to leave Kent State after 20 years

CHANDLER

THOMAS SONG |DAILY KENT STATERA participant jumps in the lake for the annual Portage Lakes Polar Bear Jump Saturday. More than 300 jumpers raised more than $35,000 for the Akron-Canton food bank.

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Event raises money to prevent spread of heart diseaseCristina Mazzonecmazzon2@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

The Student Center Ballroom filled with people Saturday night for Alpha Phi’s sixth annual Red Dress Gala. Around 380 people came to the gala, many dressed in black and red to support the gala’s cause.

“Heart disease is the number one killer among women,” said Lauren Nunez, vice president of marketing for Alpha Phi. “That’s why we chose this fundraiser. Everyone knows someone that is affected by heart disease.”

Last year the Red Dress Gala raised a little more than $11,000, and Nunez said this year they raised even more, totaling $12,060.

Lindsey Petrillo, current presi-dent of Alpha Phi, said that rais-ing a lot of money for their foun-dation and showing how much they care about their foundation

is very important to them. All the proceeds from the gala

go to the Alpha Phi Foundation, which funds five different pro-grams: Cardiac Aid, The Forget-Me-Not Fund, The Emergency Aid Fund, The Scholarship fund and the Education and Leadership fund. The proceeds from the Red Dress Gala mainly benefit the Car-diac Aid program.

“Last year we placed third in this region for donations to the foundation,” said Petrillo in her speech Saturday.

The event started with food, socializing and bidding on a silent auction. The auction items included baskets of chocolates, Coach merchandise, aromathera-py products, Alpha Phi merchan-dise, Cleveland Indians tickets and gift cards.

After the first round of bid-ding closed, Petrillo gave her welcome speech. Comedian Bill Benden’s act and a fashion show shortly followed.

Ann Taylor, Brooks Broth-ers, Cache and Banana Republic donated garments to the show, and a dress made by an Alpha Phi sister was also shown.

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Annual gala supports Alpha Phi foundation

THOMAS SONG|DAILY KENT STATER Members of Alpha Phi participated in the annual Red Dress Gala Fashion Show Saturday. The Event raised money for the Alpha Phi Foundation and Cardiac Care Research.

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A capella group and YouTube sensation performs in KIVADaniel Mooredmoore63@kent.edu

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Dressed in matching shirts, ties and yamakas, Jewish a capella group The Maccabeats brought its vocal talents to a sold-out crowd in the Kiva Mon-day night.

The Maccabeats, all Jewish students from New York City’s Yeshiva University, brought sev-en of their 14 members to per-form recognizable hits such as Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey’s “When You Believe,” and Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.”

The latter was parodied by the group in a music video called “Candlelight” that went

viral on YouTube, reaching 4.6 million hits.

The group s topped in between songs to teach the crowd how to beat box and vari-ous other a capella mechanisms.

“ Ou r m a in g o a l i s f o r people to enjoy themselves,” said Maccabeats leader Julian Horowitz. “But we also want you to learn something.”

Horowitz showed the crowd the basics of vocal percussion, or beat boxing, by repeating the word “boots” and “cats” quick-ly over and over again without the vowels.

“Prac t i ce th is a lo t a t home,” he said to the audience. “Remember, do this after the show, say, when your parents are trying to sleep.”

Poverty simulation hopes to foster understanding of underprivileged families Michelle Bairmbair1@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

Sixty participants gathered Saturday for a poverty simula-tion, facilitated by Empower Portage at the United Method-ist Church of Kent.

The purpose of the simulation was to help participants under-stand poverty at an individual level and every person’s unique situation, opposed to the stereo-types that reside with deficiency.

L a u r e n S z y m a n s k i o f Empower Portage AmeriCorps VISTA, said the poverty simula-tion is new to Portage County, but it has been used as an educa-tional tool by non-profit organi-zations all over the nation.

The Poverty Simulation kit was designed by Missouri Com-munity Action Partnership as a way to help simulation partici-pants begin to understand the realities faced by community members living at or near the poverty line.

“We have attended confer-ences where the tool was pre-sented,” Szymanski said. “We thought it would be a good learning experience to ourselves and be an equally valuable opportunity for participants to take part in.”

Empower Portage is a grass-roots organization in Portage County that is working to eliminate poverty through

a comprehensive approach of educational outreach and social network support.

The Circles Campaign is one of three components that is part of Empower Portage’s effort to end poverty. Bridges Out of Pov-erty, which promotes a common language connecting those in poverty to the middle class, and “Getting Ahead” workshops, which describe the tools neces-sary to transition from poverty to the middle class, are the other two components.

“We are here to role-play the realities that many people in our community are facing today,” Szymanski said. “The object of this experience is, first of all, to sensitize you to that, and also to motivate you to become involved in activities here in our community that are working to reduce poverty here in Portage County. That is what Empower Portage is all about.”

Participants formed groups that represented family units. Each “family” received a pack-et labeled “Do not open until instructed.” The kit was put together with real-life situa-tions in mind.

Each packet contained descriptions of the family and its individual members, sources of income, possessions, bills, identification documents and various other items needed to survive for the month.

JACKIE FRIEDMAN|DAILY KENT STATERNoah Jacobson of yeshiva University in New york sings at the Maccabeats a capella concert in the Kiva Sunday.

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n Coffee CornerWhen: 10 a.m.Where: Cyber Cafe

n h2o Church Prayer meetingWhen: 1 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 312

n Kent State Green Growers meetingWhen: 4:30 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 321

n Kent Interhall Council meetingWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Governance Chambers

n YogaWhen: 7:15 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 310

n Black United Students meetingWhen: 7:30 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 206

n Students of Scholarship meetingWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 309

n Muslim Students’ Association PrayerWhen: NoonWhere: Student Center Room 208

n Habitat for Humanity ticket tableWhen: NoonWhere: Student Center

n Pan African Studies Bio-Integrative TutoringWhen: 3 p.m.Where: Oscar Ritchie Hall Room 250

n Veterans Campus Club speaker Shoshana JohnsonWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Kiva

n KSU Ballroom Club meetingWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 310

n Exquisite Inc. meetingWhen: 7:30 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 314

n Spring Break BingoWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Student Center Ballroom

n C.A.I.D. Study NightWhen: 7:20 a.m.Where: Student Center Room 318

n Kent Reads with Adam SteeleWhen: 3 p.m.Where: Main Library

n Residence Services Campus ConversationsWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 316

n Cooking DemosWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Eastway Private Dining Room

n Nordonia High School Art ShowWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Student Center

n KaraokeWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Eastway Lower Lounge

n Kent Student Liberty Alliance meetingWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 320

n Student Success PLA with President LeftonWhen: 10:30 a.m.Where: Student Center Room 310

n Admissions Office Student PanelWhen: NoonWhere: Kiva

n Impact Movement Bible StudyWhen: 2 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 304

n Pan African Studies Kiswahili Language HourWhen: 3 p.m.Where: Oscar Ritchie Hall Room 240

n Athletics Meet & GreetWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Governance Chambers

nArmy R.O.T.C. Military BallWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Student Center Ballroom

n “Tron Legacy”When: 11 p.m.Where: Kiva

n Evil Geniuses meetingWhen: 10 a.m.Where: Student Center Room 313

n Kaplan MCAT courseWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Bowman Room 201

n “Tron Legacy”When: 8 p.m.Where: Kiva

n C.S.I. Late Night EntertainmentWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Rathskellar

n “Tron Legacy”When: 11 p.m.Where: Kiva

n K.A.S.A. meetingWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 312

n Women’s Liberation Collective meetingWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 311

n Panhellenic Council Women’s Confidence DayWhen: 10 a.m.Where: Student Center

n School of Library & Information Science DinnerWhen: 4 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 317

n E.M.S.A. Campus Kitchen Project meetingWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 304

n C.S.I. Meet the CoachWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Kiva

n Voices of Testimony meetingWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 311

n ZumbaWhen: 7:15 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 204

n Cut Throat PoolWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Cyber Café

Daniel Rodgers, a history professor at Princeton University, will speak on broadening students’ views of America in relation to the world.

Rodgers’ speech, titled “Transnational-izing U.S. History: What is at Stake in the Idea of American Exceptionalism?,” will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Busi-ness Administration Building room 208.

A question and answer session with Rodgers will precede the lecture, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the same room.

Rodgers’ speech is part of the history department’s plan to revise the U.S. sur-vey courses, which include U.S. History Formative and Modern Period.

Ken Bindas, chair of the history department, said Rodgers will explain to students how to view ideas from a global perspective.

“Rodgers is going to talk about what he has done,” Bindas said, “which is a transnational understanding on how ideas go across cultures and across continents.”

- Kelly Tunney, a college of Arts and Sciences reporter.

Princeton history professor to speak

Brittney Trojanowskibtrojano@kent.edu

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EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s that time of year again: Undergraduate Student Gov-ernment elections. This week, the Daily Kent Stater will be running candidate profiles for the director and senator posi-tions. The USG election is Tuesday March 8. Students can vote then by logging onto their FlashLine accounts.

JAMES KIRKKirk likes to play an

active role in any group that he is involved in, he said, and he wants to make an impact for the students at Kent State. He said that get-ting a position with USG would give him the resources to do that more than any other position on campus would.

Kirk, junior accounting major, is running for director of business and finance. He currently works on the USG allocation committee, which allo-cates money to student organizations to host programming.

“As an accounting major, I felt that it was the most relevant position to what I would do in the future,” Kirk said. “It’s something I have a lot of experi-ence relating to.”

He chose to sit on the accounting com-mittee, he said, so he could have a better qualification to get the position of direc-tor of business and finance and know what improvements need to be made.

Kirk is also vice president of finance at his fraternity, Delta Upsilon, and is the accounting chair for Kent State’s Relay for Life committee.

As director of business and finance, Kirk said he would have the chance to

oversee the allocation committee, and he could also monitor the USG budget.

“When I take on a responsibility or a leadership position, I take that responsibility very seriously for my peers to elect me to a position,” Kirk said. “I esteem that as a very high hon-or, and I feel that I owe them the best I could possibly provide.”

BRITTINIE JERMONJermon wants to

enhance Kent State students’ academic experience at the uni-versity, she said, by introducing new pro-grams and increasing graduation rates.

“There’s a lack of excellence in action on this campus,” Jer-mon said. “I love the phrase that we’ve coined, but I don’t feel every aspect of our college experience is excellent.”

Jermon, sophomore international relations major, is running for the position of director of academic affairs within USG. Currently, Jermon is the academic chairperson for Focus on the Future, and she is a member of Black United Students and Advocates of Culture and Knowledge.

She said graduation rates at Kent State last year were at 49 percent, and she thinks that is unacceptable. Also, as a minority, Jermon said she does not see much diversity on the Kent State campus.

She said she wants to initiate pro-grams to keep the minority population on campus and help students be aca-demically successful. In addition to the minority population, she wants to help the entire student body.

“If USG is representing students, how is it that nobody knows who USG is?” Jermon said.

Jermon said she feels the communi-cation between students and adminis-

tration is not as good as it should be, and she wants to improve on this gap. She said she wants to know what the students think is wrong, so she can stand in front of USG and represent them accurately.

“I’m doing this because I am a regu-lar Kent State student,” Jermon said. “I have the same academic struggles, the same financial struggles. I want it to be known to the students that I am still a student, even though I hold this very important position.”

PAIgE DEMATTIEDeMatt ie wants

to know what Kent State University stu-dents want from their school, and she said she doesn’t want to be the kind of student who doesn’t know why the school does the things that it does.

“I know I wanted a lot of things from the school,” she said. “And I want to be involved in what’s going on.”

DeMattie, sophomore public relations major, is currently the Senator at Large in USG running for director of student involvement. She also holds the spot of secretary in her sorority, Delta Zeta.

As Senator at Large, DeMattie is working on the Facebook tutor service, a program USG offers to match Kent State students with tutors.

DeMattie said she sees the direc-tor of student involvement position as a direct line to the students and the students to the university. She wants to initiate a “Meet the Dean Day” and also wants to have a meeting with the students where they can come in and talk to her about what they want with-in the university.

“I really want this position a lot

because I feel like it can help me grow as a person,” DeMattie said. “Any kind of role that you can take in with-in your community that will give you a leadership opportunity to improve yourself is a great way to do it.”

AMISH PATELWhen he was a

freshman, Patel had no idea what USG was, he said, but this year, he finally found out and decid-ed he wanted to get involved and give back to the school.

Patel, sophomore advertising major, is running for the position of director of communications within USG.

Patel said that he wants to know what the students want and how to communicate better with them. Also, he said he decided to run for a spot in USG because students don’t seem to be stepping up for them, and that was one thing he knew he could do.

“There are 27,000 undergraduate students,” Patel said. “Yet people don’t realize that there’s a lot of power that is up for grabs here, and people need to be stepping up for these positions.”

Patel said that, overall, he wants to bridge the gap between the communica-tions of USG and who it is affecting.

“I want to be able to consistently bring the voice of the students, consis-tently have communications at the max level,” said Patel.

Patel said he also wants to show stu-dents that USG is working for them and to utilize social media outlets.

“I honestly just want to change things,” Patel said. “I want to help the school get on a better page.”

Brittney Trojanowski is a news correspondent.

Cadidates compete for director positions

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Bordering the room were tables that represented community ser-vices including:

U-Trust-Us National Bank, Food-A-Rama Super Center, Com-munity Action Agency, Homeless Shelters, Friendly Utility Compa-ny, Sweeney Mortgage and Real-ty, Quick Cash, Big Dave’s Pawn Shop, Jail/Juvenile Hall, Realville Public School, Interfaith Services and Department of Social Ser-vices. Transportation passes were required for each service.

“It is good to know that this is a simulation and not a game,” said Szymanski.

“We have a lot of pieces that might resemble something from like a Milton Bradley game or something like that.”

Things like fake money, duck decorations to represent children

and fictional cops were all part of the simulation.

“Also note that here in Portage County, approximately 14,000 live in poverty right now,” she said.

Participants had a responsibility to be as realistic as possible about their roles, acting the age and posi-tion of the roles they were given.

“So, remember that no healthy teenager likes to stay quietly at home,” Szymanski said. “A child who has not eaten all day will cry, a child is probably not knowledge-able enough to give his or her parents advice on where to take resources, adults seeking work are often frustrated and irritable and parents can get desperate in their search for food and shelter for their children. So, try to think as a person in poverty would think.”

Ryan Tipton, AmeriCorps VIS-TA, played the role of a police offi-cer. He said the biggest challenges that faced the participants on his end were illegal activity.

“People can steal, or buy guns and rob places,” he said. “I am also juvenile hall so I keep a close eye

on kids who are left home alone.”Becky Lehman, 38, was sent to

the fictional juvenile hall during the simulation.

Lehman said she represented a 14-year-old with a 38-year-old moth-er, without schooling or work since her first pregnancy. Her 17-year-old fictional brother dropped out of school became involved with drugs and got a girl pregnant.

“And I am just 14 and poorly motivated,” she said. “The dad just left and left us with $10 and nothing else.”

Tyler Spey, Empower Portage Community Ambassador said he was satisfied with the turnout to the event.

“I think we were able to bring people to a level of anxiety and pan-ic that we needed,” he said. “That is sort of the idea behind all of this, to raise awareness of the tyranny of the moment. The idea that people are struggling with decisions to meet their basic needs immediately.”

Michelle Bair is a public affairs reporter.

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PoVertYPoverty simulation hopes to foster understanding of underprivileged families

BEST PICTURE“The King’s Speech”These are the first Acad-

emy Award nominations for Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin.

ACTOR IN A LEADINg ROLE

Colin Firth“The King’s Speech”This is the second Acad-

emy Award nomination for Firth, who was previously nominated in 2009 for his role in “A Single Man.”

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTINg ROLE

Christian Bale“The Fighter”Bale, who received his

first Academy Award nomi-nation, plays Dick Eklund, a former fighter now manag-ing the career of his younger

brother, Micky.

ACTRESS IN A LEADINg ROLE

Natalie Portman“Black Swan”This is the second Acad-

emy Award nomination for Portman, who was previously nominated in 2004 for Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in “Closer.”

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTINg ROLE

Melissa Leo, “The Fighter”This is the second Acad-

emy Award nomination for Leo, who was previously nominated in 2006 for Actress in a Leading Role for her per-formance in “Frozen River.”

— Cody Erbacher, sports editorROBERT GauTHiER|MCT

‘King’s Speech’ wins best picture, actor

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Last week, one Kent State student single-handedly put the entire university on edge. Then, in one fell swoop, turned the anxiety into full-on anger and confusion.

Late at night on Sunday, Feb. 20, we received e-mails and Flash Alerts via text from the uni-versity saying there had been an armed robbery behind the library.

There was immediately a heightened level of concern among students. This was the second robbery reported on campus in a little over two weeks. College students, in general, have a habit of putting themselves into dangerous situations. Add some crimi-nals to the equation and suddenly Kent State becomes one sketchy school.

When the university first notified us of the robbery last week, the first thing most people probably thought was that it was just another Akron gangbanger committing yet another crime at Kent State. And why shouldn’t they think that after an increased number of Akron residents have been connected to Kent crimes in recent years. However, this one was different.

Kent police arrested the suspects in the Feb. 5 on-campus robbery, who robbed two Kent State students at gunpoint, the next day. That wasn’t the case this time.

Police didn’t catch anyone because there wasn’t anyone to catch. Wednesday afternoon,

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DID YOU KNOW?

Egypt, Libya and surrounding countries are erupting in protests. Our govern-ment is trying to take away working

class rights. Planned Parenthood is about to lose federal funding. But, that party Saturday was totally awesome, right?

Generation Y, aka the Millennial Genera-tion, appears to be idly standing by while war breaks out overseas. While not all of the Echo Boomers fall under the lazy persona, a great majority of us still don’t have a clue about Egypt. Perhaps it’s because we’re uninter-ested in anyone outside our circle of friends. Maybe it’s just another war that doesn’t affect us personally, so there’s no need to get

NATE BEELER’S VIEW

involved. Right? Wrong. It’s our duty as the up-and-comers of the world to partake in what’s going on. If we’re to be the leaders of the world once the Baby Boomers die out, we need to take advantage of how easily acces-sible news is and get involved.

College consumes a student’s life, and a lot of people don’t have time to read a full-fledged story. But if a journalist is doing the job right, the most important information should be in the first two or three sentences, progressing into further detail as the story goes on.

With computers in nearly every classroom, laptops being a portable necessity, smart-phones becoming the norm and newspapers

galore all over campus, it’s hard to imagine there are still people out there without a hint of foreign — or local — knowledge to speak of. As a citizen of the world, it’s your right and obliga-tion to have an opinion on these things.

Take the initiative and read up on current events. Take 15 minutes out of your day to brush up on the news so you can carry on an intelligent conversation with someone. We’re in college, people, and once graduation day arrives and the all-night ragers end, what will you talk about then?

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

members are listed to the left.

We’re idly standing by

Fake campus robbery leaves unanswered questions

“An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.”

— Donald Cram

three days after the incident was first reported, the university said Kent State police “deter-mined that it was unfounded.”

To everyone’s surprise, the victim was the suspect. He or she recanted their story and for whatever reason said the robbery never occurred. Beyond that, nothing else is known at this moment.

Because the Kent State Police Department has yet to disclose certain facts about the case, inquisitive students, like me, are forced to deduce our own answers to the questions that loom — mainly, why in the world would this student fabricate such a story.

According to Kent State Police, the uniden-tified Kent State student reported being robbed at knifepoint by two white males at approxi-mately 9:10 p.m. Sunday. They reported the alleged crime at 9:25 p.m.

That should have, and probably did, raised

suspicion among investigators. From the little that has been revealed by police about the case, it is the most glaring hole in the story. It shouldn’t take someone 15 minutes to call 911 after being mugged. Not if they’re concerned with catching the criminals and not thinking up a believable description to tell authorities. The foolish liar should have thought through such a high-stakes lie before going about it.

But, as I said earlier, all anyone can really do is speculate. Was this student seeking attention? Were they bored? Or, did they go back on their story because the suspects found them and made threats? If the latter is true, then we’ll all feel pretty bad. But I doubt it.

This fake robbery has not only upset and stressed out countless students, but it has also been a large waste of the Kent police’s time and resources.

However, it might not be as bad as everyone thinks. If nothing else, the couple days of detec-tive police work was good practice for a depart-ment that is notorious for the high priority they put on comparatively trivial things like underage drinking. Call me crazy, but armed robberies are a little more dangerous — real or fake.

Mike Crissman is a sophomore newspaper jour-nalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent

Stater. Contact him at mcrissm2@kent.edu.

SUMMARY: With all the technological advances our generation has witnessed, some would think we’d be more in touch with what’s going on in the

world. Unfortunately, theses advances have led to distractions, leaving college kids uninterested in the rest of the world’s problems.

On this day in 1953, Cambridge Univer-sity scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have deter-mined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

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Dylan Lusk

Not so Jolly Roger

Mike Crissman

I’m sure many people in Bos-ton, New York or Tampa Bay are getting pretty excited right around now. That’s because spring train-ing has officially begun.

However, for me, and I assume many other students here, this is a time of stress, despair and a little nausea, too.

There is always conflict between students on campus over the Cleveland Browns and Pitts-burgh Steelers. But the great thing about baseball is that there isn’t hate between Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates fans, it’s more of a mutual depression.

I would be lying if I said that nausea is the only feeling I get at the beginning of a baseball season. I always get ambitious, thinking that this is going to be the year. Sure, that feeling ends sometime in May, but it’s fun while it lasts.

When you go through life as a Pirates fan, you get used to all the crushed hope and crippling sadness. In all of my life, I’ve been around for only two winning seasons. And I didn’t get to enjoy them very much as I was only 2 years old.

Somehow I stick through it though. I stuck around through every time Salomon Torres added another blown save to his stats. I stuck around through every empty trade.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth the stress, but I feel like I will be rewarded with 14 World Series in a row as reparations for all of my embarrassment so far.

So while I do feel bad for Indians fans, we have it a lot worse. You guys have memories. I would kill for memories.

And I know you all miss for-mer pitcher C.C. Sabathia, but he’s gone, and you need to move on. At least you had him. The Pirates would’ve traded him in July of his rookie year.

Maybe the lack of fans causes some of this. If I didn’t have a huge crowd cheering me on as I write this article, I’d get a little discouraged, too. But it seems like Pittsburghers just don’t care anymore. And why should they care? They have the Steelers, the Penguins and Wiz Khalifa. They’re liv-ing the good life, not worrying about that baseball team play-ing across the street.

One thing I’ve always had to justify coming to Kent is that fact that I can’t get any Pirates games on TV. And I never really have to worry about them playing the Indi-ans other than interleague play. It saves me a lot of stress.

So, let’s say that this season is the season to end the los-ing streak. Where do we go from there? No longer will old rednecks have a team to make terrible jokes about. No longer will it be ironic to like the Pirates. So you have to wonder, is it really worth it to get that winning season?

The answer is yes; it is worth it. If they don’t have a winning sea-son this year I’m going to puke.

Dylan Lusk is sophomore elec-tronic media production major and

columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at dlusk2@kent.edu.

When a 19-year-old sophomore named Colton Tooley opened fire with an assault rifle last fall near the UT Tower at the University of Texas, it seemed to some like a horrible rerun: In 1966, the tower was the site of what was then the worst campus shooting in U.S. history, when a sniper firing from the top of the struc-ture killed 14 people.

In some states, this kind of history might lead to government action to protect students from gun violence. But not in Texas. Campuses are currently weapons-free zones in Texas. But the famously gun-friendly state, where many lawmakers carry concealed firearms inside the Capitol building, seems poised to pass a bill to let college students and professors do the same. The bill from Republican state Sen. Jeff Went-worth, which would allow the carrying of con-cealed weapons on college campuses by those with permits to do so, was passed by the Senate in 2009 but languished in the House.

It has a far better chance this time around because more than half the

members of the House have signed on as co-authors of a version of the bill. It isn’t very hard to get a concealed-weapons per-mit in Texas; anyone over 21 who passes a computerized background check and com-pletes a 10-hour course is eligible.

Wentworth thinks his bill would actually make college students and faculty safer, because armed students could return fire in the event a crazed gunman started shooting at them. Gun enthusiasts in Texas and other states believe that if students at Virginia Tech had been armed in 2007, they could have stopped Seung-hui Cho’s rampage before it ended in the loss of 33 lives.

They may even be right, but they’re ignoring the other risks posed by gun pro-liferation. A student firing back at a gunman in a crowded classroom might pose as much

of a risk to his fellow students as the assail-ant. Police don’t like liberal gun-carry laws because they endanger officers and create confusion: When a lot of people are waving guns around at a crime scene, it’s impossible to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

College students, many of whom are com-ing to terms with the pressures of romantic entanglements and academic expectations, also tend to abuse alcohol and drugs. Adding fire-arms to this volatile mix is a spectacularly bad idea; guns are indeed tools of self-defense, but they’re also tools of suicide, accidental shoot-ings, intimidation and murder.

Tooley’s only victim was himself. Armed students wouldn’t have produced a happier outcome, nor would they have been likely to stop 1966 sniper Charles Whitman. But they could do a lot of dam-age to themselves and their peers.

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, Feb. 22.

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Par iso sa id the idea for the event started at a Christmas party with his neighbors where they cut a hole in ice. The event expanded past Pariso’s backyard to the state park, while continuing to raise money for various charities.

“Our jumpers are the people who make the jump,” Pariso said. “If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t have the jump, and we wouldn’t raise any money. It’s so cool when people come out and wear cool costumes, and this year we had a bunch of them.”

With many participants coming from the University of Akron, Pariso encouraged Kent State students to par-ticipate in next year’s jump.

“We need some jumpers next year,” he said. “Akron U is showing you up, so this is a little challenge to Kent State for the 2012 Polar Bear Jump.”

Nick Walton is a public affairs reporter.

Percussionist Max Weinberg will visit Kent State University at Stark tonight at 7:30 p.m. as the third event in the campus’s Fea-tured Speakers Series.

Weinberg will meet and per-form with a select group of student

musicians in the Timken Great Hall, according to a press release.

Weinberg has been the drum-mer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and bandleader for The Max Weinberg 7 for Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He played on the

top two bestselling rock albums of all time: “Born in the U.S.A.” by Springsteen and “Bat Out of Hell” by Meatloaf, respectively.

— Daniel Moore, diversity reporter

‘Late Night’ drummer Max Weinberg to perform tonight at Kent State Stark

A final round of silent auc-tion bidding and the announce-ment of its winners concluded the night.

Nunez said that planning for the event started in December, and 1,100 invitations were sent out.

“I would like everyone to enjoy themselves and want to come back again,” said Nunez. “I think we have a very unique event that is different from other fraternities and sororities.”

Tracy Jeffries, mother of Alpha Phi freshman Allison Jeffries, sits on Stark County’s board of the American Heart Association. She said the Red Dress Project focused on making people more aware of women’s heart disease.

“I wanted to support (Alpha

Phi’s) foundation as well as the heart association,” Jeffries said.

Family, friends and other members of the Greek commu-nity attended the event. Walter Killius, father of an Alpha Phi member, said that the event was very warm, and elegant.

“It is a very nice, charming and outgoing event,” Killius said. “We take away Alpha Phi in our hearts.”

Cristina Mazzone is the Greek Life and ROTC reporter.

From Page 4

PLUNGEParticipants jump into frigid water to support local charity

THOMAS SONG|DAILY KENT STATERParticipants jump in the lake for the annual Portage Lakes Polar Bear Jump Saturday. Some participants wore crazy hats or colorful clothes.

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Ausha Bunch, 8, of Ravenna, bowls a frame during Bowl for Kids Sake 2011 at the Kent Lanes on Saturday. Proceeds from the event benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization of Portage County.

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Jessica CostelloJcostel4@kent.edu

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The new Graduation Planning System will make it easier for stu-dents to graduate in four years. Starting with Destination Kent State this summer, the new GPS system will replace the current KAPS system.

“After talking to students, we have heard there is confu-sion about what they have to take and when they have to take it,” said Sally Kandel, associate vice president of academic affair operations and administration. “This puts it out in a clear plan of what you have to do and when you have to do it.”

All students in the 2010 cata-log and after will create a solid plan approved by an adviser to ensure they stay on track to grad-uate in four years.

The first phase of the GPS sys-tem is called a roadmap and has already been introduced to stu-dents in the 2009 catalog year. The roadmap is a clear, organized plan that breaks down all requirements of a student’s major into eight semesters.

The second phase of GPS is the

degree audit system called GPS audit. Deborah Barber, executive director of degree planning, said the pilot will run starting Tues-day, March 1 and will include roughly 175 students. The audit loads an electronic version of the roadmap and a blank planner. Students can then sit down with an adviser, click on a course from the roadmap and drag it into his or her planner by semester creat-ing a customized Student Educa-tional Planner.

Each student will end up with a plan that meets his or her needs. The roadmap is set up to achieve graduation in four years, but can be altered around students who have other obligations such as work or family responsibilities.

“We’re trying to get rid of some of the obstacles, downfalls and hurdles of graduating on time,” Barber said.

The new system will also pro-vide more one-on-one relationships between advisers and students.

“There’s an opportunity to have conversations more about your college experience and less about what classes to schedule for,” said Jennifer Noble, academic adviser coordinator.

With clear plans of what stu-

dents have to take for the next four years, advisers’ time can be spent on more relationship issues like help-ing students who are having aca-demic problems or students who have questions about internships.

“I think the academic advising relationship is much more than what classes students need to take, and I think it’s going to give us the flexibility to have a better relation-ship with students,” Noble said.

The last phase is student tracking. Starting after grades are given out next December, advis-ers will follow the first group of students and make sure they are on track with their plan. Advis-ers will then meet with students who have dropped a class or have failed a course crucial to their degree requirements.

“We’ll get alerts and there will be reporting structures in place so we know which students to meet with,” Noble said.

“I think it’s going to be a very positive system,” Kandel said. “It’s never easy breaking out new systems, but I think it’s going to be a great enhancement for students and advisers.”

Jessica Costello is the undergrad-uate and graduate studies reporter.

New graduation planning system keeps students on track to graduate

The men’s track team fin-ished with three first-place fin-ishes, six second-place finishes and five third-place finishes, en route to finishing second in the Championship.

Junior Rob Falchi posted two career-best numbers this weekend. He won the triple jump with a 50’-07.25” jump, and finished third with a long jump of 23’-09.50”.

“Rob didn’t compete for us last year, but came back and did a great job this year,” Lawson said. “He did a great job of prevailing in the triple jump.”

Junior Princeton Bryson tied the third fastest time in school his-tory in the 60-meter dash, record-ing a time of 6.77. The junior also took second in the men’s 200-meter dash with a time of 21.54.

Sophomore Dexter Shreve also made a mark in the record books, posting 5,304 points in the men’s heptathlon, the fourth-most points in Kent State history. Shreve took second in the event,

right above senior teammate Michael Schober, who finished third with 5,288 points.

“Dexter came all the way back to get second and did a great job,” Lawson said. “Mike competed really hard and has been a great athlete for us for four years, and I’m very proud of him.”

The Flashes have the Alex Wil-son Invitational March 5 in South Bend, Indiana, to prepare them for the following week’s NCAA Indoor Championships, beginning March 11 at College Station, Texas.

A.J. Atkinson is a sports reporter.

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TRACKMen place second, women fourth at MAC Championships

Horowitz also demonstrated how the group achieves the “tag,” or the last section of a “barber-shop” song in which all the vari-ous vocals come together.

“We used to hang out and sing barbershop music,” Horowitz

said. “We were made fun of a lot.”The group broke down the tag

by vocal pitch, then they merged the sounds as they sang the phrase “in Dixieland, where I was born.”

At the request of the clapping and phone waving crowd, The Maccabeats returned for an encore and performed “Candlelight.”

“This song is dedicated to all the non-believers,” Horowitz said. “I’m not talking about those who don’t believe in religion or politics…I’m talking to those who

don’t believe in a capella.“Every song tonight was pro-

duced by the human mouth and voice,” he said.

Chad Baker, 10, of Cleveland, said he enjoyed the show.

“They are really good,” Baker said. “When they all sang, they came together really nicely.”

Plus, he said, “The beat box-ing was sick.”

Daniel Moore is the diversity reporter.

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The Kent State (19-8, 10-5 Mid-American Conference) women’s basketball team suffered a set-back before the MAC tourna-ment, falling to Bowling Green Saturday 80-59 on the road.

Grabbing an early 2-0 lead turned out to be the only lead the Flashes would hold.

The Flashes have struggled over the past four games with turnovers, and Saturday’s game continued that trend as the team had 20 turnovers that Bowling Green converted into 32 points.

With the win, the Falcons secured the MAC East title and the number two seed for the MAC Tournament. The Flashes could still receive for the num-ber four seed and a first round bye with a win Wednesday at Akron and Western Michigan beats Eastern Michigan.

Leading the way in scoring for the Flashes was senior for-ward Taisja Jones. Her 25 points and nine rebounds set the pace for the team in the second half as the Flashes cut down a 25 point deficit with over 18 min-utes remaining in the game.

There just wasn’t enough of Jones to go around, behind her in scoring was senior guard Jamilah Humes with 13 — the only other Flash in double figures.

A lack of a team effort hurt the team in this loss as the Fal-cons — behind sophomore guard Chrissy Steffen’s 22 points — displayed impressive team effort. Four Falcons were also in double figures in the game.

In the first half, the Falcons (24-4, 12-3 MAC) sunk 10-of-17 3-pointers to knock the Flashes down and grabbed a 49-29 lead at the intermission.

The one strength for the Flashes on Saturday was in-side offense. Of the team’s 59 points, 34 of those were scored in the paint.

The Flashes have continued to shoot at a higher field goal percentage over the past four games as the team shot 46 per-cent from the floor to the Fal-con’s 45 percent.

Utilizing the long ball effec-tively, the Falcons shot 13-of-30 from beyond the arch and crip-pled the Flashes early on. For the Flashes, the team only made 3-of-13 shots from behind the arc and had to work for shots down low to get points.

At the free throw line, the Flashes shot 62 percent (10-of-16) to the Falcon’s 94 percent (15-of-16).

The 3-point shooting slowed down in the second half, but by then, the damage had been done. Making a 12-2 run over a span of six minutes in the sec-ond slowed down the Bowling Green offense, but 25 points was just too much to overcome.

The Flashes will play their final game of the regular season Wednesday at rival Akron (13-4, 6-9 MAC East) at 7 p.m.

Matt Lofgren is the women’s basketball reporter.

Men place second, women fourth at MAC Championships

A.J. Atkinsonaatkins2@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

Seven All-Mid American Conference recipients from the men’s track and field team and one most valuable player on the women’s team led the Flashes in their solid over-all performance at the MAC Championships in Bowling Green this weekend.

The men tallied a total of 144 points for second place and the women placed fourth with 76 points.

“ I was rea l ly proud of both our men’s and women’s teams,” said Bi l l Lawson, Kent State director of track and field. “Our (men’s team) fought until the very end and showed courage and honor and went down swinging. The ladies never gave up through-out the day and never lost hope, and I was so proud of them.”

The women were led by junior Diana Dumitrescu, who had one of her best perfor-mances at the most opportune time. Dumitrescu was award-ed the MAC Women’s Most Valuable Player after winning the pentathlon for the third time in her career. She either broke or tied a personal career best in four of the five-staged pentathlon.

“If there was a female pres-ident in the movie ‘300,’ she would have been it,” said Law-son. “She is a warrior. She’s an amazing athlete, and she just gets it done.”

Dumitrescu finished the event with a season-best 4,009 points. She matched her career best with a 5’-07.75” high jump to take that event, earned a first place finish in the long jump with a 18’-11.25” jump and took first with a career-best toss in the shot put at 44’-00.50”. A season-best time of 8.90 in the 60-meter hurdles earned her a second place fin-ish. Dumitrescu finished ninth in the 800-meter run portion by clocking a 2:32.30, took sec-ond with a 5’-07.00” leap in the women’s high jump and third in the women’s triple jump with a jump of 39’-05.00”.

Flashes drop into tie for first place with Miami in MAC EastRachel Jonesrjones62@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

The Kent State men’s basketball team fell to Ohio 88-87 in overtime Saturday, ending its 13-game home-winning streak against Mid-American Conference opponents.

A slow start had the Flashes (19-10, 10-4 MAC) trailing the entire first half.

“For 25 minutes, we had one of the most pathetic performances I’ve seen as an assis-tant or head coach,” said Geno Ford, Kent State coach. “We were downright pathetic in every way, shape and form.”

The Flashes called three timeouts, but Ford said nobody made any changes.

Ohio took advantage, and Kent State experi-enced its biggest deficit of the season – 14 points.

“To be down (that much) at home,” Ford said, pausing for a moment. “I don’t care if we’re playing Duke. That shouldn’t happen. In your own building, you certainly don’t want that feeling very often.”

Down 42-28 at the half, the Flashes came back with 8:33 left in the game.

Junior guard Carlton Guyton scored six points in 30 seconds, putting the Flashes behind just 61-60.

Continuing his pattern of stealing from the Bobcats (16-13, 8-6 MAC) then dunking, freshman guard Eric Gaines put the Flashes up 65-64 with seven minutes left in the game.

Ford said he was proud of Gaines’ energy and Guyton’s point boost. But he did not think the team played well as a whole.

“When it starts to go bad, human nature is ‘I’ll make a play. I’ll get the game going,’” Ford said. “But we played selfishly.”

Kent State lost the lead 15 seconds later thanks to an Ohio 3-pointer.

But with 57.2 seconds on the clock, junior forward Justin Greene tied the game at 77-77 and kept the Flashes alive with a trip to overtime.

“I think we did a good job coming back,” said senior guard Rod Sherman. “We fought back really hard. We were just one step off (of everything).”

A basket by Sherman and a 3-point shot by junior guard Michael Porrini kept the hope and momentum going.

But the Flashes went 3-for-6 on the foul line, letting the win slip away from them.

“If you have a five point lead in overtime, you make free throws and everyone goes home,” Ford said. “There’s a big difference in a game where they shoot 83 percent, and we shoot 65 percent.”

After a lead change, officials warned Ohio coach John Groce to settle down or he would

be thrown out.But a Bob-

cat basket with 14.7 seconds left put Ohio ahead 88-87.

Porrini tried to win it for the Flashes in the final seconds — like he had in the past two games — but the shot did not go in.

Before the game, Porrini said the team knew a sluggish start would result in a home loss, and Sherman agreed Saturday.

“I think the slow start really killed us,” Sherman said. “We’ve been preaching to each other how that will come back to bite us, and it bit us today.”

Sherman led the Flashes with 21 points, including two 3-pointers, and Greene finished with 19 points

Ohio’s defense swamped Greene with either double or triple-team coverage. Greene was left to scoring just seven points in the first half and earning three fouls in the first three minutes of the second half.

“It’s going to be hard for us to get a win if we have two guys that have good games and a couple guys play pretty well,” Ford said.

Now tied for first in the MAC with Miami, the Flashes will try for a win on Tuesday at Bowling Green at 7:30 p.m.

The RedHawks hold the tie-breaker over Kent State, with a better record against MAC East opponents.

Rachel Jones is the men’s basketball reporter.

JACKIE FRIEDMAN | DAILY KENT STATERFreshman Marie Case jumps on the balance beam during Kent State’s meet against Western Michigan Sunday. Case currently ranks 18th in the nation all-around.

THEY ALL FALL DOWN

Flashes fall this weekend

Tyler Goddardtgoddar1@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

No. 19 Kent State culminated the events of ‘Pink Week’ by defeating Western Michigan 195.875-194.975. The team won three of the four events, and senior Christina Lenny won the all-around by setting a new personal best with a 39.450.

Sharon Sabin, Kent State assistant coach, said the whole week was “a large success.” She said the pink T-shirts were sold out before the meet even started, and more had to be ordered to accommodate demand.

The team certainly did not disappoint the home crowd of more than 2,000, as many gymnasts set new personal bests and tied school records. Sophomore Lindsay Runyan tied the school record on the uneven bars by posting a 9.950.

“Going into it, it just felt like a regular routine,” Runyan said. “Even at the end, it felt like a regular routine. It’s almost like its clockwork now.”

In addition to setting a new personal best on the all-around, Lenny also tied her personal best on the vault with a 9.925, which ties her for the ninth best score in school history. She achieved a new personal best on the floor exercise with a 9.925 as well.

Freshman Marie Case finished second in the all-around with a 39.425, which is her new personal best. She set another personal best by scoring 9.900 on the balance beam, and her 9.925 on the floor exercise was also a new personal best.

Brice Biggin, Kent State coach, said the meet was about 85 percent positive, but there is still that 15 per-cent where mistakes were made.

“On bars, that was the worst set of bars we’ve

done all year, because we haven’t made a mistake on bars,” Biggin said. “To make two at once, that is what’s frustrating because this bars team is way too good to make two mistakes.”

The Flashes had a short memory as they went to the beam event and recorded the best team score of the sea-son with a 49.100. Senior Christine Abou-Mitri suffered a fall on the uneven bars, but Biggin was impressed with how she rebounded on the beam.

“I just saw a little different focus in her. You can see in a person’s eyes that desire and focus and you saw it over [the beam],” Biggin said. “That’s the type of competitor we are used to seeing from her. I think she’s starting to come around, but she just needs to keep fighting and being aggressive and believing in herself.”

Other gymnasts to achieve personal bests were freshman Nikki Moore (9.800) on the beam, junior Bri-anna Skiffington (9.825) and sophomore Lauren Woz-niak (9.825) both on the floor exercise.

Sabin said it was an emotional day on many levels, and “the girls get excited because they work so hard, too, in putting this all together.”

“They were really a part of behind-the-scenes, num-ber one,” Sabin said. “Number two, it touches some of the girls on the team, and everyone gets a little teary-eyed when all the survivors come and say their names. To stay focused through that shows how focused they are as a team and was a whole feel-good day.”

Kent State (9-2, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) will take on Ball State in the team’s final home meet of the season on Sunday, March 6 at 1 p.m.

Tyler Goddard is the gymnastics reporter.

Lenny leads gymnastics team against Michigan at Flip for the Cure meet

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MATT HAFLEY | DAILY KENT STATERSenior guard Rod Sherman attempts to keep possession of the ball during the men’s game Saturday. The Flashes fell to Ohio University Bobcats 88-87 in overtime.

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Women’s basketball fails tosecure bye

2011 MAC EAST WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

STANDINGS

TRACK AND FIELD

EAST DIVISION

KENT STATE

BOWLING GREEN

AKRON

MIAMI OHIO

OHIO

BUFFALO

MAC

10-5

12-3

6-9

3-12

3-12

8-7

SPORTSSports editor: Cody Erbacher • E-mail: cerbache@kent.edu