LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM DAILY KENT STATER Tuesday, February 22, 2011 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Flurries, HI 27 , LO 13 For EXCLUSIVE CONTENT of men’s basketball, “Jet of Blood” and Def Poetry Slam, scan this “qrcode” using your smartphone to automatically go to KENTWIRED.COM. You’ll have to download a barcode scanner app first. For iPhone, go to the App Store: Popular options include QuickMark and Optiscan. On Android Market, Barcode scanner is a good choice. For Blackberry, go to Blackberry App World. SCAN IT! Residence halls next to receive Internet upgrade Sidney Keith [email protected]Daily Kent Stater Kent State will be completely wireless by Fall 2011. Michael Schwartz Center and Cartwright Hall were the last two academic buildings to receive full wireless coverage. All residence halls will be getting wireless Internet, said Tom Beitl, manager of Network and Telecommunica- tion Services. Allerton apartments are not included, as they will be closing, and some buildings may not have full coverage because of the way they are designed, Beitl said. For exam- ple, the swimming pool in the Stu- dent Recreation and Wellness Center doesn’t need wireless, he said. In years past, students were disappointed that the residence halls didn’t have wireless, said George Edmiston, business ana- lyst for residence services. “Everybody just expects that if they walk into a building, wireless will be there,” Beitl said. Residence Services had to put in requests for wireless, and now it will be available in most residence halls. “We’re very excited to be able to provide this service for our students,” Edmiston said. “Now students will be able to use their laptops without cords anywhere on campus.” Kent State to be wireless by fall Loop Rd. E. Main St. Terrace Music & Speech Center Nixson Verder Prentice Taylor Dunbar Gym Annex Koonce Leebrick Wright Manchester Allyn Clark Fletcher Korb Beall McDowell DeWeese Health Center Ice Arena Van Campen Paul H. Jones Child Development Center Mathematics and Computer Science Henderson Science Research Williams Smith Cunningham Library Student Center Michael Schwartz Center Ceramics Lab Olson Lake Bowman Satterfield Stopher Johnson Business Administration Art Van Deusen Engleman Oscar Ritchie Lowry Merrill Auditorium Franklin McGilvrey Rockwell Moulton White S. Lincoln St. E. Summit St. Eastway Dr. Leebrick Dr. Jackson Dr. Clement Cir. Petrarca Dr. Tri Towers MACC Liquid Crystal Materials Science Eastway Center Rhodes Rd. Cunningham Addition Loop Rd. Ceramics Lab (KSU Museum) Kent Risman Plaza CC-A Centennial Court CC-B CC-C CC-D CC-E CC-F Kent Women’s Resource Center Most residence halls did not previously have wireless because Residence Services did not have a plan for funding the project. “The price was a major fac- tor,” Edmiston said. “There are major costs related to this kind of proposition.” Plans to expand the wireless service on campus were intro- duced more than 18 months ago, but it takes a while to get things done with the funding and approval process, Beitl said. The last two academic buildings skipped this process to get the wireless installations done faster, he added. The new wireless uses technol- ogy that allows it to run faster than the Internet in current locations on campus, Beitl said. Plans to upgrade the network to the fastest technology are being drawn up. Paul Albert, executive director of Information Services, said they are working to install wireless by next fall so students can use it when they arrive on campus. “We wanted to do it during the summer so students weren’t interrupted, and we didn’t want strangers walking around the dorms,” Beitl said. “By the time we get done, we’ll basically be able to say that the Kent cam- pus, for all intense and purpos- es, is wireless.” Sidney Keith is the technology reporter. Kent State is extending the hours of its Security Escort Ser- vice in wake of Sunday night’s robbery on campus, according to Emily Vincent, director of Uni- versity Media Relations. Students and faculty will be able to call 330-672-7004 for an escort between 6 p.m. and 4 a.m., seven days a week. The extended hours will go until spring break. — Frank Yonkof, KentWired.com editor Campus escort extends hours Sidney Keith [email protected]Daily Kent Stater Students, faculty and staff will be required to change their FlashLine password this spring. Users will need to change their password according to a schedule that is not yet released, said Paul Albert, executive director of Information Services. The password changes come as part of the Identity Man- agement Initiative, a project to upgrade the way Kent State manages users on the network. “One of the requirements, since it’s replacing the old password system, is going to be that every- body is going to have to select a new password,” Albert said. The new passwords will have different requirements like at least one capital letter, at least one number and at least eight characters long, he said. The security questions that users answer when they for- get their password will also be changed, he added. With all the information students post online, they should be careful to make their question something that they haven’t made public. “With the advent of Facebook and everybody sharing their personal information, it became fairly easy to guess,” he said. Chris Hallahan, marketing coordinator for Information Services, said the questions and answers are more concrete, and they won’t be as easy to figure out as they are now. Users will also be required to provide an e-mail address other than the one given by the university. “This is for use if you don’t remember the password and you don’t remember the ques- tions, then you can get a one time token sent to your alter- nate e-mail address so you can get in,” Albert said. Adam Hafer, senior nursing major, said he doesn’t think the required change of password will make his account more secure because his password is already really long. But Hallahan said these mea- sures are sure to increase security. “The uppercase letter in the password makes it more secure because it increases the number of possible combinations for a certain password,” Hallahan said. Albert said that even though the capital letter in your pass- word may be annoying, it adds an entirely new level of security. Information Services is unsure of when users need to complete this upgrade by, Albert said. “Whether we complete this spring, or some of it gets delayed to the fall, I’m not real- ly certain,” he said. “It depends on when somebody puts a final blessing on the testing and says move forward.” If users need help completing this process, they can call or visit the Kent State Helpdesk, Hallah- an said. More information can be found at www.security.kent.edu. Sidney Keith is the technology reporter. Security upgrades include FlashLine password change COMPLETE WIRELESS COVERAGE PARTIAL WIRELESS COVERAGE FUTURE WIRELESS COVERAGE SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF KENT.EDU A Kent State student has been invited to participate in President Obama’s “Winning the Future Forum on Small Busi- ness” Tuesday in Cleveland at the Wolstein Center. Justin Pierce, Undergraduate Student Government executive director, received a call from the White House last Thursday. Pierce said he didn’t know he was even being considered for the invitation. “Within a few moments I was getting a background check,” said Pierce, senior finance major. “I waited a day or so for the confir- mation that I was certainly going to be involved.” According to a White House press release, President Obama and members of his economic team will hear ideas from busi- ness owners and leaders on how America can grow its economy, put Americans back to work and win the future. President Lester Lefton will also be representing Kent State at the forum. “(My involvement) will con- sist of learning about President Obama’s priorities on youth issues and his economic plan, and then we are going to be asked to give our feedback,” Pierce said. He said there would be a diverse group of student leaders from universities on a panel to discuss youth issues. “A thousand things race through my mind about what I’m going to say when I shake his hand,” Pierce said. “I’m going to just try to provide some value to the conversations.” Caitlin Restelli, student politics reporter USG executive director to meet President Obama Gov. Kasich is trying to remove unions’ collective bargaining rights in Ohio Caitlin Restelli [email protected]Daily Kent Stater In a little over a week, a Kent State senior’s petition against Senate Bill No. 5 received more than 11 times as many signatures as he was hoping to achieve. Mark Miller, senior justice studies major, created an online petition last Monday to stop the anti-collective bargaining bill from passing through the Ohio Senate. His goal to acquire 500 signatures was met by the second day. At the time of printing, the petition had acquired 5,512 signatures. If passed, Senate Bill No. 5 will significantly affect the ability of state and local public workers to negotiate terms of their employ- ment through collective bargaining. “This affects our professors because we are a state universi- ty,” Miller said. “By eliminating collective bargaining, it totally screws them over.” Collective bargaining allows unions and employers to discuss hours, wages and working con- ditions and decide what is best for both parties. Miller read articles about Bill 5 early last week. After learn- ing about the aftermath the bill would have if it passed, he turned to a website to create the petition. The petition is targeting Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio Senate. Miller said the signatures are com- prised of 97 to 98 percent Ohioans. When signing the petition, people are asked to provide their residency. For every sig- nature, an e-mail is sent to Gov- ernor Kasich, and for Ohioans, an e-mail is sent to their district representative as well as neigh- boring districts’ representatives. Student’s petition supports unions COLLEGE DEMOCRATS: The College Democrats are not participating in any protests or rallies taking place this week because “most of us just don’t have time this week with the CDA conference coming up this weekend,” said Chrissy Francisco, College Democrats president. “If the protests go on after this week, you can look forward to us participating in at least one of them.” The organization is strongly opposed to the passing of the bill. Francisco said they are strong supporters of the middle class, and they feel that collec- tive bargaining plays a vital role in hearing the working contract between workers and their employers. “We don’t want to see the voice of the middle class being taken away,” Francisco said. “And we feel that that’s exactly what the Senate Bill No. 5 would accomplish.” COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: The College Republicans won’t be protesting against the pass- ing of Bill No. 5 because they are in favor of it. “The Republican Party is tradi- tionally a pro-business political party and its base is anti- union,” said Andrew Polz, Col- lege Republicans president. Polz said unions fight for higher wages and benefits for the workers, but they usually do it at the expense of the efficiency of the business. With collective bargaining, if one person gets a wage raise, then all employees get a wage raise, “so it’s not based upon merit, per se, and that’s one of the main reasons why Republi- cans don’t like that,” Polz said. WEIGH-IN FROM COLLEGE POLITICS Ryan Collins [email protected]Daily Kent Stater As each performer pre- sented poems at the Kent State NAACP’s Def Poetry Slam Monday evening, students filling the Kiva were loud and enthusiastic with support. Shihan and J. Ivy, two poets from the HBO TV show “Def Poetry,” were both scheduled to perform, along with other poets. Trupoetry, a local poet, hosted the event. The poems performed touched on subjects such as minority empowerment, love and the power of words and religion. Shirby Ferguson, freshman Pan-African studies major, said she loves hearing poetry. “It’s very artistic. People have a way with words, and it’s beautiful what you can do with a few words,” she said. Ferguson said she loves the arts and thinks they’re very important. “They’re not celebrated enough,” she said. Robin Wright, Kent State NAACP president, said the organization believes people can learn through poetry. “You learn through words,” Wright said. “We just want to showcase that by bringing con- scious poets who can, through their poetry, talk about issues that are relevant and make students think and broaden their horizons.” Belinda Berry, junior sociol- ogy major, said she doesn’t go to many activities on campus. However, she said this piqued her interest and Kent State should have more events like this one. “I like to write, so I love the experience and see anybody else who’s passionate,” Berry said. Daniel Cannon, sophomore integrated language arts edu- cation major, said he wanted to go to the event because he finds poetry inspiring. “I love going to poetry events on campus,” Cannon said. “This is kind of a different experience from normal readings.” Ryan Collins is the ethnic affairs reporter. NAACP presents Def Poetry Slam See PETITION, Page 4 VALERIE BROWN | DAILY KENT STATER Shihan, a spoken word artist out of Los Angeles, performs at the Def Poetry Slam in the Kiva on Monday. Several Kent State students, as well as outside poets, were showcased at the event.
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DAILY KENT STATERTuesday, February 22, 2011 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Flurries, HI 27, LO 13
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Residence halls next to receive Internet upgradeSidney [email protected]
Daily Kent Stater
Kent State will be completely wireless by Fall 2011.
Michael Schwartz Center and Cartwright Hall were the last two academic buildings to receive full wireless coverage. All residence halls will be getting wireless Internet, said Tom Beitl, manager of Network and Telecommunica-tion Services.
Allerton apartments are not included, as they will be closing, and some buildings may not have full coverage because of the way they are designed, Beitl said. For exam-ple, the swimming pool in the Stu-dent Recreation and Wellness Center doesn’t need wireless, he said.
In years past, students were disappointed that the residence halls didn’t have wireless, said George Edmiston, business ana-lyst for residence services.
“Everybody just expects that if they walk into a building, wireless will be there,” Beitl said.
Residence Services had to put in requests for wireless, and now it will be available in most residence halls.
“We’re very excited to be able to provide this service for our students,” Edmiston said. “Now students will be able to use their laptops without cords anywhere on campus.”
Kent State to be wireless by fall
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Most residence halls did not previously have wireless because Residence Services did not have a plan for funding the project.
“The price was a major fac-tor,” Edmiston said. “There are major costs related to this kind of proposition.”
Plans to expand the wireless service on campus were intro-duced more than 18 months ago, but it takes a while to get things done with the funding and approval process, Beitl said. The last two academic buildings skipped this process to get the wireless installations done faster, he added.
The new wireless uses technol-ogy that allows it to run faster than the Internet in current locations on campus, Beitl said. Plans to upgrade the network to the fastest technology are being drawn up.
Paul Albert, executive director of Information Services, said they are working to install wireless by next fall so students can use it when they arrive on campus.
“We wanted to do it during the summer so students weren’t
interrupted, and we didn’t want strangers walking around the dorms,” Beitl said. “By the time we get done, we’ll basically be able to say that the Kent cam-pus, for all intense and purpos-es, is wireless.”
Sidney Keith is the technology reporter.
Kent State is extending the hours of its Security Escort Ser-vice in wake of Sunday night’s robbery on campus, according to Emily Vincent, director of Uni-versity Media Relations.
Students and faculty will
be able to call 330-672-7004 for an escort between 6 p.m. and 4 a.m., seven days a week. The extended hours will go until spring break.
Students, faculty and staff will be required to change their FlashLine password this spring.
Users will need to change their password according to a schedule that is not yet released, said Paul Albert, executive director of Information Services.
The password changes come as part of the Identity Man-agement Initiative, a project to upgrade the way Kent State manages users on the network.
“One of the requirements, since it’s replacing the old password system, is going to be that every-body is going to have to select a new password,” Albert said.
The new passwords will have different requirements like at least one capital letter, at least one number and at least eight characters long, he said.
The security questions that users answer when they for-get their password will also be changed, he added. With all the information students post online, they should be careful to make their question something that they haven’t made public.
“With the advent of Facebook and everybody sharing their personal information, it became fairly easy to guess,” he said.
Chris Hallahan, marketing coordinator for Information Services, said the questions and answers are more concrete, and they won’t be as easy to figure out as they are now.
Users will also be required to provide an e-mail address other than the one given by the university.
“This is for use if you don’t remember the password and you don’t remember the ques-tions, then you can get a one time token sent to your alter-nate e-mail address so you can get in,” Albert said.
Adam Hafer, senior nursing major, said he doesn’t think the required change of password will make his account more secure because his password is already really long.
But Hallahan said these mea-sures are sure to increase security.
“The uppercase letter in the password makes it more secure because it increases the number of possible combinations for a certain password,” Hallahan said.
Albert said that even though the capital letter in your pass-word may be annoying, it adds an entirely new level of security.
Information Services is unsure of when users need to complete this upgrade by, Albert said.
“Whether we complete this spring, or some of it gets delayed to the fall, I’m not real-ly certain,” he said. “It depends on when somebody puts a final blessing on the testing and says move forward.”
If users need help completing this process, they can call or visit the Kent State Helpdesk, Hallah-an said. More information can be found at www.security.kent.edu.
Sidney Keith is the technology reporter.
Security upgrades include FlashLine password change
COMPLETE WIRELESS COVERAGE
PARTIAL WIRELESS COVERAGE
FUTURE WIRELESS COVERAGE
SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF KENT.EDU
A Kent State student has been invited to participate in President Obama’s “Winning the Future Forum on Small Busi-ness” Tuesday in Cleveland at the Wolstein Center.
Justin Pierce, Undergraduate Student Government executive director, received a call from the White House last Thursday. Pierce said he didn’t know he was even being considered for the invitation.
“Within a few moments I was getting a background check,” said Pierce, senior finance major. “I waited a day or so for the confir-mation that I was certainly going to be involved.”
According to a White House press release, President Obama and members of his economic team will hear ideas from busi-ness owners and leaders on how America can grow its economy,
put Americans back to work and win the future.
President Lester Lefton will also be representing Kent State at the forum.
“(My involvement) will con-sist of learning about President Obama’s priorities on youth issues and his economic plan, and then we are going to be asked to give our feedback,” Pierce said.
He said there would be a diverse group of student leaders from universities on a panel to discuss youth issues.
“A thousand things race through my mind about what I’m going to say when I shake his hand,” Pierce said. “I’m going to just try to provide some value to the conversations.”
Caitlin Restelli, student politics reporter
USG executive director to meet President Obama
Gov. Kasich is trying to remove unions’ collective bargaining rights in Ohio
In a little over a week, a Kent State senior ’s petition against Senate Bill No. 5 received more than 11 times as many signatures as he was hoping to achieve.
Mark Miller, senior justice studies major, created an online petition last Monday to stop the anti-collective bargaining bill from passing through the Ohio Senate. His goal to acquire 500 signatures was met by the second day. At the time of printing, the petition had acquired 5,512 signatures.
If passed, Senate Bill No. 5 will significantly affect the ability of state and local public workers to negotiate terms of their employ-ment through collective bargaining.
“This affects our professors because we are a state universi-ty,” Miller said. “By eliminating collective bargaining, it totally screws them over.”
Collective bargaining allows unions and employers to discuss hours, wages and working con-ditions and decide what is best for both parties.
Miller read articles about Bill 5 early last week. After learn-ing about the aftermath the bill would have if it passed, he turned to a website to create the petition.
The petition is targeting Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio Senate. Miller said the signatures are com-prised of 97 to 98 percent Ohioans.
When signing the petition, people are asked to provide their residency. For every sig-nature, an e-mail is sent to Gov-ernor Kasich, and for Ohioans, an e-mail is sent to their district representative as well as neigh-boring districts’ representatives.
Student’s petition supports unions
COLLEgE DEMOCRATS:The College Democrats are not participating in any protests or rallies taking place this week because “most of us just don’t have time this week with the CDA conference coming up this weekend,” said Chrissy Francisco, College Democrats president. “If the protests go on after this week, you can look forward to us participating in at least one of them.”The organization is strongly opposed to the passing of the bill. Francisco said they are strong supporters of the middle class, and they feel that collec-tive bargaining plays a vital role in hearing the working contract between workers and their employers.“We don’t want to see the voice of the middle class being taken away,” Francisco said. “And we feel that that’s exactly
what the Senate Bill No. 5 would accomplish.”
COLLEgE REpUbLICANS:The College Republicans won’t be protesting against the pass-ing of Bill No. 5 because they are in favor of it. “The Republican Party is tradi-tionally a pro-business political party and its base is anti-union,” said Andrew Polz, Col-lege Republicans president. Polz said unions fight for higher wages and benefits for the workers, but they usually do it at the expense of the efficiency of the business. With collective bargaining, if one person gets a wage raise, then all employees get a wage raise, “so it’s not based upon merit, per se, and that’s one of the main reasons why Republi-cans don’t like that,” Polz said.
As each performer pre-sented poems at the Kent State NAACP’s Def Poetry Slam Monday evening, students filling the Kiva were loud and enthusiastic with support.
Shihan and J. Ivy, two poets from the HBO TV show “Def Poetry,” were both scheduled to perform, along with other poets. Trupoetry, a local poet, hosted the event.
The poems per formed touched on subjects such as minority empowerment, love and the power of words and religion.
Shirby Ferguson, freshman Pan-African studies major, said she loves hearing poetry.
“It’s very artistic. People have a way with words, and it’s beautiful what you can do with a few words,” she said.
Ferguson said she loves the arts and thinks they’re very important.
“They’re not celebrated enough,” she said.
Robin Wright, Kent State NAACP president, said the organization believes people can learn through poetry.
“You learn through words,” Wright said. “We just want to showcase that by bringing con-scious poets who can, through their poetry, talk about issues that are relevant and make students think and broaden their horizons.”
Belinda Berry, junior sociol-ogy major, said she doesn’t go to many activities on campus.
However, she said this piqued her interest and Kent State should have more events like this one.
“I like to write, so I love the experience and see anybody else who’s passionate,” Berry said.
Daniel Cannon, sophomore integrated language arts edu-cation major, said he wanted to go to the event because he finds poetry inspiring.
“I love going to poetry events on campus,” Cannon said. “This is kind of a different experience from normal readings.”
Ryan Collins is the ethnic affairs reporter.
NAACP presents Def Poetry Slam
See PETITION, page 4
VALERIE BROWN | DAILY KENT STATERShihan, a spoken word artist out of Los Angeles, performs at the Def Poetry Slam in the Kiva on monday. Several Kent State students, as well as outside poets, were showcased at the event.
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Students in the College of Com-munication and Information can still sign up for three new study abroad programs in Europe and Asia.
“What’s been amazing is just that students have just been com-ing out of the woodwork with enthusiasm about doing it,” said Deborah Davis, CCI coordinator for international programs. “It feels like they have been waiting for and wishing for an opportunity.”
There are three new programs offered this summer: Strategic Marketing in Vienna, Austria; Comparative Media in Paris and Geneva; Photographing the World in Turkey and Greece. Study abroad programs are also offered in Florence, Italy and Shanghai during the school year.
A student created the idea for the Turkey and Greece program.
Bryan Rinnert, visual communi-cation design instructor and coor-dinator of the Turkey and Greece program, said it came together quickly. He and Davis have been planning for three weeks.
“I’m excited to see what stu-dents come back with,” Rinnert said. “I want to see how the dif-ferent students will approach the same subject matter.”
Rinnert said he hopes to show the students’ work in the summer or next fall.
Students in the Paris and Geneva program will learn new skills by adding multimedia content to a web-site made specifically for the course.
“I’m most excited about the opportunity to expose students to media content they haven’t seen
before,” said Evonne Whitmore, electronic media production asso-ciate professor and coordinator of the Paris and Geneva program. Whitmore first got involved with the program two years ago when she co-led a Comparative Media trip to Paris and London with another professor.
The university is offering schol-arships for some of the study abroad programs. CCI is offering a $1,000 scholarship for its Florence program. Davis said they have been working to keep the costs down, and they have been trying to find different ways to make the programs more affordable.
The college is hoping to have more programs in the future so every student can find something to fit his or her needs.
The School of Library and Infor-mation Science has a short-term museum studies summer course in Florence, Italy, and an interna-tional libraries workshop based in Geneva is in the works.
CCI would also like to devel-op more semester- long pro-grams, specifically in a Spanish-speaking country.
Announcements have been sent to students in the College of Communication and Information through e-mail Listservs. Infor-mation sessions will continue throughout the semester as new information is announced.
“I would highly recommend anyone to go,” said Emily Carle, senior communication studies major. “My favorite part about studying abroad (in Florence) was experiencing a completely different life and culture. It’s not an experi-ence you can get anywhere else.”
Taylor Titus is the reporter for the College of Communication
and Information.
International Strategic Marketing in Vienna, Austria
This program is open to graduate and undergraduate students who have an inter-est in marketing, advertising and public relations. The program is scheduled to run from May 11 to 19. During the trip, students will visit marketing and public relations firms to learn how they work in Europe. Students will collaborate with communi-cation students at St. Polten University of Applied Sciences to create a plan for a Euro-pean organization. The approximate cost is $1,900, which includes airfare, breakfasts and housing. Interested students can contact public relations professor Bob Batchelor at [email protected].
Global Comparative Media Systems in Paris and Geneva
This program is open to graduate and undergraduate students interested in how European media functions. The two-week program runs from May 14 to 29. Students will watch presentations by media profes-sionals in journalism, public relations, pro-gramming, advertising, policy and produc-tion. The approximate cost is $2,700 not including the Intersession 2011 tuition. Stu-dents interested can contact Evonne Whit-more at [email protected].
Photographing the World in Turkey and Greece
This program is for graduate and under-graduate students who have completed an entry-level photography class in photo-illustration or photojournalism, or who can demonstrate camera proficiency. The trip is from May 14 to 26. Students will be photo-graphing and exploring the cities of Istan-bul, Ephesus, Greek Islands and Athens. They will also take a two-day cruise through the Greek Islands. The cost is approximately $2,914, which includes airfare, breakfasts, three dinners, all meals on the cruise and housing. Interested students can contact Bryan Rinnert at [email protected].
Three new CCI study abroad programs offered this summer
“Jet of Blood” director Joseph Dunn wants the audience to experience the dif-ference between order and chaos as they tap into their fears with his interpreta-tion of the dark play.
“The audience will be uncomfort-able and surprised to see things in this play they probably wouldn’t in others,” said Dunn, senior theatre studies major. “Different scenarios in the play are so bizarre. There is a combination of all the elements of fear, and a clear concept of order and chaos.”
Dunn described “Jet of Blood” as a dream because the play jumps from place to place. It features things that wouldn’t typically happen in the real world like two stars colliding and body parts falling from the sky. He said the play shows how the world is over-turned by chaos.
“The play shows how nature always takes over man and how men follow their own paths of figuring out love in their lives,” Dunn said.
He said he read the play for a class, and the issues of putting the play together intrigued him. He said Anto-nin Artaud wrote the short play in the 1920s to help people escape from their mundane lives.
“Society needs to see things that will wake them up,” Dunn said. “People are entertained, but not much stimulates the brain, and this presents things that will make you think and leave you confused.”
He said he liked the play because of the crazy scenes that call for a lot of special effects. He added that he has had to solve technical problems on stage since the play requires Hollywood-style special effects.
“A lot of the stuff, I took my own twist on it,” Dunn said. “I’m trying to think outside of the literal use. I defi-
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Face your fears with student-directed playnitely had to open up my mind to the different possibilities, and I had a lot of good people to help me with it.”
Liz Guilford, freshman theatre stud-ies major, plays a scorpion that falls from the sky in the play. She said they watched videos of scorpions to help them figure out how to play the part.
“It’s really hard because they are so fast moving and low to the ground,” Guilford said. “We can’t walk fast on our knees so we do more of a bear crawl. I get into my character when jungle music comes on before the scene. It helps me to be more savage-like, and my animal instincts come alive.”
She said she likes that the play isn’t conservative but is dark.
“It’s not very normal, and it’s so true in what the message is trying to tell us,” said Guilford, who also plays a vegeta-ble peddler in the play. “It does a really good job trying to prove that message, but you have to keep an open mind while watching it.”
Guilford said the message is that you can’t stop the inevitable, but you have to deal with it.
“It’s been challenging, but it will be a unique experience for everyone,” Dunn said. “You won’t see a play like it prob-ably ever. It’s a very dark, bizarre play.”
“Jet of Blood” opens at 7 p.m. Tues-day in the Music and Speech Center’s Black Box Theatre.
Brooke Bower is the performing arts reporter.
KeNtwIreD.COmCheck out KentWired for a slideshow of “Jet of Blood.”
of Monday’s rapid snowfall reached into the double digits, leaving many Kent State students and Kent residents with future vehicle repairs.
“We had some pretty heavy snow-fall for a period of about an hour and a half, and it was just more than the trucks could keep up with,” said dispatcher Paul Rothenbacher of Kent State Police. “It fell at about two inches per hour, and that’s when most of the accidents occurred — in that time span.”
Three minor accidents with no injuries occurred in the Leebrick, Loop and Horn-ing Road areas of campus, while the total of city accidents reached 22 by 11 p.m., Rothenbacher said.
Dispatcher Rosemarie Mosher of the Kent Police said no serious injuries were reported with the accidents.
A vehicle slid into a PARTA bus on Main Street Monday afternoon. No inju-ries were reported.
One fender-bender involving three vehicles slowed already snow-weary driv-ers traveling westbound on state Route 59 at approximately 3:45 p.m.
Megan Dunn, junior fashion merchan-dising major, was stopped at the Luther Avenue light when Ashley Satterwhite’s silver Mazda CX-7 rear-ended her gray Chevy Impala.
Moments later, the driver’s-side corner of Lisa Straw’s silver Oldsmobile Delta struck Satterwhite’s Mazda.
“The front car was stopped and the (Mazda) hit her first,” Straw said. “I tried to stop, but I obviously couldn’t in time.”
Straw’s daughter waited patiently in the damaged vehicle while the three wom-en exchanged information and explained the incident to a Kent Police officer.
All three vehicles sustained cosmetic damage but were capable of driving post-accident.
Julie Sickel is a public affairs reporter.
Snowfall fender-benders amount to more than 20
VALERIE BROWN | DAILY KENT STATERA woman in a black Hyundai Elantra, shown here speaking with an officer, slid down a hill on the slippery roads and hit a PARTA bus during the snowstorm Monday. The accident on Main Street near Franklin Avenue was due to “bad weather conditions,” Sgt. Michael Lewis of Kent police said on the scene. There were no injuries and no visible damage on either vehicle.
MATT HAFLEY | DAILY KENT STATERCast members of the play “Jet of Blood” perform in a final dress rehearsal Monday. The play is directed by Joseph Dunn and will be performed Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Music and Speech Center’s Black Box Theatre.
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A new way of scheduling will be implemented at Kent State starting in Spring 2012. Students who will still be here will be using a timetabling
system. This way of scheduling classes will (supposedly) help students graduate in four years instead of the now-prominent five-year plan. The weird thing is that classes will no longer be the sensible Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Tuesday and Thursday sched-ule. Instead, Kent State will offer classes that could take place Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays or Wednesdays and Fridays. The idea is to accommodate the ever-growing student population coming to campus each year, as well as assist the student with his or her educa-tional roadmap to graduation.
Timetabling sounds ideal. The program
DREW SHENEMAN’S VIEW
will help double majors graduate on time. It will help cut down on efficiency costs in campus buildings by scheduling classes at times where the buildings will be consis-tently filled with students instead of having blocked times where empty buildings waste electricity, heat and water.
The main drawback here is the confusion of scheduling. Some students have a hard time with the every-other-day schedule. With class-es on days that have no consistent pattern, the likelihood of lateness increases. The likelihood of not going to class at all doubly increases.
According to Gail Rebeta, manager of reg-istrar office systems, faculty will not have as much control in certain respects when devel-oping class sections. For example, faculty will only pick criteria like how many days a
week the class is and the length of class time. Timetabling, if it works correctly, will
help students graduate on time rather than waiting an extra semester for the one last class they need to fulfill the requirements for their major. By spreading out classes to include more Friday ones, more students will have the ability to get out of school faster and save tuition money. We just hope the new schedules don’t confuse students who are already used to the current way of scheduling. We hope the computer program going along with Timetabling doesn’t raise tuition costs. And above all, we hope it doesn’t deter students from going to class.
The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board whose
members are listed to the left.
In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal-win-ning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.
— History.com
SUMMARY: Kent State is implementing a new scheduling system in Spring 2012 that will affect the length of classes and what days they are
available. We hope the program works, but we’re afraid it will be too confusing.
An intellectual is a man who says a sim-ple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
— Charles Bukowski
Alisa Mullins
Guest Columnist
Jody Michael
Daniel Sprockett
Last Thursday, A.L.L. editor Laura Lofgren reviewed the 2008 documentary “Food Inc.” For the most part, I agree with her posi-tive assessment of the movie and share her concern for the distress-ing standard practices of industrial food production that reveals.
However, one commonly misunderstood issue that she brought up was the role of genetically modified organisms in sustainable agriculture.
Truth be told, humans have been altering the genetic makeup of food for thousands of years. Our modern molecular tools are quite a bit more advanced than those of our ancestors, but the end result is the same.
The first farmers of the Neo-lithic Revolution began cultivating plants and keeping animals around 10,000 years ago. Over time, they learned to selectively breed plants and animals based on desirable characteristics like size, growth rate, mating patterns and taste. Controlling which organisms con-tinue swimming in the gene pool allowed them to alter species in dramatic and profound ways.
Take corn, for example. Lofgren suggests that around 40 percent of the United States’ corn is genetically engineered. However, all corn con-sumed in the U.S. today has been engineered by artificial selection.
Corn is a grass. In its non-domesticated state, corn looks more like wheat than the sweet golden kernels that we’re used to eating at picnics. Corn’s wild ancestor, teosinte, is still found in parts of Central America. Modern corn grows straight and tall, and yields many plump ears packed with juicy yellow kernels. Teo-sinte, on the other hand, grows as a short bush, with many stems branching off the central stalk. Hard seedpods house a single row of a dozen or so kernels. Visually, it is almost unidentifiable as the precursors to modern corn.
Its genetics, however, tell the tale. We now know that teosinte and corn are extremely similar genetically. Using the tools of arti-ficial selection, early farmers were able to radically alter the tough
seeds of teosinte into the sweet, soft corn we know today.
If early farmers used an axe to rough-hew the genetics of our crops, modern crop scien-tists use a scalpel. Today’s food engineers are able to utilize millions of years of evolution-ary research and development by transferring genes between organisms. A common example of this type of genetic modifica-tion is Bt-corn.
Bt-corn produces a bacterial protein that selectively kills pests like the European corn borer. Without Bt-corn, these voracious caterpillars could decimate corn crops and cause the price of corn to spiral out of control. The alternative is using high concen-trations of indiscriminate pesti-cides, which, as Lofgren pointed out, has many negative side effects. In fact, a recent study shows Bt-cotton helped farmers in Arizona reduce pesticide use by 70 percent.
It is important to remember, however, that genetically modi-fied organisms have a role to play in sustainable agriculture only when paired with thought-ful and well-regulated manage-ment and regulatory practices. GMOs are a tool, not a man-agement strategy. The world’s population will hit 7 billion this year, and advances in food sciences and crop genetics are our only hope for feeding them. We shouldn’t oppose the use of GMOs because of ignorance-based fear.
Daniel Sprockett is a researcher in the KSU Department of Anthro-
pology and a columnist at the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at
Genetically modified crops have a place in sustainable
agriculture
Crazy cat ladies of America, you have some explaining to do. According to a recent Associated Press poll, 55 percent of cat guardians are in favor of declawing, while only 8 percent of dog fanciers agree with debarking, or surgically removing dogs’ vocal chords. As usual, in a battle of cats vs. dogs, the cats get the short end of the stick — or, in this case, the short end of the toe.
I can only hope that most of the people who voted for declawing don’t know exactly what it is. Declawing is like taking a hatchet to a hangnail — literally. It involves 10 separate, painful surgeries, severing not just the nails but the whole joint, including the bones, ligaments and tendons. As veteri-narian Louise Murray puts it, “If you look at your fingers, declawing would be like amputating the last section of each finger. If you were declawed, you would have 10 little short fingers. It’s amputation times 10.”
Complications of declawing include chronic pain, nerve damage, hemorrhaging, bone chips, recurrent infections and abnormal re-growth of the nail inside the paw. Because cats have to walk on their shortened “fingers,” declawing can impair their movement and balance and cause chronic leg pain and backaches.
Oh, and let’s not forget those other two common “complications” of declawing — bit-ing and spraying. I’ve had two declawed cats
in my life (both were already declawed when they came to me), and one was a biter and the other is a sprayer. Think snagged furniture is the worst of your problems? Try walking into a house that reeks of cat urine. It takes destruc-tion of property to a whole new level.
One theory is that when cats use the litter box in the days after declawing surgery, they associate the pain they feel in their feet with the litter box and develop an aversion to it. As for biting, it’s thought that cats resort to using their teeth when they realize that their claws — their first line of defense — have been permanently hacked off.
Some cats are so shell-shocked by declaw-ing that they become neurotically fearful of real and imagined predators. Stretch, my “biter,” was just such a cat. He was initially so fearful of everyone and everything that he essentially lived on top of the refrigerator for the first three months I had him.
Not all declawed cats become biters and sprayers, of course, but you have no way of knowing how your cat will react until it’s too late. Because I found Stretch as a stray, I placed an ad in the paper searching for his owner. The only response I received
was what I sincerely hope was a prank call telling me to do unspeakable things to him. Either way, I’m assuming Stretch’s biting may have led to his abandonment in a rural wooded area, where he was truly defense-less without his claws and had every reason to be afraid, very afraid.
Declawing is a permanent solution to what is often a temporary problem. Kit-tens usually outgrow their urge to scale the drapes and attack your wiggling toes. Most cats naturally gravitate toward scratching posts and cardboard scratching boxes, espe-cially if you make them more alluring with catnip and toys. Claws’ destructiveness can be curtailed with biweekly trimming. You trim your dog’s nails — why not your cat’s?
Declawing is so cruel that it’s illegal in England and other parts of Europe. The Brit-ish Veterinary Association calls it an “unnec-essary mutilation.” In the U.S., the Associa-tion of Veterinarians for Animal Rights asks practitioners to refuse to perform the sur-gery. Dr. Louis J. Camuti, the first U.S. vet-erinarian to devote his practice exclusively to cats, once said, “I wouldn’t declaw a cat if you paid me $1,000 a nail!”
Until cats’ guardians have a change of heart about this cruel procedure, let’s hope that more veterinarians will follow Dr. Camuti’s compassionate lead.
Declawing: taking a hatchet to a cat’s nail
Union rallies continue to take place across America, inspired by plans to cut benefits and collective bargaining rights in states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Protesters also blasted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for running up huge debt by pushing through $140 million in new spending for special interest groups.
Consider this the liberal equivalent of a Tea Party rally — not exactly the same, but similar. At the very least, they are similar enough that our cable news stations should attempt to cover them the same way. Bill O’Reilly apparently disagrees.
“Insurrection in Wisconsin: That is the sub-ject of this evening’s ‘Talking Points’ memo,” O’Reilly said to begin his Thursday show.
Whoa there, Bill! Insurrection? Five days of protests so far have resulted in neither deaths nor injuries. We have unfortunately seen people carrying signs with the occa-sional crosshairs or Hitler reference, just like the Tea Party tends to have, but that does not amount to insurrection.
Plus, by beginning his show with the word “insurrection,” O’Reilly had immediately described the Wisconsin protests as more vio-lent than any illustration he gave of the 2009 tax day Tea Party rallies — the ones which first gave the movement national attention.
A Wisconsin talking points commentary
“In the end, of course, the folks will decide how the federal government should be run,” O’Reilly said that night. “The next major elec-tion is just a year and a half away. But robust debate is one of America’s great features.”
So the Wisconsin protests are an “insur-rection,” but Tea Parties are “robust debate.”
Either you favor peaceful protests, and our right to peacefully assemble, or you oppose them. You cannot pick and choose based upon the ideology of each one.
O’Reilly was not finished, though. The video clips on his program showed protest-ing Wisconsinites saying, “kill the bill” and other harsh comments.
“It is an assault on our family,” one man said. “This is an attack on all of us and we are
here to say enough is enough,” said another. “Ultimately he is going to destroy the
state,” said a woman.
Again, not unlike the Tea Party protests, but you wouldn’t know that if you only watch “The O’Reilly Factor.” The Tea Party protesters on his show had much gentler remarks.
“The taxes are way too high,” one female said.
“This massive federal spending, who is going to pay for it?” asked another. That’s it!
Of course, the Tea Party protests that day unfortunately featured offensive comments just like the Wisconsin ones have. Remem-ber the sign “The American Taxpayers Are The Jews For Obama’s Ovens”? What about “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery”?
I do not think it would be too difficult for our cable news programs to actually be fair and balanced when reporting on rallies like these. Because the “Factor,” the most-watched of those shows, is unable to do that, we have a problem.
Our news personalities need to stop revising the news like this. After all, robust debate is one of America’s great features — and that is the memo.
Jody Michael is a sophomore broadcast jour-nalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent
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Miller said his personal connec-tion to the bill is his two grandfathers and father. All three were involved in unions at one point or another.
“It’s something I feel strongly about,” Miller said.
If the bill is passed through the Senate committee, it will move to the Ohio Senate floor for discus-sion and a vote. According to the Columbus Dispatch, the vote has not been scheduled.
If passed, Senate Bill No. 5 will remove health insurance from collective bargaining, no longer make length of service the key factor when deciding layoffs and allow employers to hire perma-nent replacement workers during strikes, among many other changes listed on the petition.
By allowing employers to hire permanent replacements, Miller said, “They’re basically allowed to hire, for a lack of a better word, ‘scabs’ to permanently replace these people and probably put them on a lower wage and give them little to no benefits.”
Miller said more quality teachers are needed, and thinks this is going to drive teachers out of the state.
Miller said he encourages people to pay attention to the bill, especially education majors who want to work in Ohio.
Tabitha Pearson, senior human development and family studies major, signed the petition because it
could greatly affect her, as well as her home school district in Ashtabula.
“I can’t technically sit for a social worker’s license,” Pearson said. “But I can get employed by the state, and it can affect me.”
Pearson said her hometown teachers are already in a financial struggle, and many times they will use money out of their salaries to pay for classroom items.
“If collective bargaining stops then they can get lower salaries and they can’t help as much,” Pearson said. “It really irritates me because I’m pro-education.”
Grimm, being a former member of the union, said she sees this as a power move for the government to try to seize an opportunity when times are tough to get rid of collec-tive bargaining and to further reduce union rights.
Miller is encouraging people to make an initiative to do more than simply sign the petition. He posted contact information for state senators and Kasich. Miller wants people to get connected to their state senator.
If the bill passes through the com-mittee and Ohio Senate floor, Miller plans to find the next step to fight it and try to place it on the ballot to let people vote on it.
Many people who signed the petition are teachers or students worried about their teachers, and most of the general consen-sus seems to be that they feel it’s an attack on Ohio’s working and middle class, Miller said.
Caitlin Restelli is the student politics reporter.
From Page 1
PETITIONStudent’s petition supports unions Anna Staver
Two-thirds of eligible Ohio col-lege students and their families are not using an education tax credit worth thousands, according to a report by the Treasury Department.
“As college costs continue to rise, $2,500 can go a long way toward helping Ohio families afford college costs,” Senator Sher-rod Brown said in a press release. “While only 35 percent of Ohio families filed last year, it’s not too late for families to claim this impor-
tant tax credit.”The American Opportunity
College Tax Credit offers full-time students and their families one dollar back for every dollar spent on tuition, up to $2,000. It then offers 25 cents back for every dollar spent on the next $2,000. In total, families of full-time college students can receive $2,500 back in their taxes each year. The report, released last week by the Trea-sury Department, estimates that the average credit going to Ohio families was $1,918 last year.
Rob Evans, a spokesman for the Ohio Board of Regents, said he was concerned so few Ohio
college students were taking advantage of this credit.
“If there’s some more money that folks can save and that will make it a little more affordable for them to go to school and to stay in school and finish, that’s important for Ohio generally,” Evans said.
He said he wasn’t surprised by the lack of participation because the tax code is complex and can sometimes be confusing. Evans said students or parents should check the IRS website: http://w w w. i r s . g o v / n e w s r o o m /article/0,,id=211309,00.html. It provides some basic questions and answers that will help people
determine eligibility.He said that Ohio Board of
Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut would send a letter out this week explaining the tax credit to the chief financial officers, financial aid offices, and presidents of all Ohio universities.
“There are a lot of other resourc-es out there that aren’t being as uti-lized as they could be, too,” Evans said. “It’s not just making the poli-cies but it’s also helping folks to become aware of what options are out there and what opportunities.”
Anna Staver is the enterprise reporter.
Students may be missing out on tax credit
Hugh Martin and Maggie Smith, a war veteran and an award-winning poet, respectively, will share from their published poetry chapbooks Tuesday.
Martin and Smith are the win-ners of the 2009 Wick Chapbook competition for Ohio poets. They will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Stu-dent Center Room 306.
Martin served in the Army National Guard in Iraq in 2004. His work “So How Was the War?” won the chapbook competition in the student category. Martin’s work has also been published in CON-SEQUENCE Magazine, the Army Times and the Nashville Review.
The chapbook contest is a ven-ture of the Wick Poetry Center, which allows both students and
non-students to submit unpub-lished work for the chance to be published in the Wick Chapbook Series, and winners are invited back to read at Kent State.
David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, said Martin’s service in the war gives his poetry an interesting perspective.
Smith is an award-winning poet whose chapbook “The List of Dangers” won in the non-student category of the Wick Chapbook competition.
Kent State University Press published Martin and Smith’s win-ning works in 2010.
— Kelly Tunney, College of the Arts and Sciences reporter
Wick Chapbook competition winners to read at Student Center
POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of charges
filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off-campus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.
CITY FEB. 11n Pablo V. Llapa, 19, of Cleveland, was arrested for underage drink-ing, drunken driving and running a red light at the intersection of East Main Street and Sherman Street.
n Quortney A. Tolliver, 19, of Kent, was arrested for unlawful noise, resisting arrest and assault of a law enforcement officer in the 1300 block of Lawrence Court.
FEB. 12n Deborah K. Cox, 58, of Kent, was arrested for drunken driving and driving left of center at the intersec-tion of Stonewater Avenue and Roy Marsh Road.n Jennifer A. Mileti, 20, of Olmsted Falls, was arrested for showing another’s ID as own in the 100 block of South Water Street.
n Kevin D. Peters, 30, of Warren, was arrested for drunken driving and running a red light at the intersec-tion of Riverside Court and North Mantua Street.
n Daniel J. Sciuva, 22, of Garfield Heights, was arrested for a misde-meanor warrant for assault at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.
n Christopher S. Worthman, 20, of
Cockeysville, Md., was arrested for drunken driving at the intersec-tion of South Water Street and Oak Street.
FEB. 13n David A. Quinones, 27, of Stow, was arrested for driving under suspen-sion for not paying child support and no turn signal in the 2600 block of Mogadore Road.
n Stephanie J. Kinsman, 23, of Kent, was arrested for wrongful entrust-ment at the intersection of Summit Street and Depeyster Street.
n John P. Campbell, 24, of Kent was arrested for driving under suspen-sion at the intersection of Summit Street and Depeyster Street.
n John J. Mendez, 22, of Akron, was arrested for burglary and resisting arrest in the 300 block of Depey-ster Street.
n Jennifer L. Starkey, 32, of Kent, was arrested for drunken driving and marked lanes at West Main Street and Francis Street.
FEB. 14n J’Donte L. Devers, 21, of Ravenna, was arrested for driving under suspension, an expired registration and possession of drug parapher-nalia at the intersection of Stinaff Street and North Mantua Street.
FEB. 15n James P. Figley Jr., 24, of Palestine, was arrested for drunken driving and driving left of center at the intersection of Horning Road and East Main Street.
n Katherine L. McKim, 18, of Sterling, Va., was arrested for underage
possession of alcohol at the inter-section of East Main Street and Depeyster Street.
WEdnEsdaYn Jason J. Bruckelmyer, 29, of Kent, was arrested for public intoxication at Franklin and College avenues.
ThuRsdaYn Douglas A. Dewall, 28, of Kent, was arrested for driving under suspen-sion.
FRIdaYn Trista N. Wilson, 23, of Kent, was arrested for domestic violence in the 500 block of Water Street.
n Anthony J. Baio, 19, of Lyndhurst, was arrested for underage drinking in the 300 block of East Summit Street.
n Rusty W. Savanich, 28, of Kent, was arrested for receiving stolen property in the 200 block of South Water Street.
n Christopher G. Henderson, 25, of Atwater, was arrested for theft and possession of criminal tools at Plum Creek Park.
saTuRdaYn Russell T. Myers, 23, of Kent, was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence at the intersec-tion of West Main Street and Sun-rise Drive.
n Theodore G. Manfrass Jr., 30, of Columbus, was arrested for operat-ing a vehicle under the influence in the 1500 block of South Water Street.
n James C. Shepherd, 22, of Kent, was arrested on a warrant for theft at the 300 block of West Elm Street.
sundaYn James D. Snyder, 22, of Columbia, Md., was arrested for speeding and operating a vehicle under the influence at the 400 block of North Mantua Street.
n Duquan M. Boyd, 19, of Kent, was arrested for underage drinking at the 200 block of East Main Street.
n Zac B. Blankenship, 38, of Kent, was arrested for driving under suspen-sion at the 600 block of North Mantua Street.
MOndaYn Gary A. Henkels, 59, of Ravenna, was arrested for driving under sus-pension at the intersection of North Water Street and Brady Street.
CaMPusThuRsdaYJordan R. Rhodes, 20, of New Phila-delphia, was cited for underage drinking at the Verder Hall lot.
FRIdaYJordan N. Gromiak, 18, of Strongsville, was cited for possession of mari-juana and drug paraphernalia at Koonce Hall.
Benjamin R. Burnside, 20, of Hilliard, was cited for underage drinking at the Music and Speech Center lot.
sundaYJackson R. Kress, 19, of North Can-ton, was cited for possession of marijuana at Wright Hall.
Thomas A. Zocolo Jr., 21, of Kent, was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at the Koonce Lot.
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Today’s Birthday (02/22/11) The year’s full of possibilities. Learn to manage all the activity, spending more time on productive behavior. Avoid distractions, and you’ll be rewarded. Nevertheless, don’t forget to have fun. The trick is to make your work as fun as play.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) Today is an 8 — It’s a day of action and adventure. Your future looks clear. Time to reexamine your goals. Your relationships evolve to new levels with gentle care.
Taurus (April 20–May 20)Today is a 6 — If you don’t adapt, you could feel trapped at work. Practical ideas take over, so save an inspired plan for later, after the dust has settled. Go with the flow.
Gemini (May 21–June 21)Today is a 7 — You handle lots of activity with overall confidence. Allow your childish self to shine. Your creative solutions surprise everyone, especially yourself.
Cancer (June 22–July 22)Today is a 6 — Love works in mysteri-ous ways. You may not be able to figure it out, but you can always enjoy it. Be willing and generous, and take what you get.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22)Today is an 8 — You crave home. A conversation with a family member opens up something you didn’t know about yourself or your past. Practice kindness.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22)Today is a 6 — Be careful with spend-ing today. Your overconfidence may translate to unnecessary expenditures. Practice window-shopping, and enjoy without buying.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Today is a 9 — A whirlwind of activity rushes in to your day. You handle it professionally and gracefully. Keep your communications clear and to the point.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)Today is a 7 — You’re in a chirpy mood, and ready for action. Use your flourish-ing creativity for inspired conversation, to write letters or to compose a song.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)Today is an 8 — Today you’re full of confidence, and you can take on the biggest challenges with ease. Follow your big plans and adapt them as necessary.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)Today is a 9 — Everything goes accord-ing to plan. Work flows unusually well. Don’t take it for granted or get too comfortable. Learn from mistakes, and keep your foot on the gas.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18)Today is an 8 — Work seems more than you can handle. Take advantage, and get support. Just because you bring in more income, don’t start spending more than you need.
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20)Today is an 8 — The next five weeks will go by very quickly, with plenty of frantic activity. Today’s a good day to meditate and get grounded before the productive storm.
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As darkness fell upon the Kent State campus Thursday night, academic buildings began to close and most stu-dents ventured downtown or back to their rooms for the evening. However, laughter could still be heard echoing through the empty halls of the Music and Speech Building.
In an unadorned acting studio on the building’s second floor, the Portage County Players, Kent State’s improv comedy troupe, laughed and applauded their teammates as they tested their wit in a rehearsal exercise that troupe presi-dent Jason George called “Three Line.”
Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citi-zens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
A group of four sophomores from Kent State identify themselves by that quote and are doing exactly what Mead suggested. Alyssa Law-man, Lea Baron, Athena Catsoules and Khala Febres-Cordero, a group also known as Kent Touch This, are currently in first place in a contest that is open to every college student in the country.
The contest is called “Stumble to Spring Break.” It is sponsored by the website stumbleupon.com. The four girls are very passionate about spreading the word about the site.
Baron, soph-o m o re S p a n -ish translation major, described StumbleUpon as “a website that takes a bunch of collaborative interests and basi-cally mashes it up into a random set order, and all you have to do is click a button on the toolbar that says ‘stumble’ and it brings you to all of these different websites.”
However, this is not simply a search engine. Lawman, sopho-more early childhood education major, notes that you can select from an extremely wide range of interests, including computer sci-ence, architecture, beer, the uni-verse and politics.
“It’s very interesting stuff,” Law-man said. “None of it is boring.”
Students stumbling their way to top
Portage County Players begin rehearsals with new members
Group is in first place in national contest on website
About three months ago, Cat-soules, sophomore advertising major, already an “avid stumbler” at the time, received an e-mail about a contest the website was having just for college students. Students had to create a group and get as many peo-ple to join the website as they could. When she shared it with the other girls, they said, “yeah, right,” imply-ing that they never imagined they would win. Currently, the group is in first place nationally.
“I thought it was cool. They’re just trying to help college kids out and out give them a chance to go on vacation,” Catsoules said.
Although spring break anywhere in the United States and cool prizes, like an iPad, are involved, the girls said they would still be in the con-test even if there were no incentives. This is obvious in their excitement when promoting the site.
“I just want kids to know about it,” Cat-soules said. “Not enough people know what it is.” They point out that the web-site itself is not just for college students.
“ I t ’ s l i t -e r a l l y f o r everyone. It is
extremely personalized, only link-ing you to the interests you click,” Baron said. “It’s good for older people and all ages, really. My step-mom goes on it.”
Lawman loves the gardening sites she found, while Febres-Corde-ro, sophomore Spanish major, found some awesome workouts.
“You can make it for anyone,” Lawman said.
Febres-Cordero went on to explain that the perks are endless. There are no viruses or pop-ups,
and StumbleUpon approves all the websites that users find. Catsoules pointed out that the site itself solves the problem of finding websites that pertain to your preferences.
“It brings so much that’s out there. It’s sometimes hard to find good websites that you’re interest-ed in and these are legit, good web-sites,” she said.
It is perfectly useful for a college student because, as Febres-Cordero mentioned, she has found pointers
on how to make papers longer. It also cuts down on “Facebook creep-ing” time in class. “You can just Stumble instead!”
The contest is good for the web-site and the Kent Touch This group. The girls also felt it is truly good for Kent State University.
“It’s showing that Kent is get-ting together and working as an actual team,” Febres-Cordero said. “Winning would show what Kent can accomplish.”
Catsoules urges fellow Flashes to “discover the best of the Web,” and Baron comically put in a request to the student body: “Help us while we help you!”
The girls are still in the lead, but it’s crunch time for them. They are doing everything possible. They’re making flyers, spreading the word, sending links and all around “bom-barding the school” to raise aware-ness. The easiest thing that other students can do to help them is
to go on their Facebook group’s page, “Start the Stumbling.” But, as Baron mentioned, you are not only helping them, you’re helping yourself as well.
Joining only takes a minute, and students will most likely find it to be a new addiction.
To sign up for free, go to www.stumbleupon.com/team/kenttouchthis.
Natalie Moses is a features correspondent.
It’s literally for everyone. It is extremely
personalized, only linking you to the interests you click.
Lea BaronSTUDENT
LIFE IS IMPROVPHOTOS BY THOMAS SONG | DAILY KENT STATER
Students participates in acting exercises during an improv group meeting on Thursday. Exercises included tug of war, where the actors had to react depending on various situation called out during the activity.
The Players meet Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Music and Speech Building room D-205, and according to its Facebook page, rehearsals are open to any-one who is interested.
MEGANN GALEHOUSE | DAILY KENT STATERAlyssa Lawman, Lea Baron, Athena Catsoules and Khala Febres-Cordero created the group Kent Touch This, which is currently in first place in StumbleUpon’s “Stumble to Spring Break” contest.
“The mind is so weird, especially in comedy,” said George, senior theatre studies major. “Because if you decide you want to do something, your mind will work against you, no matter what.”
George said in a game such as Three Line, which involves actors spontaneously exchanging three lines to establish a scene, one cannot preplan their next move.
“You have to stay out of your head, that’s what I tell (the actors),” George said. “Acting isn’t so much acting as it is reacting.”
The Players’ plan to hold improv per-formances at various venues on campus as the semester progresses, but it is cur-rently in a rebuilding period after acquir-ing many new members, George said.
Troupe newcomer Emilea Swick, sophomore Spanish and international
relations major, said she first heard about the Players’ recent auditions from a class-mate and convinced her best friend, Elise Hapanowicz, to try out with her.
“We have competitions to see who can get more laughs from our friends,” Swick said. “We’re always role-playing and making jokes, so it seemed kind of natural to give it a shot.”
Hapanowicz, sophomore theatre studies major, said improv can be nerve-racking, but it’s about being com-fortable with who you are.
“You have to get over yourself and accept the fact that you’re going to go up there a couple times and flop,” Hapanowicz said.
In some of the rehearsal sketches, troupe members dove onto the floor and acted out physical comedy with lit-tle or no props. Troupe veteran Norman
Tubero, senior integrated language arts major, said these moments are organic and just happen.
“I find the best scenes I’m in are the ones when I’m on autopilot,” Tubero said. “Even if you try to plan things, it never goes the way you expected.”
George said real humor is about keeping it simple and making sure an audience can relate to what’s happen-ing on stage.
“Funny is about taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary,” George said. “If you’re sitting in a lecture, that’s boring. But if the lecturer’s pants sudden-ly fall down, you have to react to that.”
Troupe veteran John Pfanz, junior English major, said outside of sketches, good improv can carry over into other facets of life.
“I’m really comfortable with myself
now and can talk to basically anyone,” Pfanz said. “In the end, life is just improv.”
Anthony Dominic is the on-campus entertainment reporter.
