Monday, February 4, 2013
Nobel Peace Prize winner will speak April 11 at 7 p.m. in the MACC
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel will speak at Kent State University in April as part of the university's Presidential Speaker Series. Wiesel, a Boston University professor, will speak April 11 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. Kent State President Lester Lefton said the university is expecting thousands of people from across the region to attend. "Anyone who’s heard Elie Wiesel speak before knows he’s just a profound speaker — a life changer," Lefton said. The author of the world renowned memoir Night wrote the piece about his experiences during World War II and the loss of his family to German death camps. Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania…
Friday, November 30, 2012
Students at Stow-Munroe Falls High School are in the process of creating a video message to send back to Bung Jon.
Stow-Munroe Falls High School has participated with Kent State University in its International Leaders in Education program. Many grow a strong connection with the teachers, students and school even when they return home. Bung Jon is one of those teachers who stayed connected. He was part of the IREX program with KSU from Indonesia. Watch his video message to the students above. The students are in the process of creating a video message to send back to Jon. Stow-Munroe Falls teachers participating last year included Kelly Lanci, Ed Borsuk, Carrie Harris, and Lisa Mowls. This year's teachers participating will be Kelly, Carrie and Lisa, Mary Ruehr and two middle school teachers. The following are excerpts from a letter the high school …
Just hundreds left locally and online as of Thursday.
If you don't have a ticket by now, your chances are slim of watching in person as Kent State University battles Northern Illinois in the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. The deadline to order tickets through Kent State's ticket office was 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Kent State spokesperson Bob Burford said there were just a few hundred of the university's tickets for the game left as of noon Thursday. "Kent State’s ticket allotment for the Friday game was 3,000," Burford said. As of midday Thursday there were less than 200 tickets available for the game on StubHub.com. Ford Field has a seating capacity of 65,000, but it's likely only a few thousand lucky, local fans will actually watch the game from inside …
Monday, November 26, 2012
Michael Heller was the lone Kent State University runner in the Mid-American Conference in the November race.
Michael Heller, a redshirt senior cross country runner for Kent State University, wrapped up his college running career by placing 175th overall at the NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships Nov. 17. The Stow-Munroe Falls High School graduate crossed the finish line of the 10K course in Louisville, KY at 31:22.2. Heller was the only KSU representative at the Mid-American Conference in the Nov. 17 race. He places in the top 10 in each of his first six meets of the season. "The season was highlighted by individual titles at the Tommy Evans Invitational and Iona Meet of Champions in the first two races of the season," according to the Kent State University website. The university has sent 30 men and two women to the NCAA Cross …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
As a Kent State alumn, I'm proud of my Golden Flashes football team. But I'm very nervous.
This may be the first time I've shared my thoughts and opinions in a post. But let's be real; this is a monumental occasion. For the first time in school history (OK, since 1973, but it really feels like it) the Kent State Golden Flashes football team was ranked in the Top 25 AP Poll. I graduated from Kent State in 2010, so I have a valid opinion. Even before my years at KSU I followed the Flashes. In all those years, they were dreadful. During my time as a journalism major at Kent, I covered the team as a play-by-play announcer. I can honestly say the most exciting part of doing that was the fact I got to see Ohio State play. (Yeah, the Bucks crushed Kent State). The first-ever game I went to was my freshman year when Minnesota, a Big Ten…
Thursday, September 27, 2012
President Barack Obama flew into Ohio Wednesday and landed at the Akron-Canton Airport before traveling to Kent State University for a campaign rally
Wednesday was a pretty exciting day for the folks at Akron-Canton Airport as they watched the president of the United States fly in on Air Force One. President Barack Obama was on his way to Kent that day for a campaign rally at Kent State University. CAK employees updated the airport's Facebook page and tweeted about Obama's arrival, telling Twitter followers "AF1 is an amazing aircraft to see — even in the rain." More Obama coverage from this week: Obama at Kent State: Ohio Tweets Obama Rally at Kent State Touches on Themes of Opportunity, Success (VIDEO) PHOTOS: Obama's Kent State Campaign Stop
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Thousands of Kent residents and Kent State University students and staff witnessed history Wednesday as President Barack Obama campaigned at the MACC. Hundreds more watched the president deliver his campaign speech on TV from an overflow space in the Kent State Student Center. And even hundreds more gathered on campus and around town to follow the president's visit online. Kendra Landfair was one of those lucky 6,600 people who watched from inside the MACC. Beforehand, she braved pouring rain and stood in line for almost six hours to get a glimpse of the president. "I never met a president before," Landfair, a Kent State student, said before Obama's speech. "I’m sick, my nose is running, my throat hurts. Once I get in there it will be …
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Kent campaign stop one of two on college campuses in Northeast Ohio.
Some came to hear about the president's views on Medicare, Social Security, or women's healthcare. Some merely wished to see a sitting president in the flesh. But all braved a steady downpour on Wednesday to see the President Barack Obama speak at Kent State University. Obama came on stage shortly after 5:30 p.m. "Hello Kent State! Go Flashes!" he called to the roaring crowd. His remarks began by touching on themes of opportunity and success for the middle class. "This country succeeds when the middle class is growing, when there are ladders of opportunity for all people," he said. "We all believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country. Everybody’s got to work hard." The president also told the audience that U.S jobs and the …
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Obama will speak at the Memorial Athletic Convocation Center Wednesday afternoon and we'll be sharing your Tweets.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Campaign officials limiting tickets to 5,000
About 5,000 lucky supporters of President Barack Obama will listen to his campaign message in person Wednesday when he speaks at the Kent State University Memorial Athletic Convocation Center. Hundreds of people from around Northeast Ohio lined up as early as 3:30 a.m. today to get their ticket to see the president when he stops in Kent Wednesday afternoon. On the Kent State campus, one of two ticket give-away locations in Kent, the line stretched early this morning from outside the Kent State Library along the Esplanade, past the MACC, down Terrace Drive and around the May 4 1970 Memorial to Taylor Hall. Evan Gildenblatt, executive director of Kent State's Undergraduate Student Government speaking for the Obama Ohio campaign, said he wasn…
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Alex rDDLE
1:53 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I knew where the MAC championship was going to be played, and I am a Kent State student who lives in Kent. Watch what you say, Cooper. -Alex Riddle more ›