These are a collection of stories done by students in the Interviewing and Data class that were done as an exploration of diversity on the Kent State campus. The purpose of the assignment was to profile someone different from themselves and focus on that person’s lived experience as a student.
Joan Steidl has worn a lot of hats throughout her life. She’s worked in public relations for the now defunct Richfield Coliseum and Cleveland Force soccer team, an aluminum siding company and the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. She rubbed shoulders with the likes of Angelo Dundee as a boxing promoter, was the “Litter Queen of Cuyahoga County,” managed an assisted living center in Cleveland and who could forget that one time she worked in a rubber factory to fund her…
Kent State has generally been a very conservative campus with very little room for religion to be brought in. However that hasn’t stopped Christians from coming to this campus and setting up groups so others could not feel alone on this campus. One of these people is Kent State senior Logan Knoebel. He grew up in a Christian household who really started to go to church more often when he was in high school. He got really “plugged in” as…
Maddy Masie is a Senior at Kent State University studying neuroscience and she plans on graduating this spring. Maddy, just like other students here have hobbies. But for Maddy, it’s so much more meaningful. “Art for me is escaping the real world. I can take like three hours drawing and it wouldn’t feel like any time passed.” Maddy masie Maddy has been doing art for a while now, she says maybe around four or five years old but she started…