Women’s Center Food Pantry Helps Community

Women’s Center Food Pantry Helps Community

[bbrvideo]BBR_Jelinek_P4_Pantry[/bbrvideo] During these tough economic times, some college students don’t have enough money to put groceries on the table. This is where the Women’s Center in Kent comes in. The Center provides a pantry that offers food and toiletries free of charge on an emergency basis for faculty, staff and students. The primary community served is women from the KSU community, and most are students here at the University. Other members of the community will not be turned away if help…

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Showtime is Apporaching

Showtime is Apporaching

[bbrvideo]BBR_FULTON_P4_VISUAL[/bbrvideo] Just as your heart would beat before Stepping on stage, opening night for Kent State’s spring musical is rapidly approaching. It’s down to the crucial moments for the cast and crew of the musical as they prepare to present the world premiere of My Heart is the Drum. This past Thursday was the first night of tech week. The week before the opening of the show, where the tech and the cast come together as one to bring all…

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Student organization raises money for your education

Student organization raises money for your education

[bbrvideo]BBR_Evangelist_P4_Flashanthropy[/bbrvideo] While Kent State may be a public university, you may be surprised by how much funding is being raised right here on the Kent State campus. Less than 20 percent is received through the state and that number is continuing to decline. However, a group of students is helping towards the cause. That would be Flashanthropy. Flashanthropy is Kent State’s student run philanthropy group. Flashanthropy advisor Taylor Police says the group’s mission is to spread the awareness of philanthropy…

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Cold Weather Making Sidewalks Hazardous for Students

Cold Weather Making Sidewalks Hazardous for Students

[bbrvideo]BBR_Allan_P4_SidewalkSlug[/bbrvideo] Snow is great for building snowmen and ice is great to skate on, but neither are good for students. Students around Kent State have been slipping and sliding their way to class on the campuses sidewalks. The university uses 10 trucks and 20 groundskeepers to clear these 22 miles of sidewalk after a winter storm . But their efforts don’t seem enough to satisfy students around campus as there are still large amounts ice on the sidewalks long after…

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Student Focused Campus

Student Focused Campus

[bbrvideo]BBR_McCarthy_P4_StudentFocused[/bbrvideo]   The Library, The Hub, Kent Market 2…The Esplanade and the Cyber Café…Empty hallways, classrooms and lounges. What is a university without its students but an infrastructure put in place to take up space? As an institution of higher learning since 1910, Kent State University has always    done its best to ensure that the graduation and continued success of its students. So much so, that newest President Dr. Beverly Warren understands the importance of implementing a “student first” policy…

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Students choose healthy food

Students choose healthy food

[bbrvideo]BBR_EMROLL_P4_HEALTHY[/bbrvideo] College students choose from a wide variety of food option, but the Mindful program at Kent State University helps students to pick out the nutritious value in foods. The dining halls in Eastway, Kent Market 2 and Prentice use signs to draw attention to the Mindful program. University Dietitian, Megan Cascaldo, says the icons represent different food options and the apple icon represents an overall healthy option. In Eastway, the market holds a Boar’s Head sandwich station. Students pay…

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Why Students Stay (Or Don’t)

Why Students Stay (Or Don’t)

[bbrvideo]BBR_DERWIN_P4_RETENTION[/bbrvideo] When the Class of 2017 came into Kent State, they were commended for their high ACT scores and GPAs. And when those freshmen became sophomores, it turned out that they had the highest freshmen to sophomore retention rate in Kent State history: 81.7%. Kent State Provost Todd Diacon stated that he believed the boosted retention rate had to do with an increase in required academic advising and the PR advocating for students to take 15 credit hours a semester….

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CVNP’s new addition

CVNP’s new addition

[bbrvideo]BBR_SHADE_P4_PRESERVATION[/bbrvideo] Hundreds of cars travel on West Hines Hill Road in Boston Township daily, without realizing they’re passing the newest addition to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The National Park Service is now the owner of 30 acres of land, which was surrounded entirely by the CVNP prior to it’s acquisition. NPS didn’t recently acquire an interest in the land. In fact, NPS was interested in it as early as 2001. They were only able to buy the land recently…

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Technology and Fashion Collide

Technology and Fashion Collide

[bbrvideo]BBR_Booker_P4_Techlab[/bbrvideo] A place where Fashion and technology meet half way on the runway is the TechStyle Lab at Kent State University. Students can create a digital product and print it in the same room. What makes this lab unique? Located on the second floor of Rockwell Hall, it houses machines that give your eyes a show as it finishes your final product. Inside the lab there is a 3-D printer, a laser cutter, and a digital fabric printer. Do you dislike the feeling…

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Feke’s Busy Life

Feke’s Busy Life

[bbrvideo]BBR_Dillon_P4_Vivian[/bbrvideo] General Manager doesn’t fit the mold of a college student taking 21 credit hours. Junior, Vivian Feke has her hands full either for TV2 or keeping up with her schoolwork in either of her two majors. Feke helps behind the scenes of TV2 that not many people would realize from helping to setting up set for a TV show to helping edit scenes for a show. Feke spends most of her time in Franklin Hall when not in her…

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