MAC’s high usage

MAC’s high usage

The Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center may be one of the busiest building on Kent State’s campus. Open since 1952, the facility is home to five KSU varsity athletics. Heres Raymond Ross with more about the highly used venue. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S6_ROSS_MAC[/bbrvideo] The Memorial Athletic and Convocation center sits at the heart of Kent State’s campus and some would say is the heart of KSU athletics. The arena was built in 1952 and can seat 6,327 fans. The MAC was named in…

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Hockey Team Inspires Local Kids

Hockey Team Inspires Local Kids

In Kent, Ohio children are discovering a passion for hockey. Michael Lopick tells us how members of Kent State University’s hockey team are working with local kids to start their hockey careers on the right skate. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S6_LOPICK_HOCKEY[/bbrvideo]   The firm clink of the ice rink door signals the beginning of another Cyclones hockey practice. The team, made up of players four to nine years of age, calls Kent State University’s Ice Arena its home and members of KSU’s colligate…

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CreateAthon provides experience

CreateAthon provides experience

One group of students at Kent State participated in a designing event on Friday to help out organizations in the community. The students showed how all it takes is one idea and a few creative minds to make something worthwhile. TV2’s Paige Katrinchak reports…creating a design can become a challenge when you put time on the clock. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S6_Katrinchak_CreateAthon[/bbrvideo] Visual communication design students had the fourth floor of the library all to themselves early on Friday morning. The students sat…

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Untold Kent Halloween Part 1

Untold Kent Halloween Part 1

As most students were downtown on Kent Halloween, one student finds some unusual visitors in a campus building late at night. Reporter Julie Selby has more. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S5_Selby_Access[/bbrvideo] Chances are that most Kent State students were downtown than in campus buildings in the late hours of October 25th and early morning hours of the 26th, Kent Halloween. Student Melinda Stephan was working on a project in Franklin Hall, Kent’s journalism building, around 1 a.m. on October 26th when Stephan says…

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Apple Depletes Pockets

Apple Depletes Pockets

The release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus has had the tech world abuzz. Spiros Tempelis has more on how Kent State students haven’t hesitated getting their hands on one. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S6_TEMPELIS_iPhone6[/bbrvideo]   Even though college students are notoriously strapped for cash, that hasn’t stopped them from picking up one of the most sought after smart phones. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have people and students alike handing over hundreds of dollars to Apple. In the first weekend…

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Students Send Relief

Students Send Relief

It is said that showing you care is more than just sending a few kind words, and there is an event on campus, that wants to prove that statement true. Its called “Under the Baobab Tree; A wish for West Africa.” The event named after a tree that grows  only in West Africa was set up by a collaboration of different well known and some unknown groups here at Kent State. Reporter Kayla Hodge is here with more details. [bbrvideo…

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Beetle imposes threat

Beetle imposes threat

Kent’s  nickname of Tree City could be wiped away if a particular menace invades the city’s trees. Tyler Trill has more. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S6_Trill_Beetles[/bbrvideo] Tree Campus USA, a proud moniker of Kent State University, could all be gone if one insects lands on campus. The Asian Long Horned Beetle, originally spotted in the U.S. in New York in 1997, calls Clermont County, in Southern Ohio, a home. Manager of Grounds, Heather White, said Kent State’s campus is home to 4000 trees,…

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How history resonates

How history resonates

In today’s world violence is something that unfortunately, we have grown to accept. Spiros Tempelis has more on how Kent State’s most violent day nearly 45 years ago, resonates with current international students.  [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S5_TEMPELIS_MAY4[/bbrvideo]   “The day the war came home.” It was May 4th, 1970 and tensions were rising on the Kent State campus. Student unrest from President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on campus provoked protests near Taylor Hall. A…

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Ravenna struggles to pass school levy

Ravenna struggles to pass school levy

Several Portage County school districts have school levies on the ballot this year and Ravenna is no exception. However, due to tough economic times, the city has not passed a levy in nine years and despite a strategy change, this year may be no different. TV2’s Tyler Carey has more. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S5_CAREY_RAVENNA[/bbrvideo] In an effort to increase operating revenues, and having failed to receive any new money in nine years, the Ravenna School district is trying a new strategy this…

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Orchard Attracts Locals

Orchard Attracts Locals

The ides of fall are upon us. And while most people may be spending their time watching the leaves turn colors, people are making it a point to check out one of Kent’s finest fall attractions. TV2’s Jon Huntsman has more. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S5_HUNTSMAN_KENTORCHARD[/bbrvideo] Going to a haunted house, drinking pumpkin spice lattes, watching football. These are just some of things people partake in during the fall season. Or they may head on over to an orchard and pick out some…

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