From Lebanon to Kent State

From Lebanon to Kent State

When fourth-year students Carina Joseph and Rebecca Mansour started their journey to Kent State when they boarded a plane in Lebanon.  Adapting to the new culture has been challenging, but they have had each other to lean on.  “Rebecca and I weren’t that close before, but because we knew we were coming here, we took this chance to get closer,” Joseph said. “Because of the same experience we are going through, we became closer, which made it so much easier.”…

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One Foreign Adopted Student Athlete’s Unconventional Path to Kent State University

One Foreign Adopted Student Athlete’s Unconventional Path to Kent State University

From unwanted child to Kent State hockey player. For most children being in the adoption process can make you feel very uncertain about your future. It can also make you feel unwanted and not worthy to be here. However, that is the opposite for one Kent State student. Jacob Schaltenbrand was born in Guatemala and at the age of two his original birth parents did not want him anymore. He was sent to a foster care facility in Guatemala and…

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Enlisted for Education

Enlisted for Education

In the fall semester at Kent State University in 2021, Kaitlyn Bittner, a freshman, made an impulsive decision that altered the course of her education. She chose to enlist in the army. At the time, her tuition being paid for was the only thing that impacted her decision. “I could not pay for school at all. No loans, no grants. Nothing was working out for me. I got an email one day from a recruiter, and I only know how…

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Reinventing Joan Steidl

Reinventing Joan Steidl

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…

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Who is Kent State (Logan Knoebel)

Who is Kent State (Logan Knoebel)

 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…

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Escaping the Real World with Art

Escaping the Real World with Art

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…

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Creative Headline – Test Post

Creative Headline – Test Post

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop…

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