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Ambiguous language revised, Plagiarism School introduced Britni Williams
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Delta Zeta sorority is located on Fraternity Circle, which was included in Kent State’s Greek Village in 2009.
GREEK VILLAGE REMAINS LARGELY VACANT
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Kent State’s Greek Village has had five plots of land available since 2009. Since then, the university-owned land has been waiting for Greek life to build chapter houses. The area was named Greek Village in 2009, and it encompasses what was formerly Fraternity Circle, as well as the additional plots. Sigma Nu was the first fraternity to move in January 2009, spending upwards of $600,000 for its 14-person, 6,500 square foot home. However, there are no definite plans for more houses to go up in the Greek Village, which is located at the intersection of West Campus Center and Ted Boyd drives. Sam Partyka, president of Sigma Tau Gamma, said the fraternity would like to move to the Greek
Village, but even with alumni support, it would be hard. “I would love to move there; it’s obviously nice, but I just don’t think we have the funds right now,” Partyka said. Matt Reichenbach, president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, said that TKE just moved into its first lettered house on Main Street. The fraternity is trying to gain alumni support, but he said a move to the Greek Village would be in the very
distant future. “We are not anywhere near the funds for something like the Greek Village right now,” Reichenbach said. Leah Brino, president of Alpha Xi Delta, said that their decision to stay in the house they have now is not only for monetary reasons, but also because of a love for their current home. “It’s more homey,” Brino said. “I know a lot of the girls like the
setup of the house we are in now and the location.” Fraternities and sororities interested in a spot in the Greek Village are solely responsible for raising funds, said Teniell Trolian, adviser to the Greek community. “Typically, fraternities or sororities will reach out to their alumni or to their national headquarters,” Trolian said.
Faculty Senate voted to pass the new administrative policy regarding student cheating and plagiarism Monday. The policy was tabled at January’s meeting because of confusion in the language of the policy. “We did kind of clean up the appeals stuff,” said Robert Kairis, library director for regional campuses. “It’s kind of funny but the old policies, or the current policies, still say that student appeals have to go through this rigid sort of review, which doesn’t make sense. If the student is accused of plagiarism they should be able to appeal, regardless. So we cleaned up some of that language.” The revised policy will affect all current and incoming students, both graduate and undergraduate, who are accused of cheating or plagiarizing. Instructors will be able to fill out
a form to decide what punishment a student caught cheating or plagiarizing should face, according to the policy. Instructors can choose to give a failing grade for the assignment, to fail the student in that course or now — for students who have no record of plagiarism — to send that student to Plagiarism School. Plagiarism School, as explained in the policy, is a punishment for instances that instructors feel the student did not intentionally plagiarize. Plagiarism School will be run through the University Library and will consist of remedial classes on acceptable ways to document research. “Plagiarism School has a ring to it. I kind of like it,” Senate Chair Mack Hassler said during the meeting. The policy will also create an Academic Hearing Board that is designed to hold hearings and make decisions on cases of plagiarism. The board will have three student members and three faculty members appointed by Undergraduate or Graduate Student Government and Faculty Senate, respectively. Faculty Senate passed the policy unanimously. Britni Williams is an academic reporter.
Trio pled not guilty Monday to robbery Accused of holding up two students on campus at gunpoint Dave OʼBrien
Record-Courier Three college students accused in an on-campus robbery of two Kent State University students pleaded not guilty Monday in Portage County Common Pleas Court to charges of aggravated robbery. Facing first-degree felony charges based on the gunpoint robbery are John Blackmon, Andrew Scott and Paris Millberry, all 20. Because the robbery charges are
the result of a joint indictment by a Portage County grand jury, all three men were arraigned at the same time Monday in Judge John Enlow’s courtroom. Enlow ruled all three men be held in the Portage County jail on 10 percent of $100,000 cash bond each, plus a personal recognizance bond. Should the men post bond, conditions include that they not leave the state without the court’s permission. The Portage County Prosecutor’s Office requested a higher bond, $250,000 cash per defendant, because of the “very serious nature of the charges” and for “the safety of the community,” Assistant Prosecutor Sean Scahill said.
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Ashtabula campus introduces three new Legal system reaches out to international students majors for next fall
Joseph Zucker
jzucker@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater If an international student gets charged with a crime, Student Legal Services is available to provide legal help. “We probably get a disproportionate amount of international students, especially in the driving area,” said Carol Crimi, senior staff attorney for Student Legal Services.
David DiMaria, director of International Student Recruitment, Admissions and Advising, said the university provides information regarding the United States legal system. “All international students are expected to attend a special orientation program organized by the Office of International Affairs prior to the start of their first semester,” DiMaria said. DiMaria said the program
includes speakers from multiple offices across campus. Topics include cultural adjustment, campus resources and immigration regulations. The Office of International Affairs, Police Services and Student Legal Services provide information relevant to their areas of expertise. Kent Police Lt. Paul Canfield said any language barrier is generally not an issue for officers. “We’re just giving them basic orders,” Canfield said. “There
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isn’t a lot of talking that needs to be done. The department has some translator guides in house for officers to look at.” DiMaria said the university provides translators if necessary. “The Office of International Affairs maintains a list of volunteers willing to assist in emergency situations until other arrangements can be made,” he said. See LEGAL, Page 4
Three new majors will be available at the Ashtabula campus this fall. Enology, the study of wine and winemaking; viticulture, the study of the cultivation of grapes for wine; and hospitality management were approved by Faculty Senate on Monday. Ashtabula campus will be the only institution to offer the enology and viticulture degrees in Ohio. The degrees will prepare students for the large, economic wine and grape industry in Ohio, according to the agenda. Hospitality management is already a program within the nutrition and food major at Kent State’s main campus, and Ashtabula has a post-secondary program for the study. In order to end confusion over the name of the program, the university will be offering it as its own degree on both campuses.
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mbair1@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Kevin Poland, Portage County Municipal Court judge, said aesthetically, he likes the old architecture of the current courthouse, but functionally, it has served its purpose. Poland said the facility is insufficient in size and inadequate on many levels. He said it doesn’t comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the security is nowhere near what it should be. “We should not have victims and defendants sitting on the same bench,” Poland said. “The prisoners walk in the same door as staff, and there is no secure area for victims of domestic violence. “The girls who work in the clerk of
courts are literally sitting on top of one another, and there is nowhere for attorneys and clients to meet,” Poland said. In addition, there is a leaking roof and flooded basement. “It is time to move on to a building that is functional, dignified and also efficient,” Poland said. Garret Ferrara, Ward 1 Kent City Council member, said the police department has similar struggles. “There was a presentation made to council explaining the status of how crappy the police station is, and we do have a problem (with) it,” Ferrara said. “It is outdated and the ceiling leaks.” William Lillich, Kent’s Safety Director, said the core section of the police station has been in existence since 1923 and was originally built as a fire station. “The citizens need to know how deteriorated this building is,” Lillich said. Ferrara said the jail doesn’t meet federal standards for transferring inmates and food service. “If we ship prisoners to the county jail, it bills us, so it becomes an added expense there also,” he said. Lillich said the Kent jail is too small. It doesn’t have proper lighting and a variety of other standards that the city has not yet been held to. “State corrections people have given us a grandfather exemption,” Lil-
lich said. “But we are pretty uncomfortable with that because it doesn’t last forever.” Because both buildings are in such poor shape, there was a proposal for a joint county-city facility that includes the courthouse, jail and police department, but it fell through before Poland came on as a judge. Ferarra said that economically, it would make sense to have all three in one place. “But politically, it is not going to happen,” he said. “I think that burden, in my opinion, falls on the county bailing out.” Poland said there is no use in pointing fingers, and he was not involved, but the joint facility would have been at least 50,000 square feet, which makes for challenging site selection and development funds. “They spent three years trying to work a joint project, and it did not go forward for whatever reason,” he said. “My position is the court cannot wait.” At this point, there will not be a combination of a courthouse and police department, but the city and the county are in the process of selecting sites for new facilities as separate projects. “The bottom line is we are committed to complete this project in a costeffective manner,” Poland said. “The
longer we wait, the more expensive materials will be. I hope to have a site selected within the next few months.” Lillich said Portage County is a unique hybrid of municipal court. “There is only a few of them in the state where the municipal court is countywide rather than just serving an individual city,” he said. The charter for the county says a courthouse has to be in the cities of Kent and Ravenna. Lillich said the new facility will have sheltered parking areas to keep cars out of bad weather, and it will be an appropriate venue for council meetings to take place. “It will also have an extended jail facility way beyond what we have now, which is willfully inadequate,” Lillich said. Lillich said they would also need to come up with a source of revenue to pay the bonds. “We are still refining the site selection,” Lillich said. “We’ve got schematic diagrams of the space needs within the building which is necessary to decide how much space and property you would need.” Michelle Bair is a public affairs reporter.
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College freshmen’s stress levels intensifying, study finds Diane Stafford MCT Campus
That first year of college has always been tough. But tight economic times have made it even harder. Pressures to pay for college and choose studies that will produce good jobs have stressed this year’s college freshmen at unprecedented levels. In a new report, college freshmen rated their emotional health at the lowest level in the 25 years of the survey. The data, published by the University of California, Los Angeles, mirrored observations of some high school and college counselors. “In the last couple of years of the recession, students’ parents are more stressed, and the natural idealism and optimism in the young adult population has been eroded,” said Rick Hanson, director of student counseling at Rockhurst University and
a past president of the American College Counseling Association. Lauren Sander, a Rockhurst freshman, agreed that new college students were feeling a lot of stress, especially if they didn’t have good coping skills. “Some may freak out way more than they should while they’re getting used to how college works and how their classes are going,” Sander said. Although there’s not a wholesale “freakout” occurring on campuses, it’s clear that economic pressures are piling on top of the normal life transitions teens experience. “Freshmen and their parents are more aware of the student loan debt they are taking on, and therefore more anxious about money,” said Barbara Cooke, lead counselor at Metropolitan Community CollegeMaple Woods and author of “Parent’s Guide to College and Careers.” “Students and parents are understandably worried about the long-term consum-
er debt they are taking on for college and how, in a weak job market, the student will be able to repay that debt,” she said. The national evaluation of student stress, quantified in “The American Freshman” report from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, said groundwork was laid in the senior year of high school as well as in the economy at large. The report charted an uptick in the number of students who said they were “overwhelmed by all I had to do” in their last year of high school, when they juggled extracurricular activities, academics and college admissions. “They’re not naive,” David Burke, director of college counseling at Pembroke Hill, said of high school seniors. “They hear and see what’s going on in this economy. They see parents losing jobs. They hear they’ll have five careers in their lifetimes. They hear about the onrush of talent from China and India.
“Maybe they have older siblings who graduated from college in the last year or two who haven’t found jobs they consider appropriate. Then there’s tremendous stress about picking an affordable school and being away from home for the first time.” At Missouri State University in Springfield, freshman Kelly Jeffries, a graduate of Park Hill South High School, said she was coping with the stress of trying “to find something to do to make money in the future.” Her interest in elementary education may not be what she ends up pursuing, depending on the economy. Meanwhile, Jeffries said, “time management and getting good grades are the top stressors” among her fellow students. To cope, Jeffries said, she has found herself going home on the weekends “a lot more than I probably should.” The coping alternative she sees on cam-
pus is students partying hard on the weekends as a relief mechanism. The UCLA report noted that students who reported more stress also described more alcohol use. The study reached 201,818 freshmen at 279 four-year colleges around the country. Its results are said to be statistically representative of the nation’s 1.5 million firstyear, full-time students. “Stress is a major concern when dealing with college students,” said John H. Pryor, lead author of the UCLA report. “If students are arriving in college already overwhelmed and with lower reserves of emotional health, (we) should expect to see more consequences of stress, such as higher levels of poor judgment around time management, alcohol consumption and academic motivation.” Diane Stafford is a reporter for The Kansas City Star.
Obama budget includes cuts; White House sets up debate with GOP Andrew Zajac
MCT Campus WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday will propose a new federal budget that is $90 billion smaller than the one he offered last year and includes a combination of cuts and revenue increases aimed at chopping $1.1 trillion from the deficit in 10 years. The president’s $3.73 trillion spending plan cuts many popular programs, while increasing spending in selected education and infrastructure programs designed to bolster the nation’s economic competitiveness. It seeks to shrink the deficit from an estimated 7 percent of gross domestic product this year to 3.2 percent in 2015, maintaining it at roughly that level through 2021. In demonstrating a willingness to make cuts, Obama hopes to seize the initiative in what is certain to be a long and bruising debate on spending with congressional Republicans, who already have signaled a desire for much sharper cuts. In his budget, Obama made clear he will argue that while reductions are necessary, cutting to extremes is unwise. “We’re eager to work with the Republicans to cut spending and reduce the deficit,” said a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the budget on condition of anonymity. “The debate in Washington isn’t wheth-
er to cut or to spend. We both agree we should cut. The question is how we cut and what we cut.” Not all of the deficit reduction is in the form of spending cuts. Obama also is proposing an end to tax breaks enacted under former President George W. Bush for the nation’s wealthiest earners. About two-thirds of the deficit reduction over 10 years would come from cuts. The rest would come from revenue increases. The proposed budget includes a fiveyear freeze on non-national security discretionary spending, which would save $400 billion, and the elimination or trimming of dozens of programs. Obama is proposing to cut $2.5 billion in heating assistance for lowincome people, at least $1 billion in grants to large airports and $300 million from Community Development Block Grants, a program popular with local government officials nationwide. “This is a very difficult budget,” Jacob Lew, head of the White House budget office, said in a CNN interview Sunday. “We’re beyond the easy low hanging fruit.” The budget plan also would trim $78 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, eliminating additional transport planes, a Marine amphibious assault vehicle and an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter. Those cuts mirror recommendations by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
Also on the chopping block are a dozen tax breaks to oil, gas and coal producers worth $46 billion over 10 years. “We are reducing programs that are important programs that we care about,” Lew said. “We’re doing what every family does when it sits around its kitchen table. We’re making the choice about what do we need for the future.” While headlining the need to make painful cuts, officials insisted that selective budget boosts for education and infrastructure also are necessary. The administration plans to expand Pell grants for college students, but would finance it through a $100 billion package of savings that could make it harder for some students to finance their education. The changes would eliminate the availability of the grants for summer students, and increase the costs of graduate school loans by having interest begin to accrue while students are in still in school, rather than after they graduate. Officials also said the budget would include funding to bring high-speed Internet access to 98 percent of Americans and prepare for 100,000 new science and math teachers, but they offered few details on timing or financing. The budget also would give tax breaks for investment and employment in 20 economically hard-hit areas of the country. Obama seeks to solve, for now at least, some of the nation’s more difficult budget problems. For instance,
the budget would exempt many higher earners from the Alternative Minimum Tax for three years, but would do so by limiting tax deductions for those earning even more. It also includes a two-year fix on the problems of Medicare reimbursements to physicians to head off a nearly 30 percent cut in payments, a problem Congress has been forced to solve by spending taxpayers’ money each year. Still, key House Republicans, reacting to leaks and previews of the budget, predicted that it won’t cut nearly enough to satisfy them. House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, dismissed Obama’s five-year freeze on discretionary spending as inadequate because it was preceded by two budgets with large spending increases. “Locking in that level of spending is way too much,” Boehner said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Boehner said that based on previews of the budget, it will “continue to destroy jobs by spending too much, borrowing too much and taxing too much.” Another key House Republican, Budget Committee chairman Paul D. Ryan, of Wisconsin, said any spending increase would come under tough scrutiny. “If he is talking about coming and having new spending, so-called investments, that is not where we are going,” Ryan said on Fox News Sunday. Ryan noted a new dynamic in Con-
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gress working in favor of leaner budgets. “A year ago, Congress was debating about how much more spending to increase,” Ryan said. “Now we are debating about how much more spending to cut.” Andrew Zajac is a reporter for the Tribune Washington Bureau.
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SUMMARY: Obesity is a growing problem in our nation, which plagues students throughout college years, but the university offers programs to help busy students get healthy.
‘Generation XL’ continues to pack on the pounds
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he “freshman 15” is something that has been dreaded by new college students for years. “At the end of the freshman year, more than 17 percent were overweight or obese, compared to only 14 percent at the start,” according to a post on CBSNEWS HealthWatch. The good news about the study is that it shows students gain less than the stereotypical 15 pounds their first year, but students continue to add on pounds their sophomore year. “Something about the freshman year and the sophomore year is putting these kids at risk,” Thomas Wadden, president of the Obesity Society and director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania, told CBSNEWS HealthWatch. “I suspect part of this is they now have access to large amounts of food they can eat freely (without their parents to monitor them),” he added. However, problems with weight gain don’t start with higher education. First Lady Michelle Obama formally announced a program last year to end the American plague of childhood obesity in a generation. This shows jut how large of a problem obesity is in our country. “We want to eliminate this problem of childhood obesity in a generation. We want to get that done,” the first lady told “Good Morning America’s” Robin Roberts in an
exclusive television interview. “We want our kids to face a different and more optimistic future in terms of their lifespan.” The nation-wide campaign called “Let’s Move” calls for initiatives that target four key pillars: Getting parents more informed about nutrition and exercise, improving the quality of food in schools, making healthy foods more affordable and accessible for families and focusing on physical education. This program hopes to teach children the importance of staying healthy so that they practice good habits by the time they reach their freshman year. It’s hard to stay healthy while in college, but the university offers nutrition programs through the Student Recreation and Wellness Center and Nixson Hall to help students stay on track. Nixson Hall offers students free nutrition counseling by registered dieticians that include meal planning, diet analysis and BMI measurements. It’s important for students to take advantage of programs like these to get on track to a healthier, longer life. The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board whose members are listed above.
The White Void A recent announcement should have made headlines and shaken the music industry to its core: The White Stripes announced on its website that the band had officially disbanded. I was saddened but can’t say I was surprised. This story probably didn’t get the attention I thought it deserved because of the recent reclusiveness of the group. The popular Detroit band had not released a studio album since 2007’s “Icky Thump.” The last fans saw of the dynamic, fake brother-sister-duo was in the concert film “Under Great White Northern Lights,” a documentary that followed Jack and Meg as they toured the wild and untamed wilderness of northern Canada. In the last shot of the film, we saw Meg cozying up to Jack at the piano while he played a haunting rendition of “White Moon.” Meg weeps as she clings to Jack like some kind of floatation device. It’s no secret that the driving force behind the White Stripes was Jack. One can only speculate what it takes to form a rock ‘n’ roll band with your ex-wife, make great music and make it as long as Jack and Meg did. It’s simply a sad ending to one of the most talented rock ‘n’ roll
James Sherman groups of the 21st century. To the uninitiated, the White Stripes sounded like a full rock ‘n’ roll band, despite the fact that there were only two members. It was just Jack on his guitar and Meg on her drum set. He would stomp madly on distortion pedals during hard-driving guitar heavy songs then jump onto piano for the next song, always in control; she would lay the drum foundation for Jack to improvise all over, sometimes literally with one hand behind her back. Meg was always the shy one, often muttering one word answers during interviews. The White Stripes had to cancel a string of shows in 2007 after Meg was reported to be suffering from acute anxiety. For this, Meg always
seemed like the little sister who got dragged out by the older brother to do this rock ‘n’ roll thing, when in actuality, she was his ex-wife, a year his senior. Whatever Meg decides to do next, I will undoubtedly be interested. Jack White of course will continue to make music with his other two bands, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. Jack also has his Third Man Records label and studio in Nashville. With his talent and true love for rock music, I think he is the best candidate to be christened as a true rock ‘n’ roll legend. Certainly cool enough, he still needs something — an extra rocket booster to launch him to Rock God status. Unfortunately, for most rock legends, their rocket boost into godlike rock status is by way of tragic, young death. Tragic, young death seems to be out this millennium, so Jack will have to find another way to become rock royalty. It would be impossible for Jack to recreate the magic of the White Stripes, but rock gods tend to make the impossible look easy. James Sherman is a junior newspaper journalism major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at jsherma8@kent.edu.
Judgment Day is every day I have noticed something when it comes to having discussions on controversial topics: the phrase, “Stop being so judgmental!” comes up quite frequently. People tend to forget that having a different opinion than most doesn’t automatically equate with arrogance or being in a higher moral bracket than everybody else. An accusation of being judgmental is not an adequate defense to use against someone whose opinion comes off as offensive. Deep down, we all know that we judge people on a regular basis. We judge based on clothing, mannerisms, political and religious views and more. We make assumptions about people that are often faulty based on first impressions alone. Sometimes it’s easier to hold on to those faulty assumptions than admit we are wrong about something. Before we go accusing someone of being judgmental, we need to take a long, good look at our own judgmental hearts first. Moreover, there is more than one definition of what it means to make a judgment of somebody. Say you’re on a date, for example. You will be making value judgments about the person you’re having dinner with to
Sarahbeth Caplin determine if a new relationship is on the horizon. Those judgments, based on conversation skills and compatibility, are not wrong. If you have a significant other or close friends, you have made a judgment of their character and have deemed them worthy of investing your time with them. Making instant assumptions about a person is another form of judgment. It’s easy to assume that I, a woman with conservative viewpoints that have origins in religion, was brainwashed by my equally religious and conservative family, am a registered Republican, was home-schooled, am a huge prude — all of which are lies. The kind of judgment that more people are familiar with is the kind that condemns people, which is wrong in every circumstance. This accusation comes out fre-
quently during heated debates on sensitive topics such as abortion or anything regarding people’s personal lives. However, it is possible to condemn an action without condemning an actual person. It’s one thing to say, “I believe that abortion is an immoral practice.” It’s not the same as saying, “Any woman who has had an abortion is evil.” As the old adage goes, we can hate the sin, but still love the sinner. For anyone who has children, this concept should be simple to understand. Children get grounded all the time for behaviors that displease their parents, but it doesn’t cause their parents to love them any less. My family disagrees with about 90 percent of what I write in the Stater; and somehow, they love me anyway. We all know people we love dearly that make choices we don’t always agree with. Respect should not be given based on whether we agree with someone’s beliefs; we must respect people because of the simple fact that they are people. The standards we use to judge others can and will be used by others who judge us in return.
Sarahbeth Caplin is a senior English major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at scaplin@kent.edu.
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GREEK Greek Village remains largely vacant The university reserved the land to provide a more permanent residence for Greek life. “Most off-campus housing for fraternities and sororities only hold seven or so people,” Trolian said. “The university wanted to have facilities that would sustain long-term membership.” It took 10 years for Sigma Nu to From Page 1
ROBBERY Trio pled not guilty Monday to robbery According to the indictment, which was handed down Thursday, the three men are accused of using a .40 caliber handgun in the commission of the robbery. Kent State police previously said the two victims were confronted and robbed at gunpoint at about 11:30 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Harbourt Hall parking lot, near the Kent State Ice Arena. Initially, police said two suspects fled the scene. The victims were not injured. A subsequent From Page 6
WRESTLER Freshman wrestler takes on top contenders “I kept coming in the room and slowly it just got easier and easier,” Johnson said. “Once I started seeing success at open tournaments, it just got sweeter and made me hungry to go out and try my hardest.” Now in his first year wrestling at Kent State, Johnson has faced the top four wrestlers in the nation and four others in the top 20. “He probably had the toughest schedule out of anyone I’ve ever seen as a Kent State singlet,” Andrassy said. The talent level of Johnson’s opponents is helping him gain experience quickly. Andrassy compares Johnson to a little Dustin Kilgore in the way they wrestle. He said their talent level of
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raise the funds for its home. Matt Fabinak, president of Sigma Nu, said they held alumni golf outings to raise money during the construction of the fraternity’s house. They also took out a small mortgage and looked to its national headquarters to fund a study area. “That actually helped a lot,” Fabinak said. Construction is only part of the expenses involved when moving into the Greek Village. The fraternities and sororities must lease the property and pay for sprinkler systems and
fire doors. But Fabinak said it’s worth it. Sigma Nu’s membership has gone from around 25 to 50 students since building its Greek Village home. “It was a big deal for our fraternity because we’ve never had a lettered house before,” he said. “Just having one place to go for when we have our brotherhood or are just hanging out has a huge impact.”
KSU police investigation identified three men as suspects. First-degree felonies carry a potential sentence of three to 10 years in prison. Firearms specifications to the charges, alleging the use of a handgun in the commission of the crime, could add a mandatory three years on top of that. Scott is a sophomore technology major at Kent State and Millberry is a freshman exploratory major, according to Kent State’s online student directory. Attorney Michael Nelson, representing Millberry, said his client has no prior criminal history. Scott will reside with his father, a juvenile probation officer in Summit County, if
he posts bond defense, attorney Errol Can said. “He is not a danger to the community,” Can told Enlow. Blackmon’s attorney, Thomas Bauer Jr., told Enlow his client is a pre-med student at the University of Akron with no prior criminal record. He said Blackmon was making arrangements to turn himself in on a warrant but was arrested before he could do so. Without elaborating, Bauer said he thinks his client “has a defense to the charge,” he said. It is likely that defense attorneys will move to sever the trials of the three suspects. Enlow set an initial trial date for May.
wrestling might also have been similar if Johnson could have faced better competition in high school, something Maryland lacks. “He might be where Kilgore was when Kilgore was a junior in high school,” Andrassy said. “(Johnson) is a few years behind Kilgore, but I think he still has the same type of mentality. (Johnson) doesn’t get tired very easily. He just goes real hard.” Johnson said he is already reaping the benefits of the great competition he has faced early in the season. Whenever he steps on the mat, he is able to tell himself he already faced the best. “Within my first ten matches, I already wrestled two or three of the top guys in the nation,” Johnson said. “That was a little discouraging, but once I faced competition at my level, I was dominating. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve already wrestled the best guys out there. It’s nothing to be scared of anymore.”
Andrassy said he hopes young Johnson can learn new offensive and defensive tactics from the experienced wrestlers he has already faced and use those new tactics in his future matches. “As he looks back, if he could remember things they did, I think it could help him in the future if he works hard at it,” Andrassy said. Johnson’s experience wrestling some of the top wrestlers in the nation earlier this year will be needed this weekend when the Flashes face Central Michigan at 2 p.m. Sunday. Johnson, currently ranked No. 27 in the nation by WrestlingReport.com, matches up against the Chippewas’s Ben Bennett. Bennett is currently No. 6 and was named All-American as a freshman last year.
Cristina Mazzone is the Greek life and ROTC reporter.
Alex Atkinson is the wrestling reporter.
Widespread response to violence: enough is enough Daniel Moore
dmoore63@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Two males reportedly robbed two Kent State students at gunpoint Feb. 5 in a campus parking lot. Just a few hours later, a fight broke out at Campus Pointe apartments. That same night, a mere 40 miles east, bullets rained into a fraternity house of Youngstown State University, killing one and injuring 11. In response to these events, Jennifer Bryant, senior nutrition and dietetics major, organized “GUNS & VIOLENCE: Really... I thought this was college!?” a program to discuss the causes of such incidents and how to prevent them. The Student Multicultural Center and Black United Students will sponsor the conversation Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Room 206 of the Student Center. Dylan Sellers, a program assistant for the Student Multicul-
tural Center, said Bryant told him she was sick of the violence and enough is enough. “She said we really need to have a serious conversation about this,” Sellers said. He called her later and told her she would be in charge of a “frank and honest” program. “I’ve never put on a university program before,” she said. “But I’m really excited about it and hope for a good turnout.” Sellers said the conversation will address basic safety, party etiquette and preventative measures such as walking in groups and calling for an escort in an effort to “make sure we don’t have these things happen again.” “You can look out for things,” Sellers said. “(Students should recognize) something that looks wrong or feels wrong and get out of the way.” Bryant said the program will address violence issues not just on Kent State’s campus but throughout the college communities —
Akron University, Ohio University and Youngstown State University — that are close to Kent State in size and proximity. She said she feels the death at Youngstown State “could have easily been a student at Kent.” But she said a lot of students still might question the point of having such a program. She said the violence affects e v e r y o n e f ro m t h e A f r i c a n American community to public organizations and university students. Furthermore, she said she wants to be proud of where she came from. “After I graduate, when I see something about my alumni school, I want it to be positive,” she said. “(The program) may not make a big difference today or tomorrow, but we have to start somewhere. Why not start today? That’s how I see things.” Daniel Moore is the diversity reporter.
Music and Speech Center welcomes children to experience theater, arts
Local third through sixth graders are going to sample college life in the Music and Speech Center from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday. “There are 150 students coming,” said Andrea Shearer, director of the School of Dance. “We’re providing different activities for them. They’re going to learn dances while working with members of the Kent Dance Ensemble.” Shearer said Falcon Academy of Creative Arts is a new school in the Fields Local School District.
She added that the school was created to bring the arts into the normal classroom setting. The students are taught with music, art, dance and drama. “They’re learning about American music composers through the ‘Great American Songbook’, and the teacher has chosen several pieces for the students to record,” Shearer said. “They’re going to use Ludwig Recital Hall to make a CD of the songs.” She said the students will be split up by grade level and get to
sing, dance, see the set of Grease and eat their lunches in the Music and Speech Center’s main lobby. Around 25 Kent State students have volunteered to help with the day’s activities. “We’re excited for it,” Shearer said. “It’s the first time we’ve gotten to do something like this. I think it will be a fun, good experience for them.”
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regular citizens. “If they’re being prosecuted in our court system, they have the same gamut of rights as any other citizen,” Crimi said. “We have to provide anybody that our courts prosecute due process of law, and those rights have been very much specified over the years through statutes and courts.” Crimi said non-citizens are given certain rights not available to U.S. citizens regarding the legal help they receive. A Supreme Court case, Padilla v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, sets the guidelines for these rights. “All criminal defense attorneys have really had to pay attention to this case because it essentially said any non-citizen who is before one of our courts, potentially being convicted of a crime, it is the defense attorney’s duty to counsel them very specifically,” Crimi said. “Not just generally tell them this might have an impact on your immigration status, but to counsel them specifically about the potential impact it may have. That has been a concern of criminal defense attorneys throughout the country.” Crimi said there are certain limitations to what Student Legal Services can provide. “Even before that case came out, it’s always been my practice
that where a student is facing criminal conviction that we do not do immigration law here,” Crimi said. “I recommend to the student that they go for a consultation with an immigration attorney for advice as to what effect a case might have on their immigration status.” Crimi said she’s learned to advise international students to make an application to get the record sealed. However, the student needs to be careful because the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t want to see those records sealed. She said the department can step in and make it harder for defense attorneys to seal the records compared to a United States citizen. Crimi said certain convictions of crimes, defined as crimes of moral turpitude, are deportable. Although, she said, SLS has never seen a case where a student was deported. “We have represented students in cases that could lead to deportation if the student had been convicted of the offense charged,” Crimi said. “We have always been able to assist the student in avoiding convictions of those offenses.”
LEGAL Legal system reaches out to international students Canfield said the Kent Police doesn’t arrest non-English speaking people very often. When the situation does arise, it’s generally not a student. After a student gets arrested, he or she has to deal with the United States court system. In addition, the student has to accept any consequences outlined in the Student Code of Conduct. “Students who violate federal, state or local laws are subject to disciplinary actions based on existing university policies and procedures,” DiMaria said. “If an international student is charged with a crime, then it is important for the student to find an attorney qualified in both criminal and immigration law.” DiMaria said the Office of International Affairs strongly recommends that any non-English speaking student hire a professional interpreter. Crimi said in the event a student does not hire an interpreter, the court would provide one. Crimi said the court system does not treat international students much differently from
— Brooke Bower, performing arts reporter
Joe Zucker is a public affairs reporter.
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SPORTS Sports editor: Cody Erbacher • cerbache@kent.edu
Weeklong road trip begins with Miami Rachel Jones
rjones62@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater The Kent State men’s basketball team left for Miami, Ohio on Tuesday, and they aren’t coming back until next Tuesday. The Flashes (17-7, 8-2 Mid-American Conference) must play at Drexel on Feb. 18 and at Western Michigan on Feb. 21 as part of their swing of four road games in 10 days before returning to Kent. Kent State faces tough competition at Miami (13-12, 8-3 MAC) Wednesday, but the players have more on their minds than game plans and MAC standings. “It’s tough on several fronts,” said Geno Ford, Kent State men’s basketball coach. “The guys have so many things pulling them in so many directions, so it’ll be a tough week for us.” Obviously, there is the basketball part. At their last matchup on Jan. 23, the Flashes defeated the RedHawks 78-57. But Miami was missing Julian Mavunga. The forward, who leads his team in rebounds (7.2 per game) and points (14.1 points per game), will be back on the court Wednesday. Fresh off an 84-77 victory over Northern Illinois on Feb. 12, the Flashes are hoping to use strong defense to combat Mavunga and add to their six-game winning streak. “We were fortunate to do well at Northern Illinois,” Ford said. “But we told our guys, ‘You’re never going to be fresher than you are in the beginning.’” Ford said the physically demanding parts of the road series are not only from the games, but that players can’t get into routines. The players may not get to sleep in the same bed every night or eat the same food, but freshman forward Mark Henniger said they do have a “typical” road game routine. This consists of meals, walk-throughs and plenty of rest before tipoff. Not to mention plenty of traveling. “Away games are fun because you get to be with your teammates, and we become like brothers,” Henniger said. “But long bus rides and going through airport security are not fun.” It’s also not fun to be behind in every class. While Henniger joked that missing school all week will be fun, he said the makeup work will be tough to handle. The players already miss one-and-a-half to two days of class each week, but the extra days this week mean more homework on the go. “There’s only so much studying you can
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Freshman forward Mark Henniger attempts to grab a loose ball during a game against Toledo. Henniger is averaging 7.5 minutes per game while shooting 16-of-28 (57 percent) from the field. do sitting on a bus or an airplane,” Ford said. But Ford’s biggest concern for the next few games is the lack of opportunity to practice. “There’s not much you can do,” Ford said. “Guys get tired. They’re not robots.” Going into the game on a winning streak and with a first place ranking in the MAC East, the Flashes will arrive at Miami with confidence. But Ford said the players can’t “stub
their toes” Wednesday if they want to keep that positive attitude alive. “We only have one senior,” Ford said. “It’s not like we have a bunch of old, grizzled veterans who have done this for four years. Hopefully, we have some younger guys who can carry themselves like they know what to do.”
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Sophomore guard Tamzin Barroilhet took charge of Kent State’s young bench with 12 points last Saturday against Central Michigan. Barroilhet is averaging 7.1 points per game this season.
Despite a disappointing loss to Central Michigan last Saturday, the Kent State women’s basketball team looks to build off their strong offensive performance. The Flashes, who shot a solid 49 percent for the game, appear to be back in a strong offensive stride once again. “I thought that for most of that game we had pretty good offense,” said senior guard Jamilah Humes. “I thought that was the best we’ve run our offense the entire season.” Humes posted one of her best offensive games of the season Saturday, posting 27 points while shooting a perfect 7-for-7 from the free throw line. Although Kent State (16-7, 7-4 MidAmerican Conference) had a strong showing with its offense, the defense let the team down late in the game. The Flashes held on to a 10-point lead with just over six minutes remaining in the game. But with a few defensive faults, the Flashes could not finish with a win. “I thought we had good defense when we were actually containing them. We actually were doing a good job,” said sophomore guard Tamzin Barroilhet. “Unfortunately, at the end we had a few relapses that cost us the game.” Kent State’s bench provided a boost in the team’s offense by collectively scoring
“With the first pick in 2011 NBA Draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers select Jared Sullinger, forward from the Ohio State University.” This quote isn’t real. But it very well could be in June of this year. The Cleveland Cavaliers are struggling, to say the least. The Cavs tied a North American professional sports record with 26 straight losses this season and have a mere season record of 9-46. The Cavs rank 25th, or worse, in points for and points allowed. To say the Cavs need a spark is an understatement at this point, but being this bad means that things can only get better. Be optimistic, people! In the 2002-2003 NBA season, the Cavs were 17-65 and won the draft lottery. They chose a guy by the name of LeBron James, a three-time Ohio Mr. Basketball, first overall and the rest is history. A Rookie of the Year award and one season later, Cleveland doubled its win total to 35-47. If we were to draft Sullinger, we could see this again in the near future. At this pace, the Cavaliers should secure the No. 1 overall selection in the 2011 NBA Draft. In addition, another former Ohio Mr. Basketball should be drafted with the top selection by the hometown Cavaliers if he decides to forgo his sophomore season. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Mr. Jared Sullinger, power forward for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Sullinger, a Columbus, Ohio, native, was the 2010 Parade Magazine Player of the Year, starring at Northland High. His impressive bio doesn’t end there: 2010 McDonald’s All-American and co-MVP of the game, 2010 High School Naismith Award winner, 2010 Jordan Brand High School All-American and of course, two-time Ohio Associated Press Mr. Basketball. Sullinger didn’t have the hype that LeBron had coming out of high school — nor was he permitted to jump straight to the NBA due to a rules change — but without doubt, he can help
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turn the Cavaliers around. The 6-foot-9-inch, 280-pound freshman led the Buckeyes to a 24-1 record this season by averaging 18 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. The double-double machine is a force underneath the basket. Sullinger’s numbers are not mind-blowing, but you must factor in how much talent is around him. The Buckeyes are pretty much a lock for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and it’s not because this is a one-man team. Take him off the court, though, and Ohio State surely wouldn’t be in the position it is at now. The Cleveland Cavaliers rank No. 27 out of 30 NBA teams this year in rebounding. They lack a true post presence and are bullied in every which way possible. Antawn Jamison is listed as a power forward but could do much more damage away from the basket on the offensive end. Plug Sullinger into the equation, and not only do you have a big man underneath, but also a breath of fresh air to a gasping franchise. Jared comes from a basketball family. His dad coaches nationally ranked Northland High in Columbus. Both of his older brothers were Division I players, as JJ played at Ohio State and Julian starred for Kent State. To date, no Sullinger has made noise on the NBA scene. Jared Sullinger is looking to change that last sentence, and maybe the rest of the family won’t have to travel far to see him play.
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Women’s basketball struggles with defensive consistency Matt Lofgren
Jared Sullinger: the next Cav?
22 points. Behind Barroilhet’s 12 points, the young bench got a look at what they can do to help the team succeed. “We had a few iffy games but I think the game is a sign of things to come,” Barroilhet said. “We’ve been working hard to get out of our little slump, and I think it was a positive thing if we can do what we did over the next couple of games.” The Flashes are returning to MAC East play Thursday at 7 p.m. at Miami (10-14, 2-9 MAC). Earlier this season, the Flashes were able to beat the Red Hawks 76-62 at the M.A.C. Center. “It’s really crucial getting to play a team twice in the same season because you’ve already played them and they know their tendencies,” Humes said. “ Whether you won or lost, you know what you did right to win, and they know what happened to them to create that loss.” In the last game against Miami, the Flashes had a solid team performance with five Flashes in double-digit points. The team will need to relive that type of performance with just five games remaining in the regular season schedule before the MAC Tournament starting March 5. “We can definitely carry over our offensive execution we had but need to pick it up on defense,” Humes said. “We just need to play together.” Matt Lofgren is the women’s basketball reporter.
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Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger reaches for a rebound during an NCAA basketball game against Minnesota on Feb. 6, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Freshman KSU wrestler takes on top contenders Alex Atkinson
aatkins2@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater During high school in Maryland, Brandonn Johnson was a state champion, pinning and technical falling every wrestler he faced during his senior year. A year later, Johnson found himself at Kent State as a red-shirt freshman trying to stay alive in Kent State coach Jim Andrassy’s practices. Andrassy said while scouting Johnson, he saw he had the potential to be a good wrestler at the Division I level but hoped Johnson had the work ethic he needed to get himself into the shape he needed to be in. “I saw the variables I think you need to be successful to compete at this level,” Andrassy said. “Most of the guys you go out to recruit, a third of them have the ability to make it in college wrestling.
“The question is: Do they have the work ethic to do what we do on a regular basis? That’s where you figure out if you have a great kid or not.” Johnson said he was not sure if he could make it through Andrassy’s preseason practices. “I thought about calling my mom and telling her I couldn’t do this,” Johnson said. “I never had this experience of coming into a room and getting my butt kicked left and right. I was the all-star (in high school). I remember for the first two months, I would be happy leaving the room if I got a single takedown.” However, Johnson stuck with it and became one of the three recruits Andrassy says has the work ethic it takes to succeed as a collegiate wrestler at the Division I level.
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Kent State to host 2011 NCAA Gymnastics Championship in Cleveland Tyler Goddard
tgoddar1@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Kent State will host the 2011 NCAA Gymnastics Championships in April at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland. But when it comes to hosting national championship events, the Kent State name isn’t normally the first that comes to mind.
“The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission put together a bid a number of years ago to have Cleveland be a championship city, and it was an NCAA initiative,” said Alan Ashby, assistant athletic director. “We (Kent State) were included as part of that bid because we are the closest school to Cleveland that hosts a gymnastics program.” The initiative selected between 10-12 cities through-
out the country, and they would receive the opportunity to host multiple NCAA events. Ashby said the cities were narrowed down to six, with Cleveland still being one of them. Ashby said the opportunity to host the event has already raised the profile of the Kent State program, but there are also challenges. “The traditional gymnastics powers, such as Alabama
or Utah, look at it like why is it in Cleveland?” he said. “So we have to overcome a little bit of that perception, but I know our coaches are excited for the opportunity to put on a first class event.” Brice Biggin, Kent State gymnastics coach, said hosting a National Championship is a great opportunity that doesn’t arise often. “For us to be in this position
says a lot about Kent State Athletics and the women’s gymnastics program,” Biggin said. “We are certainly going to do everything we can to make it a success.” Kent State is currently ranked No.16 in the country. The Flashes have aspirations of being at the event to compete as well as host. Ashby said the event is a great opportunity for the school, especially in Northeast Ohio
where Kent State attempts to target new students. “I think it’s a great way for us to show that we can host a first class event like this and really do something on the national stage,” Ashby said. The 2011 NCAA Gymnastics Championships are April 15-17 in Cleveland. Tyler Goddard is the gymnastics reporter.