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The road closings set to begin Monday have been delayed until Thursday because of the rainy weather. Crain Avenue, between North Depeyster Street and North Water Street, will be closed for 138 days. North Water Street, between Brady Street and Crain Avenue, will also be blocked for the same time. The entrances to Cuyahoga Street and Fairchild Avenue on state Route 43 will be closed for three weeks. Traffic will be reduced to one lane on state Route 43 for three weeks as construction continues on the Fairchild Avenue Bridge. — Josh Johnston, city editor
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James Bullock, 73, of Rootstown, voices his opinion Monday at the Maplewood Career Center in Ravenna during a public meeting about the future of Kent’s branch of the Portage County Municipal Court.
A crowd of about 150 people gathered at the Maplewood Career Center in Ravenna Monday night to discuss the possibility of moving the municipal courthouse outside of Kent. Everyone seemed to agree the current courthouse, located on South Water Street, is dilapidated. It has drafty windows, a leaky roof and not enough space to house criminals. However, an agreement has not been reached when it comes to choosing a new location. See DEBATE, Page 4
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Two cars were involved in an accident on East Main Street in front of Holly Park Apartments on Monday night. The passenger of the silver Hyundai was not wearing her seatbelt and possibly broke her arm.
Two-car accident, one injured A two-car accident occurred at the entrance of Holly Park Apartments at approximately 8:13 p.m. Monday. According to Sgt. Mike Lewis of the Kent City Police, a green Chevy Malibu was turning westbound onto state Route 59 and didn’t see a silver Hyundai Tiburon driving eastbound. The Malibu struck the
Tiburon and spun around into the middle of the road. Neither driver was injured, but a female passenger in the Tiburon was injured and taken to Akron General Hospital, Lewis said. No further information is available on the condition of the passenger. — Samantha Worgull, public affairs reporter
US Border Patrol: Fake ID shipment started in China
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Two students face criminal charges Julie Sickel
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The athletic trainers pose with their first place trophy at Jock Jams on Monday, which helped raise money for the American Cancer Society.
KSU Athletes jam
The shipment of fake IDs that has two Kent State students facing criminal charges was sent from China. Brian Bell, the Ohio public affairs representative for United States Customs and Border Patrol, said that the IDs were hidden in an electronic device, and their presence became “painfully apparent” when the device was processed through an X-ray machine. “It’s one of the things we look
for,” Bell said. “We often seize anywhere from two to 90 (IDs) per shipment.” Drew Patenaude, 20, and Antonino Bucca, 20, were both arrested Thursday evening on charges of identity fraud, forgery and telecommunications fraud. Bell said 90 counterfeit IDs were found concealed in the shipment, but only 45 people ordered IDs. He explained that in many cases of counterfeit IDs, recipients must order two copies of an ID. The problem of fake IDs is not isolated to Kent State, Bell said. It is happening in universities of all sizes across the state. “We’re seeing them coming in daily,” Bell said. “Interestingly enough, people continue to order them, and we continue to catch them.” See ID, Page 4
Two KSU students for American Cancer Society on path to become “tiger blood” interns
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Daily Kent Stater Jordin Sparks’ and Chris Brown’s song “No Air” blasted through speakers as athletic trainers acted out saving an athlete who had run out of air. Athletic trainers earned first place in the ninth annual Jock Jams lip sync fundraising
event for their performance in front of more than 1,000 athletes, friends and family. The charity event, held in the Student Center Ballroom Monday night, raised money for the American Cancer Society and Walls Elementary School. Ashley Wagner, senior athletic training major, said she was excited to earn first place after getting second to men’s track and field and cross country last year. “It feels great,” she said. “Last year we came
in second, and we knew there were going to be a lot of teams to beat, especially track.” Twelve teams showed off their dancing skills by competing for the Jock Jams trophy with lip sync performances. The teams were comprised of a variety of athletic teams, as well as employees from the equipment room and athletic trainers. A panel of judges rated each performance for creativity, choreography, originality, time management and crowd involvement. See JAMS, Page 4
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nwalton1@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Even rainy, ominous weather could not prevent the groundbreaking of a significant project in the renovation of downtown Kent. Officials stayed under a tent then went outside to lift the initial dirt at the future site of the Kent Central Gateway facility Monday afternoon. The event marked the culmination of the collaboration between the city, Kent State and PARTA. Rick Bissler, PARTA board of trustees president, said the $26 million project would not be possible without cooperation from all parties involved. “It is delightful that we have a university administration and a city administration that really sees the value of building this,” Bissler said. “There’s no little silence —
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Shovels hit dirt as construction begins Groundbreaking marks commencement of Kent Central Gateway
Charlie Sheen recruits through Internships.com
we’re all in this together.” Bissler said while PARTA has just started to get involved with the downtown renovation, the project is a continuation of the vision of Acorn Alley developer Ron Burbick. Bissler credited him for getting the initiative started. The project received high praise and support throughout the development process from U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan. “I do believe that Kent is really becoming a model on how you piece together what a 21st-century city and town should look like,” Ryan said. Gregg Floyd, vice president of finance and administration for Kent State, was at the ceremony. Floyd was not available for comment in time for publication. Kent Mayor Jerry Fiala said the project is a piece of the puzzle for making public transportation adequate for everyone as gas prices increase, while also producing more jobs and opportunities for downtown Kent. Fiala said it would also help serve Kent State students. “It’s not known that students are almost half of the population of this town nine months a year,”
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Honored guests take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for Kent’s new Central Gateway transit system Monday. Fiala said. “We got to live together, and we’re doing a better job of that every day.” The project is mostly funded through a $20 million federal grant awarded last spring as part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program. This program was funded through the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In February, PARTA agreed to pay $775,000 for the property at 115 S. Depeyster St., formerly the Car Parts Warehouse. The warehouse moved to the location of the former NAPA Auto Parts store at 108 W. College Ave. See CONSTRUCTION, Page 4
It takes tiger blood and good knowledge of social media to intern for Charlie Sheen. Chelsea Cassudakis, senior public relations major, and Kelsey Cullen, junior public relations and advertising major, both succeeded in the s e c o n d ro u n d of Sheen’s hunt for an intern for S u m m e r 2 0 11 . Both students are in the top 250 of 74,040 applicants in the race to become CULLEN his intern. “I didn’t really take it seriously until I found out that there were only 250 people left,” Cullen said. “That’s when I freaked out.” Cullen said she and Cassudakis submitted YouTube videos for the third round of the competition. She said it is still up in the air about whether or not either of them will move on to the fourth round. Cassudakis said the first part of the application process was easiest, where applicants posted a 75-word tweet on Twitter. She said the second part was a little more difficult, where students sent in their resumes along with links to social media sites. Cassudakis said the third part was most intense, in which stu-
dents created a video answering a question. “It took a chunk of time,” Cassudakis said, “But I would assume that each round will CASSUDAKIS get more timeconsuming and stressful as we keep going.” The Sheen internship search is hosted by Internships.com. Cullen said it would be a paid internship in Los Angeles, near Sheen’s home. It involves observing social media trends and online marketing. “With Sheen, I won’t just be making copies or coffee runs,” Cullen said. “I’ll hopefully be able to increase his reach in social media with the internship, which is something I’m interested in doing.” Neither Cassudakis nor Cullen is sure if they made it into the top 50 applicants in round four, yet. Both said they are checking their e-mails to hear back from Internships.com. Cassudakis said she is happy just to have made it to the third SHEEN round of the competition. “I wasn’t a huge Charlie Sheen fan before all of his publicity, but his whole attitude interests me,” Cassudakis said. “This will be a great opportunity to show what I’m capable of in my field.” Megan Wilkinson is a general assignment reporter.
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Night featuring “And the Band Played On” When: 7 p.m. Where: Lowry Auditorium
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Signs to spark interest on trail New signs inform hikers on history, environment facts Dwayne Yates
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dyates1@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater In an effort to keep walkers walking and runners running down the Portage Hike and Bike Trail, informational signs will be installed in various locations in coming weeks. The signs give readers facts about the plants and wildlife living along the trail, as well as historical places the trail has to offer, using words, photos and past letters. Many may not know, but Native Americans and early American traders used the trail for transportation. The trail follows the Cuyahoga River, and in the middle of the river, near Theodore Roosevelt High School, there is a tall rock called Standing Rock. Using photos from the Kent Historical Society, Catherine Ricks, environmental education coordinator for Kent Parks and Recreation, made it possible for people to look at Standing Rock and see what people saw there 100 years ago. In addition to Standing Rock, other places on the trail can be seen as they were in different time periods. Walkers can stop along the railroad tracks in the Erie Railroad freight yard to read about it and see photos from almost 60 years ago when the yard was a booming hub for steam engine locomotives. Ricks and her husband, Emliss, were in charge of deciding what would go on the signs, compiling the information and finding photos. Ricks found help from the
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Kent Historical Society, Portage County Historical Society and various citizens. “If I took (someone) on a walk, these are the things I would like to show (them),” Ricks said. Jim Tucker of Tucker Image Design Group was hired to take the old black-and-white photos Ricks found, full-color photos Tucker and Ricks took themselves and the information Ricks and her husband compiled, lay them out and make it all comprehensive and visually stimulating for viewers. “He had to create it in a way that it fit, align the text, edit pictures — he did a lot of beautiful things,” Ricks said. John Idone, director of Kent Parks and Recreation, received $25,000 from the Community Development Block Grant to complete the sign instillation project. Idone hopes the signs will enrich the experience of those who use the trail. “I think they will be used by the schools to get the kids out and take a walk on the trail,” Idone said. Idone also hopes the signs will help close a generational divide. Grandparents can talk about their memories of the
railroads while their grandchildren are learning about them for perhaps the first time. They can even discuss all the creatures they saw on the environmentally focused signs that they might encounter on the trail. Ricks says that’s the beauty of the signs — they’re not targeted to any specific age range. There are a total of 12 new signs. The roughly eight-mile trail, which runs through downtown Kent, stretches through the city reaching Ravenna and touching Summit County. There are six signs downtown already, so the trail now connects 18 signs in all. That’s 18 chances to teach people something new. Idone said the trail is important because it protects the river corridor, provides habitat for small animals, prevents river pollution and gives people a place to get out and be active. “Maybe educating people on the importance of the river corridor will elicit more respect to take care of things,” Idone said. Dwayne Yates is a public affairs reporter.
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About 65 students and professors attended a “teach-in” on Senate Bill 5 in the governance chambers Monday. The panel of speakers included Deborah Smith, the grievance committee chair for Kent State’s chapter of American Association of University Professors, Amy Hanauer, Policy Matters Ohio’s executive director and Vernon Sykes, former state senator and current political science professor at Kent State. The panel presented a self-admitted left-wing view in opposition to the bill, which Gov. John Kasich signed into law March 31. The bill severely curtails collective bargaining for public employees in Ohio. Public unions, including Kent State’s unions, are in the process of collecting 230,000 signatures to get the new law put to a referendum vote this November. If they get the signatures before 90 days have passed, the implementation of SB 5 will be put off until after the vote in November. One concern raised by the panel was a section that redefines faculty who participate in shared governance through organizations like Faculty Senate and advisory committees as management. “There seems to be little doubt that there seems to be a national trend to curtail and erode faculty governance at institutions across the nation,” Smith said. Political science professor Jamie Callender said he thought faculty governance would actually be strengthened by SB 5. He said currently union contracts dictate many aspects of life at Kent State that he believes should be debated by everyone at the university. “Taking it out of the labor agreement and putting it into the public forum would allow more faculty and even parents (of students) to have a voice,” Callender said.
Smith said she agreed to a point because many universities have faculty governance without collective bargaining. “The problem is with SB 5 we lose the guarantee of a faculty voice,” Smith said. SB 5 could lead to increased legal costs for the university. Smith said her position, as grievance chair at AAUP, would disappear. “I can’t tell you how many times I have to talk faculty out of filing lawsuits because they don’t have a leg to stand on,” Smith said. “I have no doubt that faculty can find lawyers who are willing to take their money.” Hanauer said Republicans portray SB 5 as a tool to help local governments cut their spending and get their budgets under control. She sees the bill as an attempt to mask steep cuts in Kasich’s budget. “To make that a little bit more palatable, we’re going to say you can cut your employees wages,” Hanauer said. “The problem with that is if we start cutting people’s wages, it’s only going to reduce money in our local economies.” Smith echoed this sentiment and said Kent State is the largest employer in Portage County, and SB 5 doubles health care costs for the lowest wage earners at the university. “We have chosen through collective bargaining to subside the cost of health care of the lowest-paid employees,” Smith said. Health care contributions are based on a percentage of an employee’s salary, but SB 5 raises the contribution of all public employees to 15 percent. Smith said for most professors this will mean little to no change, but for maintenance workers and secretaries the hikes would be much higher. “The lower the salary the greater the increase in health care cost under SB 5,” Smith said. After the event, Derek Spencer, senior international relations major, said his opinion on the bill hadn’t swayed. “I think I’m still unsure right now if it’s going to be a good thing or a bad thing,” Spencer said.
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Man commits suicide near tracks in Kent
Railroad employees made a tragic discovery Sunday morning at the trestle near Mogadore Road and Cherry Street. Keith Painter, a 44-year-old Streetsboro man, was found dead after a self-inflicted gunshot from a revolver. Tom Decker, chief investigator for Portage County Coroner’s Office, and detectives declared the death a suicide. “He was reported missing the night before the engineer saw his body on the railroad tracks,” Decker said. The engineer immediately called the police, and Painter’s family confirmed his identity. The case remains open as Kent Police Department officials further investigate for motives and other details. “My job is to determine what caused the demean, not why they did it,” Decker said. Until the case is closed, additional information from police is limited.
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Students should start building their credit scores for future jobs Establishing a good credit score may be key to future success Leighann McGivern lmcgive2@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater
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Brittney Harrold, sophomore fashion design major, glues decorations to her frame in Verder Hall Monday. Students donned feathers and beads and decorate frames for Living Arts Week.
As many as 60 percent of employers admit to checking credit scores before making a job offer, assistant finance professor Ronald Stolle said. “A low credit score may cost a student a job offer,” Stolle said. Stolle said low credit scores can also restrict students from accessing credit and could cause them to receive higher interest rates, meaning it would cost more to borrow. Economics instructor Erik Zemljic said the most important thing is for students to establish good credit while in college. Zemljic said credit
scores range from 350 to 850 and that most Americans fall around the 700 mark. “Most students graduating from college will have a score anywhere from 650 to 700,” Zemljic said. “The biggest part is to get a credit card. Make two or three small purchases every month.” Zemljic recommended that students start by opening a credit card through their banks or through Chase Freedom or Discover, who both offer cash back rewards on certain purchases. He said there are certain things that hurt a person’s credit score, which students should avoid when trying to establish good credit. “The most important thing is the payment history,” Zemljic said. “One late payment could have a big impact on your credit.” Zemljic said other factors that affect credit score include the total amount borrowed compared to the available balance and how long a person has a credit history.
Stolle said a good rule is to never spend more than 30 percent of an available credit line. “Maximum charges outstanding on a card with a $1,000 credit limit should never exceed $300,” Stolle said. Zemjlic said he discouraged students from applying for too many store credit cards because each application process does a hard inquiry into credit history. “Too many hard inquiries could have a negative impact on a score,” Zemljic said. He also added that students should be cautious when applying for student credit cards because they often have higher interest rates. “Just because it says ‘student’ on it doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the best deal,” Zemljic said. Both Stolle and Zemljic offer classes in personal finance through the College of Business. Leighann McGivern is the student finance reporter.
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SUMMARY: The Kent courthouse has needed upgrades for quite a while. Even though past plans fell through, we still think a new courthouse is worth the cost.
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t’s no secret the Kent courthouse could use an upgrade. And despite the fact that plans for a new one have been in the works for about four years, the location of said facility has yet to be determined. In the meantime, the court must go on. Kevin Poland, Portage County Municipal Court judge, has said in the past that conditions at the courthouse are less than desirable. Victims and defendants sit on the same bench, there is no secure place for domestic violence victims and the roof leaks, among a laundry list of other functional problems. So why haven’t county officials moved
into an updated courthouse? After a failed attempt to create a joint project to include both the courthouse and city police department, which is badly in need of a new building as well, the location and cost of a new courthouse is still under debate. Portage County Commissioner Tommie Jo Marsilio suggested moving the courthouse out of Kent earlier this year, which State Rep. Kathleen Clyde and Poland oppose. As Clyde said, the reason for taking a courthouse from the most populous city in the district makes no sense, not to mention the courthouse’s convenient location near
Kent State. Many students don’t have transportation out of the city, and having a courthouse in another location would increase operating costs. So, surely, there is someone out of all the city and county officials who can take charge, compromise and make a decision. Portage County, the city of Kent and certainly the current courthouse can’t wait forever. The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board whose members are listed to the left.
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FAMOUS QUOTE “Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer
DID YOU KNOW? On this day in 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va. — History.com
A post-Geno rallying cry This is a series of open letters regarding men’s basketball coach Geno Ford’s departure to Bradley University. To Geno Ford: What is your motive for coaching? Is it to instruct, train and motivate your players for victory? Or is it to make as much money as possible? If you truly cared about your players, or about anyone at Kent State, you would have told them you were leaving. Even better, you could have let our athletic department present its own offer. This is basic communication that normal colleagues use. Thank you for revealing your true values. You are the scum of the earth. You are also making an enormous mistake. Gary Waters’ win-loss record as Kent State head coach was 92-60 and included two NCAA Tournaments. He left for Rutgers and resigned five years later with a 79-75 record and no NCAA Tournament berths. Stan Heath replaced Waters here. In his first season, the Flashes finished 30-6 and advanced to the Elite Eight. He left for Arkansas and was fired five years later with an 82-71 record and no NCAA Tournament victories. Jim Christian replaced Heath. He was 137-59 and took the team to two NCAA Tournaments. He left for Texas Christian University and is 38-58 in three seasons so far, nowhere close to earning postseason berths. What makes you think you will be different, since you too care about money more than your players? You are a moron — but at least you will be a rich moron. Good riddance. To athletic director Joel Nielsen: Promote Rob Senderoff to become the next head coach. Senderoff has been around this team as an assistant coach, much like Christian and Ford were before they became head coaches. This has
Jody Michael been incredibly successful. Besides, we have a very experienced team next season. This is not a time to start over and try a new system. We have our own system, and it works. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Stop your national coaching search immediately. Name Senderoff the new head coach now, and let’s get to work. To the men’s basketball players: Now is not the time to grieve over your coach abandoning you. That negativity will get you nowhere. You just finished an incredible season and should be proud of what you accomplished. Think back to losing to Akron in the conference tournament. Instead of giving up, you won two upsets in the NIT and nearly shocked Colorado. You can make the same turnaround again. So what if your coach betrayed you? Use it as motivation to prove him wrong. Make it your mission to win a conference tournament before your former coach wins one at Bradley. Also, please know that your fellow students, as well as the Kent community, are on your side. We will still be at the M.A.C. Center to cheer for you. You have made it this far. The mission still remains. Something good can happen. Make it happen. Jody Michael is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at jmicha10@kent.edu.
After being honorably discharged from the Army, Iraq war veteran Colby Bohannan found the college application process to be an eye-opener. He saw many scholarships for minorities but none for his demographic: white men. So the Texas State University student formed the Former Majority Association for Equality and is offering $500 scholarships exclusively to white male students. “Diversity is not a bad thing,” he explained to me recently. “We’re not here to make a stand against affirmative action or to make a stand for affirmative action.” Bohannan noted that the GI Bill was helping him pay for college, though he added: “I don’t think everybody needs to serve in the military to afford an education.” I don’t expect FMAE scholarships to overtake the United Negro College Fund any time soon, but my conversation with Bohannan got me thinking about where we are headed with admissions preferences in a demographically changing world. Can the arguments for preferences based on race
Morality and the brain Imagine that you’re standing by a long stretch of train tracks. A few miles down the track you see five rail workers. As you look up the hill, you see a runaway trolley hurtling toward the five workers. You scream to warn them, but the loud machinery they are using prevents them from hearing you. In front of you stands a switch that would allow you to divert the runaway trolley onto a second set of tracks where only one worker stands. If you do nothing, the trolley will surely kill all five of the workers. If you throw the switch, you will save their lives, but in turn will sacrifice another innocent person. What do you do? This dilemma, widely known as the trolley problem, has been a useful tool for philosophers and psychologists studying morality ever since it was proposed by philosopher Philippa Ruth Foot. In her 1967 essay, “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect,” she laid out a series of provocative moral dilemmas that dealt with conflicting moral duties and actions. Soon after, philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson added a second situation. She imagined that, instead of standing next to the tracks, you are standing above them on a footbridge. You see the same situation unfolding before you: a runaway trolley headed towards five unsuspecting workers. However, this time, instead of a switch, the only thing near you is a large fat man wear-
Daniel Sprockett ing a heavy backpack. If you sacrifice the stranger by shoving him off the footbridge, he will stop the train and the five workers’ lives will be saved. What do you do? Interestingly, most people cross-culturally agree that it is morally responsible to throw the switch and sacrifice one innocent life to save five others. However, most people also agree that it is not morally acceptable to shove the man from the bridge, even though it results in the same one-lifefor-five outcome. Advances in neuroscience now let scientists investigate this type of moral decisionmaking at the level of the brain. Harvard neuroscientist Joshua Greene is using a brain imaging technique known as a functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) to study which parts of the brain are active while making moral and ethical decisions. The fMRI images show changes in blood flow
to different parts of the brain when research subjects are asked to consider the trolley versus footbridge moral quandaries. Greene found that these two moral dilemmas actually activate two different regions of the brain. When subjects are asked the first trolley problem, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region of the brain lights up. This is the area of your brain that deals with mental activities like cost-benefit analysis, fairness and risk assessment. However, the situation completely changes when subjects are asked the second footbridge problem. In this case, their medial prefrontal cortex lights up, which is an area of the brain that is strongly associated with social emotions and relationships. This difference in brain activity is a powerful explanation of why most people give different answers to what is essentially the same question. Morals often feel like they are somehow innate, but research into the physical basis of ethical and moral decision-making gives us a much better understanding of how we come to these conclusions and sheds a tantalizing ray of light onto the origin of morality itself.
Daniel Sprockett is a researcher in the KSU Department of Anthropology and a columnist at the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at dsprocke@kent.edu.
As demographics shift, so should race policies be sustained in a world in which whites take on minority status? In a Houston Chronicle piece detailing population changes in Texas, Steve Murdock, a former U.S. Census Bureau director and current head of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, said: “It’s basically over for Anglos.” Two-thirds of Texas children are non-Anglo, Murdock said. He predicted that within the next three decades there would be 516,000 fewer Anglos living in the Houston area and 2.5 million more Hispanics making their homes there. Meanwhile, a story in the Los Angeles Times detailed the explosive growth of California’s minority population — to the tune of a 28 percent increase in Latino residents (to 14 million total) and a 31 percent increase in the number of Asians (to 4.8 million total). Accompanying those demographic gains was the decline of non-Hispanic whites, who dropped 5.4 percent (to just under 15 million), and African-Americans, whose numbers declined almost 1
Michael Smerconish Guest Columnist percent (to 2.2 million). Nationwide, the Census Bureau has estimated that by 2050, whites will no longer be the majority, raising the question of whether preferences based on race can still be justified. One expert sees change on the horizon. “Universities have made greater efforts to take into account a family’s socioeconomic situation (first generation to go to college, household income, high SAT scores, coming from underperforming schools) as a way to mitigate charges of reverse racism, as well as the realization that bright (and white) kids from modest backgrounds were pretty much not going to selective schools,” claims Charles Gallagher, the chairman of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice
at La Salle University, who has just finished a chapter for a forthcoming book that deals with this subject. But Gallagher also believes that some trepidation on the part of whites based on their declining numbers is unsupported by the data. He points out, by way of example, the vast hold on government at all levels that whites continue to maintain. Still, efforts like Bohannan’s, Gallagher said, are not surprising in light of polling data that indicate that “we believe that we are way more nonwhite than we actually are.” Indeed, at least one piece of research indicates that a significant percentage of Americans sees discrimination shifting along with the country’s demographics. A Public Religion Research Institute poll released in November found that 44 percent of Americans believe prejudice against whites is an issue on par with prejudice against current minorities. “The reality is that whites are still a majority, and if you include the Latino population, that defines itself as white (50 per-
cent of Latinos do) whites are still around 70 percent of the population,” Gallagher told me. “There is nothing racist about this view, but when you see yourself as a minority, especially in times of economic contraction, one starts to feel threatened.” Gallagher also noted national polling data of whites suggesting a majority believe that the goals of the civil rights movement have been achieved, institutional racism is a thing of the past, and equal opportunity in terms of quality of schooling, housing and jobs is now the norm. “If you lay this on top of an immigrant narrative, most whites have about their own family’s story of struggle and success you get a narrative that says, ‘Hey, we have all moved forward, racism is a thing of the past.’” But will those who are today’s minority groups agree that the playing field has been sufficiently leveled? Only time will tell. Michael Smerconish writes a weekly column for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Readers may contact him via www.smerconish.com.
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POLICE BLOTTER The blotter is a record of charges filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off campus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.
CITY FRIDAY n Tyler A. Crock, 21, of Kent, was
arrested for disorderly conduct in the 200 block of North Water Street. n
Laura L. Sbrocca, 18, of Mayfield,
Heights was arrested for underage drinking on North Water Street. n
Elizabeth M. Vild, 25, of Dover,
was arrested for drunken driving on East Summit Street. n
Eugene B. Marcinko, 21, of Dover,
was arrested for drunken driving on Loop Road.
SATURDAY n Paula R. Reed, 23, of Kent, was
arrested for disorderly conduct in the 400 block of Franklin Avenue.
Daily Kent Stater boro was arrested for underage drinking in the 200 block of South Water Street. n William M. Pauley Jr., 40, of Rootstown, was arrested for drunken driving on Haymaker Parkway.
MONDAY n Michael L. Mann, 38, of Kent,
was arrested for driving under suspension in the 200 block of Mogadore Road.
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FRIDAY n Neal S. Dingies, 19, of Randolph,
was arrested for possession of marijuana and underage drinking at Verder Hall.
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boro, was arrested for drunken driving and possession of marijuana in the 800 block of North Mantua Street.
n Joshua B. Hayes, 26, of Tallmadge, was arrested for physical control in Silver Meadows.
Tyler N. Lewis, 22, of Kent, was arrested for disorderly conduct in the 200 block of South Water Street.
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SATURDAY n Michael D. Maroney, 20, of Madi-
son, was arrested for underage drinking on the Esplanade at Rockwell Hall.
Shovels hit dirt as construction begins
Athletes jam for American Cancer Society
CONSTRUCTION PARTA officials are still locked in eminent domain proceedings to reach a sale price agreement for the final two properties needed to start building. The properties are at 238 and 244 E. Main St. Bryan Smith, PARTA planning director, said if costs go over the $20 million budget, officials will have to find ways to cut costs on construction. Pending the final agreements, Smith said PARTA hopes to start construction in May. The center is scheduled to open in Fall 2012. Nick Walton is a public affairs reporter. From Page 1
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US Border Patrol: Fake ID shipment started in China
and Scott Mello will discuss their production of George Frideric Handel’s opera “Semele.” Lamb is the artistic and stage director, Glann is the general director and Mello is a guest tenor and active performer and educator for Kent State Opera. “Semele” opens at 7:30 p.m. April 9 in the Ludwig Recital Hall.
The investigation has been turned over to the Kent Police Department. Kent Police believe it was the intention of Bucca and Patenaude to distribute the IDs to Kent State students. In an incident report about Thursday’s arrests, there was a list of 13 witnesses, all Kent State student ages 19 to 20. Lt. Robert Treharn said the witnesses listed may be called to testify in court. Patenaude, junior business management major, and Bucca, junior accounting major, are members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. The Delta Upsilon national office was unavailable for comment Monday. Bucca was released on a recognizance bond Friday, and a preliminary hearing is set for April 8, according to court records. Kevin Poland, Portage County Municipal Court judge, arraigned Patenaude Friday morning, and a preliminary hearing is set for April 8. Patenaude has also been released on a recognizance bond. Bell said U.S. Customs and Border Patrol of Ohio has not recovered any more counterfeit IDs being shipped to the Kent area since the initial incident. The ongoing investigation, which began Feb. 26, could lead to more arrests.
— Cassandra Beck, library reporter
Julie Sickel is a public affairs reporter.
n Shawnee L. Ackerman, 19, of Malvern, was arrested for underage drinking at Centennial Court B.
Caitlin J. See, 19, of Westerville,
was arrested for underage drinking at Centennial Court B. n Ashley E. Baker, 19, of Washington Court House, was arrested for underage drinking at Centennial Court B.
Morgan E. Farmer, 19, of Washington Court House, was arrested for underage drinking at Centennial Court B.
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Collin W. Farmer, 18, of Washington Court House, was arrested for underage drinking at Centennial Court B.
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Library speaker series begins Kent State’s Performing Arts Library will host its first “The Director Speaks” director 2 p.m. Tuesday in Room D-003 of the Music and Speech Center. “The Director Speaks” series features directors discussing their approach and interpretation of their work, usually the week of their production’s opening. Kerry Glann, Fenlon Lamb
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Adam S. Garfunkel, 19, of More-
land Hills, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia at Wright Hall.
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JAMS The athletic training members performed the winning routine where some members picked songs from a giant iPod in a car while others performed the songs onstage. The dancers acted out to popular music how the group takes care of various athletes. In second place, the softball team performed the story of the MAC Championship. The performance was a parody of “The Wizard of Oz,” where members searched for objects they needed to bring home a 2011 MAC Championship. Women’s track and field and cross country earned third place by using a time machine to take the audience through six decades of music. Angie Seabeck, director of student athlete development, said the student athletes enjoy being
KENTWIRED.COM Go online to view more photos from the event. From Page 1
DEBATE Courthouse debate rages on at open public meeting “We are here because we are Americans, and it is our absolute right to participate in our government,” Portage County Commissioner Tommie Jo Marsilio said to the crowd. “And that’s exactly what we’re doing here tonight.” She said the two-acre site, which everyone kept coming back to as a possible new location, costs $1.6 million — which is too expensive for the endeavor. Possible sites discussed in the past include the mostly unused shopping plaza near the intersection of state Route 43 and 261 and the vacant lot behind Jimmy John’s on Main Street. “If it’s really true that there’s just no acceptable site in the city of Kent except one that costs $1 million, maybe we should look somewhere else,” she said. Marsilio also wondered what operational costs would be for the new building. She said the project has a budget of $2.5 million. The county would need to borrow $6 or 7 million to build the facility, and then the debt would be paid off through the
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The athletic trainers perform their skit at Jock Jams on Monday. able to express their creative talents through the event. “It gives them a good release,” she said. “With all of the stress they have going on, it’s something that they put together every year as a fun event.” Jennifer Kernohan, senior middle childhood education major, said she enjoyed getting to see the athletes in an environment that she normally would not. “I thought it was really cool to see what they came up with,” she said. “A lot of them incorporated the sport in what they did, but they also had a lot of fun with it and kind of showed their personality more than you normally see during their games. Although the event gave stuSpecial Project Fund set up by the Kent Municipal Court judges. Marsilio has been a proponent of moving the courthouse outside of Kent. At a commissioners’ meeting in mid-March, she put forward that idea. But the Ohio Revised Code states the courthouse must be located in Kent, so moving it elsewhere would require an official change to the law. Titus Jackman, a lawyer in Kent, said if the location is moved out of Kent, it would face a lot of opposition from the Statehouse in Columbus. Then Judge Kevin Poland took the podium. “I hope we’re all clear that it will not cost the taxpayers one dime to build,” he said of the new courthouse, adding that it will be covered by court costs. “(Still) it would be absurd to spend $1 million when we could get a site for half of that.” Judge Poland went on to further detail the courthouse’s poor conditions, pointing out that with only one small holding cell, a female prisoner must be handcuffed to a chair in the magistrate’s office because of the lack of space. Poland said another major issue is parking. Most of the
dents the chance to express themselves through music and dance, the money they raised for the American Cancer Society was an important part of the event. Jennifer Kulics, senior associate athletic director, said supporting the American Cancer Society came from the loss of two members of the athletic department. “In 2005, we had two of our dear athletic department friends pass away from cancer in the same year — 48 and 25 they were,” she said. “So we’ve continued the American Cancer Society initiative, and we still remember them in this endeavor. It’s been very special to us.” Kelly Tunney is the arts and sciences reporter.
land in Kent isn’t big enough to house a new courthouse and the required 134 parking spaces. The plaza next to Mike’s Place is big enough, but there are some issues with the sewer. Poland, however, was strongly in favor of keeping the courthouse in Kent. “I think that the City of Kent is where this court should stay,” he said, “And I don’t think we should be trying to change the law and further delay this process another two years.” Kent City Manager Dave Ruller agreed with Poland’s final sentiment, saying Kent is in the middle of a large amount of criminal activity. “We try to run our city like a business,” Ruller said. “Good or bad, the criminal market is happening right around us. Usually, when you’re in the business world, you want to be in the middle of your market.” After the meeting, Marsilio said she thought it went well. “I heard two things over and over: people tired of us fiddling and talking, and they want something done,” she said. “And I think, very clearly, we have a public mandate to be smart and responsible with this building.” Nicole Hennessy and Allison Smith are public affairs reporters.
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Now hiring full-time college students! If you are a student who wants to gain useful job experience in a professional, fun work environment, consider working at the PhoneCenter. We offer flexible scheduling for students, evening and weekend work, and pay $8/ hour with the opportunity to earn bonuses. For an application and/or further information, contact Tricia at phonecenter@kent.edu or leave a message at 330-672-0404 today! PLAY SPORTS! HAVE FUN! SAVE MONEY! Maine camp needs fun-loving counselors to teach All land, adventure & water sports. Great Summer! Call 888-844-8080, apply: campcedar.com Parasson’s Italian Restaurant Hiring All Positions, All Shifts, Starting at $8-$10/hr. Apply in person 11AM9PM, no phone calls please. 3983 Darrow Rd., Stow Lawn Fertilization Company seeks employee. Must have valid Ohio drivers license 4 points or less, please call 330-688-3389 TUTORS/SI LEADERS NEEDED! The Academic Success Center is accepting SI Leader, Peer Mentor, and Tutor applications until Thursday, April 14th for Fall Semester 2011. Tutors are needed for Accounting, Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Finance, French, Geology, Italian, Nursing, Philosophy, Psychology, Seven Ideas, Spanish, Study Skills, and Writing. Tutors must have a 3.0 GPA and be available to work 8-12 hours per week. Starting Pay: $8.50 To apply or for more information, visit 207 Schwartz Center or www. kent.edu/asc/jobs
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By Nancy Black Today’s Birthday (04/05/11) Challenge what you know about yourself. It may require enlisting the help of others. New knowledge will bring new opportunities in your love life and career. Treat yourself with respect, and others will too. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21–April 19) Today is an 8 — New profits become available. Shopping for household items becomes a top priority. Pay attention to your creative drive, and act on it. Follow a stronger leader. Beat your old best time. You’re a champion. Taurus (April 20–May 20) Today is an 8 — Enjoy your social media buzz. Nevertheless, face-to-face works best today. Exceed expectations. Let folks know what you want and need. Give away stuff that you’re not using. Gemini (May 21–June 21) Today is an 8 — A lucky revelation brings sought-after information. Don’t be afraid to bribe a friend with something they love to take action on your behalf. Keep it short, sweet and delicious. Cancer (June 22–July 22) Today is an 8 — Profitable opportunities beckon (if you do the work). Your creativity is in demand, and they’re willing to pay for it. Balance work with play, and add chocolate.
All real estate advertised herin is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” State and local laws forbid discrimination based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you feel you have been wrongfully denied housing or discriminated against, call the FHAA at 330-253-2450 for more information.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) Today is an 8 — Connect long distance without travel. It’s a good time to get the word out. Remember that love’s the most important part. Frame your message in a great visual design. Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Today is an 8 — Part with some treasure for the benefit of all. Make sure the puzzle piece fits comfortably...don’t force it. Use your creative energy to take you to the next level. Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Today is a 6 — You’re magnetically drawn to socializing. Find beauty in the most unlikely places, and surround yourself with it today: flowers, art, people...your choice. Your theory works! Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — An older person is feeling generous now. You love the way things work out. Find new business opportunities with old partnerships. You work well together.
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Spacious 4&5 bedrooms houses with 2 full baths. Great condition, great location, A/C, W/D, dishwasher, deck, garage.
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Hurry In 2BR Apts available for Fall Free Heat and Water, Pets Welcome, Outdoor Pool 330-673-5364 1 & 2 bed apartments. All utilities included except electric. Call to schedule your tour today (330)6780972 Large 2 bedroom 1.5 bath apartment $585/month + deposit & electric. Heat, water and trash included. 330312-0066 or 330-968-4930 Apartments for Rent: 1 bedroom apartment in a house. Kitchen, living room, bath. Separate entrance. No pets. One year lease. Available in August. 330-673-8505 or 330-221-8218 HIDDEN PINES Town homes 4 bedrooms 2 bath. W/D. ALL utilities included. $365/mo/bdrm www.hidden-pines.com 440-708-2372 Kent near downtown and campus 2 bedroom apartment, all utilities paid except electric, $350/bedroom + security deposit. (330) 676-9440 NO UTL INC UNIVERSITY TOWNHOME. 5 BDS, 2.5 BATHS, STOVE, REFRIG, W/D, A/C. $345.00 PER PERSON; WWW.JLCASTO. COM CALL 330-688-7040. Buckeye Parks Mgmt. Serving Kent for over 30 years 2011-2012 Leases 2,3,4 bdrm apts Some include utilities Prices starting at $375 per room 330-678-3047 BuckeyeParksMgmt.com KENT/BRIMFIELD. Newer 3 & 4 Bdrm duplexes. 1 car garage. $900-$1200 per month. 330-338-5841 or 330329-1118 kentarearentals.com
4 bedroom House. Clean, close to campus, Sherman St. Call 216-533-5770 or 330-687-3449 1 or 2 bedroom, Kent. 927 S. Water. $500 includes trash & water. Near campus & on bus route. Parking, big yard, & porch. Chris 330-221-4411 3 Bedroom House, Kent - 927 South Water $750 includes trash & water. Near campus & on bus route. Parking, big yard & porch. Chris 330221-4411 2 bedroom apartment, free utilities. $550/month + security deposit. No pets. 330-673-8271 3 bedroom house. $690/month + security deposit and utilites. No pets. 330-673-8271 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HOUSING KSU STUDENTS OFF CAMPUS NOW LEASING FOR FALL ‘11-12 1, 2 and 4 bedroom apartments, duplexes, efficiency. Locations near and around campus on Depeyster, Lincoln, Linden, Lock, Mantua, School, and Water Streets. LARGE 2 bedroom apartments, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath, full basement with washer/ dryer hook-up, plenty of parking, located on Lake Street, 2 blocks north of campus. Check out our website
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Kent—Nice House Close to Campus and Downtown, 5/6/7 people, Available Fall 330-297-6539 2 bedroom apartments Close to campus $550 Rentkent.com or 812-655-0777 University Town Homes 5 Bedroom / 2.5 Bath Starts at $300/month/resident Call 330-990-4019 tahays-management.com Two bedroom, 1.5 bath condo, updated, all appliances, FREE HEAT. One block to KSU. Units available starting in June. No Pets. 330-9573083. Kent- Quiet 1, 2&3 bedroom. $525, $590, $780. 330-677-5577 FALL: 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT, WATER AND WASTE PAID, $285/ BEDROOM, 330-221-5540 330-6780035 KENT Very large 4/5 bedroom 2 bath, new kitchen, baths, windows, A/C. Clean and quiet, large yard. $410 per, all utilities free with cable & wifi, washer/dryer. 5 minutes to KSU 330-906-2525 Now leasing for Fall: a beautiful newly redecorated 2 bedroom duplex, washer/dryer hookup, 3 blocks from downtown and KSU, $300/student. 330-687-6122. University Townhomes 4/5 bedroom townhomes available for Fall 2011. All utilities included, starting at $340. 440-336-6761 www.kenttownhomes.com.
On-Campus Employment Network and Telecom Services is seeking student workers for the spring/summer and fall semesters. Starting pay is $8.50/hour. Flexible schedule. Call 330-672-3747.
ROOMMATE NEEDED NOW OR FALL in nice 4 bedroom twinplex. $385 all inclusive. 5 minute drive to KSU. Free Washer/Dryer. 330-7140819
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Handing over the gavel? Come learn how to pass on the legacy and how to be a great officer at the Officer Transition Workshop! It will be Tuesday, April 19th from 7-9pm in room 319 of the Kent Student Center. Contact Center for Student Involvement with questions at 330-672-2480 or lead@kent.edu
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) Today is a 9 — Too much work and no play can make Jack stressed out. Find a beautiful spot and spend some time for relaxation. A female needs extra money. Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Today is a 7 — Recycling works, again. Borrow creative ideas from others and make them your own by adding a personal touch. Today, make art, not war. Build something. Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Today is a 7 — Find new ways to balance work and family. They say you’ve reached true enlightenment when you can’t tell work from play. Focus on creating something of beauty. Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) Today is a 7 — Change is in the air, and it’s coming straight at you. The windmill doesn’t resist the storm. Instead it feeds from the energy. Add flair to the flurry.
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RAISING ANIMAL AWARENESS
PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY NANCY URCHAK
Stankavich spends roughly two days a week manually tracking one coyote at a time with a large radio antenna. The antenna is hooked up to headphones and dialed in to each coyote’s specific frequency.
Lindsy Neer lneer@ kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Sarah Stankavich gets out of the truck into the pouring rain, lugging a radio antenna half her height. She puts on heavy-duty headphones and circles a parking lot next to Kraft Foods in Streetsboro, waiting to hear the steady beep of Coyote 195. Sarah is a 22-year-old natural resource intern at Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, a park district that spans Summit County, encompassing more than 10,500 acres of land and 14 developed parks. She is essentially in charge of gathering research for the Metro Parks’ coyote project, which she has been a part of for more than a year. Coyote 195 (identified by his radio frequency) is one of about a dozen coyotes Sarah manually tracks each week. She became involved with the program almost nine months before she graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in biology. Originally attending college to focus on DNA research, she has since found her
niche with wildlife. Sarah is one of six people working on the project, driving more than half an hour to the Akron office five days a week to track her brood of coyotes. She says she does the research to help raise awareness about the animals. While most people cringe at the thought of a coyote roaming through their town, Sarah isn’t fazed. “People see coyotes, and they’re fearful,” she says, “So we’re just trying to reduce that and help people learn more about coyotes so they aren’t afraid of them.” While she might be nonchalant about the shock value that seems to come with coyote tracking, her parents, Amy and Dan Stankavich, see it a little differently. Sarah is their youngest child — the son her dad jokes he never had (even though she has a brother). “I was worried about her!” Amy says. “I don’t like her being out all night by herself.” Sarah grew up in Rootstown, where she still resides with her parents. After graduating valedictorian from Rootstown High School in 2007, she moved on to
the University of Akron. Sarah began working on the coyote project as a volunteer in March 2010 through tiered mentoring at the University of Akron. The mentoring program paired her with professor Gregory Smith, who worked on the project and introduced her to it. She was hired as a seasonal worker after her volunteer work, and before graduating in December 2010, Sarah was hired as an intern. “We hired her specifically to work on the coyote project,” says Marlo Perdicas, Metro Parks, Serving Summit County’s park biologist. “It takes a very adaptable personality to work on the project, and she is exactly that.” Sarah’s adaptability and dedication means she sometimes tracks until the wee hours of the morning, returns home to Rootstown to sleep a few hours and then drives back to the office. If it’s a cold day, she’s probably wearing her dark green Metro Parks, Serving Summit County sweatshirt. Sarah does the day tracking alone roughly two days a week. Coyote 195 lives about 25 minutes away from the office, and after the
first stop to try and triangulate his position, Sarah starts to worry when she doesn’t hear his beep. He should be here, she says, he’s always here. Hopefully it’s just the weather pushing him somewhere else, not poachers, who hunt coyotes for their fur, Sarah says, and likely got the last Metro Parks coyote, which was found shot in the side. He was found on a farm, where coyotes have been known to cause trouble. They are labeled as a nuisance because they oftentimes hunt farm animals when they run out of resources. To combat the problem, people have been taking matters into their own hands and killing coyotes roaming their land. Although the coyote population isn’t quite in danger yet, Sarah feels a duty to protect them and other animals from humans. “I plan to work on reducing extinction rates in some way (wherever she ends up settling down),” she says. “Humans are currently causing species to go extinct at an incredibly high rate, and I want to work to conserve the rare species.” “I don’t think I remember her ever wanting to be anything else,
but it did surprise me,” Amy says about her initial reaction to Sarah’s choice to major in biology. “I never knew she was that into (biology).She doesn’t seem like the type that would be willing to go out and get dirty.” Sarah started at University of Akron with a focus in forensics, which would have kept her in a lab all day. Although her major stayed biology, she switched the focus to wildlife biology, giving her a balance of working indoors and outdoors. “I’m not the typical biologist,” Sarah says, regarding the fact that she didn’t love the outdoors as a child. “I don’t know how I kind of just fell into this. Maybe it was because I was inside so much as a kid that I like to be outside now.” The coyote project and working for the Metro Parks gives Sarah the diversity she craves. She will be extending her wildlife research when she begins working with small mammals at the Metro Parks, Serving Summit County’s new location in Springfield this summer. She’ll be trapping small animals to learn what other types of wildlife live in the area.
With large mammals, she doesn’t get the type of interaction she will with small animals. She’ll still be tracking coyotes, but she says the small animal trapping will be a welcomed change from the constant tracking. The coyote project is scheduled to end in 2014, but Sarah doesn’t plan on sticking around that long. She plans to move on from the Metro Parks, Serving Summit County and go to graduate school. Right now, she hopes to go to Washington to study wildlife biology. “I really like (the job),” Sarah says. “I’ve kind of had enough with tracking. The daytime stuff isn’t too bad, but the nights — I just can’t take them anymore.” Whether her time at the Metro Parks ends tomorrow or next year, Sarah still counts it as a valuable experience toward reaching her ultimate goal of researching and saving rare species at a national park like Yellowstone. At the end of the day, she’s just a kid at heart who wants to give coyotes a chance to survive. Lindsy Neer is a copy editor.