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mwilki11@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Her class emptied at 2 p.m. There was only one other student left with her in the classroom. He approached her as she gathered her books to leave. He asked her why she wouldn’t date him. She said she tried to get around him. She told him she didn’t like him like that. He stopped her. She said she was trapped in the back of the room. She told him to let her

go, but he refused. He wrapped his arms around her and felt her body. She said she prayed he wouldn’t rape her. Fifteen seconds passed, and he let her go. “I was so shaken after that happened,” she said. “I was confused as to what had just happened.” This woman is one of many who have been sexually assaulted. Groups on campus such as the Women’s Resource Center, the University Health Services, several Greek organizations and advocates of women marched across Kent State on

Wednesday, from Risman Plaza to the Women’s Center, to raise awareness about sexual assault education and prevention. According to RAINN.org, a sexual assault information website, sexual assault includes various forms of rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, hate crimes, incest, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment and stalking. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event required participants to wear shoes of the opposite gender. Amanda Roder, Women’s Resource Center program coordinator, said men wore woman’s heels and flip-flops, while women wore tennis shoes. “We have been talking about this at the Women’s Center for a long time,” Roder said. “We finally put the march in action this year. It has taken a lot of planning, preparation and marketing to make it successful.”

Kent State recently spent $50,000 to solve a problem that university architects say has been around for a long time. About $41,000 was spent on 10 pedestrian wayfinding signs, and $9,000 went to their installment. “We had a lot of comments from visitors and people on campus who said it’s hard to find your way around campus when you’re new,” said Michael Bruder, director for Design and Construction. “The wayfinding signs makes the Kent campus easier to navigate for everyone.” The signs follow a similar route to the typical tour for prospective students, starting at the Michael Schwartz Center. Other signs are placed in areas close to the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, Eastway Center and the Student Center. Bruder said the new signs are beneficial because they can be seen from further distances. Bruder said he’s hoping to place a total of 15 to 20 signs, but more funding is needed. He said, so far, the signs have been placed in the most critical areas on campus. Thomas Euclide, associate vice president of Facilities Planning and Operations, said Kent State has had signage plans since the mid-1990s. “This is something we’ve been

talking about for a long time,” Bruder said. “Our master plan for signage was put together in layers and implemented in phases. The current signs seem to be more successful than anything else we’ve had before.” Euclide said the pedestrian signs include pictures of the main buildings on campus to help visual learners match up the location they need to find. He said before this year, Kent State lacked any kind of pedestrian signs to help direct people around campus. “The new signs provide a variety of graphical ways to give visitors directions to where they are going,” Euclide said. “The signs have more visual cues to help people find their way.” Amanda Pease, sophomore pre-accounting major, said she approves of the new pedestrian wayfinding signs. “I think they’re beneficial for freshman tours,” Pease said. “When I was a freshman, we didn’t have them, and at that time, I didn’t always know where I was going.” Bruder said he is interested in hearing what the public thinks of the signs. “We’re always looking for feedback,” he said. “We’re interested in seeing if people understand the new signs.” Megan Wilkinson is a general assignment reporter.

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Greek organizations and advocates of women marched from Risman Plaza to the Women’s Center to raise awareness about sexual assault education and prevention.

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mwrite@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Nancy Giles, CBS Sunday Morning contributor, stood on the stage in the Kiva, belting out the lyrics to a folk song she learned at camp as a child. “Who will survive America?

Very few people, no pigs at all! They will survive America! Very few people, no pigs at all! So power to the people…” Giles spoke Wednesday evening as a part of the Honors College lecture series. In her speech titled, “My Wacky Adventures in Race and Racism,” she spoke about her perspective on racial stereotypes from her childhood and throughout her career. The audience laughed and applauded as Giles used her humor while explaining her

“Wacky Adventures” to convey her strong perspective on race at an early age. She said she was given stereotypical roles during her time as a young actress. “The kind of parts that I was getting to audition for always seemed to fall into the same category,” Giles said. “On one end, there were crack addicts, welfare mothers, hookers and abused girlfriends with illegitimate children. On the other end I was playing drug counselors, crisis counselors,

sometimes teachers, nurses or even judges and cops.” Giles said she found it ridiculous when she realized society placed so many stereotypes on young black women. “It was a crazy situation for me to constantly come up against these ideas of what an authentic black experience was,” she said. Giles also spoke about the theory of being “black enough.” She said friends often criticized her speech as sounding “too white.” See GILES, Page 2

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GILES TV journalist discusses society’s stereotypes “I didn’t sound like the narrow stereotype that they were familiar with and comfortable with,” Giles said. “But think about this: If sounding black means sounding like one specific pattern of speech, would Martin Luther King have been accused of sounding white?” Anne Lucas, a 2010 Kent State graduate, said she had not heard of Giles before attending the speech, but enjoyed the presentation. “I thought it was very engaging and very quick-paced,” Lucas said. “She used a lot of her theatrical skill very well. It was a little bit different than I expected in some ways. She shared a lot of anecdotes and a lot of her own stories.” Michaela Write is the religion and College of Public Health reporter.

mcrissm2@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Retired Major John “Tiger” Lilley, a terminally ill, retired veteran, was honored as a Kent State Army ROTC Hall of Fame Distinguished Alumni — an award only 15 other graduates have attained at the university since 1947. The annual Kent State ROTC awards banquet, held Wednesday evening in the Student Center ballroom, celebrated the 88-year-old’s accomplishments as well as the achievements of current students in the ROTC program. “I’m honored, really, because it was unexpected,” said Lilley, who was especially impressed with the large eagle statue he was awarded. “It’s a beautiful trophy.” Senior Shane Clarke, public affairs and intelligence officer, said Lilley was able to make it to the event despite battling terminal cancer and dealing with speech problems. “Once the decision was made to induct him, we didn’t know if he was going to be in good enough health to actually attend and receive the award,” said Clarke, a general studies major. “So it’s a good thing to see him here and well enough to enjoy the awards banquet with us.” Lilley, who served in the Navy during

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models to lay his sculpture out before putting the piece in place. He said it is called “The Witnesses” because the stones witnessed their own creation and their coming into Ohio from all around the world. He said now he wants them to witness our existence and what we’ve done during our generation. “These particular pieces were in the making for millions of years,” Calicchia said. “One day, I thought, ‘I’m an immigrant.’ We’re all immigrants, and so are these pieces, so maybe we are meant to meet; we were meant to do something together — not sure if they carved me or if I carved them.” His carved granite stones are supposed to represent parts of humans who never stop growing, changing and transforming. “Eye to Eye” by Barry Gunderson is located by Kent Hall. Gunderson was unable to attend the dedication of the Sculpture Walk. He is an art professor at Kenyon College. His piece is his take on the human mind and how it works. The sculpture is a tribute to the Department of Psychology. The sculpture is supposed to show how people perceive each other and the

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WWII, was a member of the Kent State ROTC’s first graduating class in 1949. After earning a bachelor’s degree in education on the GI Bill, he spent 23 years in the Army Reserve. He later taught high school in Shaker Heights and Cuyahoga Falls. Matthew Ray, junior history major, who was given the Military Order of the World Wars award for scholastic achievement Wednesday, said Lilley more than deserved the award. “He’s just one of the high-up guys that needs to be respected and thought of for all the stuff he’s done for us,” Ray said. Kathy Lilley, who has been married to John for 58 years, said her husband’s involvement in ROTC and the Army shaped his life for the better. “It’s been a part of his life since he graduated,” she said. “I think it’s a wonderful program. Being in the Army has been an education for the whole family. It’s been great.” Despite attaining the rank of major, Lilley said the biggest focus of his life has been his wife. “She’s my first officer,” Lilley said. In total, 34 awards were given to ROTC cadets at the banquet Wednesday. They are based on students’ academic, physical and leadership qualities. Mike Crissman is the alumni affairs reporter.

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The artists who created four sculptures along the Esplanade talked with students, faculty and the community during the dedication of the Kent State Sculpture Walk at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Kiva. The four sculptures were part of the Ohio Percent for Art program and were chosen from a number of applicants by a 13-member committee. The program requires a certain percentage of state funds used for building or renovations be put towards getting and installing local artists’ work. Three of the four sculptors, Giancarlo Calicchia, Susan Ewing and Jarrett Hawkins spoke and were presented an award. The fourth sculptor, Barry Gunderson, was unable to attend the event. Following the ceremony, the group was invited to walk to each sculpture and to talk with the artists about their pieces. “The Limits of Spoken Language: Congeries” by Jarrett Hawkins, a sculp-

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tor from Deer Park, is outside the Library in Risman Plaza. His piece about the limits of language is made of 12-foot sheets of Corten Steel. “For me, citing a piece at the University Library verges on poetic,” Hawkins said. “If the university is a place of ideas, the library is the gathering point of ideas past and present to be accessed at means.” He said the longest part of the process of developing his piece was creating the smaller scale model out of foam and wire to present as a preliminary idea. It took a day for a crew to install the sculpture on campus. “The Witnesses” featuring “Athleta” by Giancarlo Calicchia is on the Esplande hill near Kent Hall. Calicchia is a Cleveland sculptor who excavated the granite rocks for the piece from his vineyard in Madison Township. “When I first heard about the art program for Kent State, I was very excited, mostly because I felt my work belonged here,” Calicchia said. He said he developed a love for hills from his childhood growing up in Italy and chose the spot for his sculpture because of the hill. He was able to use

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idea of communicating their thoughts. “Starsphere 2010” by Susan Ewing is by Franklin Hall. Ewing is the associate dean of the School of Fine Arts at Miami University. “I wanted in the worst way to do a piece for Franklin Hall,” Ewing said. “That to me may be my most important piece to date because it resonates on so many levels with me on the idea of freedom and the freedoms that we have through the First Amendment.” She said the piece is a tribute to the impact photojournalism and communications had in telling about May 4, 1970. Her sculpture is made of three disks with stars meeting in the middle. Her idea originated from a bracelet she created in Prague. The entire First Amendment is spot-welded on the outside ban of the sculpture in reverse text. “The star is an euphoria, transient, ephemeral quality of truth and light,” Ewing said. “I hope this piece captures the light of the star that comes through the centerpiece. The piece is such a vehicle for that communication.” Brooke Bower is the performing arts reporter.

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SHOES Walk a mile in her shoes Roder said the march occurs on an international level, and this is the first year Kent State has participated in the event. “I’m glad to see this become a new tradition at Kent State,” said Brady Ruffer, senior integrated social studies major and a member of the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” steering committee. Roder said she estimated at least 300 people attended the event. Katie Sorokas, Residence Hall director and an advocate for the event, said she was surprised and glad with the turnout of people. “One of the best parts was how there were many non-Greeks promoting the event,” Sorokas said. “Some of the people came just to support nonviolence against women.” Roder kicked off the event by speaking briefly about sexual assault. Greg Jarvie, vice president of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, followed Roder ’s speech wearing a pair of purple heels. He commented on the importance of promoting sexual assault awareness. “Research on sexual assault is pretty telling that one out of every six women is sexually assaulted during college,” Jarvie said in his speech.

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“These are very serious numbers, and they’re scary. Today is a great example of people coming together and putting out support for women.” Ruffer concluded the kick-off by sharing the sexual assault story of a family friend. “(Sexual assault) doesn’t really affect you until you see what a close friend has to go through,” he said. “Today, we need to set an example for the rest of campus by doing this.” Many men who participated said they were enthusiastic about walking a mile in heels for the cause. Alex Lu, sophomore fashion merchandising major, said he didn’t mind walking in heels. “I love women,” Lu said. “So many women are beautiful and smart. It’s scary how many women get abused and don’t say anything. I think by us guys wearing heels, we raise awareness to others on campus.” Megan Wilkinson is a general assignment reporter.

Comparing Obama, House GOP deficit-cutting ideas Associated Press A comparison of President Barack Obama’s latest deficit reduction proposal with a Republican plan written largely by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and expected to get a House vote this week:

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Without changes to current law, budget deficits will total $7 trillion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office projects. The deficit is the difference between the government’s outlays and its income in a fiscal year. Both Obama’s and Ryan’s proposals are vague in several areas. Obama proposes reducing deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years, with $3 trillion coming from spending reductions and $1 trillion from additional revenue. The president wants to resurrect a “trigger” that would enact automatic spending cuts if deficits haven’t stabilized by 2014. Ryan’s budget proposes spending cuts of $5.8 trillion over 10 years.

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Obama and Ryan want to squeeze significant savings out of the health care programs for the elderly, poor and disabled. Both assume the $500 billion in claimed savings over 10 years from projected increases in Medicare spending that was part of the health care law enacted last year. They would cut dramatically different amounts from the programs. Obama would leave Medicare and Medicaid basically in their current forms, but cut at least $200 billion more from Medicare over 10 years and $100 billion from Medicaid. Obama lays out a mix of generalities and specifics on how to get there, including empowering an independent advisory board to hold down growth

in Medicare spending, seeking to use Medicare’s bargaining power to negotiate lower prescription drug costs, improving patient safety and setting limits on Medicaid payments for certain medical devices. Ryan would repeal Obama’s signature health care overhaul and recast Medicare and Medicaid, while cutting Medicare spending by an additional $30 billion over the $500 billion cuts in projected increases in the new health care law. People now 54 and younger would get a voucher-style federal payment to purchase coverage from private plans instead of the government making payments to health care providers for services to Medicare beneficiaries. He would cut $771 billion from Medicaid over 10 years. Poor people would get federal money from states, which would receive it in block grants.

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Both plans don’t touch Social Security, the politically sacrosanct retirement program for older Americans.

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Obama proposes an overhaul of the tax system that would eliminate tax breaks and loopholes and even lower some tax rates, resulting in $1 trillion in additional revenue. Obama also wants to allow Bush-era tax cuts to expire for individuals making $200,000 or more a year and couples making $250,000 or more. However, the revenue that would generate is not counted in his deficit-reduction plan because under existing law the cuts would expire on their own at the end of 2012. Ryan’s budget would scrap numerous tax breaks and loopholes in exchange for reducing the top income tax rate for both individuals and corporations from 35 percent to 25 percent. He would extend the Bush-era tax breaks for all income levels.

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SUMMARY: Since 1983, the FDA has restricted gay men from donating blood. We think the law is outdated and unnecessary. Medical advancements, including rapid HIV tests, can protect against the risks that the law aims to prevent.

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ccording to the American Red Cross, more than 38,000 blood donations are needed each day. That’s 13,870,000 donations needed per year. But while hospitals and relief efforts wait for donors to contribute to the cause, the Food and Drug Administration maintains its restrictions on gay men donating blood, a law that’s been in place since 1983. The law also contains a 12-month deferral, meaning a man who has had sex with another man within the past year cannot donate. The ban, which attempts to protect blood receivers from contracting HIV, doesn’t take into account tests that can detect HIV-positive donors within 10 to 21 days of infection, meaning healthy blood donors are turned away every day due to an outdated policy.

In a letter to the FDA, a group of U.S. senators expressed concern over this restriction. “We live in a very different country than we did in 1983. Today, the high-risk behaviors associated with HIV contraction are more fully understood and dramatic technological improvements have been made in HIV detection,” the letter read. Although it is understood that this ban was put into place at the height of the HIV/ AIDS crisis, it is time to rethink turning away thousands of possible donors. At that time, modern screening procedures and advanced testing methods for HIV didn’t exist. So while we understand the medical concerns and the need to test donors before they give blood, advancements in medicine make the FDA’s law an unnecessary constraint. Simple solutions include issuing

HIV tests prior to donation and decreasing the deferral period to six months because HIV is detectable within half a year of contracting the disease. And while we’re at it, today is your last chance to donate during the LifeShare Blood Drive, held at the DeWeese Health Center. This is an opportunity for students to give the gift of life, and it’s not something they should take lightly. Read the senators’ letter here: www.thebostonchannel.com/r/22740965/detail.html. For more information about donating blood, visit www.redcross.org.

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DID YOU KNOW? On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. — History.com

Mineral problems in Africa Nobody likes to hear about blood diamonds, that something venerated as our culture’s highest token of commitment and affection comes to us haunted by specters of oppression, cruelty and murder. It took a 2006 film with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the role of a diamond-embezzling South African mercenary and a $100 million production budget from Warner Brothers to even begin to raise general public awareness about mineral exploitation in Africa. It is not surprising then that nearly a decade after a few daring investigative reports first emerged divulging how war in the Eastern Congo was being fueled by the global trade in coltan — a dense silicate necessary for most of the electronic products we have today — both the ore itself and the story it told about the digital age linger in relative obscurity. Yet, the problem has not gone away. At the height of news reporting on coltan in 2001, the death toll was a couple million. In 2008, conservative estimates indicate that 5.4 million Congolese have lost their lives because of ongoing conflicts in the region, most of which has been and continues to be financed through the expropriation and sale of minerals. Coltan used to be something Congolese miners threw away while looking for cassiterite. But in the 1990s it was discov-

ered that tantalum, which is extracted from coltan, provided a uniquely dense platform for fashioning high charge conductors, ones that would become indispensable for a range of digital age technologies such as mobile telephones, gaming devices, and microprocessors. The explosion of digital age technologies in the 1990s and early 2000s happened to coincide with a conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that had become so entrenched it came to be known as Africa’s First World War, a protracted engagement involving at least nine African nations and dozens of roving militias with varying and fickle loyalties. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the resolution of the blood coltan issue is complacency. No one is likely to make a Hollywood blockbuster called “Blood Coltan.” Nonetheless, it is important to inspire a greater recognition of the culture under which Congolese mining operates, such that it aids policymakers and development planners to facilitate strategies that enable moral economies, ones that will work for establishing global mineral security and a faith in the promises of the digital age. Dr. Jeffrey Mantz (Department of Sociology & Anthropology at George Mason University)

GOP lost the budget battle Once upon a time, the GOP had a chance to win the budget argument. Despite my serious disagreements with the Republican platform, even I had to praise politicians like Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Even though his plan was completely politically unviable and overwhelmingly favored the wealthiest of Americans, it was still a bold and intellectual proposal toward the government’s inflated budget. However, the Republican Party lost the high ground in the days leading up to what was almost a government shutdown. For the first time in a long time, it was the Republicans who fell into disarray — not the Democrats. The Tea Party faction clashed with House Speaker John Boehner and turned what was a debate on fiscal policy into a battlefield of the culture wars. Conservatives attached amendments attacking Planned Parenthood; their reasoning was abortion. It seems they completely forgot that federal funding for abortion is already banned and that Planned Parenthood also provides important services such as screening for breast and cervical cancer as well as treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, abortion only represents a small percentage of Planned Parenthood services. Other Republicans attacked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that dealt with

Bryan Staul clean drinking water and renewable energy. These proposals, among others, shifted the necessary task of cutting government spending to petty, political bickering. The result was 800,000 federal workers sitting on the edge of their seats. A shutdown was avoided only when the president stepped in forcing both sides to compromise. Politically, the president won this round. He appeared to rise above the inaction of Congress and acted as a statesman of sorts. The loser is Speaker Boehner. Boehner is a smart and pragmatic politician who fell victim to the new additions to his caucus, the ideologues. Even Boehner’s relationship with his deputy Eric Cantor seemed strained. In the end, the Democrats achieved a less than perfect budget, but it was closer to what they desired then their Republican counterparts.

Perhaps the biggest loser is the American people. The United States deserves a smart budget, one that balances the need to kick our addiction to federal spending and our need to have an effective government. This is going to mean both parties sacrificing. Democrats must look at our entitlement system while preserving what makes Social Security and Medicare work. Republicans will also have to accept cuts in our military’s budget, which right now stands around 680 billion dollars. Republicans will also have to accept that cuts will not solve the problem and that more revenue will have to be brought in. This means they will have to use the dirtiest words in politics: tax increase. Balancing the budget will be the most daunting task in America, and nothing illustrates this more than our debt clock. Despite the Democrats’ short-term victory, we need a long-term solution, and that will require actual leadership from both parties. The real question that needs to be asked is does that kind of leadership exist in Washington? Bryan Staul is a political science major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at bstaul@kent.edu.

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Junior kicker Freddy Cortez walked up to the podium of the football team’s meeting room Wednesday. Kent State coach Darrell Hazell asked Cortez to address the Flashes following a draft that took place to pick the teams for Saturday’s Blue vs. Gold game. Cortez walked up to the podium and burst into a sentence of fluent Spanish. The room erupted in laughter. “That was the goal, to have the guys have a lot of fun here,” Hazell said. “It will be exciting.” Hazell and his coaching staff organized a draft to pick the two teams for Saturday’s game. He split the seniors up into two groups, and one spokesperson for each team chose which position to begin with and which player of that position they were to pick first. The picking continued until each player was taken. The Blue team’s spokesperson, senior center Chris Anzevino, won the opening coin toss and starting the draft with the quarterback position. “With the first pick in the 2011 draft, the Blue team selects (junior quarterback Spencer Keith),”

Anzevino said. The Blue team stood up, cheered and clapped in unison. Keith walked to the podium. Anzevino wrapped his arm around the quarterback’s shoulder, pointed to the video cameras that were taping the event and told Keith to look at them as if it were the NFL Draft. This is the first time the Kent State football team has done a draft of the spring game since former coach Doug Martin did so in his first season in 2004. Hazell brought the tradition with him from Ohio State as a form of team bonding. “It’s very important that we grow together,” Hazell said. “That’s what championship teams are made of.” Laughter and camaraderie were obvious yesterday as both players chose their teammates for the spring game. While the players joked around, there was some friendly chatter about who will win Saturday’s game. Each captain gave the other a hard time as picks were made, and when the draft was over, the Gold team’s captain, junior running back Jacquise “Speedy” Terry, had a few choice words for his opponent. “There will be no lockout, so we will perform,” Terry joked. “We know we’re gonna beat y’all.”

Hazell expects his team to play hard throughout the game and play as if they are competing against a real opponent. He expects tempers to be flaring and a competitive streak to take over, but when the players are in the locker room at the end of the game, Hazell expects everything to go back to normal. “When the day’s over on Saturday night, those guys will come together, love each other and they’ll figure out that the next four or five months is something we’ll have to work hard to prepare ourselves for the season,” Hazell said. Running back coach Jafar Williams will coach the Gold team. Offensive line coach Chris Bache leads the Blue team. Hazell will not coach either side in Saturday’s game. He plans to simply soak in his team’s first game in front of the Kent State fans. “I’m going to spectate on Saturday,” Hazell said. “I’m going to walk up and down the sidelines to make sure no one’s cheating — enjoy myself.” The Blue/Gold game will kick off on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Dix Stadium. The game is open to the public and admission is free.

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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 Monday Darrick D. Pou, 36, of Twinsburg,

was arrested for disorderly conduct in the 900 block of Silver Meadows Boulevard. n

Richard B. Euverard, 29, of Kent, was

arrested for carrying a concealed weapon in the 900 block of Silver Meadows Boulevard.

Tuesday n

Robert C. Wagoner, III, 29, of Akron was

arrested for criminal trespass and pos-

Lance Lysowski is the assistant sports editor.

Janay M. Triplett, 21, of Kent, was arrested for possession of marijuana at Chiarucci Drive. n

CAMPUS Tuesday n Daniel T. Czekaj, 18, of Richfield, was arrested for disorderly conduct at Dunbar Hall.

Nicole Y. Miller, 19, of Brooklyn, was

arrested for possession of Xanax and drug paraphernalia at Verder Hall.    n

Betty G. Pritchard, 19, of Ashtabula,

was arrested for possession of marijuana at Verder Hall.

Sunday n Anthony L. Grano, 18, of Mayfield

Heights, was arrested for underage drinking at Petrarca Drive. n

Patrick A. Ruskowski, 19, of Shady-

side, was arrested for underage

Carmen A. Smith, 20, of South Euclid, was arrested for possession of marijuana at Chiarucci Drive. n

n Mackenzie K. Malone, 18, of Cincinnati, was arrested for possession of marijuana at Chiarucci Drive. n Aaron M. Buell, 19, of Marietta, was arrested for underage drinking at Lake Hall.

Saturday n Alexxa G. Mitchell, 18, of Sandusky,

was arrested for underage drinking at the Music and Speech parking lot.

Jessica R. Krieger, 22, of Kent, was arrested for furnishing alcohol at the Music and Speech parking lot. n

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Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) Today is a 9 — Work now and play in a few days. Avoid distractions that pull you from your core focus. Make hay while the sun is shining. Something new comes from a distant communication. Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Today is a 9 — It feels right, and that hunch could be quite profitable. The whole idea empowers you. Ignore a pessimist, but read the fine print. Invest for the benefit of all. Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Today is a 6 — It’s easy to get sidetracked today and to find distractions to your goals. Do what you really need to do. Learning new tricks attracts new friendships. Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — Stay out of a controversy, if possible. Question your own judgment ... you don’t have the full picture. Your friends are really there for you. The resources you need are near.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) Today is a 7 — It’s not all about you now. Dream big about a project that will benefit your community and leave a mark. Future generations will appreciate it. Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Today is a 7 — After you have fulfilled your responsibilities, take that trip that you’ve been considering. It doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. It all works out in the end. Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Today is a 7 — Paying attention to detail works today. It’s a good time for financial planning, today and tomorrow. Opposites attract even more now. Stay on your toes. Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) Today is a 6 — You find it easier to delegate, and your body really appreciates it. Sudden changes may want to push you back. Keep pushing forward. Review the instructions again.

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Tattoo parlor teaches public health majors about equipment sanitization Amy Cooknick

acooknic@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater

MATT HAFLEY DAILY KENT STATER

Sophomore Chelsea McClelland and senior Alyssa Pearce, both fashion merchandising majors, maneuver a garment rack into Rockwell Hall on Wednesday.

Public Health students toured Rubber City Tattoo 2 this past Saturday for a demonstration on the process of keeping tattoo equipment sanitized. The tour was an extra credit opportunity for students in the major to explore tattooing sterilization techniques used in the shop on Summit Street. Juniors Jessica Harmon and Megan Jaroszyk both viewed sterilization tools during the tour and asked employees questions about the process. “(There is) a lot of sanitary process behind (tattooing) that most people don’t really realize,” Harmon said. Harmon added that she hasn’t learned about tattoo sterilization in any of her classes. Jaroszyk said the event was interesting and that she would consider coming back to Rubber City for a tattoo after seeing its process. “I came down here for my Environmental Health Science class, and I really enjoyed it,” Jaro-

szyk said. “I wanna get a tattoo.” That is the response tattoo artist Scott McKinnie likes to hear. McKinnie said he worked at two tattoo parlors in Cleveland and one in Bedford before coming to Rubber City six months ago. He said he is proud to work at a shop that the Kent Health Department offers as an example of good hygiene. The department contacted Rubber City about hosting the event. “We had the health department come in and pretty much see our process,” McKinnie said. “Everything is confidently sterile, and (the health department) liked that to the point where they said, ‘Let us bring our students here.’” McKinnie said the Rubber City staff is devoted to running a sterile operation and maintaining a safe experience for customers. He said the staff knows the risks involved with tattooing and does everything they can to minimize those risks. “Cross-contamination is very real, but we separate all items,” McKinnie said. “There’s no mixture of (equipment). It’s a very real decision to get a tattoo. People have families. Yeah, they

want a tattoo, but do they want that tattoo to symbolize the rest of their life and how (tattooing) could go negatively? No. So you remove that picture from the scenario altogether.” McKinnie said he and the other employees at Rubber City use hospital disinfectants like MadaCide to sterilize before and after tattooing. They receive regular county health inspections and keep a record of all safety checks done in the shop. “Really, we just impress the health department,” McKinnie said. “Being a tattoo shop that the health department can be comfortable with is huge. So we’re really excited.” This was the first health event at Rubber City, but McKinnie said he would like to make the event annual. “If the health department is interested like that, I think it’s a good option,” McKinnie said. “It’s a good direction for this whole picture. If there’s people ready to listen, ready to understand who’s doing this right, then yes. That’s huge.” Amy Cooknick is a features reporter.

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Scott McKinnie shows a sterile tattoo gun tip to attendees of a health event at Rubber City Tattoo 2 in Kent last Saturday.

APRIL 14, 2011

Downtown Gallery hosts Postcard Show Amy Cooknick

acooknic@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater It is a flat, sturdy, paper rectangle. It is reassurance to a loved one from a thousand miles away. It is a bragging letter to a neighbor during the best vacation ever. It is a souvenir of that once-ina-lifetime visit. It is a conveyor of countless different stories, meaning something different to everyone. It is a postcard, and it is modern art. It is also the focus of, “Wish You Were Here,” the National Collage Society’s 15th annual Postcard Show, running at the Downtown Gallery until May 14. Gretchen Bierbaum, NCS president and founder, was in Kent to see the exhibit’s opening reception April 8 and talk about the postcard-sized collages. “It’s a small-format collage exhibit,” Bierbaum said. “It means all of (the collages) are small. They’re mostly all abstract.” Bierbaum said this is the first time in the exhibit’s history that it has been displayed in Kent. “This is an annual exhibit,” Bierbaum said. “It was in New York City for four years in the Lincoln Center on Broadway. It’s travelled around, and now that Kent has that beautiful gallery downtown, it’s a good place for us to have a show.” The show this year features 158 artists, including one from Canada and one from Hungary, with the rest from the United States. Bierbaum said artists contact her about having work displayed in the exhibit. “We used to only be in the United States, but now that we have a website, people can find us from all over the world,” Bierbaum said. “It’s much easier than advertising in a magazine like we used to do back in the old days.” Not that many of the artists featured in the exhibit would be averse to magazines. The postcards line six sections and three walls of the gallery. They are decorated with magazine and newspaper clippings, paint, stickers, tiles, stamps, ribbons, beads, shells, pebbles, film strips, photos, lace, mesh, strings, tickets, credit cards, a LEGO or two and possibly a dead fish, to mention just a few adornments. Some of the cards are abstract, while others have themes like travel, art, politics, celebrities and Taco Bell.

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Sharon Irwin of Kent explains the inspiration behind her winning postcard at the “Wish You Were Here” postcard show at the Downtown Gallery on Friday. Irwin’s Japanese-style postcard was inspired by her husband, Kent State professor John Akamatsu, and their visits to Japan. The postcards were all judged on creativity, and the 15 award winners were announced at the reception Friday. Among the winners were Hungarian artist Pál Csaba for his untitled collage, and the only Kent artist, Sharon Irwin, for her collage, “There’s No Place Like Home.” Bierbaum said all the winners will be posted on the NCS website for those who missed the reception, but she recommends seeing the full exhibit in person while it’s in town. Tracy Buckley, Ravenna art teacher and Kent State alumna, brought her family downtown to see the exhibit.

“The show in here is wonderful,” Buckley said. “I think it’s a good, really strong collection of collages. It’s impressive.” Buckley became a member of NCS in fall 2010, but most of the guests to the Gallery are nonmembers. “The public loves this show,” Bierbaum said. “Next year it’ll be in Seattle and in 2012, collage will be a hundred years old; the only new fine-art medium of the 21st Century.” Bierbaum has been collaging for decades. She has written two books on the subject, “Collage in All Dimensions” and “Creating Collage in All Dimensions.”

“Both of my books deal with copyright infringement,” Bierbaum said. “You can’t tear something out of the Kent Stater or a magazine and just glue it in your painting. If somebody recognizes what it is, that’s an infringement on their copyright. My new book’s all about altering techniques. Transferring so that no one can recognize what we’re using out of publications.” She also teaches collage workshops all over the country, and she has a collage entitled “TANKS” on display in this exhibit. However, Bierbaum began in another medium. See POSTCARD, Page B3

Senior VCD students show off their work Rachel Hagenbaugh

rhagenba@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater The School of Visual Communication Design will continue their 2011 BFA Portfolio Exhibition April 14-15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., located at the Main Art Gallery at Kent State. “The VCD department only puts on one show each year, so it’s really important to us,” Jameson Campbell, senior visual communication design major, said. Campbell is also the creative director of the exhibition. Normally professor David Middleton is in charge of the event, but he had to have immediate surgery and couldn’t participate, Campbell said. Because of Middleton’s surgery, the students were in charge of the event this year, Campbell said. The students met on their own, formed groups and came up with concepts and themes for the event by themselves. Campbell said the professors were very helpful, providing wisdom and advice whenever the students needed it. This year ’s theme for the exhibition is “Free Agents,” Campbell said. “We’re just like free agents in baseball, so we thought that would be an interesting approach,” Campbell said.

These soon-to-be graduates are entering the next phase of their professional lives, AnnMarie LeBlanc, director and professor of the School of Visual Communication Design, said in an e-mail interview. As the show indicates, they are now “Free Agents” entering the marketplace, she said. This year, there are 28 students participating in the event. Each student will have their own table at the event with their portfolio and business cards. Portfolios tend to highlight the strongest, most recent work, LeBlanc said. The portfolios will demonstrate a student’s range, as well as area of focus, she said. Campbell said the students sent out more than 500 postcards to professional designers inviting them to the show. At the show, some of the professionals will conduct small interviews with the students. Many area businesses looking for talent in design and illustration attend this event to seek out future employees, LeBlanc said. This exhibition also gives families and faculty the opportunity to celebrate the students’ hard work and dedication. After the exhibition ends on Friday at 5 p.m., there will be an awards reception that starts at 6 p.m. Students will be

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Seniors show off their work in the art building Art Gallery Tuesday. Every year, seniors from the photo illustration and visual communication design programs display their best work for students and employers to view. judged in four categories by the full-time VCD faculty, Leblanc said. About 300 people will be coming Friday, Campbell said. The whole event is

free, and free food and snacks will be provided on Friday evening, he said. Rachel Hagenbaugh is a features reporter.

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Pie Shots, Apple Pie Shots, Wild $2.50 Vodka tonic Turkey American Honey, Blue $3 SoCo and Lime Moon Honey Moon, Stella Artois $3 Grape and cherry bombs $2 Bud Light bottles Chalice drafts, Red Stripe and Red $2.50 Heineken Stripe Light bottles Ray’s Place $3.50 Newcastle Beer of the month: Budweiser draft $2.75 shots Jim Beam $2.50 (pints) $2.95 for (talls) GuinThe Loft $2.00 baskets of fries & Jo-Jo’s ness Imperial Pint Glass, keep the Happy hour is from 4 to 9 p.m. with $3 Sauerkraut balls glass $6.00, refills are $5.00. While $2 off pitchers, $.75 off pints and the glass lasts $.50 off mugs and liquors Franklin Square $2.95 Pinnacle Whipped Shots $7 pitchers, Deli $2.95 Pinnacle Whipped Monster $1.50 mugs Bud Light Monday—Ungrilled turkey reuben Bombs $6 pitchers, Tuesday—Riverview meatloaf $2.95 Red Stag (shots) $1.25 mugs Natural Light Wednesday—Kent’s best reuben $2.95 Sex on the Beach (shots) $2.50 Cherry and grape bombs Thursday—Louisiana BBQ Pork $2.95 Cherry Bombs $3 Jack Daniels, Jose Cuervo, Friday—Deluxe fried bologna $3.00 Chilled Shark Water Shots rocket pops and lemon drops Saturday and Sunday—Sesame $3.50 Long Island Ice Tea garlic chicken $2.95 Spiced Rum & Coke riverside wine Happy hour is from 4 to 7 p.m. with $2.95 Tropical Rum & Coke Euro Gyro $2.95 Amaretto Sours $1 off drafts. $5 Small one-topping pizza $3.50 Futher Mucker’ s Mondays and Tuesday have no $5 Philly Steak sub corking fee, so patrons pay retail $5 Chicken hoagie sub price to drink wine in restaurant. Brewhouse $5 Gyros $3 Keystone pitchers $5 Any pizza pita Buffalo Wild Wings 75-cent Keystone mugs Wednesday — $5 large one-item Beer of the Month: Budweiser Tall $10 Fishbowls pizza for pick-up only $1.25 Cherry and Grape bombs draft Thursdays $1 Long Islands $3 Wing Tuesdays: 45 cents per Water Street wing Tavern Boneless Thursdays: 60 cents per Guy’s Pizza $7 Bud Light pitchers wing $20 Two large, 2-topping pizzas $3 Tootsie Pop Bomb $2 long island Monday/Tuesday: $10 Two $3.50 Olive Chocolate $2 margaritas medium, 1-Topping pizzas dropped into Monster Khaos Friday: $3 shot bomb day Order as many as you like. Orange Energy Drink Pickup only. Monthly $3 shot and beer specials: 157 Lounge (Additional toppings $1.25) Sauza Tequila, Patron XO, Cherry $$2 bottles Miller Lite

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kt tunstall | House of Blues 7 p.m. Jammin’ for japan | Ohio Music Shop 7 p.m. susan werner & kim richey | The Kent Stage 8 p.m. ryan kralik and araby | Checker-N-Trophies 8 p.m.

THE green hornet | Kiva 11 p.m. Rio Scream 4 Atlas Shrugged Part 1 The Double Hour

APRILSpecials MUGS $3.25 Grape Kool-Aid shot $3.50 Bordon $2 16oz Miller Lite draft $3.24 oz., $3.50 short, $4 tall Blue Moon draft $2.75 All bombs

DIGGER’S Tuesday: $3 Long Island ice tea Wednesday: $3 Bahama Mama Thursday: Jimmy Buffett Night with $1.75 Corona bottles and $1.25 Bud Light bottles

DOMINICK’s Free pool Tuesday and Thursdays. $3 bottle Red Stripe and Red Stripe Light. $2.50 Grape and cherry bombs. $2 pints Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Zephyr Pub $2 pints of Bud Light $7 pitchers of Bud Light $2.50 rum and coke $3 grape vodka and 7UP $3 cherry bombs $3 Jose Cuervo shots

Brewhouse 75-cent mugs, $2.99 pitchers & $1.25 bombs Ladies Night Tuesdays: $.99 Sex on the Beach Thirsty Thursday: $1 Long Islands

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School of Theatre puts Third annual vegan cook-off starts Earth Day celebrations virtual spin on ‘Hamlet’ Alison Ritchie

aritchi1@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater Theater isn’t dying; It’s evolving. William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” has been done a hundred different times, a hundred different ways. But never like this. “It’s very different from your father ’s ‘Hamlet,’” said Darren Nash, a Kent State graduate student who stars as Hamlet in the production. “It’s what the director calls a ‘re-imagination.’” Kent State’s School of Theatre and Dance will show a rendition of the tragedy “Hamlet” from April 15-23 in the Wright-Curtis Theatre. Mark Monday, the play’s director and Kent State theatre professor, has created a modern adaptation, which incorporates current cultural relevance both politically and religiously. He achieves this by having Hamlet be a converted Muslim. Monday’s “Hamlet” is set in the near future. The play showcases modern technology by using an avatar, a computer-generated virtual body, to play the ghost of Hamlet’s father, rather than a live actor. The original play, written sometime between 1599-1601, tells the story of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. He seeks revenge on his uncle, Claudius, for murdering his father and marrying his mother, Gertrude, in order to become King. Monday said the choice to use an avatar helped further his version. “We’re in a world of technology,” he said. “The practical reason is that we have students who need to learn with the technology available, and we have the technology. So we thought we may as well give it a try. It is set in the not-too-distant future, so it makes sense to incorporate today’s and future technology.” Stephen Zapytowski, Kent State theatre professor, approached Monday with the idea

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for the avatar last summer. He created the image by morphing a stock avatar in Poser Pro, a 3D design and animation program. The ghost took Zapytowski several months to create. Zapytowski said the avatar has several added benefits over a live actor. “He can arrive in a great cloud of green smoke and dissolve in and dissolve out. He can ‘whoosh’ between locations. He might travel 50 feet in a half a second.” But the technology has also proved to be a challenge for the crew, said Monday. “It’s a learning curve for everybody in dealing with new technology as new technology makes itself available and affordable,” Monday said. “This is not a cheap endeavor by any stretch of the imagination.” The ghost will be projected in four different locations on stage. Its speech, which was voiced by theatre professor Chuck Richie, and its movements must be aligned. “The ghost performance is fixed,” Zapytowski said. “We have to program him properly to get it right because if we don’t, he’ll do some very strange things.” Nash said acting alongside an avatar has been tricky because many cues involved nonverbal communication. But he said he thinks younger audiences will prefer the use of the new media, while those who prefer the classic Elizabethan production might not. “The purists are going to hate

rhagenba@kent.edu Daily Kent Stater The Third Annual Vegan Iron Chef Competition will take place April 17 from noon to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Kent State Student Center. The vegan competition is part of the annual “Who’s Your Mamma?” Earth Day and Environmental Film Festival. The event and parking are free to those who park in the Student Center visitor’s lot. “We’ve had between 300 to 500 people show up for this event,” said Jeff Ingram, executive director of the Standing Rock and Cultural Arts and producer of the Earth Day and Environmental Film Festival. From Page B1

it. The new generation is going to love it,” Nash said. “It starts to speak to the times. It starts to speak to peoples’ lives to say, ‘I have an iPod in my life. I watch TV. I see avatars. This speaks to me. Now, I’m interested.’” For Nash, the merging of two different worlds – classic Shakespeare with computer technology– has been a learning experience. “Technology is always that balance between what is it helping to support and what is it distracting from,” Nash said. “I see it as an experiment. Some things are going to work and some things are not.” Tickets to the show are $16 for adults, $12 for Kent State faculty and staff and $8 for students. They can be purchased at the box office in the Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance or online at www.theatre.kent.edu. Alison Ritchie is a features correspondent.

POSTCARDS Downtown Gallery hosts Postcard Show “I was a watercolor artist,” Bierbaum said. “And any time I glued something into one of my paintings, they wouldn’t allow me in any shows because 35 years ago, nobody knew what collage was, even though it was already 70 years old. “ We w e re d i s c r i m i n a t e d against,” Bierbaum added, laughing. With the help of Bierbaum and the NCS, collage has become a more respected and appreciated art form. Part of the history of collage as art can be traced back through the history of Kent State. Anderson Turner, director of galleries at Kent State, said Kent offered the first collage class in the country. “Martin Ball, our professor, was the first instructor in the country to teach a collage class,”

The event features a professional chef competition and student competition. Five teams of Kent State students will compete with students from the University of Akron’s Garde Manger club. The student competition will begin at 2 p.m. Those who attend the event will be able to sample the students’ creations. The professional competition has two awards, the Juried Award and the People’s Choice Award. Reservations for a table of eight can be made for those who wish to sample the chefs’ creations and vote for The People’s Choice Award. So far, seven chefs will compete for the Juried Award and the People’s Choice Award, including Julie Wandling Costell, the owner of Miss Julie’s Kitchen in Akron, and Molly

Aubuchon, the owner of Specialty Sweets, a vegan bakery. Scot Jones, executive chef of VegiTerranean in Akron, will also be competing. Some of the competitors are professional chefs and others are homemakers, Ingram said. Kent Natural Food Co-Op is one of the sponsors for this year’s event, Ingram said. They will provide a lot of the organic produce for the competitors. Ingram said part of the criteria for judging is the competitors’ use of local and organic food. “We want to keep with the philosophy of preserving Mother Earth,” Ingram said.

Turner said. “So there’s a lot of things having to do with collage that’s kind of neat.” Turner said the Downtown Gallery is student-run and has been in Kent for 14 years. Although they have a new exhibit about once a month, Turner said he is excited to host the Postcard Show. “What’s cool about (NCS) is that it’s based in Hudson,” Turner said. “It’s pretty impressive what they do all over the world and all over the country and they’ve done it for a long time. And it’s local, but it’s also done on an international level, so it’s nice for the School of Art gallery to be able to at least help out and play a role in that history.” Turner said sometimes artists come to him with ideas for exhibits and sometimes he goes to them. He plans exhibits like the Postcard Show two or three years in advance. “Basically I just come up with several ideas, and people submit things to me, but also we solicit things from people,” Turner said. “We still have things that take up space on a yearly basis

or other yearly basis, but that’s pretty much how it works. I jokingly call what we do in the gallery “Gallery Whack-a-Mole” because we’re doing different things at different times.” Once an exhibit has been secured for the gallery, interns and staff organize, label and finally hang the show for the public to view. After this show ends, Bierbaum said NCS is donating its permanent collection to the Kent State Art Department, something Turner said he looks forward to. “I’m excited about being able to be the home of the collection,” Turner said. “I can’t wait to see how that shapes up over the next few years. That’s just beginning. Those postcards are hot off the presses.” The “Wish You Were Here” exhibit is free and open to the public noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Rachel Hagenbaugh is a features reporter.

Amy Cooknick is a features reporter.

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Benny Benassi Feat. Gary Go “Cinema (Skrillex Remix)”

Jackson rohm Acoustic Sessions | “Christine”

This is the craziest song I’ve ever heard. Ever. Skrillex is the master of dubstep as far as I’m concerned, so if you’ve never listened to this genre, this is the place to start. Just watch out for the drop because it will get you every time.

Rohm is a Cleveland native and plays his hometown often in the winter. In the summer, he heats things up at Chautauqua Lake, N.Y. I’ve seen him perform live there at many free concerts in the park, making his acoustic pop/rock the soundtrack to some perfect summers.

You are a cinema/a Hollywood treasure/Love you just the way you are

It’s been a long time coming/but I’m running just to try and keep up with you

Hoodie Allen Leap Year | “Dreams Up” Hoodie is my latest music addiction. His beats are energetic, and his wordplay is sick. This is the first release from his upcoming album. His previous mixtape “Pep Rally” was so good, I can’t wait to see what he does next. In this life I’m so obsessed with every ten I see like a titan/ Vince young and restless/homie, I need to fight it

2am club What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? | “Let Me Down Easy” I spent a lot of time over spring break cruising around Pittsburgh and blasting this album. It’s 2AM Club’s freshman debut, and I can’t listen to it enough, especially this track. They remind me of a funkier Maroon 5, so if you’re a fan of them, I would strongly recommend giving 2AM Club a listen. Let me down easy/but stay with me tonight