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Council solidifies commitment to redevelop downtown Kent Partnership between city, university a ‘milestone’ Darren D’Altorio

Daily Kent Stater Kent City Council unanimously voted in favor last night to move forward with plans to extend Kent State’s esplanade into downtown and continue talks about the downtown redevelopment project.

With the vote, council members agreed to sign the Declaration of Collective Intent and an Espla-

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LOOKING BACK

YEARS

1921 March 6 | The National

Association of the Moving Picture Industry announces its intention to censor U.S. movies.

1922 June 14 | Warren G. Harding becomes the first president heard on radio.

1923 Feb. 22 | The U.S. transcontinental mail service begins.

1924 Aug. 5 | The comic strip

“Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray debuts in the New York Daily News.

1925 Oct. 16 | The Texas School Board

prohibits the teaching of evolution.

1926 Sept. 17 | A hurricane hits Miami

and Palm Beach, Fla. killing almost 500 people and marking the beginning of the end of the Florida land boom.

1927 Sept. 30 | Babe Ruth hits

his 60th homerun of the season.

1928 Feb. 28 | Smokey the Bear is created.

1929 Oct. 29 | Black Tuesday sees

panicked survivors dump 16 million shares on the stock market, wiping out $30 billion in paper value in one day; the Great Depression begins.

1930 May 24 | Polls show that a majority of Americans favor the repeal of prohibition.

Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius and Randall Miller

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nade Memorandum of Understanding.

Various council members called this a moral agreement that will solidify the relationship among Kent State, Kent city government and other investors, stakeholders and partners in the downtown redevelopment project.

Ward 1 Councilman Garret Ferrara said this agreement sends the message this project isn’t talk anymore — there’s a solid commitment behind it.

In agreement, Ward 4 Councilman John Kuhar said, “there is too much dead property sitting downtown,” and having this moral commitment from all involved parties enables progress.

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This map, depicting downtown Kent, illustrates where the downtown redevelopment projects will take place and what will change. A multimodal facility, hotel/ conference center and storefronts will be built along Main, Depyster and Erie streets.

Also, the University Esplanade will connect downtown with the university along Erie Street.

‘Fraught with adventure’ The university’s first students blazed a trail for Kent Staters to follow Kristine Gill

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re s h m a n C o r i Ve r b a remembers her first seven weeks at Kent State pretty well. After all, finding out you have three roommates isn’t the kind of thing you forget.

“At first it was kind of hectic,” the secondary education major said. “People were always coming in and out. It was also kind of awkward. We didn’t know each other at all.”

But the four girls living in a fourth floor lounge in Fletcher Hall were in good company.

Verba started at the university in the fall of 2009 and was one of 259 students who lived in lounges or tripled up in dorms for the first few weeks.

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Above, Lowry and Merrill Halls viewed from unpaved Hilltop Drive. Below, “Mrs. Lida M. Layton’s class in ‘domestic science and household arts’ met in one of the tentclassrooms in the summer of 1914.”

Photograph appears in insert between pages 88 and 89 of The Years of Youth.

16.86 percent, with the Ashtabula campus having the largest overall increase in numbers of students.

The campus increased from 1,781 students in Spring 2009 to 2,206 this semester.

“We continue to see impressive enrollment numbers,” President Lester Lefton said in a press release. “As we enter our second century of service, we are building on the strong momentum from last year when we achieved our highest enrollment, had record retention and welcomed our largest freshman class to date.

I commend our faculty, staff and those who work in the Admissions Office for this enrollment success. Their dedication to helping students succeed makes Kent State an attractive institution.”

—Suzi Starheim

Daughter fuels his pursuit of office Nick Glunt

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In an editorial printed in The Kentonian on May 17, 1916, students criticized the lack of team spirit for the school’s baseball team.

Volume 1 Number 26 May 17, 1916

“What’s the matter with the cheering.” If no cheerleader can be found among the college men, let’s ask the K.S.N. high school for help. It is a disgrace to the college that we have as yet had no organized cheering at a base ball game this year. Wake up, melt the icicles off your chin and the fat off your lungs and show the

Spring enrollment this semester is the highest ever in the 100year history of Kent State, the university announced yesterday.

An 11.6 percent increase was reported with the release of the 15th-day statistics. This information encompasses all eight campuses.

A total of 38,196 students are enrolled for the Spring 2010 semester, compared to the previous record of 34,222 in Spring 2009.

Headcount of spring enrollment on the main campus is 23,834, and the headcount for regional campuses is 14,362.

The enrollment of international students increased from 895 students in Spring 2009 to 1,127 students this semester.

In addition, enrollment at regional campuses is also up by

Student seeks seat in Ohio’s 44th District

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team that you are behind them. You can’t cheer a team to victory with a Chautauqua salute. It won’t do any permanent damage for you to leave your maidenly reserve at home for once and come to the Findlay game with ever noise producing, nerve shattering device known to the mind of man or woman.

Kurt Liston is a Kent State student running for office under a Libertarian platform. However, he knows many of his potential voters aren’t sure what his party ideals actually are.

“I’m not a politician or anything,” Liston said. “I’m just a guy, you know, who just wants to stand up for my rights first and everyone else’s second.”

By focusing on his own rights, Liston said he encourages others to defend their rights as well.

Liston, 32, lives in Akron with his wife and 2-year-old daughter. He has almost completed his studies at Kent State for an associate degree in horticulture. Though he has been interested in politics since he was a child, he said his daughter is what spurs his cause.

“I want her to not have to deal with half this crap we have to deal with now,” he said.

Liston is attempting to win a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. He is the Libertarian candidate for Ohio’s 44th District, which includes mostly the Akron area.

Liston’s campaign manager

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Nicholas Burdohan said Libertarians believe the current hierarchy of government is backwards.

Burdohan explained that in the current system, most of the government’s power lies at the federal level, and the amount of power becomes lower and lower at the state, city and individual levels.

“It’s inverted,” he said, “and we’d like to see it get back to the way it should be.”

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Jones’ late burst carries Kent State women over UT Lance Lysowski

Daily Kent Stater With 1:13 left to play in last night’s women’s basketball game between Toledo and Kent State, Toledo sophomore guard Naama Shafir sank a 3-pointer that seemed to be the final blow to the Flashes’ hopes of winning.

Kent State junior forward Taisja Jones had other plans.

After Shafir gave the Rockets the 59-56 lead, Jones answered with two free throws and a steal that lead to a layup by the junior college transfer.

Jones added an additional basket from the foul line, giving Kent State the 61-59 lead with 35 seconds to play.

The Rockets had a few chances to tie the game up, but Shafir’s shot of desperation with nine seconds to play rang off the rim as the Flashes went on to win, 62-59.

Jones said once the end of the game drew near, the team dug down and fought for the win together.

“I think we just had to stay focused and keep playing as a team,” said Jones, who finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds. “Our mentality changed once we saw it was close at the end. Everyone started playing hard, and no one wanted to let each other down.”

Because of untimely turnovers, the Flashes (14-7, 7-2 Mid-American Conference) trailed 35-25 at the half. Junior center Ellie Shields made back-to-back baskets to pull Kent State within five with 1:43 left in the first half, but Toledo guard Jessica Williams’ three-pointer led a 5-0 Toledo run to end the half.

Junior guard Jamilah Humes said the team lacked intensity throughout the game, but hard work down the stretch made the difference.

“In the second half, we just realized that we weren’t being as aggressive as we could be,” Humes said. “The first five minutes of the game I thought we were, and later on the first half we were really passive. In the second half we were crashing the boards, and we were just taking it

to them and getting fouls.”

Humes scored 12 of her 17 points in the second half.

After the break, Kent State drew within three with 5:47 to play after a layup by Humes, but Toledo junior forward Melissa Goodall’s jumper gave the Rockets the 53-48 lead.

The Flashes shut down Toledo’s leading scorer, senior forward Tamika Mays, but Goodall’s 19 points led the Rockets’ attack.

The matchup against Mays was not the only one that favored the Flashes last night. Kent State outrebounded the Rockets 46-42 — a trend that has been common during the team’s five-game winning streak.

Kent State coach Bob Lindsay said the team has worked hard at winning the battle down low and will have to keep doing so to continue their success.

“We rebounded the ball pretty well over the course of the season, and in the conference I think that’s been one of our stronger points,” Lindsay said. “I think we need to continue to do that. There were times where we looked really rough offensively, and the most consistent part of the game for us has been our rebounding.

Humes added that the victory over Toledo (17-5, 7-2 MAC), the top team in the MAC West, is a critical win for the Flashes before entering a string of in-conference road games.

“We really need to win our home games, and defend our home court,” Humes said. “I thought this win was key to show who we really are.”

Kent State will travel to Eastern Michigan on Sunday to continue conference play at 2 p.m.

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Grants to benefit scholastic journalism

New May 4 class offered

Rabab Al-Sharif

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Daily Kent Stater The Center for Scholastic Journalism recently received two grants to advance journalism programs through a workshop for high school news advisers and to promote their mission focusing on student press freedom.

The center works toward helping high school students develop an understanding and appreciation for news, said Mark Goodman, Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism.

The first, a $30,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation in Chicago, was given to CSJ to direct a First Amendment, civic engagement and student free press experience study led by Goodman.

With the money, the CSJ will pick schools in urban areas that allow students to make content decisions to conduct a study. From this study, CSJ will determine why this works in those specific schools, and how it can be done in other schools.

The goal is to help students gain an appreciation for civic engagement

and free press by making them a part of it.

“We teach the values of our Constitution by allowing young people to engage in them,” Goodman said.

The program creates opportunities for high school students and teachers, but it also creates an opportunity for faculty in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, students and staff to engage in press freedom.

It will give at least one graduate student and possibly one or more undergraduate students a chance to gain experience outside of a classroom.

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation gave a grant to the American Society of News Editors. ASNE will receive about $4.5 million over the next five years to hold the Reynolds Institute, a program for high school journalism advisers, at five accredited journalism schools across the nation.

Among the schools are Arizona State University, University of Missouri, University of Nevada

and University of Texas.

Kent State has also been chosen as one of the sites and will host the Reynolds Institute workshop for the next five years. The institute is a two-week program in the summer that brings in 35 teachers and news advisers from inner city and rural areas all over the country.

JMC faculty along with newsroom experts from the Akron Beacon Journal, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Washington Post and other media outlets teach at the institute.

Diana Mitsu Klos, senior project director at ASNE High School Journalism Initiative, said Kent State was chosen for this program because of its reputation.

“We are proud to partner with Kent State,” Mitsu Klos said. “Its journalism department and Center for Scholastic Journalism has a terrific track record and is dedicated to doing this program.”

The selection process is very competitive, and everything from airfare to food and board is paid for.

Candace Perkins Bowen, direc-

tor of the Center for Scholastic Journalism and assistant professor of journalism, runs the institute.

“We try really hard to blend educational aspects with real world media,” Bowen said. “What it’s like in the real world and how you go about teaching it in your schools.”

Bowen said the teachers are put into groups and asked to do multimedia projects. The program is very hands-on, and the advisers are able to learn these new things by actually doing them.

These teachers can then go back and teach multimedia skills to their students.

“Journalism is going through a fundamental transition,” Mitsu Klos said. “This program ensures a new generation of multimedia reporters, and also demanding news consumers.”

Contact College of Communication and Information reporter Rabab Al-Sharif at ralshari@kent.edu.

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International students get a taste of America Bethany English

Daily Kent Stater A Bosnian couple sat isolated in two folding chairs off to the side of the upper lounge in Van Campen Hall last Friday afternoon. The Fulbright scholars barely spoke at all, only exchanging a few quiet words between themselves.

Miroslav Pranic and Tatyana Babic had only been in America for

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10 days. They didn’t know anyone else at this social event, so they sat alone and watched the other students interact.

After awhile, an adviser walked up to the couple and led them across the room where international student Viktor Tasevski sat talking to a couple of women.

The adviser told Tasevski the couple spoke his native language.

Pranic introduced himself and the men slipped easily into a conversation. The once quiet couple became animated and excited.

Though the South Slavic words were unfamiliar to many, the wide smiles and rumbling laughter helped fuel the sense of community in the small room.

Students came to enjoy free ice cream and root beer floats that Kristi Campbell, assistant director of the Office of International Affairs, set out.

Campbell hosted the social to give international students the opportunity to interact with other international students who may have similar feelings because of their shared situations.

The room buzzed as students flitted about to greet friends.

Besides an appetite for ice cream or a desire for social interaction, these students have at least one shared trait — they are all studying in a foreign land and trying to find their place at Kent State.

Aaron Banda, from Zam-

bia, said many things in America were familiar because the world is a “global village.” When a lot is shared among countries, few things seem unusual.

But life in a foreign place seems to have at least some peculiarities.

At the ice cream social, many students were reluctant to try a root beer float.

For Banda, the main difference is in the health trends in Africa compared to America. He has been studying at Kent State for a master’s degree in nursing education since last August, and he said disease trends between these countries seem to be “flipped.”

In Zambia, as in many African nations, HIV is the No. 1 killer, Banda said. Though HIV is present in America, it does not have the same impact as it does in Africa. Cancer is a high concern in America, but it is not as troubling in Africa.

Another difference Banda found is the scarcity of African food available in America.

“I cannot find my food,” he said.

One of his favorite dishes, nshima, is eaten twice a day in Zambia.

This dish is a corn flour porridge topped with meat, vegetables and gravy. He said it is “the hamburger” of his country.

Phoebe Wu, from China, has also noticed some differences. She said she likes the availability of public services for children, senior

citizens and disabled people.

Traffic lights were another oddity for Wu. In China, the traffic lights are attached to posts on the roadside, rather than strung through the middle of intersections.

Wu also said she sees a cultural difference in the way American people interact with each other compared to how Chinese people interact.

Americans always seem to act very nice to each other, even if they don’t really like the other person, but the Chinese are more reserved, she said.

The Office of International Affairs tries to make the transition a littler easier for international students through events where students can get together. Banda said he comes to the events whenever he can, and he has met many people through them.

“I’ve made a family,” Banda said of his friends. “I’m home.”

Contact honors and international affairs reporter Bethany English at benglis3@kent.edu.

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Daily Kent Stater The Kent State history department is offering a new course this semester to re-evaluate the events and repercussions of May 4, 1970.

“It’s the 40th anniversary of May 4, and I think it’s important that such a historical event have some presence in the history department,” said Kenneth Bindas, chair of the history department.

Bindas said the special topic class is bringing together the expertise of 13 history professors to teach about how the events of May 4 were part of a worldwide movement.

“The focus of this class is to be looking not just at Kent State, but at all of the student movements and unrest that was going on,” graduate assistant Stephanie Vincent said. “It gives a lot better context and understanding for what happened here and for what happened around the world in terms of protests.”

Vincent, who is currently earning her master’s degree in history, brings student input into the mix. She is the assistant for Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr., who is the facilitator for the course.

Wunderlin said this class is important to him because of his personal stake in trying to understand that period of history.

“I am a veteran of the Vietnam War and the United States Army,” Wunderlin said. “My unit participated in the Cambodian invasion of May 1970, which triggered all of this.”

During the first week of class, Wunderlin taught the general background of cultural change and revolution in a traditional manner. In the following weeks, the other professors will be tak-

ing turns and lecturing on the chain of events that happened in the world.

“I’m excited about the different perspective and viewpoints that the different faculty members will bring to the lectures,” Wunderlin said.

Although Wunderlin’s direct link to May 1970 is evident, the other professors have connections and capability to make their specific classes differ from the others.

“I will be working on concepts of memory and problems that come with memory of the Kent State shootings,” Vincent said.

Vincent said during her teachings, she will focus on how May 4 has been remembered at the university level, the city level and around the country.

“It wasn’t something that just happened here in Kent State but was something that happened all across the state, all across the country,” Bindas said. “In a broader context, (it was) happening virtually around the world in youth movements and a change in governance.”

Wunderlin said it’s important to understand that the antiwar protest in the United States was not an isolated set of events but part of a resolution in cultural values and a questioning of authority that had not been done by previous generations.

“Students should be aware that the faculty of the history department is very dedicated to helping them better understand the vast cultural changes that occurred in the world in the last half century,” he said.

Contact College of Arts and Sciences reporter Jennifer Shore at jshore2@kent.edu.

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SUMMARY: Lefton recently got quite a boost in his bonus.

Seems a little backward considering the state of the economy, doesn’t it? What if everything worked this way — how would the economy ever recover?

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What could you do with $94,631.25?

Probably a lot.

Well, that’s how much of a bonus President Lester Lefton received in May 2009. That’s 25 percent, one quarter, of his total pay.

Before you choke on your pencils, we’d like to note that Lefton’s bonus will be going toward a student scholarship. And he does not set his own raises or salaries, the Board of Trustees does. We hope that helps you feel better.

Lefton was in a league of his own in receiving such a bonus. “Executive pay at public universities rose just 2.3 percent from the previous year, and base salaries for one-third of the 185 public university presidents studied stopped growing altogether,” according to Tuesday’s article “Lefton’s bonus rises, despite the recession.”

As noted in the article’s headline, all this happened despite the recession.

Sort of sounds like opposite day to us.

Now, because there’s not much we can do at this point with the fact that Lefton gets paid in amounts most of us cannot even dream in, let’s imagine if the whole world worked this way.

What if, despite the recession, college became cheaper. Textbooks became available to us for free, and all the bars offered buy-one-get-one drink specials?

What if, despite the recession, grocery store produce (especially the organic stuff) dropped in price? If gas prices dropped significantly and hybrid cars were available at cheaper rates?

Clearly, this is all in a dream world. The economy would never recover this way. There is no way that when the economy struggles, the regular Joe’s pocketbook becomes thicker and the rest of the world makes his life easier. It just doesn’t happen.

But Lefton isn’t a regular Joe. He’s the president of a major state university.

And there isn’t much we can do about that. Instead, we can apply for the scholarship his bonus went toward (we aren’t sure of the name of it ourselves, yet), and we can always respond to his “In a Flash” messages suggesting other ways he can help us — financially or otherwise.

Granted, much of his job consists of fundraising and acting as the face of the university. But we are still his students and we have every right to send him a suggestion or two.

Besides, who doesn’t love mail?

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FAMOUS QUOTE “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

—Mark Twain

DON WRIGHT’s VIEW

DID YOU KNOW? On Feb. 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif.

—from History.com

Black history from a white girl’s perspective I never believed that Black History Month was needed, just like Valentine’s Day, because such things need to be remembered every day a whole year round. Yet, against my own will, I am writing a column about black history at the beginning of February because it’s the only time when the majority of people remember to take time to honor this part of American history.

Oftentimes, Kent State students are forced to take classes they don’t want to take. Even more often, we are given a chance to take a class that might change our lives, interests and worldviews. Two years ago I signed up for Black Experience, which I thought was going to be another LER. But it was one of those few classes you wish lasted forever because the knowledge you gained was priceless.

The other day I decided to read a 400-page American history book that is now used in public schools just for the heck of it. To say I was shocked to see one paragraph dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. is to underestimate my level of indignation.

Today, students are taught the white interpretation of American history. Students, for some reason, are taught only about the events and people that make up the pretty story of American life. But there are also ugly stories in the history of this nation that every person should know. The darkest aspects of American history have often been hidden from plain view because of the past — or at least the power of the popularly perceived past — to shape the realities of our daily lives. Ignorance of our shared history sustains our parallel racial universes. Yet, the only way to understand the present social environment is to have a full knowledge of the past.

As a basic social institution, education has played a fundamental role in the growth and development of American culture and society. Traditionally, Americans have regarded education as a means for self and societal improvement. But American education presumes color blindness and, therefore, the invisibility of ethnic identity (let it be black, Chinese, etc.). The dynamics of the situation requires that whites give up their prejudicial attitudes and that blacks give up their identity.

The reality of American education is supportive of the fact that it is aimed to establish the legitimacy of the values, ideals and interests of the dominant majority. This means the denigration of all other values, ideals and interests.

Just ask yourself: How much do you know about the black world? I bet a common stereotype came to your mind such as a guy in a gang with his pants pulled down who

Anastasia Spytsya cannot speak proper English or a loud female. The fact is that black America knows about white America much more than white America knows about black America. If we want to live in harmony, we need to know about our fellows as much as they know about us.

And this must begin with proper education. Academic unwillingness to confront reality — especially an unpleasant reality — must change.

And we can start doing it at Kent State.

Our school is one of the very few schools in the country that has a well-developed black studies program that is also known as the PanAfrican Studies department. It was created out of necessity to fulfill curriculum gaps. The department has a dual mission: academic and social. While the former is selfexploratory, the latter addresses the needs of the society.

I believe this is the most unusual department on campus. While the primary focus of it is to teach black history, its faculty managed to make the department multidisciplinary. Each course is developed to help students understand philosophy, politics, psychology, economics and other disciplines to a larger degree.

There is a common misconception that the Pan-African Studies department is only for black students. But every single ethnicity is more than welcomed in the department. I have taken numerous classes within the department and had amazing experiences and made life-long friends.

There should only be one history: the American history. There should be no separation on the white and the black studies. Our education system, however, has forced the creation of black studies to catch up with what has been missed.

I thank George Garrison, a professor of Pan-African Studies department, for the help in writing this opinion.

Anastasia Spytsya is a senior Russian translation major and political science minor. Contact her at aspystya@kent.edu.

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Party of ‘no’ While I was attempting to get through the crush of economics readings assigned to me last semester, I came across a quote that has serious implications for the state of politics today. The quote, attributed to Frank Stillwell, is this: “The test of an ideology is not in its sophistication, but rather its effectiveness in conveying a simple and seemingly persuasive story.”

Based on this, it is my belief that something is rotten in the state of American politics in the 21st century. Over the past year, the Republicans have done a better job than the Democrats to dominate the news coverage, to be effective in conveying a better, more “persuasive story” to the American people. But this has always been the case: small government and fewer taxes are much easier pills to swallow for Americans than large government and more taxes.

The problem is this has been done irresponsibly. The GOP has manipulated the political debate, knowing that popular media is a prostitute for controversy and soundbites.

Whether Republican lawmakers are tacitly questioning President Barack Obama’s citizenship, irresponsibly propagating the “death panel” myth or mounting a fear-mongering campaign that is completely ignorant of reality against the Democrats’ “Socialist agenda.”

Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address in 1801, affirmed his belief that though politicians may disagree on government practice, the guiding light of our united purpose,

Christopher Hook that being the preservation of duly elected self government, as well as our individual liberties, is most important in our American democracy.

For a party that so often invokes Jefferson’s words to defend its platform, the GOP seems to have forgotten these: “Fellow-citizens, unite with one heart in mind ... to restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.”

Unfortunately, it is vocabulary, not politicians, that currently makes up the minority party in America. The Republican Party is nothing but a PR stunt, a marriage of immoral politicians and ratings-minded news agencies.

They have all but stopped governing, instead choosing to oppose any Democratic initiative merely because of the party with its name on the cover of the bill.

A healthy democracy needs legitimate minority parties, as they provide an alternative view to the majority and give the American people different choices on election day. But it

is my contention that those who crucify Obama and the Democrats for attempting to destroy the American way of life with more collectivistminded measures are in fact posing a far graver danger to American democracy.

Indeed, today we lack a legitimate minority party in the United States. Republican lawmakers continue to say “no, no, no” to proposals offered by Democrats, which is all well and good, but tragically, they offer no solutions to the gauntlet of problems on our plate. And all the while, they repeat the “Big Lie” — that the Democrats, if left unbridled, will bring forth a Socialist revolution and will destroy the fabric of America. A persuasive story, and an easy one to buy, but it is what it is, a farce designed to dupe the American public.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live without health care, the environment worsens and people become more and more cynical about government. This, of course, is the sickening end game of the Republican strategy: to win the next election, even at the expense of the American people.

Christopher Hook is a junior international relations and French major. Contact him at chook@kent.edu.

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“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is not only patently unfair, it’s also self-defeating. Since the policy was put into effect in 1993, U.S. military forces have discharged some 13,500 gay men and lesbians.

Among those expelled because of their sexual orientation were many much-needed Arabic translators.

The military bans homosexuals from serving. But under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” gay men and women are allowed to serve as long as they keep their sexual orientation secret. Superiors are prohibited from investigating soldiers’ sexual orientation as long as they obey the rules. However, one cruel aspect of this policy is that it allows third parties, such as jilted lovers, to out someone to military superiors.

President Obama put getting rid of this discriminatory policy high on his agenda in his State of the Union address. It’s a welcome call. But “don’t ask, don’t tell” can only be repealed by Congress, where it is still controversial. Wisely, the president sent Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to the Senate Armed Services Committee Tues-

day to unveil the Pentagon’s proposed plan for ending the policy.

Congress should heed our military experts and repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” this year. Even if it does act, the Pentagon will move gradually.

Secretary Gates is assembling a team of advisers to start reviewing steps needed to fully integrate openly gay troops. Their review will take all of 2010, Gates said. Give this change some historical context: It took about five years to completely integrate the military after President Harry Truman ordered a halt to racial segregation in the armed forces in 1949.

This is more than a matter of government discrimination. It’s also a matter of practicality.

Between two wars and other U.S. military obligations around the world, including the ongoing relief effort in Haiti, America’s armed forces are stretched perilously thin.

The Pentagon needs more than a few good men and women, and it can’t afford to exclude any able-bodied individual because of something as unfair as sexual orientation.

It must really gall well-qualified, educated gay men and women to know the Army has lowered its recruitment standards to allow high school dropouts and felons con-

victed of minor crimes to sign up while they are deemed unwelcome.

No less of a military man than Admiral Mullen was blunt about gays serving. “Speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal and professional belief that allowing homosexuals to serve openly would be the right thing to do,” he told the senators. “I have served with homosexuals since 1968. Everybody in the military has.”

The admiral is not alone in his sentiments.

A 2006 Zogby poll of 545 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans found that three-quarters of them had no problem serving with gay soldiers.

They know that, when it comes to who’s next to you in that firefight, sexual orientation is the last thing anybody cares about.

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In Iraq, banned Sunni Muslim candidates are back in the race Scott Peterson and Sahar Issa McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi appeals commission yesterday lifted a ban on more than 570 mostly Sunni Muslim candidates in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections, allowing them to run and possibly averting a sectarian showdown that had threatened to disrupt the elections.

Senior Sunni politicians had threatened to boycott the election after a controversial Shiiteled Accountability and Justice Commission banned more than 500 people for everything from membership in Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party to alleged links to Saddam’s intelligence agency.

The ban threatened to damage the credibility of the elections, and the United Nations

and the Obama administration —which sent Vice President Joe Biden to Iraq to discuss the issue — both warned that it could trigger another round of sectarian violence as the administration begins to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

“I myself am not in favor of a boycott; there is nothing to gain from that, and everything to lose,” said Saleh al-Mutlaq, the leader of

the second-largest Sunni party in Iraq, who was among hundreds of politicians banned from the elections in a controversial deBaathification process.

“As a result of this (banning) maneuver, Sunnis will be marginalized in national elections yet again,” al-Mutlaq told The Christian Science Monitor.

“Repercussions could be serious. If the people find they can-

not work for the required change through political means, in their frustration they may turn to any other means at their disposal and create a situation of chaos once again.”

Sectarian violence struck the columns of Shiite pilgrims making their way to the holy city of Karbala again Wednesday. A car bomb in Twereej, southeast of Karbala, killed 21 pilgrims and

injured another 128, according to Iraqi police. A booby-trapped bicycle targeting a police patrol injured another 22.

Even if the ruling stands, there’s a catch: Those who were blacklisted will be subject to investigations after the elections for past ties to Saddam’s Sunnidominated regime.

Humor is in, but the Clydesdales are out, and experts Entrepreneur sees phones as future tickets are split on Anheuser-Busch Super commercials Todd C. Frankel

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — The iconic Budweiser Clydesdales have been sidelined from Anheuser-Busch’s slate of nine commercials appearing during the upcoming Super Bowl.

Anheuser-Busch is using humor, not horses, to push leading brands Bud Light and Budweiser, complemented by shorter nods to Michelob Ultra and the new, low-calorie, Select 55. The Super Bowl commercials range from scientists turning to Bud Light as they worry about an Earthbound asteroid, to a small town working to rescue a beer truck, to a spoof of popular TV series “Lost.”

The brewer remains a big spender on Super Bowl commercials, buying up five precious, pricey ad minutes for the Feb. 7 football game, at the high end of its usual buy.

But for the first time in at least eight Super Bowls, none of Anheuser-Busch commercials feature the iconic Clydesdale horses.

“What? You’ve got to be kidding me. I can’t believe it,” said John Antil, a Super Bowl advertising expert and University of Delaware marketing professor.

The Clydesdales are “an American icon. They represent a lot of what’s good about the company.”

But Anheuser-Busch’s top marketing executive, Keith Levy, said Tuesday that it was an unintentional outcome of focus-group testing.

“We did produce a Clydesdale spot,” Levy said. “And we do continue to utilize Clydesdales in our marketing for Budweiser. But at the end of the day, I don’t choose the spots. Brand managers don’t choose the spots. The consumers do.”

Television advertising is never more scrutinized than during the Super Bowl. The commercials ar part of the game’s attraction, helping explain why a 30-second spot goes for an estimated $2.5 million. Last year, 100 million people watched the game, according to Nielsen. Millions more watched the commercials online. And people love to talk about — and vote on — the best Super Bowl commercials. It’s even noted when longtime advertisers drop out, which Pepsi, General Motors and Federal Express all did this year.

Controversy is part of the formula, too, from GoDaddy’s racy commercials to an anti-abortion ad featuring college football star Tim Tebow that is expected to run during this year’s game.

So the absence of Clydesdales in Anheuser-Busch’s commercials — especially after last year’s Super Bowl contained three different spots with the horses — does not go unnoticed.

This year’s Anheuser-Busch commercials emphasize humor, a reaction to consumers worrying about the continuing economic slump and glum news overseas, Levy said.

“There’s a lot of heaviness pressing down on their lives. I think they want a departure from that. They want to laugh. They want to have fun. They want to celebrate.”

The five Bud Light commercials, all produced by St. Louis ad agency Cannonball, take aim at being funny.

In one spot, expected to run during the third quarter, a husband on his way to play softball interrupts his wife’s book club when he sees Bud Light is being served. In another commercial, running during the first quarter, friends are amazed by a

house built of blue Bud Light cans.

The two Budweiser commercials, scheduled for the second and fourth quarters, emphasize how the brand brings people together. A brief Select 55 ad, produced by St. Louis agency Momentum, comes days after the beer’s national rollout. And a Michelob Ultra commercial pushes that brand as the choice drink for Type-A personalities and features cyclist Lance Armstrong “to really cement that association with him,” Levy said.

MillerCoors is prevented from advertising on the Super Bowl national telecast by AnheuserBusch’s contract with the NFL. But using a tactic employed in years past, MillerCoors has bought airtime at the local level in some markets to air its own beer commercials during the big game.

The Clydesdales have been a part of Anheuser-Busch’s image since 1933, when the horses were introduced to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition. Anheuser-Busch owns more than 200 Clydesdales. The brewer’s traveling hitches make more than 500 public appearances a year. The horses debuted in TV commercials in 1956 and have appeared in 15 Super Bowl ads — from the Clydesdales playing football, to a young horse getting help with a hitch from his elders, to the unexpected friendship between a Clydesdale and Dalmation, to a Clydesdale who falls for a circus horse. The Clydesdale commercials tend to score highly in USA Today’s annual poll of consumer reactions to Super Bowl ads.

The Clydesdale spots tend to pull on the heart strings, said Bob Horowitz, creator and producer of the annual show “Super Bowl’s Greatest

Commercials.” But humorous spots tend to generate more buzz.

“Funny equals water cooler,” Horowitz said.

Veteran beverage industry consultant Tom Pirko supported the decision to leave the Clydesdales on the sidelines, calling their image “stale” and “nostalgic.” AnheuserBusch, which saw its beer shipments fall 2.1 percent in the U.S. last year, needs something new to inject life into the Budweiser brand, he said.

Yet, the Clydesdale are a recognizable and interesting corporate trademark, so the horses still have advertising value for the brewer.

“They’re in a bit of a bind,” said Pirko, president of Bevmark.

Antil, of the University of Delaware, said he figured the brewer would use the Clydesdales in Super Bowl commercials if only to blunt any sense that Budweiser had changed since Anheuser-Busch was bought by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev in late 2008. “If they want confusion about whether the company is un-American, then don’t put the Clydesdales in the Super Bowl,” Antil said.

The lack of Clydesdales also surprised Derek Rucker, marketing professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, who watches the big game’s commercials with his students and closely critiques the spots.

“Is this a move to change who the brand is?” Rucker said. “And what about customers who are used to seeing the Clydesdales?”

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mobile phones are many things to different people, but a Milwaukee technologist and entrepreneur hopes to turn yours into a ticket to a party, club or concert through Twicketer.com.

The Web site, currently in beta testing but available to the public, is a mobile ticketing service that lets anyone schedule events and then sell tickets — afterward providing an electronic ticket displayed on a mobile phone as proof of purchase.

It’s a paperless system that is fast, simple and safe, according to A-Sun Truth, Twicketer’s founder, who expects the convenience of tickets on smart phones will appeal to people regularly out and about.

“Five years ago, Americans weren’t ready for this,” Truth said.

“But a lot has changed since then.

That was before the iPhone, before Android phones and before the level of BlackBerry phones that we have today.”

Smart phones are now sophisticated enough to serve as portable computers, making mobile commerce less intimidating for the average consumer. And many smart phone owners are already comfortable with making purchases through their devices: Apple announced last week that its App Store, which launched in July 2008 with 500 programs, reached the 2 billion download milestone two months ago.

Twicketer lets event planners, musicians, artists and others build events online and then send out invitation links over

social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

“Peer recommendations are important, and using Twicketer your event can spread virally,” Truth said.

Those links lead back to the event pages, where visitors buy tickets via PayPal using a credit card, Google Checkout or Amazon Mobile payment systems. Twicketer charges a 99 cent service fee per mobile ticket.

A link to the e-ticket is sent via text message to the buyer’s phone, which appears on its Web browser to be shown to ticket takers or other gatekeepers at the event for entry. Tapping the e-ticket while it’s on the phone’s screen validates it with Twicketer’s service, ensuring no fakes or doubles make it through, Truth said.

“You don’t need any scanning hardware at the venue or anything like that,” he said. “There are no barcodes and no confusion.”

Twicketer backs up the e-ticket sent to the phone with a confirmation e-mail similar to those sent by other online ticketing services for movies, concerts and plays, he said.

“Our mobile tickets can be personalized, include sponsoring information, and these tickets are almost impossible to counterfeit,” he said.

The ticketing service works only on smart phones — including Apple iPhones, Android devices and BlackBerry handsets.

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DOWNTOWN Council solidifies commitment to redevelop downtown Kent Kent State, PARTA, Kent City School District, Fairmont Properties and Pizzuti Development, LLC. are all expected to sign the Declaration.

Kent City Manager Dave Ruller said he could see Kent State administrators Tom Euclide, associate vice president of facility planning and operation, and Greg Floyd, vice president of finance and administration, smiling in the back of the room as the Declaration was motioned to pass.

Euclide and Floyd attended as representatives of the university, expressing its desire to meet the downtown redevelopment literally half way. Kent State wants to extend its esplanade from its current stopping point on Lincoln Street to Erie Street, bridging the gap between the university and downtown.

Ward 5 Councilwoman Heidi Shaffer said she is looking forward to the Erie Street fence coming down.

“I am really looking forward to that neighborhood being integrated with downtown and downtown being integrated with the university,” Shaffer said. “Something needs to happen there. It’s such a gash across our community, and to have that gash opened up and healed is so exciting.”

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KENT STATE ‘Fraught with adventure’ It wasn’t the greatest first impression the school could have offered, but history does tend to repeat itself.

In 1913, just days before the first classes were to start on the Kent Normal School campus, the first student showed up to a school unprepared for her arrival.

Phillip Shriver, author of “The Years of Youth,” the book which chronicles the first 50 years of Kent State history, cited a 1933 Kent Stater article, which read, “Lowry’s first student slept on a mattress, in a room where the plaster was hardly dry, covered by several of Mrs. Johnson’s blankets.”

Lowry Hall was the first women’s dormitory, and Mr. Johnson was dean at the school and ran the show in the first few weeks while President John McGilvrey was sick with typhoid fever. The day after the first student’s arrival, Johnson had to find dishwashers for the breakfast rush and deal with various other complaints from students.

William Hildebrand, author of “A Most Noble Enterprise: The

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Kent State will be responsible for extending the esplanade to state Route 59. The city will be responsible for redoing Erie Street to “make it a great pedestrian, bicycle, autofriendly, complete street taking people all the way to Water Street and eventually downtown.”

Bowling said that both the city and the university will not have to rely solely on their budgeted money and can pursue federal money to complete the project.

Adam Branscomb, a project manager for Fairmont Properties, said his company has been working with college town development for more than 11 years and has never seen cooperation between a city and a university like with Kent and Kent State.

“All parties are extremely committed,” he said.

Ruller said he finally sees progress.

“It’s hard to feel a sense of progress with a project like this,” he said. “But meeting this milestone means something.”

Floyd said he has nothing but optimism about the future of the redevelopment project now that this hurdle is cleared.

“It’s great,” Floyd said. “It is a further reflection of the partnership between the university and the city.”

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But the beds came that day, and the school’s first students began to make the place their home.

So did Verba, and her lounge became a place where other students gathered.

“We made the floor,” she said.

The Lowry girls bonded, too.

Having been constructed in a clearing patch of dense thicket and underbrush, Lowry Hall stood seemingly alone in a wilderness.

The nearby pond and dirt paths leading between buildings made for a campus that Hildebrand writes was “a place fraught with adventure.”

The first women to live in the dorms likened the scene to something out of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” a novel about the author’s experiment with living in the wild.

“The book is about him embracing real, crude living conditions,” said English instructor Ted Lyons.

“So I assume that’s what they must have all been joking about; living in the backwoods.

“The idea that they’d be mak-

The most power in government, Burdohan said, should lie in the individual, with the least amount at the federal level.

Policies that come with Libertarianism, Burdohan said, include personal responsibility, avoiding war, decreasing taxes, stopping the War on Drugs and eliminating all discrimination.

Liston describes himself as a “100 percent diehard Libertarian.” He said Libertarians are more moderate, as opposed to liberal or conservative.

“I used to be a very staunch Republican,” Liston said. He said after the Bush administration’s Patriot Act, “bells and whistles started going off.” He began researching third-parties and eventually settled on Libertarianism.

Just as Liston discovered the party, he said others are as well. He attributes the growing number of Libertarians to a growing need for change.

Unneeded war, high taxes and discrimination against the gay population are just some of these problems, he said.

Yet, Liston said, few Americans genuinely care. He admit-

ted he was once one of those people, until he started to educate himself.

“I still don’t know why we’re not rioting in the streets over the Federal Reserve,” he said. “I mean, it just drives me crazy.”

Liston said one of his biggest goals is to get more youth involved in politics.

Among Liston’s supporters is Jim Traficant, who appeared at Liston’s first fundraiser at Akron’s Tangier Banquet and Party Center Tuesday night.

“The thing I like about Traficant is he tells you exactly what he’s thinking, and he’s not afraid to say it,” Liston said. “And he’s obviously made enemies because of it, but he’s not willing to back down. And I think anyone who’s willing to, you know, stand up for what you believe in, you have to do that.”

Even with Traficant on their side, Burdohan said winning the election will not be easy. However, he said he wouldn’t be wasting his time if there wasn’t a chance.

Burdohan said he believed the most votes a Libertarian candidate earned in an election was below 5 percent. He said it would be great if they could “break into the double digits” with votes for Liston.

Some of the problem, Burdohan said, is that all third-party candidates used to be listed on voting ballots as independent.

The Libertarian Party sued the state in order to get ballot access.

This means third-party candidates can now be listed on ballots as Libertarian, Socialist, Green or whatever party they affiliate with.

“Never before has a Libertarian been elected to a state office in

Ohio,” Liston said. “We’re trying to make history.”

ing jokes about Walden and about Thoreau is interesting. They were really in some ways closer to ‘Walden’ than they are to us.”

“Walden Hill,” as the women called it, would only resemble a piece of that wilderness for a few more years.

The growing number of students on campus prompted the president to build a temporary pavilion where classes could be held outdoors; it had only a thin layer of canvas separating studious pupils from the oftendistracting elements. Heat and rain made it difficult to study in what they called the Tabernacle.

By 1923, a women’s gymnasium, Moulton Hall, Kent Hall and a power and heating plant were constructed, as well as an administration building.

Students who couldn’t fit on campus rented rooms in homes throughout Kent, Brady Lakes, Twin Lakes and Silver Lakes.

Because women made up the majority of the school’s student body, the few men who attended lived off campus.

A smaller population of men created two problems. The first was the lack of available young bachelors. “Tree skinners,” apprentice Davey Tree surgeons living in

Kent, were the solution.

“They supplied handy dates for the young women,” Hildebrand said. “I don’t think the young women were ever heard to complain.”

The second problem came on the football field.

“They didn’t have enough to make up a team,” Hildebrand said.

“People thought they’d never win a game.”

The school’s first baseball team was comprised of both Kent Normal boys and high school students. By the 1920s when the men’s health and business courses were offered, more men were coming to the school and could join sports teams.

Meanwhile, the Roaring ‘20s and the Age of Jazz were sweeping the nation.

“The tremendous change toward sexuality affected the culture, especially in women’s fashion,” Hildebrand said.

“Women wore their skirts up high, and they danced on table tops.”

Hildebrand wrote, “Women started wearing their skirts shorter and shorter and bobbing their hair, painting their faces, smoking cigarettes, and riding, unescorted, in motorcars driven by men.”

Codes of conduct were difficult to enforce.

“They didn’t have much luck imposing them on those rebellious spirits,” Hildebrand said, adding that such codes continued through the 1950s.

At one point, a women’s adviser tried to impose a modest rule for her students.

“She insisted that the girls turn framed pictures of their boyfriends backwards so they wouldn’t be looking at them when they were dressing,” Shriver said.

In the meantime, the first oncampus newspaper began. The Kentonian was a small booklet printed weekly and produced by students. It would later evolve into a literary publication, and The Searchlight would emerge as the next news publication.

“The student newspaper, beginning with the Kentonian, was avidly read by students,” Shriver said. “It was their means of keeping up with what was going on on campus because there wasn’t radio, there wasn’t TV.” While a community developed at the school, its president was facing more difficulties with the state.

Having successfully lobbied for the school’s name to be changed

to Kent Normal College, he was even more determined to push for his goal of transitioning to a university. He would face roadblocks and opposition the whole way, eventually losing favor with the Board of Trustees.

But he maintained it with students. To prevent the suitcase campus effect, he brought in theater groups and singers and hosted Stunt Days and May Days to keep students active and happy.

“Their student body came primarily out of Northeast Ohio so there was a temptation for many of them to go home on the weekends,” Shriver said. “If Kent was going to be more of a national university, it had to provide activity over the weekends for those students who wouldn’t be able to go home.”

The students thrived, and McGilvrey pushed forward with the same energy he’d always possessed. But things would take a turn in 1926 when the college lost its leader.

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Junior fine arts major Stephanie Brewer studies and watches over Reunion, the current show in the School of Art Gallery. The show features the work of seven artists, who were all former students at Kent State.

It will be on display until Feb. 19.

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Make a list of what you need and pick it up on the way home. Test a new recipe today.

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Today’s birthday (2/4/10) Make this the year to develop an alternative income stream. Have some brilliant ideas for a product or story?

Develop them now. Take every opportunity to meet like-minded people to share ideas and get strong feedback.

Don’t be afraid to work hard for what you want.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 5. Your partner or close associate supports your main thesis.

Work out details as the two of you move forward. Take the project home with you.

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No pets. One year lease. Available in August. 330-673-8505 1 bedroom apartment in a house.

Kitchen, living room, bath, . Separate entrance. No pets. One year lease.

Available in August. 330-673-8505 Quiet Off Campus Living Rowanoake Apartments in Streetsboro. Less than 8 miles from campus. 1 bedrooms available $585/ month plus electric. Call 330-6269149.

Ask about move in specials!

Rent in Kent Enjoy spacious 4&5 bedrooms duplexes with 2 full baths. Great condition, great location, A/C, W/D, dishwasher, deck, garage. $1,2001,750. 330-808-4045 UNIVERSITY TOWNHOMES, 4 or 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, A/C, Washer & Dryer, newly remodeled unit available in Fall 2010. Rent as low as $265 per month per bedroom with option for ALL inclusive payment plan to cover all utilities except cable/internet at $335 per month. Call 440-552-5840

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Close to KSU 330-673-5364 For 2010-11: One Month Free Close to Campus 2 Large apartments, licensed, private parking, large yard, large front porch. 4 bedroom $1400/$350 each. 4/5 bedroom $1500, $300/$375 each. (330) 6263957 3 Bedroom house available for Fall.

Great condition, full appliances, $350/bedroom 1, $325/per bedroom 2-3. Close to Campus 330-673-1225 Fall- 6 bedroom house. Large bedrooms. 2 full baths. Basement.

Large off street parking. $350/ bedroom. Call Drew 440-821-3524 Great furnished 4 bedroom house for 4-5. 2 bath, A/C, D/W, W/D. $335/$280 with utilities or $255/$215 water/trash only. Minutes to KSU. Available May 22nd. 330-388-2201 Newer 4/5 Bedroom duplex, flat screen t.v., washer/dryer, air, sun deck, close to campus, nice yard, 1240-1500/month. Website: http:// web.me.com/allen291/.

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For Fall: 4 bedroom and 3 bedroom apartments $400/month per room, security deposit required. Heat included, laundry room. No pets.

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Call Dr. Miller at (330) 618-7764

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Kent State students and the cast of Jersey Shore had this in common last Thursday at 157 Lounge as students got a chance to take center stage, mimicking their favorite Guido or Guidette character.

The bar was filled with fake tans, flashy clothing and hair gel. One girl won VIP status at the bar for the night for having the highest poof.

The Shore-like party atmosphere had alumnus Ray Campbell hyping the crowd and a DJ playing upbeat music as students danced and mingled.

“The Situation” brought out students in their Jersey gear to celebrate the popularity of the recently aired MTV reality television show, which ended its first season last week.

MTV announced on Jan. 29 that the second season, consisting of 12 episodes, was ordered and will Daily Kent air this summer.

For the second season, the original cast will be moved from the chilly northeast to a destination unrevealed.

While the harbor remains a mystery, it’s no secret fans are excitedly waiting to tune in for more drama, Jersey Shore parties and — of course, more fist pumping.

Cassandra Adams Stater

While you’re waiting for Jersey Shore to return, keep it alive by throwing a smallscale version of 157 Lounge’s popular party.

How to throw a Jersey Shore party:

■ Put up beach-themed decorations to get that Shore vibe ■ Give guests glow sticks at the door ■ Specify no entrance unless they have Jersey Attire, which

includes, but is not limited to: ripped shirts, Affliction tees, sunglasses, Bumpits, revealing outfits, heels, hair extensions and hair gel.

■ Play the Jersey Shore soundtrack, A.K.A. fist-pumping music ■ Give awards for highest bump, best fist pumping and best Guido and Guidette.

■ Jager Bombs, Jager Bombs, Jager Bombs! Enough said.

■ Make Ron-Ron Juice, a special blended cocktail containing watermelon, cranberry juice and booze.

Can’t wait for this summer to get your Jersey Shore fix?

Watch the Jersey Shore Marathon on Sunday, which will be running all day up to the Super Bowl.

SHAYE A. PAINTER | DAILY KENT STATER

Kent State students had a chance to mimic their favorite “Jersey Shore” characters at last Thursday night’s “Jersey Shore Party” at the 157 Lounge in downtown Kent.

Understanding the lingo Juice head- Guido who uses steroids Battlefield- dance floor at a club Smooshing- hooking up Grenade or Grenade Launcher - An unattractive friend of a

girl you are trying to creep on.

Robbery- The act of stealing a girl from another guy women.

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Quotes From the Cast of Jersey Shore:

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There’s no way I’m going to Jersey without my hair gel.

Can’t leave without my gel.

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Students came with fake tans, dressed in flashy clothes, gelled hair on the guys and poofed hair on the girls, ready to do some fist pumping.

Tools for Getting Snooki’s Poof

Friggin’ duck phone!

KentWired.com See a demonstration of how to get the ‘poof’ plus an extra edition of Jersey Shore K-walking at KentWired.com

- Snooki

1.Hair Spray 2.Hair Spray 3.Bobby Pins 4.Hair Spray

Tall, completely jacked, steroids, like, multiple growth hormones ... that’s the type I’m attracted to.” - JWoww

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February MONTHLY SPECIALS

Mugs: Soco and Lime shot — $3.25. Jack and Ginger drink — $3.75. Honkers Ale — $3.50 pint, $4.25 tall. Miller Lite — $2 pint, $3 tall.

Professors Pub: Half-off drafts for the first half of every Cavs game Dominick’s: Free pool on Tuesdays and Thursday. Happy hour is from 3 to 9 p.m. with Bud Light — $2 pints. Cherry and Grape bombs — $2.50.

BW3: Beer of the month: Bud Light — $2.75 tall. Happy hour is from 3 to 9 p.m. with talls priced as pints and $2 house liquors. Thursdays: margaritas — $2. Fridays: bombs and cosmopolitans — $3.

Riverside Wine: Happy hour is from 4 to 7 p.m. with $1 off drafts. Mondays and Tuesday have no corking fee so patrons pay retail price to drink wine in restaurant.

Franklin Square Deli: Monday— $3 half subs. Tuesday — combo with chips, slaw and a medium drink for $1.50. Wednesday — $5 Reubens. Thursday — $1 off Louisiana BBQ Pork. Friday — $4 bagel sandwich. Saturdays and Sundays — $1 off any whole sub.

Euro Gyro: Small one-topping pizza — $5. Philly Steak sub — $5. Chicken hoagie sub — $5. Gyros — $5. Any pizza pita — $5. Wednesday — $5 large one-item pizza for pick-up only.

Ray’s Place: Draft of the month: Molson — $2.50 pint, $2.99 tall. Guinness — $3.95 pint, $4.50 tall and $4.95 for a tall with a 20-ounce keepsake glass. Sex on the Beach shot — $2.95. Cherry bomb — $2.95. Chilled Shark Water shots — $3. Long Island Ice Tea — $3.50. Spiced rum and coke — $2.95. Tropical rum and coke — $2.95. Amaretto Sour — $2.95.

The Loft: Natural Light — $1.25 mugs, $6 pitcher. Bud Light — $1.50 mugs, $7 pitchers. Cherry and Grape bombs — $2.50. All Stoli flavors, Dr. Peppers, Long Beach, Washington Apples and A Starry Nights —$3.

Finding the perfect pet

How It Works

A hookah, or shisha, is usually shared between four to five people. Smokers inhale through a hose attached to a glass tobacco pipe that passes through water to cool the smoke. It gives smokers a buzz without the feeling of burning like cigarettes do.

The Risks

Hookah was created by Indian physician Hakim Abul Fateh Gilani to “purify” the effects of tobacco. Through the centuries this has lead to myths that insist hookah is safe.

“Our view of hookah safety could be paralleled to how society used to view cigarettes,” said Sharon Briggs, a health educator at University Health Services. “Even though some individuals would compare hookah use to an occasional beer, some things in moderation are just as risky.”

Briggs offers her input on some other common myths about smoking hookah.

Myth: Since hookah

is filtered through water, it filters out the harmful ingredients.

M y t h : Since hookah is filtered through water, it filters out the is harmful ingredients.

“This false. Not all toxins are

filtered out through the water.”

Myth: If it feels OK while inhaling, is it still unhealthy if we don’t feel the burning smoke?

“The feel of smoke being inhaled is not an indicator of the harm the smoke can or does cause. As with ‘light’ cigarettes, it is a misleading concept.

“When an individual smokes a light cigarette they often pull deeper on the cigarette and then not only inhale deeper, but may even tend to hold it in the lungs a bit longer than with regular cigarettes.

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Puff-n-Stuff, located at 423 E. Main St., sells hookahs ranging from $45 to $100. The store sees most of its business at the start of each semester.

“Students use them outside the dorms,” said Alex Zarlino, an employee at Puff-n-Stuff.

Contact features correspondent Ryan Sheridan at rsherid1@kent.edu.

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Almost four years ago on March 17, Rachel Hunter decided she wanted a pet rabbit. She had just found out how inexpensive it was to keep one, so she made an impulse buy — one she doesn’t regret.

“It was St. Patrick’s Day, so that’s why I named him Lucky,” the senior electronic media production major said.

Hunter said Lucky is a mini Castor Rex and his fur is what you’d imagine the Velveteen Rabbit’s fur to feel like. She said he’s low-maintenance. All she mainly buys for him is Timothy Hay, pellets and bedding.

“The Timothy Hay is what he eats,” Hunter said. “The pellets I give him twice a day and then treats.”

Andrew Maglott, a veterinarian at Memorial Animal Hospital in Ravenna, said pocket pets such as fish, rabbits, hamsters, gerbils and rats are popular for college students.

“They don’t need vaccines, they’re theoretically portable,” Maglott said. “They are not necessarily high-maintenance pets, but they can have some other medical issues as far as ear problems, mouth problems, etc.”

Maglott said if a college student wants to buy a cat or a dog, they need to consider the costs first.

“There are always animals that are adoptable, but there are costs with those,” Maglott said. “Puppies and kittens in particular, by the time you get them vaccines and spays and neuters, through the first six months you can easily be running $300 or $400.”

He said yearly costs of a dog

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would be about $1,000 and a cat would probably be about $120 a year. The owner would also have to add on annual vaccinations costs. Maglott said the easiest animal for a college student to take care of would be a smaller one.

“The costs are pretty minimal,” he said. “They don’t require vaccinations annually and maybe a visit once a year just to check them over.”

Maglott said a lot of college students choose to own fish, especially in their first year because of rules in the dorms. Kent State’s Hallway’s Handbook says because of maintenance and sanitation problems, residence services only allow fish as long as the tank is less than 30 gallons.

Hunter said it didn’t matter to her, though, she still sneaked

Lucky into the dorms.

“The first year I got him, my roommate wouldn’t let me keep him in the room, so he lived with my friend down the hall,” she said. “But it was really close to the end of the semester, and then I went home.”

She said she almost got caught repeatedly, but she was very careful about it.

“I lived on the seventh floor, but I was afraid to use the elevators when he was with me,” she said. “So I walked up all seven flights of stairs.”

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Myth: Hookah isn’t addictive.

“Any product that contains nicotine is addictive.

“Certain types of tobacco as well as the means of obtaining the nicotine may have an impact on the amount of nicotine, but in the end absorbing nicotine is, and will be, addicting. In many cases, the tobacco in a hookah may contain higher levels of nicotine than a cigarette.”

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This is due to the fact that the light cigarette does not provide the same immediate nicotine effect that a regular cigarette does. So, as noted, the mild feeling a hookah user experiences is giving them a false sense of security.

“Additionally, the toxins are a very real concern regardless of the temperature of the smoke inhaled.”

“Any time an individual is inhaling a toxic substance into the lungs there is risk, and there are several issues that actually make hookahs worse than cigarettes.

“Eight times more carbon monoxide and up to 36 times more tar will be inhaled by a hookah smoker than by a cigarette smoker. Other issues that hookah smokers face include infections transmitted by individuals sharing a mouthpiece.

Colds, the flu and even herpes can be passed from one individual to another.”

Despite these risks, Bensinger is still hooked on hookah.

“The risks do not bother me,” he said. “In most cases, a person does not smoke hookah by themselves.”

There are more than 300 hookah bars in the U.S, many of which are located near college campuses, and Kent is no exception. The FireFly, located at 124 S. Water St. in downtown Kent, is a hot spot for Kent State students to hang out and smoke hookah.

“I think we offer something that a lot of places in Kent don’t,” said Serene Shehabi, a manager at FireFly and senior biology major. “You can come here and dance around or sit and study. It kind of adapts to whatever you want it to be. Plus, we have a lot of fun flavors.”

Bensinger often frequents the bar to get his hookah fix.

“I enjoy the FireFly because of the low lighting and the kind of music [they play],” he said. “My friends and I have even gone as far as to buy our own hookahs to create a similar setting right in our own homes.”

Allison Smith

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Strawberry, grape and watermelon are just a few of the many flavors you might taste when smoking a hookah.

Hookah, a 17th-century Indian creation that rose to popularity in the Middle East, is now a popular trend among college students.

“Not only is smoking hookah very relaxing,” said Collin Bensinger, sophomore entrepreneurship major, “but it provides an opportunity to gather your friends and talk about whatever.”

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Cross the Kent border for some authentic Mexican Stand offers homemade tacos,burritos Darren D’Altorio

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The Mexican food at Taqueria La Loma on State Route 91 in east Akron is not pretty. But that’s the best part. The food is what it is because of what it’s not.

It’s not fancifully wrapped in logo-bearing wax paper or cardboard. There is no assembly line of veggies behind a streak-free glass barrier.

Drive-through window?

Nope.

Billboards along the freeway?

Ha. Cute slogans? Not a chance.

There are no gimmicks. No 99-cent menus. No drive-through diets. No wrap yourself in tinfoil and get a free burrito day.

What La Loma does have is authentic, made-to-order Mexican food, cooked by the heat of a propane grill and served through the window of a graffiti-tagged trailer.

There is no double-decker anything. No fake, yellow cheese sauce. No soft or crunchy.

There are just the classic Mexican items: tacos, burritos, tortas (a Mexican sandwich), quesadillas, tamales, chimichangas, flautas and alambre (a Mexican stir-fry).

After picking one or more items, choose the meat. The choices are steak, beef, spicy

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marinated beef, chorizo sausage, chicken, pork and cow tongue.

That’s all there is to it. Pick item. Choose meat. Then wait five minutes in the car or pace the parking lot where La Loma is located for the food to be ready.

When the plain to-go container is placed in your hand, excitement hits, along with subtle spicy aromas.

Open it, and let the warmth and gooey goodness greet the senses. Touch the freshly made corn or flour tortillas. Watch the queso fresco melt into a white cream, smothering the browned meat, fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cilantro. Reach into the bag of goodies that comes with every meal, which contains limes, radishes and cucumbers.

Grab a few lime wedges and

Editor’s note: Every other week, we’d like to share work from student authors. From science-fiction to romance, we want to give you an escape to your day.

Each story will begin in this section and end at KentWired.com.

If you would like to see your work here, send an email to mdilley2@kent.edu.

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spray the cool juice all over the Kent State steamy mess. Top University your food with one, or both, of the included sauces — either the salsa verde or the spicy red picante.

Using hands, and only hands, grab the food and eat. And try hard to remember La Loma is not in Mexico, even though it tastes like it is.

Nicole Hennessy

Daily Kent Stater

Contact features reporter Darren D’Altorio at ddaltor@kent.edu.

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Italian fine dining with a twist of causuality comes to Hudson More than pizza and spaghetti Darren D’Altorio

Daily Kent Stater There is not a shortage of restaurants in the historic city of Hudson.

From fine dining to Mickey D’s, the city has everything necessary to combat hunger.

But Soni Mihaj, general manager of Gusto D’ Italia, thinks his restaurant has something Hudson was missing.

“We were very surprised there was no decent Italian food here,” he said while sitting at a corner table of Gusto D’ Italia’s dimly lit dining room.

In light of this perceived void, Gusto D’ Italia was born about six weeks ago.

My meal started how every Italian meal should: with bread. Italian rolls with golden crust and chewy centers came with an herb-infused butter.

Executive Chef Chris Shydlowski provided a “chef’s table” experience for the remainder of the meal. This consisted of scaled-down portions of a variety of food to better sample the different flavors found on the menu.

Shydlowski’s background is in fusion fine dining, which borrows ingredients and techniques from multiple culinary origins and blends them to create cohesive dishes. He said working in one ethnic group is a challenge for him because he gets bored, but he tried to make Gusto’s menu as diverse as possible while staying true to traditional Italian cooking.

Appetizers were the Tuscan shrimp and the crab cake, which is one of Shydlowski’s signature items.

The crab cake was not fried but panseared then finished in the oven. It was served with a red pepper aioli.

Gusto D’ Italia Atmosphere: Casual din-

ing room with walk-in wine cellar, private party rooms, full-service bar and cocktail lounge.

Price: Appetizers and salads: $6 - $12. Entrees: $13 - $31 Specials:

Every day from 3p.m. to 6 p.m. — happy hour and half-off appetizers in the lounge.

Wednesday — live jazz and acoustic music in the lounge.

Thursday — retail wine

night for dine-in and carry-out.

Sunday — kids under 12

eat free with their parents.

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The shrimp were sautéed with white wine and garlic then paired with roasted red peppers and artichoke hearts.

Two salads followed — a Caprese and a Mediterranean salad. The Caprese was perfect: thin-sliced, vine-ripened tomatoes layered with fresh mozzarella cheese and covered with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and basil. The Mediterranean was lackluster in comparison. The salty brine of the Kalamata olives and feta cheese overpowered the acetic tart of the lemon vinaigrette dressing.

Shydlowski prepared four scaleddown entrees: veal tenderloin saltimbocca, osso bucco, Gusto D’ Italia macaroni and cheese and frutti di

The osso bucco at Gusto D’ Italia in Hudson. mare.

The macaroni and cheese consisted of fusilli noodles tossed with sautéed chicken and caramelized shallots. The pasta was covered in a Brie and fontina cheese sauce and topped with breadcrumbs.

The veal saltimbocca was slightly overcooked, which could be attributed to the smaller portion size I was served. The roasted potatoes on the side lacked seasoning. The highlight was the sage and port reduction covering the meat.

The frutti di mare came with shrimp, scallops, mussels and clams served over linguini with an herb and tomato pomodoro sauce. It was executed perfectly: al dente pasta, sauce-marinated mussels and clams and melt-in-your-mouth scallops.

The osso bucco, which comes from the calf portion of an animal, was veal. Just as osso bucco should, the meat easily separated from the bone with the touch of a fork. A delicious red wine demi covered the meat. Paired with it were the bland potatoes and a saffron and red pepper risotto. The risotto was either overcooked or not stirred properly while cooking, making it lumpy on the tongue instead of smooth. An

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edible flower was placed atop the dish, giving it height and flair.

Overall, the experience was decent. Being a young restaurant, the execution of the dishes needs to be honed. I do think people will give it a fair chance to stand out as one of the better Italian restaurants in Northeast Ohio, a place that offers more than pizza and spaghetti.

Mihaj said providing quality service is the most important thing to him.

“We’re offering a comfortable, casual, elegant fine-dining experience at a moderate price point,” Mihaj said. “We’re not a stuck up fine dining place, our servers will know you by name and offer friendly, great service.”

“There is room for a lot of different tastes here,” Shydlowski said.

“We’re not just a special occasion restaurant; there is diversity in the cuisine.”

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and I watched them move involuntarily.

His eyes opened slowly, and he sat up. Vaguely looking in my direction, he began to speak, as if to himself.

“I had to sell my thoughts to validate them, but they kept changing the order of them. It was all materialism, materialism, materialism! And ‘don’t get left behind, we’re going somewhere.’

I just wanted to watch society from the outside and show ‘the masses’ pictures of themselves; in words. I wanted to show them that their disgust with the world was their disgust with themselves. But I kept getting sucked in. I wasn’t strong enough.”

As he spoke, the blank expression on my face was sideways and falling off. My mind began humming with the luminosity of a fluorescent light about to burn out. “... So I wrote stories that no one would read. I began standing on street corners screaming them at random passers-by. I became the ugly, mad, disillusioned artist murmuring about capitalism in my sleep. I became their martyr, soaking up that disgust they harbored so deeply within themselves…”

I leaned against the trunk of the tree, sitting with my legs scrunched up and my head resting on my knees. His eyes swam around in his skull and his words drifted out of his mouth in waves. His story deviated from his rant and began without introduction.

“The bare trees contorted themselves unnaturally and had no empathy for their poor dead leaves lying on the ground. Once they all grew straight, pretty trunks and branches, sprouting foliage, unaware that their roots carried their souls off to the sea.

They were the prettiest, most well-behaved trees around, until one day a traveler came to wander in the 14th-century church they overlooked for not nearly as long as the church had overlooked the sea, which was stealing their souls. Instead of marveling at the magnificent chapel, he started climbing the trees and photographing the area from that position. He leapt from limb to limb, tree to tree, until he exhausted himself and climbed down. He never even stepped foot in the church. He followed the winding road to his next destination. So, then, did the trees.”

His purple, velvet coat had four gold buttons going down the right side, and I secretly savored their opulence. His story was still reverberating in the air and the tides of his eyes had calmed.

When the cars drove over the red bricks of the street, their tires hit each crack and paused the way the earth would if it wanted to stop spinning forever. The pause was so completely integrated into the revolution that it barely existed at all. Interstellar light reflected on the blank expression of my face as I waited, in silence, for the time to pass.

I contemplated the life around me, but there was no thought that could console the bush, which wilted in the heat, or the way its flowers sunk, in vases, remembering my little fingers snapping their limbs; the patter of my bare feet.

Three birds were perched in a tree and they were singing.

As I lay on my back, among the smooth green blades of grass, the horizon curved ceaselessly.

Suddenly, the birds flapped their wings hard enough to carry their bodies across the sky and a leg appeared, hanging from one of the tree’s branches. It was a long, skinny leg. I sat up to get a better look at it, still not seeing the body it belonged to. I stood and walked over to the tree, leaning my head all the way back. My shadow pressed against the crumbling asphalt of my driveway. The leg just hung there, swinging in the breeze, its body obscured by leaves. I reached for the lowest branch with both of my arms and pulled myself up. The leg was about five branches higher, directly above my head. On the bottom of the shoe was a strange symbol I had never seen before.

I wrapped my arms around the tree’s trunk, swinging my right leg toward the nearest branch. Bark peeled from the tree as I maneuvered my way upward, finally reaching the branch that the body of the dangling leg slept in.

The rhythm of his breathing reproduced the dreams he was enduring in his head. Calm, yet inconsistent breaths escaped him, and I inhaled them blissfully. His blue mohawk glistened in the Contact features reporter afternoon sun. His long nose sat Nicole Hennessy at between his almond-shaped eyes. nhenness@kent.edu.

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Inexpensive animals such as fish, ferrets and many different breeds of birds can be adopted from Pet Junction in Stow.

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Style Eye on Kent Remah Doleh

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As I continue my journey in New York, I can’t help but stop and look at the graffiti. It’s everywhere: the subway stations, buildings, and in some cases, on roofs. Graffiti is inspirational; It mixes art with self-expression, which substantially influences streetwear fashion. Design ers such as Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse are prime examples of the impact graffiti has made in fashion. Louis Vuitton had a limited-edition Sprouse collection in which colorful graffiti covered the LV monogram.

It’s truly remarkable how graffiti is taken from a side of a building and is reflected onto a designer’s collection.

Sure, graffiti is controversial and illegal, but it’s inevitable.

Graffiti adds color to our black and white world.

There is a very thin line between style and graffiti. Both induce emotions, both have a strong influence in our society and both are inescapable and creative, one of a kind. But most importantly, they both represent who we are as individuals.

Ziad Assad, from Brooklyn, is a stylish graffiti artist well known in his area. I was eager to learn more about the man with the spray can.

What does Style mean to you?

Style is you; it’s who you are and that’s very important, you know? It’s about being comfortable in the clothes you wear.

Do you believe New York is the most stylish place?

Of course. I’m from Brooklyn, I have to represent! The style from

Assad

the streets are like no other city.

Does graffiti influence your style?

Definitely. I like to be comfortable while tagging but at the same time looking good.

my white Obey tee and my faux

Explain what you are wearing.

My style is crazy. I like wearing and mixing different clothes.

I’m wearing blue jeans with my white sneakers. It’s matched with

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leather jacket. I’m also wear-

ing my New York beanie with

my orange goggles. Oh, and my mouth mask.

Remah Doleh at rdoleh@kent.edu.

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