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DAILY KENT STATER
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THE CENTENNIAL SERIES
LOOKING BACK
YEARS
1940
The first McDonald’s opens in Pasadena, California.
1941
May 1 | Cheerios is first produced as CheeriOats by General Mills
1942
The Manhattan Project is developed to aid the United States in its effort to design and build an atomic bomb.
1943
To prevent inflation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes prices, salaries and wages.
1944
Congress passes the GI Bill of Rights, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.
1945
The U.S. drops atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively.
1946
Nov 12 | The first drive-up bank teller windows are opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois.
1947
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is formed.
1948
George A. Gamow introduces the “Big Bang” theory to explain the creation of the universe.
1949 Color TV is introduced to mainstream American society.
1950
Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz is first released.
Credit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America Vol. 3 Francis Sicius and Randall Miller
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A bombing and a revolution
Daily Kent Stater
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he Sept. 11 attacks stirred something in Josh Collins, then a criminal justice major. “I don’t know what stopped me from enlisting instantly,” he said. “Maybe a little bit of fear.” But three years later, when Collins was a senior, he joined the Army. “I really felt like I had to do my part as an American,” he said. “It was something I was proud to do. I was excited to do it. I wanted to go over and serve.” Such was the sentiment of thousands of students across the nation on Dec. 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. “I remember when the news came that they had attacked the fleet,” Phillip Shriver, author of the Kent State history book called “The Years of Youth,” who was a student at Yale University at the time. “The attitude had changed 180 degrees on campus.” Students went from viewing the war as a foreign concern to feeling they had to defend themselves. “The line from recruiting station on Monday after Peal Harbor was more than a block long of students volunteering to go into the military service,” he said. While the war would mean economic prosperity for the country as it rallied in war production efforts, it would be disastrous for Kent State. “Enrollment was at 2,700 before the war,” Shriver said. “That figure dropped to 600 during the war.” “For the most part college and university attendance went down significantly,” said history professor Bradley Keefer. “The war effort required both men and women power.” Extension classes, which were still being held at the time, suffered more. “Many of them virtually dried up,” Keefer said. “They didn’t disappear, but they were cut back to the point where they were at the bare minimum, bare bones.” If the university escaped a fate as an insane asylum during the Great Depression by the skin of its teeth, it was by an even smaller margin that it escaped a worse fate during World War II. The devastating dive in enrollment made employing faculty and staff difficult. The same
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KSU war participants: 5,000 KSU spring of 1941 wartime enrollment: 696 US men in war: 16,112,566 US battle deaths: 291,557 US wounded: 670,846
Most popular boy’s names 1940: James, Robert, John Most popular girl’s names 1940: Mary, Barbara, Patricia Credit: Phillip Shriver, The Years of Youth and infoplease.com
SHAYE A. PAINTER | DAILY KENT STATER
Junior guard Jamilah Humes drives past an Akron defender during the second half of last night’s game in the M.A.C. Center. Humes had 31 points on the night. The Flashes won 67 to 64.
Women’s team flips Zips Lance Lysowski
Daily Kent Stater Before last night’s game, the Kent State women’s basketball team held a firm 33-3 record against Akron in Kent State coach Bob Lindsay’s 20-year tenure. Lindsay and the Flashes continued their success over the rival, defeating the Zips 67-64. Akron led 31-28 at the half, but Kent State (18-8, 11-3 MidAmerican Conference) built a 38-36 lead with 15:39 remaining in the game before the Flashes put together a 12-4 run. A fadeaway jumper by junior guard Jamilah Humes capped the run, and accounted for two of her
Daily Kent Stater Tonight and tomorrow, students can get “down, down, down, down, down” to Jay Sean and the rest of the artists and comedians coming to Kent for Cabin Fever weekend. Cabin Fever Weekend starts tonight with Jay Sean and DJ Scrilla performing in the M.A.C. Center. Tickets are $10 for Kent students, and general admission tickets are available through Ticketmaster. One dollar of each ticket
sold will go to UNICEF. Scott Sherwood, executive director for USG, said this is part of their “ten on ten on ten” campaign, a collective collaboration on campus where the goal is to make $10,000 in 10 weeks in 2010. “It’ll be a good show and contribute to relief efforts,” Sherwood said. Freshman exploratory major Angelia Teseo said she is excited because she has never seen a famous rapper perform, and it will be nice to get out with her friends. “I can’t wait to see Jay Sean per-
See WOMEN’S, Page A6
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An unidentified coed stands in front of a Military Restricted Area sign. “The 336th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) came to Kent from Miami, Florida, in March 1943 to take advantage of Kent’s experience in training civilian pilots.” Photograph appears on Page 101 of the 1944 Chestnut Burr and on Page 73 of “A Book of Memories”. men in uniform who had rushed to the defense of the country after Pearl Harbor would come to rescue the university. “It appears to me that the Army was seeking sites on university and college campuses on which Army air cadets could engage in military training, but also take coursework in the classroom,” said Cara Gilgenbach, head of Special Collections. “KSU seems to have applied to be considered as one such site and in March 1943 was informed
that it had been selected as an army air cadet training site.” The KSU Annual Catalog, dated 1943-1944, said the university’s dorms and classrooms were found in excellent condition for the training of aircrew trainees. The recent development of an aerospace program on campus and the newly acquired Stow airport put Kent State over the top. See REVOLUTION, Page A6
Flashes topple Falcons Cody Erbacher
Daily Kent Stater The Kent State men’s basketball team pulled out its third straight comeback victory yesterday, defeating Bowling Green 75-69. The win secures a first-round bye for the Flashes in the Mid-American Conference tournament. “We showed some heart tonight,” Kent State coach Geno Ford said. “I thought in the first half, guys were into themselves and that’s all we talked about at halftime. We didn’t make any strategic adjustments (in the second half).”
Kent State ‘down’ with entertainment this weekend Michelle Bair
31 points on the night. Humes said the success came with the pace of the game, and she looked to challenge her opponent on every possession. “I guess it was just one of those nights,” Humes said. “Everything just flowed right, and I wanted to challenge their smaller defenders.” With just over a minute to play, Akron (15-12, 9-5 MAC) narrowed the deficit to five and looked to cut it to three, but senior forward Yoshica Spears grabbed a rebound on a Zips’ missed lay-in.
form,” Teseo said. “It will be the highlight of my month.” Tomorrow night, comedians John Caparulo, Chad Zumock and Mike Polk will perform stand-up free for Kent State students, and $10 for the general public. Caparulo has been on the TV show “Chelsea Lately.” Polk, 32, said that he has never met Caparulo, but he thinks he is hilarious. He said that he and Zumock hung out at Kent State together and remain friends. Polk graduated from Kent State in 2001 with a communications and
psychology degree. “I have a full time job writing ads for a series of Web sites,” said Polk. “Comedy is something that I do for fun.” Polk said he spends a lot of time with ladies, “kissing them on their mouths and what-not.” He said that he is also in a motivational rock band called Falconheart, which takes up a lot of time. “I’m not excited about this Friday,” said Polk. “But that’s not a knock on Kent. I don’t get excited about much of anything. I’m kind
of dead inside. I would say that they should probably anticipate me getting uncomfortably intoxicated, like to the point where they sort of pity me, and then they can expect me to try to convince them to let me sleep in their dorm rooms. That’s sort of a little tradition of mine.” Contact on-campus entertainment reporter Michelle Bair at mbair1@kent.edu. React to this story and more at KentWired.com
The beginning of the second half gave the few Kent State fans in Anderson Arena a feeling of displeasure as the Flashes (21-8, 11-3 MAC) trailed the Falcons (14-13, 6-8 MAC) by 12 points. But the Flashes, who have looked like a seasoned comeback team in the team’s previous two games, refused to go away. It took the Flashes nearly half of the game’s second half until they dipped into the Falcons’ double-digit lead, and it wouldn’t take much longer for the momentum to favor Kent State. See MEN’S, Page A6