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KSU combats recession with philanthropy Fundraising grows as state funding slows Jenna Staul

Daily Kent Stater As universities across the country scale back on fundraising efforts in the economic downturn, philanthropy at Kent State is still revving up.

Kent State is using fundraising

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to combat steep state budget cuts, according to university officials.

The university’s fundraising arm has raised $32 million in donations so far this fiscal year. Last year, it brought in a record $37 million thanks to several big-ticket donations.

“What we do is we look to our alumni to provide opportunities outside of our budget situations,” said Eugene Finn, vice president for institutional advancement. “We are

never necessarily going to fill that gap because we’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding cuts.”

The recession has taken a heavy toll on philanthropy at universities nationwide — donations declined by 11.9 percent nationally in 2009, according to a survey by the Council for Aid to Education. But Kent State isn’t feeling the lag.

That’s because fundraising is a relatively new venture for the uni-

versity, which ended its first major campaign in 2001 under former President Carol Cartwright. “(Kent State) relied on state budgeting and didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to fundraising over the years, and that’s not unusual,” Finn said. “Had we been at this level of giving prior to the recession, we probably would have seen a decline.”

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FUNDRAISING SO FAR Centennial Campaign is a 5-year campaign, with a goal of raising $250 million.

FISCAL YEAR 2010

OVERALL

Top 3 commitments for the Fiscal Year 2010 to date (July 1, 2009-June30, 2010) for a single gift or pledge:

Top 3 commitments since the campaign began for a single gift or pledge:

$13.5 million

$13.5 million

College of Technology

College of Technology

$12.7 million

Athletics Equity Endowment

$6.5 million

$1.2 million $500,000

Founders Medallion Scholarships (5)

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Roe Green Performing Arts Center

Source: Cynthia Crimmins from the Kent State Foundation

THE CENTENNIAL SERIES

‘The Golden Years’

KSU was poised for greatness after WWII Kristine Gill

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It was on a Sunday afternoon Sept.. 4 The term “Rock ‘n’ Roll” is used in 1946 that Roger F. Di Paolo and by radio disc jockey Alan Freed to three fellow veterans decided to promote rhythm and blues music to visit Kent State. white audiences.

“They lived in the Ohio Valley and one of them had heard about Kent,” said his son, the current Record-Courier Editor, Roger J. 3,300 die of polio in the United Di Paolo. “None of them had wonStates; 57,000 children are derful job prospects in the valley, paralyzed. so they said, ‘Let’s go to college.’”

On the day he went to register for classes, Di Paolo’s father seemed a bit out of place.

“While registering, the woman Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the asked which college he was applyfirst successful open-heart surgery. ing for,” Di Paolo said. “She meant arts and sciences or education. But he said, ‘Well this one of course.’

He said they must have looked The first TV dinner is invented by like they just came off the farms.”

Gerry Thomas.

Di Paolo’s father would later become an attorney and retire as a judge.

“They were older students,” Di Paolo said of the veterans.

Dec. 1 Rosa Parks refuses to give “They didn’t have time to put up her seat on a segregated bus in up with nonsense. They didn’t Montgomery, Ala. come to campus to drink or party. They came because they were older and needed an education. They wanted to apply March 1 Autherine Lucy, the first themselves to their studies, get black student at the University of the degree and move on.”

Alabama, is suspended after riots Di Paolo’s father was able to protesting her presence there. pursue higher education because of the GI Bill. Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the bill in 1944 to provide college or vocational October 4 “Leave It to Beaver” training for the millions of veterpremieres on CBS, ushering in ans who returned to the United an era of television shows that States after the war. Thousands depict the ideal American family. took advantage of the bill at Kent State after WWII and thousands more after the Korean War ended in 1953. In total, 10,000 veterans George A. Gamow introduces the studied under the bill at Kent State “Big Bang” theory to explain the by the time it expired in 1956. creation of the universe.

At some points, the number of veterans outnumbered non-veteran students at the university.

“In that period, there was a tremendous leavening effect that Panty hose are invented. the veterans had on campus,” said William Hildebrand, author of “A Most Noble Enterprise: The Story of Kent State University, 1910-2010.” “They had such The movie “Psycho” by Alfred dedication and energy. They were Hitchcock becomes one of the superb students.” most famous psychological thrillers Phillip Shriver, author of “The of all time.

Years of Youth,” agreed.

“The veterans, men and womCredit: The Greenwood Encyclopedia en alike, were with rare exception of Daily Life in America Vol. 4, serious-minded and purposeful,” he wrote. “Most were older Copyright 2009, volume editor — some many years older — than Jolyon P. Girard, general editor the ‘civilian’ students. AppreciatRandall M. Miller ing the fact that they had to ‘make up’ the years spent in the service,

 Number of students in 1959: 7,554  Number of WWII veterans in 1950: 2,557  Number of Korean War veterans in 1959: 1,190  Number of campus buildings in 1960: 33  Number of library volumes in 1959: more than 170,000  Number of faculty in 1959: 339  Most popular boys’ names in 1960: David, Michael, John  Most popular girls’ names in 1960: Mary, Susan, Maria Credit: “The Years of Youth” “A Most Noble Enterprise” Infoplease.com RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATER

Executive director candidate Matthew Gustoff, a junior business management major, recites his platform during the USG debate last night in the Rathskeller.

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USG opens debate for small turnout

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Candidates attempt to involve students Nick Glunt

Daily Kent Stater The Rathskeller last night was not just another bar or hot spot for food at Kent State. The Undergraduate Student Government offered free pizza and drinks to attract students to an open forum for this year’s USG candidates. However, this failed to

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grab the attention of many students — only about 40 students showed up, many of whom were friends of the candidates.

“This place holds a capacity of a little over 200 and something people. Our total undergraduate body is over 20,000 people,” said George Antwi-Obimpeh, candidate for director of communications. “We couldn’t even fill up this area. We need to get more people involved in Kent State Undergraduate Student Government.”

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Female students receiving their “dinks.” Dinks (blue and gold skullcap hats) were part of a campus tradition of lighthearted freshman hazing from the 1940s up to 1968. the majority were determined to absorb as much of a college education as they could in the shortest possible period of time.”

To accommodate the overwhelming number of students, Wills Gym was converted to temporary living quarters with bed frames and coat racks.

Leftover army barracks were brought to campus to comprise what students called Terrace Lodge.

Eventually, Terrace Hall would be constructed to replace the barracks.

It would serve as a new dorm for women along with Verder Hall, constructed in 1956, and Johnson Hall, which was for men. Each was named for a faculty member rather than an administrator, which was typical at the time.

Many vets advertised their

need for housing in the streets of Kent. The sported sandwich boards, which read “Bed for a Vet,” and many were able to find housing with families in the area.

Di Paolo’s father had to live off campus in what he called “the projects” in Windham, where almost 400 rooms were available for vets.

“It was barrack-style apartment housing erected in early 1940s for the Ravenna Arsenal,” Di Paolo said. “Basically, it was government housing. After the war was over, there was space there. That’s where they put a whole bunch of mostly single male students.”

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Critical languages prove useful but lack demand on campus Bethany English

Daily Kent Stater Though the minor issue has been fixed, Kent State is still facing a major problem involving critical languages.

Elementary and intermediate courses for Arabic and Chinese have been available at Kent State for a while, but these languages became available as minors to students in the fall 2009 semester.

Jennifer Larson, chair for the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, said she hopes the new minor programs will attract more students to study these critical languages.

La r s o n s a i d t h e l a c k o f demand for languages such as Chinese and Arabic is the prima-

ry block to creating a major.

A m y F i s h e r, s o p h o m o r e international relations major with a Chinese minor, said she would have preferred to get her major in Chinese.

“I’ve actually considered going to another university because they don’t offer it as a major,” she said of Kent State. The only thing that stopped her was the financial inconveniences she would encounter if she changed universities.

Her interest in the language began when she considered joining the Army as a translator, which is something she still hopes to do after graduating.

The need for soldiers who speak critical languages is so great that Army ROTC offered students studying these languages a scholarship, Fisher said. The scholarship pays tuition for the full length of the scholarship, which ranges from two years to four and provides a $1,200 yearly book allowance.

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David Kubena says he will bring something new and unique to the Allocations Committee’s table.

Kubena, a junior accounting major, is running for director of business and finance.

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Cerne said her primary goal is to promote student involvement in clubs, sports and organizations. She said she wants to see the student government support other campus organizations, and she hopes those groups will return the support.

“I have met some of my closest friends through organizations I joined here,” Cerne said. “That’s why I have such a passion for encouraging others to get involved as well.”

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Tessa Villers Tessa Villers said she wants students to become more involved and more aware of the organizations on campus.

Villers is a junior health care administration major with minors in business and

management. She is running for director of student involvement.

Villers said she wants to increase involvement by improving communication between organizations and by making events and resources more convenient for students.

She said she plans to update the student government Web site to provide more information about each organization, as well as provide contacts and create listservs to send out event information.

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Farrell said she wants to improve the allocations process by providing more diverse programming and increasing student interest.

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Andulics is a sophomore marketing and entrepreneurship major and is the vice president of alumni public relations and alumni relations of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He is running for the position of director of business and finance.

His campaign slogan is “Don’t trust your money with just anybody.”

Andulics said he would like to be more involved with the Allocations Committee in terms of how students’ money is spent.

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Fourth man charged in Nov. robbery case Portage County prosecutors charged a fourth man connected to the on-campus robbery that took place Nov. 22, 2009.

William M. Henderson IV, of Highland Hills, was charged at the Portage County Common Pleas Court with robbery, a second-degree felony, and receiving stolen property, a fifth-degree felony.

Henderson was 17 years old and not a student at Kent State when the robbery occurred. According to the Record Courier, Portage County Prosecutor Victor Vigluicci petitioned to have the case binded over from the juvenile court to the common pleas court in order to try Henderson as an adult.

Three others have already been charged in the robbery that took place near the Art Building early on Nov. 22. The four men allegedly stole a FlashCard from a student and then used it at Rosie’s Café. Two victims were treated for minor injuries.

Jose Lino, of Akron, pleaded guilty to robbery last week at the Portage County Common Pleas Court. He will face two to eight years of prison at sentencing March 15. The other charge of receiving stolen property on him was dismissed.

Daejshon Norton, of Erie, Pa., and Mykel Benson, of Cleveland, were both charged with robbery and receiving stolen property. Both trials are set for May 25 in the courtroom of Judge Laurie Pittman.

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GOLDEN ‘The Golden Years’ A shuttle took veterans from the barracks to campus each day.

“If you missed the bus, you basically hitchhiked a 50-mile roundtrip,” Di Paolo said.

Those shuttles would evolve into today’s bus service.

On campus, life was transforming into a vibrant university culture.

The overwhelming number of vets not only contributed to overall academic enthusiasm on campus, they also increased the demand for social activities.

“The veterans that came back were very interested in athletics,” Shriver said. “They were the reason for the dynamic growth of the athletic program. They were also interested in fraternities and sororities.”

Hildebrand came to the university in 1948 and recalls his years in the journalism and English departments with fondness. His wife, Ann, who graduated in 1955, was one of the first women to live in Terrace Hall.

“It was quite a time. There was no doubt about it,” he said. “And it’s not just my own nostalgia. Anyone who went there saw it the same way.”

Playful freshmen hazing took place that required “frosh” to wear blue and gold dinks. They were small felt hats that freshmen were to raise and tip at the sight of an upperclassman. Freshmen eventually asked for an end to the tradition, which few followed, in 1956.

“I did see at least one person scrubbing the seal with a tooth-

— Josh Johnston brush,” Hildebrand said, referring to the arched entryway on the corner of South Lincoln and East Main streets. “That was typical of the Greek life.”

Hildebrand wrote in his book that for classes “women wore pleated skirts, sweaters (sometimes cashmere) with pearls, bobby sox with saddle shoes or bucks. Men wore sports jackets or sweaters, shirts and ties, argyle socks with saddle shoes or bucks.

Glasses were horn rimmed, hair was trim, cigarettes were almost obligatory, though some smoked pipes for the professional look.”

Women were still expected to follow the 10:30 p.m. weeknight curfew. They were not to ride unchaperoned with a man around campus and had later curfews on the weekend.

“There was a feeling of prosperity, not just economic, but psychological,” Hildebrand said.

“There was a sense that people coming to college were living apart from the busy world outside. That was something that would change radically in the 1960s.”

Overseeing it all was the new university president, George Bowman. Under the previous president, Karl Leebrick, the school made progress toward full university status. He had rearranged the curriculum and broken the building dry spell, adding McGilvrey and Engleman Halls.

But his personality finally cost him his job. After squabbles with faculty, Shriver said the trustees were ready to dismiss him. He left in 1943, and Bowman was hired.

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LANGUAGES ‘Major’ problem exists at Kent State Critical languages are also an appealing commodity for government jobs. According to the Department of State’s Web site, “super critical needs languages” consist of Arabic (Modern Standard, Egyptian or Iraqi), Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, Farsi, Hindi and Urdu.

The knowledge of one of these languages greatly increases the number of job opportunities available to students, Larson said in an e-mail interview.

But without interest and demand from students, the department can’t justify hiring full-time faculty to teach the necessary courses for a major, and fewer than 10 students are currently pursuing minors in these languages, she said.

In order to increase this interest, Elementary I and II for both Chinese and Arabic will be “He brought a very straight hand to the university,” Hildebrand said of the new president. “He was a master administrator and a great academic leader. He was a very, very fine man.”

Shriver knew Bowman personally. Having been hired in 1947, he grew close to the president who would set the longest presidency with 19 years. Bowman and his wife invited freshmen to their home for Frosh Week during orientation each fall. Hildebrand wrote Mrs. Bowman was nearly as well known as her husband.

They called his time as president ‘The Golden Years.’

“That term fits that period because Kent was a first-rate undergraduate college at that time,” Hildebrand said. “It had the campus atmosphere of a small private campus. There were lots of trees. It was more beautiful even than it is today.”

As the world reached the brink of a new decade, the university was preparing to celebrate a milestone of its own. The semi-centennial celebrations of 1960 would mark 50 years since President John McGilvrey first started extension classes in and around Kent in 1910.

Students and faculty celebrated by bringing guest speakers to campus, making a recording of university songs, presenting special theatrical and music productions, compiling a history of the university in book format and by burying a time capsule to be opened in 2010.

Shriver remembers the year primarily because of his work on “The Years of Youth,” which President Bowman asked him to write.

offered as courses for summer 2010, Larson said. By taking the first year of either language during the summer, students can start intermediate courses in the fall semester.

Fisher realizes the importance of knowing a critical language. She said it can make someone more appealing to possible employers, especially companies with international ties or partners in other countries.

Though she wished to have a more comprehensive study of the language and culture and graduate with Chinese as a major, Fisher said she “can’t say enough about how good the Chinese program here has been” for her.

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KentWired.com “He gave me a copy of my book that he inscribed to me,” he said.

“He wrote, ‘To a tried and true friend of many years. George A. Bowman.’”

Kent Normal School had gone from training teachers to a fullblown university with 7,554 students, 339 faculty, 33 buildings and at least 50 more years ahead of it.

As Shriver concluded in his book, “The years of youth were over. The years of maturity were now beginning.”

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POLICE BLOTTER The blotter is a record of charges filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off campus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.

CITY

TUESDAY n Justin V. Glogore, 20, of Akron was charged with underage drinking at the intersection of East Main Street and University Drive.

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TUESDAY n Isaiah K. Sheridan, 24, of Southfield, Mich., was charged with aggravated menacing at Allerton Building A.

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CANDIDATES USG opens debate for small turnout The forum allowed candidates to get on stage with their opposition to introduce themselves and their platforms. After each candidate spoke, current USG position-holders asked them questions regarding increasing student involvement and obtaining student input. Once a student responded to the question, his or her opposition was given a chance to rebut.

Many of the topics touched on by the candidates revolved around being a liaison between the students and USG, elaborating on their own experience and qualifications and getting students involved on campus.

After all the candidates had a chance to speak, the floor was opened to members of the crowd.

Members from the crowd asked questions to the candidates of specific positions.

One asked executive director candidates Matthew Gustoff and Justin Pierce what makes them qualified for the position.

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FUNDRAISING KSU combats recession with philanthropy Faced with drastic budget cuts, administrators have been forced to make up for lost time — quickly building a robust network of alumni donors willing to invest in Kent State.

“We’re behind,” Finn said.

“When I first came here three years ago, I did a benchmarking for fundraising against other MAC universities. Kent State pretty much ranked at the bottom of that list.”

President Lester Lefton said he spends roughly 25 percent of his time fundraising, but in the future would like to spend as much of 40 percent of his time lobbying potential donors.

“It’s my belief that we have to take care of ourselves,” Lefton said, citing state funding cuts. “The only way I can keep tuition costs down is to increase the number of grants brought in and increase fundraising.”

Money from donations typically funds specific projects for the university or scholarships. Kent State’s

into a position of this prestige level,” Pierce said, “without already having proven yourself, without being a key player in other organizations, without having performed.”

He said he is the only known two-term president of Delta Upsilon, which he claimed has seen “tremendous progress in his reign.”

He is also the current director of student advancement within USG. “One thing that I think sets me apart from any kind of competition,” Gustoff said, “is my passion, desire and willingness to learn the position.”

He also said immediately after his initiation into Sigma Chi, he was elected to the executive board. He has held a board position for all four semesters he has been in the fraternity. He is currently the vice president of programming for the Inter-Fraternity Council, where he organized a Greek Week.

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annual fund, which includes direct mail fundraising, can raise an unrestricted amount of money to be used in the university’s operating budget.

Lefton, who formerly worked as an administrator at private universities, including Tulane and George Washington, said he had fundraising in mind when he took office in 2006, and now takes a hands-on role with the university’s wealthiest donors.

“It’s airplanes and security checks and driving from one place to another,” Lefton said of his fundraising schedule that often takes him around the country. “Someone came to (an alumni event) who had nothing to do with Kent State. He said you’re the first person from Kent State who I’ve liked at Kent State in a long time. He said he’d take a meeting with me and it turned out this person has substantial wealth. And we’re courting. It’s a dance.”

Contact administration reporter Jenna Staul at jstaul@kent.edu.

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SUMMARY: The planned renovations to the library sound like a nice way to improve the look of Kent State’s campus. But we would like to know how much it will cost and how we’re getting the money.

A nicer place to study

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he next time you walk into the library, take a good look at the first floor. Come next fall, it will likely look a lot different.

Kent State will upgrade the library’s current look in order to make it a more inviting environment for current and prospective students. Renovations are scheduled to begin after the spring semester ends, and they are slated to end by the time fall semester rolls around.

The library’s renovation is just the latest step in President Lester Lefton’s plan to improve the look of Kent State’s campus. Risman Plaza is also scheduled for renovations, and so are several of the academic buildings.

The renovations center around updating the first floor of the library, particularly the lobby.

“The architect’s office is very interested in creating more of a defined entry to the building, something that is more up to date,” said Barbara Schloman, associate dean of Libraries and Media Services. “This, along with a facelift, would provide a more welcoming entry.”

Upgrading the library’s look is definitely a good thing. The building hasn’t been renovated in 40 years, and it shows. The entry to the library isn’t exactly warm and inviting.

Instead, it’s dark and looks dated. Some of the upstairs floors are even worse.

So it’s a good decision to make the library look nicer, if only to make a better impression on prospective students.

Improving Kent State’s campus appearance has been one of Lefton’s top priorities during his tenure. The president believes a nicer looking campus will help attract higher-quality students. Because the library is the most visible building on campus, it doesn’t make sense to leave it unchanged while renovating other buildings.

We also like that many current students will be able to enjoy the improvements. A lot of the planned campus improvements won’t be visible until a few years down the road, so it’s nice to know some improvements will be visible by August. A nicer-looking library might motivate students to study there more often, and that’s never a bad thing.

What we aren’t so sure about is the price tag.

Renovations aren’t free — and a lot of the time, they’re not cheap, either. The university took out $200 million worth of bonds for academic building upgrades, and the Risman Plaza renovations are expected to cost another $3.3 million.

Adding another renovation on top of those two is a lot to ask for in a tough economic climate. We’d just like to know how much these renovations are expected to cost.

We would love to see a better looking library and a better-looking campus overall.

We just don’t want to see future students bear a heavier brunt of the cost than they should.

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On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal.”

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We’ll always have eHarmony Everyone wants to meet the perfect person, that individual whose soul is a perfect complement to your own, who makes you whistle happy songs on rainy days and draw flowers in your notebook and give money to beggars on the street; the person you just want to be with after a long day, who listens to your thoughts and dreams and makes you feel so secure in your own skin that you wonder how you ever lived another way. Movies like “The Sound of Music” and “The Notebook” detail amazing adventures of love and “that special feeling” that comes with it.

But not everyone, as much as we don’t want to admit it, will be enthralled in an amazing love story that involves escaping from Nazis or paddling a rowboat through a South Carolina marsh in a thunderstorm. Whether you are juggling two jobs and school or you are a bit socially insecure or the right person has simply not come along yet, it can be difficult to meet anyone who piques your desire, let alone your “true love.”

One solution has emerged: using the Internet to meet people.

According to The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, roughly 40 million Americans, or 17.9 percent of all Internet users, used online dating services to meet potential mates in 2009. EHarmony, the most popular dating site with 20 million active subscribers, charges members upwards of $100 to, by its own guarantee, match you up with a person compatible with your characteristics, as determined by a lengthy personality test. Match.com, another dating site, offers members (who pay a much smaller fee) counseling for “profile creation assistance,” as well as online dating tips. Other platforms, like Plenty of Fish, are free for everyone but leave the user on his or her own to develop a profile and find possible matches.

But despite the popularity of the Internet, there seems to be quite the taboo around online dating. Not that long ago, my friend confided in me with the news she had a new boyfriend. Like a good friend should, I inquired about him.

“Where did you meet?” I asked her.

She said, not a bit sheepishly, “I met him online...”

“Oh, that’s cool...” I said lamely, scrambling to hide the scorn in my voice.

It’s just we as a culture have created a stigma about online dating. If you do it, we say, you’re desperate, and you’re obviously

Christopher Hook inept at finding someone in real life. What’s more, online dating, with its structure and ease of use and pay-per-service, appears to be cheapening what has been the traditional quest for love and courtship. Can you imagine Romeo typing passionate love e-mails to Juliet, trying to strike the right tone with well-placed emoticons and flirtatious syntax?

But this stigma seems to be changing. As Facebook, Twitter and texting become further entrenched in our lives, we are growing more and more comfortable with the idea of a physical “self” and an online “self,” the latter of which we express in profile pictures and status updates. One online dater with whom I talked said our generation is more open not just to technology, but to talking with random strangers. We are able to hide behind our custommade online identities until we are ready to showcase our physical one, too.

Is this a bad thing? In some respects, yes. Online identities allow us to show to the world who we want to be, and not necessarily who we are. But on the other hand, online dating platforms are simply places for people with social limitations to meet others in their spare time in a pressure-free area and explore a possible relationship with them. Online dating is, as one friend put it, “emotionally efficient”: If you don’t feel like continuing with an online contact, delete his or her e-mail. If you worry about creepy old men patrolling your profile page, you have direct control over how much information you divulge. Be smart about it, just as you would be at a bar, club or coffee shop.

And in the end, even though you and your mate may not have the best “how we met” story for your friends and family, this should be a small price to pay for a satisfying relationship, albeit one that began on the Web. So go ahead, whistle a little.

Christopher Hook is a junior international relations and French major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at chook@kent.edu.

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Maybe you should reread my column Dear Nick: I appreciate your utmost interest in my columns. I was flattered by your attempt to contradict my views; however, I believe you did not use your analytical skills to their full capacity in order to fully comprehend what I was trying to argue.

The points you made in your “piece of writing” are slightly flawed, which I expect from someone who willingly admitted that he “tends to write mindless drivel and ramblings” about nothing to pass the time.

Just to make it clear for someone of your intellectual subpar standard, my main point of the column was that in order to live in a better nation, we should become more responsible citizens and not waste the chance that America has given us, and you seem to make a fine example of not fully utilizing such opportunities.

I understand you are yet another babied liberal American who is not optimistic about his own country. I am sure you have witnessed atrocities all over the world from the media that you claim to be a part of, but have you ever experienced it? You don’t seem to be a person who lived in what they call a “secondworld country.” I did. And I grew up there.

And my background gives me a right to argue such radical opinions, unlike you, who always had his basic rights handed to him.

Take into consideration the fact that I was born in the Soviet Union, where they not only

Anastasia Spytsya “systematically removed” people of different nationalities who didn’t want to become a part of the “Monster” (the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-1933, where at least 2.6 million Ukrainians were starved to death), but also where they would imprison you for years for publishing such an anti-patriotic opinion as yours.

If you may recall from one of my columns, my greatest appreciation for American history is that we are given the perfect framework to build this nation as a country, as a whole and as one; the historical events that you have listed are no doubt horrific, but they are mistakes of individualistic groups and not of the nation as a whole.

What I tried to explain in my column is that we as citizens are responsible for coming together to help prevent the incidents you listed in your column. It is our duty. It depends on our commitment and loyalty.

“This nationalist thinking helps mold the target demographic for a convenient, per-

fectly packaged version of American history.”

You claimed to read columns of your fellow writers; therefore, you should be the one to know I’m one of the very few people who argues the misinterpretation of American history (read “Black history from a white girl’s perspective”).

I never said this country was perfect; I never said it was an angel. However, this country can and will be better if we as a nation take more time to become better citizens.

You know how the saying goes, “If you don’t love yourself, who will then?” If we Americans disrespect our country and our history, like you do, we should not expect to be respected in the world. In the end of your column, you advised everyone, as well as me, “to keep on doing, not asking, not thinking.”

Well, I will recommend you to reread my column yet again so people like yourself will start contributing to the development of America.

Or you just might as well keep writing mindless drivel and ramblings.

Anastasia Spytsya is a senior Russian translation major and political science minor and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at aspytsya@kent.edu.

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Humans are animals...

Everyone has his or her cause. People invest their time, money and passions in a vast number of issues that range in interest and focus. Though no two causes are alike and no one cause trumps another in importance, some individuals think otherwise and tirelessly coerce others into viewing issues the same way they do. It always shocks me how audacious these people can be, mindlessly claiming that “this” issue is more important than “that” issue, and so on and so forth.

On Monday when I read Frank Yonkof’s article titled, “Humans always come before animals,” I was forced to acknowledge the shortcomings of humanity and why we as a species can’t properly come together to create a better world. Once again, Mr. Yonkof has proved to be insensitive, illogical and one-sided in framing his arguments, this time about why animals are less worthy creatures than humans.

“I guess I have major problems with someone telling me to donate to fight animal abuse when there are children starving throughout the world. Surely no one could dispute that helping a human being is way more important than helping an animal, no matter what the circumstance is.” Surely I can and will dispute such a statement, solely based on the fact that those two issues are not even remotely comparable.

You might as well go ahead and question why people spend money going to the movies when they could easily donate those dollars to disaster relief in Haiti or the homeless in Cleveland. Pitting human life against animal life is both unfair and unnecessary.

It undercuts the work of both human rights activists and animal rights activists, people who acknowledge all living beings are inter-

Thisanjali Gangoda connected. To truly resolve an issue, you must work to establish universal peace and harmony, people and animals alike.

What good can be accomplished from separating the two causes, declaring one as being more worthy of protection? The very reason that animal rights is in existence is because of human interference. It wouldn’t be an issue if we didn’t make it one.

Since freshman year of high school I’ve been passionate about human rights issues, while my best friend Kristyn has always been passionate about animal rights issues. Having known Kristyn since the age of four, we’ve both grown and developed ourselves and our interests in two different directions. During that time and still today, we’ve not once argued about whose activist work has been of more value.

While Kristyn spends her time working at animal shelters and petting cats, I volunteer at the local soup kitchen and battered women’s shelter. When we talk about our experiences, what we learned and how inspired we are to continue doing what we do, the conversation always arises of how closed-minded individuals can be about any kind of activist work.

People who don’t even do activist work claim to have a stake in a slew of issues, making brash and weird statements like, “I con-

sider myself to be a huge pet lover, but at the end of the day, I could never swerve to miss an animal in the road at the risk of killing another driver and her or her passengers.”

What? When the time comes for me to deal with such an outrageous situation, I’ll leave it to fate and my mad driving skills to sort it out.

But for the time being, I’m content being passionate about human rights while also being aware of animal welfare. At the very least, I’ve learned to facilitate open and understanding conversation about both subjects.

Mr. Yonkof, you said in your article: “It’s easy for some people to forget that their pet is an animal. But analyzing it at a deeper level, these people would rather be absorbed in their pets than to work toward making human relationships stronger with family and friends around them.”

Having said so, you are perpetuating the very problem that you wish to change, alienating yourself from people who do love their families, friends and pets just fine. You have disparaged human rights and animal rights work, making light of the real issues that are at stake.

If you really love animals and value human life, consider this: They are one and the same.

I guess my priorities are to value the whole pictures and not just the pieces and parts. You should do the same, dude.

Thisanjali Gangoda is a senior political science major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at tgangoda@kent.edu.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 6. Hard work depends on two things. First, your partner provides the logical framework.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8. You regain balance today by managing household demands and allowing a co-worker to take the lead. You are your own best source of support today.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 7. Who says teamwork can’t be fun? You engage others with a practical outline and enthusiastic forecasts. They fill in the blanks.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7. Your lighter-than-air attitude makes work flow quickly and easily. Your partner contributes encouragement and energy. Have fun!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 6. Take time to work a transformation in a practical area of organization. The logical management of supplies makes everyone’s life easier.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 5. Group effectiveness depends on your enthusiasm.

Remember what you’re committed to. Then, cheerfully and clearly state your opinion. Others will get the idea.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7. Any task in your work environment that involves change appeals to you now. Use that desire to clean up old methods and refine written work.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is an 8. Inspirational group activities increase your self-esteem.

Strenuous effort on basic issues allows you to positively transform something.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7. The emphasis on personal change begins with you.

Don’t expect others to do anything you’re unwilling to take on. Enthusiasm is the key.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 7. Your public image undergoes a transformation. Thanks to a persuasive group, the airwaves are filled with exactly the right message about you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 6. Spread your net to encompass co-workers, social contacts and associates in other countries. You benefit from other people’s research.

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Leaders envision a global Kent New ethnic restaurants, culture days proposed Bethany English

Spreading the word

Goals for Kent State’s international atmosphere by 2020  Encourage all students to study abroad.  Find ways to help fund students who want to study abroad.

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 Embed more international elements into existing curriculum.

The impact of international students on the city of Kent is something Michael Awad knows well.

Awad, owner of the Main Street Continental Grill, said his ability to offer students different ethnic foods that no other restaurants in Kent offer is the idea he built his business upon.

The large number of international students and faculty has driven business owners, like Awad, to add a different flavor to the way they do business.

He and four other community leaders told Kent State administrators about their personal interactions with international students at the all-day International Summit yesterday.

Kent city manager Dave Ruller, like Awad, said the diversity of a college town is what attracted him to Kent.

Ruller said he has great hope of fostering a more global feel to the city of Kent. One of his ideas is “International Row,” which he said would be a long stretch of restaurants offering all kinds of ethnic foods.

He added that the city is trying to create a habitat to foster businesses such as Awad’s, and that will add a nice feeling of diversity.

T. David Garcia, associate vice president for enrollment management, suggested a weekend where the city shuts down and blocks a street to let international students set up little booths about their culture. They could have food for other students to sample, and it would be a fun way to spur interaction.

He said Ohio University does

 Encourage Kent State to have a larger number of international faculty.  Break down the barrier of students with English as a second language.  Create a buddy system to encourage international student retention.  Introduce short summer camps for international students to get a preview of Kent State.

Information from the International Summit this exact event, and he thought it would be beneficial to Kent State students and the community.

Ruller agreed with Garcia that this was an interesting idea, one that he said has never been really thought of before.

John Ryan, president of the Kent area’s Huntington banks, said international students face the same problems as domestic students who begin to handle their money on their own, such as over drafting accounts.

Ryan said occasionally language barriers create a problem with international students. To help alleviate this issue, he created a simplified cheat sheet for Kristi Campbell, assistant director for the Office of International Affairs, who then translates it into Chinese.

Portage County Commissioner Chris Smeiles shared his own story about an encounter with international students.

He said when a friend who was very involved with international students called and asked

him to host an “American Labor Day picnic,” he happily agreed.

Fifteen Chinese international students came to his house for a day of barbecue, bocce ball and croquet.

Smeiles enjoyed the day so much that he hosted some other activities for the Chinese students.

Though he has had many pleasant experiences with international students, Smeiles said one thing concerned him: the students told him they found Americans to be very friendly, but not very hospitable.

He suggested that families in Kent get more involved with these international students by acting as hosts to them or providing transportation to help them get places they could otherwise not go.

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French translation major Nathalie Biwole works for International Student and Scholar Services. She sits at a table at the Student Center to inform students about studying abroad. ISSS also offers programs such as a poetry society, coffee hour, movie night and Easter egg hunt for international students.

Baha’i faith meeting bridges many religions Students will gather in Room 312 of the Student Center for a spiritual, devotional meeting from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight.

“Inter-faith devotional events are a gift to the campus,” said Jan Sabet, Baha’i devotional planner.

“Being in touch with our spiritual nature not only keeps us balanced and healthy, but helps us to be of service to humanity.”

Teachings of the Baha’i faith describe the concept of God as universal and are not limited to

one religion’s understanding or interpretation. Around the edges of the Kent State Baha’i campus club’s crest says, “ The same God listens to everyone’s prayers.”

“Gatherings like this one occur in communities all around the world,” Sabet said. “Readings could be taken from the Baha’i writings and the scriptures of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.”

Students will be able to ask

questions during discussion time, observe prayers for healing or assistance and hear musical selections from multiple cultures.

Refreshments will be provided.

Sabet said, “The Baha’i faith is religion renewed for a changing world, and I would encourage all Kent students to investigate its wonderful teaching for themselves.”

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

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Start planning your spring cleaning now Allison Smith | Daily Kent Stater

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ven though the weather still feels like it’s winter, believe it or not, spring is only 18 days away.

So now’s the time to start planning your spring cleaning. Here are some tips to help you get started.

Great stores to aid in your organization: Wal-Mart Target  Kohl’s  

Clean up your closet

Organizing your closet:

Can’t figure out what to wear?

Color-code your wardrobe. It’s  Color code your wardrobe easier to find things if you organize  Use a door-hanging shoe rack your clothing by color. It’s also a  Roll your clothes before putting lot easier to plan outfits, especially them away with the tiny dorm room closets.

If you have a pile of shoes  Invest in under-the-bed thrown into your closet, you containers or drawer organizers should consider investing in a door-hanging shoe rack. It doesn’t take up any more room, and it saves you a ton of space, especially if you have a million pairs of shoes.

Roll your sweaters and pants and put them in a drawer. Again, this saves a bunch of room by eliminating the large amount of space sweaters and pants take up.

If you can, loft your bed and invest in some under-the-bed storage containers.

This helps eliminate clutter that would likely have accumulated in your closet.

Places like Bed Bath & Beyond and the Container Store sell drawer organizers for small pieces of clothing like socks and underwear so you can find those sexy panties right away when you’re getting ready for that hot date … or, you know … if you need your socks right away, too.

Put your papers together

Keeping track of papers:

There’s nothing like being thrust into the real world with all of those bills, statements  File everything — homework, and taxes to worry about. Start early and receipts, bills, etc. purchase and use a filing box to file away  Use a drawer organizer to keep your homework, important papers and other things. Starting to file early will help you track of office supplies make a habit out of being organized.

Another important thing to file away is your receipts. You’ll never need to hunt for your receipt again when you need to return something.

Ten minutes away from turning in your paper and can’t find your stapler? A drawer organizer for your office supplies can help you find office supplies when you’re in a pinch.

Get organized for class

Bed Bath & Beyond  The Container Store 

Staying organized for class:

A good way to get organized in school is to keep a planner. Use just one and  Keep a planner always have it on you. Having too many  Use a Google calendar, which can can get confusing and you might forget be synced with PEDs and shared assignments. Make sure the planner has enough space for you to write down with others everything you need to know for your  Other calendar programs, such as projects.

Apple’s iCal or Windows’ calendar in Google calendar is a great tool, and Outlook are also useful it’s free. What’s great about it is its sync-  Having a backpack or bag is ing capabilities. Google calendar will always useful in keeping organized sync with your iPhone/iPod touch, your BlackBerry and your laptop. You can also share your calendar with others. Need to figure out a good time to have lunch with mom?

Send her an invitation and it will show up on her calendar as well.

ICal is Apple’s calendar program. It’s light and simple. If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, you can sync with your laptop to never miss an event.

A calendar for Windows is available through the e-mail application Outlook. In this program you can schedule events, make appointments with contacts and schedule meetings.

Get a backpack or bag with a lot of pockets and always keep it stocked with pens and paper. Yes, classes are becoming more and more technology-oriented, but you never know when your professor will need you to write something with those ancient tools.

Contact features reporter Allison Smith at asmith75@kent.edu.

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March

MONTHLY SPECIALS Ray’s Place: Draft of the month: Miller Lite — $2.50 pint, $2.95 tall. Special feature Captain Morgan Lime Bite spiced rum in a pint of either Miller Lite, Bud or Bud Lite— $3.95. Sex on the Beach shot — $2.95. Cherry bomb — $2.95. Chilled Sharkwater 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: Miller Lite—$7 pitcher. $1.50 mug. Labatt Blue pitchers—$8. Cherry and grape bombs—$2.50, Jameson, Apple Pie shots, SoCo and lime—$3. Incredible Hulks—$3.50.

Mugs: Irish Buck- $4.50. Pabst Blue Ribbon— $2 cans. Miller Lite Draft—$2 16oz., $3 24oz. All bombs—$2.75.

BW3s: Beer of the month: Miller— $3 tall. Happy hour is from 3 p.m. to 7 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 p.m. 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— Bagel Dog. Tuesday — Enzo. Wednesday — Napoli. Thursday — Louisiana BBQ Pork. Friday — The Whales Tale. Saturday— A1-Ham & Cheese Pita.

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 pickup only.

Show of the week: Advocates of Culture and Knowledge Every Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. join DJs Aziz and Jancarlo for an offering of social, political and cultural awareness in a local, national and international perspective.

Events, guests and giveaways Saturday March 6: Noon to 2 p.m.— Catera will be on The Rubber City Rockhouse.

Tuesday March 9: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.—Rocks Bleu will be on Rockin’ Through the Ages.

Wednesday March 10: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.— A pair of Ekoostic Hookah tickets will be given away on Dr. Phil’s Afternooner.

8 p.m. to 10 p.m.—Courtney Plumley will be on D.I.T. Radio and a pair of Ekoostic Hookah tickets will be given away.

To view a full schedule and listen to all of Black Squirrel Radio’s shows visit blacksquirrelradio.com

Cleveland poet d.a. levy lives through archived works Poems and letters can be found in library

This is the second installment Kent State’s Biggest Loser It’s been four weeks since senior communications major Laura Payne began her weight loss journey. Laura has been working out several times a week and trying to stick to a healthier eating plan, with the help of a nutritionist at the Nutrition Outreach Center. Overall it has been going really well, Laura said.

Diet :Laura said her diet plan has been easy to stick with. With the guidance of her nutritionist, Laura has decided to decrease her daily caloric intake from 1,800 to 1,600.

“I’m not eating all 1,800 calories anyway,” she said. Laura also plans to increase the amount of fiber and protein she eats.

Finding healthy options on campus has been fairly easy for Laura.

“I really like the steamed broccoli and veggie burgers on a whole wheat bun from Rosie’s,” she said.

Exercise: “This week exercise has been difficult because of my schedule, ” she said. “It’s my last

Nicole Hennessy

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semester of senior year, so I’m pretty busy. I try to work out at least three times a week, but this week I’m only able to work out once or twice.”

Beginning weight: 190 Current weight: 187.2 lbs (as of March 1) — Kelley Stoklosa React to this story and more at KentWired.com

Cleveland’s overcast, Rust Belt one-way streets, lined with businesses, empty store fronts and warehouses with broken windows are joined by bridges ranging from architectural masterpieces to the utilitarian structures left over from industry.

Not many people have realized and conceptualized this melancholy beauty.

Archived in the library are a few who did.

“Still doing it, but not to certain what it is,” begins a letter written by Cleveland poet d.a. levy.

A possible reading at Kent State is mentioned further into the letter.

“But i don’t like reading much anymore, audiences make me wannah puke,” he wrote. “Not very creative, someones got the animals in my belly tied up.”

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Disillusioned with censorship and society, levy wrote from the bowels of the city. His poetry consisted of the cursing, unpunctuated, misspelled, un-capitalized manifestations of the world around him.

“I have a city to cover with lines,/ with textured words &/ the sweaty brick-flesh images of a/ drunken tied-up whorehouse cowtown/ sprawling & brawling on its back,” he wrote in his poem “Cleveland Undercovers.”

Levy, with other local poets like Tom Kryss and rjs, who are also archived, formed the “Underground Thought Patrol” as a way to escape the scene, which he viewed as an extension of the establishment.

In a letter to levy from fellow poet D.R. Wagner, he began, “man has the depression settled here in my head/took awhile but now I know what u mean-how sick-the entire scene-and the gleaners.”

Turned off by the drug use of the 1960s, levy was, nonetheless, associated with it, bringing unwanted attention from the police, which led to charges of obscenity.

Coffee or some unassuming liquid still retains its shape after being spilled by levy, so many years ago, on his poem “Cleveland Uber Alles, in folder number 52.” “the old apartment/ where russel & i lived/ sat on a bluff/ overlooking the flats/ & you could see/ the city slowly/ growing taller/ across the valley/ the long ore boats/ being dragged down/ the Cuyahoga & a/ couple of bridges/ in the smoky dis-

tance,” the poem begins.

After his eventual suicide, (thought by some to be an assassination) Kryss and rjs announced his death, which was the result of a .22-caliber rifle to the forehead.

Ending the announcement with an ominous implication, the poets wrote, “it had become very tiring & boring for us HERE; now we have fooled ourselves into having a “purpose” for the present. our thanks to d.a. for his recent action, which allowed for this accomplishment.”

Levy’s dark eyes stare out towards something unknown, in a photograph, in a folder, in a box, which serves as his archive, among that of his colleagues and friends.

“I walked out the rear door of my mind/ the corridors are as bright as the outside world,” he once wrote.

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Kent State grad finds ‘footing’ in Hollywood Ryan Sheridan

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Daily Kent Stater Three years ago, Patrick Rigney was runner-up in the American Eagle Campus Comedy Challenge at the Rathskeller. Today he’s writing scripts, improvising at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and bumping elbows with his screenwriting idols in Los Angeles.

“They say never meet your heroes. That’s bullshit,” said Rigney, a bespectacled 2007 graduate in English who looks like a grown-up version of Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” with the snarky, foul mouth of Seth Rogen.

“Meeting and chatting with Cameron Crowe (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Say Anything”) after a Cat Stevens concert was one of the most insightful and inspiring 30 minutes of my life.”

Rigney decided against graduate school to make the trek to Los Angeles in July 2008. All he had to show for himself was a homemade film. Created with help from four of his best friends, Rigney’s intentions were to submit it to the Sundance Film Festival.

“Until seventh grade, I never thought it was possible to make a feature film,” he said. “Then I saw Kevin Smith’s low-budget slacker masterpiece ‘Clerks.’”

Rigney’s 82-minute film,

Rigney (right) with his screenwriting idol Cameron Crowe.

“Understanding Vander,” shot with a handheld camera in the style of “The Office,” is about a home-invading, delusional musician named Vander who’s prone to mental breakdowns and unintelligible rants.

“Vander is the misguided musical bastard child of Kurt Cobain,” Rigney said.

He admitted he had some breakdowns of his own.

“The total production cost less than a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger at Wendy’s and was plagued with problems,” Rigney said. “The camera that I had owned for three years decided to die midway through our first week of production.”

Despite its technical difficulties, “Understanding Vander” was edited and finished three weeks before Rigney left for LA. Featuring music

by Kent band NJs and The Jeff,

the clip from “Vander” has been viewed more than 21,000 times on the Web site Funny or Die. “If you’re young and into comedy and have anything worthwhile to put out, I believe (Funny or Die is) the site to upload your material to,” he said. “It gets noticed.

The first “Vander” short didn’t get noticed until I moved out to LA, and I was approached by producers to do a larger version of it.”

While currently reworking “Vander,” Rigney has taken full advantage of his new home in the entertainment capital of the world.

With a resume that includes a stint at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, shooting a pilot with “Seinfeld’s” Jason Alexander and a short film with Justin Timberlake, Rigney prides himself first as a writer, not an actor.

“All I do is write and perform,”

he said, while giving the synopses of several of his completed screenplays, one of which was written for Ken Jeong of “The Hangover,” adding, “I found solace in performing at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB).”

UCB is an improvisational theater founded by Amy Poehler, among others, where many “Saturday Night Live” performers got their start.

But it wasn’t fun at first, admitted Rigney. As a transplant in Hollywood coming from Ohio, Rigney said he encountered problems with his first job as a naïve intern.

“After reading several articles by top Hollywood agents, I thought getting an unpaid internship at a production company would be beneficial, so I did that,” he said.

“Let me tell anyone interested in entertainment: Do not fall for this.

You’re a secretary with no breaks or benefits, and they treat you like garbage.”

Despite a bitter start in Hollywood, Rigney said he has now found his “footing” by practicing a formula for success.

“Entertainment is about dedication and determination and staying active,” he said. “When I hear ‘no,’ I don’t get discouraged. It’s fuel.”

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

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Curling: The international up-and-comer Kelley Stoklosa

Daily Kent Stater They’re young. They’re hot.

They curl.

Viewers watched last week as young curlers competed for the gold in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Denise Dupont, 25, and Madeleine Dupont, 22, sisters from Denmark, look like they belong in the pages of Maxim rather than on a curling sheet. There is also Oskar Eriksson, 18, from Sweden, whose fresh face and shaggy brown hair give the Jonas brothers a run for their money. And Thomas Dufour, 28, of France happens to bear a striking resemblance to actor Gerard Butler.

These athletes have helped bring a new light to a game often called shuffleboard on ice.

Most people, even the Olym-

Give curling a try: Mayfield Curling Club is hosting an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Visit www.mayfieldcurling.com for more information.

pic athletes, have unrelated fulltime jobs on top of training for competitions. The fact that you can pursue other interests and still be successful makes curling a very appealing sport.

Originating in 16th-century Scotland, the sport has been played by people with varying skill levels for years. Today, curling clubs are popping up all over the world. Ohio has five official curling clubs scattered around the state: South Euclid, Lewis Center, Bowling Green, Newark and Shaker Height. Most clubs offer clinics for curling newcomers as well as personalized training sessions.

The Columbus Curling Club, in Lewis Center, also offers clinics and an Instructional League. www.columbuscurling.com.

Curling terms: Curling sheet: A level surface of ice used to play Bonspiel: Curling match Stone or rock: Large disks made of granite and thrown during the game.

House: Three concentric circles where points are scored.

Burn: When a stone is touched while still in play. Similar to a foul in other sports.

Broom: Name for the brush used to sweep a path in front of the stone.

Skip: Player who calls the shots and usually throws the last two rocks. Often the best player on the team.

Kizzle kazzle: Delivered stone that is intentionally wobbled to compensate for water or slush on the ice.

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Members of the United States curling team clear the path for their rock in the women’s curling match against China during the 2010 Winter Olympics Feb. 23.

Clubs, activities can help curb boredom Mark Wayner

Things to do this weekend:

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Passing along a dirty bill Darren D’Altorio

Daily Kent Stater I’m not quite sure if I believe in luck. I want to. I’m trying. But too many events and circumstances of the world make it difficult to believe.

Like what happened to Cliff, this regular from the bar I frequent after work. This guy was happygo-lucky, always smiling, drinking his bourbon on the rocks one after the other until his cheeks were rosy. He would laugh so hard sometimes, the volume would stop coming from his mouth. He’d be just jiggling in his seat with a wideopen mouth and squinted eyes.

His wife was always by his side, smiling along.

Just after the first snowfall, Cliff started coming to the bar alone. One particular Friday, I saw his smile was faded. He sat in the seat closest to the wall at the end of the bar, the seat right in front of the television. He looked like he wanted to be distracted, to have something to keep him out of conversation. But I knew he needed to talk.

“Why the long face, Cliff?” I asked, sliding a seat next to his.

“Life is short. That’s why,” he replied in a dry tone, like all the spit was vacuumed from his tongue.

“It is, my friend. It is,” I said, trying to keep his brain moving, interested. “But that’s why people like you are important. The people who are always smiling and laughing make the little time we have in this life enjoyable.”

“Enjoyment is for suckers,” he replied. “While you’re laughing life away, seemingly enjoying it, someone else is enjoying your wife.”

There it is. Wiser words may never have been spoken. The wisdom of heartbreak is profound,

and Cliff was wallowing in his newfound wisdom. It all went down right in front of his eyes.

His wife was a social person, a woman who didn’t know where to draw the line with people. I’ve overheard her talking about the good old days, reminiscing about the parties, the concerts and the antics. Then I would watch her relive those moments shortly after, slamming down shots with strangers during Wednesday night happy hour. Cliff would smile, and eventually carry her out to the car.

It’s how they worked.

Well, one of these conversations turned lustful. A tryst was arranged. Cliff happened to spoil the fun when he went home for lunch one afternoon to find his wife moaning like a teenager on top of some guy from the bar. I guess that explains his face.

“Cliff, just keep your head up, man,” I said to him. “Take this time to find yourself again.”

“Yeah, we’ll see,” he shot back, pulling a stack of cash from his overcoat to pay for the drinks.

“Woah,” I said, noticing the two-dollar bill mixed in with his other cash. “I haven’t seen one of those in a minute.”

“Yeah, my wife gave this to me on our fifteenth anniversary,” he said. “Told me it would be good luck for us. Bitch.”

“I love $2 bills,” I told him.

“My uncle used to give them to me when I was a kid.”

“Well, here you go,” he said, passing the bill to me. “Maybe you’ll find better luck with it.”

Cliff’s situation kept creeping into my head while I drove the three hours to see my love. She got a job at the turn of the year out of town, so I try to see her on the weekends when I can. I sank my hand into my jacket pocket, feeling the $2 bill. It brought angry thoughts to my mind. I just hit my

In the dwindling hours of Thursday, it seems like there is a ticking time bomb that ignites, sparking an eruption of action throughout the dormitory halls.

Some students, however, may find Kent State a boring place on the weekends.

“Coming into Kent, I really thought I would be meeting new people and getting to know a lot of kids on my floor,” freshman exploratory major Angelina Fiorini said. “As the year went on, though, I saw that more people were just going home on the weekends, making it harder to become close with new people.”

This absence of residents, in addition to the lack of floor camaraderie, could be the cause of student boredom inside the dorms.

“A lot of people leave on Friday and Saturday, so I just end up sitting in the dorms for most of the night bored out of my mind,” freshman biology major Jasmine Harris said. She said without anyone else in the dorms, the interactivity level decreases.

Instead of leaving for the weekjoint and turn the radio up, blocking all negativity.

We made love that night, my lover and I. We squeezed out bodies together afterward, letting our sweat mix. We shared breaths between kisses. We traced the lines of our body with blind fingertips.

We talked.

“Baby, my head is messed up,” I whispered to her.

“Why, darling?” she asked softly.

“This guy from the bar, Cliff, his wife was cheating on him after 20 years of marriage. He is such a happy, good guy. It makes me angry.”

“Oh, my lovely, I know you take pride in trying to help others by assessing their problems. But sometimes you have to let people work out their own messes.

You can’t carry their baggage for them.”

“I know, baby,” I said, hesitating to let the next words out. “But I feel involved. He gave me something, a $2 bill. He said his wife gave it to him on their 15th anniversary, told him it would bring them luck.”

“Don’t let that bother you,” she said, stroking the back of my neck.

“That could be like his absolution, him cleaning his hands of reminders of her. Just forget about that, and come to me.”

C o ff e e . S u n d a y m o r n i n g

Thursday

Karaoke, 9 p.m. in Eastway Comedy Night, 9 p.m. in the Rathskeller

Friday

“Brothers,” 11 p.m. in the Kiva

Saturday

A Knight of Jazz, 6:30 p.m. at the Student Center Ballroom “Brothers,” 11 p.m. in the Kiva end, students can look for campus entertainment opportunities.

Kent State prides itself on the countless number of clubs, organizations and activities that can easily occupy the downtime of an uninvolved dorm resident.

“I would love to see more students seek out help to what they need,” said Brenda McKenzie, associate director of the Center of Student Involvement. “Any student who is need of guidance can come in (to CSI) and we will talk about what you have done before

equaled coffee. My girl and I met a friend at a quiet coffee house just outside the city. We ate scones, read the paper and talked about life.

“Martin just broke up with me,” our friend explained to us. “I don’t really care though. I’m not hurt by it. I put so much effort into that relationship and he didn’t reciprocate it at all.”

“You need to break free from comfort zones,” my girl said to her.

“You knew him before you moved here and just got comfortable being around him.”

“Yeah, he never wanted to do anything anyways,” I said. “Just sit around a play videogames.

Lame ass in my book.”

The conversation moved like a drunk, weaving from one topic to the next, until we decided to go look at some antiques at a nearby flea market. I wanted a coffee to go.

“That’ll be $3,” the barista told me, handing me the double cappuccino.

“I feel like an ass for having to do this,” I said, putting my debit card on the counter. “I have no cash. I hate when people use plastic for small purchases. So I hate myself for doing this. I just have a $2 bill, but this guy gave it to me in hopes that it brings me more luck than it did him. I can’t spend it.”

“A $2 bill, eh,” the barista

and what you are interested in.”

CSI is located on the second floor of the Student Center.

McKenzie is also involved with the CSI Facebook page, which lists upcoming events and links to Web sites for the different organizations around campus.

While students can participate in the many different organizations around campus, another way to become involved is through dormitory programs. These studentrun gatherings often are based off ideas from either the resident

responded. “Those are only lucky if you pass them along.”

That night we decided to get drunk, my girl, our friends and some of our friends’ co-workers.

It was cold. We already drank a bottle of wine at the house and I wanted to get into the bar to keep my buzz alive.

A man saw me walking toward the bar, my long overcoat blowing in the frozen breeze. He crossed the street and came toward me.

“Hey man, you got any money to help me out, man,” he asked through chattering teeth.

Snot was running from his nose, forming a crust above his lip. His black skin was ashy and cracked along his knuckles. He was wearing jeans, black Nikes and a red sweatshirt. His elbow poked through a hole.

“I have no cash,” I said, patting at my pockets. “I just have my bank card, man. I wish I could help you.”

“I got to go to the hospital,” he said. “I have to be there for my girl. I need some money.”

I turned to walk away, half- listening to his plea. Then Cliff’s voice came into my head. His long face took over my thoughts. Then I heard the barista from the coffee shop talking to me. I turned around.

I shouted at the guy, who was pacing the sidewalk with his cracked hands clutching his forehead.

assistants or even the residents themselves.

“One of the biggest challenges is helping the students adjust to life on their own,” said Jackie Haramis, Eastway residence hall director. “We set up interactive programs that are more fun rather than educational.”

These programs can provide a perfect place to hang out with current or prospective friends.

Freshman physics major Chris Mallory relishes the programs set up in Eastway, saying they “were a great way to get involved and gain connections.”

Mallory said he hardly ever attended anything during his first semester but would advise anyone seeking opportunity to just go out and try it.

“There is a lot going on here, it’s up to the student to go and seek out,” Mallory said.

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“Yo, my man,” I shouted in his direction. “I just remembered. I have this two-dollar bill. A guy gave this to me and told me he wants me to have more luck with it than he did. Then a lady told me it’s not lucky unless I pass it along.

So, here you go, man.”

The guy reached for the bill and clasped it tightly once the green paper touched his numb hands. I looked him right in the eyes. He smiled and took a long sniff, sucking some of the liquid back into his nose.

“Thank you, man. Thank you so much,” he said while turning to walk away.

I turned around and looked at my love standing on the sidewalk.

She smiled at me.

“That was an amazing thing you just did,” she said. “You make me happy.”

I rested my arm around her shoulders and kissed her cheek, feeling her cold skin against my warm lips. I heard a voice echo from the distance.

“Seriously, man,” the voice shouted. “Thank you.”

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Have you heard about the Hearing Aid Museum?

Margaret Thompson Daily Kent Stater

The Music and Speech Building contains a hidden exhibition: the Kenneth Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archives.

The museum is tucked away in the Speech and Hearing Clinic on the building’s first floor. It boasts a collection of more than 4,000 hearing aids and various audio equipment.

“The museum will take you through the entire evolution of hearing devices,” said John Hawks, associate professor of audiology.

The pieces on display span more than 150 years of invention. The oldest piece in the museum, an ear trumpet, dates back to 1850.

Many companies creatively disguised their hearing aids in jewelry, glasses and undergarments. Hawks said in the past there was a stigma about wearing any devices in one’s ears, whereas now the use of Bluetooth devices and in-ear headphones have eliminated this stigma.

Modern hearing aids, a few of which are on dis-

Remah Doleh Despite the cold weather, overcrowded buses and slippery sidewalks, I make my way back on campus in search for Kent State’s next Style Eye. Although spring is just three weeks away, winter is still in full swing. This is the time of the year where sweatpants, Ugg boots and North Face jackets are all the rage. Well, I didn’t receive the fashion memo. Sure, it’s cold, and one might argue that they want to stay comfortable, but c’mon, the “rolling out of bed look” is distracting.

Remember the silhouette?

Yeah, I’m referring to the line that follows your figure. Unfortunately, many of us hide it under clothes that are entirely too big. Bigger clothes create a bigger silhouette. So, leave those Ugg(ly) boots and oversized sweatpants at home.

Ciara Jastes, junior fashion merchandising major, is the Style Eye of the week.

Jastes’ outfit successfully mixes a vintage and modern look. Her red scarf spices up her outfit with a splash of color. The blazer is a popular trend today; the hard part is pulling it off in an outfit. Jastes’ had no problem incorporating a blazer into her look — very chic.

RD: How do you define your personal style?

CJ: My style depends on the type of mood I’m in and where I am going. Some days my style has vintage feel and other days it’s the rough, grunge look.

RD: Finish the sentence: Style should...

CJ: Style should be a representation of you and an expression of yourself that isn’t for anyone to understand.

RD: What is your opinion on Kent’s fashion scene?

CJ: It’s very different. Every-

play, are nearly invisible to detect. Today, hearing aids can be implanted into children as young as 14 months old, in most cases eliminating their hearing disabilities, Hawks said.

Visitors The museum provides “good sense of progression,” Hawks said. Visitors are able to observe the miniaturization and advancement of hearing aids. He suggested the museum may be appealing to students interested in the advancement of technology, audiology or history.

Speech pathology and audiology students walk by the museum fairly often. “ I t i s s e t u p re a l l y n e a t because we have to walk through the museum every day and get reminded of the history and technology that is part of our major,” said Rachel Strinka, junior speech pathology and audiology major.

However, many students do not notice the museum.

“I didn’t even know we had a museum,” said Megan Shaw, freshman broadcast journalism major, “I had no clue.”

The museum is open to the public, who can “gain appreciation of how difficult it was to be

hearing-impaired in the past,” Hawks said.

Museum history

Hawks said the museum began by accident. In 1966, Kenneth Berger, a university audiology professor, mentioned his personal desire to begin a hearing aid archive to a magazine reporter. After the statement was published, many people sent donations to the university.

Since 1966, the museum has grown in size and still accepts donations. Besides allowing companies to occasionally borrow items for displays, Hawks said legal officials tend to visit to look at the paper archives for patent rights.

The pieces remain on display throughout the year. The museum is free and open during regular school hours.

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thing is relaxed. Wearing sweatpants to class is very popular here. When I do see fashion on campus, I like to take notes and try to mix the interesting, stylish pieces together.

RD: If you had the chance to work with any fashion designer dead or alive, who would it be?

Why? CJ: Hands down, Herve Leger! I am in love with his classy, yet sexy, edgy bandage look for a sophisticated woman.

You have designers like Herve

Leger who create merchandise exclusively for women to make them feel high quality. The Herve Leger woman knows that she will make an unforgettable statement, whether walking the red carpet or simply painting the town red.

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Kent State’s Music and Speech Building contains a hidden exhibition: the Kenneth Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archives. Inside, there is a collection of more than 4,000 hearing aids spanning about 150 years worth of invention.