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KSU raises GPA requirements for graduation honors Karl Schneider Administration Reporter Kent State raised the minimum grade point average requirements for students who graduate with Latin honors, pushing cum laude honors to 3.5 and summa cum laude to 3.9. The changes were approved four years ago, but this is the first semester the changes take effect. Provost Todd Diacon said in past years, students graduating with honors had to maintain a 3.3 GPA to graduate cum laude, 3.7 for magna cum laude and 3.8 for summa cum laude. During the past five years under these requirements, roughly 36 percent of each graduating class was graduating with honors. Diacon estimates about 28 or 29 percent of the graduating class under the new GPA requirements will graduate with honors. “Once we reach over 30 percent, we’re probably stretching the meaning of the term ‘honors,’” Diacon said. The new requirement came through the efforts of the Faculty Senate, including a push
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Sources: U of Akron, OSU, YSU, BGSU, OU, U of Toledo, KSU Graphic by: Kelly Travillian from president Linda Williams. Williams was a member of the Faculty Senate in 2012 and sat on the stage during the commencement ceremonies. She noticed a sea of people standing up when honors students were called upon. “To faculty, graduating with honors should mean something,” Williams said. “When
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the vast majority stands up, it kind of dilutes the honor notion of honors.” Both Diacon and Williams said they thought Kent State’s 3.3 cum laude floor was low compared to comparable universities. “I went and looked at about 12 universities,” Williams said. “Some in Michigan, the Uni-
versity of California system and I even looked at places like Harvard and Yale. The 3.5 (requirement) for cum laude was pretty regular.” Senior engineering technology major Stephanie Watters, who is graduating in May, said she thought the lower requirements still applied to her.
Wa t t e r s s a i d s h e w a s unaware of the changes before meeting with her academic adviser for a required advising meeting. Once she was aware she would no longer earn magna cum laude, she sent emails to the university administration. In an email to Melody Tankersly, interim dean for graduate studies, Watters voiced her
concern, writing, “I had not seen anything about (the new requirements) all four years that I went to Kent. It would’ve been beneficial to the students if this would’ve been made easily noticeable on the Kent (State) website instead of in the fine print.”
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Bookstore celebrates ‘Read Across America’ Julie Riedel Student Life Reporter
Rachael Le Goubin / The Kent Stater Kent State’s Rebecca Osmer warms up on the uneven bars during the Flip for the Cure meet against George Washington University on Sunday, March 1, 2015.
Gymnastics team promotes breast cancer awareness Elise Kogelnik Sports Reporter Breast cancer has affected a number of the Kent State University gymnasts, making Friday’s Flip for the Cure meet even more meaningful. Senior Rebecca Osmer ’s mother, Michelle Osmer, fought breast cancer 15 years ago when Rebecca was a little girl. Rebecca said she is glad to be able to support the people in her life who have been affected by the disease. “(Flip for the Cure) brings good awareness,” Osmer said. “One of my very good friends had her last chemotherapy session (Tuesday), so I’m excited to show her the support that we have for her that we might not necessarily get to show in other ways. “I know (the team’s support) means a lot to my mom and to my friend. They’re both really excited about us bringing awareness to something bad and hard that they went through.” Junior Skyelee Lamano’s grandmother, aunt and step-aunt have all been diagnosed with breast cancer. Lamano
said her grandmother attended Flip for the Cure last year and loved seeing everyone’s support. Junior Jordan Hardison said Flip for the Cure raises awareness for breast cancer prevention in males and females. Jordan’s father, Leonard Hardison, went to the doctor for a checkup in December of 2014. The doctor found a lump and diagnosed Leonard with breast cancer. Leonard had surgery four months later to remove the mass and, as of last Christmas, he is healthy and cancer-free. “I think a lot of people overlook (male breast cancer),” Hardison said, “because it’s only like a 1 percent chance. But (Leonard’s) mother actually had breast cancer, too. “Flip for the Cure just brings really good awareness that men can get (breast cancer), too, and everyone should be checking. We’re really thankful that (Leonard) was aware of himself. It got figured out before (the breast cancer) became a big problem.”
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Kent State participated in Read Across America Day, a celebration of child literacy and the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The Kent State Bookstore hosted its second Dr. Seuss Read Across America celebration on Wednesday, March 2. Children from Kent's Childhood Development Center attended the event, ranging from two to five years of age. The celebration included games like Cat in the Hat Says, Green Eggs and Ham Matching Game, Pin the Hat on the Cat, and Stack Yertle the Turtle. To celebrate literacy, Kent State bookstore employee Robin Spand read “Green Eggs and Ham” at story time. Children were able to interact with dogs through the Dogs on Campus program. There was also a reallife Cat in the Hat and Horton, played by bookstore employees Ellen McDougle and Olivia Hanks. “It’s been great. The kids love it. They were really excited to see the Cat in the Hat. We read ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ in our class, so they were excited they recognized the book,” said Kylie Byers, a senior early childhood education major and employee at the Kent State Child Development Center.
“As a kid, the first book I memorized was ‘One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.' I just love Dr. Seuss,” said senior hospitality management major Darnell Griffiths. Last year the bookstore celebrated by having lunch with the Cat in the Hat. Recognizing the limited number of spots in last year celebration, the bookstore changed the celebration to accommodate more people and encourage more interaction. “I like Dr. Seuss. I think he’s fun. I enjoy this project every year, being able to invite the [KSU] Child Development [Center] kids over, to be able to be a little bit funny, a little bit odd and just celebrate that,” said Trade Book Department manager and Coordinator of the bookstore's Read Across America event Nikki Dech. Read Across America was founded in 1998 by the National Education Association (NEA) as a way to get children excited about reading. Libraries, bookstores and schools across the country celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday while encouraging literacy. “The university bookstore will continue to put students first, big and little,” said Cesquinn Curtis, executive director of administration in the Division of Student Affairs.
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Clint Datchuk / The Kent Stater Children from the Kent State Child Development Center gather for a group picture at the second annual Dr. Seuss Read Across America event at the Kent State University Bookstore on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. The event featured a number of games and activities in celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
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Asst. graduate studies dean leaves KSU Andrew Keiper Graduate Education and Research Reporter The assistant dean of the Division of Graduate Studies at Kent State for the past six years, Kate McAnulty, had her last day on Monday, as she leaves the university to hold a role at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). “She has been here for about six years and we didn’t have all these programs before Kate came,” said Melody Tankersley, interim dean of the Division of Graduate Studies. “She really did amazing work at Kent State. She started from nothing and really built what we have today.” McAnulty is leaving her post for the same position at Caltech, a “world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution,” according to the school’s website. “Caltech is one of the top universities in the world,” McAnulty said. “I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to continue my career at a place where graduate education is at the centerpiece of the institution, and is lauded and appreciated.” McAnulty said that she is going to take her experience creating a graduate professional development program, similar to the Graduate Professional and Academic Development (GPAD) workshop series at Kent State, to Caltech. She said the California university liked her work creating Complex Conversations at the Graduate Student Orientation, which is a space that empowers student dialogue about challenging situations they may face as a graduate students and learn of aid resources available to them. “Kate took an orientation program and moved it to epic size and opportunity,” Tankersley said. “She grew the professional development series so that students are not only learning their discipline, but also the nuts and bolts of being a professional. She also conceived of and brought in special programs, such as the Research Symposium and Three Minute Thesis.” McAnulty’s advocacy for the professionalization of the Graduate Student Senate’s voice on campus and ready mentorship of the students involved has set her apart, according to Tankersley. “It’s really all of these things together that create a unique, outstanding Kent State and much of that success goes to Kate,” Tankersley said. During her tenure, McAnulty credited the expansion and revamping of the Graduate Student Orientation, the growth of the Graduate Research Symposium and the establishment of the Graduate Dean’s Award. She thinks these programs have done the most good for the graduate student community. The Graduate Dean’s Award supports students who contribute to broadly-defined diversity within their discipline with a $5,000 stipend enhancement, according to McAnulty. McAnulty said she is proud to have served as the advocate for the large and diverse graduate student population for almost the past six years. The former assistant dean is credited with the creation of the GPAD workshop series and expansion of the Graduate Research Symposium, according to a press release. Most recently, McAnulty was selected as a 2016 recipient of the Kent State University’s Mothers, Mentors and Muses Award. This award is “the Women’s Center's signature event that recognizes Kent State University female-identifying faculty or staff who have made a significant difference in the life of a student or colleague,” according to the Women’s Center website. “I thank my wonderful colleagues across campus, and particularly in the Division of Graduate Studies,” McAnulty said in a poignant goodbye. “I want to recognize my students: Thank you for inspiring me to do more every day. My successes and new opportunities would not be possible without your efforts and accomplishments.” Fritz Yarrison, the executive chair of the GSS, expressed his gratitude for McAnulty. “Kate was so paramount to the success of the GSS, losing her is going to be a very unique challenge for us,” Yarrison said. “She has always been so ready to fight for us. We are very, very happy for her in terms of her new position. We will miss her dearly, both personally and as our faculty champion (and) mentor.” akeiper@kent.edu
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Assistant coach Sharon Sabin and assistant athletic director for student-athlete academic services Angie Hull started Flip for the Cure about eight years ago with inspiration from similar events at other universities. The Kent State gymnastics team has been raising money to support individuals affected by breast cancer ever since. Sabin said Flip for the Cure started small, but it has grown as the team and community have become more attached to the cause. “The first year, I was a little nervous,” Sabin said. “But (Flip for the Cure) seemed to catch on, so we just kept thinking of ideas and coming up with stuff. We started just selling t-shirts to raise money for (breast cancer), and it has grown and grown every year.” The Kent State gymnastics team donated the proceeds from Flip for the Cure to a number of charities before finding one with a personal connection. Dr. Kristine Slam, former Kent State gymnast and current board certified surgeon with the metropolitan surgery division of Central Ohio Surgical Associates (COSA), specializes in surgical oncology. Slam started a grant called COSACARES (Cancer Assistance, Resources and Education) to help women pay for breast cancer treatment and recovery. The Flashes raised approximately $8,000 for COSACARES last year, and they hope to raise even more money Friday. This year ’s donation will be given in honor of former Kent State gymnast Tammy Mahoney, who died of breast cancer in October 2015 at the age of 44. Mahoney’s friends and family, who have donated to COSACARES in the past, will attend Friday’s meet. Sabin said one of the things she likes most about Flip for the Cure is seeing the gymnastics team become more passionate about breast cancer awareness. “Every year, we have seniors going out, and freshmen coming in,” Sabin said. “I like to see the (gymnasts) really get attached to (Flip for the Cure) and see who takes on that role of motivating the team to help with the event and showing how important it is.” Sophomore Brooke Timko and junior Milena Fabry took the lead this year. Timko and Fabry have dedicated every Friday since December to planning, asking for donations, making decorations and raising awareness for breast cancer and Flip for the Cure. Fabry said she has always worked with charities. “I’m really big into helping others and raising money, stuff like that,” Fabry said. “I’ve done service work all my life, so being able to take a bigger role in (Flip for the Cure) and leading people in service work is a good opportunity.” The Kent State gymnasts walk into the M.A.C. Center with breast cancer survivors at every Flip for the Cure meet. Timko said seeing the looks on the survivors’ faces will make all of the time she spent planning the event worthwhile. “It’s heartwarming and nice to (walk out with the survivors) because these people went through such a big fight,” Timko said. “They just think it’s the greatest thing ever. We’re just walking out to another meet, but (the survivors) think it’s so exciting. Last year, (survivors) cried because they were just so happy about it.” The Flashes are excited for the energy from the largest crowd of the season to carry into their competition with Eastern Michigan University. The winner of Friday’s meet will take the Mid-American Conference regular season title, and Fabry said that will motivate the gymnasts even more. “If we beat (Eastern Michigan), we’ll get our championship rings,” Fabry said. “I think that’s in the back of everyone’s minds, pushing us to do really well. There’s so much energy at (Flip for the Cure) that it’s kind of hard not to feed off of it and do really well.” The Kent State gymnasts are selling Flip for the Cure shirts from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. all week in the student center. Long sleeved shirts are $12, and short sleeved shirts are $10. Shirts will be available at the meet, too. Doors to the M.A.C. Center will open at 5 p.m. Friday for Flip for the Cure, and the Flashes will compete against Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Before the meet begins, visitors can enter basket raffles and play games to raise money for COSACARES.
Both Diacon and Williams stressed the new GPA requirements have been in the academic catalog since the Fall 2012 semester. Diacon said each student’s academic catalog is a contract between that student and Kent State. “There’s a chunk of folks who would have gotten (honors), and now they’re not. But any semester we chose, there would have been students missing out,” Williams said. “No matter what, if we had done this in December, there would be a bunch of students griping about their friends graduating the past May.” Diacon cited two reasons that drove the senate to make the changes to the honor requirements. “Our 3.3 was lower than most Ohio universities,” Diacon said. “Most (Mid-American) Conference (universities) start at 3.5, and we were out of step with other universities. Secondly, honors should indicate something that not everyone has achieved.” Latin honors are calculated using unadjusted GPA as opposed to a graduate’s final transcript, which uses adjusted GPA, Diacon said. Unadjusted GPA is the result of every course a student has taken during his or her duration at Kent State. The freshman forgiveness policy states that all courses taken, even those repeated for a higher grade, will be calculated into institutional honors. kschne21@kent.edu From Page 1
READ Bookstore celebrates ‘Read Across America’ The NEA picked the newly released Dr. Seuss book “What Pet I Should I Get” as this year’s Read Across America book. The Kent State bookstore hosted a “What Pet Should I Get” event on its July 28, 2015 release, so they instead celebrated Read Across America with a reading of “Green Eggs and Ham.” “What Pet Should I Get” was published after Dr. Seuss widow Aubrey Geisel and assistant Claudia Prescott took the draft and sketches to be apprised. In Dr. Seuss’ lifetime he published 45 children books. He also influenced a change in children’s literature to make it more entertaining and easier for children to read. “I like him because I think he’s really a subversive figure in children’s literature … Children’s literature has enormous power to convey all kinds of messages to children and Seuss’ is a very fun message and a very important message as well, and I also really like what he did for the early readers books,” said Marianne Martens, assistant professor from the School of Library and Information Science and member of the Reinberger Children’s Library. jriedel2@kent.edu
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Muslim Student Association to host speaker Keri Richmond Religion Reporter Kent State’s Muslim Student Association will host Muslim speaker Saad Omar on Thursday evening to discuss what it’s like being Muslim. Omar's presentation, entitled “If Muhammad was here today,” will focus on what he believes Muhammad would say about the current state of the world. The event will take place on Thursday, March 3 at 6 p.m. in the Governance Chambers of the Kent State Student Center. Amanda Lamadanie, a senior
psychology major, was the driving force behind bringing Omar to Kent State. “We invited Saad in hopes of providing a space for Kent State students and staff to learn a bit about Muslims,” Lamadanie said, who also serves as president of the MSA. Omar, referred to as Brother Omar by MSA, is a national speaker, artist and social entrepreneur. “We chose Saad Omar because he not only has the experience of studying with top Muslim scholars, he also has had the unique experience of knowing Muslims,
especially Muslim youth, across the country from his speaking tours,” Lamadanie said. Omar ’s background includes serving as chair of the Muslim Youth of North America. Omar attended Georgetown University for his undergraduate degree and later obtained his Master's Degree from Indiana University. All students and questions are welcome at the event. “We hope that anyone who wants to know a little bit more about Islam and Muslims is able to join us,” Lamadanie said. krichmo4@kent.edu
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‘Rock the Runway’ fashion show returns this weekend Ile-Ife Okantah Fashion Reporter
Kent Student Center Programming will host the 12th-annual Rock the Runway Fashion Show at 8 p.m. on Saturday in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Rock the Runway is a themed competition that brings together music and fashion in a fresh and interactive way. Any Kent State student is eligible to participate, not just fashion majors.
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Microaggressions are a distraction Jonathan Zimmerman Los Angeles Times In a 1967 interview, the AfricanAmerican novelist Ralph Ellison denounced the commonplace idea that blacks had been permanently “damaged” by slavery, segregation and institutional racism. Instead, Ellison insisted, blacks’ survival in the face of discrimination and hatred demonstrated their strength and character. Ellison would be appalled by our current moment on American campuses, where the damage thesis has returned with a vengeance. From Yale University and Ithaca College to the University of Missouri and Claremont McKenna College, black students and their allies are claiming that racist behavior _ and administrators’ weak response to it are harming minorities’ psychological health. They insist that overtly racist comments as well as “micro-
aggressions” smaller, day-to-day slights take a psychic toll. I don’t doubt African-American students and other minorities at our colleges experience routine prejudice and discrimination. We live in a society that is riven by racial stereotypes, distortions and fantasies. As much as I’d like our campuses to be immune from all of that, I know that they are not. Nevertheless, I’m troubled by the psychological idioms our students are using to describe racism, which echo the same paternalism and condescension that Ellison decried. Equally troubling is the much-heard argument that everyone on campus should “validate” minorities’ experience and yield to their demands, lest we harm fragile psyches even further. Starting in the early 1900s, white social scientists and, eventually, some black ones insisted that African-American minds had been permanently scarred by racism. Their influence was particularly promi-
nent in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Yet there was little evidence that black kids in segregated schools felt worse about themselves. In fact, Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s famous doll experiments which were cited in the Brown decision showed that African-American students in integrated schools were more likely to choose a white doll rather than a black one, which the Clarks took as a sign of low self-esteem. Segregation, whether state-sponsored or de facto, is an abomination, but not because it hurts feelings. It’s an abomination because it hurts opportunity, shunting black children into sub-standard schools. Unlike structural inequalities, which you can document with data, emotions are by definition subjective. They become trump cards, no matter what other facts are in evidence. At Claremont McKenna College, a dean resigned after student protests over an email she wrote expressing concerns about nonwhite students who did not “fit our CMC mold.” It’s absurd to suggest
that the dean thought all students should fit a “white” mold; indeed, she wrote the email to challenge precisely that proposition. But the students felt hurt by her words. If we let ourselves be governed by feelings, we’ll go down a rabbit hole of competing grievances and recriminations. The question will no longer be who is right or wrong or what’s most worth rectifying in any objective, demonstrable sense but who is experiencing the most pain and trauma. As Ralph Ellison reminded us nearly half a century ago, the idea of damaged black minds condescends to people who are much stronger than the accumulated slights they have suffered. I support the minority students standing up to the racism that still surrounds them. But I won’t patronize them by “validating” everything they say simply because they feel it. Neither should you.
Bernie supporters must prepare for Clinton as the Democratic nominee Anthony Erhardt Guest Columnist
split makes the results among white voters in New Hampshire look more like an outlier compared with South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. Maybe the Vermont senator had more of a nextdoor-neighbor advantage in New Hampshire than we initially thought.” As I am writing this, not all of the results in the Super Tuesday states have been announced, but so far Bernie Sanders has won four contests, far behind how many Secretary Clinton is expected to accumulate. Simply put, Bernie’s path to the nomination is extremely tough, if non-existent. Bernie and his supporters, including myself, have nothing to be ashamed of regarding the campaign we have run. Senator Sanders has brought to light many relevant issues and also energized millions of new voters to be engaged in the political process. However, in the words of John F. Kennedy, “I’m an idealist without illusions,” and at this point, Bernie Sanders being the Democratic nominee
for president is nothing more than an illusion. It’s time for Bernie’s supporters and all Democrats to rally around Hillary Clinton for the general election this November. So much is at stake in this election, including a Supreme Court appointment, and we can’t afford to lose the White House simply because of hard feelings over Bernie’s defeat. If you are a Bernie supporter you have two choices: 1. Swallow your pride and vote for Hillary even if she isn’t the “perfect candidate.” 2. Don’t vote at all and risk handing the election to a racist, xenophobic, reality television star with a bad toupee. You decide which is better.
When Senator Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination last May, seemingly all political pundits and pollsters gave the self-avowed Democratic-Socialist and party outsider almost no shot of winning the contest. A little less than a year later, the Vermont Senator has shattered all expectations and managed to run an exciting and somewhat competitive campaign against political stalwart and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The views expressed here do not necessarily Are Sanders’ massive crowds, enthusiasreflect the views of the Kent State College Democrats tic supporters, and appeal to younger voters as an organization. enough to win him the contest? To answer bluntly, no. From someone who has supported Bernie Sanders’ campaign from nearly day one it’s hard for me to admit, but my fellow Bernie supporters need to start preparing for the fact that Hillary Clinton is the likely Democratic nominee for president. Secretary Clinton is likely to emerge from the primary victorious for a couple of reasons: the first is that Sanders’ momentum from the first three contests has essentially disappeared. Sanders and Clinton virtually tied in the Iowa Caucus 49.9 percent to 49.6 percent, according to The New York Times. Fast forward the following week to the New Hampshire primary, and Sanders decimated Clinton 60.4 percent to 38.0 percent according to Politico, although both candidates walked away with 15 delegates. The most crushing blow to the Sanders campaign came in the South Carolina primary on Feb. 27 when Clinton soundly defeated her rival 73.5 percent to 26.0 percent, taking 39 delegated in the process to Sanders’ 14. Bernie’s crushing defeat in South Carolina highlights what I believe has been the downfall of his campaign: his inability to reach minority voters. Exit Polls from South Carolina show that Sanders lost the African-American vote 14 percent to Clinton’s 86 percent. Five Thirty Eight, a research organization, concluded “If white voters were more supportive of his candidacy, Sanders Jim Gehrz / Minneapolis Star Tribune might have been able to keep the race Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a campaign stop at Mapps Coffee Shop in the Cedar closer. But they split 54 percent for Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Clinton to 46 percent for Sanders. The
Listen to Leo Samantha Karam Columnist If you watched the Oscars on Sunday night or have social media of any kind, you know that Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar. I’ve waited six Academy Awards to see him bring home the gold, so when he won I was anxious to hear his acceptance speech. “Making ‘The Revenant’ was about man’s relationship to the natural world … our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow,” DiCaprio said. “Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It’s the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” DiCaprio often speaks about the environment and global warming. I really admire him for that because, like he said Sunday night, people tend to procrastinate and not face the severity of climate change. I’ve been an advocate for the environment for a very long time. I respect and support what Leo is doing; instead of throwing statistics at people who don’t see the issues associated with the environment, he makes it human. Someone once told me that the most important part of a movie is a character ’s “call to action.” Generally speaking, this is the point where someone faces a challenge and must do something about it. Well, Leo is taking that concept beyond the cameras. He travels the world and witnesses the horror that is climate change. This issue is not a conspiracy and he’s fighting that ignorance with his global foundation, his Instagram and his voice. He dedicates his social media platforms to showing us what these statistics look like and who they affect the most. He forces people to see and hear the cold - or rather, warm - hard facts many of us choose to disregard. Sure, the annual changes in surface temperature, the rate the Arctic is melting and the speed the seas are rising are all incredibly concerning. Sadly, however, statistics don’t get everyone to listen the way DiCaprio does. Every time I’ve seen him accept an award, he gets on stage, as one of the most wellliked faces of Hollywood, and shows how concerned he is and how much he cares about his Earth. It’s hard to ignore a man who can embody anyone from a poor boy who falls in love with a rich girl to a corrupt, multimillionaire stockbroker. I’ve had plenty of debates with friends about which of Leo’s roles is the best. He’s such a dynamic actor that it’s hard to pinpoint which movie he shines the brightest in. After debating it, I’ve decided my personal favorite version of DiCaprio has become his role off-screen as an advocate for the environment. Unlike all his other personas, he doesn’t retire from being a voice for the natural world, and I hope his words inspire people to think about where the environment is headed because nature is beautiful and I would hate for it to get any less pretty than it already has. skaram3@kent.edu
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ARCHITECTURE STUDENT CREATES PARKOUR-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT Adrian Leuthauser CAED Reporter
Kent State graduate student, Forrest Paige, is creating a unique project in his architecture program. The project identifies the aspects of parkour when the runners actively approach urban space and design. According to Merriam-Webster, parkour “is the sport of traversing environmental obstacles by running, climbing, or leaping rapidly and efficiently.” “What a hyper able person is, is someone who uses space in an unconventional way,” Paige said. Associate Professor Bill Willoughby, said that architecture gives society various clues as to how to use and interact with the space and architecture around them. “As opposed to walking around this obstacle, they could walk right over it,” Willoughby said. “Because parkour is the art of moving through space quickly.” That’s the notion that Paige is trying to convey in this project. He is focusing on how architecture and design can be manipulated in a manner that is more unique and thought-provoking. One of the ways he is trying to spark thought is by using an ordinary, everyday box. Paige said the purpose of the box was to act as an investigation for his project to see how people would interact with it. “The box is basically challenging how we use an object and how we see an object,” Paige said. “So the box itself is nothing more than a box, but what I did were paint hands and feet on it so that it would push at peoples imagination.” With this project Paige is working on, Willoughby feels it will challenge individuals and the way that people think about their environments around them.
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Erik Hartung, a master’s candidate of ecology and biology, as well as a good friend of Paige, said that Paige wants to mold the concept of parkour with architecture and design. He also wants people work that into the way people experience the architecture around them. “He sees why people choose different urban spaces to interact with,” Hartung said. Along with writing a paper and creating a film, Paige intends to create deployable parkour parks. “Basically, it’s building parkour parks that take these elements from the city and combined them into one structure,” Paige said. “Then, those structures could be demounted and built in different places.” Paige has encountered some barriers with this project, however. “Where Paige is having a lot of trouble is how he’s defining hyper able people,” Hartung said. “(Also), his professors were asking why should he design for hyper able people.” Despite that encounter, Paige has been able to overcome the obstacles by explaining to his professors that this project will be about the way people interact and highlight the architecture around them. “Instead of defining a hyper able person, I switched it to hyper normative, and it became less about the person and their body and more about how people use the actual space,” Paige said. It’s that thought-provoking idea that sparked the project for Paige. The different perspective and how people interact with the architecture. When Paige realized what he wanted his project to be about, he was at a playground in London, England, with a bunch of kids and a monument near by. “This is what inspired me to do this in the first place,” Paige said. “Well, also because I’ve
Having one of those days where you can’t decide what to listen to? Craving music from new artists in 2016? Black Squirrel Radio has you covered on what’s cool and what’s coming out soon. some point. One thing to keep you going is the
thought of that best friend who has been with you all your life or the person you deeply care about — care so much your heart goes BOOM! 3. “I Don’t Wanna Be Sad”
Who wants to be sad where there’s so much
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1. “Saturday”
listening to this song?
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horns. Honestly, who can keep a sad face while 4. “I Don’t Wanna Go to Bed" (feat. Nelly)
Nelly provides a more relaxed, jazzy sound
relaxing day filled with a night of adventure.
while adding a more pop feel to the song. The
never too late to have a good time with your
experience love at first sight.
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song says you can’t just go to bed when you
friends or with a special someone.
5. “Opinion Overload”
2. “Boom!”
Everyone goes through a rough patch at
It’s the song that defines the entire punk
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sounding guitar chords will make you want to roll down your win-
dows and blast the album for the neighborhood to hear.
bbounds@kent.edu
Eslah Attar / The Kent Stater Forrest Paige jumps over a box covered in handprints that he made for a school project on Feb. 8, 2016. The handprints are color-coded to help people who practice parkour differentiate between the difficult and easy tricks. Paige is a graduate student at Kent State studying architecture and hopes to incorporate the ability to practice parkour on buildings.
been doing parkour for so long.” “There was this one playground called Queen Elizabeth’s Olympic Park and so while I was in London, I went to the playground because we were looking at the architecture of the Olympic Stadium,” Paige said. “It was one of the coolest playgrounds you could ever imagine and next to the playground, there was this monument. I decided to climb up on it and slide down." Soon enough, the kids that were occupied with the playground were now more occupied
with this monument because it was a new place for them to play on. It’s that perspective that Paige is trying to open up. “Paige will be thinking about buildings, not just by ‘how will I make them work,’ but ‘how will I make them work and cause people to imagine their use in new ways,’” Willoughby said. “His goal is to make these architectures thought-provoking.” aleuthau@kent.edu
The Q ranks as ‘Top 200 Arena Venue’ Angelo Angel Entertainment Reporter Whenever someone mentions the Quicken Loans Arena, most individuals would associate the venue with the Cleveland Cavilers or the Lake Erie Monsters. But now more recently, The Q is gaining recognition as one of the popular stops for entertainment both nationally and globally. The Quicken Loans Arena recently ranked at No. 33 in the Ed Suba Jr. / Akron Beacon Journal Pollstar’s 2015 list of “Top 200 Cleveland Cavaliers fans cheer as LeBron James is introduced before Arena Venues” in terms of ticket the start of Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. sales worldwide. This also meant that The Q beat out other prominent cities although the Pollstar ranking is based on nonsuch as Boston, Houston and Philadelphia for sporting events, the fans that visit the Q become it’s placing. aware of other upcoming events at the Q, and According to a press release from the Quicken that this helps to sell more tickets. Loans Arena, the venue’s rankings have been on Christen Hubbard, a freshman biology major, a steady rise over the past year, giving credence feels that it’s great that Cleveland has such a to Cleveland and Quicken Loans Arena’s status highly regarded venue. as one of the most active arenas in the world and “It makes the city look better having such a a primary destination for major concert tours. popular venue,” Hubbard said. Along with being the home of various sport Nina Patterson, a freshman psychology major, franchises, the Q has been a popular stop for art- has attended the Q for a Jonas Brothers' concert ists, with concerts such as Justin Bieber, Maroon and feels that the venue lives up to its ranking. 5 and Janet Jackson having upcoming dates at “It makes me feel good that it got such a high the arena. rating and hopefully it makes more artists come Jenn McElhatten, the Corporate Communica- (to) Cleveland,” Patterson said. tions Manager for the Q, stated that the Quicken The Quicken Loans Arena will also be hosting Loans Arena management was very pleased with the Republican National Convention this July the arena’s ranking and looks forward to grow- 18-21, which will be one of the biggest events ing its reputation among the global community. the venue has ever hosted. McElhatten said that she attributes the popuThe Republican National Convention (RNC) larity of the venue to their ability to stay up to will be huge for the city of Cleveland. It's the secdate with maintenance. ond largest media event in the world, and speaks “We want our fans to think of Quicken Loans to the fact that our venue is capable of handling Arena as 'home', and just like any home owner, any event in the world,” McElhateen said. “We we know that we need to make sure the house is are confident that everyone in the region will clean and safe before we would invite anyone in reap a benefit from the tens of thousands of peoto visit,” McElhatten said. ple visiting and broadcasting from Cleveland for When asked about whether the Cleveland the RNC.” Cavilers had any role in increasing the Q’s ranking among other venues, McElhateen stated that aangel3@kent.edu
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