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May 4 site could be named National Historic Landmark Cameron Gorman and Neville Hardman General Assignment Reporter and City Reporter The May 4 Visitors Center, already recognized as part of the National Register of Historic Places, is now under review to become a National Historic Landmark. The U.S. Department of the Interior notified the city of Kent in February that a study was to be conducted regarding the designation. Earlier this year the chair of the Board of Trustees wrote a letter to the National Park Service in support of May 4 as a designation for a National Historic Landmark. The nomination was pioneered by professors emeritus Mark Seeman, Laura Davis, Carole Barbato and Jerry M. Lewis in 2009. The location of the shootings is over 17 acres, Lewis said. This includes the Commons, Taylor Hall and the areas surrounding Taylor and Prentice Halls. “For several reasons, May 4 is part of the tragedy of the Vietnam War. A lot of people have said that ... May 4 helped end the war,” Lewis said. “Arthur Miller, the famous playwright, said that May 4 represented the war coming home to America. To the extent that Vietnam is a historical event in American society, May 4 is part of the culture of that historical event.” Recognition as an historic Ppace protects the site from development. “When students come here, they can look at the site that’s protected,” Lewis said. “It was being changed by the gym annex and a little bit of Centennial Halls. And now, with the registering as a historical site, it’s protected and it won’t change.” The potential designation as a landmark differs from the title of historic place, mainly based on selectivity and national status. “The main difference between the NRHP nomination and the NHL nomination is the requirement to compare May 4 with other sites where the excessive use of force resulted in national tragedy,” said Seeman, who worked on the process of application with Davis.
Aaron Self / The Kent Stater Howard Zylinzki stands on Blanket Hill above a group of people gathered on the Kent State Commons for the May 4 vigil walk Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
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People participate in the May 4 vigil walk Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
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SCHEDULE May 3: 11 p.m. – 12 p.m. – Overnight candlelight vigil — Kent State Commons, Victory Bell
May 4: 10-11:30 a.m. – Book signing with authors Craig Simpson and Greg Wilson (“Above the Shots,” released in April); Thomas Grace. (“Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties”); Jerry Lewis and Thomas Hensley (“Kent State and May 4th: A Social Science Perspective”); Laura Davis, and Mark Seeman, (“This We Know”); and David Hassler (“May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970”)—Kent State University Bookstore 12 p.m. – Commemoration with keynote speaker Samaria Rice, welcome remarks by President Beverly Warren and a performance by a member of the Kent State Gospel Choir—Kent State Commons 3-5 p.m. – Book signing with Thomas Grace, (“Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties”)—May 4 Visitor’s Center 5:30 p.m. – “Research Uncorked” Discussion, which centers around the conflict between freedom of public expression and the unauthorized use of force used to suppress it. Talks to be led by Paul Haridakis, professor and coordinator of doctoral education in the School of Communication Studies at Kent State, and Richard Serpe, department chair and professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State.— Venice Café downtown 7:30 p.m. – Gospel Choir Concert — University Auditorium in Cartwright Hall
Sociology professor details May 4 shooting A BRIEF Samantha Meisenburg Veteran Affairs Reporter It took 13 seconds, 67 shots, 28 guardsmen, nine injured and four dead to make Kent State infamous on a Monday afternoon 46 years ago. President Nixon announced the invasion of American troops into Cambodia April 30, 1970, which triggered anti-war protests all over the country. In Kent, the protests turned into anti-guard protests when 1,000 Ohio National Guard soldiers showed up on Kent’s campus. Jerry Lewis was an Army Veteran, sociology professor, faculty marshal organizer and witness of May 4. He co-wrote a book titled, "Kent State and May 4th: A Social Science Perspective," with Thomas Hensley. He is currently an emeritus professor of sociology and spoke in April about events that occurred before, during and after the May 4 shooting. This discussion was a critical analysis on the war that came home and shaped American history. It's goal was to study how the elements and circumstances got out of control and to study what mistakes everyone made that day. Another purpose was to “put us in the shoes of the soldiers first,” said Lt. Col. Matthew Fox, who organized this discussion. “We strive in mission command to make sure we paint the right picture for our soldiers so they can make correct decisions, because someone made a terrible decision pulling triggers on unarmed students that day,” Fox said. Fox wanted to have this discussion now, to help the seniors right before they commission and because something like this has not been done since the shooting happened. “I wanted to walk with the soon-to-be soldiers on the hol-
May 4 speaker sparks debate on social media Stephen Means City Reporter The announcement that Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, would be the keynote speaker for the May 4 commemoration was followed by mixed reaction from current and former Kent State students. While some were delighted by the announcement, others weren't pleased with the decision and took to social media to voice their frustrations. Many of those comments received backlash from those in the African-American community at Kent State. Some were disappointed in the com-
low ground that this incident happened,” said Fox. “To show respect to the people we lost that day and to show respect to the service that we are here to learn.” The discussion followed a 46-minute documentary showcasing the events of May 4. Afterwards, Lewis, ROTC seniors and officers used the six leadership principles applied to the actions of the Ohio National Guard - Cohesive Teams, Shared Understanding, Commander’s Intent, Discipline Initiative, Mission Orders and Prudent Risk – to examine if the soldiers did what they were suppose to do. One topic discussed was that there were two groups of soldiers who fired- one group fired into the crowd and the other fired into the sky. The soldiers who shot into the
crowd, “acted on initiative and probably felt they needed to do something because they did not have a shared understanding of what to do,” said an ROTC senior. Lewis discussed how the 70s was a time college students believed they could make major political change. The anti-war riots, rallies and protests leading up to May 4, were meant to make a statement because the students targeted political symbols, such as burning down the ROTC building on campus and attacking gas and electric companies downtown. The students made assumptions that the guns the Ohio National Guard had weren’t loaded with bullets. When the shots were fired, many students assumed the soldiers shot blanks.
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HISTORY:
What happened on May 4? On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others during Vietnam War protests near Taylor Hall on campus.
Who were the victims? -Allison Krause, 19, was an honor student protesting on campus on May 4. She is known for saying, "Flowers are better than bullets," a few days before the shootings. In 2010, her sister, Laurel, co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal to uncover, record and preserve witness testimonies and others involved on May 4. -Jeff Miller, 20, was protesting on campus on May 4. He transferred from Michigan State several months earlier. John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning May 4 photo features a 14-year-old runaway, Mary Ann Vecchio, kneeling over Miller's dead body.
Allison Krause, 19
Jeff Miller, 20
-Sandra Scheuer, 20, was an honor speech therapy student and was not part of the protests; she was walking to class when she was shot. -William Schroeder, 19, was a psychology student and not part of the protests; he was observing the protests from afar when he was shot. Graham Smith / The Kent Stater Jerry M Lewis, Kent Stater professor emeritus of sociology, gives a tour of the May 4 memorial Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Lewis was a professor on campus and acted as a faculty marshall during the shootings on May 4, 1970.
ments made by both current students and Kent State alumni. "It's a real shame that—because of their anger— they would resort to such cowardly attacks toward someones mother," said Marvin Logan, a Kent State alum. "Here we have a mourning mother. How dare you disgrace her and the memory of her son by attacking her ability to parent by saying that's what led to the shooting ... of Tamir Rice." Not all comments on the announcement were negative, though. Some, including Kent State President Beverly Warren, took the opportunity to spread positivity by welcoming Rice to the campus and her full support in the decision to make her the keynote speaker. “I honor the May 4th Task Force,” Warren said in an interview with TV2 and KentWired. “I think they’ve been thoughtful over time in terms of how they’ve commemorated May 4.”
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Why were students protesting?
Sandra Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
Some of the students were protesting President Richard Nixon's April 30 expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Other students who were shot were walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
What happened after May 4? In October 1970, a state Grand Jury exonerated the guardsmen of any wrongdoing. Several parents of slain and wounded students filed an appeal in U.S. District Court. A federal Grand Jury began in December 1973, and eight National Guardsmen were tried in 1974—but the charges were dropped. The parents settled out of court in January 1979 for $675,000 and a "letter of regret" from Ohio officials. Screenshots courtesy of Twitter
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LANDMARK May 4 site could be... “In contrast to the National Register of Historic Places review, a NHL can take a long time, sometimes years, because of their scheduling constraints, but we think we are on the fast-track for a November vote," he said. Of the over 90,000 places recognized in the NRHP, only about 2,500 are landma r k s, a ccordi n g t o t h e National Park Service. To be a landmark, the site must be considered, “exceptional national significance in the nation’s history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture—as well as to illustrate important themes, persons, and events in national American history, according to the Department of Interior. Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitor ’s Center, believes that the site of the shootings meets this criteria. “The landmark application really builds on the register of Historic Places application," Farmer said. “You send out an inquiry through the Ohio state division ... and then they send it (to the) national. (Then), they came back with some comments to really challenge us to build on that application," Connecting the events of May 4 to a legacy of activism is something that a designation as a Historic Landmark would only cement further. If approved by the NHL committee in the fall, the application will move to be reviewed by the National Parks System Advisory Board,and then to the secretary of the interior. If all goes smoothly, a decision could be made as early as 2017. “It’ll be further proof that what happened here matters; what happened here changed the course, the trajectory of our society in some really important ways ... I think it’s an important lesson for students today, who weren’t involved in that," Farmer said. “I think it’ll empower students today to make their own mark, in different, more positive ways.” Benefits to the university As the highest designation that can be given Davis, the founding director of the May 4 Visitors Center, believes the landmark title will stress the importance of May 4 even further. “The university as a whole has a million visitors per year, in one form or another, who come to the campus,” Davis said. “And truly, a large percentage of those visitors— again before there was even a May 4 Visitors Center— wanted to be taken to the place where the shootings took place. They wanted to be told the story.” One aspect considered other than the historical purpose is the physical integrity of the area. Patricia Henry, a historian at the NHL, said historical and current descriptions are required so the integrity can be assessed. The landmark title can be taken away if the university doesn’t keep up maintenance in the area, Farmer said. “It will attract more people to the story,” Davis said. “It will attract more people to the site and it will help them see patterns in American history, which lead to the kind of understanding that makes us better citizens, that makes us better able to deal with important issues.” cgorman2@kent.edu and nhardma1@kent.edu
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LEWIS Sociology professor details... Lewis was standing in the Prentice parking lot near Prentice Hall when the tragedy occurred. “When the shots were fired I thought they were shooting at me, so I dove to cover which is what I learned when I was in the Army,” Lewis said. He then proceeded to inform students that the soldiers did in fact use real bullets and told the students to leave the scene to find safety. After the conversation, Lewis showed the ROTC seniors and officers significant places around the area where the shootings occurred. After the tour outside, everyone gathered into the May 4 Visitor’s Center in Taylor Hall.
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On Kent Police disappointed in bystanders after cruiser rolls over officer Vivian Feke Digital Content Director
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The Kent Clarks perform at BlastOff at Risman Plaza on Aug. 30, 2015.
Jack Kopanski Performing Arts Reporter One of Kent State’s acapella groups, the Kent Clarks, will host its fifth anniversary concert at 7:30 p.m. this Friday in the Student Center Ballroom. The Clarks were the first acapella group to appear on Kent State’s campus. The group has
competed both in- and out-ofstate, performing for Kent State President Beverly Warren, on The Today Show and for the president and first lady of the United States. “We have built a strong name for ourselves over these past five years,” said Meghan Fitzgerald, president of the Kent Clarks. “We have been around so long and have been given incredible oppor-
The Kent Police Department is concerned about the public’s use of social media after a police cruiser rolled over on top of an officer early Sunday morning and no bystanders took action. According to Lieutenant Michael Lewis, administrative lieutenant for the Kent Police department, Officer Mitch Smith was patrolling downtown early Sunday morning when he saw a man kicking and punching another man on South Water Street. Smith got out of his cruiser, took the suspect down to the ground, and as he was wrestling with the suspect, his own cruiser began to roll forward and over his leg.
tunities, and we love doing them all together as a family.” The family aspect of the group is what encouraged growth, and Fitzgerald said she can’t wait for the future with the group. “We always want to grow with new members and can’t wait to see what Kent (State) has to offer,” Fitzgerald said. “The Kent Clarks are a very diverse
group of students that come together to do the one thing we all love to do most: sing.” Fitzgerald also said students should come to the anniversary show because the group has worked hard to entertain friends, students and fans. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for Kent State students at the door.
Cheers&Jeers Cheers to ... the White House planning a proposal for creating the first national monument to honor the nation’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
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SilverSneakers benefits more than just health
Jeers to ... the outrage on social media to Old Navy’s ad featuring an interracial family.
Brianna Figley Health Reporter When Harold Williams, an emeritus professor of economics, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he knew his life was going to change. Exercise was not only recommended, it was a necessity. He turned to the university's Healthways SilverSneakers Fitness Program, which offered Williams and his wife, Dorothy, an exercise outlet and community to look out for them. Williams and his wife came to Kent State in 1966. He had just finished his doctorate and began teaching economics at the College of Business Administration—where he also served as the associate dean of graduate and international programs. Dorothy, meanwhile, was studying for her bachelor's and master's degrees. The couple joined SilverSneakers when it first started at Kent State in 2008 and have been regular participants ever since. “With my condition, it is extremely important that I exercise every single day,” Harold Williams said. “We are here basically every day of the week ... three of those days, we are at a class for the SilverSneakers program. They have great instructors there, and it is nice to have a program that emphasizes stretching and working on my balance. Also, it is great to know that someone is there to catch me if I fall.” SilverSneakers meets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, and members engage in cardiovascular exercise classes and water aerobics in the the Student Recreation and Wellness Center's pool. The organization currently has more than 1,070 members enrolled through the Rec Center, with an average of 4,000 total visits each month. Members choose which classes they want to participate in throughout the week. Most members have health insurance that covers their membership fee. In a typical Friday morning class, about 40 members participate in variations of cardio, strength training and stretching exercises. Stretching bands are used to create resistance for shoulder and back exercises,
Fox’s key takeaway from the discussion was, “getting the idea across to these soon-to-be lieutenants that what you do and the decisions you make and how you make those decisions have a broader affect.” Lewis hopes the ROTC students learned how complex leadership can be. Kayla Enochs, a senior ROTC cadet with a major in exercise physiology, said “the presentation really opened my eyes to both sides of the story and the aftermath of the events and how it caused a disruption throughout the nation rather than just on campus.” She thinks its more honorable being part of ROTC at Kent State despite May 4, because, “it shows how we overcame that event and how we have grown from it and learned from it, to better the ROTC program,” Enochs said. smeisenb@kent.edu
A few thoughts on May 4 Matt Poe Columnist
Samantha Karam / The Kent Stater Instructor Lilian Kolodziej leads her SilverSneakers class in an exercise Friday, April 29, 2016. The group meets every Friday morning for cardio and weight-lifting workouts.
free weights to strengthen arms and wrists, and a small exercise ball is used while members sit in a chair to do various abdominal exercises and to work on the flexibility of their knees and ankles. “It is not an easy class,” said Dottie Emerick, a member of SilverSneakers. “It got our heart rates up and got us moving and motivated to start the day.” SilverSneakers provides not just a physical benefit for members, but also a social environment. Members meet with each other outside of the program's classes routinely for lunch dates and other activities, such as hiking and walking with other couples and participants. “It has become a family, a SilverSneakers family,” Emerick said. “If someone is not there, we know we need to check in on them. It gets us out and makes us get up in the morning and do something. It is good for us, and it is keeping us all healthy.” Emerick and her husband, Tom, started coming to SilverSneakers shortly after the Williams. Both were born
and raised in Kent and studied at Kent State. They said they love the opportunity to stay involved with Kent State and the community. Emerick emphasized how much the program keeps all of them healthier so they can participate in other aspects of the city and university. The program accommodates members experiencing medical issues, as Emerick recently experienced. Emerick had surgery on her ankle and is now unable to put weight on it for eight weeks. Her SilverSneakers instructor has worked with her so she is still able to participate and stay active in the program. However, SilverSneakers has done more for the Emericks than just provide a fun place to work out. “The first winter that we did SilverSneakers, we found out that Tom had a heart condition,” Emerick said. “If it weren’t for (the program), we might not have known about it til it was too late. He ended up having a quad bypass, (but) he is still here. SilverSneakers saved his life.”
David and Mary Reith are another couple who regularly attend SilverSneakers classes. The couple met the Williams about ten years ago at the Kent State Field House, where they used to walk together. “He’s a champion runner,” David Reith said about Harold Williams. “He always ran circles around me. He’s just an amazing guy.” Abby Millsaps, marketing coordinator for Kent State's Recreational Services, said she is proud of what SilverSneakers has brought to the Rec center. “SilverSneakers opens our doors to a broader audience,” Milsaps said. “It allows us to serve people you don’t normally see on a college campus. Although there are hundreds of SilverSneakers facilities across the country, we offer something special at the SRWC because we’ve fostered a welcoming, caring environment with our participants. The program is beneficial because it supports physical fitness goals and provides a social opportunity for its members.” bfigley2@kent.edu
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SOCIAL MEDIA May 4 speaker sparks... With the overall theme for this year's commemoration as "Black Lives Matter," Rice is just one of many mothers who have lost her son to police brutality. The movement was started following the murder of 17-yearold Trayvon Martin in 2012 as a response to acts of police brutality and anti-black racism in the United States. The commencement will be at the Kent State May 4 Memorial behind Taylor Hall and will start at noon. smeans2@kent.edu
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The date of May 4 holds no significance to most people. Aside from birthdays, anniversaries and Star Wars geeks who love to proclaim “May the fourth be with you” to one another, the day is just another in a long line of 365. Here and gone; over and out; fleeting like many days before and after it. But for those who work or attend classes at Kent State or anyone who lives within the Kent community, May 4 is not just another day. Much like 9/11, its date alone has become a symbol of an entire series of events that ended tragically for almost all involved. (Note: I am not comparing the two events, just the usage of the dates.) There are three general categories to divide people in for their knowledge of May 4. The first group is the people who don’t know about the shootings that took place at Kent State on May 4, 1970, when a group of National Guardsmen fired on students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and injuring 13 in all. I could go on about the event, but I encourage you to read it from historians, eye witnesses and archivists who could detail it much better than someone who wasn’t around at the time. The second group of people includes those who, when you tell them you attend Kent State, reply with something commonly like “Oh, where those shootings happened?” “Yes, where the shootings happened,” is how you’ll likely reply for the twentieth different time. Those people don’t say it to be insensitive or rude or whatever you want to call it; they just don’t know much about the incident. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The third and final group consists of two subsets of people: those alive during the time and those who go to Kent State. For anyone alive during the tragedy, you know about May 4. You know the song “Ohio” by Neil Young. You know what it did to this campus, the city, its people and — for that matter — the rest of the nation. For students of our generation at Kent State, I think it is kind of hard at times to grasp the significance of what happened here and to understand the monuments and landmarks that we walk past virtually every day to and from class. We know those landmarks and the people on them only as names from the past; not classmates, friends and colleagues we interact with daily. But we fast forward to May 4, 2016, where Samaria Rice, mother of the late 12-year-old Tamir Rice—who was shot and killed by a police officer in Cleveland in 2014, will serve as the keynote speaker. The backlash she has received by some on social media is alarming. Same goes for the university. For those people, find something better to do or try understanding how the speaker and the event are related in a time when it is increasingly important to do so. Too many of us care about the number of bullets fired, the number of innocent people killed or the color of the victims’ skin. Instead, let’s learn from it and understand what happened, why it happened and how we can prevent further social injustice and tragedies from occurring. I like that idea much more. mpoe3@kent.edu
OUR VIEW
May 4 is part of Kent State’s identity
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970, while students protested the American war in Vietnam on campus. The university created the May 4 Visitors Center, which was formally dedicated at the 2013 commemoration, to educate the public about how and why May 4 happened. The center includes artifacts from the time, accounts of people who were on campus in 1970 and a documentary about the events leading up to and following May 4. However, few students know the details about what happened 46 years ago, and many never visit the center in their time at
Kent, which is a shame. Although what happened that day is still the subject of controversy, it is important for us as a university community to educate ourselves, honor the victims and remember the protesters who skipped classes and faced the barrels of guns to stand up for what they believed in. May 4 is a vital part of our university’s history and identity, and every Kent State student should learn about May 4 and the effect it had on both the university community and the nation to truly become a part of Kent State.
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been, eventually seeing some changes many protestors fought for. As the years passed, the commemorations continued to grow and something else interesting happens. For one day, nearly 30,000 people think about the same thing: May 4. Whether it’s with great understanding or a passing realization that class is cancelled, the students and alumni of Kent State are bound together in solidarity from a significant moment in United States history many years ago. Even in the immediate aftermath, learning about the protests from other universities in light of Kent State was astounding. We see how, even then, tragedy can pull people together across miles and years. In fact, the events from May 4 don’t just stop at opposing a war and draft; they show the historical significance of the freedom of peaceful protest. Though Kent State’s ended in tragedy, protests still pay an important part in bringing the issues of today to light. For example, Black Lives Matter being brought into the Kent State fold shows how we are all the same in fighting for what is right. History provides us a lesson to learn from the world, whether we’ve seen it firsthand or heard stories. Kent State grows more united in the aftermath of tragedy and remembrance— but more importantly—in the spirit of effecting change.
Kent State and the May 4th Task Force notified the general public last week that Samaria Rice, the mother of the late Tamir Rice, would be this year’s keynote speaker. Soon after the announcement of the keynote speaker, social media exploded, as many people did not see the connection to the Tamir Rice case and the May 4 tragedy. Some of the public also did not see the gathering to be a podium for a Black Lives Matter movement. On Facebook, I read a post ranting about how Kent State ought to be ashamed for allowing Samaria to speak on this stage. What many critics fail to realize is that this year’s focus happens to be Black Lives Matter. The Kent State students who protested against the Vietnam War in 1970 fought for respect and for their voices to be heard, just as many African Americans do now. In 1970, the students were sick of their government pulling their young men from their families and lives to fight a war that had nothing to do with them. President Richard Nixon promised them he would bring the troops in Vietnam back home, but then decided to go against his word and continue to increase the war efforts. The youth of America was sick of living in fear and wondering if their government truly had their best interest in mind. It took the death of young people by the hands of the government for the world to wake up and realize there was a problem at hand. May 4 at Kent State is a perfect example of it. That’s why it is important to commemorate the event and push to recognize today’s social issues. The amount of unjust deaths of the youth by the hands of the government (police officers) and even sometimes by the hands of a “Good Samaritan” in George Zimmerman is out of hand. Not every case is at fault of law enforcement by all means. But at the same time, it is safe to say there is a major issue at hand and it needs to be addressed. Every parent wants their child to feel protected and entrust that when their child walks out the door in the morning, they’ll return home. Many African-American parents fail to have that trust due to the fact that it is the people who’s job is to serve and protect who have become a threat. Once again, there are more officers who do the right thing. But there are plenty who are too quick to pull a trigger. For parents who have never had to tell their child “don’t drive or walk with your hood on at night,” or have never been followed around while you shop or were stared at while entering a new neighborhood, then it’s not easy to understand why someone would feel as if the two events do not relate. Samaria Rice is fit to be the keynote speaker because there is no case more fitting than to have a testimony than this one. So instead of slandering the university, everyone should enter with an open mind and make it a learning experience.
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Tradition can grow from tragedy Skye McEowen Columnist “Don’t get shot,” someone said to me when my 17-year-old self told them I would be attending Kent State in fall 2013. I laughed awkwardly, not exactly knowing how to respond to something that — though it happened years ago — was still a sensitive subject. The thing is, words along those lines have probably been said at least once to almost every current, former and future Kent State student since 1970. Though the day rattled the nation, it’s something we still think about and reflect on decades later. My question for a while had been: Why is that? May 4 offers a great amount of historical significance. We examine it primarily as civil discourse and opposition in the face of war. More importantly, we saw just how the government itself reacted to opposition in an already polarized nation. The 70s served as the continuation of the growing generation gap, as activism spread and the youth gained a voice. Not only did many oppose the war in Vietnam, but many opposed the fact that people were drafted to fight before they could vote, which ended in two ways: In 1971, the 26th Amendment passed, lowering the voting age to 18—the same age people are drafted. The draft itself was resolved in 1973, changing the United States military to an all-volunteer force. I often think about those first years following 1970; how much more somber the commemorations may have
Samaria Rice a good fit for keynote address
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Kent State interracial couples share love stories Hana Barkowitz Diversity Reporter A recent Old Navy sales advertisement featuring an interracial family sparked so many racist comments online, the company had to disable the comments feature. In 2013, a record-high 12 percent of newlyweds married someone of a different race, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data. Earlier this month, four interracial Kent State couples met with a Kent Stater reporter to talk about their relationships, the difficulties they face and racism in 21st century America. Some get double takes, some receive comments and all say they don’t see race, just the other person. Other people’s reactions can be more than a nuisance, said Shannon ChristenSyed and Idris Kabir Syed, both Kent State lecturers in the Department of PanAfrican Studies. They’ve been together since 1999 and married since 2003. Neither said they identify as a certain race, but Syed describes himself as “brown-skinned." “What I’ve noticed over the years is that people give him looks in restaurants," Christen-Syed said. “To this day, we get, ‘Separate checks?’ Because people assume we’re not a couple. It happens almost every time.” On her race, Christen-Syed said, “I have issues because I don’t like to have to ‘check boxes’ and I think a lot of people don’t like that. Part of what we teach in our Black Experience courses is that we are all descendants of African people, so I have some trouble with that question." Christen-Syed said race does not determine who he is. “First and foremost, I am a human being," Syed said. "I think that both Shannon and I look at race as a social construct, not as biological.” The couple said they are firm believers that racism is not over in 2016, and they agree that it is a common and destructive misconception. “We haven’t gotten over the social construct that is racism,” Syed said. “We are living in a time that has more interracial relationships than ever. Shannon and I can just walk down the street and hold hands and show some type of public display of affection. But it’s still taboo in many ways, and it’s still an issue." He said all lives matter because all lives came from African lives. "We teach this everyday," Syed said. Christen-Syed said ignoring race is
not a solution. “(People say) ‘I don’t see race, I see people. First of all, if you’re going to say something like that, that’s antithetical, really," Christen-Syed said. "If you have to say it, that’s BS — for lack of a scholarly term — because of course we see race. We see color; we see differences. It’s how we have been taught about these differences that becomes problematic.” Sydney Green, a freshman communication studies major, is in an interracial relationship and also had a black and a white parent. Green has been seeing Tony Yandek, who is white, for about seven months. “He says all of the time that he forgets that I’m black. We don’t look at each other and think, ‘Oh my god, look how white you are.’ Generally, it’s not something that we think about," she said. "I think it’s funny when I do because I’ve been asked often if I like black guys or white guys. I usually go for white guys because I’m super suburban and grew up around a lot of white people. But I don’t think of him as a white person; he’s just a hot, sexy guy.” Green had concerns about meeting Yandek’s family, but — they both said — his family welcomed her. Some parents, wouldn’t be so understanding, Green said. “I’ve had friends before who’ve blatantly told me ‘My parents aren’t racist, but if I ever brought home a black guy, it wouldn’t be cool,’ ” she said. Green was raised in the suburbs, and although she identifies as black, said she realizes being light-skinned has its advantages. She said she firmly believes racism is still an issue in America. “I have a significant amount of white privilege being half white, being light skinned and being suburban,” she said. “We live in a super progressive place, and we have a lot of friends who aren’t smallminded people ... I don’t have to deal with it on a day-to-day basis, but I don’t believe at all that racism is over.” Yandek agreed with Green. "(Racism is) getting better," he said. "I don’t think it was typical for mixed relations in America until the last 50 years.” In a similar situation is Sabrina Stephens, a freshman general business major, who is white and has been dating Charles Williams, who is black, for six months. Stephens has support from the majority of her family and friends, but has been experiencing problems with some of her grandparents. This was especially the case when one wrote an
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insensitive comment on a picture of the interracial couple. “Both sets of grandparents are divorced and remarried, so my dad’s dad does not know about my relationship yet. He’s very judgmental and oldschooled and I don’t want to start that conversation yet," Stephens said, "My mom’s dad commented ‘nasty’ on my picture with Charles on Facebook.” Stephens said she and Williams will eventually marry, but said certain comments from friends about potential children can be irritating. “A lot of girls will be like, ‘Mixed babies are so cute,’ " she said "Well, that’s not why I’m with him. I’m with him for him, not to just have his babies.” Christen-Syed and Syed, The PanAfrican Studies lecturers, have an 8-year-old son. Syed expressed concerns about going out with his son when they’re not with Shannon because of how
judgmental some strangers can be. “When our son was born, he was much darker complexion than he has now. Now he’s really light-skinned," Syed said. "When we’re out, people just assume he’s not my son. I’ve had to become aware and conscious of it. It makes me really nervous sometimes in public and cautious of his safety with me. Most people just assume it’s a friend’s kid, not my kid. But some of it is our perception; it’s not always clear.” Being a white woman, Stephens said she has never experienced racism; but knows its existence is a problem in society. “Even in my family, (racism) is still there," she said. "It makes me so mad because he is such a good person and then, some people just go ‘Oh, he’s black, so he’s a thug, and he’s no good.' Well, actually, he wakes up every morning and goes to work for, eight, nine, 10 hours depending on the day. He’s really
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Graham Smith / The Kent Stater Kent State students view the wall of newspapers and articles inside the May 4 Visitor Center that showed immediate reaction and repurcussion to about the May 4, 1970 shooting.
Library digitizes May 4 shootings audio Kent State Special Collections and Archives’ digital repository made 119 audio recordings about the May 4, 1970, shootings and its aftermath accessible to the public. According to a university press release, some of the recordings available are “radio call-in forums, a speech by Kent State President Robert I. White the day after the shootings, a press conference with six students who met with President Richard M. Nixon just days after the shootings, the Scranton Commission hearings and a speech made by Dick Gregory at the Kent State Memorial Service in 1971.” The digitalization has been an ongoing process. “With the 50th anniversary of May 4 slowly approaching and knowing we still had so much content that hasn’t been made accessible to the public, we really needed to amp up our efforts to start to digitalize some of these recording that have preservation issues,” said Lae’l HughesWatkins, Kent State's university archivist. The digitalization project started in spring 2015 when University Libraries was awarded a $2,000 Ohio Archives Grant for the proposal,
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nice to me and that’s all that matters.” According to a Pew Research Study, the majority of the American population thinks black/white relationships are more controversial than other races marrying each other. For example, Derek Meyer and Elaine Chen, who have been married for six years said they have never experienced racism. Meyer, an international relations major, is white, while Chen, a fashion merchandising major, is Chinese. The two met while Meyer was abroad in China teaching English. They said that while they have never experienced racism or odd comments, they are aware that other interracial couples might experience it. On cultural differences, Meyer said, “There were no problems with culture. She was attracted to western culture; I was attracted to Chinese culture. So we were unusual.” hbarkowi@kent.edu
CAED students continue Cuban collaboration project
Samantha Meisenburg Veteran Affairs Reporter
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“Providing Access to the Kent State Shootings Audio Archive,” prepared by University Libraries’ faculty members Cara Gilgenbach, Virginia Dessler and Hughes-Watkins. “Although many of the recordings have been in the May 4 collection and have been accessed on a case-by-case basis, this grant opportunity provided us with a way to get all of the reels digitized in one large group instead of in a piecemeal way,” said Gilgenbach, head of University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. Hughes-Watkins said this kind of access to content has a lot of value for people that want to do research and understand more about the shootings. “Many of the recordings in this particular group were made in the days, weeks and months immediately after the shootings took place,” Gilgenbach said. “They give a lot of insight into what was going on at Kent State during this critical time period and reflect student, faculty, administrator and community responses to this event.” The digitalization project was finished in December 2015, but university libraries’ is promoting the project now to coincide with the 46-year anniversary of the shooting. smeisenb@kent.edu
Two Kent State graduate students in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, have been working on a semester-long project involving cities near and far. Despite the end nearing, Casey Poe and Lizz Weiss plan to continue the project over the summer. Part of their project included going to Cuba’s capital, Havana, over spring break. They met with a Havana-based architectural firm in the hopes of collaborating with them and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. David Jurca, an architecture and environmental design faculty member who accompanied the students on the trip, works at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. He helped his students with their project. “(The project) focuses on two different sites; one is based in Cleveland and the other in Havana,” Jurca said. “We compared the two sites to provide an insight to both of the sites to see what was similar and what was different.” One of the similarities Jurca and the students found was both of the sites had different limitations and challenges created by previous industrial uses and contamination. “To clean up some of these contaminations, it would require a large financial investment,” Jurca said. “It would also require careful planning to ensure the safety and health of future inhabitants in both these sites.” For the Havana site, the students are looking to connect the center of town into the site through an existing train line. “With Havana, we are looking into a train line to connect a different neighborhood with the site and then with the center of Havana,” Poe said. “We are working off an existing rail line; part of it is in use still, and the other half we are trying to get up and running again.” This, however, will still be a difficult issue because of the typography surrounding the city and the site. The Cleveland site that the students are trying to fix is tackling the issue of trying to connect the site to the waterfront. Other industrial buildings that don’t appeal to the
public surround the site and the students want to be able to have a place that the public will want to come to. “We are trying to connect the city, and many others have looked at the spaces that haven’t been developed,” Weiss said. “We were hoping to make them either into parks or recreational trails and observatories.” One of the proposals the students came up with was to move the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway. For the most part, the students had the Cleveland site under wraps; they just had to make some minor fixes. Unfortunately, the site was demolished. “We were all really passionate about the site,” Weiss said. “However, it was a reality we knew we would most likely have to face.” Regardless of the hurdle, they moved on with their work in Havana and in Cleveland. “The next step we intend to take is to get the students’ work published and the various findings that they had made throughout the course of the semester,” Jurca said. “We would then hope to share that information with the local Cleveland community, as well as the design community.” Jurca and his students hope that, even after this project is finished, they will continue to build and grow partnerships with the communities in Havana and Cleveland. “We want to, in the future, have Cuban designers work and join us here in the states,” Jurca said. “They could share their expertise with us.” Jurca is also exploring opportunities for additional exchange programs in the future, though nothing is confirmed. “We would like to continue those conversations between Havana and Cleveland,” Jurca said. “We would use the students’ initial work and research for a basis for continued collaboration.” aleuthau@kent.edu
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Candlelight vigil honors May 4 victims Samantha Meisenburg Veteran Affairs Reporter The annual candlelight vigil remembering May 4 victims Jeffery Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer began at 11 p.m. yesterday and continued throughout the night and early morning. To begin the vigil, the Victory Bell was rung and Jerry Lewis, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent State and an eyewitness of the shooting, gave a speech. Lewis led the march around campus, ending in the Prentice Hall parking lot. The candlelight vigil began after the march, where four people held a candle at the spaces where the four victims were killed. Every half hour, four people relieve the previous group, “keeping the victims' flames alive the entire night, along with their memories,” said Alyssa Gage, a May 4 Task Force secretary. The candlelight vigil started in 1971 as a “remembrance for the victims killed by the National Guard during a protest in opposition to the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970, as well as the students killed in a similar protest at Jackson State (University) a few days later,” Gage said. Angella Bishop, a South Carolina native, was 15 years old when May 4 took place. She attended the vigil last night for the first time because she said she is very interested in accountability and justice for the May 4 shooting. Bishop also came to honor the lives lost, but especially Allison Krause because “she was my hero and I appreciate everything she did,” Bishop said. “I think she died for what she believed in
and I think a lot of people need to know that.” Born in the late '60s, Bishop has always been against war and feels people need to be concerned about the protection of the protestors and not let an incident like May 4 happen again. Jackie Schmauch, integrated language arts major attended the vigil and said “I think it means a lot to the people who were there at the time of the shooting to know that people now still care and we aren’t forgetting about it and its still affect us.” “In high school you learn about the May 4 events, but being here and walking though the path, the troops took and where they shot, is a completely different experience,” said Lindsay Humienny, theater studies major and attendee of the vigil. Ashley Lamatrice, a freshman communication studies major, attended the vigil because, “I was looking forward to (commemorating) May 4 properly because my parents grew up in the ‘70s and (my) aunt was a Kent State student during the time of the shootings.” Kennedy Shelton, an early childhood education major and attendee of the vigil, believes May 4 is an event that should be recognized. “(We should) appreciate that there are people who wanted to protest and fight against the war and we should remember them for that,” said she said. The May 4 Task Force not only organized the vigil, but also the commemoration that will take place at noon today. The organization contacted numerous speakers to speak on issues and events that have parallels to the May 4 events, as well as four speakers to give a speech about the victims killed. smeisenb@kent.edu
Aaron Self / The Kent Stater Michael Pacifico prepares to blow out the leftover candles from the begining of the May 4 vigil walk Tuesday, May 3, 2016. He has been to every May 4 memorial service.