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Downtown to become mini-golf course Nathaniel Harvey Activities Reporter Main Street Kent is hosting its second annual Putt Around Downtown Kent event Saturday, Oct. 15, with local businesses using their locations as putt-putt holes. Putt Around Downtown Kent is an event that has participants go putt-putting around the downtown Kent area. Each participating business creates their own unique putt-putt hole that pertains to their busi-
ness. There are 19 businesses participating in this event including 157 Lounge, The Local Public House and Scribbles Coffee Co. All participants will be given a raffle ticket when they enter the event, with the opportunity to receive more tickets if they make a hole-in-one on the different businesses’ holes. Participants can win T-shirts, golf items with a Putt Around Downtown Kent logo and free rounds of golf. Putt-putting will start at the Destination Kent Visitor Center. Throughout the downtown area, the
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businesses will provide putters and complementary snacks for the participants. The 19th hole, which is Venice Café, is where the game will come to an end and the participants can grab a complementary drink while Main Street Kent announces prizes for multiple categories. Categories include Most Creatively Dressed Group, Most Hole-in-One Shots and Lowest Total Score. The award ceremony will start at 4 p.m. "Our main goal for this event is to help drive
Architecture student creates clothing line
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here’s a new fashion designer in town and, believe it or not, he’s not frequently walking down the shiny tiles of the Kent State Fashion School’s Rockwell Hall. Keyarash Montazeri, a sophomore architecture major, is the mastermind behind the up-and-coming clothing line Diablo Conglomerate. Montazeri became interested in fashion after spending a short time as a student at Youngstown State University. It was there he decided to change his personal style and get move involved with fashion trends.
“You have to stand out there; otherwise, you end up not fitting in (and) you pretty much end up being like a nobody ... I wasn’t okay with that,” Montazeri said. “Being different is crucial these days.” Montazeri began creating designs after he transferred to Kent State. He said he was in need of finding a new creative outlet, and building a brand was just something that came out of his exploration. “I was bored with my school work,” Montazeri said. “Architecture was too black and white for me.” It was after creating a small batch of graphic design T-shirts that Diablo Conglomerate was born. Mon-
tazeri said the first few T-shirts he made were posted on Twitter for fun, and within 20 minutes they sold out. After that he always had a demand, inspiring him to continue to pursue the brand. Montazeri said all of his designs started off as tattoos he has on his body. “The designs all mean a lot to me,” Montazeri said. “Having them as tattoos shows that it’s something that’s real to me.” Montazeri’s first design — perhaps, the most important to his brand — is tattooed on his right forearm. The design is of the evil eye, an image meant to promote
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good hospitality and wealth, while also warding off evil spirits. The evil eye design is also what gave Montazeri the brand name. “'Diablo' means devil in Spanish, so the eye design is supposed to withhold and contain the devil within the eye, to keep evil off the body,” Montazeri said. Montazeri said a lot of his ideas stem from what he has learned in the classroom. Architecture and clothing design go hand-in-hand when it comes to lines and symmetry, he said.
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Student organization helps girls in surrounding cities Nathaniel Harvey Activities Reporter Kent State's new on-campus organization, Girls Helping Girls, held its first meeting Tuesday in Bowman Hall. “(Girls Helping Girls) was created to bring friendship and community collaboration within girls in the university, and to help us grow professionally and personally. I just feel … it’s important to have — especially when you’re far away from home — to have somebody close to you and to have people that you can talk to and go to,” said Chrishon Wilson, a senior fashion merchandising major and president of Girls Helping Girls. The meeting started out with free pizza from Domino's and introductions of the board members. There are five board members: Wilson; Vice President Kayla Draper, a junior fashion merchandising major; Secretary and Public Relations Representative Randal Brown, a junior communications studies major; Treasurer Marissa Alvarado, a junior human development and family studies major; and Coordinator Adrianna
Robinson, a junior public health major. Project, but every time we tried to book rooms The meeting proceeded with an announce- with the university, they told us we needed to be ment of the organization's main goal, and vari- an organization," Wilson said, "so we started the ous plans they have scheduled for throughout organization off of that." the semester. The organization then discussed different "It's important to have a mindset that 'I am a fundraising activities they could do to raise professional wherever I go,' and that's what we m o n e y f o r t h e want to make sure that we relay to all of these Prom Project. girls," Brown said. The organization's biggest upcoming project is the Prom Project, a program where the organization will raise money from fundraising events to help two girls from the Kent, Akron or Cleveland area pay for prom expenses such as a dress, a hair dresser and, possibly, a makeup artist. “We wanted to do a Stefanie Wise / The Kent Stater fashion show to raise Girls Helping Girls, a new on-campus club, holds its first meeting in Bowman money for the Prom Hall, on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016.
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The Weekend Oct. 7
Kent Hack Enough Build an app, website or hardware hack under a time crunch. The weekend-long contest has students design, code and work their way to technological breakthroughs. Students of any major may participate in the competition held in the University Library.
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Petition seeks equality in coed intramural sports
Austin Mariasy / The Kent Stater Keyarash Montazeri, a sophomore architecture major, works on an project on Thursday, Sept 29, 2016, in the new College of Architecture and Environmental Design building while wearing a shirt and jacket he designed for his custom clothing line, Diablo Conglomerate.
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business downtown," said Heather Malarcik, executive director for Main Street Kent. Malarcik said there were only 72 tickets sold to participants last year, but, this year, she thinks they will sell out of tickets. Already, Main Street Kent has sold over 70 tickets. There are limited spots available — only 100 participants. The cost for one participant is $15 and a group of four people can participate for $50. The event starts at 1 p.m.and goes until 4 p.m.
After only two days, Kent State's Kent Interhall Council (KIC) has gathered the needed 100 signatures to submit a petition to Student Recreation Services to change the point system in coed intramural sports. Council members argue that the policy, which allows females to score two points for one goal as opposed to one point for men, is unjust and goes against efforts for gender equality on campus. "We need to value the achievements of everyone equally, and that is not happening," said Ricky Lovell, director of student relations for KIC. "There is a difference between opportunity and achievement, and while everyone agrees we need to give opportunity, we have to also make sure that we are also not taking away achievement and devaluing it." KIC formally passed a resolution Tuesday night, stating that all residence halls collectively agree the policy sends the message that females are not equal in athletic capabilities to males, and the SRWC should eliminate any rule that doesn't award equal points to all. The organization heightened advocacy through starting a Twitter campaign, which encouraged followers to tweet the hashtag #OneGoal at SRWC's account. "I don't think anyone wants to discriminate (against) women. I don't even think Recreation Services is trying to either," Lovell said. "However, sometimes our actions have unintended consequences, and I just don't think those have been realized ... It's our goal to bring those issues to light. We have to be aware of what we're doing." Phelan Fletcher, intramural sports and youth programs coordinator, said the purpose of the rule is not to offend, but, instead, promote female participation in intramural sports while staying consistent with policies held by universities across the nation. When playing in coed groups, rules are adjusted from both sides of the spectrum in order to create a fair and balanced team.
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Number of participants in Kent State’s intramural sports
71% 1,173 male participants
29% 479 female participants Information courtesy of Phelan Nichole Fletcher, intramural sports and youth programs coordinator
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The Kent State Fashion Student Organization is arranging a fashion show for a good cause. The fall charity event marks the 75th anniversary of the Soroptimist International of Canton/Stark County, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women. Held at the Brookside Country Club in Canton, doors open at 10 a.m.
For all the thrill seekers looking to blow off some steam halfway through the semester, welcome to the coasters and haunted houses of Cedar Point’s seasonal Halloweekends attractions. Students get discounted tickets to the late-night horror festivities.
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