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Studies rely on optical illusions to overcome obesity Dylan Thacker Recreation and Fitness Reporter Kent State researchers studying optical illusions have created a plate prototype to combat obesity. After conducting five different studies since 2015, the one study they hope to publish looks at how people are unconsciously conditioned to portion themselves based on their plate size. Joel Hughes, psychology professor at Kent State and leader of the studies, said he and his team of students got a design patent for the plate prototype they created. “Little environmental changes actually can help you,” Hughes said. “Portion sizes have gotten huge because the environment changed. So, we said: ‘Let’s make them smaller just by giving you a plate that makes it obvious what to do.’” The plate uses two types of optical illusions. The Ebbinghaus illusion gives the impression that something is larger and smaller compared to the shapes around it, and the Delboeuf illusion, which skews the perception of an object’s size because of the distance from its border. Both illusions combined make food look bigger and may help people lose weight over time. Hughes took inspiration for his study from a similar study done by Brian Wansink, the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab who tested the impact of bowl size. As part of Wansink’s study, he gave a
90-minute presentation to a group of people on his findings and sent them home. Two months later, he invited the group to a party split into two rooms; one room had gallonsized bowls of Chex Mix and the other had half-gallon sized bowls. “If they were serving out of gallon bowls, (they) took 53 percent more Chex Mix,” Wansink said. Fifty-three percent is equal to about 270 calories. Over a year, if people consumed an extra 270 calories per day, they would gain about 27 pounds. Taking from Cornell’s study, Hughes said he hopes to make his prototype commercially available. This product will be geared toward middle-aged people about 45 years old who are struggling to lose weight. “I can’t override people's behavior, but I just want to shape it with an environment that’s not as bad,” Hughes said. “One of the
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big hypotheses is that the food environment has gotten a lot worse.” The Department of Agriculture has taken steps to combat this same issue by creating MyPlate, which is a reminder to find your healthy eating style and build it throughout your lifetime. While the USDA is focusing on a younger generation, Hughes remains focused on people in his own demographic. He hopes to run another test on people who are middle-aged or with someone on campus who has a food laboratory where they can accurately determine how much food was taken from a buffet from scales beneath the plates. John Gunstad, a psychology professor and the director of the Applied Psychology Center, was part of the team conducting the study, and said the real goal of the research was to help people get and stay healthy. "Dieting is hard and we were interested in looking for new ways to help people lose weight,” Gunstad said. “Past research shows that many people eat with their eyes, so we thought that building an optical illusion into a plate might make it easier to select healthy
Submitted by Joel Hughes
portion sizes." Hughes said he has no desire for capital gain from these plates. He has reached out to the business start-up TV show Shark Tank, and received a call back saying the show had no desire in the licensing. If someone would license the plates, Hughes would let them manufacture them. He would rather be the one who tests whether or not it works. “This is kind of a side project, this is not what I do most of the time,” Hughes said. “But it’s too fun not to do it. Eventually we’ll get there. It’s been a long time, but I’m relentless and persistent. I think the future of dieting is going to include some of these environment changes.” Contact Dylan Thacker at dthacke2@kent.edu.
Correction: In Thursday’s edition of The Kent Stater, the story “Kent to vote on sanctuary city status in November” was reported incorrectly. The following corrections have been made on KentWired: • The city of Kent could be among the first in Ohio to declare sanctuary city status. • Lee Brooker is a member of Kent Citizens for Democracy, not its president. • Kent City Council did not amend the ballot to reflect its opposition to the initiative; rather, they added the words “not endorsed by city council” to the ordinance.
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Poynter’s ‘Fake or Fact?’ ethics workshop addresses fake news dilemma Lauren Garczynski CCI Reporter “Fake news forces news organizations back on their heels to defend themselves. … distracts from what’s actually happening,” said David Folkenflik, an NPR media correspondent and keynote speaker at this year’s Poynter Media Ethics Workshop. “It takes good journalism, to follow bad journalism, to follow fake news.” The 13th annual “Fake or Fact?” workshop focused on combating the growing frequency of fake news, and was held in the FirstEnergy Auditorium in Franklin Hall Thursday. The training event explored the effect of fake news on media and those who consume it. The day-long workshop has been coordinated by Jan Leach since 2004. Leach, an associate professor at Kent State and the director of the Media Law Center for Ethics and Access, aims for the workshops to provide a setting for students, professionals and educators to discuss critical issues on journalism and media ethics. The workshop was moderated by faculty from the Poynter Institute. This year’s workshop tackled the influx of fake news during the 2016 presidential election, identifying fake news and how public relations should handle clients that are targets of it. Folkenfik said while the 2016 election cultured a lot of fake news, it wasn’t the birth of it. Some examples include stories claiming that President George W. Bush wore a wire or that former Secretary of State John Kerry committed war crimes while serving in Vietnam. However, with today’s technology and 24-hour news cycles, it has become easier for fake news to grow and accumulate compared to the past. Abigail Winternitz, a junior public relations major, said she has experience with fake news. “I always get those alerts that a famous celebrity has died,” Winternitz said. “It happens all the time and people believe them.” A heavily-discussed theme of the workshop was how the current presidential administration is upholding and enabling fake news, which is another sentiment shared by students like Caitlin Albright, a junior public relations major. “Donald Trump,” said Albright, who thinks of the president when she hears about fake news. “And news being published that isn’t what the subject wants.” Folkenflik agreed with Albright and said not only does Trump participate in the enabling of fake news, but his relationship with
NPR correspondent David Folkenflik reads a Dr. Seuss book to a group of students, faculty, staff and community members at the Poynter Ethics Conference in Franklin Hall on Thursday. Austin Mariasy / The Kent Stater
media wanes the power of journalists too. “Let’s be very clear that there’s nobody who loves the media more than the president, as long as the media is being laudatory of the president,” Folkenflik said. “If he’s attacking the press, his never-ending supporters will stick with him, truly revealing the mood ring of the occupant of the Oval Office.” Damaso Reyes, the program manager of the News Literacy Project in New York City, advised people should take what they see, think about it and educate themselves before jumping to conclusions. “Maybe seeing was never believing, but definitely in the 21st century, seeing is not believing,” Reyes said.
Featured on the panel with Folkenflik and Reyes was Alicia Calzada, an associate in the Business Litigation Practice Group, who stressed the importance of examining accuracy and truth behind photos, and always standing by the fail-safe method of checking sources. “Am I seeing this image on social media?” Calzada asked. “That should be an immediate red flag — if there’s no credit or no source.” Public relations professionals are no exception to fake news. The workshop addressed Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer, specifically controversy surrounding them because of their attitude toward fake news. These two were not ignored when
Michele Ewing, a Kent State associate professor who teaches public relations, and Chas Withers, CEO of Dix and Eaton, discussed public relations and what happens if a client is the subject of fake news. “The Kellyanne Conways of the world are not practicing ethical public relations,” Ewing said. Ewing said honesty and transparency are key in public relations. After five sessions and nearly eight hours of discussion, the workshop concluded with Leach announcing next year’s workshop topic: the opioid epidemic. Contact Lauren Garczynski at lgarczyn@kent.edu.
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Oktoberfest showcases German beer, food, culture in downtown Kent Cheyenne Tatum Arts and Entertainment Reporter Armed with beers and brats, hundreds of people flooded downtown Kent Saturday for the fourth annual Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest is a German folk festival celebrating culture with beer, folk music and traditional German foods. The biggest festival is held every year in Munich for a 16 to 18 day period, starting at the end of September and continuing through mid-October. In Kent, it’s a one-day celebration held downtown, where friends and families of all generations come to experience traditional German culture. “The festival gets bigger and bigger every year,” said Heather Malarcik, the executive director of Main Street Kent.“We have 4,000 followers on social media now, so we might have to move to a bigger space next year.” Booths lined the streets, and festival-goers had the choice to try different German dishes. Main Street Kent partners with local Kent food vendors to prepare popular German food, such as brats, strudel, soft pretzels and seasonal beverages. Deutschklub Kent, the German cultural club at Kent State, had its own booth set up downtown. The club celebrates German cultural traditions and language, which one member said drew him to join the club. “I’ve (had) German friends in the past," said Prince Williams, a junior German literature, culture, and translation major and photographer for the group. “I was so interested in learning their language and their culture that I decided to really get involved, and that’s how I found Kent’s German club.” The festival booked a traditional folk band and folk dancers from the German Family Society’s youth group. Carri Sensius, a youth group leader of the society, said the youth group allows kids to relate to the culture. “A lot of the kids who join our youth group had ancestors who founded our society,” Carri said. “Learning traditional folk dance is a way for them to stay connected with their culture and they’re having so much fun with it.” Lucas Sensius, her nephew, is a dancer in the group, said Oktoberfest is a tiem for Germans to get to know others in the community, and he has fun performing for his heritage. “It’s a big drinking day and a time for Germans to get to know other Germans in the community, so it’s fun being able to perform for my heritage,” Carri said. Carri has also attended Oktoberfest in Munich and compared it to the festivals she's attended in the U.S. “It’s even more fun over there and there’s just tons of people dancing, singing, drinking — I love it,” Carri said. Contact Cheyenne Tatum at ctatum@kent.edu.
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Kent residents sit outside of Treno Ristorante during Oktoberfest on Saturday. Dylan Reynolds / The Kent Stater
It’s even more fun over there and there’s just tons of people dancing, singing, drinking - I love it. – Lucas Sensius A dancer in the German Family Society
Kent Oktoberfest on Saturday. Jon Sepchinski / The Kent Stater
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Taron Egarton as Eggsy
The Golden Circle
Just when you thought you’d seen all spy movies had to offer, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” went and did that. The classiest, most dapper spies are back in this follow-up to the 2015 original, and with them comes the same level of ridiculously zany action. An all-star cast and a creatively conventional screenplay align for a fun — yet slightly forgettable — time at the movies. Set not too long after the end of predecessor “The Secret Service,” the British spy organization is wiped out by an underground drug kingpin, forcing hero Eggsy to enlist help from their American counterparts, the Statesman. These cowboy gunslingers, each codenamed after a different type of liquor, are led by Jeff Bridges and include a hilariously country Channing Tatum (who has less screentime than the film’s marketing suggests), and a brainy Halle Berry. The movie belongs to one scene-stealer in particular, Julianne Moore, who plays the deliciously devilish baddie. Villain roles aren’t common for the Oscar winner, and from the second her character is introduced, it’s clear she’s having the most fun.
From the way she dishes out sadistic orders to her henchman with a warm smile, to her commitment for world domination, Moore adds a helping of dark humor that audiences can’t help but love to hate. Here, director Matthew Vaughn is at his best, only allowing his bloody, irreverent sensibilities come to the forefront when suits the material. This restraint prevents any selfindulgent or needlessly graphic sequences (i.e. the church massacre from the first “Kingsman”) from upsetting a mainstream audience. Sure, characters are still dying awful, brutal deaths, but the action is pulled off with such glossily stylized swagger that it fits right in with the comical tone of the film. Although, “The Golden Circle” is a tad excessive in its running time, scattered throughout are set pieces that supply much needed jolts of jaw-dropping spectacle when the quiet sentimental scenes between begin
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Benjamin VanHoose Entertainment Reviewer
Moore adds a helping of dark humor that audiences can’t help but love to hate.”
to grate. Nothing is lazy about the script. If anything, Vaughn is attempting to squeeze too much content into one place. What the screenplay does best is making each increasingly absurd comic book contrivance seem realistic. For those unfamiliar with the franchise, the writing makes it easy to jump onboard with no prior knowledge. Flashbacks are peppered in at logical moments in the story, recapping for newcomers and making exposition more palatable. Of course, a “Kingsman” movie wouldn’t be complete without a controversial sex scene. Last time around it was at the backend of the film when a princess (and complete stranger) rewarded the main character with anal sex for saving the world — something referenced and joked about in the sequel. The part stirring up backlash this time involves a tracking device that can only be installed via penetration. It’s a squeamish scene played for laughs that raises questions of consent, forcing conflicted viewers to wonder if its inclusion is even necessary. So much is thrown at the audience the rest of the movie, though, that the sequence is forgotten in the mix — much like a lot of other scenes throughout.
Julianne Moore as Poppy
Where the first “Kingsman” dealt with messages of climate change and consumerism, “Golden Circle” deals with the heroin epidemic and how society goes about punishing and treating drug addicts. Moore’s character, who traffics marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other narcotics around the globe, contaminates her customers with a lethal poison so as to leverage the antidote for the legalization of all drugs to take her business public. It’s a worthwhile subplot that tackles serious themes relevant to today’s audiences, but the issue isn’t able to be handled with the necessary attention amid the stylized flair it is wrapped inside. “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” may not reinvent the spy movie, but it makes the most out of the genre confines — and contains one of the best uses of a celebrity cameo ever — for a laugh-out-loud adventure flick, perfect for a rainy day rewatch when you can skip to the action scenes. Just promise not to fast forward over Julianne Moore’s parts, or else you’ll have a film not worth watching at all. Grade: B Contact Benjamin VanHoose at bvanhoos@kent.edu.
Photos courtesy of 20th Century Fox
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Airport renovations through time Jenna Kuczkowski Managing Editor •
In 2001, Kent State received a grant to develop a new master plan from the Federal Aviation Administration. • In 2004, the university’s Board of Trustees called for closing the airport and relocating the flight school and airport, but the plan was rejected. • In 2008, the FAA provided conditional approval for an airport layout plan, which was a product of the master plan and was essential to receiving federal funding to improve facilities. FAA rejected renovations despite the last substantial investment to the airport being made more than 10 years ago. • On Sept. 9, 2015, the Board of Trustees authorized one of the seven master plan options and decided to renovate the airport. • On July 27, 2016, the FAA Detroit Airports District Office approved the airport layout plan for the Kent State University Airport. Find more information at Kent State University’s Airport Master Plan at ksuairportplan.com. Contact Jenna Kuczkowski at jkuczkow@kent.edu.
All photos submitted by the College of Aeronautics and Engineering.
$6.5 million building at university airport promises more space Natalie Meek and Colin Baker South Regional Campuses and Aeronautics Reporter and Construction and Architecture Reporter Kent State’s Aeronautics Program plans to add a $6.5 million academic building to the Kent State University Airport property. The new 17,800-square-foot facility will house collaborative spaces, upgraded virtual reality flight simulators, faculty and administrative offices and pilot and passenger support spaces. Most of the aeronautics program operates within the College of Aeronautics and Engineering building located along the Esplanade on main campus. Flight training and certain classes are taught on-site at the university airport. The Kent State University Airport was built in 1917, according to the university airport’s website, and is located four miles west of the main campus in Stow. It consists of a hangar, runway, five office trailers and other small maintenance buildings. Michael Bruder, the executive director of facilities, planning and design for Kent State, said the distance between sites, the size of the classrooms and the quality of resources contribute to the challenges of the college’s current situation. “The facilities out at the airport for our aeronautics students are too small and in poor condition,” Bruder said. “Each classroom out
On the cover: Aerial shot of the Kent State University on Sept. 9, 2017. Jon Sepchinski / The Kent Stater
there is a modular classroom. We want to give improved offices for our academic staff and better facilities for our students.” Classes at the airport are held in trailers that were originally only meant to be temporary structures, but are now more than a decade old. Maureen McFarland, the senior academic program director of aeronautics, described some of the hardships presented by the aging infrastructure. “If you’re a student who wants to go on a flight, you might have to go to four different buildings to talk to people,” McFarland said. “We often have internet challenges. Our simulators absolutely 100 percent are not good — that trailer is literally falling apart.” In response to these issues, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering has spent years fundraising and planning for the addition of an academic building to the university airport. President Beverly Warren has made investing in the program a priority by advocating donor support of the new facility in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering Impact Profile, a description of donation usage and priorities within the college. “Our first-class programs in aeronautics are recognized nationally and beyond for their excellence, and it’s long past time that their physical facilities match the innovative and transformative education taking place for our students,” Warren said.
Last year, a $1.5 million donation from FedEx provided the jumpstart for the transformation of aeronautics facilities. Now, for every dollar donated toward the new academic building, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering will match the donation with $2. Robert Sines, the interim dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, said with continued support from Warren, he hopes to break ground on the project in Spring 2018. “Having a nice facility for students to go to will be incredibly beneficial for the college,” Sines said. “It’s strange to see students going to class in trailers.” AECOM Services of Ohio, Inc. is designing this project and is being managed through OAKS-CI. Julie Austin, the associate director of advancement for the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, said the building will be placed next to the existing runway. “The new building is designed so that students will be able to watch planes come and go,” Austin said. “There will be a wall of glass windows and students will be able to sit and enjoy the view.” Students like Madison Mahon and Ayman Al Umuri, senior aeronautics and engineering majors, may not have the chance to be students in the new building before graduation, but said they were excited nonetheless.
“I definitely look forward to it,” Mahon said. “I think we need it. We’ve needed it for quite some time now.” Al Umuri has seen the need for a seperate building for some time. “It’s hard to be with all the engineering students and not have our own building,” Al Umuri said. “Hopefully they will move aeronautics classes to the new building because sometimes here there are not enough seats available.” Aside from the student benefits, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering wants to construct this new building because of its expected impact on the recruitment of aeronautics majors. The college’s Impact Profile predicts with this new infrastructure, the university will become America’s leading public institution providing aeronautics education and research. Sines said the idea of this new facility was to better equip and recruit the next generation of aviation specialists and pilots. The 2016 Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook predicts a need for 617,000 new commercial airline pilots worldwide by 2035. “The most important piece of this is that we are facing an enormous pilot shortage,” Austin said. "This will be Kent State’s way to address that, in a state-of-the-art academic environment.” Contact Natalie Meek at nmeek3@kent.edu. Contact Colin Baker at cbaker72@kent.edu.
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Airport renovations through time Jenna Kuczkowski Managing Editor •
In 2001, Kent State received a grant to develop a new master plan from the Federal Aviation Administration. • In 2004, the university’s Board of Trustees called for closing the airport and relocating the flight school and airport, but the plan was rejected. • In 2008, the FAA provided conditional approval for an airport layout plan, which was a product of the master plan and was essential to receiving federal funding to improve facilities. FAA rejected renovations despite the last substantial investment to the airport being made more than 10 years ago. • On Sept. 9, 2015, the Board of Trustees authorized one of the seven master plan options and decided to renovate the airport. • On July 27, 2016, the FAA Detroit Airports District Office approved the airport layout plan for the Kent State University Airport. Find more information at Kent State University’s Airport Master Plan at ksuairportplan.com. Contact Jenna Kuczkowski at jkuczkow@kent.edu.
All photos submitted by the College of Aeronautics and Engineering.
$6.5 million building at university airport promises more space Natalie Meek and Colin Baker South Regional Campuses and Aeronautics Reporter and Construction and Architecture Reporter Kent State’s Aeronautics Program plans to add a $6.5 million academic building to the Kent State University Airport property. The new 17,800-square-foot facility will house collaborative spaces, upgraded virtual reality flight simulators, faculty and administrative offices and pilot and passenger support spaces. Most of the aeronautics program operates within the College of Aeronautics and Engineering building located along the Esplanade on main campus. Flight training and certain classes are taught on-site at the university airport. The Kent State University Airport was built in 1917, according to the university airport’s website, and is located four miles west of the main campus in Stow. It consists of a hangar, runway, five office trailers and other small maintenance buildings. Michael Bruder, the executive director of facilities, planning and design for Kent State, said the distance between sites, the size of the classrooms and the quality of resources contribute to the challenges of the college’s current situation. “The facilities out at the airport for our aeronautics students are too small and in poor condition,” Bruder said. “Each classroom out
On the cover: Aerial shot of the Kent State University on Sept. 9, 2017. Jon Sepchinski / The Kent Stater
there is a modular classroom. We want to give improved offices for our academic staff and better facilities for our students.” Classes at the airport are held in trailers that were originally only meant to be temporary structures, but are now more than a decade old. Maureen McFarland, the senior academic program director of aeronautics, described some of the hardships presented by the aging infrastructure. “If you’re a student who wants to go on a flight, you might have to go to four different buildings to talk to people,” McFarland said. “We often have internet challenges. Our simulators absolutely 100 percent are not good — that trailer is literally falling apart.” In response to these issues, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering has spent years fundraising and planning for the addition of an academic building to the university airport. President Beverly Warren has made investing in the program a priority by advocating donor support of the new facility in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering Impact Profile, a description of donation usage and priorities within the college. “Our first-class programs in aeronautics are recognized nationally and beyond for their excellence, and it’s long past time that their physical facilities match the innovative and transformative education taking place for our students,” Warren said.
Last year, a $1.5 million donation from FedEx provided the jumpstart for the transformation of aeronautics facilities. Now, for every dollar donated toward the new academic building, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering will match the donation with $2. Robert Sines, the interim dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, said with continued support from Warren, he hopes to break ground on the project in Spring 2018. “Having a nice facility for students to go to will be incredibly beneficial for the college,” Sines said. “It’s strange to see students going to class in trailers.” AECOM Services of Ohio, Inc. is designing this project and is being managed through OAKS-CI. Julie Austin, the associate director of advancement for the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, said the building will be placed next to the existing runway. “The new building is designed so that students will be able to watch planes come and go,” Austin said. “There will be a wall of glass windows and students will be able to sit and enjoy the view.” Students like Madison Mahon and Ayman Al Umuri, senior aeronautics and engineering majors, may not have the chance to be students in the new building before graduation, but said they were excited nonetheless.
“I definitely look forward to it,” Mahon said. “I think we need it. We’ve needed it for quite some time now.” Al Umuri has seen the need for a seperate building for some time. “It’s hard to be with all the engineering students and not have our own building,” Al Umuri said. “Hopefully they will move aeronautics classes to the new building because sometimes here there are not enough seats available.” Aside from the student benefits, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering wants to construct this new building because of its expected impact on the recruitment of aeronautics majors. The college’s Impact Profile predicts with this new infrastructure, the university will become America’s leading public institution providing aeronautics education and research. Sines said the idea of this new facility was to better equip and recruit the next generation of aviation specialists and pilots. The 2016 Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook predicts a need for 617,000 new commercial airline pilots worldwide by 2035. “The most important piece of this is that we are facing an enormous pilot shortage,” Austin said. "This will be Kent State’s way to address that, in a state-of-the-art academic environment.” Contact Natalie Meek at nmeek3@kent.edu. Contact Colin Baker at cbaker72@kent.edu.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
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It’s time to address the issue in Myanmar
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Total number of players to kneel for the national anthem in the MLB
Maddie Newingham With a chaotic United States and absurd news cycles, it is often hard to put ourselves in perspective on a global scale. While we have problems to fix at home, we must also pursue justice abroad. Let’s look to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. In summary, Myanmar is largely Buddhist, but has 135 ethnic groups, including a Muslim population, called the Rohingya in the western Rakhine State in Myanmar. More than 500,000 Rohingya people have experienced violence and persecution in their state, have been slaughtered in vain on this journey and have been forced over the border of Bangladesh, leaving everything back home for safety. As the Indian Express reports, civilians who have safely crossed the border into Bangladesh recall soldiers and extremist Buddhist mobs (which I did not know existed), torching villages to the ground and terrorizing the Rohingyas as they head toward the border. First, moving half a million people is like moving an entire city into another country in less than a month. It would be like if we decided to move Detroit to Canada because we just do not like Michigan inhabitants and it’s close enough to another country (not that distance stopped Andrew Jackson or Martin Van Buren from forcing Native Americans out of their homes). Second, Bangladesh is not equipped for the influx of refugees coming across their borders and needs outside help for relief. With a humanitarian crisis such as this, the U.S. cannot be silent to those suffering. Many western countries have turned their backs to refugees fleeing their homes for safety, and we cannot champion human rights by ignoring so many human beings seeking their unalienable rights. This crisis is complicated and difficult to grasp. To understand, certain aspects must be brought to light.
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634,000 Signees on a petition to keep Uber operating in London
Bruce Maxwell, a catcher for the MLB’s Oakland Athletics, became the first player in the league to kneel for the national anthem Sunday. The Athletics released a statement supporting his right to do so.
First, the Rakhine do not really see the Rohingya as people of their society, as is common in crises of ethnic cleansing. They view the Rohingya as burdens to their society. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese diplomat, leader of the National League for Democracy and the first and current state counselor of Myanmar, which is a position comparable to a prime minister. She is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and is silent to the atrocity surrounding her.
With a humanitarian crisis such as this, the United States cannot be silent to those suffering.” – Maddie Newingham
In response to London’s transport authority decision to deny Uber a license to operate within the U.K. scity, more than 600,000 people signed a petition on change.org to keep Uber in the city.
This raises another question: How can someone who has a Nobel Peace Prize and has been globally identified for her good work allow for ethnic cleansing to happen under her noes? Should someone like this be able to keep this fame, and should we revoke this honor? It would be doing a disservice to the Rohingya community and global humanitarian strides taken to ignore this question. As an American who wants to help but realizes that my country only mettles in the interests of
white people, all we can do from home is funnel money for relief and talk about this crisis. Be angry on social media, talk to your family and friends and simply be visible about the issue. You can donate to the Rohingya Refugee Relief Fund with GlobalGiving or to the relief efforts of UNICEF. Contact Maddie Newingham at mnewing2@kent.edu.
Cheers&Jeers Cheers to ... a squirrel that caught the crowd’s attention during the Kent State-Louisville football game, darting 40 yards downfield for a touchdown to the delight of fans at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
Jeers to … the fact that, if the squirrel’s touchdown counted, the critter would have outscored the Flashes’ total of three points for the game.
Monday, September 25, 2017
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The flu survival guide Mica Pflug
Calling all hockey fans Drew Taylor If you’re a die-hard sports fan like me, fall is probably the most enjoyable time on the calendar. For football fans, the NFL and college football seasons start up. For basketball fanatics, the NBA season starts in just a few weeks. And, for the baseball die-hards that remain, the MLB playoffs are right around the corner. However, the fourth major sports league in North America doesn’t seem to get nearly as much love in Kent, or Northeast Ohio. The NHL season starts Oct. 4 with the Toronto Maple Leafs facing the Winnipeg Jets and a nationally televised game between the defendingchampion Pittsburgh Penguins and the St. Louis Blues. So I ask the question: Why doesn’t the area seem to have much interest in
professional hockey? The lack of a Cleveland team probably hurts, given most sports fans in the area are Cleveland fans more than they are fans of particular teams. The city briefly had a team, the Cleveland Barons in the 1970s, and is currently home to the minor league Cleveland Monsters. Yet, no NHL team is in the area to get Cleveland fans interested. The high cost to play the game hurts it as some grow interested in sports through playing, and the unaffordability of it cuts a part of sports fans from gaining interest. However, even someone like me, who has never played the game, can still be a fan. Whether cheering for the somewhat nearby Penguins, the Detroit Red Wings, my beloved Columbus Blue Jackets or another team far from here, it’s never too late to watch a game and see if you enjoy the fast pace and physical nature of the sport. Also, the perceived lack of scoring pushes away potential fans. Soccer has this problem too, with the run-
ning joke being “nobody wants to watch a three-hour game for it to end 1-0.” However, games with lots of shots on net and great goaltending that end up 1-0 can be as exciting, if not more exciting, than say 4-3 games. It is also undoubtedly the most fun sport to watch in person. As previously stated, the fast pace of the game means there is always something to watch closely. There are no 20-second intervals between pitches like baseball or no 30-second delays in between plays like in football. While those things are fine if you’re watching a game on television, it can become boring in real life. Hockey rarely has delays like that. None of this is to put down other sports or to say hockey is objectively better. But if you enjoy sports, give hockey a try this upcoming season. While it’s not for everyone, you may just find a new pastime to enjoy. Drew Taylor is a columnist. Contact him at dtaylo49@kent.edu.
Ladies and gentlemen, cold and flu season is upon us. A few weeks of looming threats will emerge in the form of sniffles in class or waking up one night to your roommate coughing up a lung. Then ensues a week or two of wondering when you might start to feel sick or if you’ll even end up catching a cold at all, leading to a false sense of feeling invincible. As you have yet to catch anything, you hear talk of flu shots being offered and might even consider letting one of the upperclassmen nursing students stab you with a needle on the second floor of the University Library because you’re starting to worry. Then, one morning you wake up with a sore throat. You know it’s too late. The first month of college essentially begs to flirt with your immune system, eventually takes her out on a date and leaves her with the check. Flu season is like falling asleep; it happens slowly, then seemingly all at once. When the first person mentions they are sick around the first or second week of class, you probably won’t think much of it. In fact, you may even rejoice because that you have no symptoms yet, telling people how much you hate being sick and half-heartedly empathizing with those who are. However, giving the common cold a little bit of time to fester and yourself a little bit of time to spend in close quarters with your sick classmates is the ultimate recipe for catching a cold. Nothing screams “Give me your germs!” like sitting in a lecture hall that holds about 400 people, and suddenly realizing that there is only about a two-second gap between hearing chunky coughs (you know the type — gross) from your peers in class. You might as well be sharing chapstick and water bottles with these people, as your class space is most likely already crawling with their germs and most definitely getting into your lungs with every breath you take. However, there is no reason to fear. There really aren’t any solid statistics on how many people the common cold kills every year, and the flu is estimated to lay to rest about 500,000 victims annually. Promising, right? Although it seems nearly impossible to avoid getting sick this flu season, there are steps you can take to make this right of passage a little less terrible. Pick up some cold medicine as early as you can remember, even if you don’t need it at the current moment — you will thank yourself. Remember to get plenty of sleep or as much sleep as your extracurriculars and exam schedule will allow, and skip a class or five if you really feel the need to stay home and rest. You can always catch up on school, work and your social life, but the common cold is nothing to mess around with. If you take the proper precautions and care, you may just be able to make it out alive. Mica Pflug is a columnist. Contact her at mpflug2@kent.edu.
10 The Kent Stater
Monday, September 25, 2017
Sports SPORTS EDITOR: HENRY PALATTELLA (HPALATTE@KENT.EDU)
Flashes fall behind early in loss to Louisville
Scott Lendak Sports Reporter Just a few days after Kent State announced starting quarterback Nick Holley would be out for the season due to an injury, the Flashes headed into Louisville to take on the Cardinals. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson won the Heisman Trophy last season and has built a strong case for a repeat so far this season. The Cardinals struck first when running back Malik Williams ran in a touchdown from three yards out. That followed a 69-yard pass from Jackson to tight end Jordan Davis on the first play of the game.
Kent cornerback Jamal Parker attempts to tackle Howard running back Anthony Philyaw during Kent’s home opener on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. Austin Mariasy / Kent Stater
After the Flashes stopped the Cardinals on a fourth and short, Williams ran in a 33-yard touchdown on the next possession to make it 14-0. Junior George Bollas was the starting quarterback in place of injured Holley, and he finished with just two completions for 11 yards and an interception returned for a touchdown. The Flashes capitalized on a Louisville fumble with a 48-yard field goal by junior Shane Hynes. The field goal was his career long, and it was the longest from a Kent State kicker since 2012. The Cardinals responded with a 13-yard touchdown run from Jacksonto make the score 28-3 at the half.
Jackson didn’t have his best day, however. Kent State cornerback Demetrius Monday intercepted two passes, marking his 10th and 11th career interceptions. Monday now ranks ninth among Kent State’s interception leaders. The Flashes gave up just 14 points in the second half to the prolific Louisville offense, but they were also held scoreless. The Cardinals defeated the Flashes 42-3. A bright spot for Kent State was freshman quarterback Dustin Crum, who had a careerhigh 62 yards rushing. Freshman running back Kesean Gamble also had a career high in rushing with 45 yards. On the defensive side of the ball, senior linebacker James Alexander tied a career-
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high with eight tackles and a sack. The Flashes (1-3) will begin conference play next week when they take on Buffalo at Dix Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Contact Scott Lendak at slendak@kent.edu.
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