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Female business owners share struggles Paige Bennett Feature Writer The number of women business owners in the United States has been steadily rising since 1997. According to the National Association of Women Business Owners, women own more than 11.6 million American businesses and have generated $1.7 trillion in sales.

However, despite their growing numbers, women in businesses continue to face obstacles that differ from those faced by men.

One of these women is Gwen Rosenberg.

Rosenberg owns Popped!, a popcorn and candy store located in downtown Kent. She opened her business in 2012 with the goal of turning her lifelong passion for cooking into an income that could support her family.

When Rosenberg tried to open a business credit card, she was denied.

Having been a stay-at-home mom for roughly 12 years, Rosenberg was told by her bank that she did not have the credit to open a credit card. But in that timeframe, she had

Popped! store in Kent, Ohio owned by Gwen Rosenberg Megan Humphrey / The Kent Stater

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cosigned on multiple cars and houses with her husband.

“In the eyes of the bank, I was good enough to sue for nonpayment or if we defaulted, but I wasn’t good enough to give a credit card to,” Rosenberg said.

After denying her a credit card, the bank informed Rosenberg that her husband could open one for her. She rejected the offer and launched without assistance from the bank.

Another challenge Rosenberg faced in the launching of Popped! was feeling as though she was not being taken seriously.

“There were definitely some men who would come in as customers and, you know, they would think it was kind of cute that this woman was starting a business,” Rosenberg said.

Kelly Tannous, the owner of Twisted Meltz, a restaurant that specializes in gourmet grilled cheese, experienced similar problems. Tannous and her son, Steven, opened Twisted Meltz in 2014. One of the most difficult aspects of being a woman business owner, Tannous said, is getting people to respect and listen to her.

“Even after all these years, it still seems like you have to be a little bit more boisterous to get people to really understand, like, ‘I’m serious,’ ‘this is how it has to be done’ or ‘this is what I want,’” Tannous said.

Although being a woman business owner poses challenges for Rosenberg and Tannous, they both said Kent has been a welcoming community.

“When we first opened up, everybody (in Kent) was so friendly, coming in and giving us compliments,” Tannous said.

“It’s almost feels like it’s old-fashioned.

People really want you to be here. People were really happy and excited for us to be successful.”

Not all women business owners have had these experiences. Michelle Sahr, owner of Off the Wagon, a toy and gift shop in downtown Kent, said she has not

Gwen Rosenberg, owner of Popped!, poses in her popcorn and ice cream store that she opened in January 2012.

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dealt with many difficulties as a woman business owner.

“I actually don’t encounter a great deal of difficulty (being a female business owner),” Sahr said. “On a super rare occasion, I’ve encountered men in business and in life who don’t take women seriously, and I’m always a little surprised about that to be honest.”

However, Sahr said her circumstances may be different from those of other women in business. Working in the toy industry, Sahr said she encounters more

women than men.

In spite of the challenges she may face, any woman looking to be a business owner should go for it, Rosenberg said.

“If you are a woman, and you want to start your own business, you should,” Rosenberg said. “You don’t need to wait for permission and wait for the stars to line up. You can start the path towards entrepreneurship in small doses.”

Contact Paige Bennett at pbennet8@kent.edu.

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Starbucks shops on campus are teaming up with Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS) to raise awareness of sexual abuse. Caty Payette / TV2

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SRVSS pairs with Starbucks to raise sexual assault awareness Chloe Forbes Feature Writer When getting your morning coffee fix, you might have a noticed the regular brown coffee cup sleeve replaced with a white one.

As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS) teamed up with dining services to raise awareness about the services available on campus for victims of sexual assault.

Coffee hotspots such as the Olson Bean Scene, Moyo Café in Oscar Ritchie Hall and George T. Simon Café will participate throughout April, using coffee cup sleeves that have statistics about sexual assault on them.

Meghan Lee, a graduate assistant at SRVSS, came up with the idea of using coffee cup sleeves for awareness. She said they were looking for new ways to engage with and reach new students.

“Hopefully once they’re in the library studying or in class, they’ll notice the sleeve,” Lee said. “We wanted to make people aware that the SRVSS office is a resource on campus for students.”

There are three variations of the sleeve. Each has contact information for the SRVSS office on the front, in addition to a statistic on the back.

Junior Spanish major David Fair is one of the students who received his drink with the white coffee sleeve.

“I think it’s a good way to reach a large amount of people,” Fair said.

He said sexual assault is an issue that’s often overlooked because it’s more likely something parents warn about when first going to college.

“When you come to college, you have a baseline understanding,” Fair said.

“Fortunately, we have the SRVSS office and Green Dot that not only help raise

awareness but make the student body more informed.”

Senior economics major Caleigh Sullivan also had a cup of coffee with the new sleeve on it.

She said she would not have even known about SRVSS if it hadn’t been for the coffee sleeve.

One of the statistics on the sleeves quotes the National Center for Victims of Crimes, stating, “In 2015, only 5 percent of male and 21 percent of female survivors reported receiving victim support services (information, emotional support and other resources).”

Lee said the coffee sleeves were created to counteract that because a large reason why the number is so low is because people don’t know what services they have available to them or they think it might not be helpful.

SRVSS provides a support system to students who have gone through any type of sexual or relationship violence. They provide resources to aid students in making their own decisions while having someone to lean on and ask questions to throughout the process.

The office is open to anyone, and Lee encourages everyone to stop by and see where they’re located and become familiar with SRVSS. Lee said even if you are not impacted by sexual violence right now, you can be informed for future instances if it happens to you or someone close to you.

“We’d love to raise awareness about sexual violence but also let people know about the center.

We really just want to make sure people know we’re there and we’re there to listen.”

SRVSS has events all throughout April for students to attend, including student-led discussions and activities.

The SRVSS office is located in the Williamson House at 1200 East Main Street behind the Center for the Performing Arts.

Contact Chloe Forbes at cforbes1@kent.edu.

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Breaking barriers: A look inside one veteran’s battle with PTSD Mariah Hicks Military and Veterans Reporter It was a cold and dreary November day in 2014 when Eric Geffert visited a Veterans Affairs (VA) psychiatrist.

As a veteran, he had been experiencing paranoia and panic attacks years before discovering the underlying problem.

Geffert walked through the doors of the VA medical center seeking treatment for depression. He walked out of his appointment diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), news he wasn’t expecting to receive.

After being diagnosed, he visited his psychiatrist about every other month for occasional checkups. His busy schedule and hesitation to get help kept him from visiting more often, he said.

“Part of the reason I didn’t seek out help after the diagnosis was because of the stigma that surrounded PTSD,” Geffert said.

“I didn’t want to have that label put on me because back then, in my mind, having that meant you were weak or couldn’t handle the pressures of the military.”

A study of soldiers’ utilization of mental health care describes how concerns about stigmatization are a significant barrier to veterans seeking treatment.

“I don’t know that it (PTSD stereotypes) is as heavy now, but I know that it was after we had our big pushes into Afghanistan and Iraq,” said Joshua Rider, the director and VA certifying official of the Center for Adult and Veterans Services (CAVS). “There was this notion that all veterans had PTSD … they don’t.”

Geffert joined the Army National Guard as a high school senior.

“Both of my parents were in the military, so I kind of wanted to continue that family tradition.”

“I wanted to serve my country, too,” Geffert said.

After graduating high school, Geffert spent a year at Lakeland Community College. His education was interrupted halfway through when his unit was deployed to Iraq from January to October of 2009. He was only 20 years old.

Geffert experienced a lot during his time

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Eric Geffert was deployed in Iraq from January to October of 2009. Photo courtesy of Eric Geffert.

overseas. There were instances such as when his unit was hit by two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and one of his friends lost part of his hand and part of the back of his leg.

Geffert encountered various other experiences that changed him as a person, as well.

“There were people who took their lives over there on base, who weren’t strong enough to do it. That was tough,” Geffert said.

Part of the reason I didn’t seek out help after the diagnosis was because of the stigma that surrounded PTSD.” – Eric Geffert Veteran

Being in an environment of potential dangers took its toll on Geffert, but he fought to remain positive.

“I think when you’re young like that, you feel invincible. A lot of my mindset over there was just trying to be positive, not thinking about what could possibly happen,” Geffert said. “Over there, I wasn’t thinking about all these dangers. I was just pushing them down and not aware that I was doing that.”

Geffert found out he had PTSD about four years after returning from Iraq.

“When I first came back, that was really challenging to deal with, especially because at first you don’t really notice it going on,” Geffert said.

He started seeing a veterans affairs psychiatrist in February 2012 and mentioned his paranoia and panic attacks. The psychiatrist suspected Geffert had PTSD, but he wasn’t officially diagnosed until 2014 when he returned to seek treatment for depression.

“I think it took time for the PTSD to kind of manifest itself, and the psychiatrist said that it could be because when I was over there (in Iraq) I could have suppressed all this fear, which could have played a part in it,” Geffert said.

Geffert realized a change of emotions when he started to withdraw from things he usually enjoyed.

“That was a really big thing. I always used to go out with friends on the weekends,” Geffert said.

“I just didn’t have any desire to go out or be around people at all.”

Big crowds played a huge part in his paranoia. It became an excessive habit to look at rooftops and to ensure he knew all

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the exits in a building. Driving also became an issue because Geffert constantly scanned the streets for roadside bombs.

“I was still in that mindset to do those things, and still to this day I think it’s something that will always be a part of me,” Geffert said.

Geffert is now in his second year at Kent State. He is a digital systems telecommunication networks major and computer forensics and security minor. His journey here at Kent so far has helped him discover his passion.

“I’m taking an interest in what I’m trying to do,” Geffert said. “School has been a really good opportunity to fill my time.”

Along with his studies at Kent, the VA medical center has been a great resource for Geffert, as well as knowing the Center for Adult and Veterans Services (CAVS) office is available to him on campus when he needs it.

CAVS refers veterans to services on or around campus and does programming based around awareness of mental health concerns, Rider said.

“There are resources on campus that educate us as professionals about what services are out there,” said Scott Crawford, the CAVS program coordinator and VA certifying official.

Geffert encourages veterans dealing with mental health issues to seek help. At the time of his diagnosis, he thought he could deal with the issue alone, but got sick of his depressive behavior and realized what he was doing wasn’t enough to fix the problem.

“Don’t feel like there’s a stigma or there’s going to be this label put on you that is going to follow you around the

I didn’t want to have that label put on me because back then, in my mind, having that meant you were weak or couldn’t handle the pressures of the military.”

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rest of your life. It’s definitely not like that,” Geffert said. “You can’t keep that in because keeping it in is what makes it worse and helps it build up and fester.”

Geffert’s depression decreased over time when he started to exercise more and force himself out of his comfort zone. The paranoia and panic is something he believes he’ll always have to live with, but forcing himself to get out helped him break depressive habits.

“You get comfortable not doing anything, not talking to people, not going out, so it’s like I had to break that habit and just get out of my comfort zone to go do other things,” Geffert said. “I think Kent really helped me with that too because now I have a purpose.”

Contact Mariah Hicks at mhicks22@kent.edu.

Eric Geffert was deployed in Iraq from January to October of 2009. Photo courtesy of Eric Geffert.

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Zuckerberg testimony reveals lawmaker confusion on Facebook Mary Clare Jalonick and Barbara Ortutay Associated Press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged Wednesday that regulation of social media is "inevitable" and disclosed that his own personal information has been compromised by malicious outsiders. But after two days of congressional testimony, what seemed clear was how little Congress seems to know about Facebook, much less what to do about it.

Statements from representatives facing re-election this year ranged from complaints of anti-conservative bias to questions about whether Facebook could improve broadband speeds in their state.

Facebook shares rose more than 1 percent after climbing 4.5 percent on Monday. Rather than putting a dent in his well-prepared armor, two days of unfocused questioning helped Zuckerberg restore more than $25 billion in market value that the company has lost since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in mid-March.

Facebook's stock remains 10 percent below where it stood before the scandal, a decline that has wiped out about $50 billion in shareholder wealth.

Wrapping up his four-minutes of questioning, Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida commended the platform, saying "it's wonderful for us seniors to connect with our relatives."

Other lawmakers were similarly stymied by the rapid-fire format, unable to probe beyond surface-level accusations that Facebook had breached users' trust.

Anna Eshoo, a California congresswoman whose district is adjacent to Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, pressed Zuckerberg on whether the company would be willing to change its business model to protect individual privacy. Zuckerberg said he wasn't sure what that meant, and Eshoo was forced to say she would follow up with written questions.

His remarks came amid a second day of a congressional inquisition in the wake of the worst privacy debacle in his company's history. At the close of Wednesday's hearing, Zuckerberg had spent roughly 10 out of the previous 24 hours testifying before Congress.

A day earlier, Zuckerberg batted away oftenaggressive questioning from senators who accused him of failing to protect the personal information of millions of Americans from Russians intent on upsetting the U.S. election.

Lawmakers in both parties have floated

possible regulation of Facebook and other tech companies amid privacy scandals and Russian intervention on the platform. It's not clear what that regulation would look like and Zuckerberg didn't offer any specifics.

"The internet is growing in importance around the world in people's lives and I think that it is inevitable that there will need to be some regulation," Zuckerberg said during testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "So my position is not that there should be no regulation but I also think that you have to be careful about regulation you put in place."

Larger, more dominant companies like Facebook have the resources to comply with government regulation, he said, but "that might be more difficult for a smaller startup to comply with."

Zuckerberg was answering a question from Eshoo when he informed lawmakers about his personal data, a reference to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has rocked his company over the past several weeks.

The stakes are high for both Zuckerberg and his company. Facebook has been reeling following revelations last month that the political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which was affiliated with Trump's 2016 campaign, improperly scooped up data on about 87 million users. Zuckerberg has been on an apology tour for most of the past two weeks, culminating in his congressional appearances this week.

But what comes next is unclear.

Lawmakers said repeatedly they think Facebook should probably be regulated. But there was no consensus at all on that point — what exactly should be regulated, or even what the biggest problems are.

Members pressed Zuckerberg on the company's privacy policies and often declared that Facebook needs to do more to protect user data. Several lawmakers touted bills they've introduced. But there was no clear thread among them as to how, or if, the government should step in.

Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the committee's top ranking Democrat, sounded pessimistic that Congress will pass anything.

"I've just seen it over and over again — that we have the hearings, and nothing happens," Pallone said.

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., the committee chairman, asked Zuckerberg if it ever crossed his mind several years ago when user data was being extracted from Facebook "that you should be communicating more clearly

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Andrew Harnik / Associated Press

with users that Facebook is monetizing their data." Information about users "is probably the most valuable thing about Facebook," Walden added.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook allows people to decide whether and how they want their information shared. But he said his company "can do a better job of explaining how advertising works."

After a testy exchange with Zuckerberg, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said Congress should consider imposing "really robust penalties" for social media companies that repeatedly compromise user information.

"We continue to have these abuses and these data breaches," DeGette said. "But at the same time it doesn't seem like future activities are prevented."

During roughly five hours of questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday, Zuckerberg apologized several times for Facebook failures. He also disclosed that his company was "working with" special counsel Robert Mueller in the federal probe of Russian election interference and said it was working hard to change its own operations in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

Seemingly unimpressed, Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota said

Zuckerberg's company had a 14-year history of apologizing for "ill-advised decisions" related to user privacy. "How is today's apology different?" Thune asked.

As for the federal Russia probe that has occupied much of Washington's attention for months, he said he had not been interviewed by special counsel Mueller's team, but "I know we're working with them." He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation.

Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.

Zuckerberg said Facebook had been led to believe Cambridge Analytica had deleted the user data it had harvested and that had been "clearly a mistake." He said Facebook had considered the data collection "a closed case" and had not alerted the Federal Trade Commission.

He assured senators the company would have handled the situation differently today.

Associated Press writers Ryan Nakashima, Richard Lardner and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. Ortutay reported from New York.

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Low turnout for Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Madison MacArthur Diversity Reporter High heels size 12 and higher were available on Risman Plaza for Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Tuesday, but many remained untouched.

While working toward creating a united front to end sexualized violence by walking a mile in another person’s shoes, the event had a low turnout of men and women.

Director of the Student Multicultural Center Talea Drummer-Ferrell served as the key speaker, giving statistics of sexual violence and calling for action.

“We are out here for big reasons and big purposes … We have to make sure that as we’re walking, small but mighty, that we are group that says we are a united campus.”

Drummer-Ferrell said. “That sexual assault, power-based violence and relationship violence will not happen on this campus …

We’re going to be educated, we’re gonna celebrate this walk today.”

Meghan Lee hosted the event and is a graduate assistant with the Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS).

“We have so many students out there that want to be allies, or whether or not they are here for themselves ...,” Lee said. “It shows everyone else here that we do have a community of support here at Kent State for sexual assault survivors.”

Director of SRVSS Jennifer O’Connell agreed.

“We’re all in this together as a community, there’s a role for all of us to play in preventing this type of violence,” O’Connell said. “It’s not just an issue that affects any one population,

it’s an issue that affects our whole community.”

Along with the few women who walked, only two men participated in the walk: Sven Rundman and Aaron Brown.

Brown, an intern with SRVSS, keeps himself involved with their programs.

“People probably assume I’m here because I have to be here, since I’m an intern, but I’m here because I think this is something that people should be more aware of,” Brown said. “Especially men because there is a lot of sexualized violence from men towards women. Having men support this issue could really make an impact.”

Rundman also serves as the project coordinator for SRVSS, coordinates Green Dot and has a new understanding after his walk.

“I support that you should actually walk in somebody else's shoes to get an idea of what they might experience and the daily things (women) might have experience, like walking in those heels,” Rundman said.

“My toes are literally numb and I literally just walked for maybe 10 minutes. Imagine walking a whole lifetime in heels, I had no idea what that could have been like.”

While there was a small group there, Lee hopes to see more involvement from other organizations on the issue.

“Even through the other academic departments or offices, even student organizations, their goal every single day might not be to raise awareness for sexual violence, we do hope that for events like this we can start to come together,” Lee said.

Contact Madison MacArthur at mmacarth@kent.edu.

Despite the low turnout, Aaron Brown (left) and Sven Rundman (right) show off their heels during the Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event on Tuesday evening.

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We’re all in this together as a community, there’s a role for all of us to play in preventing this type of violence.”

– Jennifer O’Connell Director of SRVSS

An array of heels line the table as they remained untouched during the Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Tuesday evening. Adrian Leuthauser / The Kent Stater

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SPORTS

Redshirt Senior Mason Mamarella hits the ball during the game against Canisius Wednesday. The flashes won 13-11. Kayla McMillen / The Kent Stater

Flashes hold off late Canisius rally, extend win streak to three games Ian Kreider Sports Reporter Kent State was ahead, 13-7, heading into the top of the ninth inning; it appeared the Flashes were going to coast to their eighth win in the last 10 games.

Canisius had other plans.

The Griffins (17-13, 6-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) came out with the same patient approach that saw them grab a 5-4 lead in the top of the third. After the Flashes (19-10, 6-3 Mid-American Conference) retired the first two batters of the ninth, Canisius sophomore shortstop Stephen Bennett crushed a triple to the center field wall.

During the next at-bat, senior pitcher Robert Zeigler threw a wild pitch that allowed Bennett to score from third, cutting the Kent State lead to 13-8.

Zeigler struggled after the triple, allowing a three-run homer to senior first baseman Liam Wilson to put the game in question, 13-11.

“I felt like the game was speeding up on Zeigler,” Kent State coach Jeff Duncan said. “He’s coming off an injury. There was a play at second base that didn’t go our way, and any time you give guys extra outs, they can hurt you.”

Zeigler regained his control as he forced the last out of the game to help Kent State improve to nine games over .500, their best

mark all season.

“We learned a lot today,” Duncan said. “The game is never over. We need to keep up our attitude and energy throughout the game.”

The teams went back and forth early in the game, as the lead changed hands three times in the first three innings. Kent State came out slower than usual, held scoreless in the first inning.

However, the Flashes were able to flip the switch in the second inning as they scored four runs after three quality at-bats that saw two walks, a double and the Flashes’ first lead of the game, 2-1. Senior left fielder Reilly Hawkins crushed a solo home run that pushed the lead to 3-1. Senior center fielder

Mason Mamarella drove in another run with a single to center field.

Both teams had their fair share of pitching struggles. The teams combined to score 17 runs through four innings.

“When you’re on a second day of a midweek (series), it can always be a little interesting,” Duncan said.

The Flashes will look to carry their offensive momentum into their next series, which starts Friday at 6 p.m. as they take on Northern Illinois at Schoonover Stadium.

The Huskies will put their two-game win streak on the line as they take on their seventh MAC opponent of the season.

Contact Ian Kreider at ikreider@kent.edu.

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Ohio sets new MAC record in doubleheader sweep of Flashes Amanda Levine Sports Reporter Pitching again proved to Kent State softball’s (19-6, 5-6 Mid-American Conference) downfall Wednesday, as the Flashes dropped a doubleheader to Ohio (2213, 10-1 MAC). The Flashes were outscored, 26-9, in the two games.

Holly Speers recorded three hits over the two games, one of which was her 10th home run of the season, while Carlee Selle clubbed her first double of the year in the first game.

Game 1: Ohio 4, Kent State 2 Flashes sophomore Madi Huck pitched

six innings, allowing four runs on nine hits. Senior Danielle Stiene for Ohio pitched a complete game, allowing two runs on four hits.

In the top half of the first inning, Kent State scored its first run thanks to a Bailey Brownfield single, then scored again on an Emily Dobbin basehit in the fifth.

Freshman Katie Yun ripped a home run in the third inning to open the scoring for the Bobcats, followed by an RBI single from Alexa Holland. With the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Morgan Geno hit a home run over the wall in left field to put Ohio up for good, 4-2.

Game 2: Ohio 22, Kent State 7 Holly Speers went 2-for-3 with a tworun home run in the second game of the doubleheader Wednesday against Ohio. That wasn’t enough for the Flashes, however, as the Bobcats’ Alex Day went 5-for-5 with two home runs and eight RBI to lead Ohio to a 22-7 victory.

The Flashes struggled early on in the top of the first when freshman Brenna Brownfield allowed back-to-back singles followed by a three-run home run by Katie Yun. Brownfield was taken out after 1.1 innings, replaced by Kristyn Eckl, then

Junior Jen Cader takes swings during the Flashes doubleheader against Ohio on Wednesday. The Flashes lost 4-2. Megan Humphrey / The Kent Stater

returned in the top of the third.

Ohio scored again in the top of the second, when Alexa Holland took Brownfield deep to left. Three batters later, the Bobcats hit their second three-run homer of the game.

In the bottom half of the second, Jen Cader hit a two-run single after a throwing error on Ohio’s first baseman.

The Bobcats finished the day with 17 hits, but had four errors.

In total, Ohio recorded six home runs, a new MAC record.

Contact Amanda Levine at alevine3@kent.edu.

Sophomore Olivia Sborlini rounds the bases Wednesday during the doubleheader against Ohio. The Flashes lost 4-2. Megan Humphrey / The Kent Stater

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OPINION

Sports used to be for the people

JOSEPH McGRELLIS’ VIEW

Bruno Beidacki I remember growing up in Brazil, waking up excited on Sunday mornings, putting my jersey on and patiently waiting for my dad to say it was time to go to the stadium. Soccer is huge back home, so it was a major part of my childhood and teenage years.

At the stadium, I’d see people of all different backgrounds, ethnicities and financial power. Attending a soccer match was just another entertainment option, a choice along with going to the movies or bowling.

Tickets were accessible, parking was a hassle but affordable and concession stands had reasonably-priced hot dogs and soft drinks.

Well, not anymore.

Sports, or at least watching them live, in-person, have unfortunately become a source of entertainment for the wealthy. Even when promotional tickets are made available, one has to use binoculars to distinguish between Lebron James and Kevin Love.

Jokes aside, it has become extremely expensive to attend a professional sports game, regardless of the sport in question.

When I went home to Brazil last year, I made my way to the Arena do Gremio, my favorite soccer team’s stadium. The contrast from my experiences growing up was shocking. The hot dogs and burgers were three times more expensive. Water bottles and soft drinks had doubled. The price of everything was significantly higher, even when taking into consideration inflation rates.

It’s not much different in the United States. I took my girlfriend to a Cleveland Cavaliers game during spring break. We had great seats — to put it into perspective, Justin Timberlake was sitting exactly 10 rows below us. I walked to get a drink, only to find out that a can of beer cost $10.00. Basic food items were around that price as well.

Imagine a middle-class family of four wanting to attend a Cavs game. Spending less than $300 in that outing seems virtually impossible, unless you sit in the nosebleeds and stay away from the concession stands.

It shouldn’t be like that. Yes, this is a capitalist country and if arenas are getting packed even when

tickets cost hundreds of dollars, that’s how much they will cost. However, we need to realize that sports are a great thing because they unite people.

Let’s not forget that the vast majority of professional athletes were once part of the middle and lower classes. They are people who grew up watching the pros and dreaming of being like them.

Taking away these kids’ opportunity to watch their favorite athletes live could lead to a completely different dynamic in the role and influence of sports in our society: a negative one.

It’s time to put aside the greed for a second and realize that the beauty in sports is its diversity and potential to change people’s lives. I want to be able, when I have kids, to take them to watch NBA and NFL games without having to prioritize that over buying new tires or paying for summer camp.

Sports are fun. They bring out the best — and sometimes the worst — from us. Let’s continue allowing kids to learn and grow from it.

Bruno Beidacki is the opinion editor.

Contact him at bbeidack@kent.edu.

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It’s time to put aside the greed for a second and realize that the beauty in sports is its diversity and potential to change peoples lives.”

– Bruno Beidacki

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Trump surrounds himself with criminals and warhawks Joseph Langan

Mike Pompeo’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State is set for this Thursday. If confirmed, Pompeo will be the next addition in an increasingly hawkish Trump administration.

Pompeo left his role as Director of the CIA in the hands of the controversial Gina Haspel. Haspel had an extensive role in torturing detainees and ran a secret prison in Thailand, one of the many facilities the CIA maintains in a network of “black sites.”

These brutal prisons are called black sites because their international legality is dubious and the American people — and even Congress — are kept in the dark about them. What we do know is that a majority of these sites detainees have not been convicted of crimes, are rarely officially charged and that they experience torture. Many horror stories have leaked about detainees who were imprisoned and tortured for years without charge. Some were eventually released without explanation or reparations.

Haspel played a pivotal role in destroying videotaped torture sessions

after they were requested by Congress to investigate the CIA’s treatment of detainees. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law. The right to a fair trial, the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty and the right to humane treatment are crucial to the values the United States is supposed to hold sacred. How can we have a democracy when government officials refuse to follow the law?

Hidden within candidate Trump’s campaign of ubiquitous misogyny and anti-immigrant fear-mongering, there were a few good ideas, mainly to stop America from committing more war crimes in the Middle East.

As president, Trump abandoned these campaign promises for an increasingly militant foreign policy agenda.

John Bolton, Trump’s recent appointment to National Security Advisor, is a Bush-era conservative with a religious fervor for interventionism. Bolton has worked with anti-Islam organizations which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled “hate groups” and was one of the most vocal cheerleaders for the Iraq War. It’s worth remembering that the nation of Iraq had no affiliation with

the Sept. 11 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens and the attack was planned by Al-Qaeda, which had networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq. The U.S.-led invasion killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, while Iraq posed no military threat to the United States and had not provoked us. Attacking a country without provocation is a war crime and considered illegal according to the United Nations.

However, the Trump administration makes up its own rules; Bolton has even delusionally proclaimed that “there is no United Nations.” As National Security Advisor, Bolton is already pushing for war with Iran and North Korea, and to increase our military presence in the shell-shocked Syria.

These dangerous and asinine foreign policy positions are hurtling us closer to needless nuclear war. If Bolton, Pompeo and Haspel manage to get what they want in the foreign policy arena, countless innocent people could die.

Joseph Langan is a columnist.

Contact him at jlangan3@kent.edu.

Continuous update of mass, school shootings in US Most Recent Mass Shootings: April 10, 2018: Branson, Missouri, 0 injured and 4 killed.

April 9, 2018: Vallejo, California, 4 injured and 0 killed.

April 8, 2018: Liberty City, Florida, 2 injured and 2 killed.

April 8, 2018: Hickory, North Carolina, 3 injured and 1 killed.

April 6, 2018: Jacksonville, Florida, 4 injured and 0 killed.

School and mass shootings

Mass shootings

*The darker the red circles, the more severe the incident

School shootings

Editor’s Note: Each dot on this map represents either a mass shooting or school shooting that has occurred since Jan. 1, 2018. All information is compiled from the Mass Shooting Tracker. Its definition of a school shooting is any weapon that has been fired on a school campus, whether or not it results in an injury or death. Regardless of the physical damage, a gun being fired on or near a school contributes to the fear students face in society today.

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20 Paul Ryan won’t run for reelection

After two decades serving Congress, the controversial Speaker of the House announced he will not seek reelection.

974 MLB game has extremely low attendance

Due to a schedule change and poor weather, Monday’s game between the White Sox and the Rays failed to reach 1,000 attendees.

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Faculty Senate outlines new rules for relationships between students, professors Valerie Royzman Administration Reporter Many universities across the country have policies limiting consensual relationships between professors and students, which has long been a controversial topic. Kent State is joining the effort to clearly define guidelines for relationships where conflicts of interest may arise. Faculty Senate approved a policy Monday that would ban faculty members from dating students they are teaching at the time ­— with rare exceptions, that is.

For faculty-student consensual relationships, the policy reads: “Faculty members and students shall not enter into consensual relationships with each other if the faculty member is in the position to directly teach, evaluate, supervise or advise the student.”

The student-faculty rules are part of a larger policy designed to regulate relations where a “power differential” exists in which one person could use their job as a lever in their relationship with another, or a person could exploit a personal relationship to achieve a professional goal, such as a better grade or a promotion.

In plain terms, Faculty Senate chair Deb Smith said faculty should not be in a relationship, either a dating or family relationship, with someone they’re evaluating, period.

In an earlier interview, Smith said there might be cases when avoiding the situation might be difficult or impossible.

“There are cases, and graduate students might be one of them, where a family member or somebody that you’re dating might be in a academic program, and you might be the only person that offers a required class,” Smith said.

The policy states that even if a faculty member isn’t teaching a student at the time, he or she should tell their supervisor about any relationship.

“In all cases, the faculty member’s academic unit or campus administrator shall be informed by the faculty member in writing of the consensual relationship with a student so that appropriate measures may be taken to prevent exploitation, favoritism or other conflicts of interest, actual or perceived,” the policy states.

At its February meeting, some senators suggested the policy should be expanded to include all university employees.

But, Smith said after she met with

renovation of Rockwell Hall to accommodate increased enrollment in the Fashion School.

• An $8 million renovation of White Hall, which houses the College of Education, Health and Human Services.

• A $10 million expansion for research facilities at the lower level of the Integrated Sciences Building.

Other first phrase projects (the university calls them “enabling projects”) include a $22 million parking deck on Main Street, which would be east of the new business building about the site of the current entrance to campus from Main Street; the demolition of Terrace Hall and relocation of ROTC and fashion studios currently in the building; demolition of the Williamson House and its Carriage House and relocation of the Women’s Center; realigning Terrace Drive to Midway Drive; the demolition of the Cutler Building; and adding sidewalks and bike trails.

Warren said she’s excited that every college will be touched by the Master Plan by the end of the decade.

Faculty Senate member Linda Williams asked what would happen to the current Business Administration Building once the new one is built.

Warren said no decision has been made, but there are many options on the table.

“That building is not great for 21st century learning. … It could be a place for faculty offices; it could be a place for departments Faculty Senate Chair Deb Smith opens the meeting Monday, where senators approved a policy on consensual relationships between faculty and students.

Gianna DaPra / The Kent Stater

Susan Roxburgh, Faculty Senate’s chair of the Professional Standards Committee, along with with members of the administration, they decided to devise two different policies.

Smith said a single policy was discarded because there are significant differences between faculty and non-faculty employees.

“Non-faculty employees really can only be in one type of relationship differential of power, and that’s basically the supervisor-supervisee position, whereas faculty stand in that relationship to a bunch of people,” Smith said. “So we stand in supervisee-supervisor relations with our chairs, our directors, our college and campus deans, our GAs, our post-docs. …

We, of course, stand in the student-teacher relationship to dozens if not hundreds of individuals each year.”

Kent State administrators are currently working on a policy for non-faculty, Smith said.

Any university-wide policy will not come to Faculty Senate, as members don’t have a say in policies governing non-faculty.

The new policy still must be approved by the Board of Trustees, which meets June 6.

President’s remarks on the Master Plan President Beverly Warren offered a specific breakdown of Phase 1 projects, and costs for the university’s 10-year, $1.2 billion Facilities Master Plan.

A summary included cost of specific

“transformational projects” for the first time: • A $72 million new College of Business Administration Building east of White Hall, which would headline the new entrance to Front Campus.

• A $45 million “innovation hub” that will rehabilitate the Art Building would include studio space and dining.

• A $21 million building for interdisciplinary studios tailored for fashion and architecture students.

• A $6 million addition to the Aeronautics and Technology Building.

• A $6.5 million classroom building at the KSU Airport.

• A $10 million addition and

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On the cover: Illustration by Katie Blazek

who might be closer to their areas of teaching if they were there; it might be a place for some of our service centers.”

Election of officers Senators elected Pamela Grimm, an associate professor of marketing and entrepreneurship, as its new chair. She will succeed Smith.

Grimm said she hopes to focus on issues like financial pressures on the university; academic units and students in debt; technology and its role in higher education; “life-long learning” opportunities; and increasing demands placed on faculty during her term as chair.

Robin Vande-Zande, a Faculty Senate member and professor in the art department, will take over as vice chair. Senators chose English professor Ed Dauterich as the new secretary and Tracy Laux, a senior lecturer in the mathematical science department, as an at-large member of the executive committee.

The next Faculty Senate meeting is scheduled for May 14.

President Beverly Warren presents a slideshow on the university's 10-year, $1.2 billion Master Plan to members of Faculty Senate at a meeting Monday. Gianna DaPra / The Kent Stater

Contact Valerie Royzman at vroyzman@kent.edu.

Non-faculty employees really can only be in one type of relationship differential of power, and that’s basically the supervisor-supervisee position, whereas faculty stand in that relationship to a bunch of people.”

– Deb Smith Faculty Senate chair

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Faculty Senate outlines new rules for relationships between students, professors Valerie Royzman Administration Reporter Many universities across the country have policies limiting consensual relationships between professors and students, which has long been a controversial topic. Kent State is joining the effort to clearly define guidelines for relationships where conflicts of interest may arise. Faculty Senate approved a policy Monday that would ban faculty members from dating students they are teaching at the time ­— with rare exceptions, that is.

For faculty-student consensual relationships, the policy reads: “Faculty members and students shall not enter into consensual relationships with each other if the faculty member is in the position to directly teach, evaluate, supervise or advise the student.”

The student-faculty rules are part of a larger policy designed to regulate relations where a “power differential” exists in which one person could use their job as a lever in their relationship with another, or a person could exploit a personal relationship to achieve a professional goal, such as a better grade or a promotion.

In plain terms, Faculty Senate chair Deb Smith said faculty should not be in a relationship, either a dating or family relationship, with someone they’re evaluating, period.

In an earlier interview, Smith said there might be cases when avoiding the situation might be difficult or impossible.

“There are cases, and graduate students might be one of them, where a family member or somebody that you’re dating might be in a academic program, and you might be the only person that offers a required class,” Smith said.

The policy states that even if a faculty member isn’t teaching a student at the time, he or she should tell their supervisor about any relationship.

“In all cases, the faculty member’s academic unit or campus administrator shall be informed by the faculty member in writing of the consensual relationship with a student so that appropriate measures may be taken to prevent exploitation, favoritism or other conflicts of interest, actual or perceived,” the policy states.

At its February meeting, some senators suggested the policy should be expanded to include all university employees.

But, Smith said after she met with

renovation of Rockwell Hall to accommodate increased enrollment in the Fashion School.

• An $8 million renovation of White Hall, which houses the College of Education, Health and Human Services.

• A $10 million expansion for research facilities at the lower level of the Integrated Sciences Building.

Other first phrase projects (the university calls them “enabling projects”) include a $22 million parking deck on Main Street, which would be east of the new business building about the site of the current entrance to campus from Main Street; the demolition of Terrace Hall and relocation of ROTC and fashion studios currently in the building; demolition of the Williamson House and its Carriage House and relocation of the Women’s Center; realigning Terrace Drive to Midway Drive; the demolition of the Cutler Building; and adding sidewalks and bike trails.

Warren said she’s excited that every college will be touched by the Master Plan by the end of the decade.

Faculty Senate member Linda Williams asked what would happen to the current Business Administration Building once the new one is built.

Warren said no decision has been made, but there are many options on the table.

“That building is not great for 21st century learning. … It could be a place for faculty offices; it could be a place for departments Faculty Senate Chair Deb Smith opens the meeting Monday, where senators approved a policy on consensual relationships between faculty and students.

Gianna DaPra / The Kent Stater

Susan Roxburgh, Faculty Senate’s chair of the Professional Standards Committee, along with with members of the administration, they decided to devise two different policies.

Smith said a single policy was discarded because there are significant differences between faculty and non-faculty employees.

“Non-faculty employees really can only be in one type of relationship differential of power, and that’s basically the supervisor-supervisee position, whereas faculty stand in that relationship to a bunch of people,” Smith said. “So we stand in supervisee-supervisor relations with our chairs, our directors, our college and campus deans, our GAs, our post-docs. …

We, of course, stand in the student-teacher relationship to dozens if not hundreds of individuals each year.”

Kent State administrators are currently working on a policy for non-faculty, Smith said.

Any university-wide policy will not come to Faculty Senate, as members don’t have a say in policies governing non-faculty.

The new policy still must be approved by the Board of Trustees, which meets June 6.

President’s remarks on the Master Plan President Beverly Warren offered a specific breakdown of Phase 1 projects, and costs for the university’s 10-year, $1.2 billion Facilities Master Plan.

A summary included cost of specific

“transformational projects” for the first time: • A $72 million new College of Business Administration Building east of White Hall, which would headline the new entrance to Front Campus.

• A $45 million “innovation hub” that will rehabilitate the Art Building would include studio space and dining.

• A $21 million building for interdisciplinary studios tailored for fashion and architecture students.

• A $6 million addition to the Aeronautics and Technology Building.

• A $6.5 million classroom building at the KSU Airport.

• A $10 million addition and

‘‘

On the cover: Illustration by Katie Blazek

who might be closer to their areas of teaching if they were there; it might be a place for some of our service centers.”

Election of officers Senators elected Pamela Grimm, an associate professor of marketing and entrepreneurship, as its new chair. She will succeed Smith.

Grimm said she hopes to focus on issues like financial pressures on the university; academic units and students in debt; technology and its role in higher education; “life-long learning” opportunities; and increasing demands placed on faculty during her term as chair.

Robin Vande-Zande, a Faculty Senate member and professor in the art department, will take over as vice chair. Senators chose English professor Ed Dauterich as the new secretary and Tracy Laux, a senior lecturer in the mathematical science department, as an at-large member of the executive committee.

The next Faculty Senate meeting is scheduled for May 14.

President Beverly Warren presents a slideshow on the university's 10-year, $1.2 billion Master Plan to members of Faculty Senate at a meeting Monday. Gianna DaPra / The Kent Stater

Contact Valerie Royzman at vroyzman@kent.edu.

Non-faculty employees really can only be in one type of relationship differential of power, and that’s basically the supervisor-supervisee position, whereas faculty stand in that relationship to a bunch of people.”

– Deb Smith Faculty Senate chair

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Review

Cardi B's 'Invasion of Privacy' is an explosive ballad of love, success Alex Novak Entertainment Reviewer Cardi B is arguably one of the hottest new acts in the rap and game. She has come a long way since releasing her debut single “Bodak Yellow.”

Now the young music sensation is bringing fans her highly-anticipated studio album “Invasion of Privacy.”

The beats, while similar in nature, contain quite a few highlights. Lyrically, however, she seems to be showcasing her versatility of subject matter —addressing all of her haters that a pop star is to expect nowadays, as well as confronting the hard subjects of fame and love along the way.

“Cardi B on the charts, ain’t expect that,” she raps on the opening track, opening up about her rags to riches rise and dispelling the blurred logic of her many haters.

“Bickenhead” is one of the best beats on the whole album, featuring a consistent synthesizer theme as she sings a message of how she achieves her own success.

The most entertaining song is definitely the Latin Americanthemed “I Like It.” Also included on the album are Cardi’s two career hits “Bodak Yellow,” which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and “Bartier Cardi,” which has peaked at No. 14 so far.

The other main theme of this album is vulnerability, which she illustrates in addressing a past love that ended on bad terms, but is at the same time conflicting those feelings of regret with her attempts to move on in songs like “Ring” and “Be Careful.”

“And karma for you is gon’ be who you end up with,” she raps on “Be Careful,” which is sure to be another hot track for her fans to sing out loud at the top of their lungs alongside her in concert or with their friends on a night out.

“Thru Your Phone,” a song about a female going through the contents of her unknowing boyfriend and finding out he cheated on her, displays the personal side of the album.

Love has the danger that can cut someone up inside and make their heart feel like it stopped beating inside, and Cardi wears those scars on her sleeve taking the artistry of the song and her record as a whole to a more relatable area.

The album’s best track is likely to be “Best Life,” aside from the previous successful tracks so far, featuring Chance the Rapper.

“I’m living my best life. Made a couple M’s with my best friends, turned all my L’s into lessons,” sings Chance on the chorus.

The album develops into a promotion of self-love for her and her circle, and all her listeners alike.

She has been through some things for sure, but she is aware of who she is and makes it clear on the closing song, “I Do” featuring SZA, that she’ll keep doing what she’s doing: what she wants to.

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Contact Alex Novak at anovak12@kent.edu.

Courtesy of Atlantic Records.

The album develops into a promotion of self-love for her and her circle, and all her listeners alike.”

– Alex Novak Entertainment Reviewer

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MONEY & MEMORIES STUDENTS WHO APPRECIATE THEIR CAMPUS JOBS WORDS BY MADISON BAUGHMAN With a flexible schedule, good pay, a great work environment, and the opportunity to meet some of your best friends, an on-campus job can end up being the greatest part of your college experience.

Don’t let the word “job” fool you, these student workers have some fun stories from when they were on the clock.

Lifeguard

“I loved working there. The environment was great,” said sophomore student Yasmin Goulding. “I felt secure in a university job.

If anything was to happen, they deal with situations for school a lot differently and they actually take an interest in your school work and can be quite flexible.” Goulding laughed about one of her favorite things they did when she worked called a polar plunge.

“We would jump in the hottub and then you would run up to the back slip of the rec center, barefoot, and then roll down it in your swimsuit and then have to jump back in the hottub,” Goulding said. “People would try accumulating the most times they did the polar plunge. It was just something fun to do, like if you were on break or at the end of your shift. Even the aquatics directors and the janitors, everyone did it.”

PARTA

Matthew King, junior criminology student, previously worked as a bus driver for PARTA and proved a myth wrong most students swear is true: if you get hit by a PARTA bus they will pay your tuition. “Yeah, that’s not true at all,” King said. “I don’t know exactly what happens… but they will not pay your tuition.” King said he liked driving the bus and had some fun times. “I loved driving the 53 route. I would say driving that from like 7 to 11 at night was the best. Closing shifts were really fun just because you’d get like your friends on there if you had no one else. Your friends would come get on your bus and you’d just talk and drive around.”

With having one of the highest paying jobs on campus, King definitely learned how to balance his responsibility with fun.

Catering Services

“All the employees that we work with, everyone’s in college so we all get along really well and create friendships,” said senior hospitality management student Kiera Amerio. Not only did this job give Amerio experience in her future feild as well as help her complete a requirement for her major, but she was also able to work with some of

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Our managers are super cool and they definitely make the work environment better.”

her best friends. Amerio has built her way up to a student manager position by working with catering services for a year and a half. “I really love working there. Our managers are super cool and they definitely make the work environment better. They (also) know a lot about the industry. Whenever I am at work, I can talk to them about an internship that I’m trying to get or something like that and since they have all worked in the industry that I am trying to get into, they’ve all been really helpful with giving me advice.”

Before Amerio worked with dining services she reminisced about a ____ experience she had when she worked for the call center, “One time I was calling some guy to get a donation from him and his wife picked up and yelled at me for like being his mistress. She thought I was apart of his affair or something, it was crazy. I was like ‘woah I’m sorry lady.’”

Kayla Soos, junior zoology student,

– Kiera Amerio also works for catering services as a server.

She found the job through her friends that work there and raved about the amazing atmosphere and people she works with.

“We literally have this big joke board that we started in our back room, where everybody just writes something funny on it everyday,” Soos said, “and a bunch of us are friends. It’s literally like just going to work and hanging out with your friends is the best way to describe it because we all just always get along and just joke around and make it as fun as possible.”

According to kent.edu/career/campusstudent-employment students who have an on-campus job and work 20 hours or less each week tend to do better academically compared to students who do not work on-campus or do not have a job at all.

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385/mo per bedroom includes all utilities except electric and cable/internet. 330-552-7032

Houses for spring semester and 2018-2019 school year.

2&3 bedrooms. Starting at $295/person. 330-547-1212

Leasing for fall 2018 Spacious 2,3,4,&5 bedrooms with 2-3 full baths. Great condition, A/C, washer/dryer, dishwasher, deck, garage. Starting at $350 a room. 330-808-4045

LEASING NOW FOR FALL 2018 Leases available in August.

Close to campus. 2 and 3 bedrooms. Landlord pays heat, water and trash. Good parking, central air. 330-676-9440. Photos are located at KentRosewood.com.

Kent 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Air, appliances, carpet, heat and water paid. No pets or Section 8. $660 and $810.

Short term available. 330-6775577

Kent Apartments The places to stay on your way to success Studios, efficiencies, 1 bedrooms, 2 bedrooms and 3 bedrooms Check us out at our website www.kentapartments.com Call us @ 1-888-999-1596

NEWLY REMODELED 4-5 BEDROOM TOWN HOMES AVAILABLE FALL 2018.

Newly Remodeled, 2.5 baths, washer, dryer and dishwasher included. Sign early get a free months rent. Please call 330766-6622 or text 330-770-2197 for more details.

FALL 2018: 2 Bedrooms Available in Luxury 5 bedroom 2 bath house LESS THAN 1 MILE FROM CAMPUS and on the bus route!! Remodeled inside, very spacious rooms, big closets, large deck, your own laundry room, newer appliances, and more. Join current group of 3 girls. 385/mo per bedroom includes all utilities except electric and cable/internet.

330-552-7032

Kent Studio, 1, 2, & 3 BR Full Apartments Newly Remodeled Avail Pet Friendly Across From Kent State Swimming Pool Fitness Center Call Today Cable & Wifi Included 330-673-8778

Leasing for Fall ‘18-’19 Large 1 Br utilities incl Parking 1 blk from campus Call to schedule tour 330-678-3047 www.buckeyeparksmgmt.com

Leasing for Fall ‘18-’19 Lg Efficiencies Utilities Incl Parking 1 blk from campus Call to schedule tour 330-678-3047 www.buckeyeparksmgmt.com

HOUSE Leasing for fall. A beautiful, newly redecorated two-bedroom HOUSE Washer/dryer hookup. $375 per person. 330687-6122.

Leasing for Fall ‘18-’19 2Br House Extra rooms!

Parking 1 blk from campus Call to schedule tour 330-678-3047 www.buckeyeparksmgmt.com

SAVE $$$ Leasing for fall. A beautiful, newly redecorated 2 bedroom apartment. FREE gas, water, garbage pickup. $300/person.

330-687-6122.

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Roommate(s) Needed Leasing for Fall ‘18-’19 Spacious 3 & 4Br Brownstones On campus busline W/ parking 1 block from campus Call to schedule tour 330-678-3047 www.buckeyeparksmgmt.com

Female seeking roommate for 18/19 academic year! Spacious house-private bedroom/ bathroom, A/C, dishwasher, W/D. $365/month+ internet & electric. 10-minute drive to campus. Lease 8/1/18-8/1/19.

Must love dogs! 330-274-6092

Kent, open August, licensed student housing, 3 bd halfhouse, bath, LR, kit, private entrance and porch. $425/ mo per bedroom or discount $1,200/mo + util. 1 year lease, no pets. 330-697-7771 OR 330-357-2101. Also Two 1 bd apartments $450/mo available August.

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2 BR, 1.5 bath, close to campus $880 + electric per month www.oakhavenkent.com or 330-957-3083

Fall ‘18-‘19 Large 7 & 9 bedroom Rooming House, perfect location One block off campus and downtown 330-815-3523

MUST SEE this Extra Large 4 bedroom townhouse! Full basement for storage. Parking close to campus available at no charge. $420.00/ month including Gas. Call Buckeye Park Mgmt to schedule showing 330-678-3047. www.buckeyeparksmgmt.com

Leasing for Fall. Beautiful, newly redecorated 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom duplexes with attached garage. One block from KSU. $400 per student.

330-687-6122.

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