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Churches and bars alike prepare for St. Patrick’s Day Darren D’AltorioDaily Kent Stater

Holy drinking. That doesn’t sound

like an appropriate phrase. But it works,

especially for St. Patrick’s Day— a holiday that is rooted in reli-gious and cultural tradition and steeped in beer, Irish whiskey and potato hash.

As many Kent State students make their way downtown, pre-sunrise, to partake in the customary partying, Father Richard Pentello, pastor of Saint Patrick Church on North Depeyster Street, will be pre-paring for the 8:30 a.m. mass.

“I understand the excuse for people to party,” Pentello said about St. Patrick’s Day’s social appeal.

“I’m not sure if St. Patrick would approve of the celebrations. As long as people realize the roots are in the celebration of a Catholic man.”

He said society has moved toward a commercialization of many religious holidays, like Christmas and Easter, but he doesn’t think all the partying is a bad thing.

“I think it’s important to celebrate as a community or society or as indi-viduals or as a church,” Pentello said. “As long as people know why.”

He cited the Irish immigration to America as a major reason peo-ple celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with such fervor.

“Our country has a long tradi-tion of Irish-Catholics,” he said. “It’s a good time to put the spotlight on the folks of Ireland and what they brought to our country.”

Brian Bower, chef and manag-ing partner of Cajun Dave’s res-taurant, said the Irish’s cultural contributions are prominent in home-style comfort foods and great beer.

Growing up on a farm taught

Residence halls’ costs to go up 5.9 percent

Jenna Staul Daily Kent Stater

Students will pay more to live in Kent State’s residence halls next year.

The Board of Trustees voted yesterday to raise standard room and board rates by 5.49 percent for the fall semester.

The rate of a standard double residence hall room will increase by 5.9 percent, while standard dining plans will increase by 4.85 percent for the 2010-2011 academic year.

President Lester Lefton told student media leaders in January that tuition would also increase by 3.5 percent next academic year. The uni-versity’s residence halls and dining program operate on a self-sufficient basis and are not connected to tuition rates or the

university’s operating budget. The board will decide next year’s tuition later this year.

Trustee Jane Murphy Timken cited debt obligations, mainte-nance costs and rising food and utility prices as the reason for the increase.

Much of the meeting was spent discussing Kent State’s regional campus system, but the subject quickly turned to tack-ling Ohio’s low college gradua-tion rates.

Trustee Dennis Eckart said Ohio “lacks a culture of college. There’s a real aspiration gap.”

He added that Kent State’s eight-campus system makes the university uniquely qualified to take on the state’s lack of col-lege graduates, adding that the university should bring up the issue with Education Chancel-lor Eric Fingerhut and the Ohio Board of reagents.

Trustees increase room and board

Student charged inconnection with assault at fraternity

Bower, who is of German heritage, to appreciate the philosophy of hand-raising food.

“I’ve got a firm grasp on the field to the freezer,” said Bower, who used this grasp to offer some traditional Irish foods for patrons on St. Patty’s Day.

He said his restaurant is pre-paring two different egg casseroles for breakfast; one with meat and one vegetarian. Lunch offerings include a corned beef sandwich on deli rye, a corned beef Ruben and a turkey Ruben.

See HOLIDAY, Page 4

THE POLICE AND ST. PATTY’S DAYStudents will be out before sunrise for St. Patrick’s Day specials downtown, but the Kent Police Department will treat it

like any other day.Lt. Jayme Cole said the department isn’t increasing the number of officers on duty to cover today’s festivities at the bars

and restaurants downtown.“St. Patrick’s Day, for the most part, is really not much of an event enforcement-wise,” Cole said. “A few extra people

downtown on a Wednesday morning for us is no different than any Thursday or Friday or Saturday night. We don’t make a big deal out of it.”

Cole said people downtown are “generally well-behaved” on St. Patrick’s Day.— Josh Johnston

Archivists answer May 4 questionsOral history project holds 100th interview

Ryan StainbrookDaily Kent Stater

As the 40th anniversary of the tragic May 4 events approach, the 12th floor of the library has been busy with students and faculty digging through the archives, lis-tening to personal experiences and finding pieces of history.

It’s something that happened here that received great national and international history,” said Stephen Paschen, university archivist, “and it is by far our most used collection.”

The May 4 Oral History Proj-ect, administrated by Special Col-lections and Archives, recently reached a milestone by completing the 100th interview in the collec-

tion in February 2010.The Oral History Project is a

series of recorded dialogue from former and current Kent State stu-dents and faculty.

“The Oral History Project is all about letting people tell their sto-ry,” Paschen said. “There’s some-thing compelling about the way people tell stories and that can sometimes get lost in print.”

Craig Simpson, assistant pro-fessor for the library, was a major contributor to the Oral History Project and feels the collection is so popular because of how big it was to the community.

“It’s a power symbol of the generation gap at the time,” Simpson said. “Many intervie-wees (for the oral project) said that they thought Kent was the last place it would happen.”

The coverage of May 4 is by far the largest collection the university

archives has, with nearly 300 boxes full of old newspaper articles and pictures leading up to, during and after the shootings.

“There’s rarely a day that goes by where someone doesn’t have a question about it,” Paschen said. “It’s the most used collection, which means people have questions.”

May 4 has become one of the things Kent State is known for.

“Most people never heard of Kent State before that day,” Pas-chen said.

When some students, like Jenna Austen, junior justice stud-ies major, think about May 4, they think about compassion.

“It’s hard to believe it hap-pened here,” Austen said. “It’s not just a day off of class. It’s a day to remember what happened here to those who were affected by it.”

PHOTOS BY DARREN D’ALTORIO | DAILY KENT STATERA group of friends toast pints of Guinness in preparation of St. Patrick’s Day.

TESSA BARGAINNIER | DAILY KENT STATERUniversity archivist Stephen Paschen pulls police reports from the May 4 archives in the Read Processing Center on the 10th floor of the library. Paschen said Special Collections and Archives collect anything from May 4 and its aftermath. See MAY 4, Page 4

See TRUSTEES, Page 4

A sculpture of Saint Patrick decorates the walkway in front of Saint Patrick Church on North Depeyster Street in Kent. Known as the patron saint of Ireland, Patrick worked to promote christianity during the fifth century A.D.

Tr a d it i on V s . C o l l e gePARTYING

A Kent State student was charged with felonious assault in connection with an incident at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house on East Main Street early Friday morning.

Jordan T. Hall, 19, of Shaker Heights was arrested at Robinson Memorial Hospital according to the Kent Police Department Arrest Booking Report. A call regarding the assault was received by the Kent Police Department at 1:56 a.m. Friday.

A neighbor of the Phi Sigma Kappa house said at around 2:30 a.m. she observed at least two ambulances and two police cruis-ers outside 216 E. Main St. The neighbor, who asked not to be named, saw a white male in each ambulance.

The neighbor also observed a woman frantically running outside the house saying she knew one of the men who had allegedly been stabbed at the house and was being transported by an ambulance.

Lt. Jayme Cole, public infor-mation officer, and Chief James Peach, both of the Kent City Police, were not available for comment by 3 p.m. yesterday. Public Safety Director Bill Lillich said he could not discuss the inci-dent because he does not have access to the details of the case.

A Phi Sigma Kappa member

said the fraternity’s president, Scott G. Wilson, forbade all members to speak to the media about the incident. During two visits to the house from reporters of the Daily Kent Stater, Wilson was not avail-able for comment.

Three members of the Greek community, who were at neigh-boring fraternity houses during the incident, said they also saw ambu-lances and police cruisers outside the house.

Additionally, the Greek mem-bers said they observed several people exiting the house after the alleged stabbing. The members declined to further discuss the incident because their fraternities and sororities do not allow them to speak to the media.

According to the arrest booking report, Hall could not be fingerprinted because his right hand was bandaged. It also states he had injuries to his “right eye and face.”

Hall ’s bond was set at $250,000, according to court dock-ets. He will have a preliminary hearing in Judge Kevin Poland’s courtroom at the Kent branch of the Portage County Municipal Court on March 19.

—Regina Garcia Cano

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CHeers TOn Cheers to the men’s basketball team as it prepares to take on Tulsa tonight at the M.A.C. Center in the National Invitational Tournament. And cheers to the women’s team as it takes on Michigan on Friday in the Women’s NIT. We wish both teams luck and hope they represent Kent State well.

n Cheers to Complete College America, the alliance striving to boost college graduation rates in Ohio and 16 other states. It’s good to see so many states attempting to fix the problem of low graduation numbers nationwide.

n Cheers to Kent State pentathlete Diana Dumitrescu for placing eighth in last weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships. In the process, Dumitrescu earned All-American status and broke a school record for the pentathlon, another impressive feat.

Jeers TOn Jeers to the men’s basketball team for its early exit from the Mid-American Conference Tournament last week. The Flashes fought all season for the No. 1 seed, only to put up their worst performance in the biggest game of the year.

n Jeers to the two vehicle thefts on campus in the past week, boosting the number of on-campus thefts to six since November. We’d like to see campus security take some steps to make sure the thefts stop.

n Jeers to the recall of more than 400,000 Honda vehicles because of brake pedal problems, joining the recent Toyota recalls. We’d like to see car companies take more care in creating safe cars.

FOR YOUR INFORMATIONtodAY’s eventsn Colleges Against Cancer information tableWhen: 9 a.m.Where: Student Center

n Lifeshare blood drive

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n Rock the Runway ticketsWhen: 1 p.m. Where: Student Center

n St. Patrick’s dinner

When: 4:30 p.m.Where: Eastway

n USG public meeting When: 5:30 p.m. Where: Student Center Governance Chamber

n American Marketing Association meetingWhen: 5:30 p.m. Where: Business Building Room 106

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junior business management major

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“The Cavs of course. Who else would I root for, the Lakers?”

– Javonte Jackson sophomore hospitality management major

“I haven’t been keeping up; I’m not really interested in basketball.”

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SUMMARY: Seventeen states recently combined to form Complete College America, an alliance focused on increasing low U.S. college

graduation rates. We’re glad to see someone step up to fix this problem, but we’d like to see a bigger commitment from other states.

The sunshine state of Florida is the primary source of tomatoes for the United States during the winter months, and January’s prolonged cold snap destroyed the crop by as much as 70 percent in some regions of the state. The result? Some really pricey tomatoes.

Given my affection for the BLT, with the tomato consisting of 1/3 the total ingredients (not includ-ing the wheat bread and excessive amounts of sloppy Hellman’s may-onnaise), I’ve been left with eating a rather expensive sandwich a day or two each week. Well, at least more expensive than it was before. A single tomato at Acme now costs upwards of $1.35.

Since tomatoes are currently a rather scarce commodity, one would assume that most gro-cery stores would be considerate enough not to waste them. At least, this is what I was wondering. Many of the lower-budget grocery stores around the area like Save-A-Lot and ALDI are known for throwing away perfectly good vegetables. This is simply because in their corporate tendencies, restocking the shelves with the ever-occurring shipments is cheaper than keeping the unsold produce to sell.

For me, searching for furniture on the curbsides of heavily popu-lated student neighborhoods is about where I draw the line when it comes to rummaging through the trash. But last month, I got curious. Are grocery stores actually throw-ing away fresh tomatoes? And if so, can I just take them?

So I drove to ALDI over on Fishcreek Road in Stow, just so no one would recognize me. Acme is too busy with shoppers, and I live a block away from Save-A-Lot and hence, go there practically every day. So at ALDI, in the back by the loading dock, there it was. A dingy looking dumpster, sur-prisingly small considering the size of the store.

This is in no way anything to be proud of, but I hit the jackpot this particular day.

Green, red and yellow peppers. Giant heads of broccoli and lettuce. Asparagus. Alfredo sauce. All these items and more still sealed and in cellophane — perfectly fresh. I even found a dozen roses for my girlfriend. Sprawled almost every-where inside this thing were micro-wave dinners still frozen and inside the box. Even though I didn’t very much care for microwave pot pies, these would at least deter everyone in my house from eating food I actually want, so I took those, too.

And right there — in a card-board box hidden under anoth-

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On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Chris-tian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ire-land, died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland.— History.com

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DON WRIGHT’S VIEW

It’s time for a bigger commitmentMany of us entered college a few years

back full of piss and vinegar, ready to do our best to enjoy ourselves at Kent

State while still earning a degree. For some, that day of entering college isn’t as far back — just a year or two ago.

But while the day we arrived at Kent State may be different, our ultimate goal was likely the same: graduate within four years.

Unfortunately, that goal is hard to obtain for many college students. Many, because of financial or other reasons, end up dropping out of college before they ever get a chance to walk at graduation.

In fact, only about half — 51 percent, to be exact — of Ohio college students graduate within six years. And it’s not just Ohio, either. College graduation rates are low nationwide.

Low graduation rates are a shame, consid-ering the financial benefits of getting a college degree. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to get good jobs with just high school diplomas. College degrees are necessary, but a lot of students don’t even get those.

Coming to the rescue is Complete College America, an alliance of Ohio and 16 other states attempting to fix low graduation rates across the country. The alliance officially launched in March, and it will meet for the first time in May to set state goals and create reporting systems.

We’re glad to finally see an organization that is focused on such an important problem. Low graduation rates are nothing new — they’ve been a problem for years, and it seems there hasn’t been a huge movement to fix that until now.

Ohio’s involvement with the alliance goes along with Chancellor Eric Fingerhut’s plan for higher education, which he announced two years ago.

The plan’s goals include graduating more people, keeping them in Ohio after graduation and attracting more talented people to the state. And while Fingerhut says there has been prog-ress with those goals, it’s good to see help in the form of the state alliance.

But we’d also like to see more of a nationwide movement to make raising graduation rates a higher priority.

The alliance is nice, but it includes just 17 states. That’s just one-third of the country. What about the other two-thirds? We’d like to see that kind of commitment from those states because graduation rate problems aren’t lim-ited to just 17 states.

And we’d also like to see someone step in to fix some of the problems that cause most students to drop out. For example, it’d be nice if more grants and low-interest loans were available for college students. Until those problems are fixed, students will still be dropping out of college at high rates.

We’re glad to see someone stepping up to fix the problem of graduation rates. We just want to see a major commitment to fix this major problem.


David Busch

How do you define courage?

What I found in the dumpster

er cardboard box — tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes.

My assumptions were proven to be accurate. These tomatoes were still firm, and nothing on the packaging indicated a reason to be thrown out. All I noticed on these and everything else was a sell by date of whatever day I happened to be there.

The most recent USDA estimate of commercial food wasted is around 27 percent. Recent trends have seen some grocery chains like Acme and Giant Eagle willing to donate bakery and deli items past the sell-by date to food shelters and charity organizations. However, ALDI and many other supermar-kets clearly do not do this.

Throwing away food is a signifi-cant problem that needs to be given more attention. How is it that every single day in communities across America, families go hungry while fresh vegetables are being thrown to the wayside simply because it’s cost-effective? Furthermore, why should I have to pay an arm and a leg for scarce tomatoes at the store when I can just walk around back and find them in the dumpster?

But wait. This gets worse. While the USDA measured wast-ed foods at about 27 percent, this amount only includes commercial food waste — the stuff thrown away by businesses. A study con-ducted in 2004 by the University of Arizona found that 40 to 50 per-cent of edible food in the United States winds up in landfills.

Long story short, all of us, you and me, waste about $100 billion worth of food every single year.

Economically and morally, this is plainly messed up and an area of waste that few consider. Think about it. Theoretically, we could feed an entire nation the size of America just with the amount of food we throw away.

Yes. The size of America. And this is all running parallel with an obesity epidemic. God help us all.

Garrison Ebie is a senior electronic media major and columnist for the

Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected].


Elyas came over with a shot of Harak for me. I noticed he dumps his shot right into his Goldstar beer and I wondered why. “The alco-hol here is weak compared to the drinks we have back in Sudan,” he said. Perhaps it also helps with his uneasy nerves.

I slammed back my shot and chased it with the cool lager of Goldstar. Elyas grabbed a cigarette out of his pocket and brought it to his mouth. The pub had a dim light to it and his cigarette illuminated an orange glow on his dark face.

The tears that trickled down his sun beat face shattered my innocent soul as he told me about the rebels that attacked and destroyed his village or how hard it was to leave his fam-ily or hearing the guns fire at him as he crossed the Egyptian border into Israel.

I was leaning back on my futon, sipping a glass of wine this past weekend when I suddenly thought of my friend, Elyas. It was a rush of my consciousness that suddenly landed on the thought of him. It was a dichotic thought. I was enjoying a warm night, feel-ing the hope of spring while at the same time thinking of Elyas, whom has lived an unimagi-nable life compared to my own. Our last time together was watching a documentary on Dar-fur in his small apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel — his pervading smile hidden in the trenches of misery. My complaints are incomparable to his.

Perhaps it was the story my mother had told me earlier that elicited this memory. She told me about her cousin’s husband, Paul, who had escaped the Stalinistic regime of Mátyás Rákosi in Hungary with his four

brothers. They crawled through fields and hopped security fences, leaving their father and mother behind. He would eventually become a professor at Cleveland State University; but, as I remember from my youth, he was always disconnected from the past and thus was never fully able to live in the present.

And so these were the thoughts and stories ruminating through my mind as I looked up to the twinkling stars of Orion’s Belt. They were stories of great despair — leaving one’s fam-ily and homeland, experiencing violence and oppression. Stories that resided in my semantic memory, disconnected from personal experi-ence. But they were also stories of great courage — of knowing when to leave, knowing how to say good-bye and knowing who to trust.

For myself, then, what would I do in a situation like that? Would I have the courage to leave? Or would I have the courage to stay and fight? Which is more courageous, stay-ing or fighting? For Paul’s mother to tell her children to leave and never return is coura-geous love. For my friend Elyas, hopping the border as a Muslim African into Israel, the Jewish homeland that has been perpetually at war since its birth with the Muslim Middle

East, is courageous trust. How did he know he would be okay there? To have courage, do you also need to have trust and love? To have courage, do you also need to know when to put down your arms?

Life takes courage in all respects. Will you have the courage to study art because it is your passion? When you graduate, will you have the courage to seek all opportunities even if they take you away from the comforts of your fam-ily and your home? More importantly, with the desperate and, at times, overwhelming reality of this world — the social injustices on the street corners of Akron to the ideological wars of mis-understanding across the world — will we, as vivacious young students, have the courage to stand up and say this is enough? I hope so.

In an age of Hollywood films that advocate killing and big weapons, shooting ranges and Tea Baggers, courage has lost its virtuous defi-nition to the materialistic dreams of America. Courage isn’t something you hold onto like a gun in a holster. Courage is a hidden human strength outside the logic of reason. Both Elyas and Paul did not seek glory when they told their stories or even sympathy. They told these stories because it was their life. Perhaps cour-age, then, is best defined by the lives we each live, not by the glory of the gun. How do you define courage?

David Busch is a senior psychology and history major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.

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The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial

board whose members are listed to the left.

Garrison Ebie

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If you aren’t wearing green today, I hope I see you so I can pinch you.

It’s that time of year again where people pretend to honor a culture by binge drink-ing and pinching people.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.I could discuss the historical ties to

the holiday so dear to the hearts of many, but half of the campus is either “wasted” or counting down the hours until they are wasted, so I won’t bother because this print is already blurry to that portion of the population.

With so many inebriated students walk-ing around Kent today, and the sober stu-dents mad they have obligations stopping them from inebriation, I thought it would be appropriate to suggest some good luck charms that come readymade at Kent State. This way, you can keep yourself safe, as the whole country destroys itself in the name of alcohol, the color green and Irish people.

With that, I give you my unofficial guide to a lucky Saint Patrick’s Day, Kent style. Here are “me lucky charms.”

*Squirrels- Squirrels are the rodent-like guardian angels of students here. So on this Saint Patrick’s Day, why not grab one of those little guys and take them for a

walk around town? If they are cool enough to get recognized in the name of the cam-pus radio station and avoid the thousands of lunatic drivers around campus, they must be lucky, right?

*Rainbows- Everyone knows there is supposed to be something at the end of a rainbow, especially on Saint Patrick’s Day. My suggestion is to chase a rainbow some-where on campus, and you may just find good luck. The only catch is that the pot of gold may no longer be at the end of the rainbow. I’m pretty sure some administra-tive leprechauns took the students’ gold and made creepy, life-sized signs with it. And you thought those large eyesores were part of renovations. They were really part of a leprechaun heist. Shame on you. Rather, shamrock on you.

*A flash foot- Who needs a lucky rabbit’s

foot when you go to Kent State? Why not carry around a “Flash foot” instead. First, fig-ure out what a “Flash” really is. (Ladies and gents, please keep your tops on). Then, take the flash, remove one of its claws, and wear it around your neck for good luck. People may be alarmed that you are wearing the claw of a wild species around your neck. But hey, you’ve got school spirit and the luck of the Irish, so who cares?

*A leprechaun – If none of the above work out for you, I would suggest extending the invitation to President Lefton to dress like a leprechaun and walk around campus with you. I’m not sure it would be very good luck, but it would definitely scare anyone within 10 feet of you and give you terrifying memories for years to come. He might even tell you where you can find that pot of gold.

Disclaimer: There were no real squirrels, eagles or administrators actually captured and/or harmed because of this column.

Marchae Grair is a senior electronic media management major and columnist for The Daily

Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected].


“The corned beef sandwich is for people who want to taste the rye and beef together,” Bower said. “It’s simple as can be.”

Dinner is corned beef and cabbage with buttered red pota-toes – a staple meal for Irish cel-ebration.

“We’re starting the day with 50 lbs. of corned beef,” he said. “We’ll see how far it takes us.”

Irish has an aura in popular culture thanks to movies like “The Departed” and “The Boon-dock Saints” and bands like the Drop Kick Murphys and Flog-ging Molly, which have brought Ir ish heri tage to the main-stream.

Daniel DeSanto, who played the Irish assassin Crew Cut in “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,” shared his thoughts on playing an Irish character.

“If Irish people aren’t offend-ed, why should I worry,” he said. “We have so many fans of these movies. Let’s all drink and celebrate safely.”

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TrusTeesTrustees increase room and board

Although it happened nearly 40 years ago, the shootings that occurred on May 4 continue to be written about and the collection continues to grow.

“It’s a very important part of

POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of

charges filed by the police. The listings do not represent convic-tions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off cam-pus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.

CAMPUSMONDAYn Criminal mischief was reported at the Student Center

n Harassment was reported at the Math and Science Building. Tuesday n A miscellaneous drug offense was reported at Clark Hall.

The Kent State Invisible Chil-dren organization will put on a free showing of the movie “The Rough Cut” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Vineyard.

This film documents the struggles of the children from Northern Uganda who are being abducted and used as soldiers for the rebel group, The Lord’s Resistance Army.

In addition to the movie, the event will feature a special pre-sentation by Boni, a Ugandan survivor who is traveling with Invisible Children’s Legacy Tour to Kent to share his story.

“This movie showing will be important because it will help

raise awareness of the crisis in Uganda, and we’ll have the chance to meet an actual citizen who has come a long way to talk with our school,” said Kris-tin Mulcahy, an early childhood education major and event orga-nizer for Invisible Children.

The Vineyard is located at 154 N. Depeyster St. , one block from the Kent Stage.

— Mark Wayner

Invisible Children shows ‘The Rough Cut’ for free

“We might be a model for the university system in the state,” Eckart said.

A dean for each of the uni-versity’s eight branch campus-es attended yesterday’s meet-ing, which centered largely around how the university can both bolster graduation rates at the branch campuses and funnel more students to the Kent campus.

“Everyone wants a quick fix,” said Lefton regarding low graduation rates. “The real problem is a culture change.”

Each dean reported a high number of students transfer-ring out of branch campuses to other public colleges and

ing major at Kent State Stark, said he is celebrating this St. Patrick’s Day in a way he’s nev-er celebrated before.

“My family is of Scottish decent and traditional Prot-estants,” Stalvey said. “I just found out Protestants don’t wear green, they wear orange on St. Patty’s Day. So I’m wear-ing orange.”

Stalvey said he thinks today the drinking and partying take precedent over the more tradi-tional celebrations like going to church and having dinner with family. But no matter what, the day is all about appreciating relationships.

“It’s a day to spend with good friends and family, shar-ing a couple drinks and a couple laughs,” he said.

After mass is over, Pentello said he plans to embrace the spirit of the holiday.

“I take the ‘O’ from the end of my name and put up front,” he said. “It’s harmless fun.”

Contact features reporter Darren D’Altorio at ddaltor@

kent.edu.

universities rather than con-tinuing their education at Kent State.

Lefton’s presentation pro-posed the addition of new baccalaureate programs to keep students in the university system.

“If they don’t get an educa-tion with us, they don’t get it at all,” said Gregg Andrews, dean of the Kent State Tuscarawas campus. “It’s imperative that we expand the baccalaureate degrees to serve the needs of the communities we serve. “

Contact administration reporter

Jenna Staul at [email protected].

the history here,” Paschen said. “We collect anything that is relat-ed to the shootings on May 4.”

Contact information sciences reporter

Ryan Stainbrook at [email protected].


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Today’s birthday (3/17/10) This is the year for a powerful partnership. You can work well with one or more people to define a fresh logic in your work. Creative use of time is essential. Dreams offer daily guidance in the form of significant symbols or timely mes-sages. Pay attention to them!To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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The Kent State women’s bas-ketball team will play at Michi-gan on Friday in the first round of the Women’s National Invita-tional Tournament.

The Flashes (20-10) accepted a bid to the WNIT late Monday night after falling short of captur-ing the Mid-American Confer-ence’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The team lost to Tole-do last Friday in the semifinals of the MAC Tournament.

This year’s WNIT berth marks the first postseason appearance for the Kent State women’s team since 2004, when the Flashes also

played in the WNIT.Michigan (17-13) is led by

junior guard Veronica Hicks, sophomore guard/forward Car-men Reynolds and freshman guard Dayeesha Hollins, all of whom average in double figures for scoring. The Wolverines lost 61-50 to Michigan State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tour-nament on March 5.

If the Flashes beat Michigan, they would take on the winner of the game between Toledo and Pittsburgh in the second round of the WNIT.

— Doug Gulasy

Ross TiceThe long road to nationals

Based on time spent wrestling at the MAC Championship, nobody fought harder for a ticket to nationals than redshirt sophomore Ross Tice.

At 165 pounds, Tice had to wrestle everyone in his weight class to finish sec-ond place. Focused on his goal, Tice said he was unaware that he wrestled that much.

“I didn’t realize I had wrestled every-one until after the tournament,” Tice said. “I just kept wrestling and going through it.”

The battle ended in his favor, but Tice said there was a time when nationals did not seem like a possibility.

“There was one point in the season where I was losing a few matches and wasn’t wrestling well,” Tice said. “I got confidence, started wrestling better in the practice room and it all clicked.”

Tice (27-12) is wrestling Lehigh’s Bran-don Hatchett (14-8) first. The grappler said he is excited to wrestle opponents he has not seen this season.

“In the MAC, they scout and have film, and you see them and they know exactly what’s going on,” Tice said. “With this, I have no idea what they’re going to do, and they have no idea what I’m going to do.”

Tice said he is looking forward to breaking some hearts to advance in the tournament.

“I’m a little nervous, but at the same time I’m kind of confident,” Tice said. “I can just upset people and win matches.”

While he is not opposed to winning All-American, Tice said he just wants to take things one at a time.

“It’s easier going in not seeded because there’s not a target on your back,” Tice said. “Everyone’s not going out there saying ‘Hey, we’re going to go after Ross Tice.’”

Contact sports reporter Rachel Jones at [email protected].

Defense focused on stopping scoring trioCody ErbacherDaily Kent Stater

It’s not the bracket that everyone fills out in March, but the National Invitational Tournament gives the Kent State men’s basketball team its best chance to break an eight-year postseason losing streak.

And this year, the tournament brings big name schools such as North Carolina and UCONN to the bracket. In fact, the fourth-seeded Golden Flashes boast the same seed as the Huskies and the defending national champion Tar Heels.

The Flashes (23-9) return to the court today hosting fifth-seeded Tulsa (23-11) in the first round of the NIT at 7 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center. Kent State was guaranteed a spot in the tournament after winning the Mid-American Conference Regular Season Championship.

“It’s a great opportunity to go compete against a great team,” Kent State coach Geno Ford said. “I think the kids are excited about one more chance to play in our gym against a really good team and have a chance for what would, without a question, be our best win of the year.”

Working against the Kent State defense is the Golden Hurricane’s prominent offense.

Tulsa brings three players to the court recording more than14 points per game: senior guard Ben Uzoh (15.5), senior center Jerome Jordan (15.3) and junior guard Jus-tin Hurtt (14.0).

Tulsa’s offense averages 71.7 points per game compared to the 64.7 points per game they allow.

Although the ultimate goal would be to prevent any one of the three of them from taking the game into their own hands, Ford said the goal is to limit the trio.

“No one’s had much success stopping them; We’ve got to limit them,” Ford said. “The big con-cerns to me are not letting one of those guys go off and then also the rebound battle.”

Jordan, who is the teams’ seven-foot center, leads Tulsa with 8.8 boards per game, while sophomore forward leads Kent

State with 6.8 per game.The game will mark Kent

State’s 11th postseason match in the last 12 years.

“If we play well then there’s none of these teams we can’t beat,” Ford said. “We haven’t won a postseason game in eight years. We’d really like to get that monkey off our back and have a signature in March.”

Kent State enters the game after losing its first game in the Mid-

American Conference Tournament against Ohio, who went on to win the tournament. Tulsa lost to UTEP in the semifinals of the Conference USA tournament.

Contact sports reporter Cody Erbacher at [email protected].

Home game could end drought for FlashesMEN’S BASKETBALL

KENT STATE vs. TULSA (23-9, 13-3 MAC) (23-11, 10-6 C-USA)Where: The M.A.C. CenterWhen: 7 p.m. tonightRadio: WNIR 100.1 FM (Bill Needle)

THE GAME

Women’s basketball accepts WNIT bid

BASEBALLThe Kent State baseball team dropped its fifth-straight game yesterday. Find out what the players have to say at KentWired.com

GOLFThe men’s golf team traveled to Myrtle Beach for the General Hack-ler Championships.

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Five Kent State wrestlers will head to the NCAA Championships tomorrow in Omaha, Neb.Senior Danny Mitcheff, sophomore Dustin Kilgore, sophomore Brendan Barlow, sophomore Ross Tice and freshman Keith Witt will represent the Flashes.Although all five qualifiers will compete together in the Quest Center, each wrestler traveled a different path to reach this point.

Brendan BarlowOut of the shadow and onto the mat

Previously in the shadow of All-Amer-ican senior Jermail Porter, Brendan Barlow did not shine on Kent State’s wrestling team until this season.

Barlow redshirted his freshman year but said it gave him valuable experience.

“I feel pretty good about my career so far,” Barlow said. “I lost a year last year to Jermail, but I learned a lot being behind him. I don’t really have any regrets.”

The time off also helped when Barlow had heart surgery at the end of last year.

“I was born with this disorder that made my heart beat really fast when I wrestled,” he said.

Fully recovered, Barlow (30-7) has made a name for himself this year.

“I feel pretty good about this season,” he said. “I did pretty much what I thought I was going to do, and I’ve accomplished most of my goals so far.”

In his nationals debut, Barlow said his main goal is to become an All-American.

“I don’t want to focus too much on ‘the experience’ because I want to go there and do it,” Barlow said. “I don’t want to go there, get the experience and be like ‘Oh, well, I know what it’s like for next year.’”

Barlow will wrestle the pigtail match against Cornell’s Josh Arnone (19-7) just to get into the first round. The Mid-American Conference Champion was surprised by the arrangement but is ready for the challenge.

“When I saw it, I thought, ‘Really?’” Barlow said, laughing. “I wasn’t expect-ing it, but that’s OK because I’ll just go out and wrestle like I have been all year.”

Barlow said he is ready and excited for the tournament.

“This is very, very important to me,” Barlow said. “It’s what I’ve been wres-tling for my whole life.”

Danny MitcheffEnding on a good note

Senior Danny Mitcheff is making his fourth trip to the NCAA Championship tournament this weekend, but for him, the excitement has yet to wear off.

Mitcheff said the tournament is impor-tant not only to him, but to every colle-giate wrestler.

“Coming into college, everybody has high goals, and everybody wants to be a national champion,” Mitcheff said. “Nationals is the toughest tournament out there, and I want to do well there.”

At 133 pounds, Mitcheff (30-3) finished his final season with a new school record for most career wins (127) and a MAC Championship title. Mitcheff said he is proud of what he has accomplished.

“This season went really well for me,” Mitcheff said. “I know I had three losses, but it’s all right because I think I learned from them.”

Mitcheff will take what he has learned to accomplish his goal of winning a national title, which he fell short of last year, finishing runner-up.

“It could have been better, but things don’t always work out the way you plan,” he said. “I wanted to be All-American last year, but it didn’t happen. It’s all right because it helped me work harder for this year and be more prepared.”

Mitcheff, seeded sixth, will begin his tournament against Stanford’s Justin Paulsen (23-13). This will be Mitcheff’s last time wrestling for Kent State.

“I’m definitely going to miss it because I’ve been wrestling forever,” he said. “It’s definitely going to be a little emotional when it’s over, but you just have to move on with your life afterwards.”

Mitcheff said he wants to stay involved in wrestling by applying as the graduate assistant for the team next year and coach-ing in the future.

“No matter what happens, I’ve had fun here,” Mitcheff said. “It was a good career, and it’ll end on a good note.”

Dustin Kilgore Not repeating history

Boasting a record of 33-1, redshirt sophomore Dustin Kilgore is hoping to add some more tallies to his win column this weekend.

Last year, Kilgore entered the tournament seeded fifth and lost his first round. He said his desire not to repeat history will motivate him this weekend.

“I look back, and I remember how upset I was,” Kilgore said. “Last year I was more worn out and beat up. I feel a lot better this year going into the nation-al tournament without a doubt.”

Kilgore said his goal is to win a national title, but he will not be heart-broken if he falls short.

“I wouldn’t be upset with myself if I came out All-American because last year I didn’t get to,” Kilgore said. “I’d really appreciate it if I could do it this year. I’ve been working really hard.”

With that hard work and his experi-ence going last year, Kilgore said he is more confident this time around.

“You get the feel for it,” he said. “It’s a big crowd and people are expecting a lot. (After) going there (before), you kind of get used to it, know what to expect and what you’re looking for.”

Kilgore (184) will wrestle Cornell’s Steve Bosak (25-13) first. The MAC Champion said he is seeded third, which makes him happy and a little nervous.

“No matter what, it’s always going to be nerve-racking,” Kilgore said. “You could be seeded first, you could not be seeded at all, but you’re going to be just as nervous.”

Nerves aside, Kilgore said he is excit-ed to travel to the big event.

“With a big crowd, some people turn it on with the wrestling, and some people turn it off,” he said. “I’m feeling good this year, so I’m looking to turn it on and wrestle well.”

Keith WittYoung and restless

As the youngest Kent State wrestler heading to the NCAA Championships, redshirt freshman Keith Witt is taking this opportunity to gain experience.

Witt compared his current situation to when he wrestled in high school.

“I wanted to get to state my fresh-man year in high school just to experi-ence a higher competition,” Witt said. “It was important to make it (to nation-als) this year so I can experience it for years to come. It helps you later on in your career.”

Another experience that Witt said helped him this season was redshirting last year.

“I had a year to experience what col-lege is about and the different, higher competition,” Witt said. “It helped me out, and I think I’ve gotten better.”

After upsetting Ohio’s Jacob Ibson with a pin in his first match at the MAC Championships March 6-7, Witt showed he was not to be taken lightly.

“I think this season is going to help me in the seasons to come and next year,” he said. “I know that every match matters to get the rankings I want.”

The MAC runner-up said he has mixed emotions about the tournament.

“I’ve been to bigger tournaments when I was in high school, so I’ve been in situations like this before,” Witt said. “I’m not too intimidated or nervous, but we’ll see what happens when I get out there.”

At 174 pounds, Witt’s first match is against the number six seed, Oklahoma State’s Mike Benefiel (25-13).Witt said he is taking the tournament one match at a time and is hoping to make a name for himself on a national level.

“My goal was to make it to nationals, and that’s what I did,” Witt said. “Once you achieve your goal, you just want to keep moving on. You don’t want to settle for mediocrity.”

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JESSICA KANALAS | DAILY KENT STATERSophomore forward Justin Greene drives to the basket during the first half of the Mid-American Conference quarterfinal game against Ohio University.The Flashes lost 81-64 to the Bobcats.



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kent state student media

tuition rates

board rates

academic year

standard room