Cleveland Council blames old computer system for deleted Santiago e-mails (Smith) (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/05/cleveland_council_blames_old_c.html
Council President Martin J. Sweeney on Wednesday blamed a 10-year-old computer system that has been undergoing maintenance for more than a year. A full upgrade won't be completed until late summer at the earliest. Tim Smith, a Kent State University professor who teaches open-records law at Ohio Bar Association seminars, said there is no excuse for the records not to be retained.

Calif. interior designer to receive Kent State award (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3760651
Barbara Lockhart of Beverly Hills, Calif., has been selected as the recipient of Kent State University's first Interior Design Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be presented Friday as part of the KSU College of Architecture and Environmental Design's Interior Design 2008 Senior Exhibit in Cleveland.

Community college should not duplicate (Tribune Chronicle - Warren, OH)
http://www.tribunechronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/505055.html?nav=5007
U.S. Rep. Timothy J. Ryan and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut held a news conference Monday at the Chevrolet Centre to announce the next phase of bringing a community college to the Valley, the largest area in the state that does not already have one. Ending duplication is another part of Fingerhut’s plan, and that’s the part the local Implementation Committee should address. A new community college should avoid providing programs already available at the Kent State University Trumbull Campus, Youngstown State University, National College in Liberty and the area’s many technology schools and academies.

Plane involved in cocaine bust landed previously at KSU airport (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1210149133251220.xml&coll=2
A plane that police said carried $750,000 worth of cocaine into Kent State University's airport on Friday night also landed here once last month en route between two other college towns. Records show that the California-based Cessna Skylane arrived April 12 from Lawrence, Kan., home of the University of Kansas, and took off the next day for Lexington, Ky., home of the University of Kentucky.

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   Police seize 66 pounds of cocaine at airport (Stow Sentry - Stow, OH)
   http://www.stowsentry.com/news/article/3746241
   The seizure of 66 pounds of cocaine and an airplane at Kent State University Airport May 2 is one of the five largest drug busts in Summit County history,
   according to Stow Police Chief Louis Dirker. Standing next to a stack of 30 1-kilo packages during a press conference May 5, Dirker said the arrest was
   "an excellent example of several agencies working together" and predicted some of his officers will "never see anything like this again in their careers."

Lake and Kent State students collaborate (The Suburbanite - Akron, OH)
http://www.thesuburbanite.com/news/education/x1478012435/Lake-and-Kent-State-students-collaborate
Eight years ago, Jonathan Fleming, a Kent State University educator in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, moved next door to Lake Booster Ron Pulliam, the treasurer of the club. Pulliam has managed many projects undertaken that benefit students athletes at Lake. The two became friends and collaborated on projects including the Blue Streak Stadium press.

FYI Internet slang nothing to LOL at (Haas, Takayoshi) (IT Business - Scarborough, Ontario, Canada)
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=48254
Internet slang, text speak, or SMS language – call it what you will, but researchers now identify the acronym filled syntax used to communicate over new technologies as a new language type. It's separate from formal English and comes with its own common set of language features and standards, according to the study out of Kent State University.

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   Instant Messaging, A New Language? (Haas, Takayoshi) (Innovations Report - Germany)
   http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/kommunikation_medien/bericht-109302.html
   “Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” says Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State University associate professor of
   English. “IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.”

   SMS language is gr8! (Haas, Takayoshi) (IOL Technology - South Africa)
   http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?from=rss_IOLTechHome&iSectionId=2883&iArticleId=4388014
   The study was conducted by Dr Pamela Takayoshi, associate professor of English at the Kent State University in the US, along with fellow associate
   professor Dr Christina Haas and a group of graduate and undergraduate researchers.

   OMG, Frdm tchr :( on tek tok (Haas, Takayoshi) (Ellwood City Ledger - Ellwood City, PA)
   http://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19662002&BRD=2724&PAG=461&dept_id=563781&rfi=6
   In an analysis released Thursday, two Kent State associate English professors and four Kent State undergraduate researchers examined the language of
   instant messaging and found IM to be a new form of language. "Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes," said Pamela
   Takayoshi, associate professor of English at Kent State. "IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features
   and standards."

Stow police tipped about drug cargo at KSU airport (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1210062733307540.xml&coll=2
Federal agents in California tipped local authorities to an airplane that arrived Friday at Kent State University Airport with 66 pounds of cocaine worth about $750,000, police said Monday. Immigration and customs agents reported that pilot Malcolm Sales, 45, of Westminster, Calif., had filed a flight plan showing Stow as his destination, Police Chief Louis Dirker Jr. said.

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   Judge: $1 million bond for three charged in Kent State airport bust (WKYC - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88790&provider=gnews
   Police surrounded a plane at the Kent State Airport Friday night after the Cessna landed about 10 p.m., arresting two men aboard the plane and one man
   from Cleveland meeting it. Police arrested Robert Hawes, Jr. of Cleveland and two California men, pilot Malcolm Sales, and passenger Tommy Gonzalez.
   Hawes and Sales plead not guilty to charges Monday morning in Judge Lisa Coats courtroom.

   Police Say Kent Cocaine Bust One Of NE Ohio's Biggest (News Net 5 - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.newsnet5.com/news/16165590/detail.html
   There's new information about a nearly $2 million cocaine bust at Kent University Airport over the weekend. Officers said the drugs came in aboard a small
   plane, and it is being called on of the biggest drug busts in northeast Ohio with a street value of as much as $2 million, and now federal authorities are
   involved in the case, reported NewsChannel5.

   How police landed drugs at KSU Airport (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
   http://www.ohio.com/news/18679959.html
   A D.A.R.E. police officer played a key role in the arrest of three men and the seizure of 30 kilos of cocaine at the Kent State University Airport in Stow Friday
   night. The street value of the 66 pounds of cocaine could be more than $2 million, police said.

   Stow drug haul: $1 million Seizure "one of the five largest drug busts in Summit history' (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3743241
   Friday's seizure of 66 pounds of cocaine and an airplane at the Kent State University Airport is one of the five largest drug busts in Summit County history,
   according to Stow Police Chief Louis Dirker. Standing next to a stack of 300 1-kilo packages during a Monday press conference, Dirker said the arrest was
   "an excellent example of several agencies working together" and predicted some of his officers will "never see anything like this again in their careers."

College of Business is reaccredited Programs recognized once again by international organization (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3744621
Kent State University's College of Business Administration has achieved reaffirmation of accreditation of all its degree programs this spring by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The college's business programs have been accredited by AACSB since 1964. AACSB International is the oldest and largest business school accreditation with 555 accredited programs worldwide.

Healing for the healers (Adams) (The Daily Item - Sunbury, PA)
http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_127074135.html
In a study appearing in the May edition of Research on Social Work Practice, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH and his co-researchers examined psychological stress, job burnout and secondary trauma among 236 New York City social workers following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The research team for this study also included Richard E. Adams, PhD of Kent State University, and Charles R. Figley, PhD of Florida State University.

Year-end date is set for community college plan (Vindicator - Youngstown, OH)
http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/may/06/year-end-date-is-set-for-community-college-plan/
Details of how and where a community college would operate in the Mahoning Valley will be in place by the end of the year, and the first classes will be offered in fall 2009. Fingerhut said the community college plan calls for the use of facilities at YSU, the three Kent State University branch campuses in Trumbull and Columbiana counties, the high school career and technical centers in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties and Choffin Career and Technical Center in Youngstown.

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   Classes set to begin (Tribune Chronicle - Warren, OH)
   http://www.tribunechronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/504958.html?nav=5021
   Ryan and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut held a news conference Monday at the Chevrolet Centre to announce the next phase of bringing
   a community college to northeast Ohio, the largest area in the state that does not already have one. With Monday’s kickoff setting the plans into motion, the
   officials explained that they expect the first courses to be offered in the fall of 2009. Courses could be held at the Kent State branches, on the YSU campus
   or places like the Trumbull Career and Technical Center.

Speaker: Don't shame Kent State's dead (Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH)
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/05/05/ohno_kent_shoot.ART_ART_05-05-08_B3_Q2A45ML.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
The shooting deaths 38 years ago of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard need to be seen as a lesson for the United States, a former United Nations weapons inspector said yesterday.

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   The Pulpit Wouldn’t Be So Bully Without Them (New York Times - New York, NY)
   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/books/02book.html?bl&ex=1210046400&en=88dec9cf3c72289b&ei=5087%0A
   It’s true that after Richard M. Nixon gave a fierce speech announcing that American troops would strike in Cambodia, the “swift and vociferous” backlash,
   including campus protests, led to the deaths of four students at Kent State University, but surely the policy created those demonstrations not the strength of
   the speech.

   Former U.N. inspector speaks bluntly at KSU (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
   http://www.ohio.com/news/18570509.html
   The shooting deaths 38 years ago of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard need to be seen as a gift — a lesson — to the entire
   United States, a former United Nations weapons inspector said Sunday.

   May 4 commemoration ends with arrests War protesters refuse to leave bridge in Kent (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/3739251
   An anti-war march and protest in downtown Kent following Sunday's commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State
   University resulted in four arrests.

   This article also ran in: The Sudbury Star - Ontario, Canada; WYTV - Youngstown, OH; Repository - Canton, OH; American Chronicle - CA; WKBN/WYFX -
   Youngstown, OH; The Waltonian - Radnor, PA; The Morning Journal - Lorain, OH; The Ledger - Lakeland, FL; Miami Herald - Miami, FL; Art Threat - Canada;
   Bradenton Herald - Bradenton, FL; Athens Banner Herald - Athens, GA; The Times, London, England.

Police seize cocaine at Kent State airport (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/04/police_seize_cocaine_at_kent_state_airport/9174/
Three men are in custody in Ohio following major drug bust at the Kent State Airport, authorities said. WEWS-TV of Cleveland reported Sunday that the Stow Police Department was tipped off by federal authorities about an inbound private plane that was suspected of carrying drugs.

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   Stow police seize 30 packages of coke at Kent State airport (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
   http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/05/stow_police_seize_30_packages.html

   Law and Order briefs (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1209976269135100.xml&coll=2

   Police bust plane in Stow with cocaine Los Angeles cops tip off local authorities (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3737022

   Cleveland man faces federal charges after cocaine bust (WKYC - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88715&provider=gnews

   3 Men Accused Of Flying Cocaine Into Local Airport (News Net 5 - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.newsnet5.com/news/16152495/detail.html

   Police seize cocaine at Kent State airport (Moldova.org)
   http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/116634/

   Stow police will talk today about cocaine bust (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
   http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/18574104.html

   Airport Drug Bust (Fox News - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6459008&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

Don't expect more fury, experts say (Lewis) (The Gazette - Don Mills, Ontario)
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=a9480332-e583-498e-8b3a-2d3d03e83191
As the Canadiens face elimination from the National Hockey League playoffs, many are worried about another possible post-game riot in downtown streets. "Generally these don't repeat," said Jerry M. Lewis, a professor of sociology at Kent State University in Ohio, who has written a book on fan violence.

OMG, Frdm tchr :( on tek tok (Haas, Takayoshi) (Times Online - Beaver, PA)
http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/05/04/news/doc481e77ebbf4be588202603.txt
In an analysis released Thursday, two Kent State associate English professors and four Kent State undergraduate researchers examined the language of instant messaging and found IM to be a new form of language. “Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” said Pamela Takayoshi, associate professor of English at Kent State. “IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.”

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   OMG! Why is gen Y smitten by instant messaging (Haas, Takayoshi) (IBNLive - India)
   http://www.ibnlive.com/news/omg-why-is-generation-y-smitten-by-instant-messaging/64428-19.html

   SMS a language with its own rules, says study (Haas, Takayoshi) (Thaindian News - Bangkok, Thailand)
   http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci-tech/sms-a-language-with-its-own-rules-says-study_10044318.html

   Why Generation Y is smitten by Instant Messaging (Haas, Takayoshi) (New Kerala - India)
   http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=55634

   Instant messaging: a new language? (Haas, Takayoshi) (The Financial Express - New Delhi, India)
   http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Instant-messaging-a-new-language/304620/

   Instant messaging: A new language? (Haas, Takayoshi) (Rediff India Abroad - India)
   http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/may/02msg.htm

In global race, higher ed remains vital cog (Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH)
http://crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/SUB1/181361989
At Kent State and many major American universities, the realities of globalization have compelled us to launch multifaceted efforts to internationalize the education and experiences we provide for our students.

New view of Parma (Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH)
http://crainscleveland.com/article/20080505/SUB1/729986638
You can’t buy much in the way of waterfront property in Parma, which is not surprising since the city of 80,000 residents doesn’t have a big lake. But Kent State University graduate architecture students didn’t let that stop them from envisioning how a dam might create a whole new way of looking at the largely blue-collar suburb.

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   Reinventing Parma (Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH)
   http://crainscleveland.com/article/20080505/SUB1/864317245
   Several Kent State University students recently took a crack at reinventing Parma in a project for architect Patrick Hyland's class. Some of the projects are
   outlandish while others are more workable, but all put Parma into a new light for residents and city leaders.

Eagles guitarist funds KSU music scholarship (Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH)
http://crainscleveland.com/article/20080505/FREE/526409704
Kent State University has received $50,000 from Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh to fund the school’s first scholarship based on musical talent.

Sanchez sisters take politics to the stage (Byrne) (Politico - Arlington, VA)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10045.html
Sanchez, along with her sister, Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Calif.), and 11 other members of Congress have been cast in the Shakespearean take-off “A Comedy of Capitol Errors,” written by Peter Byrne. Byrne, a professor of English literature and Shakespeare at Kent State University in Ohio, was given only one caveat: Keep the skewering bipartisan.

Devo frontman to receive honorary degree at KSU (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
http://www.ohio.com/news/18570634.html
Despite financial help from his dad, a scholarship and tons of good feelings about the campus, Mark Mothersbaugh walked away from Kent State in 1973 just one quarter shy of a degree. A musician and composer, Mothersbaugh fixes that at 10 a.m. Saturday when he returns to receive an honorary degree at the university's spring commencement.

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   KSU, Hiram set graduation Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh to be among honorees (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3737292
   A former U.S. ambassador, a million-dollar university benefactor and two businessmen will impart their advice on new college graduates this spring, while
   an award-winning musician, an innovator in liquid crystals and a political scientist and administrator will receive honorary doctorates and a medal during
   commencement ceremonies at Kent State University and Hiram College this coming weekend.

'Important shift' planned for 2008 Aviation fair (Nettey) (Stow Sentry - Stow, OH)
http://www.stowsentry.com/news/article/3728172
This year's Aviation Heritage Fair will double the fun for spectators -- there will be two fly-by events instead of just the traditional one offered in the past. Dr. Isaac Richmond Nettey, academic program director of Kent State University's school of aeronautics, called the change an "important shift," stating the traditional afternoon fly-by will continue to take place, along with a new morning fly-by.

OUR VIEW: Kent State innovation Liquid crystal research spurs unique greenhouse test project in Cleveland (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3740162
Kent State University researchers are no strangers to thinking outside the box. Or, as a new project in Cleveland demonstrates, inside the greenhouse.An energy-efficient "smart" greenhouse unveiled at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens is utilizing innovative technology developed at Kent State, which has been a leader in liquid crystal research for more than a generation.

Out and About: KSU's techno-cool fashion juggernaut (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3736962
Twenty-five years of instruction and experience in garment construction and marketing at Kent State University's Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising have graduated several designers and merchandisers who have reached six-figure monetary goals and beyond.

American media on the brink (Rich Fine) (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11316500
The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry’s deep malaise. ... industry experts such as Lauren Rich Fine of Kent State University do not think that the Times is responding forcefully enough. “Now is the time to beef up its business section,” she says.

Why Generation Y is smitten by Instant Messaging (Haas, Takayoshi) (Yahoo News)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ani/20080502/r_t_ani_en/ten-why-generation-y-is-smitten-by-insta-63022d3.html
Washington, May 2 (ANI): OMG! LOL. TTYL. Well, these are some 'words', which won't make any sense to adults over the age of 30, but the newer generation of technologically savvy young adults, is pretty much thorough with them. According to Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State University associate professor of English, the grouping of letters, like OMG! (which stands for Oh! My God), LOL (which stands for Laugh Out Loud) and TTYL (which implies Talk To You Later), that are in totality called IM or Instant Messaging, is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.

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   http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Instant_messaging_A_new_language/articleshow/3004455.cms

   Times of India
   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/SMS_a_language_with_its_own_rules/articleshow/3004498.cms

   Science Daily
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080501154219.htm

   The Hindu
   http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200805021421.htm

   India News
   http://www.indiaenews.com/america/20080502/115349.htm

   Huliq
   http://www.huliq.com/58447/instant-messaging-new-language

Cleveland Fashion Week showcases Kent State graduate's new line (WKSU)
http://www.wksu.org/news/story/21999
It's not as chic as Paris or as trendy as New York, but northeast Ohio's fashion industry is starting to strut its stuff. Starting this weekend and continuing through next, models will pivot and twirl and fabric will billow and swirl at runway events for area designers. Here's a preview of Fashion Week Cleveland:

"Smart" Greenhouse Research Partnership Unveiled (Sensors Magazine)
http://specialty.sensorsmag.com/sensorsspecialty/Engineering+%26+Architecture/Smart-Greenhouse-Research-Partnership-Unveiled/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/513953?contextCategoryId=33962
CLEVELAND, OH -- Cleveland Botanical Garden and Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute officially launched a pioneering research project to explore the potential of liquid crystal technology for creating more sustainable, energy-efficient greenhouses. At an event held on Wade Oval, the Garden and the University unveiled the two greenhouses that will be used in the first phase of the project. One contains liquid crystal panels and the other, a control, has plain glass. A demonstration revealed how the panes "switch" to manage the amount of sunlight that enters the greenhouse.

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   http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=34714309

First Science Magazine
http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/agriculture/smart-greenhouse-research-partnership-unveiled_47205.html

Kent, Cleveland Botanical Garden test liquid-crystal greenhouse to see if plants grow better (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1209630810298850.xml&coll=2
The Cleveland Botanical Garden and Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute have opened up a window of opportunity - so to speak - that could make everyone from home gardeners to commercial food growers pleased.

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   Botanical Garden, Kent State collaborate on project (Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20080430/FREE/52286490
   The Cleveland Botanical Garden and Kent State University today unveiled a greenhouse that aims to control the amount of sunlight that comes in through the
   use of liquid crystal technology.

   Kent State helps Cleveland's Botanical Garden go 'green' (WKYC - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88466&provider=gnews
   The Cleveland Botanical Garden and Kent State University are working together on a pioneering research project that examines the potential of liquid
   crystal technology for creating the "greenhouse of the future."

   KSU institute swaps glass for LCD panels to cut energy use (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
   http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/18440609.html
   While the word ''greenhouse'' suggests an environmentally friendly system for nurturing young crops and flowers, the structures actually gorge on energy,
   consuming a lot of fossil fuel to keep plants warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute and the Cleveland
   Botanical Garden are eager to prove it doesn't have to be that way.

   KSU technology goes 'green' Liquid crystal research used to regulate greenhouses (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3721141
   The Cleveland Botanical Gardens and Kent State University on Wednesday unveiled a collaborative effort aimed at transforming the future of greenhouses
   and green thumbs. The use of KSU-developed liquid crystal technology to create greenhouse windows that can be made transparent or opaque using a
   simple electrical current is the "first phase of an exciting collaboration," said John West, KSU's vice president for research.

KSU faculty rejects contract extension (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
http://www.ohio.com/news/18440754.html
The Kent State University faculty union has voted down a one-year contract extension that would have included domestic partner benefits. The union voted 63 percent to 37 percent against the proposal, which also would have included a 3 percent raise and maintenance of health-care costs and benefits at current levels.

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   KSU union turns down contract Faculty negotions to begin this month (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3721111
   The faculty union at Kent State University has rejected a contract extension that would have increased faculty salaries by 3 percent, extended domestic
   partner benefits to union members and left unchanged faculty contributions to healthcare costs.

Furniture gives rise to fashion (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/18440929.html
We're used to seeing interior design take its direction from the runway. For one fashion-design project at Kent State University, though, it was the other way around. As one of their final assignments, seniors at the university's Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising created couture clothing using fabrics from HGTV star Candice Olson's furniture collection.

University of Cincinnati considers switch to semesters (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/18400914.html
A University of Cincinnati task force is recommending the university move exclusively to semesters in 2011. Most colleges and departments at the university schedule classes on the quarter system. The law and medical colleges already use the semester system, as do most universities, including Kent State University and the University of Akron.

Author talks democracy and change at lecture Williams: History at 'transformative moment' (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3721121
Journalist and author Juan Williams told a Kent State University crowd Wednesday that he was happy to be in Ohio. A self-described "refugee from the cold" campaign trail states of Iowa and New Hampshire -- "It's so cold the politicians are walking around with their hands in their own pockets," he joked -- Williams came to Kent to talk about democracy and "change."

What bedevils newspapers (Fine) (Post Intelligencer - Seattle, WA)
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/137673.asp
On a related note, Advertising Age has started a timely series on "The Newspaper Death Watch", which promisese to focus not on what ails us but what the industry's thought leaders are doing to find a remedy by developing new business models. It begins, however, by laying out the facts of the current mediascape in very brutal terms: This process is not reversible, said Lauren Rich Fine, a former Merrill Lynch newspaper analyst now serving as a practitioner in residence at Kent State University's College of Communication and Information.

Fashion Week Cleveland has something for everyone (Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH)
http://blog.cleveland.com/lifestyles/2008/04/_xxxx.html
For anyone who's ever wanted to get involved in the world of fashion, here's your chance -- Fashion Week Cleveland kicks off Friday. To that end, FWC will feature screenings of stylish movies and fashion documentaries and host lectures on fashion luminaries such as designer Christian Dior and photographer Richard Avedon, in conjunction with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kent State University, Cleveland Botanical Garden and the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Pianist wins scholarship funded by Eagles rocker Walsh (Beacon Journal - Akron, OH)
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/18368474.html
A pianist is the first recipient of Kent State University's scholarship funded by Eagles rocker Joe Walsh. The first recipient will be David Jaramillo, a pianist who traveled from Ecuador for the auditions, Kent State officials said today. University officials said earlier this month that Walsh, a former KSU student, was funding the first performance-based scholarship in the university's College of the Arts.

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   Joe Walsh scholarship awarded (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
   http://recordpub.com/news/article/3712641
   David Jaramillo, an Ecuadorian pianist, is the first recipient of a talent-based scholarship funded by Joe Walsh, a former Kent State University student and
   member of The Eagles rock band. Walsh attended KSU from 1965 to 1968. He later dropped out to join his first band, the James Gang. In a statement
   released by KSU, Walsh said "In terms of a career, I got one ... And that was a direct result of my time at Kent."

   Rocker Joe Walsh Funds Performance Scholarship (90.3 WCPN - Cleveland, OH)
   http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/news/11874/
   Mr. Walsh had charged us, as Kent State University, to figure out an audition process in order to choose a student.  And he wanted to have it start for Fall.
   First recipient of the Walsh Scholarship is new student David Jaramillo.  The Ecuadorian native impressed the judges with a piano performance of
   selections Prokofiev. And, reportedly, at no point did his feet touch the keyboard. 

Colleges try to read into costs of textbooks (Repository - Canton, OH)
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The state's public and private colleges will take short-term action while working to integrate technology to address the rising cost of textbooks. Roseanne Greavu, the bookstore manager at the Kent State-Tuscarawas campus, said, "Everybody has their own story as to why one thing will work or why not. It's not a cut-and-dry solution."

Expert says NATO mission still relevant West Point professor speaks at KSU (Record Courier - Ravenna, OH)
http://recordpub.com/news/article/3712631
With the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Soviet Union, is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization truly relevant today in the Global War on Terror? "Nothing has really replaced" the original mission of NATO, which is collective defense, according to U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steven Oluic, an expert on the Balkans who spoke on the topic this week as part of the 2008 Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies public lecture series at Kent State University.

Liquid Crystals Give Horticulture a High-Tech Boost at Cleveland Botanical Gardens (90.3 WCPN - Cleveland, OH)
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In other words, a computer controlled greenhouse capable of optimizing growing conditions, while maximizing energy savings. But in order to build a smart greenhouse – they needed a smart new technology – and researchers at Kent state had just the thing &n