Sandy Scheuer was on her way to class on May 4, 1970, when she was shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen responding to protests of the Vietnam War at Kent State University. She was a junior honors student, a speech therapy major and a proud member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Outside of the classroom, she was an alumna of Boardman High School in Ohio and an active member of the local Jewish community. Now, almost 50 years later, Ms. Scheuer’s life will be the subject of a new exhibit at the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State.   On Feb. 12, the center will open its newest exhibition...

KSU professor: Road salt appears to be affecting local ecosystems Insects, fish and plant life may be negatively impacted by one of the things that keeps motorists safe during the winter - salt. Salt keeps the streets and sidewalks safe by melting ice that covers them. But Anne Jefferson, a geology professor at Kent State University says if it is too cold, the salt doesn't work.  "Below about 10 degrees Fahrenheit, it takes a lot of salt to melt only a little bit of ice," Jefferson said.  However, it isn't the ineffectiveness of salt that she finds disturbing, but the amo...

We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences are Real.  We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea and the North American Great Lakes for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don't act now.  On January 5, 2018, a paper published in the journal Science delivered a sobering message: The oxygenation of open oceans and coastal seas has been steadily declining during the past half century. The volume of ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, and the volume where oxygen levels are falling dangerously low has increased even more.  We're seeing the...

via email Ready or Not I recently read “A Weighty Concern” in Kent State Magazine [fall 2017]. After graduating, I spent 27 years in the U.S. Air Force before entering the corporate world. Over 70 percent of high school seniors today are unfit for military service because of obesity issues, a lack of overall fitness, poor education and criminal records.  I belong to Mission: Readiness (one of five organizations that make up Council for a Strong America), which represents a bipartisan group of more than 700 retired generals and admirals who advocate for early childhood education, ph...