Deadline Extended for May 4 Museum Photo Submissions
Photos from 1960s will help tell story at campus exhibit
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Kent State University has extended its deadline for photo submissions for the May 4 Visitors Center.
The university's call for photos is to highlight the cultural transitions of the 1960s by showing what "people from all walks of life looked like, what they cared about and what they did as they experienced the 1960s."
The new deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 21. Guidelines for submitting photos are available on the university website.
The photos will be displayed in Gallery I of the May 4 Visitor's Center exhibit, which is set to open in 2012. Photo submissions are reviewed weekly with the favorite photo of the week winner getting a commemorative T-shirt from the 40th anniversary of the shootings.
The May 4 Visitor's Center, which is the museum dedicated to the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year.
The museum will be located in Taylor Hall, not far from the spot where the shootings took place. It will include an interior gallery to immerse visitors in the crucial 24 minutes leading up to the shootings. The overall intent of the museum is to tell the story of the shootings contextualized in the 1960s.
Pat
7:15 pm on Monday, November 21, 2011
I wish KSU would give the residents a break and leave the riots in the past where they belong as it just makes the residents of Kent who lived through these terrible days more unhappy with Kent State.
Michael Pacifico
1:35 pm on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
History never lies in the past nor should we try to leave it there. Maybe the next time our students take to the streets to protest a a social injustice, the current governor of the state of Ohio will refrain from sending soldiers armed with deadly weapons onto our campus to kill its students.
James Thomas
11:54 am on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Mr. Pacifico,
How Freudian is "History never lies in the past nor should we try to leave it there"?
History often "lies" in the past, especially when it's re-written by the losers. (It's LYES in this usage.)
Jim Williams
7:23 am on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Given the current state of protest activities and police response on campuses, I'd say that keeping Kent State in the forefront is critical!