Kent State President's Bonus Riles Readers

Lester Lefton was awarded a $104,000 bonus this week — on top of his $417,000 salary

Kent State Football Player Suspended for Reported Assault

C.J. Steward has been fired from his job, charged and indefinitely suspended from the Golden Flashes for allegedly assaulting a woman.

A Kent State football player has been suspended indefinitely from the team for allegedly grabbing a co-worker by the arm, pushing her into a door and damaging her TV, kentwired.com reports. Senior linebacker C.J. Steward was arrested Feb. 15 and has been charged with misdemeanor assault and property damage. The brief scuffle reportedly occurred at The Province apartments -- located at 609 S. Lincoln St. -- and Steward has been fired for his alleged connection to the incident. Refer to Kentwired.com for more on the story.

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Mars

9:34 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

Isn't college meant to educate? I guess he's getting an education in the law. Thank for playing!   more ›

Kent State Smoking Ban Topic of Public Meetings

University holding first of many public meetings today on idea of banning smoking on campus

Kent State University administrators will hold the first of several public meetings today to talk about the idea of banning smoking completely on all eight campuses. There are actually three meetings today on the Kent campus in the governance chamber in the Kent State Student Center at 10 a.m., 3 and 5:30 p.m. Kent State formed a steering committee to examine a recommendation from the Ohio Board of Regents, issued last summer, suggesting all public universities and colleges in Ohio ban the use of tobacco products on their campuses. The committee is expected to make recommendations for action based on the results of a campus survey, the public meetings and other input. A majority of Kent Patch readers think the university should ban tobacco…

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Robbery Reported Near Kent State Campus

Suspects reportedly forced way into Loop Road residence

Kent's Most Read Stories of 2012

2012 Most-Read: No. 9

Kent Patch is counting down the top 10 most read stories of 2012 with the story that had the most readers to be announced on New Year's Eve

Editor's note: In our second year reporting on Kent, Kent Patch produced 2,000 news articles — excluding events and announcements — about everything from lost pets to the city budget. But only 10 of those stories were the most read on our site after having received thousands of individual readers each. Counting down to New Year's Eve, Kent Patch will announce the top ten most-read stories of the year with the story that received the most readers announced on Dec. 31. Today we're revealing story No. 9, which originally appeared Sept. 20, 2012, and received almost 800 Facebook recommendations. The ninth most-read story of 2012 on Kent Patch broke the news that President Barack Obama was planning a re-election campaign rally on the campus of …

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UPDATE: Former Hillel Site Unlikely Location for Wells-Sherman House

Kent State has no immediate plans to swap or sell North Lincoln property

Editor's note: this story was updated at 1:54p.m. The former site of the Hillel at Kent State University on North Lincoln Street may not be the premiere alternate site for the Kent Wells Sherman House some want it to be. Jeff Ingram, director of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, suggested this week the vacant lot at 202 N. Lincoln St. would be a better fit for the historic Kent house than the space at 247 N. Water St. — next door to SRCA. Ingram made the suggestion at Wednesday's Kent City Council meeting and suggested university officials might be willing to work with the city to use the land for the Kent Wells Sherman House. Tom Euclide, Kent State’s associate vice president for Facilities Planning and Operations, said Ingram may have …

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Kent State Beats Buffalo in MAC Opener

23-7 road win good start for Kent football

Tour the Kent State Regional Academic Center (VIDEO)

We take you on a quick tour of the new campus that was officially dedicated in Twinsburg on Wednesday.

The new Kent State University Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg has been holding classes for weeks, but was officially dedicated on Wednesday. Kent State President Lester Lefton along with Twinsburg Mayor Katherine Procop cut the ribbon on the new 44,000-square-foot, $24 million two-story facility on Creekside Drive. University officials said this new academic center is a great opportunity for Kent State to offer a lower-cost education to a wider-range of Northeast Ohio students. Read more:  Kent State Celebrates New Regional Academic Center Kent State Trustees Sign Off on $146 Million in Construction Projects

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Summer 'Communiversity' Band Now Year-Round

Kent State expands traditional summer concert band to include fall, spring semester performances

Traditionally a summer-only experience, the Kent State Communiversity Band is expanding to offer the program year-round. The band, an all-ages amalgamation of students, faculty, area music teachers and high school musicians, for years has been a summer-only affair with one performance held after weeks of rehearsal. Pat Grutzmacher, the band's director and associate professor of music at Kent State University, said for some time there's been interest among the band's members and alumni to run the program year-round. "When I conducted the Communiversity band this summer, a number of the musicians came up to me and said ‘you know, if this were a year-round band I would love to play in it," she said. So Grutzmacher got permission from the Kent…

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