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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...
Kent 360 by Dave Ruller I don’t know the history behind it but we discovered that the Wick Poetry Center on Lincoln Street has a new “pop up” bus stop in front of it. It looks like the students in the College of Architecture got inspired and worked with the construction students to put their education to good use. I’m not sure how long they plan to keep it out but I’d love to see the inspiration spread to some other locations around campus and the City. We tried to get some custom benches like that built for parts of downtown but they were priced out of our budget. Maybe thos...