Kent State Centers on Values Amid a Time of War and Divisions

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Five days into the Israel-Hamas war, a Cleveland news helicopter hovered over Kent State University’s Kent Campus. Students supporting Palestine had scheduled an afternoon march, which would be followed by Hillel’s evening vigil for Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. History rings within any mention of war-related student demonstrations at Kent State, even a half-century beyond Spring 1970. But on that recent October afternoon, each campus event was peaceful. The chopper flew home early. And so it has been, for the most part, at Kent State, while higher-profile conflicts and ...

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Knitting Beyond the Body

The exhibition began with conversations between the co-curators, KSU Museum Director Sarah J Rogers and Professor Linda Orn-McDaniel in the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. Both are hand knitters and Ohrn-McDaniel is the force behind the School’s KnitLAB which has a 10-year partnership with industry leader Stoll by Karl Mayer. KnitLAB serves as one of the few such studios in the country at a state university and is located on the first floor of Rockwell Atrium.

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