In 1973, American pop group Tony Orlando and Dawn scored a number one hit on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles with the song “Tie a Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree.” In 1973, the Sears Tower – now called the Willis Tower – opened in Chicago, making it the tallest building in the world at the time. In 1973, Dianne Centa walked onto the Kent State University campus to start her new job. Glenn A. Olds was Kent State president at the time. Ms. Centa, a senior library associate, recently celebrated her 45th year working at Kent State this past February. “I used to tell people I wo...

Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising is once again ranked high among the nation’s elite, according to Fashion-schools.org. For Fashion Design, the school has been rated #4 Nationally (top 3 percent of schools considered), #2 Nationally among public schools and colleges (top 3 percent of schools considered), and #1 in the Midwest. For Fashion Merchandising, the school has been rated #4 Nationally (top 3 percent of schools considered), #4 Nationally among public schools and colleges (top percent of schools considered), and #2 in the Midwest. “We are extremely pro...