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7 unusual facts about Kent State University


Allison Krause

Allison Beth Krause (April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970) was an honor student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was shot and killed by the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus.

C. J. Prentiss

She holds a post-graduate certificate in Administration from Kent State University.

Don James

Don James (American football) (1932–2013), American college football head coach at Kent State University (1971–1974) and the University of Washington (1975–1992).

George Petak

George Petak (November 6, 1949) is a Republican Wisconsin politician.Born in Warren, Ohio, Petak graduated from Kent State University.

Marvin Kent

Marvin Kent's son William Stewart Kent played a key role in the establishment of Kent State University in 1910 by donating the land for the original campus.

Philip Freelon

Freelon has served as an adjunct professor at the College of Design, North Carolina State University and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard University, MIT, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Utah, the California College of the Arts, Kent State University (Florence Italy, program), Syracuse University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, among others.

SuperCamp

Presently, camps are held every summer at several college campuses throughout the United States, including Stanford University, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, UC Berkeley, Wake Forest University, Loyola University Chicago, Kent State University, University of South Florida, and Brown University.


Ed Dorn

In the early 1970s, as a visiting poet at Kent State University, Dorn, along with British poet and editor Eric Mottram, was a mentor and supporter of the musical group Devo, and its founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis.

Eric Mottram

During this period, Mottram was twice a guest lecturer at Kent State University, where, along with Black Mountain poet Ed Dorn, he was an early supporter of the musical group Devo, and its founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, whose poetry Mottram published when he was editor of the Poetry Review.

Isabel Álvarez

The event was presented by Leslie Heaphy, history professor at Kent State University of Ohio, during the Cuban Baseball Congress held on August 20 at Fordham University.

James A. Rhodes Arena

The decision to name the arena after former governor Rhodes was highly controversial as he ordered the Ohio National Guard to nearby Kent State University prior to the May 4, 1970 shootings.

Joseph Rhodes, Jr.

This Commission was established specifically to investigate two incidents in 1970 in which unarmed student protesters were shot and killed by soldiers and policemen, one at Kent State University in Ohio and a second at Jackson State University in Mississippi.

M'bwebwe

The M'bwebwe painters and poets originally met while attending Kent State University in the U.S. state of Ohio in the mid-1970s.

Ohio State University, Marion Campus

Ohio State Marion athletes compete against other colleges in Ohio and the surrounding states, such as Clark State Community College, the University of Akron's regional campus Wayne College, the Kent State University regional campuses, the University of Findlay, and OSU sister campuses in Lima, Mansfield, and Newark.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Local journalism student John Filo worked for the publication while attending nearby Kent State University and served as the Valley Daily News' correspondent of the Kent State shootings.

Sam Chauncey

Rather than the apocalyptic student riot that consumed Kent State University on May 4, 1970, Yale, under the leadership of Kingman Brewster on behalf of the faculty and Kurt Schmoke on behalf of the undergraduates, embraced and then managed the spirit of the protest.


see also

Enflo

Per Enflo, Swedish mathematician and pianist, University Professor at Kent State University.

George Edward Cheney

George E. Cheney is a Professor of Communication at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

Jim Zoet

Born in Uxbridge, Ontario, Zoet's college career consisted of playing time both in the USA for Kent State University and in Canada for Lakehead University.

Memorial Gymnasium

Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, known as Memorial Gym from 1956–92

New Philadelphia, Ohio

Daniel Johnson, Head Women's Basketball Coach at Kent State University at Tuscarawas

Norman Adler

He has had a number of distinguished students in the field, including Martha McClintock at the University of Chicago, Elizabeth Adkins-Regan at Cornell, Avery Gilbert, Jack Yanovski, Stephen Zoloth at Northeastern, Penny Bernstein at Kent State University, Joseph Anisko, Rodney Pelchat, Karen Stewart, and James Toner.

Sheila Fortson

Fortson is the cousin of former NBA power forward Danny Fortson, and the sister-in-law of former NFL and Arena League football player Jafar Williams, who now coaches at the collegiate level for Kent State University.