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ENDING THE ST I G M A S Student overcomes mental illness, creates Nightingale Project Page 8

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Alumni attempt to make it big in New York City

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Kent State’s Flashcard, post offices trade places

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Men’s basketball upsets Youngstown in season opener

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Chyenne Tatum Arts and Entertainment Reporter tudents often dream of what their future careers and ideal destinations will look like once they graduate.

For theater majors and performers, that destination is New York City.

As both musical theater and dance majors alike set their eyes on living in the Big Apple for most of their college careers, they all know there is no guarantee an automatic show or gig will appear as soon as they get to New York. It could even take years for many, but that doesn’t stop the dreamers from reaching their goals as they set out to achieve them.

“It’s been a hard experience,” said Scott Miesse, a musical theater graduate. “You have to keep your focus, even if you’re currently not doing what you want to do.”

Miesse graduated in 2015 and moved to New York only two weeks after graduation.

Since then, he toured across the nation for a children’s show called “Food Play” and has spent the last two years writing and producing an original play titled, “Abnormal.” When he’s not performing or working on his next project, Miesse serves as a waiter like many other aspiring actors and singers in New York.

Also waitressing while going on auditions is his roommate and 2016 graduate Abbey Kane, who works at Ellen’s Stardust Diner as a part of the singing waitstaff.

“You have to actively want to be here and go out to look for jobs,” Kane said. “It’s expensive, and there will be a lot of no’s, but that doesn’t mean a career in entertainment is not attainable.”

Scott Miesse dances with Maddie Drees in the 2014 Kent State production of “You Can’t Take It With You”. Photo courtsey of Scott Miesse.

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Kent State graduate Scott Miesse performs with Lauren Odioso in his self-written play “Abnormal” at the Kent State Student Theatre Festival in 2015.

Photo courtsey of Scott Miesse.

Kane auditioned for “Sweeney Todd” soon after moving to Washington Heights and booked the job.

Terri Kent, the coordinator of the School of Theatre and Dance’s musical theatre program, works very closely with her performers and helps mold their abilities.

“There’s an annual New York showcase that all senior musical theatre majors perform in,” Kent said. “We invite casting directors and hiring agents to watch, and from there, they decide who they want to represent and sign.”

There is a strong Kent State alumni connection in New York and several graduates live near each other. Kent State stresses how crucial it is to network and maintain connections if students want to thrive as Broadway performers.

Moving to a city like New York is bound to have pros and cons. One con is not having family around.

“I consider myself a family guy,” Miesse said. “My whole family is back in Cleveland, so sometimes it’s tough not being able to see them all the time, but being home for Christmas is always a priority.”

As for Kane, her sister attends a musical theater university and plans on moving to New York once she graduates.

What keeps them going after a long night of waiting tables and a day full of auditions is the surroundings that remind them of why they moved to New York in the first place.

“It’s about taking risks and setting yourself apart from others,” Kane said. “Be yourself, be quirky and take in all the magic moments around you.”

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Warren, Lacz honor military at Veterans Day ceremony Ella Abbott Fashion Reporter Veterans and active service members alike gathered alongside Kent community members Thursday morning for a Veterans Day ceremony.

The ceremony took place in the Kiva following a ceremonial raising of the flag outside.

Entering the Kiva, guests were encouraged to take small American flags and enjoy refreshments while they waited for the ceremony to begin.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Joe Paydock, a training officer for Kent Sate’s Army ROTC program, emceed the event, which began with a presentation of the colors.

Alexis Hill, a senior music major, sang the national anthem while those in attendance stood at attention to the flag.

Eric Mansfield, the executive director of university media relations and a veteran himself, began the speeches by introducing President Beverly Warren.

“If you’ve served, you find family in the people you serve with,” Mansfield said before introducing Warren.

Warren spent her time at the podium applauding veterans for their service and bravery, reminding those in attendance why ceremonies like this one exist.

“We are free because we have individuals who care and dare to serve,” Warren said.

She went on to talk about Kent State’s Army and Air Force ROTC programs and the impact of the people who are part of them.

“I also have a special place in my heart for our own Kent State Air Force and Army ROTC cadets,” Warren said. “I am also in awe of this program, that our participants in ROTC here at Kent State University have served in literally every major U.S. conflict and peace-keeping mission of the last seven decades.”

Following Warren, Kevin Lacz also gave short remarks. Lacz spoke at length Wednesday night about the importance of taking risks in a speech sponsored by Kent

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State’s Division of Student Affairs and Center for Adult and Veteran Services.

Lacz, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir “The Last Punisher” and co-star of the Academy Award-winning movie “American Sniper,” spoke about the necessity for services that help reintegrate veterans into the community after their duties end.

“Veterans were not asking to be a part of a special class,” Lacz said. “These veterans simply wanted to partake in the American dream, to live the life they’d fought and struggled for.”

Lacz also talked about the importance of ceremonies such as this that show respect and gratitude to veterans.

“Gatherings like this today show that most Americans truly love and appreciate our nation’s veterans,” he said.

A recurring theme throughout the presentation was the reminder that those who choose to serve are not the only people who are making a sacrifice for their country. Speakers also encouraged those in attendance to remember and commemorate the family and spouses of veteran, along with active service members.

At one point during the ceremony, Paydock encouraged those who have or are currently serving to stand for recognition before offering the same opportunity to any immediate family members or spouses.

“One of the toughest military jobs,” Paydock said, “is to be the spouse.”

Lacz closed his speech with praise for the men and women who serve and his continued pride at having had the opportunity to serve alongside them.

“I am proud to call myself a veteran,” Lacz said. “I am honored to stand amongst you today, tomorrow and for the rest of my life.”

Paydock concluded the ceremony by playing the branch song for each branch of the military and encouraging those who served to stand during their respective song.

Members of Kent State’s Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC programs perform a flag-raising ceremony on the Student Green at Risman Plaza during Kent State’s observance of Veterans Day. McKenna Corson / The Kent Stater

Contact Ella Abbott at dabbott9@kent.edu.

If you’ve served, you find family in the people you serve with.”

– Eric Mansfield Executive director of university media relations

Kevin Lacz explains physical risk-taking at his book signing event in the Student Center Ballroom Wednesday.

"I wanted to be better at the position than when I showed up," Lacz said, referring to his prior work ethic.

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Student Center post office, FlashCard office to switch floors Colin Baker Architecture and Construction Reporter Next year, Kent State students may be surprised to see the post office on the first floor of the Student Center, the FlashCard office on the lower level and more comfortable sitting areas for students.

Over the summer, work began to add more office space to the post office in the lower level of the Student Center to expand the LGBTQ Student Center and to add more comfortable furnishings to the lounge area across from the post office.

The FlashCard office, now on the first floor, will take the place of the post office in the lower level.

The move was well-received by employees and management of the two offices.

Lauren Stepheneson, the assistant manager of the post office, said she was excited for the move.

“I’m just happy that we will see sunlight,” Stephenson said. “They want us to be a little more in the public eye so that we can hopefully get more business.”

Gretchen Julian, the senior director of auxiliary operations and services in the Student Center, said the move was in response to student preferences for the lower level.

“The students would really like more student organization space,” Julian said.

“We started this program to reinvent the downstairs and make it a lot brighter and a lot nicer. … We took all of that survey information and (are) actually doing it.”

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Expansion to the LGBTQ Student Center was completed at the end of summer in time for the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester, adding more office spaces for students in need of the services it provides.

Ken Ditlevson, the director of the LGBTQ Student Center, said the expanded office was a necessity for the amount of traffic the center sees.

“We went from a 130 square-feet space to a 1,700 square-feet office,” Ditlevson said.

“The university thought we were a small community, that an office like this may serve a couple hundred people for a year. … In actuality, we had over 5,000 contacts last year.”

However, Ditlevson said he wishes more visibility would be given to the lower level of the Student Center.

“A lot of the people I talked to didn’t even know there was a post office down here,” Ditlevson said. “There used to be some signage on the walls, but they painted over them over the summer. … I don’t know if they will be painting them, but it would be nice for a little sign (and) maybe a little rainbow flag.”

In addition to the expansion of both offices, group study rooms similar to the ones found on the second floor of the University Library and in the Integrated Sciences Building will be added to the lower level. Recreational equipment, such as pool tables and board games, will stay put.

Julian said she hopes the additions to the Student Center will begin by summer next year.

Contact Colin Baker at cbaker72@kent.edu.

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Army ROTC cadets practice on campus, locally in preparation for summer training Kathryn Monsewicz Military and Veterans Reporter The Golden Eagle Battalion of Kent State’s Army ROTC put their knowledge of military tactical training to the test Friday, Nov. 3 and Saturday, Nov. 4 to get ready for Cadet Summer Training.

Every semester, the Youngstown State University and Kent State battalions come together to take on obstacles, missions, battle drills and other military techniques as practice to further their training.

Field Training Exercise, or FTX, in the fall is the first step out of three to reaching Cadet Summer Training in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Cadet Summer Training determines whether the cadet will become commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.

“It’s kind of like a ‘crawl, walk, run,’ we like to call it,” said Robert Stephenson, a junior business management major and a cadet.

The first step is at the squad level. The

Cadet Alexus Kellow. Courtesy of Joe Paddock

next two, spring semester and summer training, are at the platoon level, Stephenson said. Cadets build onto their training and leadership skills in this order.

“FTX exposes cadets to actual tactical Army experiences,” Lt. Col. David Simms said. “We use basic tactics to evaluate leadership capability and skills in the cadets.”

Avery Millis, a senior criminology and justice studies major and a cadet, planned this fall’s FTX along with guidance from cadre like Simms. Millis oversees all operations for Kent State and Youngstown Army ROTC cadets. The planning stages involved using Cadet Summer Training as an example and manipulating the obstacles tested there to fit into FTX. Of the 80 cadets who participated, squads formed with nine people per squad. One was the squad leader, two played the team leaders and the remaining cadets filled out the team.

“There is a process called Troop Leading Procedures,” Millis said. “We train them going step by step how to plan, prepare and execute for any mission that they are given.”

Cadets practiced formations in the Commons Friday. Starting at 4 a.m.

Saturday, cadets were off to Camp Ravenna to put their training to the test in a much less discernible terrain.

“As soon as the big orange ball was breaking the horizon, they were stepping off and executing missions,” Simms said.

Millis helped brief junior cadets about tactical missions. The cadets then had to create a plan to carry out that mission, brief their own squad and execute it with them.

Afterward, the squad and their leader were reviewed for what they did well and what they could do better.

Cadets carried paintball guns with them during the missions to shoot at challenging opponents. Missions included reconnaissance, attack, defense and ambushes.

Stephenson led his squad of cadets during FTX in a defensive position. He developed his leadership abilities by discussion, listening to his squad of cadets and keeping an open mind. Stephenson said as a learning environment, FTX is void of stressful grading, and it is an analysis of the cadet’s leadership in teamwork.

“It was a little bit challenging at times, but everyone is learning,” he said. “You’re there to make other people better."

Kayla Chmiel, a junior computer science major and a cadet, was also a squad leader. She used what she learned

A team of cadets practices at Camp Ravenna Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. Courtesy of Kelsey Merritt

from a previous attack and defense situation to aid her.

Chmiel participated in FTX before, but this time was unique.

“This time I had a good understanding of what we were supposed to do," Chmiel said.

"I learned why people told me what to do when I was a follower. I felt more confident as a squad leader.”

Chmiel said FTX was a learning opportunity and chance to better her leadership ability.

“It’s definitely good to have good leadership — someone who is willing to take into account what other people in your squad think,” she said. “It’s good to be able to test how you react under a more stressful situation.”

Alexus Kellow had an unusual experience as a freshman cadet. The exploratory major was appointed team leader after her squad and team leaders were “shot” in an attack.

“I really didn’t know too much,” Kellow said. “I watched my squad leader and other team leaders, and they really knew what they were doing. I had to use what

I saw throughout the day and base (the attack) off that.”

The training may have been more stressful for some, and others may have been more tactically proficient, Millis said.

“If one squad leader is struggling a little bit, this is a very good eye-opening opportunity for them because now they know, after this weekend, what they have to work on,” he said.

FTX in the fall is more of an evaluation of the training both for participants and how it was planned. It allows the battalion to discover what techniques need more work so they may address those in the spring.

The spring FTX will be a joint training exercise with battalions from the University of Akron and John Carroll University.

Simms said it offers a new level of complexity of peer leadership, along with unique personalities.

Army ROTC cadets from all over the country will be participating in Cadet Summer Training.

Contact Kathryn Monsewicz at kmonsewi@kent.edu.

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REVIEW: Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ operates as a catchy Burn Book Benjamin VanHoose Entertainment Reviewer Can anyone confirm whether “overdramatic” was Taylor Swift’s alternate title for this album?

Her follow-up to 2014’s “1989,” “reputation” is a collection of revenge tracks in which Swift pulls receipts on everyone from Kanye West to Tom Hiddleston, proving she will stop at nothing to get her musical revenge.

Over the course of 15 songs, Swift masks her bitterness under a coat of radio-ready hooks that almost cause listeners to forget she’s singing about pop culture headlines and petty feuds.

Making it clear old Taylor is in the past, new Taylor reveals her mission during “Look What You Made Me Do,” the first single released from the album, confessing that forgiving and forgetting simply isn’t in her wheelhouse. “The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama/But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma,” she practically yells over the loud production.

And the rest of the tracks don’t disappoint in the teaspilling department. With “I Did Something Bad,” Swift takes stabs at former boyfriends Hiddleston and Calvin Harris, singing, “I never trust a playboy, but they love me.”

Grievances to the phone call controversy with Kanye and Kim Kardashian West are aired during “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”

“Friends don’t try to trick you/Get you on the phone and mind-twist you,” she sings, soon laughing off the idea of forgiveness later in the track.

Drama aside, “reputation” is an entertaining album packing another crop of the catchy songs fans have come to expect from 2016’s highest-paid artist. Entries like “Don’t Blame Me” and “Call It What You Want” are familiar, while “Delicate” and “Dancing With Our Hands Tied” offerings provide a new sound for the singer/ songwriter.

In the heated debate of which genre T-Swift outshines the other (pop Taylor > country Taylor, definitely), new Taylor falls somewhere in between, veering further from her country roots and leaning too heavily into her celebrity problems to connect with even the poppiest pop fans.

The callouts make for laugh-out-loud moments, fueling a fire that will likely result in enjoyable clapbacks from Kanye in a few weeks, but most of the songs become hollow in the tabloid timeliness.

And for the portion of the internet sick of Swift’s tendency to play the victim, look no further than “reputation” for evidence to support your annoyances.

“My reputation has never been worse,” she repeats throughout “Delicate.”

Swift aptly positions “...Ready For It?” as the album opener, bracing listeners for the shots about to be fired, and on the Ed Sheeran and Future-assisted “End Game,” Swift raps (yes, raps) about her “big reputation,” claiming, “I swear I don’t love the drama, it loves me.”

Sure, Taylor, we believe you.

Grade: B Contact Benjamin VanHoose at bvanhoos@kent.edu.

“Drama aside, ‘reputation’

is an entertaining album packing another crop of the catchy songs fans have come to expect from 2016’s highest-paid artist.”

– Benjamin VanHoose

Album cover courtesy of Mert & Marcus

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Student battles mental illness, inspires others Kelsey Meszaros Student Affairs Reporter “I remember one day I hadn’t eaten, and my friend brought in homemade fluffy oreos,” Nina Schubert said.

“Nina, you’re not going to eat one?” her friend asked.

“No, I’ll eat one,” Nina replied.

And so she did.

“Not even two minutes after eating it, I excused myself to the bathroom and purged it,” she said.

By the age of 15, Nina, who is now a freshman early childhood education major, became very skilled at hiding her illnesses from the world. That year she was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bulimia, which caused her to develop bradycardia, a condition in which an adult’s heart rate drops below 60 beats per minute and can lead to heart attacks and other issues. During high school, she was in and out of treatment centers after she began having suicidal thoughts and turned to self-harm. She feared the thought of telling someone that she was suffering.

Upon being accepted to Kent State, Nina’s mentality changed completely and acted as a turning point in her life.

The change in mentality was one of the motivating factors behind Nina creating the Nightingale Project this semester, an on-campus student group aimed to end the stigmas around mental illness.

Nina first experienced signs of bulimia at 13, but at just 10 years old, Nina started comparing her body to others. Constantly looking in the mirror, she tried to understand why she wasn’t skinnier.

Nina’s mom, Jane Schubert, saw Nina change from a healthy girl to someone miserable and sick.

“When she was in middle school, she was bullied a lot, which could have impacted it,” Jane said. “You have the peer pressure of friends. You want your body to look like a celebrity, and you’re still not happy with it.”

How it began

Nina Schubert pets her emotional support service dog in the Student Center Tuesday.

Carter Adams / The Kent Stater On the cover: Nina Schubert, a freshman early childhood education major, poses for a portrait in the Student Center Tuesday. Schubert is the founder of Nightengale Project, a student organization with the goal of helping students learn “how to live the best life for them.” Carter Adams / The Kent Stater

Nina was born in Vladivostok, Russia. At just 10 months old, Jane and Michael Schubert adopted her and brought her back to their home in Mentor, Ohio, where Nina also gained an older sister, Haley.

The Schubert family was happy and closeknit. Nina adored her family, and her family adored her back.

But at 9 years old, Nina’s father lost his battle to liver cancer. His death dealt a powerful blow to Nina, who thought the world of her dad. Memories the two shared linger with her forever.

“My dad and I were in the kitchen and he was making his meat sauce and pasta,” Nina said. “I loved watching him cook. We had the radio playing in the house, and so while the meat was cooking, I put my feet on his and we danced around. That was an amazing time that I’ll never forget.”

After her dad passed, Nina found it impossible to handle all her emotions.

“I just put up a wall because I was 9,” Nina said. “I didn’t know how to deal with death, and I didn’t really understand what was going on. I understood my dad had passed away, but I didn't really focus on how sick he was.”

As she got older, Nina realized blocking those memories painful to her at such a young age triggered the start of her depression.

“No one really knew what was going on, and I didn’t really want to admit to myself what was going on,” she said. “I told myself, ‘Nothing is wrong, I’m fine, people have it worse than me. I’m not sick enough; I can’t have an eating disorder.’ That's what I would tell myself every time. Part of me was kind of like, ‘Maybe you do have a problem.’”

The thought of telling anyone about what was going on in her head terrified her, but after encouragement from her friends, Nina started seeing the school psychologist at Hawken School for her depression when she was in eighth grade.

However, Nina hid her growing problems from the therapist. She adopted a phrase to escape therapy: “Fake it till you make it.”

“I didn’t want to get better, if that makes any sense,” she said. “I was at a place where I was like, ‘This isn’t serious enough.’”

Although pretending nothing was wrong worked for a bit, her life came crashing down.

“Since I wasn’t getting the help I needed and I was keeping it all to myself, it was just building up over time,” Nina said. “So when the end of ninth grade came, that was when my eating disorder was really in full swing.”

Nina’s behaviors started to get more serious as time went on.

“I was fainting at school, I was purging every day, I was self-harming if I did eat,” Nina said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention body mass index percentile calculator, Nina was in the 35th percentile for girls’ weight at age 15 at 5 feet 6 inches and 117 pounds. This ultimately means Nina weighed more than only 35 percent of girls her age.

Nina’s poor health finally peaked to the point where it was fully visible. Nina’s best friend at the time, Bailey Hagedorn, noticed Nina’s eating disorder she desperately tried to hide.

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I felt like I had this control, when in reality, it was the disorder’s control.”

– Nina Schubert Freshman early childhood education major

“We both worked at a summer camp and I remember she had this app on her phone that tracks what you eat, how much you exercise, your calories and stuff like that,” Hagedorn said. “I remember at that age being like, ‘I didn’t know people my age did that,’ and then I noticed that most kids my age didn’t do that.”

Nina’s self-destruction got to the point where she struggled to make it up the stairs at school. Nina’s bradycardia was the ultimate source of her dizziness, but it also put her at risk for heart failure and cardiac arrest.

“I felt like I had this control, when in reality, it was the disorder’s control,” Nina said.

In early October 2014, Hagedorn decided she couldn’t watch Nina suffer any longer.

Hagedorn pulled her aside in the hallway at school and gave her an ultimatum: either Nina tells an adult or she would.

“All I cared about was making that number on the scale smaller and smaller,” Nina said. “All my behaviors were revolved around this need to be skinnier and this need to be perfect.”

Hagedorn's ultimatum made Nina realize she needed to tell somebody before things got worse.

“Her giving me that ultimatum probably saved my life,” Nina said.

A journey toward treatment

Nina went to the only teacher at school she trusted. She danced around her issues, but her teacher knew immediately Nina was suffering.

Hawken’s principal and school psychologist became involved and forced Nina to tell her mother about her issues. “(Her sister and) I were pretty upset about it, and we just immediately determined where we could go to find somebody who could help her,” Jane said. “I was surprised that I

wasn’t aware of it before she told me because I’m pretty in tune with what she’s doing. She would come home from school and go in her room and close her door, (so) sometimes it was hard to know what she was doing.”

During family dinners and holiday gatherings when sneaking away was not as easy, Nina developed new methods to thwart watching eyes.

“Over the years, I would either restrict or overeat and then purge,” Nina said.

Nina and her mom set off to the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders where Nina was diagnosed and admitted into the Emily Program, a facility that helps those with eating disorders rebuild their relationship with food.

At age 15, Nina left high school to start this intensive program five days a week to treat her eating disorder. Her mother sat with her through the treatments every day.

“The first day was a mess,” Nina said.

“I got there and, terrified, go into this room where all these people are who have been there for awhile.”

During this program, Nina was on “supervision,” meaning she was banned from privacy. She had to eat meals with her mom and was not allowed to use the bathroom or shower without someone there.

Despite the program’s rigidity, Nina made friends at the program, including a 14-yearold girl named Cely Ayala. Together, they went through group therapy sessions and encouraged each other to finish their meals. “(When Nina) first came to the program, she was really closed off and didn’t like talking about herself,” Ayala said.

“Eventually, the more we got comfortable with each other, me and a couple other girls

would tell her that she can trust us."

Nina’s treatment time eventually decreased to where she returned to school four and a half months later. Nina’s life was finally getting back on track until she had to get corrective jaw surgery one year after starting treatment.

Her doctors instructed her to gain weight before the surgery due to the imminent weight loss following the surgery when her jaw would be wired shut for one month of recovery. Her liquid diet resulted in the expected weight loss.

“I had lost a good amount of weight, which kind of led to not an intense relapse, but a relapse. I had lost weight, which fed the eating disorder voice,” Nina said.

She decided to return to treatment, but because she was being watched for self-harm and purging, she felt the need to rebel. Nina turned to alcohol.

“I was home alone one night and I kind of stopped caring and, in a sense, really selfharmed with alcohol that night," Nina said.

"When I saw the consequences, I was like, ‘I need to stop doing this.'"

After that night, Nina knew she had to change her behavior if she wanted to move forward and recover.

“I was leading myself down a destructivebehavior path again, and the big change was getting my college acceptance letter from Kent,” Nina said.

That was when she knew she needed to take her recovery more seriously. In November, during her senior year of high school, Nina took another month off school to go to Timberline Knolls, a residential treatment facility outside of Chicago.

“I went into treatment wanting to do it for myself, and that’s why I think I went through the program probably quicker than others,” Nina said. “I really focused during that month, and I focused how to properly take care of myself.”

Life in college

Going to college was Nina’s greatest test. She went from constant supervision and support to independence and personal responsibility.

“The end of high school and first couple weeks of college definitely tested me because there are parties (and) alcohol, but honestly, now looking at it, I’ve gotten this far with it; why would I throw that away?” Nina said.

However, Nina is not alone while she is away at college. Her service dog, Aimee, an 11-year-old beagle-Labrador mix, lives with her in her Tri-Towers dorm for emotional support.

“I not only take care of myself, but I have to take care of something else,” Nina said. “I have to get out of bed in the morning and get out the door; who is going to take care of her if I don’t?”

Aimee sleeps at her feet during class and comforts Nina by nudging her with her nose when she notices her heightened anxiety.

Contact Kelsey Meszaros at kmeszar1@kent.edu.

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Nina Schubert poses for a portrait Tuesday. Carter Adams / The Kent Stater

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Student battles mental illness, inspires others Kelsey Meszaros Student Affairs Reporter “I remember one day I hadn’t eaten, and my friend brought in homemade fluffy oreos,” Nina Schubert said.

“Nina, you’re not going to eat one?” her friend asked.

“No, I’ll eat one,” Nina replied.

And so she did.

“Not even two minutes after eating it, I excused myself to the bathroom and purged it,” she said.

By the age of 15, Nina, who is now a freshman early childhood education major, became very skilled at hiding her illnesses from the world. That year she was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bulimia, which caused her to develop bradycardia, a condition in which an adult’s heart rate drops below 60 beats per minute and can lead to heart attacks and other issues. During high school, she was in and out of treatment centers after she began having suicidal thoughts and turned to self-harm. She feared the thought of telling someone that she was suffering.

Upon being accepted to Kent State, Nina’s mentality changed completely and acted as a turning point in her life.

The change in mentality was one of the motivating factors behind Nina creating the Nightingale Project this semester, an on-campus student group aimed to end the stigmas around mental illness.

Nina first experienced signs of bulimia at 13, but at just 10 years old, Nina started comparing her body to others. Constantly looking in the mirror, she tried to understand why she wasn’t skinnier.

Nina’s mom, Jane Schubert, saw Nina change from a healthy girl to someone miserable and sick.

“When she was in middle school, she was bullied a lot, which could have impacted it,” Jane said. “You have the peer pressure of friends. You want your body to look like a celebrity, and you’re still not happy with it.”

How it began

Nina Schubert pets her emotional support service dog in the Student Center Tuesday.

Carter Adams / The Kent Stater On the cover: Nina Schubert, a freshman early childhood education major, poses for a portrait in the Student Center Tuesday. Schubert is the founder of Nightengale Project, a student organization with the goal of helping students learn “how to live the best life for them.” Carter Adams / The Kent Stater

Nina was born in Vladivostok, Russia. At just 10 months old, Jane and Michael Schubert adopted her and brought her back to their home in Mentor, Ohio, where Nina also gained an older sister, Haley.

The Schubert family was happy and closeknit. Nina adored her family, and her family adored her back.

But at 9 years old, Nina’s father lost his battle to liver cancer. His death dealt a powerful blow to Nina, who thought the world of her dad. Memories the two shared linger with her forever.

“My dad and I were in the kitchen and he was making his meat sauce and pasta,” Nina said. “I loved watching him cook. We had the radio playing in the house, and so while the meat was cooking, I put my feet on his and we danced around. That was an amazing time that I’ll never forget.”

After her dad passed, Nina found it impossible to handle all her emotions.

“I just put up a wall because I was 9,” Nina said. “I didn’t know how to deal with death, and I didn’t really understand what was going on. I understood my dad had passed away, but I didn't really focus on how sick he was.”

As she got older, Nina realized blocking those memories painful to her at such a young age triggered the start of her depression.

“No one really knew what was going on, and I didn’t really want to admit to myself what was going on,” she said. “I told myself, ‘Nothing is wrong, I’m fine, people have it worse than me. I’m not sick enough; I can’t have an eating disorder.’ That's what I would tell myself every time. Part of me was kind of like, ‘Maybe you do have a problem.’”

The thought of telling anyone about what was going on in her head terrified her, but after encouragement from her friends, Nina started seeing the school psychologist at Hawken School for her depression when she was in eighth grade.

However, Nina hid her growing problems from the therapist. She adopted a phrase to escape therapy: “Fake it till you make it.”

“I didn’t want to get better, if that makes any sense,” she said. “I was at a place where I was like, ‘This isn’t serious enough.’”

Although pretending nothing was wrong worked for a bit, her life came crashing down.

“Since I wasn’t getting the help I needed and I was keeping it all to myself, it was just building up over time,” Nina said. “So when the end of ninth grade came, that was when my eating disorder was really in full swing.”

Nina’s behaviors started to get more serious as time went on.

“I was fainting at school, I was purging every day, I was self-harming if I did eat,” Nina said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention body mass index percentile calculator, Nina was in the 35th percentile for girls’ weight at age 15 at 5 feet 6 inches and 117 pounds. This ultimately means Nina weighed more than only 35 percent of girls her age.

Nina’s poor health finally peaked to the point where it was fully visible. Nina’s best friend at the time, Bailey Hagedorn, noticed Nina’s eating disorder she desperately tried to hide.

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I felt like I had this control, when in reality, it was the disorder’s control.”

– Nina Schubert Freshman early childhood education major

“We both worked at a summer camp and I remember she had this app on her phone that tracks what you eat, how much you exercise, your calories and stuff like that,” Hagedorn said. “I remember at that age being like, ‘I didn’t know people my age did that,’ and then I noticed that most kids my age didn’t do that.”

Nina’s self-destruction got to the point where she struggled to make it up the stairs at school. Nina’s bradycardia was the ultimate source of her dizziness, but it also put her at risk for heart failure and cardiac arrest.

“I felt like I had this control, when in reality, it was the disorder’s control,” Nina said.

In early October 2014, Hagedorn decided she couldn’t watch Nina suffer any longer.

Hagedorn pulled her aside in the hallway at school and gave her an ultimatum: either Nina tells an adult or she would.

“All I cared about was making that number on the scale smaller and smaller,” Nina said. “All my behaviors were revolved around this need to be skinnier and this need to be perfect.”

Hagedorn's ultimatum made Nina realize she needed to tell somebody before things got worse.

“Her giving me that ultimatum probably saved my life,” Nina said.

A journey toward treatment

Nina went to the only teacher at school she trusted. She danced around her issues, but her teacher knew immediately Nina was suffering.

Hawken’s principal and school psychologist became involved and forced Nina to tell her mother about her issues. “(Her sister and) I were pretty upset about it, and we just immediately determined where we could go to find somebody who could help her,” Jane said. “I was surprised that I

wasn’t aware of it before she told me because I’m pretty in tune with what she’s doing. She would come home from school and go in her room and close her door, (so) sometimes it was hard to know what she was doing.”

During family dinners and holiday gatherings when sneaking away was not as easy, Nina developed new methods to thwart watching eyes.

“Over the years, I would either restrict or overeat and then purge,” Nina said.

Nina and her mom set off to the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders where Nina was diagnosed and admitted into the Emily Program, a facility that helps those with eating disorders rebuild their relationship with food.

At age 15, Nina left high school to start this intensive program five days a week to treat her eating disorder. Her mother sat with her through the treatments every day.

“The first day was a mess,” Nina said.

“I got there and, terrified, go into this room where all these people are who have been there for awhile.”

During this program, Nina was on “supervision,” meaning she was banned from privacy. She had to eat meals with her mom and was not allowed to use the bathroom or shower without someone there.

Despite the program’s rigidity, Nina made friends at the program, including a 14-yearold girl named Cely Ayala. Together, they went through group therapy sessions and encouraged each other to finish their meals. “(When Nina) first came to the program, she was really closed off and didn’t like talking about herself,” Ayala said.

“Eventually, the more we got comfortable with each other, me and a couple other girls

would tell her that she can trust us."

Nina’s treatment time eventually decreased to where she returned to school four and a half months later. Nina’s life was finally getting back on track until she had to get corrective jaw surgery one year after starting treatment.

Her doctors instructed her to gain weight before the surgery due to the imminent weight loss following the surgery when her jaw would be wired shut for one month of recovery. Her liquid diet resulted in the expected weight loss.

“I had lost a good amount of weight, which kind of led to not an intense relapse, but a relapse. I had lost weight, which fed the eating disorder voice,” Nina said.

She decided to return to treatment, but because she was being watched for self-harm and purging, she felt the need to rebel. Nina turned to alcohol.

“I was home alone one night and I kind of stopped caring and, in a sense, really selfharmed with alcohol that night," Nina said.

"When I saw the consequences, I was like, ‘I need to stop doing this.'"

After that night, Nina knew she had to change her behavior if she wanted to move forward and recover.

“I was leading myself down a destructivebehavior path again, and the big change was getting my college acceptance letter from Kent,” Nina said.

That was when she knew she needed to take her recovery more seriously. In November, during her senior year of high school, Nina took another month off school to go to Timberline Knolls, a residential treatment facility outside of Chicago.

“I went into treatment wanting to do it for myself, and that’s why I think I went through the program probably quicker than others,” Nina said. “I really focused during that month, and I focused how to properly take care of myself.”

Life in college

Going to college was Nina’s greatest test. She went from constant supervision and support to independence and personal responsibility.

“The end of high school and first couple weeks of college definitely tested me because there are parties (and) alcohol, but honestly, now looking at it, I’ve gotten this far with it; why would I throw that away?” Nina said.

However, Nina is not alone while she is away at college. Her service dog, Aimee, an 11-year-old beagle-Labrador mix, lives with her in her Tri-Towers dorm for emotional support.

“I not only take care of myself, but I have to take care of something else,” Nina said. “I have to get out of bed in the morning and get out the door; who is going to take care of her if I don’t?”

Aimee sleeps at her feet during class and comforts Nina by nudging her with her nose when she notices her heightened anxiety.

Contact Kelsey Meszaros at kmeszar1@kent.edu.

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Nina Schubert poses for a portrait Tuesday. Carter Adams / The Kent Stater

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SPORTS

Men’s basketball crushes Youngstown State in season opener with huge second half

Adonis De La Rosa dunks during Kent State's season opener against Youngstown State Saturday. De La Rosa scored 20 points on 9-10 shooting in 13 minutes. Nathaniel Bailey / The Kent Stater

Cameron Hoover Sports Reporter Despite winning the Mid-American Conference last season, the Kent State men’s basketball team faced questions from skeptics heading into its season opener against Youngstown State.

Would Jaylin Walker continue his scoring run from the end of last season? How would Adonis De La Rosa step into the role of the recently graduated Jimmy Hall? And would the team be able to produce enough offense without the three-time All-Mid-American Conference selection?

Walker, De La Rosa and the Flashes emphatically answered all of those questions with a 111-78 victory over the Penguins Saturday at the University of Akron’s James A. Rhodes Arena.

Kent State (1-0) only led by five points heading into halftime after struggling against the Penguins’ full-court press, but the offense started to click in the second half.

The Flashes scored 65 points in the half on 68.4 percent (26-38) shooting without making a three-pointer.

Kent State’s second half led to some eyepopping statistics: The Flashes’ bench scored 35 points in the half, two less than Youngstown State’s entire team. Kent State scored 48 points in the paint; Youngstown State had 40 such points the whole game.

The Flashes scored on 80.5 percent of their second-half possessions, good for 1.6 points per possession.

The lopsided numbers weren’t limited to one side of the ball; coach Rob Senderoff was quick to point out his team’s defensive performance in the second half. The Flashes caused 12 turnovers in the period and outrebounded the Penguins, 27-12.

“It was a really good team win,” Senderoff said. “Defensively, in the second half, we were really, really on point. We started to share the ball and get the ball out in transition. Obviously, we scored a lot of points in the second half. It’s great to see — a great start to the year.”

Walker picked up right where he left off from last season, scoring 20 points on 6-12 shooting, including 7-9 from the foul line. He also had five assists and two steals.

Jaylin Walker goes up for a dunk during Kent State's season opener against Youngstown State Saturday.

Walker was fouled on the play on his way to a 20-point night. Nathaniel Bailey / The Kent Stater

“It’s a bigger role for me this year with Jimmy Hall and (Deon Edwin) out,” Walker said.

“I’ve got to step up and so do other guys. It feels really good to be on the same page as everyone else (offensively). That’s how we’ve got to keep it going for the rest of the season.”

Many of the worries about the front court were put to rest by an efficient performance from De La Rosa. The 7-foot center scored 20 points on 9-10 shooting, pulled down eight rebounds and blocked a shot in 13 minutes.

“He’s a big presence inside,” Senderoff said of De La Rosa. “When he finishes like he did tonight and rebounds the way he did tonight, he’s tough to defend. I wish he could’ve stayed in the game even longer, but that’s something we’ll work with him on: his conditioning. But 9-10 (shooting) with eight rebounds — what can you say, other than that he was great?”

De La Rosa embraced the challenge of following in the footsteps of one of the program’s all-time greats in Hall.

“It feels great knowing the last guy that was in my position was a three-time AllMAC player,” De La Rosa said. “I know they’re big shoes to fill. I know I have a chip on my shoulder. I know I have to perform at

a high level so we can be successful.”

Freshman BJ Duling was held scoreless in his first regular season game at Kent State, but Senderoff focused on some of the positives he showed.

“He had seven rebounds, six defensive rebounds,” Senderoff said. “That was a big thing we challenged him to do: defensive rebounding. He’ll have better days, and that’s fine. It’s our first game. We had a lot of other guys step up. It’s a team game. There will be another night where he plays well when someone else isn’t playing as well.”

Jalen Avery chipped in with 14 points, eight rebounds and five assists for the Flashes. Danny Pippen added 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks while Desmond Ridenour had 12 points on 5-6 shooting. Akiean Frederick scored 11 points in his Kent State regular season debut after transferring from Sinclair Community College.

The Flashes take the court for their first home game of the season against Ohio Christian at 7 p.m. Thursday at the M.A.C. Center.

Contact Cameron Hoover at choove14@kent.edu.

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Women's basketball manages win despite sloppy performance Scott Lendak Sports Reporter As the Kent State women’s basketball players prepared for the season opener, they knew they had something to prove: Last year wasn’t an accident.

They tried to show that on the road against Northern Kentucky.

The Flashes won, 59-54, despite allowing 17 offensive rebounds and committing 12 first-half turnovers.

Coach Todd Starkey delivered a “spirited” halftime speech after the Flashes fell behind, 34-25, to a Northern Kentucky team that finished 9-22 last season.

“I was disappointed that we came out and had a look on our face the whole first half like, ‘What’s going on here? We should be in this game,'” Starkey said. “Well, when another team outworks you, you don’t deserve to be in the game.”

That’s what good teams do. They find a way to win games they are supposed to win, even if it is less than impressive.

With Larissa Lurken gone, the Flashes needed someone to step up offensively.

Senior forward Jordan Korinek accepted the challenge.

She scored a career-high 29 points, going 8-15 from the field.

With just over two minutes left, the Flashes wanted to get the ball inside to Korinek. When the initial pass was deflected, Korinek gathered the ball and found herself at the three-point line.

She glanced at the play clock as it winded down and took the shot from three-point range, a distance she only converted from 10 times the entire season last year.

Korinek watched the ball leave her hand and ultimately go in the basket without hitting the rim.

The shot proved to be the final blow for Northern Kentucky after the Flashes sealed it at the free-throw line.

Sophomore guard Ali Poole was the only other Flash in double digits with 12 points.

The Flashes were down by 10 points in the third quarter, but allowed just 20 points in the second half to fuel the comeback.

“I think our focus and intensity kind of picked up,” Korinek said. “Coach got on us at halftime. We were not giving enough effort on the court. In the second half, we found a way to be a little tougher and grit the win out.”

Effort was a big reason why the Flashes got off to a slow start. Northern Kentucky, the much smaller team, outrebounded Kent State 46-31.

“Their undersized post players outworked us in the first half,” Korinek said.

“We have to fix that going forward though because we play teams in the future with bigger, more athletic girls. So we have to fix the rebounding situation.”

Freshman forward McKenna Stephens highlighted the Flashes on the boards with eight rebounds.

Senior guard Naddiyah Cross recorded six assists and four steals for Kent State.

Despite the win, Starkey let his team know that he was not happy with their effort and performance.

“I thought they outhustled us the whole game,” Starkey said. “We had some spurts where we outworked them a little bit, but for the most part I really thought they gave better effort than we did. That’s a little bit disappointing.”

The Flashes (1-0) will take on Youngstown State on the road at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Beeghly Center.

“We’re playing a really good Youngstown State team next,” Starkey said.

“They are much improved from last year.

The schedule is unforgiving so you have to bring maximum focus and intensity into every game.”

Contact Scott Lendak at slendak@kent.edu.

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Kent State then-sophomore forward Jordan Korinek attempts a layup against Toledo during the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Kent State lost 67-63. Nate Manley / The Kent Stater

I think our focus and intensity kind of pick up. ... In the second half, we found a way to be a little tougher and grit the win out.”

– Jordan Korinek Senior forward

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Monday, November 13, 2017

OPINION

Men need to take bigger role in fighting sexual assault

JOSEPH McGRELLIS’ VIEW

Drew Taylor Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard about the rampant sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry. From people like film producer Harvey Weinstein to comedian Louis C.K. or actor Kevin Spacey, the industry has been rocked by allegations of all sorts of terrible behavior.

It feels especially worse when such powerful people are doing these things.

Obviously, exposing these people for their appalling behavior is great news. People who do such heinous acts should not be in any sort of position of power, whether it’s in entertainment, politics or business.

However, I have consistently seen a problem that disappoints me.

There is a stunning lack of male allies in the entertainment industry speaking out against those who harass and abuse others. I’m not talking about someone who speaks out “as a father” or “as a brother,” but someone who speaks out against the abuse simply because they know it is wrong.

It is especially disappointing because of how many seem to have known about these things for so long and decided to look the other way.

I am aware the industry is designed to look the other way. If an actor brings money to a movie studio, usually they will be fine with the actor’s terrible behavior.

But that does not mean they are not at fault.

Others who are complacent with the behavior are just encouraging it and standing aside as more people become victims. Anybody who laughed off such acts or knew about them and brushed them off without a second thought deserve some blame.

I don’t think this is exclusive to Hollywood or the entertainment industry, either. Men should call out harassment and abuse in all aspects of life.

Whether that is in a workplace setting or just a

group of friends, it should not be allowed. It just normalizes terrible behavior that makes women uncomfortable and, in many cases, scared.

I know there are many people who will hear this and will try to claim harassment and abuse are not exclusive to men. There will also be many who will point out men are also victims of sexual harassment. Both these things are completely true.

However, it would also be false to claim men are not predominantly the cause of the issue. It should not seem like a personal slight toward men to admit that. The right thing to do is recognize the problem and fight it. If you want to prove not all men are like this, don’t just say it — ­­ show it.

I hope more powerful people are exposed for their despicable behavior instead of continuing with the old boys club mentality.

Men, it starts with us. Let’s be allies against abuse and harassment instead of shaking it off and ignoring it.

Drew Taylor is a columnist.

Contact him at dtaylo78@kent.edu.

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There is a stunning lack of male allies in the entertainment industry speaking out against those who harass and abuse others.”

– Drew Taylor

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The ultimate guide to fangirling Mica Pflug Everyone has a favorite artist. Perhaps it’s someone you’ve followed since you were 12 years old, an artist whose content started off as good and has only gotten better throughout the years or perhaps they just seem like a good person overall.

Maybe their music speaks to you, or maybe they seem to always give more to society than they take.

I personally feel silly about idolizing any one person, but for someone who encompasses all of the characteristics listed above, I’ve allowed myself to make an exception and unapologetically fangirl at 19 years old over my favorite person and role model in today’s music.

I had the awesome opportunity this past week to meet and attend the show of my favorite artist, Macklemore.

I’ve admired his work throughout the

past years, both as an artist and as an advocate for equality and other social issues. I had the pleasure of seeing him live in concert, and I was also fortunate enough to meet him in person.

Not to be dramatic, but this was probably the best night of my life. I enjoy attending concerts as much as the next guy, and I typically would not go out of my way to meet someone famous, but to me, this guy was well worth it.

Everyone has a favorite artist, whether it’s someone whose songs give you chills or whose presence in society makes you weirdly proud of them. Allow yourself to admire that person. I promise it’s not weird unless you are a psycho fan, then it definitely is for everyone.

Keep it real.

If your concert ends up being a bit of a drive away like mine (I had to go to Pittsburgh because he didn’t have any Cleveland concerts.) You’re going to want to give yourself plenty of time to get there. It may be torture sitting through your morning classes when

you know what you’ll be doing about eight hours from then, but be patient, plan accordingly and make sure to pee before you leave.

Seriously, take my advice on that one.

Go ahead and spend the extra money to attend the meet-and-greet if that’s what you want to do. I spent about $150 to meet Macklemore, take a picture with him and stand 20 feet from the stage while watching the best show I’ve ever seen. Take that chance, spend the money, drive wherever. You may only get that chance once.

To have the best concert experience, dance like there’s no one next to you, take all the photos and videos you want and scream the lyrics to your favorite songs as loud as you can. Be alert, aware and present.

But most importantly, have fun. If you ever do get an opportunity to meet that one person who you would love to meet, revel in it for as long as you can. It really is the experience of a lifetime.

Mica Pflug is a columnist.

Contact her at mpflug2@kent.edu.

The current system is rigged against you and me Madison Newingham The means by which we discuss our economy halt any change of poor practices. The words and our understandings of capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive ideas are poisoning American exceptionalism.

Politicians have convinced us capitalism is good for the middle class, that unchecked free enterprise create a better chance to move upward.

They have said it enough times, so we believe them.

But when has this historically been true?

Big tax cuts for the top 1 percent do not mean they will tickle that wealth down to you or me. Why is this true?

Well, I beg you to reference the Great Depression, or more in our lifetime, the Great Recession when the banks failed and taxpayers had to pay for it. Few people got very, very rich by exploiting the middle class, and people everywhere in every country lost the homes they lived in all their lives. This

is not because they were not working or that they were not working hard enough. These people had degrees and trades and were forced out of their livelihoods due to massive layoffs created by greedy rich men who wanted more money.

There is a reason Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the Koch Brothers idolize capitalism – it helps them get even richer, forcing the average American to work longer and harder for a smaller piece of the pie.

This is an abuse of democracy.

When you have 15 percent of the population below the poverty line, you must re-evaluate how well your economy is actually doing. When something is not working, we fix it, but we have not fixed this system because the people disproportionately benefitting from it tell you that it is working and that you just are not working hard enough.

And look at health care.

There is no reason our system should be the way it is. People with insurance are rejected from lifesaving procedures because insurance companies do not want to do what is in their job descriptions and pay for the surgeries.

Medications cost thousands of dollars here. In countries we like to call less developed, the same drugs cost literal cents to our thousand-dollar prices.

This is unacceptable. The people at the top won’t even let us entertain a fight for national health care system because the rich people will have to have only one Bentley, instead of five.

As a nation, we must evaluate the way by which we treat our own people to determine our success as a developed nation. We are being superseded in every category in every field because we cannot get over the concept of capitalism.

The only thing we are best at is spending the most money on our military. If a government can stabilize prices because privatized CEOs will not, I do not have a problem; I am not scared the government will go rogue and charge even higher prices.

Why? They have to get elected and keep their jobs, whereas CEOs only care about their profits.

Wake up. The state that we are in isn’t working for you, and it won’t suddenly start to.

Madison Newingham is a columnist.

Contact her at mnewing2@kent.edu.

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NUMBERS TO KNOW:

60,000 Estimated marchers at nationalist protest in Warsaw, Poland

Nearly 60,000 nationalists took to the streets of Warsaw on Poland’s independence Day, donning signs that called for a white European ethno-state.

111 Points scored by Kent State men’s basketball against Youngstown State University

The Flashes scored 111 points en route to a 111-78 victory against Youngstown State Saturday. Kent State broke 100 points on four occasions last season.

Cheers&Jeers

Cheers to ... strong starts. The Kent State men’s and women’s basketball teams won their first games of the regular seasons against Youngstown State and Northern Kentucky University, respectively.

Jeers to ... irresponsible tweeting. President Donald Trump took to Twitter after Kim Jong Un supposedly called him “old,” posting that he’d “NEVER” call the North Korean leader “short and fat.”

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9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Integrated Life Sciences Building

Mission Life is an international and interdisciplinary competition to address global sustainability issues.

Make the World Your Classroom 1:30 to 4:00 pm | 206 Henderson Hall

Presentation and Open House in the College of Nursing for all Study Abroad Classes.

Study AbroadDepartment of PanAfrican Studies Program Offerings 5:15 to 7:00 pm | 219 Oscar Ritchie Hall

Join DPAS for an informational meeting about the upcoming study abroad opportunities.

Conversaciones

5:30 to 6:30 pm | Lost Leader’s Lounge, Kent Student Center

A casual environment to practice your Spanish, while discussing a topic of choice in small and large groups.

Florence: Student Work & Experiences 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | 2nd floor gallery, CAED Building

An exhibit showcasing Architecture and Interior Design studio projects awarded in the “Most Inspiring Student Project” competition.

FACILITATOR-LED PREVENTION WORKSHOPS:

The Music of Brazil: Paulo Costa Trio!

6:00 to 9:00 pm | Ray’s Place

An evening of the rhythm and passion of Brazilian music.

Tuesday, Nov. 14 Global Jams

11:30 am | 200 White Hall

Students (Earn 100 Flashperks!)

Tues Nov 14, 2017 from 6:30-7:30pm Twin Towers Studio A Canceled *Faculty and Staff (Earn 1 hour Beyond Compliance!)

Wed Nov 15, 2017 from 12:00-1:00pm Heer Hall Rm107 * Lunch provided

Visit KENT.EDU/SSS to register TITLE IX

International students, scholars, and faculty will perform music in an informal drop in.

Res Airways: India

7:00 to 8:00 pm | Glass Lounge, Manchester Hall

Join us for a trip to India for a taste of its culture and cuisine.

INDEX STUDIO: Urban Design Visions for Cleveland and Havana

7:00 to 8:15 pm | Cene Lecture Hall, CAED Building

A presentation of graduate student work from the 2017 CLExHAV Urban Design Studio. Presenters include CUDC Associate Director, David Jurca.

11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Room 200, White Hall The annual Second Hand Global Treasures Sale for study abroad scholarships, plus a documentary film: Something Better to Come.

Cultural Cafe: Benin and Azerbaijan

4:00 to 5:30 pm | Ballroom Balcony Kent Student Center Traditional foods will be served between presentations by students from both countries.

Florence Summer Institute Course Information Night

5:00 to 8:00 pm | Room 306, Kent Student Center

Event enables students to learn more about the Florence Summer Institute.

Asé Xpressions Afrobeats Workshop 7:00 to 9:00 pm | Ballroom Balcony Kent Student Center

Asé will be teaching modern African dance moves used today and an afrobeats routine.

Redefining “Refugee:” Stories from a Global Crisis 7:00 to 8:30 pm | 340 Franklin Hall

Panelists discuss the impact the global refugee crisis has had on their lives.

Thursday, Nov. 18 TRASH: A Global Problem 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Room 200, White Hall

Our Second Hand Global Treasures Sale for study abroad scholarships continues. Includes the international film, Garbage DREAMS.

CAE International Students Appreciation Luncheon (CISAL 2017)

11:30 am to 2:00 pm | Aeronautics and Technology Building Atrium

International Cook-Off 6:00 to 8:00pm | Kent Student Center Ballroom

Sample international dishes from Brazil, India, Oman, South Korea and Sri Lanka. Enjoy the food, fun and festivities. Free and open to all.

Friday, Nov. 17 Discover Immigration Law 5:30 to 6:30 pm | Read Room, 200 White Hall Angelina Gingo, a private attorney with experience in immigration law will discuss immigration law, share information regarding specific areas of interest and answer students’ questions.

Russian Night

5:00 to 7:00 pm | Kent Student Center Governance Chambers

A night filled with fun and food. Learn about the country and people of Russia. Free food will be served.

IWG: Breaking Stereotypes

5:30 to 7:30 pm | Kent Student Center, Room 316

International Women’s Group presents how to go beyond the stereotypes attached to women around the world.

Saturday, Nov. 18 Fulani Institute of Academics and Art

Noon to 2:00 pm | 250 Oscar Ritchie Hall

An event that features Cultural and Creative Enrichment for Youth ages 6-17.

Sunday, Nov. 19 Diwali Festival

6:00 pm | Kent Student Center Ballroom

Celebrates CAE international students and features international attire and cuisine from China, India, Saudi Arabia. Part of CAE’s International Students Appreciation Week (CISAW).

Celebrates Diwali, the traditional Indian Festival of Lights. Traditional Indian dance, food and music. $6.00 admission per person.

“Vejigantes” (Devil Mask)

by Francisco “Paco” Arrivi

Oman’s 47th National Day of Celebration

Vejigantes (Devil Masks) reveal multiple layers of intrigue in this beloved Latin American and Caribbean play. Students free with KSU ID. General admission $10.

Join the Omani Student Association as it celebrates Oman’s 47th National Day. Free food and free henna.

8:00pm | 230 Oscar Ritchie Hall

Monday, Nov. 20 6:30 pm | Kent Student Center Ballroom

For complete event description and additional information, visit

www.kent.edu/globaleducation/iew2017events

All events are open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise noted

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