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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1951
Page
2
An anxious Kent Stater staff preps for the annual Rowboat Regatta despite worries over safety and chaos. Editors treat preparations as a circus while seeking protection from mishaps and weather incidents, as activities fill the campus with balloons, contests, and cleaning drives.
Kent State University provides fifty scholarships to senior high school students in northeastern Ohio who rank in the top deciles and meet testing criteria. Recipients must maintain a B average, use the funds within four years, and may apply across twelve quarters including summer. The university also expands scholarships to valedictorian and salutatorian from local high schools and awards a $90 prize to a Youngstown graduate. Gamma Tau Delta offers a one year $90 grant to a male freshman, with additional awards from alumni chapters across several counties.
Stater staffers illustrated Rowboat Regatta publicity with a large poster. Despite missing janitors and ladders, editors and staff climbed to view the sign while Liz Overstreet Barb Snell kept feet on the ground assisting participants aloft. Regatta chairman Donnelly mediated between editors and staff for the display.
The Kent Stater is a daily Tuesday to Friday student newspaper with summer Thursday issues. It lists staff roles including John Berea as Business Staff, Jim Branigan as Assistant Business Manager and Edition Manager, Vince Sauer, Karl Keller, and others. Offices are at 115 Merrill Hall Kent State University. subscription is $2.00 yearly.
Campus chaos left 4 000 students involved with property damage and police confrontations. Ten arrests at Ohio State compared to 34 jailed at Syracuse where fights began between fraternities rather than sororities. May raids on dorms brought six arrests and 10 suspensions. editors critique campus pranks and words on women.
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