May 4 University Updates
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On the morning of May 4, 1970, ѿappUniversity student Howard Ruffner was hanging out in the office of the Daily Kent Stater in Taylor Hall when the phone rang.
The Midwest editor from Life magazine, based in Chicago, was calling to find out if there were any…
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Almost 50 years ago, the shootings of ѿappUniversity students by the Ohio National Guard brought to a head the cultural divides that had split the nation. The ѿappUniversity Museum’s exhibition, “Culture/Counterculture: Fashions of the 1960s and ’70s,” opening…
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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on ѿappUniversity students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from Kent State’s School of…
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Student activism and giving voice to students will be the topics of two keynote speakers who are headlining the upcoming 2019 Educators Summit at ѿappUniversity titled “May 4, 1970 Then & Now: Voices for Change."
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Plenty has been written about May 4, 1970. Ken Burhanna, dean of ѿappUniversity Libraries, offers his preferred reading list.
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A team of devoted ѿappfaculty led the drive to achieve national recognition of the significance of May 4, 1970.
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ѿappUniversity Libraries’ May 4, 1970 Collection has been selected by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to benefit from a $30,561 award through the Recordings at Risk grant program, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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From April 22 to Aug. 1, ѿappUniversity’s May 4 Visitors Center will honor Bill Schroeder’s life with an exhibition titled “Bill: An All-American Boy.” Mr. Schroeder’s sister, Nancy Tuttle, and nephew, David Tuttle, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of his…
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As part of ѿappUniversity’s May 4 course, senior Julia Pharmer sifted through resources in University Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives and engaged in classroom discussions. Perhaps one of the most engaging sessions though was when Professor…
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The ѿappUniversity Board of Trustees passed a resolution at its March 6 meeting expressing appreciation to the May 4 Task Force and all those whose dedicated efforts have preserved the legacy and advanced the lessons learned from the events of May 4, 1970.