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  • As a student at Kent State, which is a member of the Mid-American Conference along with Miami, I was sitting in a hamburger joint in Oxford, Ohio, that had its walls full of pictures of coaches: Woody Hayes, Paul Brown, Ara Parseghian, Sid Gillman, Bo Schembechler,

    unknown title 2009

  • They were a brutal, relentless mirror shoved in the face of an increasingly pious and self-absorbed America; I don't know what kind of human being you are if your reaction to Kent State is to become a jam band.

    Sadly, No! 2008

  • Woodrow Wilson High in Washington to receive scholarship offers from programs such as Kent State, but he did not pass academic muster at the

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Woodrow Wilson High in Washington to receive scholarship offers from programs such as Kent State, but he did not pass academic muster at the

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Littered among those NCAA losses were upsets to lower-seeded teams such as Kent State

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2009

  • Especially considering that troops were later sent onto the campus of Kent State, and four students were shot dead.

    Robert J. Elisberg: The War on Education Robert J. Elisberg 2011

  • Other acts of campus violence, like the sniper at University of Texas, or the shooting at Kent State are notorious for other reasons -- the former in the annals of crime, the latter in the story of the upheaval of the Vietnam War era.

    Ed Schmidt: From Arizona Shootings, Teachable Moments Ed Schmidt 2011

  • Other acts of campus violence, like the sniper at University of Texas, or the shooting at Kent State are notorious for other reasons -- the former in the annals of crime, the latter in the story of the upheaval of the Vietnam War era.

    Ed Schmidt: From Arizona Shootings, Teachable Moments Ed Schmidt 2011

  • The bulk of these schools 13 are programs like Air Force, Alabama-Birmingham, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Florida Atlantic and Kent State that play in second-tier conferences where the pressure, the scrutiny, the level of recruiting and the expectations are smaller.

    The NCAA's Last Innocents Darren Everson 2011

  • College and high school students gathered at Broad and Wall streets on May 8, 1970, to memorialize the four students killed at Kent State a few days earlier.

    Occupy Wall Street Has History on Its Side David Weidner 2011

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