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Kent State sees increased number of business majors

Leighann McGivernlmcgive2@kent.edu

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Kent State has seen a rise in the number of incoming fresh-man pursuing business degrees, going against a national trend of students shying away from majors in the business field.

The information comes from a survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2009,” which has been conducted for the last 44 years by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute. The institute col-lects data from more than 400,000 entering students each year from about 700 two-year colleges and four-year colleges and universities.

The number of incoming freshman planning on majoring in business in the United States has dropped to 14.4 percent, a 35-year low. The highest number was in 1987, with just under 25

percent of freshman pursuing business majors.

Opposing the trend, Kent State’s College of Business Admin-istration has seen increases in undergraduate enrollment. The college has seen a 5.4 percent increase of incoming freshman applications compared to the sec-ond week of the spring semester last year, according to admissions office records. There was an over-all increase of 14 percent in enroll-ment in the college from Fall 2008 to Fall 2010.

“I think what’s important for us in the College of Business is retaining those we do get,” said Elizabeth Sinclair-Colando, assis-tant dean of business. “If you’re bringing in large numbers and not keeping large numbers, then you’re not doing that much good for your institution.”

The College of Business Administration includes majors in accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing.

Although Kent State’s enroll-ment numbers are rising, Sinclair-Colando said she has noticed a fluctuation in the demographic of business majors.

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The Office of International Affairs and the Kent State University Library teamed up Friday eve-ning to welcome back more international students than ever before for the Spring 2011 semester.

Nearly 200 faculty members, international

students and family members came together in the lower level study room of the library as part of a new collaborative effort between the Office of International Affairs and the Kent State Library.

“This is part of the university’s strategic plan to make the international students feel welcome,” said Roman Panchyshyn, co-chair of the library diversity committee. “We try to hold an event like this, especially for inter-national students, in order to expose them to

the library and make them feel welcome and comfortable on campus.”

This partnership arrives at a time when there are more international students enrolled at Kent State than ever before. Sneha Jose, an international student and previous employee at the Office of International Affairs estimates the number to be between 1,200-1,400 students, approximately 200 more than last semester.

Kent State welcomes record number of international students

Possible tuition increase looms for next yearAnna Staverastaver@kent.edu

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Tuition could increase next fall if Ohio Gov. John Kasich cuts edu-cation funding to close the state’s nearly $10 billion deficit.

“All state governments, all

universities are all waiting to see what happens in Columbus,” President Lester Lefton said.

Since the recession began, tax revenue in Ohio has decreased, leaving the state with less income to pay its bills, said Curtis Reyn-olds, Kent State economics profes-sor. This left Ohio with a budget shortfall currently estimated to be

between $8 and $10 billion for the next two years.

Unlike the federal government, Reynolds said states, exclud-ing Vermont, are not allowed to carry a budget deficit. To balance the budget without raising taxes, states must cut services and lower the cost of their bills.

Kasich ran his election cam-

paign on a platform of deregula-tion and promised not to raise taxes in order to plug the budget shortfall in Ohio. He is now faced with looking at all public spend-ing, including higher education, and deciding where to cut.

“It’s important to recognize that universities spend every dime that they get. It’s not like we make

profits that we keep,” Lefton said. “And when we are trying to hold tuition down, any cut that you get has consequences.”

For the last two years, Ohio had a tuition increase cap of 3.5 percent. If Kasich cuts higher education fund-ing, removing the caps would allow universities to make up for their own budget shortfalls by raising tuition.

Reynolds said he suspected that the cap on tuition would rise in the next budget.

“The expectat ion is that (Kasich) is going to cut funding for education,” he said. “But being more of a free market sort of guy, he would allow tuition to rise.”

Kent swears in first female chief of policeAllison Smithasmith75@kent.edu

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Michelle Lee will take over as the chief of police for the City of Kent today.

City Manager David Ruller swore in Michelle Lee as the force’s first female chief Wednesday during the city council meeting.

In the same meeting, James Peach stepped down from chief of police after working 37 years on the Kent police force.

“From Chief Peach to Chief Lee, I hope it’s going to be a seamless transition,” Lee said.

Lee is one of six people being promoted within the department because of Peach’s retirement. Lt. Jayme Cole is being pro-

moted to captain, Sgt. Jim Prusha is being promoted to lieutenant, Officer Mike Lewis is being promoted to sergeant, Sgt. Bob Tre-harn is being promoted to lieutenant and Detective Jen Ennemoser is being promoted to sergeant.

“The future of the City of Kent is in good hands with the police department and cur-rent and future leadership management based on their education, training, experi-ence and commitment to service to the City of Kent,” Peach said.

Lee said it’s a little early to list off the goals she has for the department, but she hopes she can mend the relationship between the police department and Kent State students.

“I know students think of us as, the word has been used before, as antagonis-tic,” Lee said. “I don’t really see it that

way, but if there’s ever anything I can do to help the relationship between the stu-dents and the police department, I’d like to be a part of that.”

She said she also wants to continue on some of the programs Peach started during his 14 years as chief of police, such as the citizen’s police academy and the bike patrol.

“For years that patrol kind of sat and wasted away,” Lee said. “We didn’t have a lot of money or personnel to put towards that. So we’re going to be up and running with that in the spring.”

Lee started out at Kent State as an art student, but after a year she realized it wasn’t what she wanted to do. She talked to her brother’s friend who was going into law enforcement.

Business program enrollment down for many colleges

MATT HAFLEY | DAILY KENT STATERCaptain Michelle Lee of the Kent Police Department will take over as chief of police Monday. She has been in law enforcement for 23 years.

InteRnatIonal stUdents

MEgAnn gALEHoUSE| DAILY KENT STATERTOP: The group of international students came together with James Bracken, the dean of library and media services, for a group photo at the welcome ceremony. ABOVE LEFT: Sneha Jose, senior industrial technology major, attended the welcome ceremony at the Kent State University Library Friday. Jose is a member of the International Peers Association and active in the international student community. ABOVE RIGHT: James Bracken, dean of library and media services, spoke at the welcome ceremony for international students Friday. The reception was held at the Kent State University Library for the first time and had a turnout of about 200 students.

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Jessica Costellojcostel4@kent.edu

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The Division of Graduate Studies has accepted a new dean put forth by Provost Robert Frank. The new dean, Mary Ann Stephens, created two positions to improve the reputation of graduate pro-grams on a national and inter-national level while increasing the diversity of graduate stu-dent enrollment.

new dean of grad-uate studies

Mary Ann Stephens, for-merly interim dean of gradu-ate studies, has a s s u m e d t h e ro l e o f d e a n o f g r a d u a t e s t u d i e s . S t e -p h e n s w a n t s to enhance the reputation of m a s t e r s a n d doctoral pro-grams at Kent State University nationally and internationally.

“We want to draw higher qualified and more diverse students to our graduate pro-grams,” Stephens said.

To get potential students to think of Kent State for their graduate studies, they are test-ing a pilot this week of a new e-mail system called Hobsons Incorporation. The university sends out e-mails to prospec-tive graduate applicants and is able to gauge interest based on whether they opened the e-mail, deleted the e-mail or deleted the e-mail without opening it.

“I think the interim position gave me a good period of time to see if I liked it and gave the provost sufficient time to see if I could move the department in the direction the university wanted,” Stephens said.

She joined Kent State in 1980 and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Univer-sity of Houston. Previous to accepting the position as dean, Stephens served as chair of the department of psychology.

first director of graduate admissions

J.P. Cooney, the first director of graduate admissions, plans to develop a nationally com-petitive admissions process. He oversees the graduate applica-tion process, graduate appli-

cation reporting, admissions personnel management and handles marketing initiatives.

“We want to promote all graduate programs in col-laboration with departments to bring new experiences and perspectives to this campus to enhance the programs offered at Kent State University,” Cooney said.

In promoting Kent State graduate programs, Cooney aids in sending print media and direct mail to prospective students encouraging them to seriously consider Kent State for graduate studies.

“I have been working with the marketing department to better establish a grad studies ‘brand’ to hopefully increase recruitment for all graduate programs,” Cooney said.

H e e a r n e d a m a s t e r ’ s degree in organizational lead-ership from Mercyhurst Col-lege in Erie, Pa. He has spent 12 years in recruiting and enrollment at both private and public institutions.

first director of graduate student services

Working in conjunction with J .P. Cooney is Kate McAnulty, the first director of graduate student services. In her role, she directs gradu-ate student services, student affairs, advises Graduate Stu-dent Senate and graduate ori-entation programs. She is also responsible for promoting a campus environment benefi-cial to graduate student devel-opment. McAnulty will be working with focus groups in the future to better gauge stu-dent interests and what they want from graduate studies.

“If we can increase the application pool, we can have the ability to become selective, improving the quality of stu-dents and increase diversity,” McAnulty said. “As in the goal of our department as a whole, I also want to see a new and stronger presence of all gradu-ate programs and a stronger reputation at the national level.”

McAnulty was the direc-tor of graduate student pro-fessional development at the University of Louisville before coming to Kent State.

Editor’s Note: Provost Rob-ert Frank was unavailable for comment.

Jessica Costello is the under-graduate and graduate

studies reporter.

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School of Music continues fundraisers for new pianos

FILE PHOTO BY NIKOLAS KOLENICH | DAILY KENT STATERAn upright piano sits unattended Thursday in a practice room at the Music and Speech Center. The School of Music has raised money for 47 new Steinway pianos, with $330,000 yet to be raised to complete the All-Steinway Campaign.

Brooke Bowerbbower2@kent.edu

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The Hugh A. Glauser School of Music’s All-Steinway Campaign is in the final stretch of its five-year movement to purchase 60 Steinway pianos and claim a title that fewer than 120 other schools hold worldwide.

“Achieving All-Steinway has impacted the students because they are performing with the highest quality of instrument,” said Denise Seachrist, director of the School of Music. “This will also help the university because it ties into the excellence program, and Steinway will help advertise that we are one of 120 schools with all Steinway.”

Seachrist said the campaign started in 2007, a year before she became director. The school has since raised $1.7 million through fundraisers and donations to purchase 47 handcrafted Steinway pianos. Steinway has helped the school by allowing them to trade in older models and instruments. The school needs $330,000 to purchase the remaining 13 pianos.

“I would like to finish this campaign this semester and over the summer so we can move on to other things for the school,” Seachrist said.

In order to raise the money for the remaining 13 upright and grand pianos, the school will continue to fundraise and ask for contributions. She said the school recently made a commercial with Rodriquez Sher-man, a Kent State basketball senior guard, and Kimberly Davis, a graduate student in piano performance. The commercial com-pares Sherman’s need for the best basket-ball equipment to Davis and the School of Music’s need for the highest-quality pianos.

“We have a new commercial that will help get people’s attention,” Seachrist said. “I hope they see how close we are and will help us finish it.”

Some of the fundraisers the school has used are home concerts at individual’s homes, chamber recitals and mailers. One concert took place at a country club where donors watched Kent faculty and students perform and were invited to a brunch after-ward. Steinway Artists-in-Residence Donna Lee and Jerry Wong performed along with students including Jennifer Hasting, a grad-uate student in piano performance.

“It was a really nice and exciting experi-ence,” Hasting said. “Everyone there was an important person. I felt the excitement from them to hear us play on these really great instruments.”

Hasting, who had just been practicing on one of the new Steinways, said she feels Steinway pianos are the best instruments. She said she would definitely be buying her own Steinway and that she will never buy anything else.

“Other pianos can’t even compare to the quality of instrument Steinway is,” Hasting said. “Even as they get older, they still main-tain their quality. They have great sound overall, and tone is extremely superior to other companies.”

Ronald Losby, president of the American branch of Steinway & Sons, recently visited Kent State and was treated to a performance by students and Lee. Seachrist said Stein-way has never sent a representative to a school that isn’t already All-Steinway, but that this shows the commitment to becoming All-Steinway, and how close the school is to accomplishing such prestigious recognition.

“It would be great if we could find one donor to write us a check for the rest,” Seachrist said. “It would also be great to get $10 here or $20 there so people can feel the excitement of being part of it.”

Brooke Bower is the Performing Arts reporter.

“Other pianos can’t even compare to the quality of instrument Steinway is. Even as they get older they still maintain their quality. They have great sound overall and tone is extremely superior to other companies.”JENNIFER HASTINGgraDuate StuDent in piano performance

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BASKetBALLHolt sinks six 3-pointers, men’s basketball sinks Miami

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wOmeN’SBall State snaps winning streak

They also didn’t get the rebounds.“I actually was encouraged with the fact that

we only gave up three rebounds to (Miami’s Antonio) Ballard,” Ford said. “He gave up dou-ble-doubles to us last year, but I thought Porrini handled him well (this time).”

Miami coach Coles said he knew Porrini, a weight-lifting champion in Cuyahoga County, was strong, but he couldn’t believe the way he took out Ballard.

Porrini had his ninth game with three or more steals this season, but Gaines had the most steals of any player this season with five.

“I liked our ball movement,” Ford said. “We got it inside, outside, swung it and made extra passes. Hope-fully, that’s something we can continue.”

Rachel Jones is a sports reporter.

Once in overtime, the Flashes fell again quickly and for good this time. At one point, the Cardinals lead by 8 points in the extra period.

But the tough loss did take a toll on the players who know the excitement of overtime is only out-weighed by the challenges of it.

“Losing in overtime does make it more draining,” Jones said. “It’s like you get your hopes up once it goes into overtime, and once it starts you think more and know that you have to try and play without mistakes.

“You can’t think about how tired you are or what is hurting. You just have to play through it. Once you lose it’s like, ‘Man, I could have done this better.’ It just sucks because you feel like you gave your all and you still lose.”

The Flashes did show strong resiliency and battled back from the 8-point deficit to pull within 4 points before falling to the Cardinals, 69-65.

“It just shows that we will fight until the end. We don’t give up easily,” Jones said. “We have each other's backs no matter what the circumstances are. I think this is one of the best teams I have been on.”

Northern Illinois is next on the schedule for the Flashes on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center.

Matt Lofgren is the women’s basketball reporter.

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“I think Stevie Mitcheff is the second best guy at 125,” Andrassy said. “We’re fortunate to have guys like him and Keith Witt.”

Northern Illinois snapped Kent State’s shut-out at 141, the second to last match. The Flashes’ sophomore Sean Collins filled in for the injured sophomore Chase Skonieczny and was pinned by the Huskies’ senior Tristen DeShayer.

Junior Marcel Clopton closed the match at 149 by beating senior Vince Castello 5-1.

“We have a good team,” Andrassy said. “We showed that tonight. It’s our goal to win the con-ference and we’re off to a good start.”

The Flashes' next match will also take place at the M.A.C. Center as the team takes on Clarion at 7:05 p.m. next Friday.

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“The more I started thinking about, it just really appealed to me,” Lee said. “I knew I could do it physically and mentally, and I just knew that’s what it was going to be.”

Lee transferred to Univer-sity of Akron because the school offered a two-year degree in criminal justice. It was during her two years at Akron that she began working as a security guard.

“So while I was in college, and then after I graduated, I did various different jobs,” Lee said. “So that’s when I was in private security.”

She said she started at the Kent Police Department in 1987 as a patrolman after taking civil service tests and a fitness test.

“It was actually almost a year after I’d taken those tests that they had openings,” she said.

Detective Bruce Bassett start-ed at the Kent Police Department at the same time Lee did and thinks she’s perfect for the job.

“You have to be able to com-municate with people, espe-cially with the press, as well as council people, and officers and the public in general,” Bas-sett said. “She’s got all of those skills. I’ve seen her in action now for about 23 years.”

He said it’s Lee’s personality that will make her a good chief of police.

“She could back me up any time,” he said. “She was the greatest police officer, she knew her job, she knew the statute, she knew the rules and regula-tions of the department as an officer, all that.”

Lee said even though she is the first female chief of police at the Kent Police Department, gender really shouldn’t play much of a part in her duties. She said it’s a topic people enjoy talking about, but she doesn’t think it’s going to be that important.

“I don’t think it’s going to play much of a role,” Lee said. “I don’t think it’s going to be a factor too much.”

Allison Smith is the city editor.

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SUMMARY: Kent police departmentʼs new police chief hopes to improve relationship with Kent State students.

Michelle Lee takes on the job as chief of police for the city of Kent today, a position that was held by James Peach for

37 years. With Lee in charge, we hope to see the

ongoing myth that the city police have a vendetta against Kent State students be left in the past.

Lee has already expressed that she, too, hopes to see a better relationship between students and police in the future. It’s great to hear this attitude coming from the city police. We really hope this becomes a reality.

In the past, many events have led stu-dents to believe that police were just look-ing for reasons to punish them. In Spring 2009, the riots at College Fest created a huge

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amount of tension between students and law enforcement.

Police used non-lethal pepperballs, stinger grenades and baton rounds to dis-perse what they described as an “angry and hostile” crowd.

In this case, the police overreacted. Col-lege Fest should, and could, have been handled with more grace.

There was also the event in Novem-ber 2009 when police used a Taser gun to restrain a resident outside of his home on Crain Avenue as it burned.

The man entered his home to rescue sev-eral people, was subdued and was arrested by Kent police for allegedly hindering fire-fighters’ efforts at the scene.

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report said the man used psychological and physical active resistance to avoid arrest and was both combative and intoxicated.

It’s events like these that are the massive potholes in the road to good police-student relations. It makes students question the sin-cerity of those who have taken on the task of serving and protecting us.

We see Lee’s arrival as a chance to start fresh, and students shouldn’t hold things that happened in the past against her.

The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board whose

members are listed to the left.

Hope for better relations with Kent police

Campus food lines: Out of controlI think I speak for most Kent State stu-

dents when I say the addition of Subway and Damon’s to our campus is a good idea. And I think I speak for all Kent State stu-dents when I say the lines for both of them have been absolutely ridiculous.

The two restaurants are definitely upgrades from the previous ones. Subway is better than Quiznos in every way and cheaper. It’s nice to finally have food prices on campus that reflect “real life” prices.

Five-dollar foot longs are actually $5. A foot-long sub from the Quiznos in the Stu-dent Center used to cost around $7 or $8, and they didn’t cut it in half. Even though our food plans are basically Monopoly money, it’s refreshing to pay for something at a reasonable price for a change.

I used to be Pete’s Arena’s number one fan. As a non-commuting sophomore held ransom to the 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. rule that only allowed commuters to purchase food in the Hub, Pete’s was my go-to place. However, after a series of poor pizzas, toward the end of last semester, my loyalty began to wane. They even made the slimy, sloppy Rosie’s pizza seem appealing.

So I welcome Pete’s replacement, Damon’s, with open arms. It’s probably the most expensive food on campus, but like I said earlier, it’s all monopoly money. The food there is nothing short of delicious. I had the “Game Winning” Burger, mozzarella sticks and fries from there a couple of hours ago, and it was easily the best meal I’ve had since coming to school here in Fall 2009.

So everything’s fine and dandy, right? Not exactly. As I said earlier, the lines at Damon’s and Subway are outrageously long.

Subway’s line is averaging two or three times the number of students Quiznos’ longest line ever had in the past. It rou-tinely stretches past Ambrosia into the center aisle of the Hub. Damon’s line is

just as nuts. Despite the tastiness, a wait that long just isn’t worth it to me. What student in his or her right mind wants to stand in a line for 30-45 minutes for food on a college campus?

It’s extremely inconvenient when you have only so much time to eat between classes or naps. I’ve only been able to enjoy each of the delectable restaurants one time. I would have preferred to eat from them multiple times throughout the week, but the hundred or so students already in line ruined it for me.

I know it’s selfish of me to have my cake and eat it too, but seriously, it’s not the Mil-lennium Force at Cedar Point. It’s Subway. People act like they have never had it before.

I’d suggest more students eat at other restaurants like Nathan’s or that sushi place, but they’re just not that good. Anyway, as long as Subway and Damon’s are around, what student in their right mind would?

Mike Crissman is a sophomore newspaper journalism major and columnist for the Daily

Kent Stater. Contact him at mcrissm2@kent.edu.

Hobo with a shotglassThis just in: A homeless alco-

holic spends his newfound fortune on booze!

I’m sure you have all seen the video of Ted Williams, the Golden-Voiced Hobo. He is a homeless man from Columbus who went to college for radio and soon after ruined his life with “alcohol, drugs and a few other things.”

Williams did what any sensible addict does, and started offering to say things for money. A worker at the Columbus Dispatch discovered Williams’ talent and shared it with the world on YouTube. And it’s been smooth sailing since — well sort of.

After the video got popular he started making appearances on the Today Show. They gave him a nice Obama haircut and just let the jobs roll in. He made a commercial as the voice of Kraft; he even got offered the job to be voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers. But you can’t bounce back like this without get-ting that dreadful offer to appear on the Dr. Phil show.

Now, this is where things start-ed to fall back into place. He gets a little cash, has a few drinks and fights with his family. This leads to his daughter reporting to the press that he started drinking again, and he lands himself in rehab. I’m sure his daughter was just trying to get her own paper by selling this information to the press, but that’s beside the point.

His daughter claimed that he was drinking a bottle of Grey Goose every night. We already know you have money, Ted Wil-liams; you don’t have to rub it in our faces by drinking that stuff. And besides, I’ll buy you a bot-

tle of Cristal if you record my voicemail message for me.

Also, drinking an entire bot-tle of vodka is a completely rea-sonable thing to do before going on the Dr. Phil show. That’s the only way I could handle talking to that bald idiot.

So now America finds out that its beloved homeless man is not who they thought he was. I guess giving the addict a second chance didn’t work out. I’m here to help you through this breakup though.

He wasn’t worth it. There are better homeless people out there. For example, Homeless Mustard, have you seen this guy? He’s the one who should be winning a homeless Grammy for that voice.

He treated you horribly. You gave him shelter and a second chance, and he threw it all away.

He didn’t deserve you. He looked like a crossbreed of Obama and Seabiscuit. And he looked fat in those five coats.

It’s time to move on.

Dylan Lusk is a sophomore electronic media production major

and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at dlusk2@

kent.edu.

Mike Crissman

“A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.”

— William Feather

Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the Ameri-can Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. 91 percent of the drink-ers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.

— Source: history.com

Dylan Lusk

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“It’s women who affect our enrollment more so than men,” Sin-clair-Colando said. “If there’s deceit-ful things going on in business in the news, then women are more likely not to choose business than men, and they’ll go into more of the health care fields like nursing.”

Sinclair-Colando said she attributes the national decline of interest in business degrees to the perceived corruptness of the field.

“A lot of people have their opinions about the ‘why’ of it,” Sinclair-Colando said. “I fall into the camp that believes a lot of the scandals that occur in business have impacted young peoples’ desires to go into something that is and can be corrupt.”

Freshman pre-finance major George Curtis opposes Sinclair-Colando’s views, and said he attributes the decline in national enrollment to the economy.

“There aren’t a whole lot of jobs I guess, and you have to be like an analyst or an economist, and nobody wants to do a job that’s that hard or that rare,” Cur-tis said. “People like computers and health care and stuff like that. I feel like a lot of people are pro-moting those kinds of jobs.”

Business enrollment at other Ohio universities varies from each institution. Bowling Green State University’s College of Business Administration has seen a 15.3 percent drop in enrollment between Fall 2008 and Fall 2010, while Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business has seen an 8 percent increase in that time.

Elise Rienstra, sophomore pre-

business management major, said she attributes the success of Kent State’s business program to oppor-tunities for student involvement.

“I really like the business pro-gram because I think it offers a lot,” Rienstra said. “It is a big building, and there’s so much to do here and so much to get involved in, so I think that’s why it’s not true at Kent State.”

Sinclair-Colando said the administrators and professors in Kent State’s business program are doing their best to ensure contin-ued success in enrollment.

“We’ve been doing all sorts of things to connect with our stu-dents and make them not just feel like a number, but a person who is respected and valued,” Sinclair-Colando said.

Leighann McGivern is the stu-dent finance and college of business

reporter.

At the welcome party, attend-ees feasted on fresh vegetables, lasagna and other refreshments. James Bracken, dean of library and media services, spoke to the students and faculty to welcome them and to encourage them to enjoy the reception.

“Your presence on this cam-pus makes this an international university, and I thank you for that,” Bracken said. “I’m from Ohio, and Ohio is not a very international place.”

Bracken expressed his hope for the international students to feel at home in the library and for

this reception to become an annual event. He said the library is plan-ning to offer special services aimed at international students, such as language-learning programs, poetry readings, film nights and other cultural events.

“This is a team effort here,” Bracken said. “The warmer we can make the environment, the easier it will be to bridge home sick-ness, because this is not the Indian Ocean, this is not the Pacific, this is Northeastern Ohio.”

Jose said she thinks lower tuition costs and location play a big role in why international stu-dents are choosing Kent State.

“(Kent is) not a crazy big city like New York City or in the middle of nowhere. It’s got that little balance to it,” Jose said. “That makes studying easier because you’re not out hearing the noise of 10,000 cars constantly.”

Kristi Campbell, assistant direc-tor of International Affairs, said she was very pleased with the turnout of the event.

“There’s an excellent mixture of students,” Campbell said. “There are so many people here from so many different cultures and coun-tries and they’re actually talking to each other instead of just staying with people of the same culture.”

Among the mixture were stu-dents from China, Malaysia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. They found the means to attend Kent State through graduate assistantships, scholar-ships, fellowships and grants.

“The pleasure of this whole thing is that now they’re no longer international students,” Bracken said. “They’re Kent State students.”

Julie Sickel is a news correspondent.

Tuition for an Ohio student at a public university is almost $2,000 above the national average, and ranked 11th highest in the country in 2009, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In 2008, Ohio ranked eighth.

The tuition cap over the last two years has been responsible for the drop, Reynolds said.

For the 2009-2010 academic year, Reynolds estimated Ohio to have dropped further down on the list to 13th.

Tuition caps are rare, Reynolds said. Since the reces-sion, they’ve been growing even more rare.

“The overall theme right now is that states are pretty unlikely to have tuition increase caps,” Reynolds said.

Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, said he is con-sidering moving in that direction. At a recent press con-ference, Christie said keeping New Jersey’s 4 percent tuition cap in the last budget might have been a mis-take, and he is considering removing the cap completely from this year’s budget, due next month.

State colleges in California raised tuition by 30 per-cent in a single year because of a budget shortfall of more than 50 percent in 2009.

“It’s a worst case scenario, but it’s not one that Ohio actually faces,” Reynolds said.

California had one of the highest state budget defi-cits in the country, combined with historically low state tuition. This meant the state’s public universities relied heavily on government funds at a time when money became scarce, Reynolds said.

“States are looking for ways to save money,” he said. “One of the ways states have been saving money for about the last 40 years is to cut education funding.”

Reynolds said California is a cautionary tale, but realistically, students at Kent State will probably be fac-ing a much smaller tuition hike next year.

Lefton said Kent State receives about 23 percent of its funding from the state, so it is far less reliant on the state for operating costs than California. An increase in tuition would also assume that the administration made no cuts in its spending.

But Lefton said that will not be the case. “Our principle goal, no matter what happens, is to

spare students as much as possible,” Lefton said. “But the truth is you never save your way to success. Cutting is not the way to win in a difficult economic time.”

The Ohio Board of Regents made recommendations to Kasich’s administration about a few cost-saving mea-

sures for higher education, press secretary Rob Evans said. One such suggestion has been to allow universities to participate in joint purchasing agreements.

“For example, all universities buy mattresses, so why not allow them to buy together and drive down costs that way,” Evans said.

Lefton said that while shared purchasing agree-ments are good, they are “not going to save millions. But there are lots of things that we buy, and where we can save money we want to do it.”

Another cost saving measure Evans suggested was to remove the legal prohibition, known as multiple prime, that currently prohibits state institutions from contracting out construction management.

When a university decides to build a building, it has to hire the plumber, carpenter and electrician all sepa-rately rather than hiring one general contractor, Evans said. This leads to significant cost increases because uni-versities waste time and resources trying to coordinate all the different contractors.

Lefton said he completely agrees with Evans and that every university president in Ohio shares this view on multiple prime.

“It costs every university in the state enormous amounts of money,” Lefton said. “The legislature is unfortunately under extraordinary political pressure to keep multiple prime in place under the labor unions.”

He thinks that getting this past the legislature would be a “Herculean feat,” but Lefton said the new govern-ment in Columbus might have a better chance than administrations in the past.

“There’s been lots of rhetoric in the past few months that this governor and this legislature will be pro-deregulation,” Lefton said. “And the reality is there is a Republican house, a Republican senate and a Repub-lican governor.”

Until the governor gives his budget on March 15, Lefton said he plans to focus on trying to enhance rev-enues at Kent State through distance learning, gradua-tion rates, fundraising and retention. He also said that all the vice presidents have begun the process of sce-nario planning for different degrees of budget cuts.

“We’re hoping for the best and planning for the worst,” Lefton said.

But he said he is aware that the legislature in Colum-bus faces tough times and tough choices.

“Some agencies are going to have to be cut more severely than others,” Lefton said. “I would make the argument that higher education is so central to job development in Ohio that it would be a huge mistake for the legislature to cripple universities.”

Anna Staver is the administration reporter.

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BUSINESSBusiness program enrollment down for many colleges

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Today’s birthday (01/24/11)Find a spark that lights up the love for learning you once had as a little kid. Your experience, combined with a re-furbished curiosity, provides for an ex-citing year of discoveries. Remember to balance your time indoors with plenty of time under the sun (or the stars).To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is an 8. Take creative inspira-tion from something in your home – something old and full of memories. Tell its story to someone who doesn’t know it yet.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 7. Remain true to personal convictions as you share your desires with others. Logic only goes so far. Express strongly held values, which may be unreasonable.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8. Conversations and communications abound. The news is mixed: some sadness and some joy. Take a walk in nature to think about it a bit and refocus.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is an 8. Consider developing a new habit, independent of what you were taught in the past. Old rules give way to new possibilities. Opportunities arise.

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Lenny leads Flashes with all-around victory

Tyler Goddardtgoddar1@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

The Kent State gymnastics team traveled to Cleveland State for a home meet Friday, but things did not turn out according to plan.

The meet began according to script for the gymnasts as they cruised to a strong start in both the vault and uneven bars events, but late mis-takes and a rally by Brigham Young pulled the final score even at 194.775.

It was a disappointing tie for Kent State despite a huge margin of victory over George Washington (190.775) and Wisconsin-Oshkosh (181.775).

“Our expectations were that we would come out and treat this like a home meet and have a good, solid con-sistent meet like we did the first two,” said Brice Biggin, Kent State coach.

Biggin said judging at the beam event was somewhat inconsistent but that cannot be an excuse.

“I thought (the score) was a little low,” he said. “But we

Gymnastics team ties Brigham Young at the Wolstein Center

Lindsay Frumker | Daily Kent StaterSenior co-captain Christina Lenny performs on the uneven bars at the meet on Friday. She earned a first-place score of 9.875 for this event.

VaLerie BrOWn | Daily Kent Stater Senior Brendan Barlow pins Dakota Greenhaw in the wrestling match against Northern Illinois University on Friday. Barlow won against Greenhaw 4-1.

Rachel Jonesrjones62@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

Six 3-pointers by sophomore guard Randal Holt carried the Kent State men’s basketball team to a 78-57 victory over Miami at the M.A.C. Center Sunday afternoon.

“He came out and has been playing really well and stepping up for us,” said senior guard Rod Sherman. “We’ve been behind him the whole time.”

Holt said the faith his teammates and coaches have in him gave him the confidence to try for the 3-point-ers and find his rhythm.

“Individual success comes from team success,” Holt said. “When it’s your turn, you have to step up, shoot the ball with confi-dence and knock it down.”

Geno Ford, Kent State coach, said being confident and playing well go hand-in-hand, although it’s sometimes hard to determine which one causes which.

Either way, Holt’s confidence boost earned him a team-high and career-high of 22 points against Miami.

“Boy, he’s playing good,” said Miami coach Charlie Coles.

Ford said he was also proud of Holt, but he really liked how the team reacted to his 3-point surges.

“I like we had guys looking for him,” Ford said. “We were much more balanced, zipping around and (getting) some pretty good looks. (Holt) made some pretty good shots that obviously kept up (the team’s) confidence.”

And with the poor opening possessions Kent State (12-7, 3-2 Mid-American Conference) com-

Matt Lofgrenmlofgren@kent.edu

Daily Kent Stater

After winning five straight games to open Mid-American Con-ference play, the Kent State wom-en’s basketball team fell to MAC West opponent Ball State Saturday with a tough 69-65 loss in overtime.

Although the game snapped a five-game winning streak, the Flashes (14-4, 5-1 MAC) had their opportunities in the match. Out-worked on the boards by the Cardinals (8-11, 3-3 MAC),

the Flashes lost the battle for rebounds 51-42.

Senior forward Taisja Jones led the Flashes in scoring with 21 points, while senior guard Jamilah Humes added 18 points as the team shot just 35.7 percent from the floor.

Although the game goes down as a loss, Jones knows her team-mates learned some valuable les-sons from this game.

“This game just shows that we are beatable and it shows that we still need to work on things,” Jones said. “It also shows that any night is anyone’s game, so it’s best to go out and play hard every

game regardless of the opponent.”One of the biggest problems

facing the Flashes was poor free throw shooting as Kent State recorded a dismal 11-of-18 from the charity stripe.

“We did not play well enough to win this game,” said Bob Lind-say, Kent State coach. “We missed free throws, we missed easy shots and we gave up too many second chances. We played poorly.”

Emily Maggert led the way in scoring for the Cardinals with 19 points, as two of her teammates were in double figures as well.

Always reliable, the Flashes’

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Daily Kent Stater

The Kent State wrestling team cruised over its first con-ference opponent, pounding Northern Illinois, 37-6, in the M.A.C. Center Friday.

“I think the score showed we pretty much dominated,” said Jim Andrassy, Kent State coach. “It’s good to be able to put in three backups and you still get a score like that.”

The Flashes took control of their home opener right from the beginning, as the match began at 157 with senior Matt Cathell upsetting Northern Illi-nois’ Bryan Deutsch with a 12-4 major decision.

Deutsch was the top-ranked wrestler at 157 in the Mid-American Conference and a former MAC Champion.

Cathell risked being pinned multiple times to score points in his non-textbook style.

“Matt ended up scoring some wild points, but that’s what Matt does,” Andrassy said. “If you aren’t careful with him he scores points like that.”

The major decision was Cathell’s third in three weeks.

“(Deutsch) is pretty good on his feet,” Cathell said. “I was just trying to utilize that.”

Kent State won the follow-ing eight matches. Junior Ross Tice at 165 took down freshman Matt Mougin 7-4, freshman Brandonn Johnson defeated freshman Caleb Busson 9-3, and at 184 sophomore Keith Witt pinned junior Brad Dieckhaus.

Already trailing 4-3 in the third period, Dieckhaus, who is ranked third in the MAC,

Holt sinks six 3-pointers, men’s basketball sinks Miami

Wrestling team crusises past Huskies, 37-6

Ball State snaps winning streak

SPORTSSports editor: Cody Erbacher • E-mail: cerbache@kent.edu

didn’t attack the routines the way we had been the first two meets either.”

Despite the tied score, there were many bright spots for the Flashes as well.

Senior Christina Lenny won her second straight all-around with a score of 39.150, which was enough to hold off teammate Marie Case who posted a 38.600.

In addition to her all-around victory, Lenny also set a new per-sonal best in the uneven parallel bars event with a 9.875 score. Case, Nikki Moore and Lauren Wozniak achieved personal bests in the vault event as well.

However, Biggin said the team looked shaky on the beam and sometimes that happens.

“We certainly didn’t get a

score from the judges, but you have to make some of that hap-pen yourself,” he said. “We didn’t do a good enough job of making it today.”

Case said focus was some-thing the team needs to continue to improve.

“Even if we have a bad event, we have to keep it going and keep our spirits up for the next event so we can fix it,” she said.

Kent State (4-0-1) will travel to Michigan Jan. 29 for a meet that includes Maryland and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The meet will begin at 6 p.m.

Tyler Goddard is the gymnastics reporter.

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Senior guard Rod Sherman goes in for a layup during Sunday’s game against Miami. Sherman scored 14 points in the Flashes 78-57 victory.

piled in the first 12 minutes of the game, a confidence boost was definitely needed.

A series of fumbling passes and missed shots plagued most of the first half for the Flashes, but they drew new blood with 8:09 left before half-time.

Junior guard Michael Porrini stole the ball from Miami and tossed it to Holt, who sank his second 3-pointer for the game and closed the Miami lead to 22-21.

Just 19 seconds later, freshman guard Eric Gaines made his own steal near Miami’s basket and bolted down the court. With the Kent State basket unguarded, Gaines easily sank his layup and gave the Flashes their first lead of the game.

The play sparked Porrini to make another steal a minute later, but this time, he hung onto the ball himself.

Although Porrini missed the layup, Sherman tipped it in for the 25-22 Flashes lead.

“That was where we were able to get that game swung our way,” Ford said. “Not only did we get the steals, we got charges that got the game sped up.”

The Flashes maintained the lead, and – thanks to a layup by Por-rini with five seconds on the clock – entered the second half up 39-29.

“We wanted to play to get tired – no pacing ourselves,” Ford said.

Sherman said the sense of urgency carried over to the defense, where the players tried to speed up the game and force Miami (8-11, 3-2 MAC) to make turnovers.

The RedHawks had 22 turnovers – 20 from just the first half.

“When you force that many turn-overs, they’re not getting as many shots,” Ford said.

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post defense was strong all game, only letting up 20 points in the paint. While the post defense was strong for the Flashes, their weak-ness was the perimeter shooting of the Cardinals who accumulated 24 points on 8-for-20 shooting.

With little time left on the clock and down 4 points, Jones the hero the Flashes was needed, hitting a pair of layups with the second one landing with 2.3 sec-ond left to tie the game at 58-58 sending the game into overtime.

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had Witt in position to turn him for a cradle to take an even more commanding lead. However, both Witt and Andrassy said they were calm.

Andrassy said last year when the team was practicing moves, Witt said he had never been turned in a cradle.

“I said, ‘ I bet I can, ’” Andrassy said. “I had him in a cradle, we blew live and I couldn’t turn him… and that was my move when I was younger.

“So when (Witt) got in that cradle (today), the two other coaches got all nervous and I said, ‘Don’t worry. He doesn’t get turned in a cradle,’” Andrassy said. “I was very relaxed because I’ve been in that position with him and know how he feels. Those two were like, ‘It doesn’t look good. It doesn’t look good.’ Then all of a sudden he kind of popped up and pinned him on a reverse cradle.”

Witt said he was ready to go when Andrassy told him he would be wrestling at 184 the next day.

“I stepped in for the team and that’s what I needed to do,” Witt said. “Coming up with the pin was big for the team.”

Junior Dustin Kilgore fol-lowed by pinning Northern Illinois’ junior Mike Lukowski at 197. Junior Brendan Barlow extended Kent State’s lead by outscoring the Huskies’ heavy-weight senior Dakota Greenhaw 4-1. Junior Nic Bedelyon then pinned junior Zach Taylor at 125, and Stevie Mitcheff, who normally wrestles at 125, filled in at 133 to defeat junior Izzy Montemayor 6-4.

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