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Samantha Pietraspietra@kent.edu

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In her home in Toledo, Bet-sy Mason, Kent State alumna, planned a dinner party. Before finalizing the evening’s menu, she sent an e-mail to her old professor.

“I try to use what I learned in my wine tasting class,” Mason said. “I still contact (professor Tony Carlucci) before a party, though, for pairing ideas.”

Students from all majors at Kent State are eligible to take Geography of Wine. With majors ranging from hospitality man-agement to computer technol-ogy, Carlucci said he hopes his students will learn an apprecia-tion for wine that can help them throughout their lives.

“The 20-somethings are the quickest growing demographic for wine tasting,” Carlucci said. “They grew up with parents drinking wine at home.”

The course is divided into one lecture class and four possible field experiences. While Carlucci’s field experience course can hold no more than 25 students, the lec-ture presently has 55.

Students have a course binder filled with 120 pages of reference information and pictures for everything they learn through-out the semester. In addition to it, they get a paper about the two or three wines they taste in class that evening.

As to why he took the class, Jor-dan Rutz, senior integrated health studies major, said, “I wanted to learn about wine.”

Carlucci said he believes his class will help students in their lives as well; he views his course as a business class. The desire to understand wine is increasing, he said, and anything that can give students an edge over their com-petition is a welcome advantage.

“I think it will help profession-ally,” said Dan Northern, senior computer technology major.

After catching an 8 a.m. bus to a vineyard, students in the field experience class have the oppor-tunity to meet and talk with the

WINE TASTING CLASS: A sophisticated sip to success

vineyard’s owners. “They see what it’s like to

invest everything into some-thing,” Carlucci said.

Students then tour the vine-yards and multiple wineries to see how the wines were made. They do several wine tastings at each.

“I was always a red wine girl, but I wanted to learn more about the different aromas and tastes of

wine and to hopefully like whites more,” said Melissa Kubik, a Kent State alumna. “At one of those wineries in that one day, we would have an amazing meal paired with a complementing wine.”

While other Ohio schools have also offered wine classes, Carlucci said none have been as in-demand as the Kent State selection. The combination of

his passion for wine and knowl-edge of wine making may both surprise students and stick with them even after graduation.

“I thought (the class) would be a bunch of drunk college kids not taking it seriously,” Mason said. “But Tony loves wine, so that was not an option.”

Samantha Pietra is a college of arts and sciences reporter.

Students savor appreciation for leisure, business

THOMAS SONG | DAILY KENT STATERTony Carlucci samples some wine during Geography of Wine on Wednesday. Students from every major are eligible to take the course.

Yelena Tischenkoytischen@kent.edu

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Nurses are crazy stressed.So the College of Nursing has

created a series of classes to teach nursing students ways to reduce that overwhelming feeling from patients’ demands and long shifts.

David Pratt, director of advance-ment at the College of Nursing, said the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy program is offered this semester for 30 accelerated program students — students who already have their bachelor’s degree and are just tak-ing nursing classes for 15 months.

“Practicing modalities will train the students in mindful awareness,” said Tracey Motter, senior undergraduate program director for the College of Nurs-ing. “It is thought to improve stu-dents’ abilities to pay closer atten-tion, improve their memory and improve their reaction to stress both mentally and physically.”

The therapy program is part of the introductory three-credit hour course nursing students can take in their first semester. One objective is to give students tools to be success-ful in the program and, eventually, successful nurses. It will help them cope with stress of the very rigor-ous program as well as decrease potential burnout in the future as a practicing nurse.

Pratt said because of the differ-ent patient demands, nurses can get

New program helps nursing students relax

overwhelmed and stressed to the point where they quit their jobs or change careers.

“We are trying to teach yoga concepts, breathing awareness and focusing on relaxing,” he said. “It’s healthy for the nurse, but the payoff is better care for the patient.”

For example, the program offers yoga classes to teach breathing tech-niques to keep nurses calm in stress-ful situations.

“If there will be an impact on nurses, the bigger impact will be on patient care,” Pratt said.

Donna Karan, a contemporary

American designer, launched the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy program in 2009 to help patients by blending Eastern and Western medi-cal treatments.

The idea for the program at Kent State resulted from a mem-ber of the university’s founda-tion board who told President Lester Lefton he might be able to create a relationship between Karan and the School of Fash-ion Design and Merchandis-ing. University representatives set up a meeting with Karan in New York City.

A few days before the trip, Gene Finn, Kent State’s vice president for institutional advancement, learned about the Urban Zen Foundation. Finn asked Pratt to create a summary of what Kent State envisioned for alternative medicines and therapies. Pratt and a few members met with Karan at her Greenwich Village loft. Karan was very interested, and the meeting resulted in the self-care cur-riculum at the College of Nursing last semester.

There are no fees for stu-dents now but if the program becomes an elective in the future, there might be a fee for yoga mats. Pratt said reaching out to alumni and donors could help sustain this program.

“The timing is right,” Pratt said. “We at Kent State are absolutely in position to be a leader in this program, espe-cially at a nursing standpoint.”

Yelena Tischenko is the College of Nursing reporter.

Zachary Culler contributed to this report.

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Classes focus on therapy, teach tools for reducing stress

NAACP chairman delivers speech at annual celebration

Brittney Trojanowskibtrojano@kent.edu

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Diversity filled Kent State’s ballroom Thursday afternoon when people gathered to cele-brate Martin Luther King Jr. and hear former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume speak.

Thursday was the ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Kent State. This year, the focus was “empowering the individual, strengthening the community.”

President Lester Lefton, Alfre-da Brown, vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Richard Serpe, Department of Sociology chairman, introduced Mfume with welcoming speeches.

Mfume began his speech by talk-ing about his tragic past: living in poverty and the death of his mother.

He believes even those who have very little can still become leaders.

“I’ve always believed that leaders come from the bottom up,” Mfume said.

Throughout history, our nation has treated various eth-nicities wrong, he said, from sending Jewish families back to Adolf Hitler to being aggressive with those related to the Muslim religion after 9/11.

M f u m e s a i d t o a c h i e v e change, all people have to for-get blame and excuses. The approach needed to face these difficulties needs to be a new one. There’s still a long way to go to make King’s dream a real-ity, he said.

“Truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder,” Mfume said.

People need to speak out on what is wrong and really mean it or it will deplete the nation, Mfume said.

Paul Odell-Scott, business and interfaith intern at United Christian Ministries, is a NAACP member and said he was excited to hear Mfume speak.

MLK speaker inspires audience members

“Mfume left Congress to take over NAACP when it was in trouble, and he brought it out and made it into such a really great organization,” Odell-Scott said.

Westley Baker, program chair for the Black Graduate Student Association, liked that Kent State gave him the opportunity to hear a major political figure. He said his undergraduate university didn’t have guest speakers.

Baker said he was really inter-ested in meeting Mfume because he was a former NAACP presi-dent and has traveled to many places dealing with civil rights.

“I’m real interested to see him and meet him,” Baker said. “I’ve never met a major political figure before.”

“I’m excited to hear how he really talks on a human level,” Baker said.

Both Baker and Odell-Scott had the opportunity to attend a private forum after Mfume’s speech.

Brittney Trojanowski is a news correspondent.

Kelly Tunneyktunney@kent.edu

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Award-winning poet Mark Brazaitis spoke in the Student Center on Thursday and read from several of his poetry books.

Brazaitis shared poems from his three-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer and tech-nical trainer in Guatemala. Some of these experiences have been published in a book entitled “The Other Language: Poems,” which won the 2008 ABZ Poetry Prize.

“I have four books and three and a half of them are about Gua-temala, which I never would have experienced had I not joined the Peace Corps,” he said.

B r a z a i t i s s h a re d p o e m s inspired by his Peace Corps expe-rience because of the recent death of Peace Corps founder Sargent

Poet shares Guatemalan experience through poetry

VALERIE BROWN | DAILY KENT STATERK w e i s i M f u m e , f o r m e r congressman and former NAACP president, was the keynote speaker for Kent State’s ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in the Ballroom on Thursday. The celebration included music, dance and spoken word performances from students and faculty members.

Shriver as well as the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary.

Brazaitis credits his decision of joining the Peace Corps to a curi-osity of the world and a desire to make a difference.

“I was interested in doing something good for the world, and thought that joining would be worthwhile,” he said. “I was inter-ested in seeing different parts of the world, not just as a tourist, but from the inside, and I was interested in living in and experiencing a differ-ent culture. So the Peace Corps was a great way of doing all of those.”

Jay Lacure, junior English major, liked how Brazaitis pre-sented his poetry clearly.

“It was very vivid,” he said. “His imagery described Guatemala well,” he said.

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, introduced Brazaitis as an old friend, and he commented on Brazaitis’s influ-ence on writing.

“His poems remind us of the common essential humanity we share with each other and between cultures,” Hassler said. “Indeed, his are often poems of gratitude for the gift that otherness can bring into our lives when we are open to encounter it and truly converse with it.”

Brazaitis shared a poem called “Gemelas,” published in the book “The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala,” which won the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award. The poem is about a girl who struggles to separate her identity from her twin sister’s.

Jamie Bloss, senior English major, said she enjoyed how Brazaitis was so open with his poetry.

“He is so honest and genuine,” she said. “His poems are very straightforward and clear.”

Along with the serious tone of the Guatemala poems, Brazaitis also shared humorous poems, such as “The Pulitzer,” which is full of sarcasm about the unfairness of

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VALERIE BROWN | DAILY KENT STATERMark Brazai t i s , gues t poet sponsored by the Wick Poetry Center, reads poetry in the Student Center on Thursday. Brazaitis served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala for several years, and his experiences inspired the works found in his book The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala.

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WEEKEND EVENTS

Have an event you want to see here? Send it to lcoutre@kent.edu by Thursday the week before.

Go to KentWired.com to see the interactive entertainment calendar. the calendar covers entertainment events on campus and in the city of Kent.Kent Wired.com

fridayn a.l.i.c.e. trainingWhen: 9 a.m. and 3 p.mWhere: Governance Chambers

n voices of testimony meetingWhen: 4 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 311

n Ksu anime society meetingWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Math and Computer Science Building Room 228

n Micah’s CoffeehouseWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Rathskellar

n Ksc programming: “the social network”When: 11 p.m. Where: Kiva

saturdayn Super Service SaturdayWhen: 8:30 a.m.

n Student Financial Aid Parent’s Workshop When: 9 a.m.

Where: Cartwright Hall Room 306

n flash ice festWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Ice Arena

n Ksc programming: “the social network”When: 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.Where: Kiva

n La Vertie 40s & WoodsonWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Rathskellar

sundayn K.a.s.a meetingWhen: 6 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 312

n h2o worship gatheringWhen: 6:30 p.m.Where: Bowman Hall Room 312

n Women’s Liberation Collective meetingWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Student Center Room 311

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The Kent State Alumni Association will host Flash Ice Fest ‘11 at the Ice Arena on Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. for Kent State students, alumni and their families.

Along with ice-skating, there will be pizza, a face painter and a balloon artist.

“In my 12 years working in the (alum-ni) office, we’ve never done anything of this nature on campus,” said Nancy Schi-appa, associate director of Alumni Rela-tions. “We’ve done things like, ‘Go watch the hockey team,’ but not like, ‘Get out on

Kasey Faheykfahey@kent.edu

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The “Moving On” exhibition features current paintings made by alumni at the Kent State University School of Art’s Downtown Gallery.

Anderson Turner, director of Galler-ies, said the theme of the exhibition was “artists that have continued to make work.”

Martin Ball, associate professor and exhibition curator, said the show was all about progress, specifically the progress of the artists whose work is featured in it.

“More studio majors tend to continue after their undergrad work,” Ball said. “They had to be out of school at least a year and start moving in a new direction.”

The criteria for the artists were they were accessible and graduated within the last 10 years. Most of the featured alumni are teaching around the region; three are adjunct professors at Kent State.

The exhibition features work from Anthony Bartholomew, Tim Callaghan, Chad Hansen, Neil Macdonald, Lorri Ott, Erica Raby, Todd Schroeder, Sarah Sutton, Corrie Slawson and Ibojka Radawec.

JACKIE FRIEDMAN| DAILY KENT STATER “Fragile Environment #2 (hanging by a thread…)” by Erica Raby is displayed at the “Moving On” exhibition featuring work by KSU graduate students. This piece, made with post consumer waste, is meant to “expose the uncertainties, absurdities and overall fragility of our world,” as stated in Raby’s artist statement.

Alumni moving arts to downtown exhibit

Alumni associationto host skating festival

Maranda Shrewsberrymshrewsb@kent.edu

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A Kent State sophomore photojournal-ism major is one of the estimated 3.4 million adults who are stalked each year. This num-ber was reported by the U.S. Department of Justice, which named January as National Stalking Awareness Month eight years ago to draw attention to victims.

The student (who asked to remain anonymous) said her ex-boyfriend stalked her.

Three out of four victims are stalked by someone they know, and 30 percent are stalked by a current or former partner, according to the Stalking Victimization in the United States Special Report.

After a month of dating, she said he accused her of cheating, and he became so angry that when he took her home that night, he drove recklessly, trying to kill them both.

“I had to jump out of the car and roll (into a friend’s yard),” she said.

After that, she broke up with him. She said he became obsessed with her,

always trying to contact her and constantly looking at her social networking sites, using

Taylor Titusttitus3@kent.edu

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The School of Library and Information Science will launch an online master’s degree in Health Informatics this fall.

Health informatics is the science that defines how health information is col-lected, organized, shared and managed. It focuses on information systems, informat-ics principles and information technology.

Health informatics is a concentration within the school’s Information Archi-tecture and Knowledge Management program. The concentration is designed

Stalking Awareness Month sheds light on real-life student’s situation

One of the artists is Lorri Ott, a 2004 graduate with a master’s of fine arts in painting and a Kent State adjunct profes-sor of painting and drawing.

“My work is mixed media,” Ott said. “Pigment, plastic, plastic bag, oil paint, paint rag, cardboard. I am and have been interested in creating my own way of making art.”

Ott currently has work on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Ott said Megan Lykins Reich, the curator of her solo exhibition at MOCA, has said that her “works are feelings projected.”

Ball was Ott’s thesis adviser while she was a graduate student, and he has followed her career and work since graduation.

“Professor Ball invited me to partici-pate in the exhibition,” Ott said. “I was very happy to participate.”

The “Moving On” exhibition will run until Feb. 19. Pieces of art range from $160 to $2,500. The Downtown Gallery is locat-ed at 141 E. Main St. The gallery’s hours are Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Kasey Fahey is the College of the Arts reporter.

New online master’s degree in health information available

JACKIE FRIEDMAN | DAILY KENT STATERShayna Fischer, freshman psychology major and dance minor, and post-secondary student Melissa Farkas dance at the front of their Ballet I class on Thursday. Fischer said she might want to combine her major and minor and eventually become a movement therapist.

with the goal of learning the skills that are needed to use health care data systems and how data is used to improve clinical care and population health.

“When you look at the hot jobs in the country, information technology and health care are always in the top-10 listings,” said Michael Bice, Kent State health informatics professor and director of the Health Infor-matics program. “We know there is going to be a market for students who have this skill set and the jobs are reasonably well paying.”

Health Informatics will prepare stu-dents for new careers in the health and information technology field, such as health care informaticist, electronic medical

record project manager, senior manager in an information technology department, or the head of a health information exchange and senior storage engineer.

“One of the few job categories that most everyone agrees will continue to grow is in health care, and there is little doubt that with the new legislation dealing with health care there is a big push to digitize and computerize health information,” said Richard Rubin, associate provost for extended education at Kent State.

Future employers’ expectations shaped the curriculum of the program to ensure students graduate with the exact skills they will need. The curriculum covers areas of

knowledge, such as health informatics management, health information systems, legal issues in health informatics, leader-ship and organizational change, informa-tion technology and project management.

Bice helped create an advisory council comprised of 23 doctors and information technology executives in northeast Ohio, which will help spread the word and recruit students.

There are two tracks for the program — a master’s degree with 14 three-credit hour courses and a certificate program with six three-credit hour courses. All of the classes are online and are limited to 30 students. There are also required on-campus workshops.

Kent State has the only health informat-ics graduate program in the state, Bice said, who came to the Kent from the University of Florida and worked as a hospital admin-istrator for 30 years. It is also the only health informatics program housed in the College of Communication in the nation.

“I’m very proud of it, people thought it through carefully,” Rubin said. “The cogency of the program is definitely a plus. I am extremely optimistic that these people will make a real contribution to the health community at a time where we can’t wait.”

Taylor Titus is the College of Communica-tion and Information reporter.

friends’ profiles after she blocked him. One night, he found out his room-

mate liked her, so he threatened to kill him, she said.

“He claimed he was being a protective friend but he was being an over-protective ex who wanted me back,” she said.

She said she decided to block him on her phone and all other communication devices except Facebook in case he wanted to hurt one of her friends again, she said.

But last fall, she gave him another chance.“He kept trying to convince me he

changed, and I wanted to believe he was better,” she said.

He had not changed, she said.“I didn’t want to hear from him ever and

told him to leave me alone,” she said. The two didn’t talk for a while, but this

month, she said he sent her a message saying he will be attending Kent State this fall.

She said she is already cautious in pub-lic, keeping her back against the window on buses and keeping an eye on her surround-ings, but she hopes for the best when he comes to Kent.

“It’s a large campus,” she said. “I’m just hoping I never run into him.”

She told all told her friends what he looks like and warned them about the situation so they can alert her if he is near, she said.

Tonia Moultry, training and technical assistance director at the Ohio Domestic Vio-lence Network, said it is a good thing to alert friends. The victim is not alone then, and friends can witness the obsessive behavior.

“It’s a matter of being aware of your envi-ronment,” she said.

Another good thing to do is document any incidents with a stalker, Moultry said.

“You want to make sure you’re docu-menting it so you can find their pattern of behavior,” she said.

Although stalking is hard to prove, Moultry said, it is a crime that has crossed into the technological realm as well as the physical one.

The SVS reports that 1-in-4 victims report being stalked through the use of some form of technology. Ten percent of victims report being monitored with global positioning sys-tems, and 8 percent report being monitored through video or digital cameras or listening devices.

“People may be being watched or moni-tored and not be aware of it,” she said.

Moultry said victims should not blame themselves.

“No one deserves to be abused,” she said. “No one deserves to be terrorized.”

Maranda Shrewsberry is a news correspondent.

the ice and skate yourself.’ We’re really looking forward to see how it turns out.”

The Alumni Association will also have an ice carving of the university’s athletic logo that families can take pictures by with Flash, the Kent State mascot.

Once the event ends, Schiappa said attendees are welcome to stay in the Ice Arena to watch a Kent State hockey game that is scheduled directly after.

Admission prices are $5 for alumni association members, $3 for their children 12 years old and under, $8 for non-mem-bers, $5 for their children 12 and under.

Mike Crissman is a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater.

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I never jumped on board with the whole “text speak” thing when I was younger. Then again, I wasn’t exactly the kind of kid who hung out with people who were subject to such fads, and I valued my vocabulary and ability to spell properly more than any self-respecting 11 year old should have. Still, I have never under-stood the need to abbreviate everything, from simple three-letter words, to entire sentences. It pains me a little bit to realize that “Hey, ur blog post ttl made me LOL, srs,” can in any way be understood by a human being.

It’s a problem that the current genera-tion is redefining our language. Somehow the word “literally” has been distorted to now refer to anything but the literal. For instance: “OMG my head is like literally going to explode if I have another pop quiz this week.” Well, I can only hope so.

When did it become okay to swap word usage at one’s leisure? Than, then; there, their, they’re; to, too, two; your, you’re; lie, lay; set, sit; who, which, that; the list goes on. How is it necessary to abbreviate “you” to “U”? Is anybody actually laugh-ing out loud when they say “LOL”? LOLs

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Kent State has been pondering the con-cept of creating gender-neutral dorms for some time now.

About 55 schools nationwide already offer coed housing, including Miami University and Oberlin College with a number of universities — most recently Ohio University —exploring and testing the option.

A gender-neutral dorm is beneficial to trans-gender students, as they could choose to live with a roommate of either gender, avoiding awkward residential situations. The idea of these dorms at Kent State has received overwhelming support from LGBTQ students and groups such as PRIDE!Kent.

Although most universities with this option discourage it, it could also mean that two genders regardless of sexual orientation could live togeth-er — a boyfriend and a girlfriend, for example.

DON WRIGHT’S VIEW

Any student could choose to sign a yearlong rooming contract with his or her significant oth-er, which could result in any number of com-plications. Breakups, lovers’ quarrels and other relationship problems could make for a steady stream of room change requests pouring into the Department of Residence Services.

If a student were to cloister himself in a tiny dorm room with his nagging girlfriend or boyfriend for a semester, it’s fair to say that he would miss out on a measure of social interac-tion with his floor mates.

Deciding to live with a significant other is a big commitment and should not be taken lightly. Should Residence Services allow gender-neutral dormitories, restrictions and guidelines should apply, such as a cap on the number of designated rooms or the creation of a living/learning community.

Although a gender-neutral dorm would cre-ate a safe and open environment for transgender students to live in and would benefit heterosex-ual couples and friends by default, creating one at Kent State could result in a waste of valuable on-campus housing space. With only a handful of students wanting coed dorms and a recurrent overcrowding problem, it is not an appropriate time to implement a dorm-wide policy.

Rather than creating a policy that would encompass all residents, the university should look at these cases on an individual basis and decide whether to grant exceptions to the exist-ing rules.

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

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Coed dorms should be tabled, for now

Ur iniblity 2 spel makes u look stuped

Gregory Porter

“Clarity affords focus.”— Thomas Leonard

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle “Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.

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are lies. Is there anything more annoying than telling someone something over text and having their response simply contain the letter “K”?

People will judge you by the words you use and the way you speak. The same applies to how you write, even online or through text. Netspeak makes you come off as unintelligent, and I’ve gener-ally found that people who use netspeak excessively are actually quite stupid. Take it from a guy who receives poorly written hate mail on a regular basis; an inability to spell dulls any message that you’re try-ing to convey. You could have the most intelligent and well-thought-out points to back up your opinions, but if you cannot

spell correctly your thoughts may as well have been tossed in the trash. It’s kind of like baking amazing cookies and then cov-ering them in anchovy paste. Sure, there are cookies somewhere under that mass of pureed fish but who wants to dig through all of that to find them? Is that bad meta-phor working for you? Then again, most people who use netspeak don’t have amaz-ing thoughts to put down on the page in the first place.

I don’t care if I’m writing for class, post-ing in a blog, texting a friend, or updating my Facebook status; I always apply the same level of care to my writing. The way you write is a direct translation of how you process thoughts, and I personally prefer to convey my thoughts intelligently. Call me uptight, call me whatever you like, but if you use netspeak to do so, all you’re doing is fueling my flame.

Gregory Porter is a junior visual communica-tion design major and columnist for the Daily Kent

Stater. Contact him at gporter8@kent.edu.

Music fanatics are a peculiar bunch. I believe most people fancy themselves to be music fans, but some people (myself included) are music freaks. Kurt Vonnegut famously wanted his epitaph to read: “THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.” That pret-ty much sums it up for me.

It’s interesting then, when a music fan, or freak, comes across a new artist they feel passionately about before the artist becomes popular. It feels like they have invited you to a cool new club where you get to personally hang out with the band before all the geeks show up. For some reason, once that artist gets popular you feel betrayed. Shouldn’t you be happy for them? Are you upset because you don’t like these new fans? Does the band change, or just your perception of it? I’m sure this is all explained in some hipster manifesto somewhere (pre-sumably, so hipster, you probably haven’t even heard of it yet).

I seem to be in the minority. I am excited when I know an art-ist before they are launched into public consciousness. The artists and repertoire division of record labels used to get paid big bucks to sign the next big musical troupe – not anymore. The Internet has changed everything. All the social networking at our disposal makes it infinitely easier for an artist to find his or her audience. Every artist can now find a niche market to cater directly to him or her. The power really has been given to the people. Could you imagine the horror of having to sit by the radio and wait for some 40-something disk jockey to play your favorite club-banger?

So, how long will this system or these record companies last? Their model for promoting and distrib-uting an album seems ancient now

The beat goes online

James Sherman

that so many artists are stream-ing their albums online for free (The Gorillaz’ iPad produced its album “The Fall”) or allow-ing fans to pay whatever they want to download an album (Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”) or allowing free downloads (Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Friday release extravaganza).

A side effect, of course, is the flood of subpar music that is generated. Anyone with a You-Tube account and a synthesizer has delusions of being the next Stevie Wonder. But the amount of garbage on the Internet is a minor speed bump on the road to musical bliss. Imagine the opportunities artists in this advanced technological age now have. Just 10 years ago, they may have never had the opportunity to set foot in a recording studio and now all you need to create a profession-al-sounding album is an iPad.

Record label or no, what’s better than Lil Wayne distribut-ing copious amounts of music online for free and then manag-ing to sell a million albums in one week? Or when an inde-pendent artist allows his or her music to be downloaded for free for years before generat-ing enough interest and clout to actually generate a paying audience? The future is bright for us freaks.

James Sherman is a junior newspaper journalism major and

a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at jsherma8@

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New Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center attracting diverse showBrooke Bowerbbower2@kent.edu

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More than 7,000 people have watched performances in the Kent State Tuscarawas Perform-ing Arts Center since its opening in November.

“People have come from across the state to come see these shows,” said Mike Morelli, the general manager of the center.

He said the center has been in the planning process for about a decade. The 50,000 square foot cen-ter that seats 1,100 people in its the-atre took two years to build. It also has practice and conference rooms. Morelli said he was hired about a year ago to start booking acts and to make sure the center had all the right equipment for performances.

“The center was built for

national tours and with the com-munity in mind,” he said.

The center is putting thousands of dollars into the local economy and providing jobs, Morelli said. The center employs students and community members to work on the crews, which help with all the setups and teardowns, the light-ing and the overall production of a show. He said that so far they have 70 people as paid crew.

“Our goal is to always have the students involved,” Morelli said. “Since we don’t have any student productions yet, we employ them to work on our crews.”

The center ’s opening week featured a wide variety of perfor-mances from the traveling Broad-way Cats and Luna Negra, to “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” stars Colin Mochrie and Brad Sher-wood, to singer Jim Brickman. The Tuscarawas Philharmonic played the opening concert for the center.

Melanie Winn, the general manager of the Tuscarawas Phil-harmonic, said the group had a lot of involvement in the early consulting for the center. The Phil-harmonic holds its rehearsals, as well as performances, in the new center. The group also played its Christmas concert in the center.

Winn said both shows sold out. “The hall had a lot to do with

the sell outs,” Winn said. “It has certainly impacted us. It is much better to perform in and has everything from better parking to better acoustics.”

The Tuscarawas Philharmon-ic will be playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for its next show Feb. 12.

Some of the other upcoming

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE TUSCARAWAS PAC

n A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m.

n Josh Gracin, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.

n The State Ballet Theatre of Russia’s Swan Lake, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.

n The Peking Acrobats, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.

Source: Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center

Community embraces new performing arts center

“The Pulitzer” was one of sev-eral new poems Brazaitis shared, including “Could We” and “The Endless Knot.” These poems focused on other portions of his life other than his experiences in the Peace Corps.

Brazaitis’s other works include “Steal My Heart,” winner of the 2001 Maria Thomas Fiction Award by Peace Corps Writers and “An American Affair: Stories,” which received the 2004 George Garrett Prize in Short Fiction.

Kelly Tunney is an arts and sciences reporter.

From Page 1

POETRYPoet shares Guatemalan experience through poetry

PHOTOS BY MATT HAFLEY | DAILY KENT STATERMike Morelli, the general manager of The Performing Arts Center at Kent State Tuscarawas campus, stands on the second floor lobby of the facility. Acts such as Bill Engvall and The State Ballet of Russia have dates planned at the center later this year.

Dan Haseltine, lead vocalist of the Christian rock group Jars of Clay, performs live with his band at The Performing Arts Center at Kent State, Tuscarawas Campus Saturday. The center can seat 1,100.

shows at the Tuscarawas Perform-ing Arts Center include Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance,” “Wizard of Oz” and many more.

Morelli said “Lord of the Dance” has already sold out. He said they have had a lot of shows that have sold out while others have had great attendance. The

center will work with nonprofit groups for fundraising and wed-dings can be held in the lobby. Members of the community can rent the center.

“We have a fully stocked light-ing package and sound,” Morelli said. “Some people may need dif-ferent things, such as moving lights

or smoke or fog. We find out what they need and the price varies depending on what people want.”

Brooke Bower is the performing arts reporter.

DANCE TO THE MUSIC

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n About 1,400 paintball guns, called BT SA-17 Paintball Gun/Marker, by KEE Action Sports LLC, of Sewell, N.J., because of a problem with the CO2 cartridg-

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n All Toxic Waste brand Nuclear Sludge products by Circle City Marketing and Dis-tributing, doing business as Candy Dynamics, Indianapo-lis, Ind., because of low but unacceptable levels of lead. Lead contamination could potentially cause health prob-lems, particularly for infants, small children and pregnant women. The product is import-ed from Pakistan.

— Associated Press

JACKIE FRIEDMAN | DAILY KENT STATERKate Legge, sophomore music theory and composition major, plays the piano for Barbara A. Verlezza’s Ballet I class. Legge is part of an innovative interdisciplinary program that trains musicians to accompany dance classes with live music.

Keebler jumbo fudge sticks, paintball guns recalled

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Today’s birthday (01/28/11)The squeaky wheel gets the grease, they say. You don’t need to be ob-noxious, but do make yourself heard. You’re a contribution to your com-munity, and to the planet. Speak up in service of others who maybe can’t utter the words. They’re grateful for this. Did you ever consider a career in public service?

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19)Today is a 6. Take a vacation, even if only for a few hours. Your friends will want to come along, lured by your optimism. Take them and explore something new.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 7. State your own position clearly and logically. Others are open to suggestions and very willing to work with you. Look at the project from all sides.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is a 7. Everything seems to be fl owing with great ease. Your previous structure provides for intelligent action. Others participate with enthusiasm.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is an 8. Someone experiences high drama around money and work. Stick to your ethics and values, and avoid all gossip. Then offer creative support.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 9. Creative ideas come together today, and you hold the key to a logical conclusion. Write up results carefully. This presentation makes a huge difference in the long run.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 6. You’d love to get a project fi nished today. Get everyone in the group busy early. They need your help to make things work. Then it all comes together.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 6. Today’s activities weave together into a package full of love and optimism. Others understand your mo-tives clearly and support you. Enjoy the partnership.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 9. It’s time to focus on the business at hand. Everything gets done without much pressure. Reward your-self later with great food and a movie.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 7. Creativity is the name of the game today. Stay focused to accom-plish your goals. Others provide total support and lend an active hand.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 9. Although today’s efforts feel personal, the results affect family and friends equally. Use your physical and emotional energy carefully.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is a 9. Gather everyone together early to sync plans. Then everyone goes in separate directions, and you gather up later to compare notes.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 7. Follow your intuition to discover the magic within your group’s potential. Get yourself moving to discover something new about what makes you tick.

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SPORTSSports editor: Cody Erbacher • cerbache@kent.edu

Walk-on earns reputation for hard work Alex AtkinsonAatkins2@kent.edu

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Joe Tymoszczuk’s collegiate athletics career started at Ohio University with the plan to play both wrestling and football his sophomore year. However, when he returned to the football coach in March of his freshman year, Tymo-szczuk says the coach acted like he never saw him before.

“I just said forget it and trans-ferred to a school that was closer to home,” Tymoszczuk said.

Tymoszczuk transferred to Kent State and was redshirted a season due to NCAA transfer rules.

Tymoszczuk hit the football field the following year for the Flashes.

However, after a season full of losses and seeing slim chances of ever earning a starting position, Tymoszczuk added wrestling to his schedule by walking on the team his junior year.

“It kind of gets to you when you’re on a losing team,” Tymoszc-zuk said. “The team morale, I just want to be winning. I want to be in a starting spot.”

There, Tymoszczuk found his first opportunity to be center stage when the Flashes’ heavyweight Brendan Barlow went out with a hand injury.

Tymoszczuk went 4-0 in the span, including an 11-10 victory over his former school’s Andy Hartshorn to give Kent State the 17-16 conference win.

The following week, he was awarded Mid-American Conference Player of the Week.

“There’s nothing better than

Flashes improve road record with win

Rachel Jonesrjones62@kent.edu

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Strong defensive play and 3-point shooting carried the Kent State men’s basketball team to a 66-53 victory at Ball State on Thursday night.

“We didn’t want to get their shooters going, nor did we what their big men going inside,” said sophomore guard Randal Holt. “We just made them take tough shots, and we rebounded after every shot.”

The Flashes (13-7, 4-2 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) held Ball State’s Jar-rod Jones – who averages 15.1 points a game – to just five points.

While the defense played hard-er, Geno Ford, Kent State coach, said he spent the first half worry-ing about the offense.

“In the first half, I didn’t know if we were ever going to score, to be honest,” Ford said. “They’re one of the better defensive teams in our league, man-to-man.”

By the time you read this sentence, you’ll probably know of the man they call Jimmer.

World, meet Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young University’s own Larry Bird. He’s scor-ing more than J.J. Redick did in his senior season and is on pace to have the highest NCAA scor-ing average since Stephen Curry’s in 2009.

He is your unlikely NCAA Men’s Player of the Year thus far. Fredette leads the nation in scoring at 27.4 points per game. He’s 6 feet 2 inches tall, 195 pounds, can shoot like Redick and dribble like Jameer Nelson.

When you look at Fredette, a senior from Glens Falls, N.Y., he doesn’t strike you as a threat. He has an athletic build, but let’s be hon-est, he doesn’t come off as a LeBron.

But if there’s a second coming of King James on the court, it’s Jimmer.

His name is, in fact, James. When he was born, his mother was torn between naming him James or Jim. Thus, she came up with the nick-name Jimmer, and it stuck.

“No one calls me James, it’s always been Jim-mer,” Fredette said.

At 10 years old, he was given the option to choose his religion, as only one of his parents was Mormon. Fredette chose to be baptized into the Mormon Church. I’m sure BYU, a Mormon university in Utah, is thankful for that decision.

Jimmer Fredette: the best scorer in the world?

going to practice every day and hav-ing it pay off with a win on a week-end,” Tymoszczuk said. “To get an opportunity to wrestle and go out there and work hard and get the win is pretty sweet.”

Tymoszczuk thought his opportunity for a starting job might come this year.

Originally, Dustin Kilgore was to continue wrestling at 184 and Brendan Barlow would hold at heavyweight.

The 197 lb-class was open. Tymoszczuk’s 230 pounds looked

to be the only thing holding him back from the 197-weight class. He was forced to drop serious weight.

“After a few weeks of all run-ning, I was like 217, 220,” Tymoszc-zuk said. “I was kind of stuck right around 215. I remember two weeks before our inter-squad match I was still 215. I really couldn’t get much below that.”

Tymoszczuk said he felt his teammates and even Kent State coach Jim Andrassy doubted he could do it. He consulted 125-weight class Nic Bedelyon for advice.

“It was tough,” Tymoszczuk said. “Even three days before, I was still 212. I just got down. Ran a lot. I made it.”

To his misfortune, Kilgore bulked up and took the 197 lb-class.

Tymoszczuk said he wished he could have taken the 197 lb-class, but he believes the situation turned

But the Flashes were only down one time during the entire game.

One minute after Ball State took their lone lead of the game, a layup by Flashes freshman guard Eric Gaines followed by a 3-pointer by junior guard Carlton Guyton put Kent State back on top with a 7-4 lead seven minutes into the game.

Holt lead the team with three 3-pointers and 21 points, and senior guard Rod Sherman was close behind with 15 points.

Ball State (13-6, 5-1 MAC) pushed through and ended the half trailing the Flashes 30-27.

Four free throws in less than a minute brought the Cardinals just one point behind the Flashes with 17 minutes left in the game.

“We wanted to be a tougher team, get rebounds and all of the dirty stuff,” Holt said.

With that mindset, Kent State continued playing strong defense and leading the Cardinals.

After controlling Ball State’s offense, it was up to the Flashes to take over with what Ford said was one of the best 15-minute stretches of offense this season.

One minute after Holt sank a 3-pointer, Sherman executed two of

out for the better.“I wish I could have gone 197, but

I think things end up working out,” Tymoszczuk said. “My main thing was just worrying about my weight, making sure I could make the weight cut and still compete at that weight.

“When I first made the cut down and we had wrestle-offs, I was hav-ing too many bad days.”

As a fifth-year senior, Tymoszc-zuk has stepped up as one of the leaders on this team. In practice, his main job is making two of Kent State’s better wrestlers, Kilgore and Barlow, work their best in practice.

his own in less than a minute, bring-ing the Kent State lead to 57-41.

Junior forward Justin Greene, who scored 12 points, sealed the 66-53 victory with two points from the foul line.

“This game was very impor-tant,” Holt said. “We haven’t been a good road team so far this year. Coming into this game (2-6 on the road), we just wanted to compete for 40 minutes.”

The Flashes knew playing MAC West leader Ball State would be dif-ficult, and Ford said he’s proud of the team for overcoming such a huge challenge.

Coming into the game in a three-way tie for first in the MAC East, the Flashes have increased their shot at a solo championship.

“It was a huge game because the league is so log-jammed on our side,” Ford said. “But we feel pretty good that we did so well against such a good team. That was one of our best games of the year.”

The Flashes continue MAC action on Sunday at 2 p.m. against Toledo at the M.A.C. Center.

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“He’s helping us and keeping his guys working hard,” Andrassy said. “He’s just a guy who pushes all of the wrestlers. And when I say push them, he pushes them extremely hard.”

Barlow said he believes Tymoszc-zuk is better than 75 percent of the guys he wrestles.

Kilgore said drilling against Tymoszczuk has definitely helped him prepare for his competition on the weekend.

“Joe definitely compares to the 197 wrestlers than anyone in the room because of his strength and

his all around brute force,” Kilgore said. “He’s not the kind of guy who backs down and gives up. You get him in on the leg and he fights until the very end. It definitely helps me against the 197 wrestlers because it’s a big changeup from me to go from 184 to 197, and Joe’s a great partner to work out with.”

said he finds a sense of accom-plishment in this role when he sees these teammates perform well in their matches.

“If you can make people around you better, you’ve done some-thing,” Tymoszczuk said. “You kind

of have a sense of accomplishment for helping others.”

Although he does not know when his next match may come, Tymoszczuk said he would make the most of any opportunity.

“You just have to take advan-tage of every opportunity that you have,” Tymoszczuk said. “When I was at the (Southern) Scuffle, I took advantage of the opportunity I was given. I just need to do well in every opportunity coach gives me.”

Alex Atkinson is the wrestling reporter.

EDDIE OLSCHANSKY | DAILY KENT STATER

MCT CAMPUSBrigham Young’s Jimmer Fredette (32) battles his way through UCLA’s Anthony Stover, left, and Malcolm Lee in first-half action in the John Wooden Classic at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Saturday, December 18, 2010. UCLA knocked off BYU, 86-79.

Tymoszczuk uses patience to achieve success

Michael MosesSports Columnist

He’s not the kind of guy who backs

down and gives up. You get him in on the leg and he fights until the very end.

DUSTIN KILGOREKENT STATE WRESTLER

Holt drops 21 points as Flashes coast past Ball State

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOBBY ELLIS | THE DAILYKent State junior guard Michael Porrini uses his body to defend a shot from a Ball State player in the Flashes’ 66-53 victory over the Cardinals last night

On Wednesday night, BYU hosted unde-feated San Diego State University in what was probably the biggest game in Mountain West Conference history. Both teams were ranked in the top 10 in the nation.

More than 22,000 people packed the gym, in what was called a Final Four atmosphere.

“It was so loud that I could feel the floor rumble at times,” Fredette told ESPN.

All eyes were on Jimmer, and boy oh boy, did he produce.

Fredette had 20 points in the first half and fin-ished with a game-high 43. He went 5-for-8 from behind the arc.

Any time a big play was needed, it was almost guaranteed that the ball would be in No. 32’s hands.

It was the second game in a row that he scored over 40 points, the third time this year

and the fifth time in his career. He scored 39 points against UNLV earlier

this season, too. Bottom line, Fredette can flat out play.

Call him whatever you want, but NBA All-Pro Kevin Durant calls him the “best scorer in the world.” Durant tweeted that during the San Diego State game.

According to Fredette, though, he’s a point guard at heart. He sees himself as a “Deron Wil-liams” in the NBA, a player who likes to “create for others as well for himself.”

Fredette is the definition of college basketball. He’s a small-town, blue-collar kid who

shoots the lights out of the gym. He’s the 2011 version of Jimmy Chitwood from “Hoosiers.” And the scary thing is, he’s got the supporting cast to take him to the promised land.

BYU, ranked No. 9 nationally before the upset of No. 4 San Diego State, is now compet-ing for their first Mountain West Conference championship since 2001.

The Brigham Young Cougars have never been past the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight, but with Fredette, something tells me that could change come this March.

Ask San Diego State - they just got Jimmered.

Contact sports columnist Michael Moses at mmoses3@kent.edu.

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