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Camille Tinnin, Magdalen Weiss-Vopat: Carrying on Kent State’s legacy of antiwar organizing, students press for divestment

Students at Kent State won disclosure of the university’s investment portfolio, but the fight to divest from the war industry is just beginning.

June 4, 2024 · 2 Comments

David Hassler: Vocata George

My clamped jaw, in its extreme symptoms, is like a fire door, a castle gate that has slammed shut.

June 13, 2023 · 10 Comments

David Hassler: Intensive Care

Children under the age of fourteen weren’t allowed in the ICU. I was eleven, and my brother was thirteen, but no nurse or doctor was going to stop us from seeing our mother.

March 12, 2023 · 7 Comments

David Hassler: Spaghetti Dinners

I pour Lynn a glass of wine and make a toast: “To our future life together.” We stare into each other’s eyes and smile. Unable to wait any longer, I ask Lynn if she will marry me. She says yes, and I begin to cry. I am here, in this place, with a beautiful woman who loves me.

February 13, 2023 · 10 Comments

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