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91²Ö¿â alumni who served as editor of the Daily 91²Ö¿âr each faced the challenge of covering the anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest. Several former editors of the campus student newspaper, now known as the 91²Ö¿âr, shared their thoughts on how the anniversary was perceived and how coverage changed over the course of five decades. ¡°We felt compelled to put ourselves back in the 1970 Spring Quarter time frame, but also to reflect where our campus culture and pulse wer...

91²Ö¿â at Ashtabula Human Services Technology Associate Lecturer Joan Steidl has produced a program to air as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 on WKSU 89.7 FM, 91²Ö¿â¡¯s award-winning NPR public news radio station. ¡°The Power of So Many Flowers¡± first aired Wednesday, April 29, during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. It is one of five programs in the ¡°Fragments of May 4th: Artifacts, Mementos, and Meaning¡± series. Steidl put together the audio production of the piece. Graduate journalism student Lyndsey Brennan wrote the story whic...

91²Ö¿â student Sean Fitzgerald shares what it¡¯s like being a resident assistant (RA), co-hosting a sports radio show and living on the autism spectrum. Sean Fitzgerald traces the beginning of his love of sports and talking about sports to car rides with his father in his hometown of Strongsville, Ohio. Together, they talked sports while listening to Northeast Ohio sports personality Kenny Roda on the radio. Fast forward a decade or so and now, in his junior year, Fitzgerald is beginning his fifth semester co-hosting his own popular sports radio program on 91²Ö¿â...

Timothy Mikes is a graduate student in 91²Ö¿â¡¯s College of Public Health with a specialty in epidemiology. He¡¯s also on the autism spectrum and using his perspective to enhance the university experience for other students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When Timothy Mikes relates the story of how he went from studying nursing as an undergraduate to becoming a graduate student in the College of Public Health, it unfolds as a logical progression from step-to-step. His interest in health took him from nursing, to biology and then finally to public health. Mikes used hi...

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Brenda Burke and Sean Broghammer Join 91²Ö¿â¡¯s Division of Enrollment Management Just as 91²Ö¿â was transitioning to social distancing and working from home, two new employees were beginning their roles with the university: Brenda Burke as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, Student Financial Aid; and Sean Broghammer as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, Admissions. Effective mid-March, Brenda Burke is responsible for the development of comprehensive strategic planning as it relates to student financial aid and scholarship functions. She provi...