As June continues, more store aisles resemble rainbows and adorn themselves in brightly colored, prideful merchandise. However, companies who do not support the LGBTQ+ community, yet still sell Pride products, are stealing funds intended to fight for equality and using them to further discrimination. The most obvious problem with such a practice is hypocrisy. While this is a flaw that...

It was only six years ago that Jordan Gray tried out track and field for the first time, having no idea how skilled she would become in the following years. The homeschooled Gray grew up as a self-proclaimed "basketball girl," but quickly impressed coaches with her versatility during her senior year of high school. Coming off a major ankle injury...

A team of four recent Kennesaw State graduates won first place at the 12th annual American College of Sports Medicine Student Bowl in Orlando, Florida in May. Soon after graduating from KSU with degrees in exercise science, Kayla Alesi, Joy Tankersley, Emma Chorney and Ally Kuntz competed in one of 13 teams at the ACSM Student Bowl, answering Jeopardy-style questions...

The LGBTQ Resource Center at Kennesaw State recently hosted several Dungeons and Dragons game nights from May 29 to June 3. The adventurous event was dubbed Queer Quest. The center provided space and promotion for the event, and was developed and executed by a student leader. It was structured in a way that allowed for both newcomers and veterans to...

A group of Kennesaw State students recently earned cash prizes for their work in a spring data science course, working in teams to solve data-related problems for partnering companies. During the semester, students in the course worked in five different teams, partnering with two companies per team. The teams then worked together to try to solve company data analytics issues....

Kennesaw State’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning selected a new associate director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on May 23. CETL Executive Director Michele DiPietro said that Dr. Hillary Steiner, who served as interim associate director for SoTL and associate professor of educational psychology, was chosen by the CETL committee after displaying a proven track record...

Just three decades ago, Kennesaw State —then Kennesaw College — only had around 5,900 students and they were all commuters. When Kennesaw State professor of statistics Lewis VanBrackle started his career at KSU, there was no Burress Building, recreation center, Clendenin Building, Social Science Building or Stillwell Theatre. "The student center was not as big [and neither were] the University...

Kennesaw State's Marietta campus has seen tremendous change since its origin decades ago. "I guess I started out as a custodian," Kennesaw State Administrative Associate Alberta Cook said. "That was the first position I applied for and I was hired. [Then] I applied for a position in the electrical and computer engineering technology department — clerk typist. [I was] in...

The Football Association of Thailand announced on Tuesday that Kennesaw State goalkeeper Tiffany Sornpao made the final 23-person roster that will be competing at the Women's World Cup in France this summer. Sornpao is coming off her sophomore season, where she statistically ranked among the best in the Atlantic Sun Conference while also having nine clean sheets and setting a...

Teaching abroad means experiencing cultures and places some people only encounter in their dreams. Kelsey Fulton graduated from Kennesaw State in December 2018 and is already on her way to fulfilling her lifelong dream. In August, she will board a plane to South Korea where she has a job waiting for her as an English teacher in a public school.“I’m...