Among the brick façade of the chapel, women line up to check in for the afternoon service. They look over their shoulders to wave and say, “hi” to the spunky woman with wispy gray hair. Jan Pluck, the volunteer coordinator at Haven of Rest, smiles and waves back, looking up from paperwork she’s helping a…

Twice a day, every day, Mark Trapp does his chores. Dressed in a ragged green and brown flannel shirt, tattered knit hat, mud-stained pants and old galoshes, Trapp treks across his 30-acre plot of land for four hours of chores at 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Feed animals, clean coops, check crops. Repeat. In the…

Kyle Lutton, a sophomore at Kent State University, has moved more than a dozen times in his lifetime. When he graduates from the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in 2019, four years in Kent will be the longest he’s stayed in one place, but even that’s temporary. “There are three constants in my life,”…

“It was just me and my dad growing up, I wasn’t a feminist then,” said Mara Cash, who grew up roughhousing with the boys, spending weekends hiking and playing sports. It wasn’t until she attended a Young Women’s poetry camp that she found out who she was. There, she was surrounded by young women like…

Chazz Ware has been involved in activism here at Kent State University for her entire three-year tenure as a student. She primarily focuses on two causes, Black Lives Matter and feminism. During her time here, she has discovered that a lack of inclusion has been quietly but steadily holding the causes back. “Traditionally the feminist…