Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Setting The town and countryside Kent, Ohio sticky, sweating hot in the summer driving into town on one of the several highways, from Cleveland, Akron, Ravenna - the rain is bound to start pouring down as you pass the corporation limits. Kent, Ohio trees, the Holiday lnn, countryside, picturesque farmlands, highway - city - you're there. Largely populated and spotted with business for a town with seemingly little indsutry. Railroad cars whistle down the tracks along Water, Franklin Streets through Fred Fuller Park winding Cuyahoga riverside, past old Erie- Lackawanna Station, mills, behind old bar row, Brady Leap - did he really? - new highway, Crain Street bridge, out 43 country again, Towner junction and you've left Kent, Ohio. With its quaint tree lined old sections and increasingly swelling sub-suburban sprawl, Kent resembles any one of a number of small northeastern, southwestern Ohio, mid- western United States towns. Kent's major difference is that nearly two-thirds of its approximately 32,000 residents either live at or commute daily to the main source of livelihood, the 1200 acre Kent State University campus. Community store, Peaceable Bakeries, natural foods and pizza, boarding houses, bookstores, canoeing, shooting pictures on warm lli W

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PX. Q-'-I copy, I need art! screams a Stater editor. Next door, editors, writers and photographers work under harsh flourescent lights and the constant night of darkrooms to fit together a year's experiences for the Chestnut Burr. Across the dark Commons yellow angles slice the sky. Inside, budding artists work at their masterpieces. Clay-covered hands slap and pinch at sculptures or pull stoneware from the potter's wheel. Art projects grow from days and nights hunched over easels and layout tables. Music majors spend days and nights practicing instruments and voice charts. Theater majors pace the hallways of Music and Speech with hair slicked back and faces lost under greasepaint. On another floor, telecommunications students labor to broadcast news and music over the air. When the clock radio blares on weekday mornings the university bustles to life. The quarter is short and the year passes by fast. There is seldom the right kind of food, never enough time for sleep, and always too much studying to be done. But interspersed with chaotic times are times of solitary peace. Moments of frustration are laced with those of fun and laughter. And there are as many times to stomp through snow or lie in the sun as there are to run from the monsoon rains. Hen byLaur1P Ma Photography Opposit p g Th W Th p g Th Warren, left. top righ I

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,,,,... z-,,,,..... .-f -1 +1 summer, fall days, foot of snow on winter days with fraternity row parties and College Avenue Kent, Ohio. Farm folks visit the city weekly for their everyday needs . . . gas, groceries, drugstore necessities from Hartville, Brimiield, small rural spots along 43, with kids for haircuts, and country fresh vegetable stands along the way farmers' market with fresh fruit, trail baloney on their way into the tree city . Weekends come and scores of students climb in cars or throw out their thumbs to go home to Cleveland f f -4- '1f -lf'-'-I -- -' or Akron or somewhere to visit another college town, some friends, and the population is reduced, town is slower - pace dies down. Weekend outings, picnics in parks and walking up Main for ice cream - skating on the lake, hot chocolate and party at bars. Kline's market for cheese and deathly silent Sunday streets then wham return traffic from all parts of Ohio. Main Street widening brings confusion with earth movers crawling into streets causing traffic jams and trees tumbling here and there for progress. Hamburger stands up and Photography Opposite page Laurie Mazerov This page Lynn Sladky down the street seek business of students de-appetized by university food. Early morning loops for campus, West-Main Plaza and donut breakfast at Captain Brady's before 7:45, packs of people waiting, running to catch up - business as usual is Kent, Ohio. Late at night two slightly overschooled and undernourished tenants of the tree town shoot the breeze while coffeeing over the delectability of a home fries, eggs easy over, toast fwheatj, jam - number two at Ierry's 23 hour daily Diner in downtown, ourtown, Kent, Ohio. 17