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

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Bob Sorino But of course you do move on. Kent natives are few and far between, and in the end you aren ' t one of them. You head east or west, and nothing of Kent goes with you but your diploma and maybe a Moosehead jersey and the subtle temptation to compare. Nobody makes chili like Gerty. Anything beats February in the heart of the heartland. You were from Kent for four years anyway — or five, or six — and somewhere in the back of your brain it ' s stuck ... a microcosmic frozen little point of reference that melts down onto every other place you settle. Barb Gerwin Bob Sorino 23

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Herb Detrick Four rooms (no view) . . . what do you do with them? Plants are always a convenient remedy to lack of diningroom furniture (this page, top), and at Value-King, NEUCOM students Mitch Platin (left) and Anshu Guleria (right) stock up on a little something for their kitchen (above). A bathroom for one, like Michelle King ' s on South Depeyster, is a relief after a couple years of queuing up for a dorm shower (opposite top). But for real down-home atmosphere, nothing can beat a livingroom that ' s complete with fireplace and state of the art electronics, like the one enjoyed by Jeanette Plunkett in her house off Summit Street (opposite bottom). 22

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y Hl Bob Sorino At its best, porch life is a delicate hybrid of leisure and labor reserved for summer. Everything is easier, somehow more romantic on a porch, including studying, as Marc Collins and his cat Ivory demonstrate from their hammock on South Lincoln (above). Those lucky enough to have a flat porch roof are just that much nearer the rays (top), while under the roof on South Water, the Bettys hold a summer jam (opposite left). And at the front door, a magician polishes his act with a rather specialized brand of pet (opposite right). Tarn Walrath Porch People can scan the land . . . they are stroller scopers, and sunset hopers. They hangout clothes, and grow plants to enhance porch furniture — i.e. porch swings and funky things like tree stump stools and rocks and flea-infested couches. Many porch people are animal lovers . . . they feed birds bread, pizza, and, of course, black squirrels peanut butter, and stray cats nothing and many times they have their own pets. Such as Rastig the cat or Scooter the feret — but landlords don ' t like pets — they make flea-infested couches, mind you, so porch people go for nonmammals like Cleo the clam and Sidney the snake and Polly the parrot and Credence the crayfish. But anyway, porch people cook on grills, too, and for more thrills have keg parties outside (this way the kitchen floor doesn ' t warp under the spilled beer). 24