The Akron Zips Men’s Soccer team is heading to its sixth College Cup appearance after toppling defending national champion Stanford in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.

This is a comeback against a team that previously squashed Akron’s championship dreams last season and in 2015.

Akron will travel west to Santa Barbara, Calif. to face Michigan State in the College Cup semifinal on Friday, Dec. 7. The Zips previously beat the Spartans, 2-1, during the regular season.

The Zips, who have maintained a 14-6-2 record thus far, made quick...

Hours after a 28-3 loss to South Carolina to end the season, The University of Akron announced that football head coach Terry Bowden was relieved of his duties as the Zips finished the season with a 4-8 record.

In his seven seasons with the Zips, Bowden, maintained a 35-52 record while also establishing several signature achievements for the team, including a 5-2 record over arch-rival Kent State during his tenure.

Bowden led the Zips to two bowl games in the past three seasons, capturing the team’s first-ever bowl win at the Famous Idaho...

Sunday, Nov. 18, the Akron Zips Men’s Soccer team took a 3-1 win over Syracuse in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on the campus of Colgate University.

With this win, the Zips advance to the Sweet 16 of the tournament where they will play top-seeded Wake Forest.

The Zips have now gone on a six-game winning streak.

According to GoZips.com, Sophomore David Egbo (Enugu, Nigeria) and junior Marcel Zajac (Mississauga, Ontario) had the team high of 4 shots each. Also, senior Abdi Mohamed (Westerville, OH) had 3 shots, senior Ezana Kahsay...

On Saturday, Nov. 17, the Akron Zips football team took on Bowling Green at InfoCision Stadium-Summa Field.

Senior PK Nick Gasser (Liberty Township, Ohio) was able to score for the Zips in the first quarter with a 38-yard field goal and a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter.

Also in the second quarter, senior DB Jordan George (Dayton, Ohio) intercepted the ball and returned 53 yards. This was George’s seventh career interception and the first of the current season.

With 10 seconds left in the second quarter, Bowling Green scored...

What makes poetry, poetry?

Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some won’t be much help: “Poetry is the sort of thing poets write,” Robert Frost is said to have said.

I’m sorry I asked.

If we struggle with poetry, this struggle to define it is partly to blame. It would be easier if poetry obeyed certain rules—if we could trust it to rhyme, or appear in lines or make sense.

Easier, maybe, but certainly less exciting: set a limit for what “counts”...

Editor's Note: The writer would like to clarify that the contents of this article were originally written several years ago for poetic purposes only. The following poem does not necessarily represent the thoughts, emotions or actions of the writer.



A flower in the snow, a flaw in the system. Struggling to stay alive, but have already lost the fight.

Falling to no end, it's useless to scream. Smiling through everything, to gain pain from spite.

Dark colors collide, my moon-pale skin. Hides self-made secrets, like beauty's poisoned...

On Nov. 22, the Akron Zoo kicked off their third annual holiday lights show, Wild Lights.

The lights show is separate from general zoo admission and will run 20 dates between Nov. 23 and Dec. 30 from 5-9 p.m.

Douglas Piekarz, President and CEO of the zoo, said he is excited about the 2018 program and hopes families will “come and share the holiday joy.”

According to the Akron Zoo’s website, pre-sale tickets for Akron Zoo members are $9 for adults, and tickets for children ages 2-14 are $6.

Presale tickets for Akron Zoo non-members...

The Champions of Magic, a magic show featuring five world-class illusionists, will be performing at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall on Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. as part of their 2018 international tour.

Tickets for the performance must be reserved in advance and can be purchased on Ticketmaster. Prices range from $30 to $100 with no listed discount for University of Akron students.

According to the UAevents website, the performance “features original magic that can’t be seen anywhere else,” with several different acts from each illusionist.

Fernando...

The classic quote, “Why not Akron,” has never been more relevant than it is today. 2018 saw the launch of the Bowery Project downtown and with it, a promising future for the city.

A full article on what the project entails can be found in a piece written by Crain’s Business, here.

In summary, the $42 million Bowery Project will be breaking ground to revitalize an important stretch of Main Street near the Civic Theater later this year. The project will create just under 100 new apartments as well as 40,000 square feet of retail and mixed-use...

When I was a child, I used to take my parents' old Queen CD’s and play them nonstop. So when I began watching the movie about frontman Freddie Mercury, I was thrilled. Unfortunately, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 2018 movie about Mercury’s life, did not meet my expectations.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” was not a terrible movie. It had plenty of funny, heartfelt moments. However, to me and plenty of LGBTQ people, Mercury was a queer icon. Because of this, I was expecting much more and much better LGBTQ representation in the movie.

The representation...

Nov. 20 marks Transgender Day of Remembrance, an event started in 1999 to honor people whose lives have been lost to anti-trans violence.

According to GLAAD, a non-governmental LGBTQ organization, the day was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to Rita Hester. The vigil commemorated all the trans people that were killed since Hester’s death.

Since then, the tradition is carried on by cities who host their own vigils, such as Cleveland, and in the hearts and minds of LGBTQ folks and allies.

To commemorate trans lives, The Buchtelite...

Despite thanking the LGBTQ community and ensuring their safety in a 2016 tweet, President Donald Trump and his administration have done nothing but rollback LGBTQ rights that took decades to establish.

Some of these rollbacks, according to The Leadership Conference, include barring trans-individuals from entering the military and unclear statements about allowing funds to schools that discriminate against LGBTQ students.

One of the most recent events is a proposal to legally change the definition of “sex” that will omit trans people from...