Undeterred, relentless, and ready to make their voices heard yet again—students from the Ohio Student Association (OSA) are holding another protest outside of the Board of Trustees meeting this Wednesday...

On Saturday morning, Students for Life members and locals of the Akron community gathered together in front of the Akron Women’s Medical Group clinic at 839 E. Market St. to participate in the National...

Maria Guess-Cousins Last week, many students rallied in a silent protest on the front of Buchtel Hall’s steps. Students of many backgrounds shared similar interests as they stood with their mouths duck...

Matthew Balsinger In light of looming changes to compensation for part-time faculty, members of the Ohio Part-Time Faculty Association (OPTFA) were on campus Wednesday afternoon to hold a rally for what...

Katelyn Freil A special edition of Zipmail was sent out one week ago meant to clear up confusion about rumors of the Office of Multicultural Development. “We have become aware of a lot of misinformation...

Morgan Hummel Last week, students on college campuses nationwide carried empty holsters in support of the concealed carry movement. The Empty Holster Protest, as it has come to be called by Students for...

Written by: Heather Beyer and Katelyn Freil The Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender Union student organization at Akron stood their ground on Monday as they protested the Undergraduate Student Government...

Written by: Molly Gase Learning from the oral history of a Kent State protester was accomplished in the Honors College common room March 8 through the graphic photography of the historic shooting on May...

May 4, 1970 was a day that brought the campus into the national spotlight. In the midst of the very controversial Vietnam War, the peaceful protestor was a popular image. Kent State protestor Alan Canfora...

On Tuesday, thousands of Ohioans ventured to the Ohio Statehouse to protest Senate Bill 5, a bill restricting collective bargaining rights for state employees.Collective bargaining is a type of negotiation...

" The sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq was acknowledged in Akron on March 20 by protesters. Approximately two dozen people organized a march, which began at Akron City Hall and ended at the Federal...

"The sidewalks outside the federal courthouse on S. Main Street were filled Friday with protesters joining in a peaceful show of support for the rule of law in Pakistan. The protest was organized after...

"Recent proposed constitutional changes in Venezuela have provoked student protests. On Tuesday, university students led a demonstration in the capital, opposing the changes that included the potential...

"The Women's Studies program is recycling. It isn't a part of a green campus initiative, however. It's meant to help victims of domestic violence. In conjunction with Domestic Violence Awareness Month,...

Love Akron will host their sixth annual awards breakfast at the John S. Knight Center on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at  6:45 a.m. The Love Akron Awards are held each September in memory of the late Brenda Burnham...

I accepted the fact that Donald Trump won. I never liked Trump. I didn’t like the way he talked about women and disregarded them. Then again, I didn’t think Hillary was much better. I kept my thoughts...

Have you noticed people wearing single safety pins on their shirts? It sounds like some crazy fashion trend of the 80’s but it’s actually a powerful signal to those around you that you love and support...

Yesterday, Alan Canfora, a former Kent State University student who was wounded in the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, spoke at the UA Honors Common room to give his perspective as a protester in...

In the past weeks I have been thoroughly disgusted by some of the grotesque images and regressive messages I have seen and heard on campus. I completely agree with anyone who is offended by them, however,...

Over the next few weeks, The Buchtelite will be publishing letters from important people who played important parts in the events of the last year at UA, specifically those dealing with the beleaguered...

Over the summer, Scott Scarborough ended a short but controversial tenure as The University of Akron’s president. The Board of Trustees, the governing body of the University, announced Scarborough’s...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to fall semester at The University of Akron. We hope your classes have started smoothly and you are engaged in your work. We’d like to mention three things in this...

It started early this year as a post on a zipsnation.org forum. Since, the topic of a UA name-change — a rebranding, a new slogan, a marketing tagline, whatever one might call it now — has been...

As a student leader on campus of Black Students United (BSU), I feel it is my obligation to help provide a social, educational, and a cultural setting that will serve to enrich and enhance the collegiate...

University President Scott Scarborough might soon receive a formal “lack of confidence” expression from the UA Faculty Senate. A resolution “to create an ad hoc committee to consider proposing...

A student-centered day of action will sweep across the United States on Thursday, Nov. 12. Students from The University of Akron plan to join the movement. Starting at 10 a.m. on Thursday at the James...

Admitting wrongdoing is difficult—and apparently too difficult, especially for The University of Akron’s administrators. The tenderest consolation UA’s constituents have so far received is the...

Using the hashtag #YesAllWomen, a movement has recently started on Twitter in an attempt to raise awareness about the struggles and the problems women face in this society. Here are some examples of tweets...

Starting a student-run organization on campus can be difficult. For example, look at a club that would seem relatively easy to begin: the American Sign Language Club, a common language around here, took...

In 2012, at the age of 14, Daisy Coleman of Missouri was given a exessive amount of alcohol, sexually assaulted and then dropped off near her house by a 17-year-old student. Normally, the names of sexual...

It’s October and that means it’s a very special time of year. It’s fall, the leaves are changing, and the first semester’s nearly done. This is a truly magical time of year when people, adults...

Students for Life is a branch of Students for Life of America, the most active and largest youth anti-abortion organization in the United States. When asked why she joined SFL, Secretary Jacqueline...

Morgan Hummel Roaming the University of Akron campus this week, you’ll be surprised by more than just the exceptionally warm, sunny weather and the emergence of short shorts and tank tops. A keen...

Kara Hemphill You may or may not have been aware of this, but it’s Women’s History Month – a month much like any other month, except we sort of pretend to honor women’s history for a few weeks. Last...

Written by: Jessica Johnson As I look at my absentee ballot for this election, I wonder, “Which presidential candidate really is going to send this country forward and make the progress that I want...

Written by: Heather Beyer and Beau Brown In response to a protest held in the Student Union by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Union (LGBTU), Undergraduate Student Govenment (USG) president Mary...

Written by: Beau Brown With the upcoming election, we are up to our knees in U.S. politics, but now many university students are in neck-deep as on-campus politics are poured into the vat. This past...

Written by: Abigail Chaff I have become astounded by the rampant apathy of the vast majority of students on this campus. You know apathy, right? Or haven’t you ever cared enough to look it up? Well,...

When I truly believe in something, I eat at Chick-fil-A.  When I’m sorta lukewarm on an issue but very hung over, I go to Denny’s and get a Moons Over My Hammy. When I’m overwhelmed with self-loathing, ...

Ed. Note: Dan Cathy was reported as saying the following: “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business,...

Written by: Jennifer Craig Trayvon Martin’s shooting is a national news event that many are talking about, but there seems little being done in response. To fully understand the case at hand, we must...

By: Zach West As our country continues to fight for our freedom overseas, it is quite normal to hear about conflicts on the evening news.  Tuesday, it was reported that such an incident happened outside...

By: Marcus Nicholson Last Wednesday began Black History Month. It was also the kickoff to the Rethinking Race program that is an annual part of The University of Akron’s programming. Charles J. Ogletree...

I find myself disturbed about my safety on campus. I’m not questioning the security of the campus; my fear lies solely in elevator safety. It sounds odd. I mean, how many times does one ride an elevator in a week?Regardless of how improbable, I found myself trapped in Elevator No. 4 in the Student Union for almost two hours on Sunday with two of my peers.

Last Wednesday, some popular websites made some very noticeable changes. Google featured a black censor box over its logo. The more informal informative website Wikipedia’s home page was completely blacked out, only able to be used through disabling Javascript. (I Googled that fact because I still have the “right” to.) These blackouts were in protest of two pieces of national legislation aiming to put a halt to online piracy. The Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are both pieces of legislation that were recently proposed at a national level.

I take strong issue with Ms. Prince's column on the Occupy Wall Street protests. The usual left wing tropes are brought out about the rich getting richer, the evil top one percent and complaints over student loans. Much like the protesters themselves, Price offers lots of gripes but few concrete proposals to remedy our "unjust system." There is a stark disconnect throughout her analysis of the movement. She laments that most college students are saddled with increasing student loan debt, so therefore, what this country needs is to demand Wall Street executives to fork over more of their money.

Addressing the debate as to whether or not China will dominate the world in our lifetime, the question Monday night was not if, but when. Monday night, Pulitzer Prize-winning couple Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn engaged in rhetoric of how America must go about accommodating a rising power during the 20th annual John S. Knight Lecture at EJ Thomas Hall, “Reflections on China: Tiananmen to Present.”

By: Jasmine Pace A revolution has begun across the United States.  Occupy Wall Street is a peaceful fight against corporate greed and social inequality in the United States economic system, which affects...

Over 500 Akronites showed up for a Roundtable event with Governor John R. Kasich Tuesday, held at Quaker Square Inn. A mixture of local business people, University of Akron faculty and UA students were among the crowd to hear the governor speak. During the Roundtable, Kasich addressed many of the issues Ohioans are currently facing. [flag] Illustration by Mahala J Bloom “The mission is to lift the state," Kasich said. "When I came into Ohio, I believed that Ohio was dying.”

The University of Akron was host to Women in Culture: The Social Evolution of Women last Thursday in the Student Union ballrooms. Sunandini Chopra, director of diversity for Associated Student Government,...

It is always intriguing when the controversies of the past flow into those of the present.  Our society also constantly thrives off of a I told you I could do it story.  Prominent Professor...

Turmoil: the word graces headlines daily. We use it to describe growing tensions in the Middle East, our failing economy and natural disasters. Most days, it seems as though the globe is in a perpetual...

We have a lot of problems to solve here at home – the daily problems of handling our responsibilities as students without going insane, societal problems including, but not limited to, the economic...

Alan Canfora, a participant in the anti-Vietnam War student protests on May 4, 1970 at Kent State, will be speaking on the UA campus this week."Alan Canfora, a participant in the anti-Vietnam War student...

Anyone that has turned on news broadcasts in the last three weeks is aware that the dictator who held the reins of power for three decades in Egypt was overthrown by an uprising of his subjects. Of course,...

The Ohio Conference of AAUP Chapters has joined a coalition of public employee unions to oppose Senate Bill 5.After two days of testimony last week, the Ohio Senate's Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee...

That lovable, oversized kangaroo seen at various events around campus is named Zippy. Why? Because our athletic teams were named after a rubber over-shoe called a zipper which was invented by Goodyear,...

Last week's dedication to Alcohol Awareness, as well as a day of wearing purple in honor of recent suicides as a result of homophobic abuse, raises the question of why students aren't as involved in social...

"The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio today urged University of Akron officials to reconsider their decision to dismiss adjunct faculty member. Williams previously resigned his position in protest...

"It's women's history month and my last article focused on writing significant women back into history. Wanting to keep in step with this theme, I asked myself about my own position in, or my ability to...

"Nope, it's not that one, but I definitely made you stop and look, didn't I? In some households this word may be as foul-mouthed as a cuss word, not because it's derogatory but because it's powerful. It...

"The University of Akron is gaining national attention for being a groundbreaking leader among colleges and universities throughout the country. The attention comes because of the university's progressive...

" A controversial policy allowing the University of Akron to require DNA testing from potential employees has quickly gained the attention of national media and the ACLU. Matt Williams, who resigned Saturday...

"Take Back the Night, a national organization which raises awareness for sexual violence, will be holding an event Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 from 6 until 9:00 p.m. at the Firestone Park Community Center sponsored...

"If you're a conservative or a libertarian you should be happy that you don't live in Missouri, because odds are you would be flagged as a domestic terrorist. A recent secret report that was leaked to...

"When I was researching for my column yesterday, I stumbled upon an interesting discovery. It appears that Luis Proenza and I actually have something in common. Google the name Luis Proenza and you'll...