Zips football opens up season with win over Virginia Military Institute
By Joshua Glaze, jig7@zips.uakron.edu
September 7, 2016
The University of Akron Zips’ football team outscored Virginia Military Institute 47-24 in the season opener Saturday evening at Infocision Stadium. The Zips seemed to pick up where they left off last season, increasing their win streak to six games, the longest since Head Coach Terry Bowden became ...
Inspiring young girls into STEM fields
By Kaitlin Erdman
March 7, 2016
It is known that women are underrepresented in STEM fields, but an event held every year at The University of Akron is working to change that. Last Saturday, UA held the 2016 Kid’s Career Day in the Student Union. This event, sponsored by Lockheed Martin and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, was a half...
EXL Launch Week day one: introductions, millennials
By Zaina Salem, Grant Morgan, and Dylan Reynolds
March 2, 2016
“The notion that you have to pick between what you love and paying the bills is absurd,” said Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline and founding director of The University of Akron’s new EXL Center. A series of events to launch the EXL Center — short for Experiential Learning Center for E...
The year of the monkey
By Celeste Houmard, Writer
February 10, 2016
Chinese New Year --or the Lunar New Year --begins with the new moon, and Feb. 8 marks year 4714. The Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. 2016 is considered to be the year of the monkey? The monkey is ninth of the 12 animals in the recurring 12-year...
Rethinking Race preview
By Zaina Salem, Editor in Chief
January 27, 2016
The Rethinking Race series is back at The University of Akron, beginning Jan. 29 and lasting until Feb. 12. Rethinking Race: Black, White and Beyond is a forum in which race-related issues are discussed and examined through films, performances, face-to-face conversations, and keynote speakers. Rethinking...
Z-Fit kicks off new program
By John Rachal, Writer
January 25, 2016
The most common New Year’s resolution is the classic “let’s get in shape for spring break” goal which, understandably, is thrown to the wayside as people get back into the swing of their usual school, work, and life schedules. With so much on one’s plate, it’s hard to even think about...
In June, a ‘literal political campaign’ to change UA’s name by January 2016
By Grant Morgan, Managing Editor
December 7, 2015
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 persistently in the news. But last Friday, The Devil Strip released a story about an administrative email tha...
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