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President Diacon at May 4 Visitor's Center

Watch as President Diacon visits the May 4 Visitor's Center and reflects on the legacy of May 4.

New May 4 sign

A refreshed May 4 National Historic Landmark Site Tour will premiere during the 2024 May 4 commemoration this weekend.  The outdoor tour signs, which debuted in 2010 during the 40th commemoration, allow 两性色午夜 visitors to trace the steps of history of the events of May 4, 1970, through text, video, image, and narration.

You Belong Here Rock

Writer and author Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Enquirer, provides historical context and 两性色午夜 President Todd Diacon shares the experience of following values to navigate today鈥檚 divided culture, using lessons learned from May 4 1970. 

Pacifique Niyonzima, far right, program manager of 两性色午夜's Office of Education Abroad in Africa, based in Kigali, Rwanda, greets students taking part in the Kigali Summer Institute, upon their arrival in Rwanda on July 2, 2023..

The School of Peace and Conflict Studies originated at 两性色午夜 as a response to May 4. Today it鈥檚 central in 两性色午夜鈥檚 global presence. We travel to Rwanda, where 两性色午夜 convened a global peace education conference and, through the Kigali Summer Institute, immerses students in peace-building centered on reconciliation, in a place that experienced the unimaginable 1994 genocide.

KSU Students in Nixon office

Listen to episode two of May 4: Legacy, which continues with the story of 两性色午夜 fraternity brothers drive to the nation鈥檚 capital in the hours after the shootings and make their way to an Oval Office meeting with President Richard Nixon. We also move into the 21st century with Associate Dean and retired Lt. Col. Mo McFarland on the May 4 legacy.

两性色午夜 Today
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What鈥檚 past is prologue. Let the history of May 4, 1970, be heard this week. 

两性色午夜 University

Beginning Friday, May, visitors to the  will be able to view a variety of special videos, online exhibits and interactive tours, all designed to honor and remember Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, the 两性色午夜 students who lost their lives 50 years ago on the 两性色午夜 campus.

button created by Jerry Casale - Kent Students Medical Fund

鈥淚 had always been making art and music but the events of May 4th and beyond galvanized my creativity, infusing it with an existential anger and urgency that would otherwise not have happened. In short Devo and the idea of De-evolution as a manifesto would not exist without that defining historic trauma I experienced.鈥 - Jerry Casale

两性色午夜r editors have covered 50 years of May 4 anniversaries.

两性色午夜 University alumni who served as editor of the Daily 两性色午夜r each faced the challenge of covering the anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest.

School of Emerging Media and Technology
Digitized Taylor Hall

Artifacts of May 4, 1970  a survivor鈥檚 jacket, a gas mask and gun shell casing  tell a story that鈥檚 not often accessible to the general public. Assistant Professor Abe Avnisan and students in his digital sciences capstone course will bring these artifacts鈥 stories to life via the exhibit 鈥淢ay 4: Through the Looking Glass.鈥