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Featured May 4

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 91ֿ 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 91ֿ President Todd Diacon shares the experience of following values to navigate today’s divided culture, using lessons learned from May 4 1970. 

Pacifique Niyonzima, far right, program manager of 91ֿ'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 91ֿ as a response to May 4. Today it’s central in 91ֿ’s global presence. We travel to Rwanda, where 91ֿ 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 91ֿ fraternity brothers drive to the nation’s 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.

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What’s past is prologue. Let the history of May 4, 1970, be heard this week. 

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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 91ֿ students who lost their lives 50 years ago on the 91ֿ campus.

button created by Jerry Casale - Kent Students Medical Fund

“I 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.” - Jerry Casale

91ֿr editors have covered 50 years of May 4 anniversaries.

91ֿ alumni who served as editor of the Daily 91ֿr 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’s jacket, a gas mask and gun shell casing  tell a story that’s not often accessible to the general public. Assistant Professor Abe Avnisan and students in his digital sciences capstone course will bring these artifacts’ stories to life via the exhibit “May 4: Through the Looking Glass.”