Author: Sabrina Kerns

Tommia Dean, a former Kennesaw State cheerleader who kneeled in protest during the national anthem at a game last year, will speak out about her experiences on The View in a live episode airing on Wednesday, Sept. 19. at 11 a.m.

Kennesaw State began its Rape Aggression Defense classes on Monday, Sept. 17 in the Austin Residential Complex on the Kennesaw campus in the multipurpose room.

Kennesaw State’s Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery hosted their annual Celebration of Recovery Scholarship Breakfast at the KSU Continuing Education Center on Friday, Sept. 14, to raise funds for student scholarships.

Kennesaw State invited residents displaced by Hurricane Florence to its home-opener game against Alabama State University on Saturday, Sept. 15, as the storm approached the Carolinas.

A Kennesaw State Police report revealed that a student who was detained on Aug. 29 after carrying an unlicensed gun on campus was threatening to kill other “students who wronged him.”

Kennesaw State Athletics announced in August that the athletics department signed an agreement with Ed Voyles Automotive to make the company the official car dealership of the KSU Owls.

A Kennesaw State University student filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, Sept. 5, accusing university and state officials of violating her civil rights last year after a dispute over her and four other cheerleaders’ decision to kneel in protest during the national anthem.

Kennesaw State Police Chief Edward Stephens sent a campus safety alert about a student who had an unlicensed firearm on campus in an email to faculty, staff and students on Thursday, Aug. 30.

Representatives from Twitch spoke with Kennesaw eSports in August about bringing their student program to the southeast region of the U.S. and to Kennesaw State.

One of the Kennesaw State cheerleaders who knelt in protest before a football game last year said she does not believe the athletic department’s decision to keep her off of the cheerleading team this year was “skills-based.”

Several of the Kennesaw State cheerleaders who took a knee during the national anthem at a football game last fall will not be back on the field this upcoming season.

Kennesaw State’s Graduate College partnered with FLOCK Specialty Finance in July to create a new research lab where students will analyze consumer borrowing data.