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Softball still without head coach to start school year
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Softball still without head coach to start school year

  • Kai Millette
  • August 22, 2025
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The outfield of Bailey Park, KSU’s softball field Photo Credit: Zaire Breedlove Kennesaw State softball parted ways with former head coach Tripp Mackay in early […]

Soccer shut out in home opener against ranked Memphis squad
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Soccer shut out in home opener against ranked Memphis squad

  • Scott Daniell
  • August 22, 2025
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Soccer struggled in its season opener

Preamchuen Vanderpool returns to KSU as head women’s golf coach
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Preamchuen Vanderpool returns to KSU as head women’s golf coach

  • Kai Millette
  • August 18, 2025
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Ket Preamchuen Vanderpool helped make history as a player. Now she’s back to do it again — this time as head coach

Men’s basketball announces 2025–26 CUSA schedule, adds South Florida and MTE to non-conference slate
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Men’s basketball announces 2025–26 CUSA schedule, adds South Florida and MTE to non-conference slate

  • Kai Millette
  • July 11, 2025
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Photo credit: Kevin Barrett Kennesaw State men’s basketball revealed its 20-game Conference USA schedule Thursday, shortly after adding a multi-team event, Southern Wesleyan and South […]

Men’s basketball adds Florida A&M, Point, Jackson State and Georgia State to 2025-26 schedule
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Men’s basketball adds Florida A&M, Point, Jackson State and Georgia State to 2025-26 schedule

  • Kai Millette
  • June 12, 2025
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Photo credit: Kevin Barrett Kennesaw State men’s basketball added four new opponents to its 2025-26 non-conference schedule, including an in-state rival and first matchup. For […]

Men’s basketball adds Alabama to 2025-26 schedule
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Men’s basketball adds Alabama to 2025-26 schedule

  • Kai Millette
  • June 4, 2025
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Photo Courtesy of KSU Athletics Kennesaw State will face coach Antoine Pettway‘s alma mater Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama as part of its 2025-26 non-conference schedule. Per […]

Coach Tripp MacKay and KSU softball part ways
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Coach Tripp MacKay and KSU softball part ways

  • Scott Daniell
  • May 8, 2025
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Kennesaw State announced on Monday it will not be renewing the contract of head softball coach Tripp MacKay.

Softball’s season ends with series loss to New Mexico State
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Softball’s season ends with series loss to New Mexico State

  • Scott Daniell
  • May 6, 2025
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Photo courtesy of KSU Athletics Softball concluded its campaign by taking one of three games last weekend against New Mexico State at Bailey Park Friday’s […]

Lacrosse falls to Coastal Carolina on senior day
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Lacrosse falls to Coastal Carolina on senior day

  • Trey Perry
  • April 28, 2025
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Photo Courtesy of KSU Athletics Lacrosse fell to Coastal Carolina 22–12 on Friday at Fifth-Third Stadium, ending its 2025 season. The Owls showed drive from […]

Women’s Basketball, Blue add three new faces out of transfer portal
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Women’s Basketball, Blue add three new faces out of transfer portal

  • Kai Millette
  • April 28, 2025
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Photo Courtesy of KSU athletics Following several key departures at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, women’s basketball picked up three new players out of […]

Track and Field performs well at Crimson Tide Invitational
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Track and Field performs well at Crimson Tide Invitational

  • Trey Perry
  • April 15, 2025
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Last weekend saw a number of top performances from the Owls

Track and Field dominates Don McGarey Invitational
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Track and Field dominates Don McGarey Invitational

  • Trey Perry
  • April 9, 2025
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Men’s and women’s track and field had big performances in their home event.

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The Sentinel is the student newspaper of Kennesaw State University. Since 1966, The Sentinel has provided an open forum to the campus community. It is published in print monthly and online weekly.

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KENNESAW, Ga. — Since October 1963, KSU Student Media has dedicated itself to authentic storytelling and exceptional journalism written by the students, for the students. Over the past two academic years, Student Media at Kennesaw State University has seen significant traction and promise through strong student leadership and ambitious
initiatives.

OWL Radio, The Sentinel Newspaper and The Peak Magazine have grown into organizations whose reach, whether through written word or radio broadcast, touches tens of thousands of students.

Despite the lack of institutional support, Sentinel and OWL Radio have been nominated for the Atlanta Press Club 2026 Awards of Excellence and the GABBY awards for Student Radio, respectively.

Kennesaw State University administration is hindering progress by stripping the key funding for The Sentinel, The Peak and OWL Radio.

On March 23, KSU announced that there were no remaining funds for Student Media. This eradicated the possibility for additional physical prints for The Sentinel or The Peak and drastically cut funding for OWL Radio’s event programming. The justification of the funding removal does not come with a promise of better housing, parking, or safety on campus for students. Rather, it comes with KSU’s neglect of their debt to their music licensing budget.

For the fiscal year, Student Media was allocated a $97,000 budget by the Division of Student Affairs. However, instead of the entirety going to Student Media, $61,185.99 of the budget paid for music licensing fees for Registered Student Organizations (RSOs), Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) and Student Affairs as a whole.

This move through budgeting resulted in Student Media paying not just the debt for the music licensing, but Kennesaw State University’s ability to play music across campus freely.
Despite only being responsible for part of the music licensing costs, Student Media’s budget covers almost all of KSU’s music licensing fees, excluding athletics. These fees take up 63.08% of Student Media’s total budget, meaning OWL Radio, The Peak and The Sentinel are only receiving a fraction of the funding they need to function.

Here’s the truth: Kennesaw State is disinterested in the growth of Student Media.

We are in a dangerous and pivotal time in American History. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, under the Trump Administration, Press Freedoms have been dubbed “no longer a given” by the organization.

Student reporting and radio operations are becoming more crucial by the day to cover important topics larger media outlets look away from, and the stripping of funding follows a dangerous step for KSU’s perspective on Press and Broadcasting Freedoms.

This follows a concerning enrollment pattern in KSU’s journalism program while other university papers, such as the University of Georgia’s Red & Black and Emory University’s The Emory Wheel, continue to thrive. Editorial Board: KSU’s Neglect of Student Media Is Unacceptable

The university’s journalism program, which did not exist until 2017 according to Campus Enrollment Data, saw early success, with peak enrollment numbers in 2018 and 2020. However, the program has seen a steady decline since 2021.

Instead of taking the time to invest in its journalism students, KSU has opted to invest into their athletic department, pouring millions of dollars into sports and freshmen generations, including a $15 million dollar naming deal with FifthThirds Stadium and a lack of housing or class priority for students who classify as non-freshman.

Fundamentally, Kennesaw State’s recent history has been defined by an administration that has neglected the student body and proven repeatedly that KSU’s priorities are financially tied to athletics and tuition revenue from incoming classes.

To have a thriving campus community, KSU must invest in its student body. Students want a university that cares for each student, not how many students it can accept and pack into a classroom or a stadium. A university is only as great as its students’ success, and without true support, KSU will always fall short.

OWL Radio, The Sentinel and The Peak are calling for the support of the student body, faculty and alumni by donating to Student Media through KSU’s Giving Day. Any amount helps and will allow Student Media to continue quality, student led content.

Signed Kennesaw State University Student Media Editors and Managers, Zaire Breedlove, Devyn Byers, Alexis Barton, Tye Brown, Devyn Woodard, Joey Hawthorne, Mary Wingate, Mafe Gomez, James Harris, Jordan Scruggs, Scott Daniell, Jackson Louneoubon

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