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The Keystone Newspaper publishes literary journalism articles

  The Keystone staff will publish student written articles from the literary journalism class taught by Assistant Professor Patrick Walters in the fall semester. The articles will be published online under our sections category. Literary journalism follows a creative nonfiction format similar to magazine writing. Although it takes a more creative approach, it maintains journalistic […]

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The plight of an aspiring funnyman

By Kyle Walton Ryan Clay works nights. Five a week to be exact, 8-10 hours each depending on the amount of orders after 11 p.m. He’s good at his job, at least better than the two GMs who held it before him, an emotionally unstable and largely incompetent woman, and a heroin junkie who found […]

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Rock Band for a night

By Sarah-Lyn Subhan It was Wednesday night and various gamers had once again gathered in the Multipurpose Room in the Student Union Building. Collectively, they are known as the Gamers of Kutztown University or GOKU, for short. Their meeting time was not scheduled to begin until 7 p.m., but most were already set up and […]

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After flying hot air balloons and confronting snake charmers, worldwide traveler now finds niche selling goods at SUB

By Sarah-Lyn Subhan Visitors to the student union building go to the sluggish Bear’s Den Starbucks, the scarcely used information desk, ever-popular Cub Café and down the stairs to the all-encompassing bookstore. But on some days just after the information desk, and just before the stairs, a middle-aged man with short silver hair will sit […]

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The many worlds of Rohrbach Library, a living and breathing building that never sleeps

By Rachel Smith 1:55 p.m. The library appears to be standing slightly taller today as the flurries fall furiously around its body. It is the Sunday before Thanksgiving break and Mother Nature has apparently decided that today would be an ideal day for the first snowfall of the season. The wind swirls the flurries in […]

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Protest and the City

By Shelby Slifer Carly Butera steps foot in New York City. She has been there before, but this time it is for a different experience. In about four short hours, she will be seeing a play, “The Falsettos,” among of a group of classmates. While she has attended such an outing before, there is always […]

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Deep inside the Writing Center, tutors seek to improve work one word at a time

By Antaneyah Johnson I entered the Writing Center. There was a chalkboard that had their schedule in white colors mixed with dark blue and purple. Connected to that was the section titled “Today’s Tutors” where the names were posted below along with symbols of the cross, the Jewish symbol, and Yin and Yang. At the […]

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KU student tries to unlock mystery of Fred the truck driver

By Jennifer Brown I suspected Fred was lying to me. I saw him passing through the store like a phantom, behind the racks of wolf t-shirts and car chargers, and then he vanished, having either gone upstairs to the trucker’s lounge or into the dimly lit Huddle House restaurant. Fred had told me he would […]

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One KU writer’s quest to solve the mystery of Pow-Wow in Berks County

By Jennifer Brown Alice remembered the time she was five years old and she bumped her arm into a hot iron. Her grandfather waved his hand over her arm and said something she couldn’t understand, something likely in Pennsylvania Dutch. “It just got better,” said Alice, a local woman with puffy blonde hair, whom I […]

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Hawkinsons open gallery in presidential home

By Emily Crane President Kenneth Hawkinson and his wife, Ann Marie Hawkinson, have opened a gallery and library in the president’s house across the street from Stratton Administration Center. Displays include books and artwork created by faculty and students. “We had a lot of space in our house when we moved in,” President Hawkinson said. […]