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Winter Safety Series: protecting your lifestyle in the cold season

Winter Safety Series: protecting your lifestyle in the cold season

In Northeast Ohio, the winter season is in full swing. With multiple snowfalls already hitting the region, the fall weather is behind us. For many, the transition of seasons can be difficult, but, when the temperatures drop and precipitation changes, lifestyles can often be affected. The frigid weather changes the daily routine, including how you get around, how you take care of your home and how you take care of your health. Do you think you have a safe lifestyle…

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Weather Dangerous for Students

Weather Dangerous for Students

[bbrvideo]BBR_Allan_S1_Sidewalk[/bbrvideo] Anchor Intro: Jack Frosts clutch is on Kent State. The university has been experiencing a winter for the record books with extreme snowfall and record low temperatures. this has caused a headache for students who rely on the constant icy sidewalks to get to class and for junior Kim Zimmerman this headache has become slippery and dangerous. Kim Zimmerman: I just fell on the ice and I scratched my leg and my hand and a bruise on my other hand and scratched…

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The Coolest Tour Guide

The Coolest Tour Guide

Even in negative temperatures, a Kent State tour guide gets her job done. [bbrvideo]BBR_DERWIN_S1_GUIDE_2[/bbrvideo] On a freezing Thursday afternoon while most students retreated back to their beds, senior Dallas Trescher was leading a prospective transfer student and his mother around the Kent State campus. Trescher: “I’m an admissions office tour guide. I take families from the campus tour center in the student center and I take them around campus for an hour-and-a-half; show them everything and anything they want to…

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Cold Weather Making Sidewalks Hazardous for Students

Cold Weather Making Sidewalks Hazardous for Students

[bbrvideo]BBR_Allan_P4_SidewalkSlug[/bbrvideo] Snow is great for building snowmen and ice is great to skate on, but neither are good for students. Students around Kent State have been slipping and sliding their way to class on the campuses sidewalks. The university uses 10 trucks and 20 groundskeepers to clear these 22 miles of sidewalk after a winter storm . But their efforts don’t seem enough to satisfy students around campus as there are still large amounts ice on the sidewalks long after…

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‘Tis the season to be melancholy

‘Tis the season to be melancholy

As the sky goes gray and the trees go bare, the coming of winter isn’t about cheer and holidays to some people, but a six month slump that they battle every year. TV2’s Julie Selby reports. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_Bonus_Selby_Depression[/bbrvideo] The holidays are upon us, but not everyone is cheerful. People who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, or seasonal depression, are just getting into the winter slump. Seasonal depression is depression triggered by changing of the seasons, usually fall and winter. As…

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Commuter Students Give Views on Winter

Commuter Students Give Views on Winter

In Kent, Ohio winter weather can cause issues for some Kent State University students. Michael Lopick tells us how KSU’s nearly 15,000 commuter students are affected by Ohio’s harsh winters and why some don’t mind the snow.   [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S7_LOPICK_SNOW[/bbrvideo]   Ice scrapers, slushy roads and missed classes. For some Kent State University students this overnight winter wonderland is less than magical. Commuter students, who make up nearly 75 percent of Kent State University’s student body, face a myriad of…

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Undetectable winter killer

Undetectable winter killer

It is a silent killer that many people will face this winter. TV2’s Julie Selby reports that keeping warm this winter could cost you your life. [bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S7_Selby_Furnace[/bbrvideo] It’s that time of year to curl up in a blanket, drink hot cocoa and watch the snow fall. But while people are warm in their homes this winter, we all face a danger you wouldn’t expect — furnaces. They keep us from freezing in Ohio’s long winter months but they pose multiple dangers…

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