A selection of the best reporting from The Cleveland Stater.

“Everybody needs a good laugh,” Anne E. McLaughlin, president of the CSU Improv Club, said. “It’s been a rough couple of years and laughter is just something everybody needs sometimes.”

"That became known, 'if he comes to your door… you're screwed,'" said Mark Puente, investigative journalist, when speaking about himself and how he handles interviewing political officials.

“They were going, ‘Does she not realize we can stop paying her?’” Angel Ellis, then reporter, now head of Mvskoke Media and star of the documentary, said. “But it wouldn’t have mattered to me. I was still going to do it even if they fired me.”

Despite the powerful role the board of trustees has at any university, most of the community it serves knows little about what it does, or, as in the case of Cleveland State, who its members are.

“Your only competition is yourself,” Mikayla Colston, coordinator of marketing and advertising at CSU’s Recreation Center and a Pink Gloves instructor, said. “It's all about allowing us to grow from where we were before.”

The Vikings women’s basketball team won a school record 30 games during their 2022-23 season and won the Horizon League Tournament for only the third time in school history. The Vikings hope their 2022-23 season will lead to further success for the program.

The Dan T. Moore MakerSpace is a valuable resource for students in the Washkewicz College of Engineering at Cleveland State University. Manager Matthew Johnson wants the rest of CSU to know it can be beneficial to them as well.