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A Job Expo banner hangs from the breezeway between the Student Union and the University Center. The Job Expo will take place Feb. 25, 2015.

Job Expo serves multiple purposes

Kate Bragg, Contibutor February 7, 2015

The blue men are here. No, not the music group, but the child-sized cutouts placed across the entire campus, and they all convey the same message: Job Expo approaches. This annual Northern Kentucky University...

Morgan Bell in her office space.

Morgan Bell: Young Activist

Lizzie Kibler, Assistant Arts and Life Editor February 6, 2015

Walking through the Student Union before finals week last semester, you’d find several people lying on the floor. Students and faculty were participating in a die-in protest to bring light to certain...

Black History Month plans to unite students in diversity

Black History Month plans to unite students in diversity

Lundon White, Reporter February 5, 2015

The African American Programs and Services office have focused their efforts towards Black History month with full force. For the next three weeks of February students and faculty can attend 16 events...

Hogg started playing saxophone after originally wanting to play drums.

Jazz instructor shares his music passion with students

Matt Spaulding, Arts and Life Editor February 5, 2015

In a cluttered room on the third floor of the Fine Arts building, William Brian Hogg sits in his office recounting his trip last summer to France with several students. “We did a lot of firsts,” Hogg...

Professor memorializes the dead through ‘Dogma’

Kelsey Bungenstock, Contributor February 4, 2015

With his recent sabbatical exhibition, Associate Sculpting Professor Stephen Finke gives the phrase ‘bringing art to life’ a whole new meaning. As part of a yearly showcasing of artwork created...

John Gibson sits in his office on the fifth floor of Griffin Hall. Gibsons office is unique because of his toy collection.

NKU’s Top Offices

Carrie Crotzer, Managing Editor February 4, 2015

Homecoming 2015 event to benefit charity

Courtney Ferguson, Reporter February 3, 2015

The Nearly Naked Run  As the temperature began to drop Monday night so did the clothes as NKU’s fifth annual Nearly Naked Mile Run (NNMR) took place on the Griffin Lawn to raise money for The Northern...

TGIT: Dr. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk giving students a masterclass

Gavin Colton, Reporter January 29, 2015

NKU students had the chance to work with a fresh face at last Friday’s (Jan. 23) TGIT performance. Students reveled in the opportunity to work with a fresh face in a hands-on masterclass setting. Dr....

Free Time? What’s that?

Taylor Upchurch, Contributor January 29, 2015

Basketballs dribbling, cheerleaders shooting, students anxiously awaiting results and the candidates nervously waiting to hear their names called. It’s that busy time of year, the night many students...

Students go through the virgin trials. A time-honored tradition that Rock Horror first-timers go through.

The first theater crossover in Griffin: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

Lizzie Kibler, Assistant Arts & Life Editor January 25, 2015

  “It’s just a jump to the left!” The leather and fishnet clad crowd brought to the floor of the digitorium in Griffin Hall followed the song’s direction. “And a step to the right!” For...

Opening act with former NKU student Ben Bergman.

Shaking with laughter

Kiana Berry, Social Media Editor January 23, 2015

Dimmed lighting, the NKU emblem brightly adorning the walls of the Student Union Ballroom and the stage set with a single microphone and long-legged stool—NKU students and the surrounding community found...

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