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‘This wasn’t just a spring break thing’

‘This wasn’t just a spring break thing’

Elita St. Clair, Social Media Editor March 23, 2024

NKU students engaged in real-world experiences over spring break traveling and creating lasting memories and friends. During spring break, students made documentaries about coffee, hiked up volcanos,...

Group photo of the Baptist Campus Ministry spring break attendees at Fort Caswell, North Carolina.

Campus ministries’ spring break trips change lives through faith and friendship

Emily Sisk, Killian Baarlaer, and Elita St. Clair March 22, 2023

Spring break can be a much needed boon for hardworking students. The weeklong respite splits the semester in two tidy halves, giving students a chance to recuperate so they can take care of things...

Facial coverings are required on campus as part of the Norse Nine.

NKU adds two academic holidays to spring semester

Rachel Smith, News Editor October 6, 2020

Two additional academic holidays were added to the spring semester following feedback from the campus community, according to the COVID-19 Preparedness Team in a recent campus-wide email.  The two...

Students react to NKU replacing spring break

Students react to NKU replacing spring break

Natalie Hamren, Editor-in-Chief September 29, 2020

Earlier today, President Ashish Vaidya announced that the traditional week-long spring break will be replaced with a series of shorter University holidays that “should reduce the risks associated with...

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Vaidya: virtual commencement, changes to spring break, other updates

Noelle Horn, News Editor September 29, 2020

President Ashish Vaidya sent out an email this morning updating the NKU community on virtual commencement, a replacement for spring break and other announcements. Vaidya said the university made the...

Student from last years trip working on site

Habitat for Humanity taking on Collegiate Challenge

Casey Crowe, Contributor February 22, 2019

Several NKU students are using their spring break as a way to make a difference in the lives of others. Students from the Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter will be travelling to Hardin County, Kentucky...

NKLI hosted the Spring Empowerment Retreat.

EDITORIAL: In the mountains, the option to serve

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief March 15, 2018

Highways carved into mountains guided three vans of NKU students to the area where the War on Poverty was first declared by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It’s a surreal encounter with a niche culture unlike...

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