Oil reaches peak after overestimation
Aaron Sprinkles, Viewpoint Editor
February 1, 2012
In this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature, an article has been published spelling out serious consequences for the future shape of human institutions. Authors James Murray and David King allege that the world has reached a state of “peak oil,” or the point at which the efficient extraction... Read more »
Allied-Zone
Brittany Granville, Cartoonist
February 1, 2012
The $4,087 student
January 31, 2012
In this week’s issue, staff writer Zachary Rogers previews The Rally for Higher Education. The event, which will be held Feb. 7, is exactly the type of call to action that Northern Kentucky University students need to respond to. Read more »
Have some class
Brittany Granville, Cartoonist
January 25, 2012
The war for the Internet has begun
Aaron Sprinkles & Brandon Barb, Viewpoints editor & A&L editor
January 25, 2012
What would we do without a website like YouTube? Imagine if videos of cute kittens with a hit pop song playing in the background were gone. Cover song videos are erased completely. What if a good portion of the beloved video site was gone? All of that could happen thanks to two bills, the Stop Online... Read more »
Oh, lucky thirteen
January 25, 2012
Thanks to the Great Icy Doom of 2012, we weren’t able to make it Lexington this year to accept our Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association awards. So we relied on our brave adviser Jacque Day to return them to us. Here’s the low-down on what we missed: For 2011, The Northerner received 13 KIPA... Read more »
NKU Starcraft defies the odds
Aaron Sprinkles, Viewpoint Editor
January 18, 2012
A few weeks ago, in an editorial titled “Good Game: The Rise of Esports” I explored the culture that has grown up around the real time strategy game Starcraft 2 and the growing legitimacy of competitive gaming as a spectator sport. Building on this foundation, I would like to look at our own manifestation... Read more »
Angry Nerds
Brittany Granville, Cartoonist
January 18, 2012
More than tweets
Staf Editorial
January 17, 2012
The brief Jan. 11 Board of Regents meeting set Twitter feeds on fire because the Student Union will be renamed. However, one very important bit of information fell by the wayside: the potential budget cut of up to 7 percent that NKU could face in the next fiscal year. Read more »
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Karli Wood, Editor-in-chief
January 10, 2012
It seems that every time a new editor-in-chief addresses The Northerner readership for the first time, we make it a point to detail the large amount of “change” that has happened. Read more »
