The Northerner

Gender-inclusive restroom resolution passes

Tori Lentz, Assistant News Editor October 1, 2014

After a week’s postponement, SGA voted 19-7 to pass a resolution requesting the installation of gender-inclusive restrooms in every academic building and high-trafficked building on campus. Following...

9/24 Police Beats

September 26, 2014

Sept. 12, 2:02 p.m.: An unknown person was reported to have taken a purse with its contents out of an office in the Fine Arts building. Sept. 15, 11:13 p.m.: Subject reported that she was receiving unwanted...

The Kroger lot filled because of the overcrowding in Callahan. Students say that since the addition of the Northern Terrace, the Callahan lot fills quickly making it difficult to find a spot.

Off-campus residents struggle for parking

Brody Kenny, Contributor September 26, 2014

NKU’s newest dorm Northern Terrace has created a major parking issue for the off-campus resident community. The addition of an access drive as well as a green space between the two buildings resulted...

Best Buddies Vice President Summer Buchanan accompanies 4-year-old Ellie Hammond on the runway.

Best Buddies teams up with other NKU organizations to support a great cause

Andrea Carter, Reporter September 19, 2014

Step aside New York, because NKU has a fashion week of its own. On Wednesday night, Best Buddies hosted a fashion show to showcase the organization to NKU’s campus. The fashion show starred local buddies...

Students discuss the rights and wrongs of abortion among graphic pictures placed outside the Student Union.

Pro-life group conveys controversial message

Mac Payton, Reporter September 19, 2014

On Wednesday, a group aimed at starting civil conversation about the pro-life movement came to campus.  Created Equal is a group whose focus is “getting the youth involved, and training the next generation...

NKU plans to rethink grade appeals

Karen Plunkett, Contributing Writer September 19, 2014

Northern Kentucky University currently has an academic grievance policy, but it is more about unfairness and sexual harassment than grades. SGA and NKU administration are attempting to make a change to...

9/17 Police Beats

September 17, 2014

Sept. 8, 9:55 a.m.: An unknown subject stole a parking permit out of an unsecured vehicle in the Welcome Center’s Parking Office. Sept. 8, 5:53 p.m.: A parked vehicle was allegedly scraped by another...

Nose Violence Prevention handed out buttons on its campus-wide launch day. It has a Green Dot training session on Thursday, Sept. 18 to promote bystander intervention.

NKU fights sexual assaults

Richard Cracchiolo, News Editor September 17, 2014

With new federal legislation being proposed in both the house and senate and while over 70 different universities across the country are under federal investigation, NKU is taking measures to make sure...

Awards that Chase Law has earned. Dean Standen hopes that the Lunsford Academy will bring more attention to Chase.

Lunsford Academy says it will create well-rounded ‘Renaissance Lawyers’

Mac Payton, Reporter September 10, 2014

A Chase graduate has given back to his alma mater in a big way. To be specific, one million ways. Bruce Lunsford, a 1974 graduate from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, has donated $1 million to the...

9/10 Police Beats

September 10, 2014

Sept. 3, 11:27 a.m.: A woman reported that subjects unknown pick-pocketed her cell phone out of her book bag in the Student Union’s Food Court. Sept. 3, 4:46 p.m.: A parked vehicle was struck by another...

Budget cuts lead to layoffs

Richard Cracchiolo, News Editor September 4, 2014

Putting the plans it devised last spring to deal with its budget problems into action, NKU had to make some layoffs over the summer. According to President Geoffrey Mearns the university had to terminate...

Dean Waple interacts with students Karl Bragg and Matt Kriege during his lunch break in the Student Union.

Dean Waple’s untold life before NKU

Tori Lentz, Assistant News Editor September 4, 2014

Thursday marks Dean Waple’s seven year anniversary of being NKU’s dean of students, the longest he’s ever worked at a university. The Northerner sat down with Waple to find out his roots, why he’s...

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