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Gender-neutral housing a possibility

Gender-neutral housing a possibility

Karli Wood November 16, 2011

Typically, when students sign up for on-campus housing, they are expected to check a box identifying as “male” or “female.” But what happens for the students who do not fit either box? Northern...

Artists ‘Surge’ through gallery

Artists ‘Surge’ through gallery

Roxanna Blevins November 16, 2011

Step right up! The annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibitions are in town. “Surge,” the first of two exhibitions, which focuses on the art of graphic design, opened Nov. 10. The exhibition features the...

Men sprout manly facial hair

Men sprout manly facial hair

Brandon Barb November 16, 2011

Every November, men grow facial hair to raise awareness and money for men’s health. This practice has led to the month being called Movember. On Nov. 1, every man who decides to accept the challenge...

English opera breaks barriers

Roxanna Blevins November 16, 2011

One Northern Kentucky University professor is challenging common perceptions of opera. Grant Knox, an assistant professor of voice and opera, wove the show “An Evening of Opera in English” together...

NKU student finds her father after 20 years of his absence

Brandon Barb November 9, 2011

Go to Italy and Hawaii, change someone’s life, finish grad school, get married, own a house, and meet her biological father. Those are all goals one Northern Kentucky University student wishes to...

Layers: Powerhouse Factories art exhibit closes in the Fine Arts Center

Crystal Harris November 9, 2011

Layers: A Powerhouse Retrospective at Northern Kentucky University’s Fine Arts Center had its closing reception Nov. 3. The art exhibit featured screen-printed concert posters by design company Powerhouse...

Anything is possible before ‘The Buried Life’

Caitlin Centner November 9, 2011

“The Buried Life” cast members David Lingwood and Jonnie Penn visited Northern Kentucky University Nov. 2 to send a message to students: Anything is possible. Lingwood and Penn, along with Ben Nemtin...

Tribute grooves with jazz ensemble

Kyle Sebree November 9, 2011

The Northern Kentucky University Jazz Ensemble performed a tribute concert for military service veterans Sunday evening at the Guys ‘n’ Dolls Restaurant and Nightclub in Cold Spring, Ky. NKU assistant...

Students attend friendly workshop

Kevin Gillman November 9, 2011

The editors of Loch Norse Magazine, Northern Kentucky University’s student literary journal, hosted the publication’s first series of writing workshops Nov. 2-4 in the basement of the University Center....

Bouncing Boobapalooza

Allegra Carpenter November 2, 2011

Boobapalooza bounced through campus last week bringing awareness about breast cancer. Colleges Against Cancer held its first annual awareness event to raise money for Relay For Life, where they also handed...

Professor examines gender in film

Tara Derington November 2, 2011

John Alberti, a Northern Kentucky University English professor and the director of film studies, is asking a peculiar question in his new book, “Gender as Genre: The Obsolescence of Masculinity in Contemporary...

Thompson returns to film in ‘The Rum Diary’

Anna Kathman November 2, 2011

The film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Rum Diary” was released Friday after being shelved for almost two years. The book, written in the early 1960s but published in 1998, is based on ...

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