An editor’s guide to ‘snow cream’
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
January 12, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story, Viewpoints
Begin scene: Me, at the age of six. The pants I’m wearing are so puffy that I waddle. My mother made me wear them, despite my protests that I could stay warm in a pair of jeans. I open the door of my suburban home (memories of the place are now awash in nostalgic, smudged tones) to a blinding landscape: ...
New Year: Now, Crosswords!
Kairi Freudenberg, Crossword Editor
January 11, 2018
Filed under Arts & Life, Viewpoints
You asked for it -- we delivered! Test your wits with our first crossword puzzle of 2018, inspired by the month of January. If you find yourself stumped, take a peek at our nifty cheat sheet. Happy solving!...
SHEP founder seeks inclusion, finds inspiration in family
Belle Leininger, Contributor
January 8, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
It began with a question a little over ten years ago after a Thursday evening graduate class. One of Missy Jones’ students, Nancy Bardgett, a high school special education teacher at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Ky., wanted to know how to get her students more involved on campus. The two...
The Northerner’s top 10 stories of 2017
December 30, 2017
Filed under 2017 Recap, Arts & Life, Editorial, Featured Story, News, Opinions, Sports, Student Voices, Viewpoints
2017 was a busy year for us. Revisit our 10 most viewed stories here!
The Northerner’s 2017 Recap
December 30, 2017
Filed under 2017 Recap, Arts & Life, Featured Story, Multimedia, News, Sports, Viewpoints
From sending off a departing president to welcoming a new one, from a March Madness bid to Horizon League honors, from selling WNKU to building new facilities, from festivals to protests to games and more, The Northerner was there.
OPINION: An intersection where ‘Riot Grrrl’ meets modern-day
McKenzie Eskridge, Contributor
December 27, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Editorial, Viewpoints
Dr. Diana Belland’s “Feminist Punk Rock” class presented their final projects in the basement of the Honor’s House the last week of fall semester. Centered around the “Riot Grrrl” movement that emerged in the Pacific Northwest and Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s and early 90s, the cour...
English student’s band bridges genres to create online niche
Jude Noel, Social Media Editor
December 18, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
By day, Solomon Underwood is a freshman English major at NKU, hoping to attend Chase Law School after graduation. By night, (or at least whenever he logs into his Soundcloud account), he’s known as Solly, one half of genre-bending hip-hop duo Starship Emo. “I can go from Soundcloud rapper to law school, like...
Second-annual O.I.N.K Festival features student cinema
Cole Grecco, Arts & Life Editor
December 11, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
The Official Impromptu Northern Kentucky film festival (OINK) begins at 5:00 p.m. Monday in Griffin Hall. This is the second year for the event, inaugurated last year after the ReelAbilities film festival in Cincinnati was delayed. “We were going to help screen for them, that was going to be our...
GALLERY: Before Winter break, a Kwanzaa celebration
Mesa Serikali, Reporter
December 6, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
Traditional drum music permeated the University Center ballroom. Around tables, colors of green, black and red decorate the space: symbolic of the holiday. On Dec. 1, African American Programs and Services hosted its annual Pre-Kwanzaa event. Traditionally, the holiday is celebrated between Dec. 26 an...
Six years later, director of AAP&S as dedicated as ever
Mesa Serikali, Reporter
December 1, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
A student comes buzzing out as the next bombards the entrance for a meeting. “Are you busy?” Out of breath, she sets her backpack on the floor and closes the door. One student claims her attention as others crowd around, waiting. For a majority of first-year students, Tracy Stokes is their first person...
Mary Pat Kremer cherishes time with NKU students
Nicole Browning, News Editor
November 27, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
A fixture at NKU’s on-campus residential cafeteria, Mary Pat Kremer sits at the Norse Commons register; a single bobby pin holds back her gray locks and a red cardigan complements her work uniform. She invites students in for dinner, asking each individual how they’re doing with a look of genuine conce...
REVIEW: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water
Jude Noel, Social Media Editor
November 25, 2017
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story, Reviews
Green: The medicinal-pale exterior of a new 1963 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. The shade of twenty half-eaten key lime pie slices, stored in a refrigerator. The Jell-O wiggling at the focal point of a Norman Rockwell-esque painting. And the reptilian skin of The Shape of Water’s aquatic love interest: the p...
Brooke Smith, Contributor
June 10, 2018
The Northerner’s got you covered on the hottest acts, best food and chillest vibes at Cincinnati’s biggest summer alt-music event.
Weekend planetarium shows smash attendance records
June 8, 2018
Students’ Fringe plays tackle race, theatre and open mic woes
June 7, 2018
NKU’s unknown champion: Perce takes home boxing title
May 26, 2018
Fall tuition jumps 3 percent as division budgets, positions get clipped
May 17, 2018