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Professor Karen Slawter teaches CMST 101, a gen-ed course almost every NKU undergrad must take.

Beyond butterflies: prof says public speaking gives students a leg up

Natalie Hamren, Asst. News Editor April 12, 2018
“In anything that you’re trying to move up in, the better public speaker you are, the better your edge on everyone else because not everyone can speak in public, feel comfortable with it and want to do it,” says NKU public speaking professor Karen Slawter.
Following a sexual harassment case in late October 2017, choral studies director Dr. Randy Pennington resigned after investigations found that he violated NKUs sexual harassment policy.

Student: ‘I didn’t want there to be a girl after me’

Sam Rosenstiel and Mackenzie Manley April 11, 2018
As a freshman, she was self-conscious and lonely—qualities she believes were later taken advantage of by Dr. Randy Pennington, NKU’s choral studies director.
NKU students will travel to the Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 29 for a rally against anti-DEI bills.

State cuts get funding band-aid, pension challenge grows urgent

Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor April 10, 2018
The Kentucky legislature passed its final budget and a pension reform bill that leaves NKU in the black with more performance funding. But, it’s the unchanged pension cost administrators worry will send the university into the red.
Mackenzie Manley and her professor, and mentor, Michele Day.

EDITORIAL: Without job security, how can professors do their job?

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief April 9, 2018

Two weeks ago, on Good Friday, many non-tenure track (NTTR) lecturers at NKU received letters that due to budget uncertainties, they may not have positions next school year. That’s 47 lecturers in...

Valerie Hardcastle, executive director of the Institute for Health Innovation.

Education, care go hand-in-hand for Health Innovation director

Josh Goad, Reporter April 9, 2018

“She was a woman with a vision,” Dr. Valerie Gray Hardcastle said of her grandmother. ”Her vision was that the sons would get a college education and that was there way out of this abject poverty...

NKUs annual Open Mic Night took place in the Multi-purpose room this year.

Pride Week Open Mic helps student artists make their voices heard

Kane Mitten, Reporter April 8, 2018

Nearly every seat available in the Student Union multi-purpose room was filled Tuesday night as students, parents, and friends came to support the lineup of artists and poets at the 5th annual NKU Open...

Head Coach John Brannen talks to Mason Faulkner (11) during the game against Youngstown State.

Off-season movement continues with Faulkner release, Rack departure

Christopher Decker, Managing Editor April 5, 2018

This off-season should prove to be a period of change for the Norse, with many members of the team leaving the roster. Williams’ transfer left a scholarship spot open, which was  awarded to Tyler...

Let Our Loss Be Heard: Dance 18 piece examines race and American history.

‘Let Our Loss Be Heard’: Dance 18 piece examines race and American history.

McKenzie Eskridge, Reporter April 2, 2018
The notion that art can express ideas, concepts and emotions seemingly impossible to grasp conversationally is nothing new, but the truth of the cliché struck souls in one of Dance 18’s feature pieces, Let Our Loss be Heard.

WATCH: FUEL NKU Hosts a Monthly Food Drive

April 2, 2018

The last Wednesday of each month, Fuel NKU sponsors a produce stand in the Student Union to offer free, fresh produce to students on a budget.  In addition to the produce stand, you can shop in Fuel...

File photo. Pride Week is organized by LGBTQ Programs and Services.

GALLERY: NKU’s 5th Annual Pride March

Jude Noel and Emerson Swoger April 2, 2018

  Students took to the Student Union Plaza this morning to attend NKU's 5th Annual Pride March, which officially kicked off Pride Week, organized by LGBTQ Programs and Services. The march started...

In the past, NKUs Pride March has served as a start to Pride Week. This years march is NKUs 5th.

Your Guide to NKU Pride Week

Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor April 2, 2018

Following a drag show held in the Student Union ballroom Friday night, NKU’s 5th annual LGBTQ Pride Week begins with its annual Pride March on Monday morning at 11:50 a.m. in the SU plaza. The march,...

As student Alex Voland collected student signatures to Save the Early Childhood Center, she recalled one student saying that they would miss the kids on campus, laughing and playing. The center is slated to close June 1.

In the wake of the Early Childhood Center’s closure, students work to save it

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief April 2, 2018

In a small room next to the Early Childhood Center, Samantha Hamilton holds her youngest son on one knee. In front of them are stacks of research and statistics that detail the struggle single parents...

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