GALLERY: Activities Programming Board brings petting zoo to campus
April 25, 2018
Filed under Arts & Life, Campus Events, Featured Story
If you missed the petting zoo that took over NKU's Science Center lawn yesterday morning, don't fret. Northerner photographer Emerson Swoger was able to attend the event, presented by Activities Programming Board with help from Honey Hill farm, and snapped some pictures of the cutest animals on displ...
WATCH: Loch Norse Open Mic Night
April 23, 2018
Filed under Arts & Life, Campus Arts, Campus Events, Featured Story, Video
NKU students and faculty alike, gathered at the Highlander Event Center on Friday April 20th for an open mic night held by NKU’s Loch Norse Magazine. Participants were able to enjoy listening to the literary works of others, as well as share some of their own creative works.
Rachael Denhollander takes back the night
Kane Mitten, Reporter
April 23, 2018
Filed under Arts & Life, Campus Events, Featured Story
“The most powerful thing you can do with your voice is speak the truth to a society that often does not want to hear it,” Rachael Denhollander said to over 75 students in the University Center ballroom last Tuesday. She spoke as part of the sixth annual Take Back the night, an event within NKU...
Students, parents rally for campus childcare with UC takeover on the table
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 20, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, News
One week after students and staff rallied against state budget cuts, two dozen students marched outside the Student Union to save the Early Childhood Center, a program slated to close June 1 due to budget pressures that have existed since 2015.
Editor’s Chat: Rick Meyers
Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor
April 18, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
Editor’s note: This feature is part of an ongoing series of profiles catching up with Northerner editorial alumni, in honor of NKU’s 50th anniversary. When Rick Meyers first stepped on campus in the fall of 1972, it wasn’t just the St. Thomas graduate’s first day of college: it was also N...
SGA takes action against ‘hate speech’ on campus
Blake Girlinghouse, Reporter
April 17, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, News, SGA
In response to seasonal speakers that come to campus—ones that often challenge the belief systems, ideologies and identities of many NKU community members—SGA passed a resolution that would alert students and faculty of ‘hate speakers’ arriving on campus.
Family Divided: Diane Guerrero speaks on memoir, immigration
Pavel Klementyev, Reporter
April 17, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Campus Events, Featured Story
Diane Guerrero—known for her roles as inmate Maritza Ramos on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and Lina on Jane the Virgin—spoke at Northern Kentucky University about her recent memoir, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, which shares her personal story in hopes of raising awareness on immi...
WATCH: NKU Rally for Higher Education
April 13, 2018
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Students gathered alongside faculty and staff to rally for their education. With the proposed pension increases and budget cuts, harsh changes are looming on the horizon. NKU is lobbying for the state to push back against Governor Bevin to keep education affordable and save the jobs of many NKU faculty. ...
‘NKU, what are we going to do?’: Students, professors, staff rally against state cuts, pension hikes
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 12, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, National News, News
Roaring louder than the coursing winds outside the Student Union were chants of “fund our future” led by students, faculty and staff protesting state education cuts. Homemade signs with “I AM WORTH IT,” “LET’S NOT GO BACKWARD” and “SAVE HIGHER EDUCATION” written in black ink waved as speakers advocated for relief from cuts.
Beyond butterflies: prof says public speaking gives students a leg up
Natalie Hamren, Asst. News Editor
April 12, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
“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.
Student: ‘I didn’t want there to be a girl after me’
Sam Rosenstiel and Mackenzie Manley
April 11, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, News
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.
State cuts get funding band-aid, pension challenge grows urgent
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 10, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
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.