Job fair provides chance for success
Tiffany Lewis
January 8, 2002
The Career Development Center recently hosted its first social services and government job fair at Northern Kentucky University in early December. After social work students told Charlie Lowe, NKU social work professor, and Jim Decker, chair of NKU social work program, they wanted a job fair strictly ...
Campus Closeup
January 8, 2002
NKU student wins $100,000 On Dec. 18 when Northern Kentucky University student Jamie Rose, 21, decided to buy a Kentucky Powerball lottery ticket, she ended up $100,000 richer. Of the six numbers, Rose got all except the powerball. "I just had a hunch," she said. "I play whenever I feel lucky, and fo...
Strategic plan gives NKU new direction
Susan Bartels
January 4, 2002
After months of gathering information from area businesses, government personnel, faculty, students and administrators of Northern Kentucky University, an Academic Strategic Plan was rolled out to the NKU Board of Regents, where it was met with unanimous approval. The plan aligns future programming at the un...
New arena will allow for numerous events
Scott Wartman
January 4, 2002
For some administrators and students at Northern Kentucky University, the 2005 tentative completion date for the long anticipated Regional Special Events Center isn't soon enough. Regents Hall, the current sports arena and event facility, was built in 1972 and is fast becoming outdated, according to the NK...
State budget cuts put arena in question
Scott Wartman
January 4, 2002
Architect\'s renderingWhile Northern Kentucky University announced this fall a tentative completion date of 2005 for the much-anticipated NKU Arena, dubbed the Regional Special Events Center, the slow economy may delay the project. Because of the slowing economy, the state of Kentucky was forced to cut its...
State budget cuts jeopardize NKU’s financial future
Susan Bartels
December 19, 2001
Higher education has been spared the ax so far as Kentucky legislators cut the state budget to account for revenue shortfalls, but how much longer education can survive is still in question. In a visit to Northern Kentucky University last week, James Ramsey, senior policy advisor to Gov. Paul E. Patton...
Student groups, others eye former Delta space
Scott Wartman
December 19, 2001
What to do with the 3,200 square feet of office space vacated by Delta in October will be the focus of a sub-committee of Northern Kentucky University's Space Committee. Suggestions brought up by students and administrators for the space located at the bottom level of the University Center include: ...
LaDuke speaks of reforming public health
Jenny Plemen
December 19, 2001
From the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe community organizer, ran for vice president of the United States in 2000 on Ralph Nader's Green Party ticket. Using analogies such as the challenges of mothers teaching children right from wrong, LaDuke spoke here last...
Student groups celebrate Kwanzaa
Sarah Black
December 19, 2001
On Dec. 6, the African American Student Affairs and Ethnic Services, along with the Black Men's Organization, the African Student Union and Black Students United will host a Kwanzaa celebration on campus. Kwanzaa, generally celebrated from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, is the African-American celebration of family...
Project uncovers student perspectives on war
Sarah Black
December 19, 2001
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, 88.9 percent of the full-time Northern Kentucky University students have paid more attention to the news media. This was just one of the many results NKU students in a journalism advanced reporting course found when they surveyed 270 full-time students concerning their rea...
RAs work to involve students
Elaine Koenig
December 19, 2001
Scott WartmanResident Assistants have to balance being a student, leader, policy enforcer and friend with residents in the dorms, and it doesn't always turn out to be the relationship they want. Joe Zeinner, an RA in Norse Hall, said his residents should realize he's not there just to get them in tr...
8C8’s first album gets local airtime
Cheryl Ritchie
December 19, 2001
8C8 members, from left, Shane Alford, Joe Daniels, Jeremy Smith and Joe Beck.Original sound and creative lyrics characterize the first album of local heavy alternative band, 8C8, which released its first album, "Melbourne," on Nov. 23. The Northern Kentucky band has been together for a year and a ha...
