EDITORIAL: When ‘roomie’ doesn’t equal ‘bestie’
Kate Fulmer, Social Media Editor
August 20, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
A new school year can often mean new roommates. Whether you’re a freshman sharing your room for the first time or a senior living with another random roommate, almost everyone has dealt with the intolerable roommate drama during their college experience. Here are some tips and tricks to help you wit...
EDITORIAL: Why did I do school?
McKenzie Eskridge, Reporter
May 4, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Opinions, Viewpoints
Ask most students on campus why they came to college and the knee-jerk response is get a job that pays well that (ideally) we don’t hate. There are other expectations, too: meeting new friends, exploring your identity and seeking new experiences. But,at the end of the day it seems impossible to ...
Farewell: Notes from the senior editors
April 26, 2018
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We admit: We're more than a little sad to let our seniors go. From reporting on the fly (sometimes skipping class to do so, shh...) to working long hours and late nights in the newsroom, our graduates will be missed. Here are their goodbyes. Ugh, do you have to go? ...
Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Jude Noel
Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor
April 25, 2018
Filed under Arts & Life, Editorial, Viewpoints
Polarizing as its appearance may be, it’s my opinion that NKU is a beautiful place. I don’t think I realized it until now, taking the opportunity to revisit the past four years of my life, realizing that my fondest memories of college are abstract, sensory experiences. I let myself slip into a daydre...
EDITORIAL: Student newsrooms must remain independent. Full stop.
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 25, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
Today we stand united with the nation’s student journalists and independent student reporting to #SaveStudentNewsrooms.
EDITORIAL: Without job security, how can professors do their job?
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
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 the arts & sciences, 15 in informatics, 16 in education, and more across campus. They’re the...
EDITORIAL: In the mountains, the option to serve
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2018
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
Highways carved into mountains guided three vans of NKU students to the area where the War on Poverty was first declared by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It’s a surreal encounter with a niche culture unlike the one I grew up in, just a few hours away in central Kentucky. Houses and trailers freckle...
EDITORIAL: Liking yourself is rebellious in a consumer culture
McKenzie Eskridge, Reporter
February 12, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
Consumer culture: you’ll never be enough. The road to American consumerism has been a slow build, but the core reason you’ll never feel satisfied with your appearances or confident in your ambitions is quite simple: self-esteem is not good for economic growth. We buy when we feel insecure and worried ab...
Have you been a victim of hate or bias at NKU? Tell us your story
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
February 3, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
The Northerner is partnering with investigative reporting nonprofit ProPublica, alongside newsrooms across the nation, to document hate and bias in our community. The FBI definition of hate crimes are “criminal offenses motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, reli...
OPINION: I march because ‘Love Saves Lives’
Maria Dossett, Social Media Editor
January 26, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
The immense crowd slowly takes shape in the streets. Signs and flags from groups all over the nation wave high above us. Cheers, prayers and songs fill the air around us as we start our journey to the Supreme Court building, where in 1973 the world was changed. My feet are already aching as we walk a...
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!
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...