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
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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!
Read more »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...
OPINION: The Northerner stands with the College Heights Herald
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
December 1, 2017
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Opinions, Viewpoints
In journalism school, we’re told that we’re the “voice for the voiceless,” and “the watchdogs” of society. So, I pose a question: If this is what we’re taught, why are more and more educational institutions attempting to stifle what we’re meant to do? Without student newspapers, the foundations of free sp...
OPINION: Where’s the end?
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
November 2, 2017
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Opinions, Viewpoints
When the news of Harvey Weinstein first broke, I sat down to write an editorial. Then a rape on NKU’s campus was reported. By the time I was finished with my op-ed, I felt as if the piece was no longer timely. I placed it on a shelf of unfinished work, only for it to come crashing back down with a ...
And Then There Was Silence
Molly Patrick, Contributor
September 11, 2017
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
September 11th: Some know where we were the minute the planes hit the towers or the look on our parents’ faces, but others only know the tragedy through the stories we’re told; on the anniversary of the terror attack that defined a generation one thing we all can share is grief for everyone and ...
Opinion: In absence of local radio, community is left more fragmented
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
August 23, 2017
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Opinions, Viewpoints
WNKU 89.7’s radio frequency went off-air last week. The loss of local, independent radio is insurmountable not only for the Greater Cincinnati music scene but for voices in the community as well. I credit my initial love of music to the independent radio I grew up with, Louisville’s WFPK 91.9. Sliding in...
A goodbye from the editor of The Northerner
Matt Sexton, Editor-in-Chief
April 19, 2017
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
It has been a long time coming, but in two weeks, it will finally be done. Mom, I finally did it. When I finally walk across the stage May 7 as a college graduate, she won’t be there. It’s been almost 11 years since she passed away. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. I certainly wo...
April 23, 2018
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SGA takes action against ‘hate speech’ on campus
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