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Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Jude Noel

Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Jude Noel

Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor April 25, 2018

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...

EDITORIAL: Student newsrooms must remain independent. Full stop.

EDITORIAL: Student newsrooms must remain independent. Full stop.

Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor April 25, 2018
Today we stand united with the nation’s student journalists and independent student reporting to #SaveStudentNewsrooms.
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...

NKLI hosted the Spring Empowerment Retreat.

EDITORIAL: In the mountains, the option to serve

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief March 15, 2018

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...

Reporter McKenzie Eskridge examines self-love in a  consumer culture.

EDITORIAL: Liking yourself is rebellious in a consumer culture

McKenzie Eskridge, Reporter February 12, 2018

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...

Have you been a victim of hate or bias at NKU? Tell us your story

Have you been a victim of hate or bias at NKU? Tell us your story

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief February 3, 2018

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...

Attendees took to the streets of Washington Jan. 19 to participate in the 45th annual March for Life.

OPINION: I march because ‘Love Saves Lives’

Maria Dossett, Social Media Editor January 26, 2018

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...

The Northerners top 10 stories of 2017

The Northerner’s top 10 stories of 2017

Northerner Staff December 30, 2017
2017 was a busy year for us. Revisit our 10 most viewed stories here!
An honors class that focused on feminist punk rock met to give their final presentations after a semester of musing about feminism is, through the lens of punk rock movements.

OPINION: An intersection where ‘Riot Grrrl’ meets modern-day

McKenzie Eskridge, Contributor December 27, 2017

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...

WKU Heralds logo.

OPINION: The Northerner stands with the College Heights Herald

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief December 1, 2017

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...

EDITORIAL: End-of-semester horoscopes

EDITORIAL: End-of-semester horoscopes

Jude Noel, Mackenzie Manley, and November 7, 2017

Aries: someone will catch your eye in the SU--your infatuation mirrored with the overwhelming scent of French fries glazed in grease at Steak n' Shake. You'll construct an image of who they are based on...

Kevin Spacey in 2011 arriving for the Mikhail Gorbachev 80th birthday concert. This week, several men have come forward with sexual assault allegations about the House of Cards actor.

OPINION: Where’s the end?

Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief November 2, 2017

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...

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