The Northerner

First Vamp president?

First Vamp president?

Brittany Granville, Cartoonist February 9, 2012

Contagious flu: sign of outbreak, or aversion?

Aaron Sprinkles, Viewpoints editor February 8, 2012

A few months ago, I wrote an article about the controversy in academia surrounding the Black Death and the pathogen thought to be responsible. As one of the most catastrophic biological disasters in the...

Oil reaches peak after overestimation

Oil reaches peak after overestimation

Aaron Sprinkles, Viewpoint Editor February 1, 2012

In this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature, an article has been published spelling out serious consequences for the future shape of human institutions. Authors James Murray and David King...

Allied-Zone

Allied-Zone

Brittany Granville, Cartoonist February 1, 2012

The $4,087 student

January 31, 2012

In this week’s issue, staff writer Zachary Rogers previews The Rally for Higher Education. The event, which will be held Feb. 7, is exactly the type of call to action that Northern Kentucky University...

Have some class

Have some class

Brittany Granville, Cartoonist January 25, 2012

The war for the Internet has begun

The war for the Internet has begun

Aaron Sprinkles & Brandon Barb, Viewpoints editor & A&L editor January 25, 2012

What would we do without a website like YouTube? Imagine if videos of cute kittens with a hit pop song playing in the background were gone. Cover song videos are erased completely. What if a good portion...

Oh, lucky thirteen

January 25, 2012

Thanks to the Great Icy Doom of 2012, we weren’t able to make it Lexington this year to accept our Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association awards. So we relied on our brave adviser Jacque Day to return...

NKU Starcraft defies the odds

NKU Starcraft defies the odds

Aaron Sprinkles, Viewpoint Editor January 18, 2012

A few weeks ago, in an editorial titled “Good Game: The Rise of Esports” I explored the culture that has grown up around the real time strategy game Starcraft 2 and the growing legitimacy of competitive...

Angry Nerds

Angry Nerds

Brittany Granville, Cartoonist January 18, 2012

More than tweets

Staf Editorial January 18, 2012

The brief Jan. 11 Board of Regents meeting set Twitter feeds on fire because the Student Union will be renamed. However, one very important bit of information fell by the wayside: the potential budget...

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Karli Wood, Editor-in-chief January 10, 2012

It seems that every time a new editor-in-chief addresses The Northerner readership for the first time, we make it a point to detail the large amount of “change” that has happened. Well, yet again,...

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