The Northerner

Housing options leave out one group: gender-neutral

November 16, 2011

A recent trend in university housing should be more than just that. While affinity housing is something that NKU addresses through Greek housing, honors housing, international housing and more, gender...

What’s on our bucket lists?

November 9, 2011

Cassie Stone: Well, I crossed one thing off my bucket list last summer: Taking a cross-country road trip. I grabbed a friend and my little brother, loaded up a rental car and drove 7,000-plus miles to...

Not much work to give midterm grades to all

November 9, 2011

The ability to adapt and remain efficient are tenets that are embodied in a technologically driven society. They are in every aspect of functioning, even on a daily basis. That being said, Northern...

Is God still needed in our motto?

Michael Shermer November 9, 2011

The House voted 396-9 last week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm....

Occupational Hazard

Aaron Sprinkles November 2, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street movement began with a proposal by the Adbusters Media Foundation, an anti-consumerist group, to stage a peaceful protest in response to outrages by the finance sector in recent years....

Wireless option a plus for students

Staff November 2, 2011

How many times has it happened that students rush to a computer to print off the paper they spent all night working on, only to get to a lab and discover that all the computers were full? We at The...

Procrastinators: Read this later…

Christopher McGee October 26, 2011

You have that term paper due, and you’ve only pecked out three sentences and a pile of sources with questionable merit. The thought of completing the paper is nigh unbearable, so you decide to distract...

A call for student involvement

staff October 26, 2011

Open forums for the Presidential Search and Screen Committee begin Oct. 26 and run through Oct. 28. There will be seven total forums: two for faculty, two for staff, two for the outside committee (down...

No error in GenEd headline

Cassie Stone October 11, 2011

I make mistakes. I’ll be the first to admit that. And when I do, I take every step I can to clarify, fix and correct them. But I will not admit a mistake I didn’t make. I appreciate Kent Johnson’s...

Copyright Kerfuffle

Aaron Sprinkles and Christopher McGee October 5, 2011

In a recent decision, the Council of the European Union voted to extend copyrights on musical recordings from a total of 50 to 70 years. This has brought the European Union more in line with the United...

Fate of Black Studies in our Hands

Michael Washington September 28, 2011

Among NKU’s regional and state-wide peer institutions, three of them are Division-I universities with Black Studies units that appear on a directory titled “The 100 Most Popular Schools for African...

The Rise of Edupunk

Christopher McGee & Aaron Sprinkles September 21, 2011

In keeping with last week’s theme of educational infrastructure, I want to cover some recent paradigms in the world of pedagogy, particularly the “Edupunk” movement. So what is ‘Edupunk’?...

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