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...
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...
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...
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,...
The renowned evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker recently published a new book - The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, the thesis of which is that overall violence has declined...
All the thinking and planning and dreaming of what I would say on the day I finally got to write my farewell editorial has done me absolutely no good. I’m sitting at my desk Tuesday night, about two...
It’s hard to believe, but I’ll be leaving this campus of concrete and rebar; our beloved Concrete Jungle. It’s been a long, long five and a half years, but then again that seems to be too short....
Finally. It’s that time. I’ve gone through countless panic attacks, hundreds of flashcards, too much stress and too many awful professors. But I’ve had an amazing number of really awesome ones.
I...
There’s a lot of talk right now about federal student financial aid funding, ranging from the House of Representatives subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training all the way down to Northern...
Recently, a memo by the notably lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford (hereafter CLGC) surfaced, proposing that the ABA or American Bankers Association, a client of the firm, fund an $850,000 initiative...
