EDITORIAL: A day I’ll never forget
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
September 12, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story, Viewpoints
It was a morning like so many before outside the studios of Southwest Ohio Broadcasting in Wilmington, Ohio. I stood on the porch of our building, which looked more like a house than a professional radio studio. I felt the cool morning air as I inhaled the second-hand smoke of my friend and colleague...
FACULTY COLUMN: We’re all one, a remembrance of 9/11
Tom Ramstetter, Contributor
September 11, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Featured Story
We’re all one, now. Now we all come together. Those weren’t my dad’s last words, but they’re the last truly clear words I remember him saying to me. It was a brief moment of clarity for him during the final days of his battle with prostate cancer, which would take him from the world and his f...
EDITORIAL: We stand with UK’s Kentucky Kernel
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
September 2, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Viewpoints
The University of Kentucky, the largest public university in the Commonwealth, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its own student newspaper. UK filed a lawsuit against its own students. Students who are encouraged to get an education and learn real-world experience working for the Kentucky Kernel, the ind...
No restrictions, no excuses for Division I Norse
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
August 10, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Opinions, Sports, Viewpoints
In a moment four years in the making, Northern Kentucky University is now a full member of NCAA Division I athletics. Press releases from the NCAA and NKU confirmed the expected this week.The Norse have served what is, quite frankly, an absurd and unnecessarily severe penance for daring to move up f...
Finding the story: A reflection on my heroin series
Abby Anstead, Managing Editor
May 4, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Viewpoints
I sat in a small office across from Dr. Perilou Goddard, a psychology professor who specializes in drug policy. Eyes locked and ears attentive, I listened as she discussed some of the common misconceptions society has about heroin and those who are addicted to the drug. She must have read the interest in...
Leo wins an Oscar… finally
Kelsey Bungenstock, Engagement Editor
March 1, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Viewpoints
Hollywood’s hottest attended the 88th annual Academy Awards Sunday night, and the Internet has been abuzz ever since. Chris Rock’s opening dialogue boldly addressed #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite, “Mad Max” won six Oscars in varying categories and Whoopi Goldberg was mistaken for Oprah.Despite...
The man who sold the world and the other who saved it
Mackenzie Manley, Assistant news editor
January 15, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Viewpoints
On Sunday, Jan. 10, musician, actor and fashion icon David Bowie died. Four days later actor Alan Rickman died. Both died peacefully in their homes after battles with cancer. Both Rickman and Bowie died at the age of 69.Each were memorialized on countless social media and news feeds. Their deaths, d...
BREAKING: Silent protest addresses gun violence
Lizzie Kibler, Arts & Life Editor
October 19, 2015
Filed under Breaking News, Campus Events, Featured Story, News, Student Voices
Students stood in silence outside of the Student Union on Monday wearing targets on their chests. Their homemade shirts bore a black target on the front. Written on the bottom of the shirt was “#StudentsNotTargets.”Propped against their legs were signs that called for awareness and solidarity. The silen...
A Kentuckian’s response to Kim Davis
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-In-Chief
September 19, 2015
Filed under Editorial, Viewpoints
I like to believe that I live by the philosophy of treat others as you’d like to be treated. I greet people with respect, and I respect those who respect me. I don’t form my opinions based on what they do at any other given time of the day. If you’re good, if you’re honest, if you’re k...
Feeling the loss of a fellow journalist
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-In-Chief
September 3, 2015
Filed under Viewpoints
I watch the news, good or bad, and more often than not, it’s the latter. I cringe as scenes unimaginable flicker before me and wonder how a person could commit such terrible acts, no matter which side of good or bad they stand on. Aug. 26 struck hard for many like myself and hundreds of thou...
Defining our purpose
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
August 26, 2015
Filed under Viewpoints
We're not the biggest or baddest of student news organizations in the land, but that doesn't mean that we don't work like them. We have an editorial staff of 15 and multiple staff writers. We work in the crevices of time that we carve out between classes and other jobs to produce daily online content and a w...
Onto the next adventure
Matt Spaulding, Arts and Life Editor
May 8, 2015
Filed under Viewpoints
About a month ago, I remember waking up exhausted. As my bare feet hit the chilly floor I started toward the bathroom and mumbled with frustration.Everyone has those days where they just want to stay home, but with the eventuality of my last days at NKU setting in, I have to look back on days like that...
