OPINION: Just discovered NKU? 10 totally serious facts you need to know
Nicole Browning, Asst. Arts & Life Editor
March 16, 2017
Editor’s Note: Because so many people are discovering Northern Kentucky University for the first time this week, we here at The Northerner (who, by the way, have covered every NKU basketball game this season and have sat alone in many postgame press conferences as the only external media outlet) felt ...
WATCH | NKU students talk Oscars
Christopher Decker, Gil Brummett, Matt Krimmer, Sports Editor and Contributors
February 25, 2017
With the 89th Annual Oscars right around the corner, we find out what NKU thinks about the ceremony, their favorite movies, and what they’re excited for in 2017.
My last piece as Editor: An ode to my Northerner family
Abby Anstead, Editor-in-Chief
December 6, 2016
I didn’t want to write a farewell. I know my time as editor has run out … I just didn’t want to put it in writing. But, in true Northerner fashion, I’ll write my farewell now, as every editor of The Northerner has before me. But, in true Abby Anstead fashion, I think I’ll do things a little ...
A voice and a choice: Student opts for third party
Mackenzie Manley, News Editor
November 8, 2016
It was her first time voting in a presidential election. Along with her brother, they pulled into an adjacent parking lot at AJ Linderman Elementary School, their polling place. Mary Andrikus, a junior economics and Spanish major, marked her ballot for Jill Stein, a green party candidate. ”I...
Opinion: What the results of the election will mean for the Supreme Court
Aaron Thatcher, Contributor
November 8, 2016
The next president of the United States will appoint at least one U.S. Supreme Court Justice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. According to Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, a Supreme Court Justice's appointment is essentially life-long with “good behavior”, potentially mea...
Column: NKU Shouldn’t give into pressure
Christopher Decker, Sports Editor
November 2, 2016
Not five minutes after the NKU men’s soccer team lost their sixth straight game, this tweet appeared in the mentions of the Northerner Sports account, after reporting the final score of the game. @northernersport ugh, if we're D1, we need to hold our coaches accountable — Andy Kroeger (@A_Kroeger) S...
EDITORIAL: A day I’ll never forget
Matt Sexton, Managing Editor
September 12, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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...