Farewell: Notes from the senior editors
April 26, 2018
We admit: We're more than a little sad to let our seniors go. From reporting on the fly (sometimes skipping class to do so, shh...) to working long hours and late nights in the newsroom, our graduates will be missed. Here are their goodbyes. Ugh, do you have to go? ...
Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Jude Noel
Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor
April 25, 2018
Polarizing as its appearance may be, it’s my opinion that NKU is a beautiful place. I don’t think I realized it until now, taking the opportunity to revisit the past four years of my life, realizing that my fondest memories of college are abstract, sensory experiences. I let myself slip into a daydre...
EDITORIAL: Student newsrooms must remain independent. Full stop.
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
April 25, 2018
Today we stand united with the nation’s student journalists and independent student reporting to #SaveStudentNewsrooms.
EDITORIAL: Without job security, how can professors do their job?
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2018
Two weeks ago, on Good Friday, many non-tenure track (NTTR) lecturers at NKU received letters that due to budget uncertainties, they may not have positions next school year. That’s 47 lecturers in the arts & sciences, 15 in informatics, 16 in education, and more across campus. They’re the...
REVIEW: Lil Yachty – Lil Boat 2
Kayla Lumpkins, Reviewer
March 22, 2018
Dropping his sophomore album Lil Boat 2 on the anniversary of his debut project, Lil Boat, Atlanta’s Lil Yachty hopes fans take to his new material better than they did his last album, Teenage Emotions. In an interview with Ebro Darden on Beats1, he discussed how he felt like he let fans down wit...
EDITORIAL: In the mountains, the option to serve
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2018
Highways carved into mountains guided three vans of NKU students to the area where the War on Poverty was first declared by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It’s a surreal encounter with a niche culture unlike the one I grew up in, just a few hours away in central Kentucky. Houses and trailers freckle...
EDITORIAL: Liking yourself is rebellious in a consumer culture
McKenzie Eskridge, Reporter
February 12, 2018
Consumer culture: you’ll never be enough. The road to American consumerism has been a slow build, but the core reason you’ll never feel satisfied with your appearances or confident in your ambitions is quite simple: self-esteem is not good for economic growth. We buy when we feel insecure and worried ab...
REVIEW: Rich Brian – “Amen”
Kayla Lumpkins, Reviewer
February 11, 2018
Rich Brian, formerly known as Rich Chigga, just dropped his highly anticipated debut album “Amen,” a cohesive body of work that proves the 18-year-old rapper from Indonesia is more than a fluke. The 14-track album includes the hit single “Glow Like Dat,” “Attention,” which features Offset, and his ...
OPINION: Why I advocate for Kentucky universities
Hannah Edelen, Contributor
February 7, 2018
Hannah Edelen, secretary of public relations for NKU’s Student Government Association, joined hundreds of others across the Commonwealth on Tuesday at the state capitol to rally for higher education and stand against proposed budget cuts. Here’s why she advocates.
Have you been a victim of hate or bias at NKU? Tell us your story
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
February 3, 2018
The Northerner is partnering with investigative reporting nonprofit ProPublica, alongside newsrooms across the nation, to document hate and bias in our community. The FBI definition of hate crimes are “criminal offenses motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, reli...
REVIEW: Drake’s ‘Scary Hours’ frighteningly introspective
Kayla Lumpkins, Reporter
January 28, 2018
Drake dropped his new EP “Scary Hours" last week, making it the first project fans have heard since last year’s “More Life.” The Grammy-winning artist released an EP comprised of two-tracks, “God’s Plan” and “Diplomatic Immunity.” As a Drake fan, I felt like he’d been quiet f...
OPINION: I march because ‘Love Saves Lives’
Maria Dossett, Social Media Editor
January 26, 2018
The immense crowd slowly takes shape in the streets. Signs and flags from groups all over the nation wave high above us. Cheers, prayers and songs fill the air around us as we start our journey to the Supreme Court building, where in 1973 the world was changed. My feet are already aching as we walk a...
