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The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

Review week a baby step to dead week

Staff editorial April 18, 2013

The end of the semester is hot on our trails. Two weeks to go and projects, final assignments and exams are already starting to pile up. And it won’t stop until May 10 because NKU does not currently...

Organization funding needed for growth

Staff editorial April 11, 2013

Northern Kentucky University is a growing and progressing school. Ask anyone around the NKU community about our school and you can be sure to hear something very similar if not that exact same line....

Second term gives president chance to improve

Staff editorial April 4, 2013

The news of junior business and communication major Erik Pederson’s re-election as SGA’s 2013-14 president has made its way into conversations throughout campus. Whether through a side comment made...

Instagram ethics still up for debate

Staff editorial February 21, 2013

The ethics and guidelines for journalism are always in question. Ethics are a touchy subject because they are so hard to define, and every journalist has different ethical codes. Of course there are the...

Call to SGA: Wake up and reach out

Staff editorial February 14, 2013

The Student Government Association at NKU is a hardworking group of people. They hold formal meetings every Monday, work with the university administration and executives, they even create their own resolutions...

What we can learn from online hoax

Staff editorial January 24, 2013

It might be sort of an odd story, the one of Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o’s supposed dead girlfriend hoax, but in an era of “catfishing” online and a 24-hour news cycle that is too concerned...

Twitter can be a good move for Mearns

Twitter can be a good move for Mearns

Staff editorial January 17, 2013

Northern Kentucky University’s president has joined the ranks of other university leaders in the Twitter-verse. Geoff Mearns sent his first tweet Jan. 11, in response to many students who tweeted him...

We won’t back down

Staff Editorial August 24, 2011

Independent. We here at The Northerner throw that word around on our website, our email signatures, you name it. It’s almost like another meaningless slogan you hear on a television commercial. But...

Staff Editorial: Faculty changes to Student Media raise suspicions

Staff Editorial June 9, 2011
Instead of explaining their vision of the future of Student Media to us, they created their own vision, brought someone in to fill it, and then told us about the change. In a department that prizes transparency and information freedom above all else, the practice seems out of place.

Staff Editorial: Proposed Speech Policy Goes Too Far

Staff Editorial February 3, 2011

They’re annoying. They yell at you. They pass out the same green bible to you each and every time. They tell you that you are sinful and will burn in hell forever. Sometimes they do not even make sense...

Talking to the press

Staff editorial April 9, 2010
Student Government Association elections are upon us. With the elections come a chance for new student representatives to be elected to represent the student body. It’s also a chance for new relationships to be built, especially with NKU’s student media outlet, The Northerner.

Talking to the press

Staff editorial March 24, 2010

Student Government Association elections are upon us.' With the elections come a chance for new student representatives to be elected to represent the student body.

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