GALLERY: New beginnings: NKU’s Habitat for Humanity helps build community
Sierra Gibson, Reporter
October 23, 2016
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
NKU’s Habitat for Humanity chapter spends their Saturday’s rebuilding homes for needy families in Newport and plan to do more builds similar in the future. A recent build was organized on Sept. 17 by Jozie Banas, co-president of NKU’s Habitat for Humanity and senior psychology and spanish major to help ...
An internship to help the community
Courtney Ferguson, Reporter
September 10, 2015
Filed under Arts & Life
The Norse Violence Prevention Center opened in April 2014 after receiving a three year grant from from the Department of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women and accepts interns. This year, Katie Sebastian, a senior social work major, is serving as their intern. The center aims to pr...
The evolution of WNKU over 30 years
Matt Spaulding, Arts and Life Editor
April 29, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
WNKU is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their first broadcast on April 29,1985. At 5:30 in the morning, Maryanne Zeleznik was the first voice on the air in front of a room of staff members and a technician rewiring the board underneath her feet to ensure everything was going to work properly.Since those ear...
Chase graduate inspires bright futures for young athletes in NKY
Gavin Colton, Reporter
April 16, 2015
Filed under Featured Story, News, Video
NKU Chase College of Law graduate Bob Arnold recognized that there was a need for a practice and training facility targeted at student-athletes and prospective student-athletes in the Northern Kentucky area. Next Level Academy is a multipurpose facility targeting training and playing. It employs NKU stude...
Pride March postponed but their pride marches on
Christian Glass, Reporter
April 9, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
Mother Nature prevented the LGBTQ community from taking over the Student Union plaza with their second annual Pride March, a celebration of the differences they all share together. Instead of simply calling it a day after rescheduling the march, which they did for Wednesday, they trickled and then fl...
The great white whale settles in Covington
Christian Glass, Reporter
April 9, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
Dr. Robert Wallace takes a step back in the lobby of the Covington Public Library, and his eyes light up as they pass over the seven quilts hanging up, tightening the grip on the peg leg in his hands. He knows the story behind each piece of artwork that he’ll be setting up in the coming days, preparing th...
The journey of NKU’s ‘Miss Congeniality’
Taylor Upchurch, Reporter
March 19, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
She didn’t feel quite as confident as some may have thought, but she knew she fully enjoyed the experience in every way. Her family were all gathered in the front row, awaiting the final decision of who would win the title of Miss Kentucky 2015. She looked to them for comfort, and then soon heard wh...
‘Mardi Taus’ fights cancer with style
Christian Glass, Reporter
March 2, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life, Featured Story
Feb. 28, students and faculty alike gathered into the Student Union ballroom, dawned beads, grabbed their game tokens and shared a message: “Cancer Sucks.” Alpha Tau Omega put together their “Mardi Taus” charity event for a second straight year, raising money for breast cancer awareness while pro...
How Net Neutrality could impact you
Christian Glass, Reporter
February 22, 2015
Filed under A&L Features, Arts & Life
Net Neutrality will reach a milestone Feb. 26, when the FCC will vote on the future of the Internet itself. The discussion, which has been nearly a decade long, is expected to get some clarity about whether the Internet is a free, open platform or a marketable commodity. Public support for the bil...
MTV’s “Girl Code” star visits Student Union
Lizzie Kibler, Assistant Arts and Life Editor
February 12, 2015
Filed under Arts & Life, Featured Story
A sea of women and some men stood outside the Student Union Ballroom on Wednesday, Feb. 11 waiting to see one of the stars from MTV’s “Girl Code,” Jamie Lee. After Activities Programming Board’s (APB) Director of Speaker Events, Hattie Clark introduced the star, Lee came on to begin her stand...
Emily Dickinson fest set to showcase the works of famous poet and students
Matt Spaulding, Arts and Life Editor
February 11, 2015
Filed under Arts & Life, Featured Story
Starting Thursday in the Eva G. Farris Reading Room of Steely Library, NKU will host its first Emily Dickinson Arts Fest. “It really started in ‘94 with an art student who was in my Moby Dick class,” Robert Wallace, regents professor of English, said. “He said, ‘You know I’m an art major...
Two-headed games fun place to play magic: the gathering
Mac Payton, Reporter
February 11, 2015
Filed under Arts & Life, Featured Story
Claudio Rodriguez sat across the table from his friend, Michael Rupert, smirking. “This is what you do in Magic — you psych your opponent out,” Rodriquez said, after smack-talking Rupert as their best-out-of-three match began. Within 20 minutes, Rodriquez, a freshman Electronic Media and Broadc...
Josh Goad, Asst. News Editor
July 6, 2018
Chase professor Amul Thapar is on President Trump's shortlist to serve on the Supreme Court following Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.
The ‘semi-accidental’ leader: St. Amand bids NKU farewell
June 30, 2018
Brannen to lead Norse through 2022
June 29, 2018
Childcare: UC center steps in to save NKU daycare
June 28, 2018
GALLERY: The biggest acts and best munchies at Bunbury 2018
June 10, 2018