E. coli outbreak linked to fast food in Kentucky
Noelle Horn, Copy Editor
April 2, 2019
Fast food in Northern Kentucky could be tainted with dangerous E. coli, according to a report from the state health department. The Kentucky Department for Public Health released a statement last week announcing a sharp increase of E. coli cases in Kentucky. The Louisville Courier Journal report...
Best of NKY: Help us pick the best of Northern Kentucky
Northerner Staff
February 20, 2019
What are the best things in Northern Kentucky? We need your help to find out. For the first time, we're choosing the area's best bars, restaurants, businesses, hangout spots and more around campus and everywhere else on this side of the river. Take the survey to help us decide what we should rank, and see your choices in print next month! Submissions close March ...
Raising Cane’s opens on US 27
Kane Mitten, Assistant Arts & Life
December 5, 2018
Raising Cane’s opened their new location in Cold Spring on Tuesday. The fast-casual chicken restaurant is located right outside of campus on Alexandria Pike and sits behind the Arby’s across from East Village. Raising Cane’s is a restaurant that specializes in chicken fingers, which they ref...
At campus pro-life display, opinions split on Roe v. Wade
Noelle Horn, Reporter
November 13, 2018
“Life begins when you stand up to Christian fascists” and “I have no right to deny her right” were some of the many signs at the Revolutionary Student Union’s Rally for Roe v. Wade on Thursday. Pro-life group Northern Right to Life showed their annual “Cemetery of the Innocents” disp...
Honors College launches in Founders Hall
Josh Goad, Assistant News Editor
September 6, 2018
The second floor of Founders Hall is home to NKU’s newest college: the Honors College. Once serving to bridge the gap between disciplines and creating advanced curriculum for both students and faculty, it has been deemed an important component in NKU’s future successes.
7 things they don’t tell you at orientation
Maria Dossett and Natalie Hamren
August 20, 2018
During Northern Exposure, you learned how to pay for tuition, how to sign up for classes, where to find campus organizations and other information essential for your college experience—but they didn’t tell you everything. The Northerner wants to give you some insider info so you don’t have to learn the hard way (like some of us, unfortunately). Here’s seven things you need to know to survive NKU.
WHAT TO DO: study abroad; clown around.
Jude Noel, Arts & Life Editor
January 31, 2018
Thursday 2/1 Spring Study Abroad Fair Bitten by the wanderlust bug? Itching for a reprieve from midwestern culture? Looking to broaden your experiential palate? Consider studying abroad! Drop by the Student Union’s second floor lobby to learn more about the many opportunities on campus that let stu...
The Dent Schoolhouse: From front yards to international fame
Mackenzie Manley and Jude Noel
October 9, 2017
For NKU alumnus Bud Stross, bringing the nightmarish figments of his imagination to life is a process that lasts year-round. From a 14-foot tall Necromancer statue to catacombs covered in 4,000 hand-made human skulls to a haunted tin can, the horrors that populate Stross’ Dent Schoolhouse are the product o...