VIDEO: What’s coming up with NVP
Collin Hudson, Abby Behrens, and Jacob Kinman
October 4, 2020
Norse Violence Prevention Center (NVP) is an engaging on campus community that helps those affected by violence and sexual assault. Kendra Massey, Director of NVP, discusses her overall goal of the organization, to mobilize every member of the NKU community to be a proactive part of the solution in reducing...
Virtual ‘Take Back The Night’ focuses on sexual assault survivors during COVID-19
Corinne Byrne, Assistant Arts & Life Editor
April 16, 2020
A group of women dressed in black sheets armed with brooms marched across the University of Southern Florida’s campus in 1973. Just a few years prior in Belgium and England, women staged protests against how women couldn’t safely walk the streets alone. After a microbiologist was murdered near her home one ...
Dating in the digital age: safety, awareness
Noelle Horn, Assistant News Editor
November 21, 2019
They met on Tinder and decided to stop for coffee at Carabello in Newport. He was sweet, she remembered. He brought her the coffee she ordered, which came with a caramel candy on top. She noticed it was wrapped “wonky” but ignored it. When her date went to the bathroom, the barista repeatedly offered ...
“StepUp!” walks against power-based violence
Billy Keeney, Copy Editor
March 7, 2019
“StepUp! End Power-Based Violence” invited all men and women on campus to walk a mile around campus this past Wednesday to raise awareness for sexual assault, gender-violence, intolerance and gender-inequality.
Rachael Denhollander takes back the night
Kane Mitten, Reporter
April 23, 2018
“The most powerful thing you can do with your voice is speak the truth to a society that often does not want to hear it,” Rachael Denhollander said to over 75 students in the University Center ballroom last Tuesday. She spoke as part of the sixth annual Take Back the night, an event within NKU...
What you missed at SGA Feb. 19
Blake Girlinghouse, Reporter
February 20, 2018
SGA read a resolution to establish a warning system for hate speakers on campus and trained with Norse Violence Prevention Center to define consent.
What you missed at SGA Feb. 12
Blake Girlinghouse, Reporter
February 13, 2018
SGA passed a resolution to expand the NKU Violence Prevention Center and appointed two new senators at Monday’s meeting.
For survivors of sexual assault, NVP provides space for self-care
Mackenzie Manley, Editor-in-Chief
February 12, 2018
The contents of Gabby Dralle’s office: a “tranquility” jar marked with the words “let it go” sits by her desktop, filled with purple liquid that shimmers as you move it. To the left, a lilac dream catcher hangs on the wall, flanked by newspaper clippings and posters. Beside a pile of conse...
‘Forward Together’: Student community forms for sexual assault survivors
Natalie Hamren, Assistant News Editor
February 5, 2018
Forward Together--a six week training group for survivors of sexual assault--will be offered to students by Health, Counseling and Wellness in collaboration with Norse Violence Prevention Center. It was student requests that inspired the creation of the group, said Gabby Dralle, the director of NVP. ...
Take Back the Night: Survivors share their stories
Brittney Gunter, Reporter
April 14, 2017
Students shuffled around a white leather couch and tried to find a seat in the University Center Ballroom. Names that represent survivors are written on the shiny material in purple ink. The couch, and all that it represents, is a part of The K.A.S.S.I.E. Project. The K.A.S.S.I.E. Project helps sur...
Finding strength in speaking out
Abby Anstead, Editor-in-Chief
October 11, 2016
She felt it like it was sitting on her chest. Suffocated by her thoughts in a room full of strangers, Jessica Ulrich stared at the microphone in front of the room. Somehow its slender stand seemed to tower over her. I need to get up and do this. Driven by the desire to share her story, the 21-year-old stood up from her seat. This is who I am. She felt her stomach turn...
Feelings mixed on NKU’s It’s On Us campaign
Abby Anstead, Editor-in-Chief
September 29, 2016
Reva Short thinks it’s important to bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault. The NKU junior supports the national It’s On Us Campaign, an initiative focused on shifting the way people think about and respond to sexual assault, but she also thinks the university’s participation in the c...
