Northern Terrace burglar steals from four women, hides in plain sight
Leonard Ivey, Reporter
September 9, 2016
After an unknown woman successfully executed three weeks of thievery, the group of roommates she was victimizing realized that she had been hiding in plain sight. According to an e-mail from NKU’s Interim Chief of Police, Lieutenant John Gaffin, four women staying together at The Northern Terrace repo...
Chief of Police focuses on community outreach
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-In-Chief
September 19, 2015
After a late start to the school year, Leslie Kachurek is starting to settle into his role as Northern Kentucky University’s chief of police. In his first three weeks at the university, Kachurek has been working various shifts with the department, trying to gain an understanding of the existing ope...
Learning more about the gun incident
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-In-Chief
September 9, 2015
In a recording received Tuesday by The Northerner, a female student who remains unidentified can be heard rushing away from Steely Library as she tells the 911 dispatcher that there’s a student in the library with a gun. Several documents received from NKU confirm that the female student was study...
UPDATE: Mearns addresses open records on gun incident
Abby Anstead, News Editor
September 2, 2015
President Geoffrey Mearns sent an e-mail to the Northern Kentucky University community Wednesday, nearly a week after a female student had a gun in Steely Library. The email said that the NKU police department has released additional documents regarding the incident in response to open records re...
UPDATED: NKU officers respond to gun incident
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
September 2, 2015
It was a seemingly normal Thursday when social media began a frenzy of news that someone was in possession of a gun on NKU’s campus. It was around 11 a.m. on Aug. 27 when NKU lit up Twitter with news of an event that had occurred nearly an hour before on the third floor of Steely Library.&nbs...
BREAKING: NKU Police respond to student in possession of gun
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
August 27, 2015
Social media began buzzing Thursday morning after reports surfaced that a student had been taken into custody after being in possession of a gun on the third floor of Steely Library.NKU's official twitter account sent out tweets around 11 a.m. on Thursday alerting the university that campus police ha...
Police chief candidates offer a variety of backgrounds
Abby Anstead, News Editor
August 5, 2015
NKU’s police department’s primary goal over the summer has been to find a new chief for the department, a goal which entered its final phase last week after holding three forums for the final candidates for the position. Finalists for the position include William Wilson, Mark Machan and Leslie Ka...
NKU searches for new police chief, PD turmoil nearby
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-In-Chief
July 30, 2015
NKU is searching for a new police chief amidst controversy over a police shooting at nearby University of Cincinnati.Police involved shootings have been a sensitive subject across the country in recent months and matters are taking on new perspective with one of the most recent coming from just acro...
BREAKING: Chief of Police Jason Willis resigns after receiving Ph.D.
Tori Lentz, News Editor
April 22, 2015
Chief of Police Jason Willis announced he is resigning from NKU to pursue other opportunities in higher education. His resignation, effective May 29, comes after four years as head of the NKU Police Department. Willis recently completed a doctorate in education and educational leadership with a special...
Student hopes to bring national organization to campus
Karen Plunkett, Reporter
April 20, 2015
Preston Buckley, a NKU business major, is looking to bring a national organization that advocates for the legalization of concealed carry on college campuses for purposes of self-defense. Buckley has been around firearms his whole life and at the young age of six he started learning how to use them....
Police chief Jason Willis celebrates four years at NKU
Karen Plunkett, Reporter
November 6, 2014
Chief Jason Willis has always wanted to be more than a police chief. That’s why he’s working to earn his doctorate as he celebrates four years of being NKU chief of police. He is writing his dissertation on exploring the dispositions of affective university police officers, because he believes ...
NKU students ‘walk the line’
Kerry Skiff, Copy Editor
October 22, 2014
NKU Police showed students how to walk the line during National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Policemen offered a simulated Walk and Turn sobriety test for students on Oct. 21 and 22 to educate them about driving under the influence. Students could choose between four types of drunk goggles that simu...