The Northerner Print Edition - APril 11, 2013

The NKU Jazz Ensemble took advantage of the sunny weather and outdoor amphitheater to play music Wednesday afternoon. The band drew a crowd that enjoyed the music and warm breeze.

SPRING IN FULL SWINGJazz ensemble fills campus with funky tunes

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$63,000 requested for org. funding Residents battle it out in Paint Wars Softball player finds passion in coaching

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NKU announced a new project partnership with Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement to clean up and bring out potential in a historical, low-income Northern Kentucky neigh-borhood.

The west side of Newport, Ky. is home to many single fam-ily dwellings, some of which are the oldest in the city, dating back to the 1800s. However, the historical value and feel of the neighborhood has been lacking as it has struggled to find a true identity with its combination of industrial and commercial busi-nesses throughout the area.

The area is held together by community ties and through the charm of local shops such as the well-known candy store, Sweet Tooth Candies.

Heading the project is Mark Neikirk, executive director of Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement. The project is called the 505 Initiative, the name derived from the census iden-tification number for the area: 505.

The community, as well as students from NKU, Gateway Technical and Community College and groups of the Brighton Center, a local nonprofit, are collaborating together to carry out the project. Together, a curriculum has been developed for stu-dents to complete a series of hands-on service learning projects aimed solely at the efforts of the 505 Initiative.

The planned projects of the initiative are carried out by stu-dents through service learning as a part of their college educa-tion.

“Service learning is where a class partners with a nonprofit to accomplish something,” Neikirk explained.

That something in this initiative is to improve the community overall. To accomplish this, the students and faculty of NKU, as well as those involved from the West Side, will be carrying out these projects through a vast spectrum of ways in the hopes that their work will create a lasting impact on the community.

Neikirk has put together several workshops for faculty mem-bers looking to get involved in the project. Through his work and the enthusiasm among faculty, about twenty classes are now taking part in the project.

“We didn’t expect to have so many people involved, so it has really taken off quickly,” Neikirk said.

The project, although still in the beginning stages, has gained a lot of momentum from NKU and the community.

Northern Kentucky University is in the early stages of hiring a compliance officer to begin before the Fall 2013 semester. Part of that position would be to monitor the university’s ethical and professional codes.

President Geoffrey Mearns is taking ethics at NKU seriously, which was clear when Athletic Director Scott Eaton was fired for violating the university’s professional code of conduct.

The addition of the position though, Mearns said, was

“completely separate” from Eaton’s termination. The Board of Regents requested the position be made around fall 2012, according to Larry Meyer, director of Financial and Operational Auditing, who got involved with the hir-ing force then.

The officer, according to Vice President for Admin-istration and Finance Ken Ramey, will primarily take care of coordinating the compliance and auditing faculty across campus “and pull them all together as one unit to ensure it’s meeting compliance requirements.”

“Things are complicated now,” Meyer said, because of the high number of state and federal compliance respon-sibilities spread out on campus.

Alyson SchoenungStaff writer

Claire HigginsEditor-in-chief

Initiative uses art, language to raise awareness

Centralized compliance goal with new position

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NKU to go green for Earth WeekEarth Week will be held at NKU April

22-26. To kick off the week, a screening of “Thin Ice, the Inside Story of Climate Change” will be held April 22 at 12 p.m. in Student Union 107 B and C. The Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement will facilitate a discussion on sustainability around the world and at NKU, after the film. All student participants in Earth Day activities at NKU will receive chances to win one of three iPads. For more informa-tion contact Jane at [email protected] for more details.

Volunteers wanted for annual community service project

Volunteers are welcomed to participate in this year’s Spring into Service project,

an annual community service project that brings NKU students, faculty, staff and community members together to work on necessary improvements in Highland Heights, on April 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. This year’s opportunities for involve-ment include highway cleanup, home improvements and planting crops. Partic-ipants will enjoy free lunch, games and raf-fles when they return to NKU at noon. Vol-unteers will meet at 8:30 a.m. on the first floor of the Student Union and depart at 9 a.m. for their service assignments. To reg-ister for Spring into Service, go to https://orgsync.com/21626/forms/69760.

Norse Tech Bar now openThe Norse Tech Bar in the new Student

Success Center is now open. The tech bar is the new student-centered destination for technology on campus. There are tech-nology experts on hand to answer ques-tions and troubleshoot computers, tablets, smartphones, etc. There is also a computer lab on site and collaboration spaces with four areas equipped with LCD screens with hookups for laptops and tablets. Other services that are coming soon include the

ability to checkout tablets, computers and cameras; high-end printing services for projects, photos and posters; and onsite hardware repair. The Norse Tech Bar is open Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Celebration of Student Research and Creativity to kick off April 16A poster session will be one of the first

events for this year’s Celebration of Stu-dent Research and Creativity at NKU. On April 16, from 1 - 3 p.m. in the SU Ballroom, there will be a short address by President Mearns and Provost Wells at 2 p.m. ac-companied by performances by the small chamber brass, NKU student strings and guitar ensembles as well as a solo marimba by Morgan Minor to start the session. At Celebration, undergraduate and graduate students showcase and present their re-search, artistic or creative projects through posters and oral presentations or through interactive demonstrations, performances and exhibits. For complete details visit http://celebration.nku.edu.

This officer would communicate with Meyer and in turn the Board of Regents to “keep them in the loop.”

Although consolidating already existing compliance faculty would be the initial responsibility of the director, there could be some modification to the university’s code of conduct and pro-fessional ethics, according to Mearns and Meyer both.

Evaluating the university’s code of ethics would be a compo-nent of the officer position, Meyer said. There are no plans for changes currently, but “once they get their feet wet,” Meyer said, the officer may see the need for changes or the Board of Regents may request changes.

“My goal with this position is not simply to have us comply just with the letter of all of these rules and regulations, but how do we go about and create a culture of ethical conduct and ethi-cal behavior,” Mearns said.

Eaton was officially fired from the university March 18, but on April 5, Mearns released to the campus community that Eaton had inappropriate relationships with four university em-ployees and one former student over a span of at least 10 years.

Eaton did not disclose information about these relationships before the initial investigation into his conduct, which ultimate-ly led to his firing. Mearns said Eaton acknowledged “this pat-tern of misconduct” and that it violates the university’s ethical principles and code of conduct.

Currently, in NKU’s ethical principles and code of conduct, relationships between employees, students and other employ-ees are allowed, as long as it is reported to a higher supervisor if one of the parties in the relationship evaluates the other’s work, so “that suitable arrangements can be made for an objective evaluation of the student or employee.”

Eaton supervised two of the women who were employed by NKU and the student was in a course he taught during their re-lationship. At the onset of the university’s investigation into Ea-ton’s conduct, he failed to admit to these relationships, as well

as not reporting them to a supervisor during the relationships’ existence.

For Mearns, this is a serious offense because of Eaton’s “sig-nificant responsibility” and he has high expectations for NKU administrators in top positions at the university, which Eaton did not fulfill. His pattern of untruthfulness prior to and during the investigation was a leading factor in Eaton’s termination, Mearns said.

In some higher education institutions, there are codes in place to completely prohibit faculty, namely professors, and student relationships. The American Association of University Professors, an organization that defines fundamental profes-sional values, has a policy on consensual relationships.

It states: “In their relationships with students, members of the faculty are expected to be aware of their professional re-sponsibilities and to avoid apparent or actual conflict of interest, favoritism or bias.”

NKU’s code does include a similar take on faculty and student relationships, seen specifically in Eaton’s termination case. For Mearns, his decision to almost immediately fire Eaton after alle-gations were made was just about his pattern of untruthfulness.

But the president understands how important the “moral of the department” is when relationships form within depart-ments.

“Part of the reason the regulations say you don’t engage in that is because people will ask questions,” Mearns said. “[Other faculty] immediately begin to question whether or not decisions that supervisor makes are fair and impartial or whether they are guided by that relationship. That’s why the relationships are damaging to the institution.”

The timeline for hiring the director of compliance is not yet determined, but the process has begun. Ramey said he hopes to have someone on board by mid-May or early June of this year.

The occasional headache of class schedul-ing season is underway. While the stress is piling on, NKU is recognizing the troubles and hoping to make some changes in the coming semesters to make it all a bit easier.

Patrick Moynahan, vice provost of Univer-sity Programs, knows that scheduling can be frustrating for all majors and departments, but students shouldn’t think they’re the only ones frustrated.

“[Scheduling] is a giant puzzle in many respects and it drives us nuts too,” said Moynahan.

Each semester, department deans, chairs and advisers receive numerous complaints, which make their way to Moynahan as well.

“It’s a real challenge to meet all students’ needs. We’d love to add sections but there

are so many obstacles to get to that,” Moyna-han said.

Some of those obstacles include finding qualified faculty, time constraints and find-ing money in the budget to pay additional faculty. Moynahan said that funding is the most difficult obstacle, with recent budget cuts funding is “more limited than in times past.”

Moynahan sees each department having troubles in finding faculty in the first place, especially English and communication, which cover so much ground and only have so many faculty members to take on those courses.

“For example, just because someone’s a good journalist, doesn’t mean they can teach journalism,” Moynahan said.

One major problem, according to Moynah-an, is that NKU has students who work more hours than other universities in the state.

NKU also has a high commuter rate.All those obstacles are tough to get by,

but Moynahan is hopeful that some recent changes and possible future changes will improve the process.

Now each department is required to provide a four-year plan for students to at-tempt to follow while scheduling. Moynahan also said they’ve begun updating faculty and deans of the rate at which classes begin filling to capacity every Monday to keep up with demand.

They’ve also made the effort of spread-ing out freshmen orientations during the summer, so they can keep up with the large number of freshmen scheduling in one day. This is especially important in courses like ENG 101 and 291 which all students must take, Moynahan said.

One of the most promising ideas to improve scheduling is a technical plan.

Since there are “no definite patterns” to how students choose their courses, the IT depart-ment is tinkering with an idea on being able to compile what types of courses students have in their registration carts and hopefully then being able to accommodate students with the proper number of course sections.

As the changes continue to be made to make things a little simpler for every student, Moynahan knows there will still be struggles.

His advice to students is to find out as much as you can about your own schedul-ing patterns, such as what courses are only offered in spring.

Moynahan stressed that every student needs to make their problems be heard so that the proper ideas can be applied to find out if this is a problem for one singular stu-dent or a representation of a larger problem; also for every student to take advantage of priority registration.

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Student Government Association is asking for a $63,000 increase in funding for student organizations and an ex-planation for past cuts in the funding from the Student Fee Allocation Board in a resolution unanimously passed at the group’s April 8 meeting.

The Student Fee Allocation Board funds an array of student organizations, according to the resolution, including Activities Programming Board, SGA, Greek Life, Homecom-ing Committee, Northern Kentucky Leadership Institute, the Legacy Fund.

This resolution comes after a recent research effort and from several members of the group, revealed a 16.8 percent decrease in the annual monetary funding from the Student Fee Allocation Board since the 2007-08 school year.

This cut in funding contrasts a continued increase in the number of students participating in university organiza-tions, specifically since the 2007-08 school year.

“The number of dollars for funding isn’t based on the

number of students participating,” SGA Vice President Allen Horning said during the group’s meeting. “It’s really just a random number.”

SGA seeks to address this problem by asking for the $63,000 increase that will, according to Senators Corbin Brown and Jesse Wynne, make up for the cuts made since 2007-08.

It would make sense to return back to the amount of funding when it was at its highest state, when you look at the number of students participating in organizations then, compared to the number now, according to SGA Senator Ashley Hyden.

The Student Senate is also asking the university to use a consumer pricing index to determine future increases in the amounts of funding to be distributed.

“Northern Kentucky University already uses a CPI index for services such as food and housing for annual increases,” the resolution said, “which would be applicable for addi-tional funding to the Student Fee Allocation Board based on tuition incensement.”

The idea of using a consumer pricing index as a basis was

a topic that received a large amount of debate after the first reading of the resolution on April 1.

The group eventually decided that correlating the num-bers with a consumer pricing index would be necessary to allow increases based on the varying factors that contrib-ute to the amount of available funding, such as the cost of tuition.

The group’s adviser, Dean of Students Jeffrey Waple, explained briefly that past cuts in funding could be due to university budget cuts and the removal of Student Media funding out of the Student Fee Allocation Board funding in the 2011-12 school year, which took around $23,000 of the total funding with it.

Overall though, Waple seemed positive and optimistic about this resolution. “You guys have done the most re-search on this topic compared to any previous years’ SGA’s,” Waple said.

The next step in addressing this resolution, according to Waple, will be sending it to the offices of Vice President for Student Affairs Peter Gitau and to Waple himself.

Kevin SchultzNews editor

Nancy CurtisStaff writer

SGA wants $63,000 for student orgs.

Class scheduling a frustration campus-wide

In collaboration with the Brighton Cen-ter, events are being held for the commu-nity by the students at the center, includ-ing an event aimed at Spanish speaking residents of the area to be hosted by an NKU Spanish class.

Photojournalism professor Matt Baker became involved after Neikirk approached him asking if he was interested.

“I thought it was a perfect fit with my photojournalism class,” Baker said. “I’m most excited about the fact that it gets stu-dents out into the community.”

Baker has engaged his students in the project by having them research the area through newspaper articles, as well as sending them into the community to cap-ture photographs.

Some of the photographs are going to be on display in the Brighton Center to show-case the students’ work and give insight into the community of the West Side.

One of Baker’s students, Ronny Salerno, a senior photography major, has spent am-ple time in the community getting to know those who live in it and becoming more aware of the business side of the neighbor-hood.

“I had no idea there were so many local shops,” Salerno said. He said one of his fa-vorite places to shoot was the local candy shop, Sweet Tooth Candies.

As a photojournalist, Salerno said there is an expected amount of hesitation when going into a new area looking for photos.

“It’s always tough to break that barrier when you’re walking around with a camera and you walk up to someone on their front porch and say ‘Hey i want to take your photo and here’s why,’” he said.

Baker said that the biggest benefit for the community through his photojournal-ism students’ work is that the community gets the chance to look in the mirror.

“My students are going to tell stories through their photographs about what’s going on there and the community will be able to see these stories that are happening a block away that they weren’t aware of,” Baker said. “Becoming more self-aware is a huge benefit for the community.”

Salerno admitted that he was nervous about going into the area at first.

“At first glance it looks like a very rough, uninviting place,” he said.

He said that he has since changed his mind and really has enjoyed working in the area. Both Neikirk and Baker have advised students to go to the area in groups as a precautionary measure for their safety.

The project has really given students the ability to see beyond the classroom.

“They’re going out to do something that really does matter, rather than in the artifi-

cial environment of the classroom,” Baker said of their work.

Although there is no planned comple-tion of the project, Neikirk said they plan to be in the community for the next three years doing service learning projects.

The initiative is a part of the regional collaboration by the Greater Cincinnati Service Learning Network called Project Hope. The 505 Initiative is one of many planned across the region in the coming years.

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Photo illustration by Ronny SalernoSweet Tooth Candies owner Bob Schneider posed for a portrait at the register of his store in New-port, Ky. His store falls in the 505 track that Salerno is photographing for a photojournalism class.

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Approximately 65,000 undocumented stu-dents graduate from high school each year, but don’t have the opportunity to receive degrees from higher education institutions or pursue their dreams, according to the DREAM Act.

As three young women shared their stories of being treated unfairly in the United States without citizenship, tears emerged and a con-versation began on immigration reform at the BRIDGES for a Just Community gathering April 2 in the SU Ballroom.

Leo Calderon, director of Latino Student Af-fairs, introduced three young women who either currently attend NKU or will be here beginning in fall 2013.

“I find it amazing how some of these students are courageous and putting themselves out there for a needed change,” Calderon said.

“The students, undocumented students in high school, often times they don’t see them-selves going to college and the bright students are the ones who really fight to continue their education.”

Jessica Vasquez, who is taking a semester off from NKU, shared her story.

“Coming out of high school I didn’t expect to go to college, but my parents knew I wanted this,” Vasquez said.

“When I met Leo I told him I wanted to come out as an undocumented student,” she said. “I feel free.”

“We need to just pay attention to all of our people here in the United States and make sure

that everyone gets a good education,” Calderon said. “The reason people come here or go any-where in the world is because they are able to find better living conditions.”

Freshman computer science and physics ma-jor Diana Coronado, an undocumented student, also shared her story at the BRIDGES gather-ing. She moved from Texas to Dayton, Ohio at the age of 12.

“Texas is more welcoming because there were more Hispanics in my area, 89 percent Hispanic and 7 [percent] white,” Coronado said. “It was hard to relate to someone in Ohio, be-cause there was only one other undocumented student at my high school.”

Without documentation or a social security number, undocumented students cannot fill out the FAFSA form; however, which means undocumented students are unable to receive financial aid.

“It’s a tough issue, but they’re here and they’re making a living. If they’re here already why not make a path for them to become U.S. citizens? Why not develop a system where they could be more beneficial to our economy?” Calderon said.

Discussion at the gathering suggested that the solution to immigration reform may be po-litical, but president and CEO of BRIDGES Ly-nette Heard said the power is in the students’ hands. Young adults between ages 18-34 have the most contact with other social groups, ac-cording to the most recent progress report in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Students who cross the I-71/75 Brent Spence Bridge even occasionally should listen closely as the project unfolds this April. Construction could affect not only the traffic that crosses that bridge but also divert traffic to the I-471 bridge as well and impact traffic routes for Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is hoping that the Value for Money study’s results will be released in April, said Stacee Hans, the environmental coordinator and Brent Spence Bridge project manager. The study is being con-ducted by traffic engineers, technical experts and environmental specialists, according to Kentucky and Ohio’s transportation departments, and the results will tell them how to move forward.

“We are doing this options analysis to figure out the delivery method that is to the best benefit of the public,” said Hans. “How are we going to get this project delivered the most efficiently and with the best use of public monies?”

The Value for Money study will examine possible duration of the construc-tion, the number of drivers who will use the 471 bridge to avoid work on the Brent Spence and the ways to pay for the project. Hans said that the best deliv-ery option being considered at this point is tolling.

“When you induce tolls some of the anticipated traffic is going to divert and in our area we have a lot of river crossing,” said Hans. “So we need to look at that diversion rate to see how many are going to go off on other routes.”

Hans hopes that the completed renovations will provide a level of service and flow of traffic that will make drivers not divert to other bridges.

“That bridge is a key lynchpin that impacts everyone,” said Katie Herschede, executive assistant to the president at NKU, “it impacts all of us no matter where you are from.”

Herschede said that roughly 30 percent of NKU students are from out of state. According to NKU’s institutional research department, for the Fall 2012 semester there were 10,311 students enrolled from Kentucky, 4,061 from Ohio and 507 from Indiana.

Toll rates will be included in the Value for Money study. Those working on the study have looked at toll rates between $1 - 5, depending on the time of day and size of vehicle.

The 50-year-old Brent Spence is seen as unsafe according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the Ohio Department of Transportation. It was de-signed for 80,000 vehicles per day and sees around 170,000 per day, said Hans.

“Construction is going to be a lengthy process,” said Hans. “People will find a way. They’ll have to change their travel patterns, but they’ll find a way.”

Updates for the project will be posted at brentspencebridgecorridor.com, facebook.com/thebrentspence and on twitter @TheBrentSpence.

Matt SpauldingContributing writer

Caitlin Centner and Tara DeringtonArts & Life editor and staff writer

Construction on the way for Brent Spence Bridge

Immigration reform ‘in students’ hands’

Photo by Caitlin CentnerLeo Calderon, director of Latino Student Affairs, spoke on the need for an immigration reform at the BRIDGES for a Just Community inclusion report presentation April 2 at NKU.

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University Housing hosted a paint war

that pitted residents of Callahan Hall, Ken-

tucky/Commonwealth Hall, Norse Hall,

University Suites and Woodcrest Apart-

ments against each other.

On April 8, about 20 to 25 students par-

ticipated in the second annual Paint Wars.

University Suites took home the title for

the second year by making their red paint

the most prominent color out of any other

team.There were buckets of different colored

paint that were set up in a field between the

log cabin and the Honors House on cam-

pus. After each student grabbed a sponge,

they were assigned to a team based on

where they live on campus.

Woodcrest Apartments was yellow,

Norse Hall was green, Kentucky and Com-

monwealth Hall were blue, Callahan Hall

was orange and University Suites was red.

The war lasted for two hours and during

that time, each team worked to make its

house color the most visible. The amount of

color on other teams was the deciding fac-

tor in who won the war.

There was a lot of preparation that went

into creating the event. “We had a great

group of RA’s pulling their weight and they

have done a great job,” said Emily Ries, res-

ident assistant and communication stud-

ies major. “It was all teamwork and Sara

[Daugherty, president of Norse Force]’s

leadership that made it so much fun.”

The Association of Campus Residents

donated money to help the resident assis-

tants pay for sponges, paint, bins for the

paint, etc. “Since I am a member of ACR and ACR

donated a big chunk of money for the

[event], I wanted to show my involvement

with the program,” said Joel Wilson, geog-

raphy major. “I wore the same clothes from

it last year as I did this year.”

Wilson, who lives in Norse Hall, got to be

on the green team. “My favorite part was

getting to pour the tub of green paint all

over people at the end of the war.”

PAINT WARS

All photos by Emily Lindeau

Residents from University Housing fought for their halls to win the second annual Paint Wars April 8. University

Suites secured the title of Paint Wars champion for the second year after sponging red on the most people.

Jessica KopenaContributing writer

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It started as a simple role as love interests on the set of an NKU play and soon blossomed into something more, as Robbie Tieman and Miranda Hamilton de-veloped a relationship that was not only built on a love for each other but one also formed around a love for music.

While their stories may have been different as to how they got started in music, both agree that it began when they were very young and has grown into some-thing they see themselves sharing with the world for many years to come.

With this common love of music Tieman and Ham-ilton formed the group Hayden Kaye, an acoustic al-ternative folk rock duo.

Hamilton makes up the lead and supporting vocals and plays hand percussion instruments such as tam-bourines and shakers. Tieman plays guitar as well as vocals. They write their own songs and lyrics together.

Both push each other to do great things and give each other the confidence needed to create their mu-sic.

“Miranda brings forth an entire new level of confi-dence and stature to the music I create,” Tieman said.

Balancing a relationship and a music group takes a dedicated team. Both must be dedicated to the music they produce, but also to the relationship they have. This type of devotion allows them to bounce ideas off each other without judgment.

“When we experience the world together, it makes us closer, which then helps us to connect when we per-form,” Hamilton said.

Most of the challenges these two face is on the tech-nical end of music performance. Getting physical cop-ies of their promotional CD was rather difficult and on-line promotions are far from a walk in the park. Being full-time college students and balancing jobs as well as rehearsals and performances can be challenging.

“It can be stressful at times, but if we work together it always ends up working out,” Hamilton said.

What the two have created is no small feat. Not only have they performed in several venues from Colum-bus to Nashville, but they also have a debut album on Spotify and will soon have songs available on iTunes. As far as future goals, both see themselves making a career out of music.

“There is no limit to where our music can take us. What we have is unique. I see us playing for 2,000 plus people in less than a few years,” Tieman said.

After many performances, nerves do still get to them and sometimes they get overwhelmed with excitement when they perform, but Tieman remembers “that it’s not all about me. We’re here doing what we’re doing because we believe you people deserve a genuine song. Hayden Kaye is a creation not only of Miranda and I, but our loved ones as well.”

For more information about Hayden Kaye and a calender of events they will be playing, check out their band website at http://www.haydenkaye.com.

A new musical act is sweeping NKU’s student body. Orchid in the Ivy, a rock group made up of two past NKU students and one graduating senior, was selling copies of its new album, “Minus One,” in the Student Union all of last week.

The group, made up of Brett Scharf, a music major graduating in May, Mark Schulti, who graduated last year, and Zach Rawe, who left NKU and is now a school teacher, said that they were influenced by bands such as Rise Against and Nirvana.

While Scharf and Schulti were selling CDs, a student came up and said, “I listened to your album and I loved it.”

They said that students had been doing that all week, so they feel like they’re doing something right if people are coming up and complimenting them.

Word of their popularity even reached Molly William-son, NKU’s director of development communication, who was looking for a band to cover The Lumineers’ song “Ho Hey” for a promotional video for the Go Gold Campaign.

Unfortunately, Williamson said, the university was not able to get the rights to the song, so they were not able to get the cover.

Originally, Williamson had talked to the pep band and one of the members recommended Orchid in the Ivy. Williamson said she heard a lot of good feedback about the group from students.

When Williamson talked to Scharf, he offered to re-

cord a song for NKU. The band recorded the song, en-titled “Rise Up,” over the course of two to three weeks. Williamson said that when they submitted the song, it was already in such high format it didn’t require extra mastering.

Williamson praised the band for being so professional and for doing as good of a job as possible. Rawe joked, “We try to be as professional as you can be in Kentucky.”

Several weeks ago, the band played in the finals for the Madison Theater’s annual Battle of the Bands. Although they didn’t win, they do have another show at the Madi-son Theater on April 26 at 7 p.m. Tickets and more infor-mation can be found on the Madison Theater’s website.

Orchid in the Ivy’s new album, “Minus One,” is avail-able on iTunes.

Sarah McIntoshContributing writer

Mac PaytonStaff writer

Budding rock group records song for NKU, takes Madison Theater stage

Folk-rock duo stems from a love of the art and for each other

Musicians rise from Norse Nation

Photo courtesy of Robbie TiemanRobbie Tieman (L) and Miranda Hamilton (R) make up Hayden Kaye, a folk-rock music duo. The two formed the group after working as cast members in a NKU production.

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Raniero’s Pizzeria and Mellow Mushroom may have pizza in common, but both are vastly unique when it comes to the styles of pizza and NKU participation. From Mellow Mushroom sponsoring the “mellow minute” at basketball games to the crazy college nights at Raniero’s, these pizza restaurants are proving their desire to be more involved in NKU students’ lives.

Concerning their customer base, Raniero’s, located in the Martha Layne Collins Boulevard shopping center, has two different aspects to their business. They classify themselves as a family restaurant but also try their best to appeal to college students.

“Students are a huge part of our business,” said Raniero’s general manager Natalie Ramirez. “They

choose to have their fundraisers here, they choose to come here for entertainment, which is good because they can go

anywhere.”Raniero’s offers 10 percent off a meal with a student I.D.,

allowing students to indulge in their award-winning pizza, the Amore. Catering to students is a huge part of the work that

Ramirez does at Raniero’s.“We have a college night on Thursday nights,” said Ramirez. “Then

we also have live music on Fridays and Saturdays, which caters to students

and the community.”Ramirez describes Raniero’s college nights as crowded and wild where

students can purchase $1 draft beers, $6 pitchers of draft beer and often shot specials as well.

“I give them [college students] good drink specials and food prices,” said Ramirez, “because they are college students and they live on a budget.”

Mellow Mushroom in Wilder, Ky. has taken a slightly different approach when it comes to pizza and student involvement.

“We do the Best Buddies program,” said Mellow Mushroom kitchen manager Brian Stone.

Stone stated that this program is about pairing up students with special needs with a buddy to ensure they get to the correct classes on time and get them to their rides at night.

“Every three months... We bring them down here and let their families come into the back [kitchen] and actually let them make their own pizza with their family,” Stone explained.

Mellow Mushroom’s menu includes 19 signature pizzas, the newest called the Tie-Dye, and 89 different beers, 39 of which are on tap. Students have had an opportunity to try some of Mellow Mushroom’s food at many of the NKU home basketball games.

“We have a mellow minute,” said Stone. “It’s the first time-out of the sec-ond half, if NKU hits a three-pointer [there is a clock that runs], everybody in the building gets a free appetizer.”

Mellow Mushroom is following in Raniero’s footsteps with a student discount of 10 percent off currently in the works.

“It’s new [Mellow Mushroom’s relationship with NKU] but we are work-ing to build a bigger and better relationship with NKU,” said Stone.

Ryan RepaskyContributing writer

Photo courtesy of MCT Campus

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9How would you describe your scheduling experience this semester?

Compiled by Tyler Eubank and Mary-Kate Gnotek

Jesse WynneSenior

Finance and Management

“It was pretty easy since I have super priority, but it’s difficult because my classes are limited

now that I’m older. ”

Tatijhana BealFreshman

Anthropology and Criminal Justice

“It was much easier than last semester now that I know

what to do.”

Salena McKenzieSenior

Photography

“It was fine. I just had problems getting into one class due to a

problem on myNKU.”

Dominique BakerJunior

Middle Grades Education

“I would say trying... some classes weren’t available. I think

advisers should send emails sooner reminding students to set

up meetings.“

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In the April 4 issue of The Northerner, the article “Students receive $40,000 grant to film pilot for sitcom” should have been reported as a $2,000 grant.

In “Informatics faculty, staff show off in art show,” Associate Dean Scott Ragsdale should have been reported as Gaut Ragsdale.

Also in “Informatics faculty, staff show off in art show,” Re-bekah Richardson was not originally listed and should be added to the list of featured artists.

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Northern Kentucky University is a growing and progressing school.

Ask anyone around the NKU com-munity about our school and you can be sure to hear something very similar if not that exact same line. Yet, there is still that same stigmatic idea that seems to manifest itself into the idea of our university: NKU as a bare con-crete commuter campus with little-to-no student involvement.

Granted, the university has started to overcome this with a new univer-sity president inviting students to basketball games to do the Harlem Shake, asking for student input on the strategic planning process and even inviting a select group of students to his house for dinner.

Yet something about our student life on campus has remained sub par, especially compared to the surround-ing universities.

And then, at last week’s Student Government Association meeting, the group revealed that the Student Fee Allocation Board has been cutting its monetary funding to student or-ganizations yearly since 2007, as the amount of students participating in these student organizations since that same year has increased by almost 40 percent.

So you may be asking yourself, “Yeah there are always cuts lately, so what is the problem?”

But if the university is working to overcome its stigma as this desolate school, then it is evident that student life should be getting the money it needs and it is obvious that it has not been.

The way to overcome this stigma isn’t just in increasing the number of

students getting involved with univer-sity organizations every year, but hav-ing enough money for those organiza-tions to do cool activities and create neat experiences.

We need more funding to have more events, interesting extracurric-ulars and stronger overall groups on campus to make students want to stay here. This funding will also help those students who are involved to become even more engaged in the groups they are already in.

Dean of Students Jeffrey Waple said these cuts to the Student Fee Al-location Board funding may be a way for NKU to cope with state budget cuts. And perhaps cutting funding to student organizations would make sense, instead of trying to cut other things that could more directly affect academics.

But the Board of Regents an-nounced retention as a main means of balancing out the budget in a time of an ever-decreasing state budget at their last meeting.

And it has been said time and time again, from our first days at NKU dur-ing summer orientations, to lectures from concerned professors and ad-ministrators, “the way to get retention up and to have students be successful and graduate sooner, is to get them involved.”

Well then the university should support student organizations as an economical investment, with at least the additional $63,000, which is what the Student Fee Allocation Board got in 2007-08, and show students that aren’t as involved, or are “typical commuters,” what they are missing out on by not being here on campus.

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During her first two years at NKU, Katie Sullivan played third base for the softball team. She left the team her sophomore year because of a heavy class load.

But before she left, her coach offered her another opportunity as a student assistant coach for the 2012 season.

Now the senior education major from Covington, Ky. is coaching a Division I softball team.

“[My] coach knew I wanted to be a teacher and a coach at some point,” Sullivan said. “So she gave me the position and I ran with it. I really enjoy the sport in gen-eral and softball has always been a big part of my life. I like to coach and teach while working with people.”

It’s a transition working in a coaching position when you were the players’ peer beforehand, according to Sullivan.

“Katie actually played for two years and then she

didn’t want to play, so the position was offered to her,” Kathy Stewart, head coach said. “But I think a lot of her. She’s a really good person. She’s always been very help-ful and is always encouraging.”

Sullivan helps with scorebooks, practices with play-ers and does whatever the coaches need her to do. She helps compile the bat list and communicates with the umpires. Soon, she will begin taping the hitters while they are at bat so corrections can be made during prac-tice.

Since she can remember, Sullivan has always had a passion for sports. She began playing T-ball and base-ball when she was eight or nine and then switched to slowpitch and fastpitch softball as she got older. She also played basketball as a kid and soccer in high school.

“I had a really good relationship with my high school coach,” Sullivan said. “He was very supportive of me playing and pursuing the college level and making my-self a better athlete, which is probably why I chose to play softball.”

Her favorite moment when she was a member of the team was when she hit two home runs in one season. But her favorite moment as a coach is when the team faced the University of Indianapolis and won in the re-gional tournament.

Stewart compared Sullivan to the absent minded professor.

“She’s really, really smart and organized but she’s kind of forgetful at the same time. She’s a very good person, she sees the best in everyone. She’s a quality, quality person.”

When she graduates Sullivan hopes to become a high school chemistry teacher and coach an athletic team of her own someday.

“My advice to any athlete or coach is to find what you’re good at in your team,” Sullivan said. “As long as you enjoy your role, you’ll enjoy your experience. You’ll know you’re making an impact.”

Brook CliffordStaff writer

Former athlete turned student coachSoftball player finds passion for leading the team instead of playing

Photo courtesy of Katie SullivanStudent assistant coach Katie Sullivan waited for the ball to come her direction when she was a student athlete. Sullivan became a coach after almost leaving the team.

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Northern Kentucky University’s recent move to Divi-sion I continues to affect athletic programs on campus, and Norse Cheerleading is no different.

With tryouts set for April 19-21, head cheerleading coach Shayla Myles-Aaron hopes that new additions through the competitive process can help improve the squad and take the program to new heights.

The process of going through tryouts is about much more than just physical ability, according to Myles-Aaron. Though prospective cheerleaders are judged on their skills, such as “stunting” in the air or tumbling in-dividually, they are also judged as students first.

“The first thing we look for is an overall good stu-dent,” Myles-Aaron said.

The athletes’ previous cheerleading experience is taken into account, as is the way in which they react to the tryout period in general. Though it will not be an easy three days, it paints a wider picture of the cheer-leading hopefuls for coaches to see.

“They can expect a highly stressful situation,” Myles-Aaron said, “but it helps us to know what type of athlete they are. What can they do when the pressure is on?”

Despite the heavy mental aspect of the tryouts and accompanying interviews, senior cheerleader and soci-ology major Tabitha Tirey also stressed the importance of the physical preparations that the hopefuls will need.

She mentioned that attending open gyms leading up to tryouts is crucial and that developing chemistry with other hopefuls is a way to gain an advantage heading in.

“You select a group at clinics beforehand... you pick who you want to tryout with for your stunts,” she said.

Teamwork is critical when stunting, “and stunting is where you actually put people in the air.”

While the search for new cheerleaders is a focus, veterans of NKU cheerleading are not exempt from the tryout period.

Though she is graduating, senior cheerleader and criminal justice major Maggie Cobb reflected on her own tryouts as a veteran. She noted that the interview process for veterans is different than that of potential new cheerleaders, as their previous experience will lead to more team-oriented questions.

Veterans don’t have a leg up in making the team, ei-ther, according to Myles-Aaron.

“We are looking for the cheerleaders to advance their skills and know their shortcomings,” she said.

This self-awareness of their physical abilities shows that not even veterans can avoid the mental stresses of the tryout period.

Cobb said that the cheerleading is a full-time com-mitment, which is evident through the combination of physical and mental stresses that veterans and new-comers alike will face through tryouts and beyond.

“I don’t think people expect that with NKU either, because we’re not a huge cheerleading school,” she said. “We did really good our first year. We should be able to come back and be better than last year and just keep building that name.”

Despite the competition and all of the challenges that the cheerleaders will face, Myles-Aaron mentioned that the coaches are motivated and will be working hard as well.

“We are very motivated to see what everybody has for us,” she said.

Search is on for 2013-14 cheerleaders

Kyle BiggsStaff writer

Photo by Kody KahleCheerleader Brittany Deppenmeier ran out onto the basketball court during warm-ups at NKU’s men’s game at home against Mercer.

TennisBoth the men and women’s tennis teams took on USC Upstate

on April 5, losing 2-5 and 0-7, respectively. The teams also took on East Tennessee University on April 6, losing both, 0-7. The men’s team is ranked last in the Atlantic Sun Conference with 0-7 conference record and 2-15 overall.

SoftballOn April 6 and 7, NKU’s softball team faced Jacksonville three

times and lost all games, 2-4, 4-6 and 0-6, respectively. North-ern Kentucky took on Marshall in a doubleheader on April 10 and lost both games, 1-4 and 1-6. The next game will be April 13 against East Tennessee State at 12:00 p.m. at home. The team is ranked ninth in the A-Sun conference with a conference record of 1-14 and an overall record of 7-30.

BaseballNKU’s baseball team took on East Tennessee State at home

on April 5, 6 and 7 and lost 2-5, 9-12 and 4-13, respectively. On April 9, the team beat Morehead State with a score of 8-2. The team hosted Indianapolis on April 10 and won 5-4. Northern Kentucky’s next game will be on April 12 against North Florida. The team is currently last in the conference with a record of 1-8 and 6-27 overall.

GolfThe women’s golf team played in the Colonel Classic Invita-

tional on April 5 and 6, finishing 14th out of 14 teams. The men’s golf team participated in the Grub Mart Intercollegiate Invita-tional on April 8 and 9 and placed ninth out of 10 teams. The women’s team will travel to the Atlantic Sun Conference Cham-pionship on April 14-16.

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