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‘Shocking’ number of Cincinnati area college students skip meals Max Londberg Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The food aisles seem to have it all: dairy products, pasta, bagels and bread loaves, piles of navel oranges and large heads of cabbage and unshucked corn. There’s even a package of rice high in protein that’s specially manufactured to arrest hunger. But the Northern Kentucky University food pantry is out of shopping bags. Too much demand. So students hunting for food improvise. One uses a cereal box as a table to stack toilet paper, protein shakes and 1% milk. Another fi lls his backpack with goods. “Thank you for coming in and checking us out,” says Jamin Kennedy, who is working the front desk as part of his social work curriculum. The 21-year-old senior at NKU’s Highland Heights campus has also grabbed granola bars, trail mix and other snacks from the pantry in the past. He’s one of an increasing number of NKU students who rely on the charitableness of others for calories. They aren’t alone. The need for food at some colleges in the Cincinnati region is increasing and can outweigh that in the surrounding communities. In addition to NKU, the University of Cincinnati, Miami University and Xavier University See HUNGRY, Page 2A
Valentine Peterson and Keyah Are restock produce at Fuel NKU, a food pantry at Northern Kentucky University, on Sept. 30. PHOTOS BY MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER
NKY homeless shelter fi ght: Would proposal improve services - or outlaw shelters? Julia Fair Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky in Covington provided coffee and hot meals to 49 people who stayed overnight due to the extreme cold temperatures on January 30. CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER
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COVINGTON, Ky. — Hundreds of people might not have a homeless shelter to go to if this Northern Kentucky city adopts a bill setting stricter standards for such facilities. From location restrictions to bike rack requirements, each of the city’s four shelters would have to make changes under a draft of the ordinance of obtained by The Enquirer. While city offi cials said the changes are necessary to address the “burden” it carries by hosting regional social services, others said it seems to be written with the intent to close the shelters.
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“I’m an open-minded person so I could see how either the people who authored it just don’t know anything about the issue of homelessness or how shelters are operated,” said Hamilton County’s Strategies to End Homelessness CEO and President Kevin Finn. “Or, their intention is to make it impossible for shelters to operate.” Some of the shelters would have to relocate under the draft ordinance rules. The shelters – Northern Kentucky Emergency Shelter, Welcome House, Fairhaven Rescue Mission and Women’s Crisis Center – either declined to comment on the ordinance specifi cs or could
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