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WHAT’S THAT SMELL? UNCOVERING THE REASON BEHIND THE ODOR NEAR HIC

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OVER-THE-RHINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | OTR, DOWNTOWN, NEWPORT | $10, $75 Missed the Cindependent Film Festival a few weeks back but still have an interest in supporting indie film creators? Over 80 motion pictures, from Cincinnati and from foreign countries, will be playing at various theaters all over the Cincinnati area. Tickets for individual films are $10; all-access passes begin at $75. KENTUCKY’S EDGE | COVINGTON & NEWPORT | FREE | OPENS 11 A.M. Like “South by Southwest for bourbon,” this new festival in the Northern Kentucky area intends to be a region-wide bourbon and music festival. Several paid and free events are available. There are five main events: a free music festival at Pete Rose Pier, a block party at Roebling Point, an artisan market with food vendors and local artists at Mainstrasse, paid music events—Com Truise and Jukebox the Ghost headline Friday and Saturday, respectively—at Madison Theater and a conference at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center. LAND OF ILLUSION | MIDDLETOWN, OH | $15+ | 8 P.M. - 2 A.M. While there usually aren’t too many good reasons to head to Middletown, Ohio, if you’re looking for a spooky season fright, you can’t do much better than Land of Illusion, a theme park open for just two months out of the year that is solely dedicated to scaring guests over and over and over. If you’re a fan of haunted houses, but want something more, this long drive is worth the trip.

What you missed at SGA Sept. 30

Noelle Horn

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Student Government Association hosted its first town hall of the year Monday, Sept. 30. The town hall was in collaboration with Health, Counseling and Student Wellness (HCSW) and organized by Brynn Cahal, chair of SGA’s student rights committee, with the topic being “a talk on mental health.” SGA President Jarett Lopez said when discussing possible topics, mental health rose to the top. Lopez has had friends pass away due to their mental illness and said it is a constant topic on campus. “We thought it would be really good to do a dialogue about mental health so that we can address it and start dissolving that stigma,” Lopez said. Students and faculty sat at tables labeled different identities such as “parents attending college,” “student within lgbtq+ community” and “post-military students” attendees were asked to sit at a table with an identity that did not match their own. Kat Lark, freshman computer information technology major, who sat at the “post-military” table said she learned about the event from a friend and was interested in learning more about mental health and different perspective. While Lark did find the town hall effective in teaching COVER PHOTO BY BILLY KEENEY. COVER ILLUSTRATION BY NOËL WALTZ.

her about HCSW services, she mentioned the assumptions being made in regards to other identities. Lark said people of the various identities should have been a part of the conversations. “Students of non-color talking about students of color … they can only make assumptions and you can’t really do much with assumptions because it could offend other people and just might not be true at all,” Lark said. Cahal said she hoped making attendees think from different perspectives would make the issue easier to talk about as well as make them think more about others. “It makes the conversation a little easier to have, which I think, kind of, warms people up to having a conversation about mental health and about themselves later on,” Cahal said. SGA has future events planned for this semester. The next event will be Oct. 21 and will be a “safety walk” in which according to Lopez, “we’ll be dividing into groups and going around campus and finding issues that might come up that could affect our students, faculty and staff safety.” Student Government Assocation meets at 3:30 p.m. Mondays in SU 104.

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Mac’s Pizza Pub to hold karaoke events, student-centered nights

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Kane Mitten ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

For many NKU students, going to the Applebee’s location just outside of campus every Wednesday for karaoke nights is a tradition. So when the popular restaurant chain announced this past Wednesday that karaoke nights were no more, several students took to Twitter to criticize the decision. Some went as far as starting a #boycottapplebees hashtag. Then, a Mac’s Pizza Pub employee announced on Twitter that Mac’s would be hosting its own karaoke nights from now on. The Applebee’s in Highland Heights declined to comment on why they chose to end the long-standing karaoke nights. Mac’s Pizza Pub owner Harvey Germain—which he makes sure to point out is pronounced like the popular football club, Paris Saint-Germain—had already made plans over the summer to have karaoke nights at Mac’s. However, he held off on announcing the plans until the school year was well underway because he didn’t know how much of an audience they would’ve drawn in the summer months. Germain said he found out about Applebee’s cancelling karaoke at the same time as everyone else. “I don’t get to eat out a lot when I’m in this area. So I actually didn’t know they were doing karaoke until just recently,” Germain said. “Then someone told me yesterday that they’re not doing karaoke, and I was like, ‘Okay, what day should we do it?’” Mac’s karaoke nights will run Wednesdays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., and will feature beer pong for $12.50 a team, all night happy hour specials and a new

late-night food menu. The pizza joint is also introducing a new ‘College Night’ event, which features a DJ playing and a special mixed drink available for $1 every month. This month’s drink, Purple Flurp, is inspired by the iconic Nickelodeon series Jimmy Neutron. The drink contains Svedka blue raspberry, triple sec, grenadine and a choice of cotton candy or strawberry Faygo. The event’s other deals include $2 taps of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Natural Light, $3 draft beers from Stone Brewing and Rogue (subject to change) and $4 for two slices of pizza. Germain said Mac’s isn’t trying to recreate the wheel with these events; they just want a good environment for college students to be able to socialize in, and that it’s important for their location to have traits to make them stand out from the pack. “Culture and inclusion and music and energy. Those are the biggest things,” Germain said. “At the end of the day, we’re just talking about pizza and beer, so the only thing that will separate us from anybody else is our energy, a fun environment and doing new things.” Germain mentioned other local pubs with a fiercely loyal crowd, like Billie’s Skyline Tavern and Barleycorn’s, and hopes Mac’s “has something like that with students in the next couple years to come.” “We’re a fun place to party. We can provide a clean, safe environment, and people have a really good time. We’ve got competitive pricing, no matter what,” Germain said. “If you like good, positive energy, this is a great place to be.”

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Josh Kelly MANAGING EDITOR

What’s your karaoke song? “This Love” by Maroon 5 Alyson Hamilton, pre-nursing freshman

“Tequila” by The Champs Braedon Annis, political science freshman

“Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver Claudia Cieslar, criminal justice senior

“Thnks fr th Mmrs” by Fall Out Boy Elizabeth George, political science freshman

“Fly Me to the Moon” by Frank Sinatra Kyle Fitzgerald, English education senior

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BLINK festival encourages collaboration between students, faculty and alumni

Kane Mitten

PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY BILLY KEENEY

ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

BLINK, a free, light-based art festival, is easily the biggest event in Cincinnati. The inaugural BLINK in 2017 drew more than a million people to the Queen City—almost 400,000 more than Oktoberfest Zinzinnati. After the roaring success of the festival’s first year, Brad McCombs, associate professor of art and music program head, knew that NKU’s School of the Arts had to get involved somehow. Hans Schellhas, associate professor of visual communication design, was contacted by a member of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber to get involved with the festival. He approached McCombs about a collaborative project, and the two pulled in Dr. Amy Gillingham, director of orchestras, to submit a proposal to BLINK. They knew that they wanted to do something related to the Ohio River, with the piece intending to examine how waterways can be used to examine both the future and the past. “We wanted something iconic,” McCombs said. “We arrived at the idea of this canoe … we thought it was a really beautiful shape, and also it helped tie in with the water, and with the past and the future.” For NKU’s installation at BLINK on Oct. 10, titled “Light Streams,” eight canoes will be suspended in the air, adjacent to the river. The NKU Philharmonic Orchestra will sit under the canoes, and as the orchestra plays, lights will shine and flash on the canoes in synchronization with the music to produce dazzling images and colors. The musicians underneath will be wearing blue glowing bracelets, as a symbol for water underneath the boats. McCombs said inspiration for the canoes came from examining the history of Cincinnati and its development over time. The Native Americans settled in the area because the bend in the river was a conducive spot to live. Later on, in the industrial era, the Ohio River was vitally important for transportation. In modern times, he said,

we celebrate the water. “Now, with The Banks and [Smale Riverfront Park] and Newport on the Levee, there’s celebration of looking at more natural elements—appreciating the water, our proximity to the water and engaging the river in a new way,” McCombs said. Schellhas said while he and McCombs initiated the project, they wouldn’t be able to come close to finishing without the participation of students. “The student help has been really important in helping us accomplish a pretty big objective,” Schellhas said. “It’s fun to work with students. It’s just nice to be able to share with students. And, you know, we’re all here for the students. It only makes sense that they’re an important part of this.” One of those students is Zack Hargrove, a fifth-year new media art major. He was working on a project for his senior art exhibition in the Ceramics and Sculpture Studio, when McCombs, who he referred to as “Professor Brad,” approached him with a job offer to work on the project. McCombs is one of Hargrove’s two favorite professors at NKU—the other is Steven Finke, associate professor of spatial arts, sculpture—and Hargrove said he wouldn’t be on his current path

without the guidance of McCombs. Hargrove took a robotic art class with McCombs, where he discovered the work of Stelarc, a performance artist who claims that the human body is obsolete and who often modifies his own body with robotics. Hargrove said the work of Stelarc is where he draws most of his inspiration from, and that he wouldn’t have even heard of the artist had it not been for the class. He took an interest in coding during the class, and is now constructing and coding his own animatronic project for his senior art exhibition. Hargrove has worked on several aspects of “Light Streams,” from sanding down the canoes to woodworking to metalworking—which he particularly enjoys. “Cutting metal on that saw in there, it’s relaxing, almost,” Hargrove said. “It’s like watching those oddly satisfying videos.” It’s not just current students who are involved in BLINK. Charity Rust-Jordan, a spring 2018 graduate with a degree in spatial arts, is working with some of her former classmates on a willow and tissue paper sculpture of Margaretta Baker-Hunt. The Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center reached out to Rust-Jordan after

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8 canoes they saw a social media post from the Cincinnati Art Museum, where she was teaching a class on sculpture. Baker Hunt wished to place a float in the parade on BLINK’s opening night, and asked if she would teach a class that involved a group collaboration to build the float. The six- to eight-week course, which was free and open to members of the community, had several different members at varying levels of art experience. “We had some people with degrees in art,” Rust-Jordan said. “And then we had some people that said they couldn’t draw a stick figure, so it was really neat to work together.” First, Rust-Jordan reached out to Ben Huber, the studio tech from the Ceramics and Sculpture Studio, and asked him to assist with the class. Then, she reached out to several of her previous classmates and other alumni, and five of them also joined the class. Rust-Jordan is enthused about the teamwork involved in the project, she said, as the festival heavily emphasizes collaboration. “One of the ideas behind BLINK is ‘the future city,’ but it talks about everyone working together,” Rust-Jordan said. “It’s just so cool to not only have some members of the community, but also some previous peers all working together to create this.” The sculpture of Baker Hunt’s founder is being crafted in the traditional way of making paper-lanterns, and the gargantuan model is surrounded by repre-

sentations of flowers, insects and birds from Baker Hunt’s famous gardens. Rust-Jordan said it was amazing to collaborate with other alumni, as she missed being around other artists every day like when she was in college. “One of the things I missed the most was just having that community that you could bounce ideas off of and do some constructive critiques with,” Rust-Jordan said. “[NKU has] always been a very big community feel … I really missed that.” Schellhas said everyone at NKU should go to BLINK while it runs from Oct. 10 - 13, regardless of whether they see “Light Streams” or not. “It’s part of our community,” Schellhas said. “I think it’s fun for [students] to see what NKU students and faculty are doing. I think they automatically feel a connection in that kind of way, and I think it helps them to feel connected with BLINK in some way too.” While Hargrove initially looked at his work on the canoes as just a job, his experience changed later on. “I’m proud of what we’ve done so far,” Hargrove said. “It’s evolved more from a job into something to be proud about, you know? It’s an accomplishment.” “Light Streams” will be presented on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. Can’t make the initial opening? Don’t worry. The project will be on display for the length of the festival with a recording of the NKU Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance on the first day.

Zack Hargrove cuts metal for the canoe stands.

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BLINK festival encourages collaboration between students, faculty and alumni

Kane Mitten

PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY BILLY KEENEY

ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

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Zack Hargrove cuts metal for the canoe stands.

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06 Features

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Smelly plants outside HIC: Do the benefits outweigh the assault on our nostrils?

Noël Waltz

COPY EDITOR

Students have noticed a strange smell on their commute between classes, particularly concentrated near the gardens outside of the Health Innovation Center. The university paid special attention to this area, with the implementation of “rain gardens” and other plants that offer a variety of benefits to the campus and environment. The rain gardens were designed to aid in controlling storm run-off from the HIC. They are comprised of shallow pits that are full of plants that can survive the periods of intense hydration caused by the run-off. This clever design works to conserve water, as the plants are expected to get all that they need from the run-off. When maintenance sought advice on what plants they should put in the gardens around campus, an important request was for them to be native. “When you have native plants, it means your native insects can eat them,” said Dr. Maggie Whitson, associate professor of botany. This triggers a chain reaction of benefits. When insects have plenty of food, the insect population increases, which means there is more food available for baby birds to eat. Birds will also feed on the plants’ berries, which not only gives them nutrition to live, but allows for the seeds to be spread elsewhere after being digested. More plants grow as a result, and the cycle starts over again as those new plants provide food and shelter to native wildlife.

There was a special request for milkweed. This is the plant that monarch caterpillars eat before metamorphosing into beautiful pollen-sipping butterflies. Whitson said there are at least three different types of milkweed on campus. Another benefit of the plant selection in the gardens is that they are designed to be colorful throughout the year—keeping the campus aesthetically pleasing during every season. “There are some impacts everywhere like climate change, or plastic pollution on little islands way out in the middle of the ocean. But here in Kentucky, there’s very little land that has never been

cleared by humans, almost all the land here in Kentucky has at least been cleared at some point, even if they’ve let it grow back,“ said Whitson. Even though the university has flattened a huge area of land for parking lots and buildings, the gardens across campus are our way of giving back. These spaces can support native wildlife, as well as offer a pleasant view of pollinators sipping nectar and small birds eating fruit. As Whitson walked around the Health Innovation Center, she touched and sniffed any plant she suspected as the culprit for the attack on everyone’s noses. As it turns out, it isn’t one particular

Dr. Maggie Whitson said a variety of plants cause the smell.

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plant that is giving off an unpleasant smell, but a combination of them, such as fragrant sumac and Russian sage, as well as fresh fermenting mulch. Much of the fragrance that students are noticing from plants is intentional. These plants use fragrance to attract pollinators and tell them that they have nectar for sipping. Without it, it would be significantly more difficult for pollinators to land in the correct spot for extraction, or find the flowers to begin with. Megan Cox, sophomore environmental science major, said the smell isn’t amazing, but having these spaces on campus makes it all worth it. “It’s really the only green space on campus,” said Cox. “So it’s important that we have it.” According to the United States Department of Agriculture, one-third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators. There is evidence that the pollinator population is on the decline, and the effects of that, if left unchecked, will be felt by everyone—wildlife and human populations alike. “Our native plants and animals just don’t have any place of their own left; they don’t have anywhere that they can go,” said Whitson. “If we’re going to keep them, if we’re going to let them live, we have to share.”

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Southgate School: Opinions split on museum’s focus

Rachel Smith REPORTER

The Newport History Museum at Southgate Street School has been placed on a trial of ethics by some NKU students for its coverage of the city’s local history at the former segregated school. “If you’re going to talk about the struggle that African-American kids had to go through to get an adequate education, why do you have to have the mob in the same room?” It’s a question posed by Cordel George, a public history master’s student in his final year of study, about the museum. The museum showcases content tailored to both the city’s local history and the former school’s past, which includes educating African-American children between the late 1800s and mid-1900s. Many of the exhibits have been created by NKU students as part of their curriculum, including the public history master’s program. George has spent the past year working at the museum and has been vocal about his criticism of the Newport Museum being housed at Southgate Street School. “To put the Newport Museum in that structure almost diminishes the historical significance of what that structure originally meant,” he said. “It waters it down.”

“If you’re going to talk about the struggle that African-American kids had to go through to get an adequate education, why do you have to have the mob in the same room?”

George said he has also noted a disproportionate coverage of Newport’s past that leaves the school’s history as a footnote. “They have a desk there to say, ‘oh, this desk was used by one of the kids,’ but it’s just a desk. I mean, it’s no different from any other desk from that same time,” George said. “But then there’s a whole panel on one of the greatest white gangsters from Newport.” Michael Steenken is a public history master’s student who also serves on the board of directors for the museum. According to Steenken, the museum is still in the learning process of balancing the coverage, but the solution is not to be mutually exclusive. “You can represent a wide variety of the history of Newport while simultaneously telling the story of the school,” Steenken said. “It’s not just a museum about Newport history and it’s not just a museum about Southgate Street School. It’s both.” One point of contention among some NKU students is the official name of the museum: the Newport History Museum at the Southgate Street School. Within the past year, George said several students attended a meeting to share their concerns on the name. According to George, the name puts a greater focus on the city’s history while the historic site remains an addendum. Steenken confirmed there was an initial meeting where the issue was raised. However, the issue was discussed before the board of directors, which is the administrative body that would cover these issues, had been assembled. Since the board’s formation in February, the name has not been formally brought up. “I don’t think it’s necessarily been

School desks used by students at Southgate Street School.

An assortment of supplies that would’ve been used by Southgate Street School students.

forgotten. I just don’t think it has been brought back to the table,” he said. Steenken said the museum is open to new ideas on exhibits to alleviate the perception of disproportionate coverage. Board member Shirlene Jensen, who has been in the public history master’s program since this spring, said prior to the board’s formation, the museum was not making enough of a concentrated effort to cover Newport’s AfricanAmerican community. According to Jensen, she has no issue with Newport housing their local history at the former school. She said her criticism stems from the disbalance of coverage between the two histories. While the museum currently showcases Newport’s most famous mafia members, Jensen said she would like to see more panels on the African-American doctors, soldiers and politicians who have contributed to the city throughout its history. “If you’re going to talk about James Taylor, the largest slave-owner in the county, you need to talk about the people he freed and their accomplishments as well,” she said. “They went on to learn and grow and be involved in this community.” According to Jensen, the way the museum is currently structured enables visitors to miss the historic significance of the site as a former school of segregation. She said the board will continue to be proactive in establishing a bigger presence of African-American history at the museum. Scott Clark, the historic preservation officer for Newport and executive director of the museum, said the ethical issues raised by some NKU students fail to take into consideration the practical aspects of museum creation and curation. “I think a lot of it has to do with how people think social history should be

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interpreted. If you want to run a museum, there’s a certain practical aspect to it,” Clark said. According to Clark, plans for a Newport museum had been in the works for 25 years prior to its opening in 2016. He said Newport had an issue with finding the right location until the owners of Southgate Street School, an all-black Masonic Lodge, reached out to the city. Clark said the lodge still owns the building but the costs of structural work and maintenance upkeep is budgeted by the city. “As important as Southgate Street School’s story is, it probably wouldn’t have gotten any legs if the city hadn’t gotten behind it,” Clark said. “In order to tell that story, we also need to be telling the story of all of Newport, so I think that goes back to how to balance those two.” According to Clark, the perception of disproportionate coverage at the museum is not an intentional slight; rather, the city’s local history is easier to find artifacts and create exhibits for. He said because Newport’s AfricanAmerican community has never been larger than 10 percent of the population, it is more challenging to widely display that history while still meeting the expectation of consistent circulation of new material. While a balance between subjects is an ongoing struggle, Jensen said she is confident in the museum’s future as an inclusive space for education and awareness. According to Jensen, she is able to rely on many NKU students and board members to continue the conversation of ethics and practicality in examining social histories. “I’m not going to be by myself doing this. There’s a lot of others with me,” Jensen said.

08 Sports

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Women’s Soccer opens home conference play with a 1-0 loss

Ashleigh Cronin (5) dribbles toward the goal during the game against UIC. The Norse fell to UIC 1-0 on Saturday night. PHOTO BY COLIN JOHNSON

Sierra Newton SPORTS EDITOR

The Norse opened up home conference play with a 1-0 loss to the UIC Flames. The Norse are now 4-5 on the season and 1-1 in the Horizon League conference. The Flames advance to 6-3-1 and to 2-0 in the conference. “[The match] was definitely frustrating because I know that we’re the better team,” senior forward Ally Perkins said. “We knew that we could have easily won this game and we know that we can win the conference. So being one-and-one this early is very frustrating. And hopefully we just learn, watch film and just fix our mistakes.” Within the third minute of play, UIC had the chance to score from a corner kick, but NKU was able to defend and push the ball out of the box. The seventh minute looked to be NKU’s first opportunity to score, as junior midfielder Kailey Ivins sent the ball forward to Perkins, who crossed the ball into the box. The ball was then caught by UIC’s goalie. UIC’s defense held NKU to one shot on goal. Perkins took five shots, but only one was on frame for the half. “One of our biggest points coming into this game was to play [the ball] to our outside people because we knew they were going to be open,” sophomore midfielder Ashleigh Cronin said. “And I think we did that well. It was just that final ball that we couldn’t finish.” Senior midfielder Shawna Zaken opened up the second half with an op-

portunity to score, but the UIC goalie blocked the shot, giving the Norse a corner kick opportunity. The Norse scored from the corner kick, but it was then nullified due to a foul committed by Norse defense. In the 70th minute, Zaken headed the ball into UIC’s goal, but yet again, the goalkeeper was there to collect it. In the 71st minute, Cronin was fouled in the box, giving the Norse a penalty kick opportunity. Ivins took the penalty kick, but wasn’t able to convert. The Flames scored in the 79th minute from a header by sophomore forward Emma Main. “Early in the second half we challenged our team to really work and they embraced that,” Head Coach Bob Sheehan said. “I thought we had some great balls into space and we really attacked like we want to and it just didn’t go our way.” The Norse will remain at home for their next match against the Wright State Raiders on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The match begins at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN+.

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