The Northerner Print Edition - Aug. 26 2009

NO ADMITTANCEAug. 26, 2009 Edition 44, Issue 1

The Gates are ClosedNKU caps admissions for the first time ever

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It’s hard to look anywhere on campus and not see con-struction. Whether it’s a new building or a first-class soccer stadium, Northern Kentucky University is growing and changing at a rapid pace. Sev-eral months ago, we here at The Northerner decided it was time that the 50-plus-year-old pub-lication undergoes a construc-tion of its own. We’ve scrapped our broadsheet (journalism lingo for the size of a standard newspaper) for a tab-size for-mat, ushering in a new age for the publication. We’ve spent a good deal of time thinking more about you, the reader, and what you want more of in a college paper and how you want that information conveyed to you. With the new format, comes a new focus on what’s covered. We’ve focused on making this publication a blend of on-cam-pus, local and national affairs — all of which affect you in one way or another. We’ve amped up our attention to the arts and entertainment scene, as well as provided you with more in-depth reporting on the news that matters most. Our cover

story this week, News Editor Kelly Phelan’s report on the admissions cap, perfectly sym-bolizes the change that’s occur-ring at NKU. In his State of the University speech on August 24, President Vortruba announced that NKU rejected more than 400 applicants this year in re-sponse to the 10 percent de-crease in state appropriations, as well as reaching program capacity. This allowed only a 1 percent growth in student body this year. Those denied admit-tance are prospective students who are academically deficient in more than one area. This is a historic time for NKU — a university that focused heavily on increasing the student body, has re-focused on raising aca-demic standards. Whether not it’s right to keep students out is not for us to say, it’s only for us to report on. In that respect it seems both NKU and The Northerner think of change in the same way — quality over quantity.

-Tim Owens,Print Editor-in-Chief

WHAT’S INSIDE

Note from the NewsroomNEWS

VIEWSHunting season open for on-campus parking

A&ECreative thinking keeps summer EMB busy: Films are made with the intent of preventing plagiarism

Cover StoryNo Vacancy: Admissions have been capped for the first time in NKU’s history

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SPORTSSoccer stadium is kickin’:Construction to be completed in October

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Money in the name of research: Chemistry professor awarded grant money for molecular research

Cover illustration by Joe Castelli

Dr. Keith Walters likes talk-ing science. The soft-spoken associate chemistry professor can talk at length about what his research group is doing to develop advanced supramolec-ular systems.

His group is composed en-tirely of Northern Kentucky University undergraduate stu-dents, with all research per-formed by students under his guidance.

The National Science Foun-dation (NSF), with funds ap-proved through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the NSF awarded Walters $120,000 for research, advancing this com-plex branch of science.

Walters said it was tougher this year to get funding, even though the NSF received $3 bil-lion from the ARRA.

“As soon as it went out that NSF got ARRA money, the number of grant applications went through the roof,” Walters said.

He explained the process of applying is long, and drawn out.

“The important thing is that you get your foot in the door with the people in Washington who look at these grants,” he said.

The funding is crucial for stu-dent research, and Walters feels lucky to receive the funding.

“Chemicals are expensive,” he said. “It’s always very im-portant to have some mecha-nism of external funding.”

He explained there are plenty of areas for students to get funding, but it’s usually in smaller amounts — around $500.

“That might sound like a lot, but when I buy a single chemical sometimes that’s $200 bucks,” he said.

Walters said it’s also tough for students who want to par-ticipate in research, but have other jobs and responsibilities.

“I always have students who want to get involved, but real life gets in the way,” he said.

Different type of research university

When it comes to research, NKU is different from larger research institutes, such as the University of Cincinnati, be-cause the opportunity for un-dergraduate research is avail-able through groups such as Walters’. Typically, most re-search is offered to graduate students.

“NKU’s mission is a teach-ing institution. That’s never going to change,” Walters said. “That’s a big thing for those of us at an institution like this, but still believe in research. We be-lieve in research as an excellent teaching tool.”

Although the research at NKU will most likely not com-pete with the research of the University of Cincinnati, he said that’s not the point.

“That’s not to say that we can’t do really cool research here,” he said. “But it’s not going to be a graduate institu-tion.”

Mark PayneManaging Editor

Money in the name of research Chemistry prof. awarded grant money for molecular research

Mark Payne/Managing Editor

Dr. Keith Walters shows off one of many high-tech gadgets his students use to conduct research.

NEWS

NKU has undergone a pu-berty of sorts — a new demand from applicants, a new Student Union, new Bank of Kentucky and now a new Norse Express.Like many changes the uni-versity has faced, this one was inevitable: “NKU’s old system was becoming obsolete, the software company which pro-duced it wasn’t going to sup-port it. The university had to do something that would al-low it to grow into the future,” said Meredith Brennan, project manager IT- PRISM Project.

“The administrative system purchased that runs myNKU was selected because of its growth potential,” contributes Doug Wells, associate direc-tor of information technology. “The system, will of course, be updated with changing tech-

nologies, upgraded for new standards and continued to be enhanced with new options for the University, however the core back end system is expect-ed to last for many years in the future.”

MyNKU is Northern’s at-tempt at creating a Web site that is more user friendly, “more robust, a more stream-lined process for departments to share information,” Brennan added.

In the past if a student had a problem they could be referred to many departments before that issue could be resolved. Now with the new system, there will be a “core administrative system, that every department can view, making it easier for student issues (i.e. registra-tion holds) to be resolved in a

timely manner” summarized Brennan.

While this Web site cannot replace human error (i.e when a student has multiple advisors and as a result receives con-flicting advice), it will alleviate the issue of lack of informa-tion. Every advisor, depart-ment, professor should be able to access the same updated in-formation.

“Some of the enhance-ments we have had positive feedback about are: students enjoying the course registra-tion shopping cart because it’s similar to the online shopping environment (Amazon.com, eBay, etc.). From the registra-tion cart, students can use the ‘one-click registration’ option to conveniently register for all available classes within the

cart,” Wells noted. With the ever present threat

of identity theft, students can worry less because “there is a Secure login without the use of the Social Security Number,” Wells said.

Also, as many NKU students know when the need to login arises so does the worry that a student will be met with the phrase ‘site closed for mainte-nance’. However, “there is in-creased access and less down-time to the system for students and faculty; myNKU is avail-able almost 24/7,” Wells stated.

As for future changes to myNKU, Wells said they “plan to increase processes delivered online, students will soon have the ability to initiate the pro-cesses for requesting special course approval, change of spe-

cialization and change of pro-gram online through myNKU.”

Norse Express will be slow-ly phased out, “pieces of the Norse Express Web site will be shut down, and eventually it will be in view only mode. View only mode would allow offices to view any remaining informa-tion,” Brennan indicated.

MyNKU is a result of NKU’s rapid growth. Brennan com-pares the old Norse Express to an iPod, when its first bought it is the latest and greatest, but within a few years, the model is outdated and no longer viable.

If you will: Norse Express is an iPod shuffle; while myNKU.nku.edu is an iPod touch.

Kelly PhelanNews Editor

myNKU offically launched for fall ‘09 semesterSee Research on page 5



Incoming freshman, expect to experience a whole lot of new things your first couple weeks at Northern Kentucky University.

Just to name a few: some-body will now be sleeping about two feet from you and it won’t be your mother, no-body will care if you don’t turn in your homework and, due to an unusual turn of events last spring, you will vote in your first Student Government Association Election.

The new election stems from a decision made April 24 by the SGA judicial coun-cil which stated the best way to settle the spring quagmire was to hold a completely new election.

In the spring election, Presidential Candidate K. Keith Kaseke and Vice Presi-dential Candidate Dennis Chaney were accused of vio-lating the rule of secret ballot when Kaseke set up laptops in Norse Hall and, according to witnesses, forced students to vote.

The secret ballot rule, ac-cording to the 2009 election guide, states, “All efforts shall be made to retain the right of secret ballot.”

Claims were made from several spring election candi-dates that setting up laptops was against the secret ballot rule, but there wasn’t an of-ficial rule in the guidelines against setting up laptops as voting stations. That has changed. The new rule, writ-ten and approved by Dean of Students, Jeff Waple, and Associate Dean of Students, Stephen Meier, states, “Per-sonal computers and laptops may not be set up as an ‘ad hoc’ polling station by any

individual or group during the election.”

Meier said he sat down with both Fall presidential candidates, Kevin Reynolds and Kaseke, and they ap-proved of the rule as well.

Despite being accused, Chaney said he feels confi-dent Kaseke and himself can win the new fall election. In an e-mail statement, Chaney said he felt that the spring election was fair and since his ticket received 42 percent of the vote he was sure they could repeat their victory.

“With the large margin that we won by in the spring we feel confident that our ideas and passion for be-ing the best advocates for student representation will again garner the majority of students at NKU,” Chaney said in the e-mail.

This year’s election will not include last year’s SGA President Gabe Cronon or his running mate Vice Presi-dential Candidate Marilyn Henry. Cronon said he de-cided to drop out because he would have a heavy course load this year, which would be tough for a student gov-ernment president. Cronon said he talked with Henry and they decided she has a stronger voice in the senate.

“One of the main reasons is that after meeting with my advisor I realized I would be graduating in the spring,” Cronon said.

The election will be held Sept. 2 and 3 and include all positions: Executive, Senate, Judicial Council and the pro-posed SGA Constitution will be on the new ballot as well.

To print a list of candi-dates and rules visit www.thenortherner.com.

SGA Mark PayneManaging Editor

Undergraduate students who get a chance to partici-pate in research usually have an advantage over their peers. Walters said they he will take students out of basic chemistry and students who are interest-ed in research.

“I started research my soph-omore year, so I learned a lot doing research before I actual-ly took the classes,” Stephanie Kramer said.

Kramer, a senior chemistry major, explained that research also strengthened her inde-pendent and creative thinking skills.

“It’s definitely helped me,” she said of undergraduate re-search.

Junior chemistry major Eliz-abeth Walsh also said she feels it helps her in her classes, and chemistry in general.

“It’s helping a lot more in the world of chemistry,” she said.

Understanding the science

“Supramolecular systems”

sounds daunting. In a nutshell, however, it’s not too difficult to understand.

Dr. Walters’ research is bro-ken down into two categories: Supramolecular Moieties and Organometallic Supramolecu-lar Photophysics.

“ ‘Supramolecular’ is a fancy way of saying really, really big molecules,” Walters said.

Walters explained that over the past few decades people in the field of Chemistry dis-covered many small molecules. Because so many small mol-ecules have been discovered it’s becoming tougher to find newer ones, so people started combining the smaller mol-ecules to make larger ones . The molecules then expanded to get bigger and bigger, which brought them to the supramo-lecular level.

“The next kind of wave of research that people thought about for the last couple of decades is ... Can we take this molecule that does something different and then somehow tie them [two molecules] to-gether so they can work to-

gether symbiotically?’ ” Wal-ters said.

The goal of Walters’ research is to take the pieces that are known and fit them together.

The second part is Organo-metallic Supramolecular Pho-tophysics.

“My, kind of, goal, and the goal of most people in this area, is to mimic photosynthe-sis,” Walters said. “Can we take all these chemicals, mix them together, put them on a shelf and the sunlight does every-thing we need it to do? That would be a wonderful thing.”

Walters explained that at NKU the goal of the research is to think of new molecules that would be good for ap-plying to the further research of photophysics. If the group finds a good one, they will see how it reacts to light, then send it out to engineers who will de-velop the product.

“We’re in the world of mak-ing molecules, and somebody else is going to be in the world of doing something with it,” he said.

Mark Payne/Managing EditorSenior Chemistry major Stephanie Kramer works in the Chemistry lab in the Natural Sci-ence building. Kramer has done research since her sophomore year.

Research from page 4

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If you ever lived in a dorm throughout your college career you probably were awak-ened in the middle of the night by a fire alarm.

That fire alarm was most likely from a bag of burnt popcorn, be-cause for some strange reason col-lege kids have a very difficult time cooking popcorn in the micro-wave. In one rare case my fresh-man year , some kid lit a piece of paper on fire. What resulted was a severe lecture from the fire depart-ment chief with threats that we

would all be thrown out of school. (Rough, I know).

Recently, here at Northern Kentucky University a fire alarm was set off by hair spray. Hairspray? Yes. The NKU police were called to

University Suites on Aug. 10. to reports of a fire alarm. According to the police report, the alarms were determined to be set off by hairspray. Students were cleared out and let back in.

Now, I know what probably happened. Some kid, who prob-ably huffed hairspray, started spraying a hair spray bottle and then stuck a lighter to the stream of hairspray spewing from the bottle.

I have one question for “hair-spray” kid. Do you really want to be known as the kid responsible for burning down a dorm with hairspray?

Parking at Northern Kentucky University remains a problem. Not only are there are too many cars and too few parking spaces, but the price of parking passes has increased as well.

The price of a full year pass has gone up to $187, which is up from $175 last year. That’s only a $12 increase. But in tough finan-cial times like this, $12 is a big deal. The price for student park-ing went up but the faculty price stayed the same.

Shouldn’t parking prices be the same across the board? We are already paying increased tu-ition, why should students pay more for parking?

Go ahead, send those angry emails, saying things like I’m an idiot for wanting another lot off-campus, but every student here knows that finding a space is a pain. It is either get to campus early to get a good spot, or spend a good chunk of time circling the lots for a space, all the while be-ing late for class or missing the start of that math exam you just pulled an all-nighter study-ses-sion for.

While NKU grows, the parking situation stays the same. No, not every student will be on campus at the same time, but that doesn’t mean every student is going to get a parking space. There are 15 student/open parking lots and three parking garages on cam-pus. Not that many parking lots when one thinks about it.

Should there be another park-ing lot off campus? I say yes. Just a small overflow parking lot where students can catch a ride to campus on a shuttle or bus. This would even help with the huge lines coming in and leav-ing campus every day. Yes, it still requires students to have a park-ing pass, but it gives students a lot where they know spots will be open.

Should faculty have to pay the same? I say yes. Just because they are our professors doesn’t mean they should pay less. With everything increasing in price here at NKU students are tak-ing a hit in their wallets. Raising the tuition is understandable but raising student parking prices and leaving faculty parking the

same just isn’t right. I say keep it the same.

As of last year, there were 15,000 students at NKU, accord-ing to Chris Cole, NKU’s direc-tor of communications and me-dia relations. (Official numbers for this year will be released in a few weeks). With NKU being a commuter campus, that is a lot of cars coming and going. That also means there is going to be a battle royale for parking spaces. It leaves room to wonder if there is consideration in the works for better parking facilities.

Every semester this university grows, and every semester this university finds itself invaded by student vehicles all looking for a place to park. There are many lots on campus, but they are quickly filling to the brim. Will there be another lot made? I hope. Will there be enough spac-es this semester? I hope. How long will it take to find a space on campus this semester?

No one knows — we will all have to wait and find out. Happy hunting.

Brandon BarbAssistant Views Editor

Hunting season open for on-campus parking

CharlotteEtherton/Photo editorPacked parking lots, like this one, are a common occurence on NKU’s campus.

VIEWS

Imagine this: you’re gradu-ating from high school and you have your college choice settled. You love NKU – the campus, albeit a bit gray, just feels right. It has all of the classes that you wanted. Then, right when you feel like you can kick back because you got your application in, the school announces that they’re too crowded. You have a deferred start date.

It was announced last semes-ter that due to an alarming in-crease in applications for this fall, NKU would have to cap

enrollment. In response to the shock-waves the news caused, President Votruba said, “We wish we had other options, but right now we simply do not.”

Part of the reason that NKU is capping admissions is due to space limitations, but I feel that NKU could be doing more to help get some more students in. There is a multitude of un-used space on campus, options to utilize technology to admit students, as well as limitations and restrictions we can put on students with too many defi-ciencies. There are also things that NKU can do to discour-age course overloading to keep class numbers low.

Firstly, so

much of the University Center is useless space now that the Union has been completed. Don’t get me wrong, I love the new Student Union, but so many of the new offices and services offered there would do just as well in the UC. Then, maybe we could put a few larg-er lectures in some of the nice conference rooms.

If we still can’t fit more stu-dents on campus, why don’t we try to work with providing more online classes. That would save space while still admitting more students.It’s also possible to further limit the number of classes that stu-dents with deficiencies can take at one time. Not only would this be beneficial to the student because it would ensure that they focus on areas they need to focus on, but it would also be practical in cutting down some overcrowding in the classrooms.

Upping the additional charg-es on students who take on more than 16 credit hours would also help to steer students away from taking more courses.Not one of these solutions would help to ease the over-crowding issue much alone, but if com-bined, NKU might be able to offer opportunities to even just a few more students.

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NKU behind bars... By Mark Payne

Sorry, see you in the spring Heather WilloughbyAssistant View Editor

Ah, isn’t a new school year lovely? New friends. New faces. A new batch of classes with a whole new batch of tests and papers and homework.

But all of those things have nothing on the new Norse Express, renamed myNKU — a new and “im-proved” Norse Express, so to speak.

If one isn’t familiar with myNKU, hop on over to mynku.nku.edu and check it out. Northern Kentucky University decided that Norse Express was too easy to use and that we, as stu-dents, needed a brand new way to schedule classes, check our tuition costs, and all that other fun stuff we had fun doing on Norse Ex-press.

So what is the differ-ence? The difference is Norse Express was easier and less confusing. The new program is flashy, has only three separate sections to navigate, but is as confusing as trying to read German autobahn signs.

Like everything new, there are problems and things that will take time to

figure out. But why change from Norse Express? Just because the software was old and a new program was in the works, that leads to the decision of getting rid of the program students liked and found easy to use. The layout was easy enough for the incoming fresh-men to figure out, but with myNKU it left some stu-dents scratching their heads in front of their computers.

A big problem I had with myNKU was the fact that if I wanted to use it on my laptop, I had to go back to an older version of my in-ternet browser. If this is supposed to be a new and improved student service, why doesn’t it work with current internet browsers?

Norse Express was better, plain and simple. It was laid out with all of its options so it was easy to navigate. Ev-erything on Norse Express was in black and white, nothing was hidden like it is in myNKU. It didn’t require a certain version of Firefox or Internet Ex-plorer. Scheduling classes was a breeze on Norse Ex-press. With myNKU I had

to use the find class option of Norse Express just to get the codes for my class-es. There isn’t an option like that on myNKU, and if there is I haven’t seen it. Hopefully all of the things that Norse Express had, myNKU will have.

The common attitude to-ward myNKU is one of dis-like. There are students who agree with me and say that myNKU is a thorn in the side. And there are some such as Tiffany Gosney, an undecided freshmen, who say that myNKU isn’t dif-ficult. “I never used Norse Express but I don’t think myNKU is hard to use,” Gosney said.

But myNKU isn’t all bad. The brains behind the program are hard at work to make it easier for stu-dents. The problems might be big now, but with those problems being ironed, out myNKU looks to be very promising.

However, with all its problems at this point in the game there are quite a few things that can be chalked up in the win column. The login system doesn’t use

students’ Social Security numbers anymore, so it’s a more secure login. The new program is accessible 24/7.

For those still struggling to navigate myNKU, have no fear — help is here. I know, cheesy line.

There are places set up to help students with myNKU’s troubles. The IT Web site, http://it.nku.edu/support, helps students with various problems with the program. IT also pro-vides students and faculty with videos to help as well at http://it.nku.edu/mynku/training/index.php. And myNKU is still under de-velopment to bring an easy program to students. If cu-rious about the changes be-ing made, head on over to the IT Web site given.

If the creators of myNKU were expecting students to have problems, they should have waited to unveil it to students. Yes, there are all these nice things that are going to happen to this program, but right now the system is lacking in, well, everything Norse Express had. If a help group has to be setup so students can figure

out the darn thing, some-thing is wrong with it. Why the rush to get myNKU out there? There should have been more time working things out so there wasn’t a wave of frustration hitting the campus.

I look at myNKU like Microsoft and the Xbox 360. Microsoft rushed their product into development and shipping just to get ahead in sales. Bad idea. The systems crashed, with the infamous “red ring of death,” leaving consumers livid because they couldn’t play Halo 3.

What they should’ve done — Microsoft and the peo-ple behind myNKU — was work out all the kinks and bugs so people wouldn’t be so frustrated with it. Something doesn’t have to be rushed just to get it out there. When something is rushed, it leaves the people behind it looking like fools. MyNKU shouldn’t have been unveiled until every-thing wrong with it was worked out.

myNKU isn’t Norse Express, yetDespite being unveiled system doesn’t seem like it is readyBrandon BarbAssistant Views Editor

Stephanie Millersenior, Radiology

" Really hard to navigate. But over time it will get

better."

Jude Mmereolefreshman, Economics

" People need time to get used to it."

NaQuisha Fordjunior, Criminal Justice

" It sucks compared to Norse Express. Too much

navigation. Its not very user friendly."

rnpCompiled by

Brandon Barb & Charlotte Etherton

What do you think about myNKU?

norse poll responses

For more Norse poll responses and video, visit www.thenortherner.com

Amanda HigginbothamGrad Student, I.O. Psych

" I like it, it’s easily acces-sible. But what I’ve heard,

people don’t like it."


NKU has had its share of hat-ers dubbing the university No Knowledge University. For the first time in the university’s his-tory, now with more prospective students than there is space to teach them, NKU has to cap ad-missions.

“The NKU brand is very strong and we have an outstand-ing faculty and staff who care deeply about students,” said Melissa Gorbandt, director of admissions outreach.Unfortunately this “quality-made, community-driven” edu-cation NKU is trying to provide isn’t being adequately funded, “The university’s historic under-funding and reductions in state funding in recent years have

made it difficult for the universi-ty to continue grow,” Gorbandt added.

NKU concluded that the post-ponement of any applicant who applied after July 1 with more than one academic deficien-cy would be admitted for the Spring 2010 semester, instead of the Fall 2009 semester.

“Typically, students with mul-tiple deficiencies who apply late in the process do not perform as well academically as those who apply earlier. We felt that this approach could limit some of our enrollment for fall and place these students in a better position to succeed in the spring semester,” said Joel Robinson, associate vice president of en-

rollment management.Despite the postponement of

some student’s education, NKU is still facing the problem of too many students. To further deal with this, NKU is taking a bit of a gamble “We also anticipate that several of the students that we denied for fall will decide to go to a local community college ,such as Gateway Community and Technical College instead. Many will likely remain at the community college for two years and transfer to NKU as juniors,” Robinson said.

Along with capping admis-sions, NKU has other options to spread out this new influx of students. “NKU has ample classroom space, there are times

No VacancyAdmissions have been capped for the first time in NKU’s history

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Kelly PhelanNews Editor

“Typically, students with multiple deficiencies who apply late in the process do not perform as well academically as those who apply ear-lier,” Joel Robinson said.

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,,on campus when there are many empty classrooms. Not all class-es are offered at the same time, so NKU could offer classes at a greater variety of times,” noted Larry Blake, assistant vice presi-dent facilities management.

For students who are con-cerned about NKU losing its private school feel, Gorbandt expressed that “NKU remains committed to providing stu-dents with an up close and per-sonal experience. There has been no measurable change in the average class size in recent years. The university has made maintaining small class sizes a top priority for the future”.

This policy change has affect-ed NKU’s admissions process,

“Because of the strong demand we experienced this year, we have moved the assured consid-eration deadline for fall 2010 to May 1. If we see similar demand this coming year, we anticipate that we will once again take steps to limit enrollment,” Gor-bandt said.

Along with the policy change, NKU’s target prospective stu-dent has changed from years past.

“In the past few years we have observed steady increases in the number of new freshmen enroll-ing at NKU with an ACT of 25 or higher. We have also seen increases in the number of stu-dents enrolled with no deficien-cies,” Gorbandt said.

With more than a decade of administrative experience at Northern Kentucky Univer-sity, including a stint as the in-terim assistant vice president for student affairs, Dr. Scott Eaton is, perhaps, approaching the most difficult task of his professional career as the new athletic director. Eaton, who completed his undergraduate education at Bowdoin College in 1986, where he participated in basketball, lacrosse, cross country and track, began to establish himself as a standout candidate for the position with involvement in multiple areas of NKU’s administration.

NKU Sports Information reported that Eaton, a former special assistant to the athletic director and assistant men’s basketball coach at Brown University in Providence, R.I., “played key roles in academ-ic, compliance, budget, event management and facility ar-eas,” in addition to the afore-mentioned tenure as assistant vice president. For the 2009-10 academic year begins, Eaton, steps into the proverbial shoes once worn by Jane Meier, as he takes on the role of the university’s second athletic di-rector when Meier retired and left the position vacant after 21 years of service.

Eaton, who joined the NKU administrative staff in 1998, held the position of senior as-sociate athletic director prior to accepting the AD job, be-came interested in replacing Meier long before her resig-nation announcement in April 2009.

“I had been looking for-ward to applying and being involved in the search process for at least seven years,” he said. “With the direction that NKU was continuing to go not only under Jane’s leadership, but also under Dr. Votruba’s leadership, I decided that this was the place I really wanted to be.

“I wanted to continue to work as hard as I could to po-sition myself so that one day if the opportunity did come, I would be as ready as I possibly

could be to take over, if I was fortunate enough.”

According to Eaton, “there is no doubt in [his] mind” the diversity of qualifications and his familiarity with the pro-gram will help as he transi-tions into his new position.

“We have an outstanding athletics staff and being fa-miliar with the way things are already existing is helping,” he said. “ Being familiar with the systems will obviously help me opposed to someone com-ing in completely cold.”Now, without the task of fa-miliarizing himself with his employer and co-workers, the most challenging aspect for Eaton, of course, will be to continue following the gigan-tic foot prints left by Meier in the advancement of Norse athletics -- a task Eaton’s predecessor has already given him a couple tips to accom-plish.

“[Meier] recommended that I be myself and to go ahead and demonstrate the person that I have been for the last 11 years,” he said. “Her advice to me was that I have a plan and a vision, to lay it out and share it with everyone.”

Eaton will be introduced to the NKU community and me-dia during a university spon-sored social titled “Meet the Athletic Director” Aug. 27 at the Bank of Kentucky Center.

Additonal reporting by Mike Collins

SPORTS

Northern Kentucky Univer-sity’s new $6.5 million soccer stadium is in its early stages of construction despite early statements that called for it to be playable in August 2009.Removing the bedrock took more time than expected, caus-ing the projected Aug. 2009 opening to be nothing but wishful thinking.The new facility that will sport a fully lighted artificial playing surface is still just dirt and rock at this point. Construction on the stadium building has be-gun, however the foundation is the only thing that stands.Major delays have affected the early stages of grading the land, according to Mike Anderson, assistant sports information di-

rector. The construction of the field has encountered bedrock on the site, which has made it very difficult to continue the development.Another cause for the delay is the unusual amount of rain that the Northern Kentucky area has experienced this summer. The amount of rain fall has pre-vented workers from removing the bedrock.“I certainly wouldn’t fault the folks working on the field for the delays,” Anderson said. “They are doing an excellent job and they are working very hard.”As construction battles through some adverse weather, the field could be ready for play in 8-10 weeks.

“From what we know, laying the field is about an eight-week process,” Anderson said.NKU could still play some of their home games at the new stadium by the end of October. A new time frame has been set as far as the field and stands are concerned, however the sta-dium itself will take some time.“The workers are ahead of the new schedule which is set for mid-October,” Anderson said.The stands that will seat 1,000 Norse fans are expected to be finished around the same time frame as the field, Ander-son said. Until then, all NKU home games will continue to be played at Town and Country Sports Complex in Wilder, Ky.

Ed Morris/Asst. Photo editor

Scott Eaton takes over as the new Athletic Director, held for 21 years by Jane Meier.

Zac CollinsSports Editor

Soccer stadium is kickin’Construction to be completed in Oct.

Eaton takes over

Ed Morris/Asst. Photo editor Dump trucks work dilligently to clear debris for the new soccer stadium. The stadium is in its early stages and is expected to be done by the end of October.

Mike CollinsAssistant Sports Editor


Summer workouts and team meetings will soon turn in to preseason and regular season games for Northern Kentucky University’s student athletes.Here’s a look at what is ahead for several NKU teams this year.

Soccer

The NKU Women’s Soccer Team finished the 2008 season with a 16-4 overall record and an impressive 9-2 record in the Great Lakes Valley Confer-ence. The team was perfect at home last season as they enjoyed an 8-0 record at Town and Country Sports Complex in Wilder, Ky.

The Norse graduated their leading scorer in forward Lau-ren Franzen, who recorded eight goals. Despite losing Franzen, NKU has plenty of upperclassmen and talent re-turning this season. Junior forward Kara Costello and junior forward Kendall Day each scored six goals last sea-son, sharing second in scoring on the team. Day also led the team in game winning goals with four on the year. Senior forward Brandi Doss returns after having a stellar season of unselfishness. Doss recorded 15 assists to lead the Norse in that category.

“I feel great about the sports season starting,” Athletic Di-rector Scott Eaton said. “We had one of our most successful years as an athletic program last year with all 13 of our

teams participating in NCAA post-season play.”

NKU kicked off the 2009 season with an exhibition game against Ohio University Aug. 17 in Athens, Ohio. The Norse fell short at 2-0 nothing against the Division-1 oppo-nent.

The NKU Men’s Soccer team completed the 2008 season with 16-3-4 overall re-cord and a 9-1-1 record in the GLVC. The Norse were 10-0 within the friendly confines of Town and Country Sports Complex, but lost to Dowling by a score of 2-1 in overtime at the NCAA Championship game in Tampa, Florida.

This season, the Norse will look to return to Tampa in pursuit of the title. Junior for-ward Steven Beattie returns for his third year after setting a new school record with 21 goals last season. Beattie also set another school record by scoring a goal 10 seconds into a game against St. Joseph’s, ac-cording to the NKU’s Sports Information Web site. Beattie also netted nine game winning goals in his sophomore season. Sophomore forward Anthony Meyer returns after leading the team in assists with seven on the year. With the mix-ture of talent on the squad the Norse should have another ex-citing season in store for fans in 2009.NKU will travel to Hunting-ton, W. VA. to play The Herd of Marshall University in an exhibition game on Aug 20.

The men’s soccer team is

picked as preseason No. 1 in the conference and women’s soccer is picked No. 2 in the preseason polls. According to Eaton, the men’s soccer team is picked as preseason No. 1 in the conference and women’s soccer is picked No. 2 in the preseason polls.

Volleyball

NKU’s Volleyball team was picked second in the GLVC preseason polls to start the 2009 season. The team finished 28-8 (16-2 in the GLVC) and shared the GLVC East Divi-sion championship with Lewis in 2008. NKU Volleyball has won at least 20 matches for 16 consecutive seasons, according to NKU Sports Information. The team hopes that this sea-son won’t be any different.

“Its an amazing accomplish-ment, coach Mary Berryman was the coach prior to coach Chia, coach Chia was her assis-tant and both have established a great program,” Eaton said. “It is hard to match that type of success year in and year out and year in and year out we’re getting the players to come in, we’re developing them the way they need to be devel-oped and they’re performing at the right time.”

The 2009 squad is young this season as seven freshmen have joined the team. However, the Norse returns five players that is crucial to their success. Ju-nior middle hitter Kim Nem-cek leads all returnees with 335 kills last season. Sopho-

more Noelle Peterson record-ed 279 kills and senior outside hitter Megan Dooley tallied 184 digs. Junior libero Chelsea Clark posted 434 digs and a team leading 41 serving aces, according to the NKU Sta-tistics Archives. Sophomore

outside hitter Sarah Drennen totaled 65 kills and 126 digs.

The Norse begins their sea-son in Greenville, Tenn. for the Tusculum Fall Classic where they will face Converse on Aug. 28 at 2 p.m.

ArchiveSophomores Anthony Meyer (23) and Kevin Donnelly look to contribute to the men’s success.

Mike CollinsSports editor

Fall sports swing into actionSoccer and volleyball look to have successful seasons

Each new semester at any university, in all likelihood, is highlighted by many a stead-fast and perennial traditions: the official vacating of the par-ent’s home, the seemingly end-less lines to purchase books, with each new class rendering the dreaded syllabus--under-scoring the commitment the student just made to the unfa-miliar shroud of academia.

Northern Kentucky Univer-sity sits within that pantheon of belabored school traditions. Fine-print syllabi by the scores are sifted into each classroom, scrupulously pointing out each and every rule and ex-pectations for the upcoming year--highlighting generalized tenants--such as grading poli-cy, class assignments, and even plagiarism.

But this year, the fine-print rules of plagiarism outlined within a class syllabi just be-came a tad less ambiguous, thanks in part to a $9,000 grant awarded by The Cin-cinnati Bar Foundation to W. Frank Steely Library. The Cincinnati Bar Foundation is a public charity that receives the majority of their contribu-tions from the legal commu-nity, and whose mission it is to promote encouraging knowl-edge and understanding of, and respect for, the law in the community, particularly with young people.

The money, which was granted last year, was award-ed to John Schlipp, Extended Collection Services librarian at NKU, with the hopes of creating awareness of plagia-rism and copyright infringe-ment through the inception of two films. The films are part of an overall program, Creative Thinking, which is an educa-tional and interactive Web site, geared towards both ju-nior high school and freshman college students.

Plagiarism is a constant concern with most universi-ties and can be grounds for suspension or even expulsion. But, Schlipp admits recent unease has reached unprec-edented heights throughout high schools and universi-ties alike shifting the concern away from plagiarism and di-rectly to copyright infringe-ment.

According to Schlipp, copy-right laws are already in place, but kids and young adults don’t necessarily know what it is all about, or to what extent an infringement can be pun-ished.

“Part of the reason we want-ed to even do these films is based on situations that arise everyday, such as in the Bos-ton University student who downloaded music illegally,” Schlipp said.

As reported in The Boston Globe, a 25-year-old gradu-ate student was recenlty con-victed of illegally download-ing and sharing 30 songs from the internet, resulting in a fine of $22,500 per download. For file-sharing songs such as Nir-vana’s Comes as You Are, and Beck’s Loser, Joel Tenenbaum will fork out a grand total of of $675,000, according to Bos-ton.com. Although it is only the second conviction of its kind (single-user downloaders found liable of copyright in-fringment by a jury) the case has set precedent for big name record labels to press charges against single-user downloads, especially in the wake of their profit margin’s dwindling.

While Schlipp admits that most students understand there is an ethical dilem-ma being posed when one chooses to cut-and-paste in-formation from an author’s original work and claim it as their own—there simply isn’t enough focus on the guide-lines and ramifications of downloading and file-sharing

illegally, he said.“When you download some-

thing off the internet legally and make a copy for your own use there isn’t a prob-lem. But, when you begin the act of illegal file-sharing, that is where the infringement be-gins,” Schlipp said. “The films were created to address that blurred area.”

Once the grant was re-ceived, Schlipp set out to en-list the help of Chris Strobel, associate professor of Elec-tronic Media & Broadcasting, and came up with the ground work and content for the two educational films--entitling them, Intellectual Vengeance and Copyright: the Right to Copy!

“He came to me with the hopes of making a movie to il-lustrate the ideals [plagiarism/copyright awareness],” Stro-bel said. “But, I brought up the idea of integrating the film into my summer class.”

According to Strobel, the film’s cast was assembled from local actors and the produc-tion crew was derived from last summer’s 2008 digital cinema class. The films and the Creative Thinking Web site were released in their complete form in June of 2009--taking about 60 days to

fine-tune.The idea of the grant owes

its inception to a conversation between Schlipp and a mem-ber of The Cincinnati Bar As-sociation.

During the conversation, Schlipp says he was convinced to send in an application to the CBA, with expectations of recreating a similar plagia-rism/copyright law awareness program that existed during his tenure at the Public Li-braries of Cincinnati.

When Rene T. McPhedran, director of Cincinnati Bar Foundation--a subsidiary of CBA, replied back with the green light, Schlipp didn’t hes-itate in assembling a dynamic cast of characters.

“The proposal from John Schlipp and his associates was a poster child for the programs we like to fund,” McPhedran said.

According to Schlipp, the idea of Creative Thinking was originally based on the notion of a movie, geared towards the disciplines of English, History and Library Research. But, to accommodate a broader spectrum, Schlipp and Strobel dove-tailed the project into a series of films and an inter-active Web site, full of edu-cational pop-ups and expert

speakers. “Some may interpret the

films as propaganda, but we tried to give a middle-of-the-road message,” Schlipp said. “So far we’ve had positive feedback from places like Bir-mingham, Ala., and Dallas, Texas.”

“If you look at the web and the educators that have posted copyright information, none have posted films that are de-signed for young students--that is what is so unique about our Web site,” Schlipp said.

Along with the films and the Web site, 1000 DVDs were purchased with leftover funds, in order to reach pub-lic schools and educators that have limited access to broad-band internet.

As for the future of the awareness program, Schlipp said there may not be any new films, but NKU will help main-tain the educational Web site.

The Web site with the films and the educator tutorial can be found at http://creative-thinking.nku.edu.

Those interested in more in-formation on plagiarism and copyright law/infringement can find it at: http://www.nku.edu/~issues/plagiarism/Home.html, www.creativecommon.org, and www.copyright.gov.

Jeremy JacksonArts and Entertainment Editor

Creative thinking keeps summer EMB busyFilms are made with the intent of preventing plagiarism

A&E

Photo provided by John Schlipp

Actors participate in the films, Intellectual Vengeance” and “Copyright: the right to Copy!


Looking forward to the fall Rest of ‘09 lineup looks to save the year from total disappointmentTim OwensPrint Editor-in-Chief

2009 sure has gotten off to a slow and disapointing start. Only a handful of films stand-out from first half of the year: The Hurt Locker, Up and Dis-trict 9, to name a few. So, as usual, it’s up to the fall lineup to pick up the slack and fill in the now 10 nominee spots in the Best Picture race at next year’s Oscars. Here’s a sam-pling of some of the films that’ll try to pick up that slack in the coming months.

September

Extract (Sept. 4) Synopsis: Mike Judge di-rects this comedy about Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman), the owner of a company that manufacturers flavored food extracts who struggles to keep his employees in-check and his love life with a seemingly dis-tant wife in tact.

My Two Cents: No one de-picts the mundane, melodra-matic life of the everyday worker like Judge, whose 1999 comedy Office Space is a cer-tified cult-classic and could easily be cited as a reason the American makeover of the Brit sitcom, The Office, is one of today’s most popular shows.

Jennifer’s Body (Sept. 18)Synopsis: Megan Fox gets

her gore on in this part dark comedy, part B-movie horror flick about a possessed high school cheerleader who substi-tutes the post-sex cigarette for eating her male counterparts alive.

My Two Cents: This won’t be the film where the world starts recognizing Fox for her acting chops (I’m not even sure they actually exist), but Jennifer’s Body should be a bat-shit crazy horror mash-up worth seeing.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Sept .18)

Synopsis: Based off the children’s classic of the same name, Meatballs follows overly eager, yet unproven, inventor Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader), who after several failed projects, successfully cre-ates a machine that turns wa-ter in to food and causes it to rain from the sky. But as in the past with his oddball creations, chaos ensues.

My Two Cents: Meatballs looks to be the next big film for the 3-D resurgence. But films that make a gimmick out of it, or focus too much on images flying into audience’s faces instead of telling a story have plagued the resurrection of 3-D cinema. Early looks into this film indicate the 3-D “comeback” still has a ways to go.

The Informant! (Sept. 18)Synopsis: Fresh off his 2008

two-part epic, Che, director Steven Soderbergh reunites with Matt Damon for this co-medic adaptation of Kurt Eich-enwald’s corporate thriller of the same name. Damon plays Mark Whitacre, an Archer Daniels Midland executive who winds up helping the FBI take down the agri-business gi-ant whom they think is running a price-fixing scheme.

My Two Cents: Nearly 30 years in the business, and So-derbergh still pops out some of the most diverse, original work today. Look for The Informant to prove that point.

Capitalism: A Love Story (Sept. 23)

Synopsis: Outspoken doc-filmmaker Michael Moore is back taking on his biggest sub-

ject yet — the economy.My Two Cents: Talk about a

timely issue to do a movie on. Maybe all of us should be lis-tening to Michael Moore, now more than ever.

October

Shutter Island (Oct. 2)Synopsis: Martin Scors-

ese teams up with Leonardo Dicaprio for the fourth time (Gangs of New York, The Avia-tor, The Departed) for this psy-chological thriller about two U.S. Marshalls (Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo) who investigate the disappearance of a patient from a high-security facility for the criminally insane. But what they find may be evidence that unfolds a darker conspiracy.


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Sam Worthington (above) stars in Avatar, James Cameron’s sci-fi action flick set to come out Dec. 18. It’s Cameron’s first film since 1997’s Titanic.

My Two Cents: Scorsese tested the limits of the psychological thriller with his 1991 genre-buster Cape Fear. Can the most consistent director in the busi-ness push the boundaries even further? His track record is on his side, plus he’s got Leo.

A Serious Man (Oct. 2)Synopsis: The Coen brother’s 14th

film centers on Larry Gopnik, a man whose sanity is hanging by a thread. His wife wants a divorce, his brother is be-coming too much of a burden and his job maybe in jeopardy.My Two Cents: The Coen brother’s last attempt to return to black comedy (Burn After Reading) proved unsuc-cessful. If A Serious Man ends up the same half-baked mess, then it’ll be time to start questioning whether or not the duo is as versatile as they used to be.

Whip-It (Oct. 9)Synopsis: Drew Barrymore steps be-

hind the camera for the first time to direct this film about a social outcast high-schooler (Ellen Page) who finds her true calling in roller derby.My Two Cents: I don’t know what’s

more odd, Barrymore still somehow getting work, or the fact that people are actually letting her direct.

Where the Wild Things Are (Oct. 16)Synopsis: Director Spike Jonze takes

on the adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book about a boy who plunges into his imaginary world where he is King to a forest full of wild crea-tures.

My Two Cents: Spike Jonze may be the last person expected to take on this adaptation. But if early looks at the film prove anything, it’s that the book’s off-beat vibe certainly suits Jonze’s visual style. Wild Things may end up being the freshest piece of celluloid to hit screens this year.

The Road (Oct. 16)Synopsis: Hollywood loves Cormac

McCarthy. The Road will be the third novel from the best-selling author to be adapted into a major Hollywood film ( All the Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men). The story focuses on a father ( Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

My Two Cents: Having already been delayed twice, The Road has been built up to be a serious Oscar contender this year. Films hardly live up to this kind of hype, but Mortensen rarely signs on to a film that ends up flat-lining.

November

A Christmas Carol (Nov. 6)Synopsis: Jim Carrey gets the honors

to say bah-humbug in Robert Zemeck-is’s motion-capture treatment of what seems to be the 30th adaptation of the Holiday classic.

My Two Cents: Zemeckis has dedicat-ed the past five years to mastering mo-tion–capture technology. With every ef-fort vastly better than the one before it (The Polar Express, Monster House), A Christmas Carol will be the film where it all pays off for him.

2012 (Nov. 13)Synopsis: The new master of disaster,

Roland Emmerich (he’s really the only one who does them these days) brings his what-national-monument-can-I-pul-verize touch to 2012. The story centers on a man (John Cusack in yet another disposable role) saving his wife and kids from a worldwide apocalypse predicted by the Mayans centuries ago.

My Two Cents: The good news is that if 2012 goes down as Emmerich depicts, no one will have to sit through his films anymore.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Nov. 13)Synopsis: Wes Anderson brings his

unique, offbeat style to this stop-motion animated film based off of Roald Dahl’s classic kids tale about a close-knit fam-ily of foxes trying to avoid being ran out of their home by farmers.

My Two Cents: This will be the re-fresher Anderson needs. The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited failed to live up to the wholly original, offbeat feel the auteur crafted to perfec-tion in his previous films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums). The Fantastic Mr. Fox will be the depar-ture that brings Anderson back into the forefront of art-house cinema.

Nine (Nov. 25)Synopsis: Rob Marshall (Chicago)

returns to the musical genre for this ad-aptation of the 1982 Broadway musical inspired by Federico Fellini’s master-piece 8 ½. The plot follows Guido Con-tini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a film director struggling with the undertaking of his ninth film and handling the seven wom-en in his life.

My Two Cents: With Nine, two out of three Marhsall films are musicals. He could be in danger of becoming a one-trick pony. But if Nine is as high-caliber as Chicago was then Marshall should probably direct every movie-musical that comes out.

The Princess and the Frog (Nov. 25)Synopsis: Disney finally gets back

to basics in the first traditional, hand-drawn animated feature in five years. Based off of the Grimm fairy tale, The Princess and the Frog is set in 1920’s New Orleans and centers on a princess

who kisses a cursed frog-prince and is also transformed into a four legged-amphibian.

My Two Cents: I thought I’d never see the day where I’d get to see a tradition-al, 2-D animated Disney flick in theatres again. The Princess and the Frog will be a glorious return to the kind of films that made Disney the brand it is today and may be just what the company needs to bring the company back to prominence in the animation realm (and they’ll do it without the help of Pixar).

December

The Lovely Bones (Dec. 11)Synopsis: There are no hobbits or gi-

ant gorillas in this latest from Peter Jack-son (Lord of the Rings, King Kong), just the story based of a best-selling book about Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year-old girl who is raped and killed on her way home from school one day in 1973. Stuck in a place called “the in-between”, Salmon watches as her family struggles to find her killer.

My Two Cents: Jackson has spent the better part of a decade creating some of the biggest fantasy/adventure epics in film history. The Lovely Bones, more or less a straight drama, should prove his ability to do it all. There’s only one oth-er director that can produce an eclectic body of top-notch work — and his last name is Spielberg.

Avatar ( Dec. 18)Synopsis: If your neighborhood was a

little quiet, or you noticed there wasn’t a lot of traffic on the interstate on Aug. 20, it’s because nearly every fan-boy in the world was glued to their computers watching the premiere of the trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s a CG-ren-dered, live action and 3-D epic about a paraplegic war-vet(Sam Worthington) who, in the body of his 10-foot tall ava-tar, travels to the planet of Pandora to fight for the existence of a civilization.

My Two Cents: This is undoubtedly the biggest and most anticipated film of the year. When Cameron directs (this is his first film since 1997’s Titanic) he, in some way, revolutionizes how films are made. Avatar may very well be the dawn of a new age of cinema.

Sherlock Holmes (Dec. 25)Synopsis: Brit-director Guy Ritchie

(RocknRolla) brings a contemporary touch to the age-old adventures of the iconic detective. The plot follows Holm-es ( Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusty sidekick Watson (Jude Law) in their at-tempt to take down Lord Blackwood ( Body of Lies’ Mark Strong), whose sin-ister plans threaten all of England.

My Two Cents: This is Ritchie’s big-gest and most important film to date. With Sherlock, he’ll go from cult indie-director to household name.

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