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Update on the Scott Eaton investigationA look at NKU’s and Scott Eaton’s sides to the story page 3.

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Former NKU Athletic Director Scott Eaton misappro-priated a total of $311,215, according to a law fi rm’s key fi ndings in its investigation released Sept. 12 by NKU President Geoffrey Mearns.

This new amount of money is over double the origi-nal $150,000 total, forecasted by Mearns in the earlier stages of the investigation.

Led by external law fi rm Dinsmore and Shohl, the investigation revealed that Eaton misappropriated $262,106 of the total amount through purchases of gift cards at a local Kroger.

“The majority of Eaton’s fraudulent conduct occurred by him purchasing gift cards at a local Kroger store with

his university procurement card and then using the gift cards for his personal use,” Mearns announced in a let-ter to NKU Board of Regents Chair Dennis Reppenning.

According to the fi rm, this conduct occurred between January 2007 and March 2013.

Another $49,109 was misappropriated by Eaton in various ways, including the use of his procurement card to purchase personal items from various merchants and to turn a photocopy of various receipts from items into the university, only to return to them to the store and receive full credit for the purchase.

This amount also included submitting falsifi ed re-ceipts to hide the true nature of his purchases and using university printing services and materials to support his own personal activities, according to the letter to Rep-

penning.The original estimate of $150,000 was what Mearns

called “very preliminary information” which was aimed to be as transparent as possible.

As far as getting the money back is concerned, Mearns said he plans on seeking full restitution from Eaton, but added that the university has insurance for matters such as these which will also help.

“[Eaton] embarked on a pattern of conduct over … many many years, through a variety of methods,” Mearns said. “We are very disappointed and we are com-mitted to doing the best we can to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

The university is currently cooperating with law en-

Kevin Schultz and Brook CliffordEDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND SPORTS EDITOR

Investigation on Scott Eaton reveals over $300,000 ‘misappropriated’

-Mearns statement to the Board of Regents failed to refl ect the fact that Dr. Eaton brought the diversion to the atten-tion of the university on his own accord and voluntarily worked with NKU and others within the investigation, accord-ing to a press release issued Sept. 12 by Dusing and Angela Hayden.

-What Mearns said in the letter about Eaton exploiting his coworkers was in-valid, according to Dusing. “We would respectfully submit that that is inaccu-rate,” Dusing said.

-”There are certain things in the report that we would quivel with; the extent of the funds that were diverted being probably chief among them,” Dusing said. According to Dusing, Eaton wouldn’t dispute the circumstances Mearns laid out in his address but the attorneys are still working with law enforcement to determine the accuracy of the total amount that was misappropriated.

-Dusing admits Scott Eaton doesn’t have the money to repay the university the amount that was misappropriated, but is willing to “make meaningful steps toward repayment”.

Eaton’s perspective according to his lawyer Benjamin Dusing:

PHOTO BY KODY KHALE

Story continued on pg. 4 See EATON UPDATE

-A total of $311,215 was misappro-priated by former AD Scott Eaton, ac-cording to a law fi rm’s key fi ndings in an investigation released Sept. 12 by NKU President Geoffrey Mearns.

-Both Dinsmore and Clark came to the conclusion that the reason Eaton’s conduct wasn’t detected before last semester was because he had manipu-lated his employees to gain their trust and then exploited it.

-Many recommendations were made in the letter Mearns sent out, from Dinsmore and Clark, some were to “deter and detect unethical behavior.” Mearns agreed that there is importance to these recommendations but there wasn’t a gray area in ethical responsibilities within NKU. “The expectations for Eaton were clear,” Mearns said.

-Mearns said he plans on seeking full restitution from Eaton, but also said NKU has insurance for matters like these.

NKU’s perspective according to Mearns:

PHOTO BY KODY KHALE

A LOOK AT EATON’S TIME AT NKU1998: Scott Eaton began working at NKU as an administrator. He played key roles in academics, compliance, budget, event management and facilities.

July 27, 2009: Eaton became NKU’s athletic director. He replaced a former AD who had held the position for 21 years.

March 8, 2013: President Geoffery Mearns became aware of possible miscon-duct by Eaton.

March 12, 2013: Mearns received additional information and retained outside counsel from Dinsmore and Shohl. Mearns also suspended Eaton from his duties on this day.

March 18, 2013: Eaton was terminated from NKU by Mearns for failure to comply with ethical principles and the code of conduct.

Sept. 12, 2013: More information was released to NKU campus community about the amount of money embezzled by Eaton which was over $300K. Eaton’s lawyer, Benjamin Dusing, also held a press conference addressing Mearns state-ment and Eaton’s situation.

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Oktoberfest ZinzinnatiSept. 20-22 on Fountain Square, times vary day to

dayHead downtown for the 38th Annual Oktoberfest

Zinzinnati. The second largest authentic Oktoberfest will feature numerous food vendors, seven entertainment stages showcasing continuous live German music, Gem-ueltlichkeit Games, local celebrities and much more. Also join in on the The World’s Largest Chicken Dance and Kazoo Band hosted by a surprise celebrity grand marshal.

MORE INFO: HTTP://WWW.OKTOBERFESTZINZINNATI.COM

Ohio Renaissance FestivalEvery Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 20, 10:30

a.m. to 6 p.m. in Harveysburg, OhioThe yearly Ohio Renaissance Festival has returned

for the fall season. Visit the festival for period entertain-ment in a 30 acre English village and marketplace. Over 100 costumed performers take part in continuous stage events such as jousting, pirate stunt shows, belly danc-ing and much more. Tickets are $17 for adults and $9 for children.

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USS Nightmare Haunted House Steamboat

Every weekend through Halloween, opening at 7 p.m. on the river by Newport on the Levee

The haunted USS Nightmare steamboat returns on the river for the 22 year. Join the terrifying 40 minute “Death Drudge” with 40 different horror scenes complete with zombies, rats and all things from your nightmares. Gen-eral admission tickets cost $16.

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Black-n-Bluegrass Roller GirlsSept. 21st at the Bank of Kentucky Center, doors open

at 5:30 p.m.Root on Kentucky’s own Black-n-Bluegrass Roller

Girls in their fi nal home game of the season. Tickets cost $16.55. Arrive early for meet-and-greets with the girls.

MORE INFO: HTTP://BLACK-N-BLUEGRASS.COM

Animal House: Back on the Big ScreenSept. 20th at the Esquire Theatre, 10:30 p.m.The classic college fi lm Animal House hits the big

screen again for one night only at the Esquire Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tickets can be bought at the box offi ce for $9.75.

MORE INFO: HTTP://WWW.ESQUIRETHEATRE.COM

Phi Sigma Pi invites you to rush their National Honor Fraternity

Phi Sigma Pi is the only co-ed Nation-al Honor Fraternity on NKU’s campus. The fraternity has all the components of an honor society along with being a social fraternity and a service organiza-tion. To be able to join you must have a 3.0 GPA, at least 12 credit hours, and a semester or more left at NKU. The frater-nity’s fall rush dates are Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. and Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. both in SU 106, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in SU 104 and Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in SU 106.

Interested in Community Service? Join Alpha Phi Omega Co-ed Nation-al Service Fraternity!

Alpha Phi Omega is NKU’s ONLY co-ed service fraternity and is based off of the Scout Oath and Law! Join us on Sept. 20 at La Rue Lanes for Cosmic Bowling and on Sept. 21 for volunteering at the Bluegrass for Babies benefi t concert for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. For more information, visit facebook.com/nkuapo1992 or tinyurl.com/APOatNKU.

NKU earns ‘Military Friendly’ dis-tinction for fourth consecutive year

NKU has been recognized by G.I. Jobs

magazine as being one of the most military-friendly schools in America for the fourth year in a row. The 2014 Military Friendly School Guide ranks NKU among the top 15 percent of all colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide.

NKU faculty and staff to present at national conference

Two members of NKU faculty and staff will present full-session workshops at the Association of General and Liberal Studies 2013 national conference in Indianapolis this week. Steven Weiss, professor of com-munication studies, will present “Apply-ing Argument Field Theory to the General Education Curriculum: At the Crossroads of Critical Thinking and Intellectual Aware-ness.” D. Kent Johnson, associate vice pro-vost for university programs and director of NKU’s general education program will present “2013 as the new 1828: Leveraging Inquiry in General Education to ‘Lay the Foundation for a Superior Education.’”

Sept. 7, between 6 and 11:59 p.m.: A parking permit was taken from an un-locked car parked in the Student Union circle.

Sept. 8, between 1:01 and 1:21 a.m.: An offi cer arrested a man outside of the Woodcrest Apartments for being intoxicated in public after witnessing the man fall to the ground.

Sept. 8, 11:23 p.m.: A student was arrested after being found with marijuana in Norse Hall after another student smelled it.

Between Sept. 9, 8:30 p.m. and Sept. 11, 4 p.m.: Someone took an NKU parking permit from an unlocked car in Lot F, across from Norse Hall.

Sept. 11, between 5 and 5:30 p.m.: Someone took an unattended book bag that was sitting in a hallway in Founders Hall.

Sept. 12, 12:11 p.m.: A two-vehicle accident in Lot K across from Griffi n Hall resulted in no injuries.

Sept. 12, between 7:58 and 9:46 p.m.: Someone was being disorderly in the parking offi ce.

Sept. 13, 12 a.m.: Someone took a woman’s keys that she left in Landrum.

Sept. 15, 4:45 p.m.: A student and mother caused a disturbance in Callahan Hall.

Sept. 16, 10:30 p.m.: A police offi cer found an unattended laptop on the second fl oor of Founders Hall.

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Former NKU Athletic Director Scott Eaton misappro-priated a total of $311,215, according to a law fi rm’s key fi ndings in its investigation released Sept. 12 by NKU President Geoffrey Mearns.

This new amount of money is over double the origi-nal $150,000 total, forecasted by Mearns in the earlier stages of the investigation.

Led by external law fi rm Dinsmore and Shohl, the investigation revealed that Eaton misappropriated $262,106 of the total amount through purchases of gift cards at a local Kroger.

“The majority of Eaton’s fraudulent conduct occurred by him purchasing gift cards at a local Kroger store with

his university procurement card and then using the gift cards for his personal use,” Mearns announced in a let-ter to NKU Board of Regents Chair Dennis Reppenning.

According to the fi rm, this conduct occurred between January 2007 and March 2013.

Another $49,109 was misappropriated by Eaton in various ways, including the use of his procurement card to purchase personal items from various merchants and to turn a photocopy of various receipts from items into the university, only to return to them to the store and receive full credit for the purchase.

This amount also included submitting falsifi ed re-ceipts to hide the true nature of his purchases and using university printing services and materials to support his own personal activities, according to the letter to Rep-

penning.The original estimate of $150,000 was what Mearns

called “very preliminary information” which was aimed to be as transparent as possible.

As far as getting the money back is concerned, Mearns said he plans on seeking full restitution from Eaton, but added that the university has insurance for matters such as these which will also help.

“[Eaton] embarked on a pattern of conduct over … many many years, through a variety of methods,” Mearns said. “We are very disappointed and we are com-mitted to doing the best we can to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

The university is currently cooperating with law en-

Kevin Schultz and Brook CliffordEDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND SPORTS EDITOR

Investigation on Scott Eaton reveals over $300,000 ‘misappropriated’

-Mearns statement to the Board of Regents failed to refl ect the fact that Dr. Eaton brought the diversion to the atten-tion of the university on his own accord and voluntarily worked with NKU and others within the investigation, accord-ing to a press release issued Sept. 12 by Dusing and Angela Hayden.

-What Mearns said in the letter about Eaton exploiting his coworkers was in-valid, according to Dusing. “We would respectfully submit that that is inaccu-rate,” Dusing said.

-”There are certain things in the report that we would quivel with; the extent of the funds that were diverted being probably chief among them,” Dusing said. According to Dusing, Eaton wouldn’t dispute the circumstances Mearns laid out in his address but the attorneys are still working with law enforcement to determine the accuracy of the total amount that was misappropriated.

-Dusing admits Scott Eaton doesn’t have the money to repay the university the amount that was misappropriated, but is willing to “make meaningful steps toward repayment”.

Eaton’s perspective according to his lawyer Benjamin Dusing:

PHOTO BY KODY KHALE

Story continued on pg. 4 See EATON UPDATE

-A total of $311,215 was misappro-priated by former AD Scott Eaton, ac-cording to a law fi rm’s key fi ndings in an investigation released Sept. 12 by NKU President Geoffrey Mearns.

-Both Dinsmore and Clark came to the conclusion that the reason Eaton’s conduct wasn’t detected before last semester was because he had manipu-lated his employees to gain their trust and then exploited it.

-Many recommendations were made in the letter Mearns sent out, from Dinsmore and Clark, some were to “deter and detect unethical behavior.” Mearns agreed that there is importance to these recommendations but there wasn’t a gray area in ethical responsibilities within NKU. “The expectations for Eaton were clear,” Mearns said.

-Mearns said he plans on seeking full restitution from Eaton, but also said NKU has insurance for matters like these.

NKU’s perspective according to Mearns:

PHOTO BY KODY KHALE

A LOOK AT EATON’S TIME AT NKU1998: Scott Eaton began working at NKU as an administrator. He played key roles in academics, compliance, budget, event management and facilities.

July 27, 2009: Eaton became NKU’s athletic director. He replaced a former AD who had held the position for 21 years.

March 8, 2013: President Geoffery Mearns became aware of possible miscon-duct by Eaton.

March 12, 2013: Mearns received additional information and retained outside counsel from Dinsmore and Shohl. Mearns also suspended Eaton from his duties on this day.

March 18, 2013: Eaton was terminated from NKU by Mearns for failure to comply with ethical principles and the code of conduct.

Sept. 12, 2013: More information was released to NKU campus community about the amount of money embezzled by Eaton which was over $300K. Eaton’s lawyer, Benjamin Dusing, also held a press conference addressing Mearns state-ment and Eaton’s situation.

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forcement as they recommend criminal charges.After fi nancial review of the Department of Athlet-

ics in the earlier investigations, Dinsmore and Shohl retained the help of the accounting fi rm Clark Schaefer Hackett to perform an investigation under the law fi rm’s supervision.

Conclusively, the report was a combination of the two fi rms’ work. In Mearns’ letter, it was announced that both Dinsmore and Clark concluded the main reason Eaton’s conduct was not detected earlier was because he had manipulated his employees to gain their trust and then exploited it.

“Simply put, Eaton deliberately developed multiple ways to misappropriate university funds,” Mearns said

in the letter.Moving forward, both Dinsmore and Clark provided

the university with several recommendations broken into two distinct categories. The fi rst contains recom-mendations that are aimed to “deter and detect un-ethical behavior” with the second containing recom-mendations focused at fi nancial control of university procurement cards.

Some specifi c examples of the recommendations in-clude regular fi nancial training for all faculty and staff, restructuring of several fi nancial departments, a reduc-tion in the number of faculty and staff who have pro-curement cards and regularly conducted analyses of procurement card activity.

While Mearns understands the importance of tak-ing these recommendations into consideration, he said there were no gray areas in ethical responsibilities with-in the university.

“The expectations for Eaton were clear,” Mearns said.Eaton was terminated March 18 after he admitted to

“inappropriate, intimate” relationships with university employees and a former student, according to a previ-ous letter sent to the Board of Regents by Mearns.

Mearns avoided commenting on the relationships, only stating that the relationship aspect of the investiga-tion has been closed.

Follow TheNortherner.com for continual updates on the termination and investigation of Eaton.

EATON UPDATE S TO RY C O N T I N U E D F R O M P G. 3

Is getting paid in experience enough motivation to accept an unpaid intern-ship? For some, the so-called experi-ence they gain is fetching a cup of coffee or making copies. For others, valuable insight to their fi eld of study, and a job, is actually gained.

Imagine waking up at 2:30 a.m. to get ready for the day. After a quick shower and cup of coffee, it’s off to the local T.V. station by 4 a.m. until 9 a.m. to work without ever seeing a paycheck. After that, you’ve got class, and then you’re off to another job for the rest of the evening.

To Caitlin Centner, a senior journal-ism major, this is not just a hypothetical scenario - this is her reality.

Centner interned last summer at Lo-cal 12 when her executive producer

asked her to apply for an open position. She ended her internship early and im-mediately began training as a produc-tion assistant, where she now works the morning show.

“I feel like the importance of it [the internship] was being there and seeing what the work environment was like,” Centner said. “You get a feel of whether it’s something you want to do or not. It sounds stupid, but I get there at 4 a.m. and absolutely love what I am doing. I know it’s crazy hours, but it’s what I want to do with my life.”

According to National Association of College and Employers, both intern-ing and obtaining a bachelor’s degree increase the likelihood of getting a job after graduation. However, the group warns, neither guarantees anything: unpaid internships are benefi cial, as long as the company does not use you or take advantage of your services,

which is something students need to be aware of.

“I think experience is experience. You could have a paid internship that is not high-quality,” said Shirl Short, associate director of Career Services at NKU. Short said issues derive from un-realistic expectations, so it’s important to communicate with the employer and fi gure out what your priorities are as an intern.

Career Services at NKU offers a pro-gram called Norse Recruiting, which has relationships with 2,800 employ-ers that are looking for interns/co-ops as well as part-time and full-time em-ployees. Short said students have a fac-ulty coordinator that helps them come up with learning objectives, a journal, refl ections, evaluations and other re-quirements, which help enhance the quality of internships through NKU.

Amber Myers, a senior double-major-ing in electronic media and broadcast-ing and journalism, worked two unpaid internships in Cincinnati and Sydney, Australia. Myers already had a business degree when she took her internship with Channel 9 WCPO in Cincinnati.

“I wanted to know if sports journal-ism was something I was interested in

before I went back to school and it [the internship with WCPO] helped me real-ize that it was and that’s what prompted me to go back to school… So it really was very helpful,” Myers said.

However, at her internship in Syd-ney, Australia, Myers sold commercial time slots for Channel 7 News. She said she made the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and received no compensation. Myers was later offered a job with the company, but turned it down due to it being so far from home.

Fox Searchlight is just one of many companies who have been sued by in-terns. According to a memorandum from the New York Southern District Court, two of the interns who sued did not receive pay or college credit while working on the fi lm Black Swan from 2009-10. Both interns worked up to 50 hours some weeks on the movie, which grossed over $100 million in the US, ac-cording to the Internet Movie Database.

Short suggests that students need to remember to use their best judgment, communicate with employers and uti-lize the advisors and career counselors NKU has to offer so that they don’t end up with a bad experience.

Unpaid internships may pay off in the end

Caitlin Centner spends time with coworker at Local 12 Studios. Centner’s unpaid internship position at the company resulted in her stepping into a paid position there.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAITLIN CENTNER

Amber HemmerleCONTRIBUTING WRITER

THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT SET THE FOLLOWING SIX CRITERIA FOR AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP TO BE LEGAL:

1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment.

2. The internship experience is for the bene� t of the intern.

3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff.

4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its opera-tions may actually be impeded.

5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship.

6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship.

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“This is what I’ve learned: You don’t say anything about it,” said Maureen Doyle to summarize her experience as a woman in the male-dominated fi eld of computer sci-ence.

“People will ask me, why do I think there are no women in CS [computer sci-ence], and fi rst of all, I don’t know,” Doyle said. “But I think if people ask that ques-tion, they often want the reassurance that what they are doing is okay.”

Doyle earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Lowell as well as a master’s degree from North-eastern University. She is now an associ-ate professor of computer science and an associate dean of the College of Informat-ics. She currently teaches various software and programming courses.

A college education in computer sci-ence and a career in the sciences in gen-eral, however, this was not Doyle’s initial plan.

“I was going to be a teacher, because with women in my family, you could be a teacher or you could be a nurse,” Doyle said.

Though the media has recently brought the issue of the lack of women in com-puter science to light, retention of female students in college computer science pro-grams has been on the decline for years, according to a 2011 study by the Higher Education Research Institute.

In the face of such statistics, Doyle, is determined to change the trend.

“There’s been a lot of research on what you can do to attract and retain women in these fi elds, and part of it is changing the culture,” Doyle said. “That’s actually what I focus on.”

In a 1990- 91 survey conducted by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, only 16 percent of full-time fac-ulty in four-year colleges across the coun-try were women.

Over a decade later, the number of women receiving degrees in computer sci-ence continued to indicate a low number of women in the fi eld. A 2010- 11 Comput-ing Research Association Taulbee Survey

showed that 12 percent of computer sci-ence bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women at U.S. PhD-granting universities.

“1986 was the year we had the highest percentage of women in computer sci-ence, and it’s gone down every year since, even though there were more people,” Doyle said.

As with every educational and societal trend, this decrease and the general ab-sence of female students and profession-als in the computer science fi eld has many possible roots—none of which, accord-ing to a study by Kathy Vargas and Janet Kerner of St. John’s University, has to do with any inability on the part of women.

On the contrary, Vargas’ and Kerner’s study showed that women outnumber men in introductory computer science courses and in fact earn higher average grades than men.

The report suggests that the reluctance of women to pursue a major in computer science may be a societal “encouragement of the attitude that computers are more for boys than girls,” and that the lack of visibility of women in the fi eld is enough of a discouragement, to those who may be interested, to put them off the computer science track altogether.

Doyle said this cycle of invisibility and disinterest of women in computer science is ironic, considering the history of the

fi eld.“Around 1986 was when the PC came

out, so originally the fi rst programmers were women, who were actually called computers,” Doyle said. “They had been doing the math and they programmed the machines….And they [researchers] think that switch to the hardware and ‘tinker-ing’, which a lot of boys like doing—not that girls don’t—might be a reason.”

Even early on in her career, she said she took note of the discrepancy in the way both genders lived and worked in the fi eld. With a history as a scientifi c software developer at Data General Corporation, General Electric Company, ALPHATECH, Inc. and BBN Technologies, Doyle has worked on various research projects and also worked on a fi elded Sonar Tracking system for the Navy, from which she re-ceived a Project Excellence Award in 1993 and 1994.

Doyle was a mentor to both male and female programmers and developers at the companies where she previously worked. It was then, she says, that she became aware of women in computer sci-ence as an issue.

“While I was at my [fi rst job], I no-ticed things that happened,” Doyle said. “Women weren’t getting promoted, and I asked why women weren’t getting pro-moted and management would say things

like, ‘Well, she didn’t want a promotion,’ so I went and asked the women. I mean, of course I would want a promotion.”

Doyle’s position as a mentor in the workplace afforded her an inside look at the factors infl uencing women’s motiva-tion and performance in the computer science fi eld. What she learned in the pro-cess, she said, was valuable.

“I started to see things that made me aware that there are still things keeping women back that are out of their control, and there are things keeping women back that are in our control,” Doyle said.

Though her position as a professional and educator in computer science offers her ample opportunity to enact change in the classroom with current CS majors, Doyle has extended her efforts both inside and outside the classroom.

She and several other professors from both the University of Cincinnati and oth-er institutions have worked together on a ‘Girls on the Go’ mobile learning camp, in which rising freshmen and sophomore high school girls are taught the process of software development and utilize their knowledge to develop an app over the course of a week on a college campus.

Though the female students in the set-ting of a college computer science class are central to the issue of women’s ad-vancement in computer science, research suggests the importance of introducing girls to the fi eld at a young age. Doyle said the age group targeted by the camp is one which could benefi t greatly from such an education. In Israel, for example, educa-tion in the computer science fi eld is com-pulsory throughout high school.

Doyle said her choice of career in the computer science fi eld has been a good fi t.

“I think it’s a myth people have that if it doesn’t come simply and quickly, then you shouldn’t do it, and that’s not true,” Doyle said. “Writing code initially was not intuitive to me like it is to some people, but I worked at it and I mastered it. What I want people to understand is that hard work is most of it. I’m not necessarily smarter, and innate talent only gets you so far if you don’t practice. We don’t know what we’re capable of, and there’s a real beauty in fi nding out.”

Maureen Doyle in her office at the College of Informatics within Griffin Hall. Doyle is the associate dean of the college and is working to close the gender gap within the field of computer science.

PHOTO BY KODY KAHLE

Silvana HillSTAFF WRITER

Associate dean working to close ‘gender gap’ in computer science

• In 1986, the PC was introduced to the world and the � rst programmers were women, who were known as ‘computers,’ Doyle stated.

• 1986 had the highest percentage of women in computer science. That percentage has decreased every year since, Doyle explained.

• As discovered in a 1990-91 survey by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 16 percent of full-time faculty in four-year colleges were women.

• The Computing Research Association Taulbee Survey showed that only 12 percent of computer science bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women in 2010- 11.

IMPORTANT FACTS ON COMPUTER SCIENCE GENDER GAP

Every minute, trillions of bytes of data are being created. From passive online browsing to checking out at the grocery store, the volume and variety of data being collected every day would seem inconceivable not long ago.

With more information generated, stored and accessible than ever before, this unprece-dented data collection is now shaping the way universities prepare students for the future job market.

Along with this trend and with the support of local corporations, such as Toyota and Procter & Gamble, NKU launched the fi rst undergraduate data science program in the Midwest this semester in the College of Informatics.

The degree will arm students with the skills to take on the growing demand for the ability to successfully analyze, explain and advise how to use big data. From government and business, to science and health care, data science is part of many sectors of society and captured the interest of various organizations, according to Kevin Kirby, dean of the College of Informatics and a contributor to the program’s proposal.

“Because it is both interesting and scary, it makes for a very exciting program,” Kirby said. “It is information across everything…It really captures the essence of informatics.”

This “premiere” or “ultimate Informatics” degree takes an interdisciplinary approach to meet the growing interest of corporations with use for data scientists. The program ties to-gether the computer science, business informatics and communication departments in addi-tion to the mathematics and statistics department to develop the skills to analyze big data and use it in innovative ways.

“Data science becomes a model for how other people may want to incorporate things they never thought of putting together that create these avenues that are needed within the metro region for employment and the needs of the 21st century job market,” said James McGuffee, chair of the computer science department. “It’s a model for how we go about the future, de-veloping new programs that we need in the area.”

McGuffee is teaching the major’s fi rst course, Introduction to Data Science, this semes-ter. The course has 15 students enrolled and will familiarize the students with the subject and program outcomes through reading books, such as Kenneth Cukier’s book “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think,” to guest speakers from companies that work with data science.

Data science was described as “the sexiest job in the 21st century” by the Harvard Business Review in 2012.

All over the world, people with the ability to effectively interpret and communicate the potential of the vast amount of data constantly being created and recorded are in demand. The McKinsey Global Institute predicts that in 2018, there might be a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 workers without the skills to effectively use big data in the U.S.

“Society has changed to the point where we are generating so much data, and there is such interest in analyzing it because it is coming at you so fast and there is so much of it,” Kirby said. “There is this thought that we haven’t fully realized how to use it yet, so companies are

starved for people who know how to do this.”

NKU’s interdisciplinary programThe university’s launch of an undergraduate data science program is a “game changer” and

“really big deal”, according to Cukier, data editor for The Economist and author of a book utilized in the fi rst data science course.

“Most people wouldn’t think of Kentucky as being the epicenter of big data,” Cukier said.He said it is “essential” that universities prepare to train students in data science and big

data because the more NKU explores and develops this program, the more competitive the students will be as employees, and Kentucky will be as a state.

Students going to a school with a cross disciplinary program will “have a leg up in the work-force, bring more value to their employers and have a more satisfying career because they are well-trained,” according to McGuffee.

“We don’t envision it will ever be the largest per-student degree, but it’s going to be an extraordinarily prestigious. If not one of the most prestigious degrees at this university, if not in the entire commonwealth,” McGuffee said.

To create a well-rounded program and data scientists in the end, the curriculum combines component mathematics and statistics skills, programming and machine learning, and spe-cifi c subject matter expertise. The students are also studying the ethics of the fi eld.

Students are required to crunch the data by fi nding and exploring; to make sense of the information with machine learning and statistics; and explain the fi ndings to others to make decisions. They are trained to use new technology and tools to decipher trillions of data points.

The degree “emphasizes the critical arc that runs from data to information, information to knowledge, and knowledge to decision making,” according to the program’s website. Throughout the program, the curriculum works on building skills spanning the foundations of data science, statistical modeling, data mining, business analytics and scientifi c visualiza-tion.

A principal part of the program is the capstone project, which requires students to collect, explore, communicate and interpret a big data set.

The program will benefi t the university through spin-off opportunities, such as collabora-tive student research projects and possibly a data science minor in the future, according to McGuffee.

“I actually don’t think you can underestimate the impact this major is having on this uni-versity,” McGuffee said.

Meet one of the fi rst data science majorsThe data science program attracts students driven by curiosity, according to Kirby. He re-

fers to these type of students as “detectives.” Students have to sort through trillions of data bytes coming at them fast and fi nd a pattern or meaning in the information.

The program seeks student detectives with a dedication to using new tools to discover hid-den patterns buried in vast amount of data and communicating this information in compel-ling and effective ways, according to Kirby.

Freshman Nathaniel Hudson is one of these curious students and one of the fi rst data sci-ence majors. He describes himself as a “big nerd when it comes to computers.” He found the fi eld after attending a program with Google over the summer.

“Data science is one [fi eld] our lecturer pushed more than anything else,” Hudson said. “It was kind of cool because I was sitting among the other people that got in. There were people going to Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon and the like, and I was the only one that could say my school has a data science program.”

Not everyone grasps how much data is being generated and stored by various corporations every day. In the United States, 15 out of 17 industry sectors have more data stored per com-pany than the U.S. Library of Congress, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

However, data science majors begin to register its true volume and potential impact early on.

“The one thing that will be intimidating, but its just because I don’t have the experience at the moment, is the idea of how big the data is,” Hudson said. “By the end of the major you are supposed to be able to take on I think petabytes [about 1,000 terabytes] of information.”

The program will train students in everything from utilizing the information discovered in these enormous data sets to help businesses make decisions to building search engines.

In the future, Hudson plans to work for one of the fi rst major companies to analyze big data to make decisions: Google.

06 NEWS SPECIAL NEWS SPECIAL 07

Students are upset with the cell phone coverage around campus, which is particularly bad in buildings such as Griffi n Hall and the Fine Arts building. Some students are concerned that these dead zones also create a safety issue.

However, Police Chief Jason Willis is concerned with the reli-ance on cell phone technology. While this concerns Willis, he said that the campus has other ways of getting information out to stu-dents.

“The P.A. system is the most reliable real time system on cam-pus,” Willis said.

Willis said the P.A. system is controlled by the dispatch center at the police station. The dispatch center can send out sirens or voice alerts through speakers that are set up on the inside and outside of buildings. Willis said you can hear the alerts anywhere on campus.

Norse Alert is another program that can be used to alert stu-dents of emergencies, according to Willis. It also relies on e-mails, voice messages, campus sirens, and local media broadcast to relay emergency information.

Willis also said that students are able to use the call boxes around campus to contact the police at any time.

“What if you need to call the cops and none of the boxes are around you?” a sophomore web design major Emile Lubeck said. “You’re screwed.”

Other students don’t believe it’s a huge safety concern.“NKU is safe. There’s always people around,” said Kayla Schnei-

der, a junior human resource major.Alex Sears, a junior computer science major, said the gym in the

Albright Health Center is a bad spot for cell phone reception.Another student, Kendra Harris, a junior studio art major, said

she doesn’t get any service in the art building besides the painting room.

Other problem areas mentioned by students include the Student Union, the Mathematics-Education-Psychology Center and Griffi n Hall. Students said the coverage in Griffi n Hall is particularly bad.

“The worst is the bottom fl oor of Griffi n Hall,” said junior busi-ness informatics major Tony Delotell.

Infrastructure Team Director Doug Wells attributes the prob-lem to the structure of the campus. Wells said the concrete and the window coatings block the signals.

“The windows in Griffi n Hall are notorious for blocking signals,” Wells said.

The amount of students also causes signal problems, according to Wells. He compares it to attending a sporting event, where there are large amounts of people using their phones at the same time.

Wells also said the problem varies by carrier. Some carriers get better reception than other carriers on campus.

The IT team has been working on solutions to fi x the problem. Some carriers that Wells said he has reached out to include AT&T, Verizon and Cincinnati Bell.

Microcells are a small scale solution that have been implement-ed on campus. According to Wells, microcells are cell phone signal repeaters that plug into the NKU network and broadcast a signal. The problem with the repeaters are that they can only support a certain amount of phones and they are also carrier specifi c. Some areas that the microcells have been placed include the Student union, Steely Library, and the Administrative Center.

Wells said that the Cincinnati Bell and Verizon microcells work well, but the AT&T repeaters pose a problem.

“The AT&T microcells require you to program the numbers in,” Wells said.

This means using the microcell would require the actual cell phone number of the person trying to use it. Wells explained that this makes the AT&T microcells unusable.

Another solution that Wells has reached out to carriers about is a distributed antenna system. These antennas would boost the signal around campus.

However, Wells said that carriers showed little interest in in-stalling a distributed antenna system on campus. Putting up such a system could provide better service on some of the highways for the carriers, according to Wells. The system, said Wells, would cov-er highways 275 and 471 next to campus . He said that money is an issue and carriers don’t want to foot the bill of a distributed an-tenna system, which could cost an over $1 million. Wells also said that building the distributed antenna system wouldn’t guarantee the carriers would want to connect to it.

One of Wells’ suggestions for students to help is to reach out to their carriers in order for them to become more interested in a large scale solution.

“People need to call carriers and let them know their service is bad on campus,” Wells said.

“I just kind of plug my phone in,” Austin Hueber, a computer science major, said of the cell phone charging kiosks on campus. “I worry that someone might take it, but other than that it’s just a charger.”

A recent surprise exposition by Georgia Tech University researchers at the DefCon security convention in Las Vegas has made a security threat public that even those who study and work with computer security are not aware of.

At least 360 attendants of the Las Vegas convention, most of them experts in online and computer security, unknowingly allowed a device to access their phones and access personal information stored on them.

The tactic used to fool these security ex-perts is a new hacking practice known as juice-jacking.

According to Brian Krebs, a former com-puter security writer for The Washington Post, juice-jacking is the practice of malicious third-parties using the free charging kiosks found at airports, hotels, malls and college campuses, as a means of compromising the security of a user’s smartphone. Juice-jacking can give hackers access to any contacts, pho-tos, emails, banking accounts and passwords a user may have stored on their smartphone, as well as the potential to upload undetect-able malware to the phone.

Although students should be wary of public charging kiosks in public places such as malls and airports, they should be aware that the risk of a security compromise on one of the GoCharge kiosks located on Northern Ken-tucky University’s campus is relatively low.

The inner workings of the charging kiosks are fairly basic, said Doug Wells, director of infrastructure and operations in the Offi ce of Information Technology for NKU.

“In the basic sense, it is a big USB power strip, with pre-supplied charging cables,”

Wells said in an e-mail correspondence with the Northerner.

“The phone charger version we have has no ability to charge students or scan AllCards, or be networked,” said Wells.

Although the model of GoCharge kiosks currently on campus are too simplistic to pose a security risk, a threat does lie in third parties connecting additional devices to the kiosks which are capable of collecting users data.

Researchers at Georgia Tech University were able to collect data from unwary smart-phone users by installing a microcomputer called a BeagleBoard in kiosks.

The $45 devices, available at beagleboard.org, act as a connector between the USB pow-er hub and the charger, and when installed with a malicious program, can compromise the security of an iOS device in less than one minute.

The smallest and most discreet of these de-vices, the BeagleBone Black, can be connect-ed through Ethernet, HDMI and USB hosts, and is capable of running Linux, Ubuntu and Android operating systems.

Wells acknowledges the possibility, but in-sists that students are not at risk if they pay attention.

“Look at the cord you are about to use,” Wells says to users of the kiosks, “and verify that the cable doesn’t appear to be tampered with.”

As of September 16th, a device known as the USBCondom has been created to relieve fears of those who use public charging kiosks. The device blocks data pins in a USB connec-tor, allowing only the power pins to connect between a phone and a foreign USB hub.

The chargers on campus all feature three traditional iPhone chargers, as well as fi ve microUSB chargers.

NKU is currently looking into adding char-gers for newer devices to the kiosks, such as the Lightning adaptor for iPhones models 5 and up.

John Flaherty

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Maggie PundNEWS EDITOR

Kyle ThompsonCONTRIBUTING WRITER

PHOTO BY KODY KHALE

IS YOUR INFORMATION SAFE WHILE YOU’RE CHARGING?

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Dead zones on campus create safety issue

“The sexiest job in the 21st century” - BY THE HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW IN 2012.

DROWNING IN DATA: NKU creates new data science major

**Info from Domo’s website, an American computer software corporation.

• Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content.• Twitter users send over 100,000 tweets.• Instagram users share 3,600 new photos.• YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video.• Email users send 204,166,667 messages.• Google receives over 2,000,000 search queries.

EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY:

ARTS & LIFE Thursday, September 19, 201308

It’s 7 o’clock on a Monday evening and Griffin Hall’s Digitorium hums with the buzz of sound check for the week’s musical guest. The audience files in, bands gets prepared and electronic media and broadcasting students get a chance to give a hand in the final production of what radio host John Patrick said is the “best lineup yet.”

A decade ago, WNKU started Studio 89 back when the EMB program was in Landrum. This was the time where Studio 89 was proposed to be a televi-sion show.

“It is a professional concert series with a live studio audience and a live broadcast audience,” said Chris Strobel, EMB professor at NKU.

Patrick, music director for Studio 89, thinks peo-ple should pay attention to it.

“No other radio station in this market does live music on the air,” he said.

Strobel said students who like the music WNKU plays will be interested in the artists that will be per-forming on Studio 89.

The show is for people who are fans of WKNU’s music or students who are trying to gain experience in the field of EMB.

Compared to other years that Studio 89 has been on, there are going to be a few changes this semester, including the visuals.

“We’re making the performance face a little more intimate,” Strobel said.

They want to put the audience closer and have it around the sides of the stage.

Another difference that Studio 89 is going to have is the array of artists that are going to be performing on the show.

“It’s a good thing to get your artists on there,” Pat-rick said. “We try to diversify the artists, but because

of schedules it doesn’t always work that way.”There weren’t only professionals working on the

project; Studio 89 is actually a course that EMB ma-jors can take.

Electronic media and broadcasting students get a “wonderful opportunity to work on what is a profes-sional television show and get credit for it,” Strobel said.

“I like how, as the students, we really have 90 per-cent of the control over the whole thing, as to how it turns out,” said Brandon Rone, senior EMB major and director of Studio 89. “Chris, the teacher, he can trump us if he wants and say no to something, but for the most part, he lets us do what we want.”

Rone has to deal with a lot stress because he is the director of the production.

“There is a lot more pressure in that role than oth-er roles, I feel,” he said.

The students of the Studio 89 class get to experi-ence, first-hand, the stress of putting together a tele-vision production.

“We start at 7:01 exactly, so getting everything taken care of and set up before that time is probably the most difficult,” said Taylor Harris, senior EMB major and line producer of Studio 89. “Usually we have some issues with audio or actually being able to see the camera.”

Even though there is a lot of stress that goes along with putting on the production, Harris likes working on the Studio 89 shows and feels it is important for EMB majors to take the class.

“It gives you hands-on experience that otherwise you wouldn’t get in a classroom setting,” she said.

Harris also believes that this class is important for EMB majors, if they want to get a job in the field.

Harris feels that EMB students will go into a new station format after they graduate from NKU.

“You get a sense of what you’re going to be doing before you start,” she said.

Jessica Kopenastaff writer

Karin Bergquist plays guitar in the Griffin Hall Digitorium for the Studio 89 event. Bergquist is the vocalist and guitarist for the band Over the Rhine.

Photo by of robert huelsman

Schedule for Studio 89 (fall 2013)

9/23-enter the haggis (toronto)

9/30-tim easton (nashville)

10/7-stephen Kellogg (boston)

10/21-the Coal men (nashville)

10/28- Dayna Kurtz (brooklyn)

11/4-ernie hendrickson (Chi-cago)

11/11- ivan & alyosha (seattle)

For an updated list of the artists, go to wnku.org.

Studio 89 brings Digitorium to life, gives students professional experience

John Clarkin is an associate profes-sor of entrepreneurship at NKU, but this wasn’t always what he intended on doing for a living.

After high school, Clarkin went into the Navy and put his education on hold. There he learned his technical skills, as an engineer and technician. After six years, he felt it was time to go back to school and learn more about the business world.

Clarkin finished his undergraduate degree of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, and re-ceived his MBA for finance and mar-keting at The Citadel, a military col-lege in South Carolina.

Clarkin was a manager at General Electric where he learned personal development, and became tech savvy. He then went back to school to learn more management skills, with plans of becoming a consultant for an en-trepreneur firm.

While finishing his masters, one of his professors influenced him to get his PHD, in entrepreneuring so that he could go on to teach.

However after he finished his MBA

at age 47, he thought he was too old to continue school. “I think I’m too old to get my PHD. That’s for young peo-ple,” he told his mentor. To which his mentor replied, “if I can do it you can do it.” His mentor advised him that Europeans were a little ahead with en-trepreneur, so he headed to Scotland to earn his PHD.

“Looking back on it now, professors can have a big influence on students,” Clarkin said. “He changed my whole career.”

Clarkin liked the one-on-one teach-er encounter and realized the impact teachers can make on students.

“These skills [management,and en-trepreneur] are so empowering, I can teach them anywhere,” Clarkin said.

He taught at the University of Charleston, and also in Africa for a few years before making his way to NKU.

Clarkin said he loves teaching the students here at NKU because he can relate to them.

“I worked full time while I went to school like so many students here,” Clarkin said. “I have students here that have great work ethic, and are hungry to learn.”

He still works off and on with con-sulting firms to keep up with the ever -changing society so he can bring those skills back to the classroom. As for how long he’ll be teaching for, he said, “as long as it’s still fulfilling.”

If you are interested in taking a class with Clarkin, he teaches Principles of Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, New Venture Financ-ing, and in the spring he will be teach-ing a new Social Entrepreneur class.

Photos courtesy of John clarkin

Professor John Clarkin during his college career (left). Clarkin now as a professor of Entrepreneur-ship at NKU (right).

It may be rare to find your roommate sleeping with a teddy bear at night, but you just might find them cuddling with a smartphone instead. With the rise of the digital age, technology has become a new avenue for daily tasks. Rituals as common as sleepwalking have been noted to evolve into sleep texting.

This new phenomenon occurs more with the young-er generation of smartphone users. The attachment many may have with their phone creates a greater po-tential for individuals to subconsciously turn to them throughout the night.

An American poll which explores connections with communications, technology use and sleep conducted by The National Sleep Foundation found that 95 per-cent of those surveyed reported very active technology use within the hours before going to sleep.

According to the survey, nearly half of generation Y’ers (19-29 years old) admitted to sending or receiv-ing text messages almost every night in the hour be-fore bed. Sleep deprivation may seem common for college students, but cell phone use may play a bigger role than some may realize.

Senior psychology major, Rachel Mayleben, recalls periodically sleep texting, mainly in response to mes-sages she had received while asleep.

“I can’t exactly remember the context of the last message I sent [while asleep] but I know that all of my words had extra letters at the end,” Mayleben said. “I didn’t remember sending the message the next morn-ing.”

It has been found that approximately one in five generation Y’ers are woken up a few nights a week by text messages or phone calls, according to the same poll by The American Sleep Foundation.

These sleep disruptions can be avoided by silencing cellular devices at night, although that may be a hard feat to face.

Some college students like Sean Crowley, junior engineering technology major, use their cell phones as alarm clocks, making this attempt seemingly prob-lematic.

Crowley sets two alarms in preparation to wake

each morning, one on his Apple iPhone and another on his Apple iPod. He keeps both devices bedside.

He admitted that without using these devices to wake him up, he would most likely sleep until “the sun starts shining” throughout his room. Mobile technol-ogy has become a conditioned means of everyday life. Sleep texting can oftentimes be laughed at, but what happens if it turns into a waking nightmare?

Freshman psychology major, Jamie Draud woke one morning to find that at some point within the night, she had sent a flirtatious message to a platonic friend. She had no recollection of sending the mes-sage, at first believing someone had set her up while she lay asleep.

After evaluating the situation, she realized that there had been no one else in her room that night.

“It was an awkward situation to face to say the least,” Draud said. “I have no idea why I would have sent something like that.”

Draud is not the only one who has fallen victim of their own sleep aided acts. Often times you can find that many Twitter users recount the messages they find themselves sending late into the night. You can find these Tweets by searching the hashtag #sleeptex-ting.

“My sleep texting is getting out of hand,” said one Twitter user.

“Wow, sleep texting has got to be the most embar-rassing thing ever,” said another Twitter user.

In order to prevent sleep texting, it is suggested by The National Sleep Foundation to turn off your phone when going to bed. Other methods of protection from becoming a sleep texter are to set a passcode on your phone or to put it across the room and away from your bed, preventing you from easily accessing it during the night.

Many may be surprised in the amount of sleep they may gain by cuddling with their pillow instead of their smartphone.

Ed 52, Issue 5 ARTS & LIFE 09

Sleep texting, a rude awakening for younger generations

A peek into the past of an NKU professor

@taystu02 sleep texting got the best of me last night… (sept. 17)

@annagg08 first sleep texting and now i’m a sleep tweeter… (sept. 17)

@phillymatalucci omg i text-ed everyone in my sleep last night #sleeptexting (sept. 14)

@PaigeDuBois10 if anybody received any weird texts from me last night, i apologize #sleeptexting #whoops (sept. 14)

@Jtillathekilla2 there’s a phe-nomenon called sleep texting where people text in their sleep. i hope i’m not doing it right now. (aug. 3)

#sleeptextingv i c t i m s o f

Amber Tewesstaff Writer

Amber Coakleystaff Writer

SPORTS Thursday, September 19, 201310

CAREER FAIR

WED., OCTOBER 2

4-6 PM

SU BALLROOM

Employers seeking students for co-op/internship and full-time positions. Dress professionally; bring resumes and ALL CARD.

All students welcome!

For details, including employer directory, visit careerservices.nku.edu

ports

Scott Eaton was terminated from NKU last semester on March 18. Eaton is the former Athletic Director and has been found of misap-propriating over $300,000 and having � ve “inappropriate, intimate” relationships.

President Geoffrey Mearns, media, lawyers and concerned commu-nity members have commented on the situation. However, one group of people the campus hasn’t really heard from is the student body.

After polling students about the situation, one student didn’t feel comfortable talking about it after � nding out her name would be at-tached to her statement, and four students didn’t know who Eaton was when asked about it.

Students speak out about the latest update on former AD Scott Eaton’s misconduct

Brook CliffordSPORTS EDITOR

ANTHONY KESSENFreshman, Physics

ELIZABETH PETERSJunior, Spanish Education

“It wouldn’t have changed my opinion to come to NKU. No, not at all. I’m not involved in sports. What the man does with what he does is no concern to me… The integrity of one man doesn’t represent the entirety of the school. In the end, the actions of one man can’t be implied to the entire whole, espe-cially if the entire whole didn’t even know what was going on.”

“I think it has an effect maybe on student spir-it, because he did cheat a lot of people out of the good spirit that NKU tries to have. And just how we’re surrounded by good people and he really did some damage to that image and the feelings of that around campus.”

“No one wants to go to a university where some-one is stealing from it or the students in that type of way, so I think it can steer away a lot of potentially good students.”

LINDSEY SNIDERFreshman, Biology

“Obviously, it’s really bad for the reputation of NKU. ...I’m paying a lot of money to go here and I don’t want to hear about people embezzling money from my school. It could be like my money, you know? I think it does affect students too, maybe not directly, but overall, as a whole, within this school.

“If there are prospective students looking at NKU, they will see that and it might impact their decision because it will always be documented and part of our history.”

KAITLYN SPARKSSenior, Electronic Media and Broadcasting

“I think it’s kind of disheartening because I know that I pay my way through college myself and I lost some trust in it [NKU]. Especially with working with the athletics hand-in-hand and I’d see him. It’s kind of like I lost trust in that human being and not only that, kind of in the university. But at the same time, I think our university has gone over and beyond try-ing to let us know that they had no idea but they are doing everything they can to make it better for us.”

CALEB PATTERSONJunior, Social Studies Education

“I think it has to have some effect. The fact that someone could steal $300,000 and nobody noticed is kind of scary in a way.”

SARAH ALLGEYERFreshman, Studio Art

“I think it’s pretty bad because knowing how much kids pay to come here you know... For someone to just take that much from the school no less, it’s really bad.”

“They took him out. They didn’t let him just run around. Had I known about this before deciding to come to NKU, I still would have came.”

Ed 52, Issue 5 SPORTS 11

NKU’s volleyball team is entering its second season in Division I, coming off a 25-7 season in which the team finished third in the conference, with a few new faces on the staff.

The coaching staff consists of Head Coach Liz Hart, Assistant Coach Randi Raff, and Graduate Assistant Katie Grajewski.

Grajewski, a native of Covington, Wash., is entering her first season as a graduate assistant, after being an assis-tant for Centaury High School in Idaho.

“I like how personal everyone is,” Gra-jewski said. “I’ve only been here for two and a half months. I just like how nice the school is, and we have a Starbucks. I love Starbucks. I just love the environment here, everyone’s just so welcoming and nice.”

Grajewski, who graduated from Idaho State University after playing volleyball for four years, is hopeful her stay here can help her collegiate coaching career.

“I’d say one on my goals is to help NKU,in the two seasons I’m here, so we can be conference regular season champs,” Grajewski said. “Then, to further my career and get an assistant spot at another univer-sity.”

Assistant Coach Randi Raff graduated from the University of Southern Indiana where she played collegiate volleyball. Her most recent coaching stop was at Christo-pher Newport University, where she led the team to the Division III national run-ner-up in 2011.

“It was really tough to leave; however, I knew I wanted to gain some experience at the D-I level as a top assistant, and in this...area because we’re at a hotbed for volleyball,” Raff said. “NKU was attractive for me, being I knew them as a player, so I took the job already knowing it was a solid program and a good place to be.”

Raff was nominated on American Vol-leyball Coaches Association’s Thirty Un-der 30 for upcoming men’s and women’s volleyball coach during her time at Chris-

topher Newport, and was the only Divi-sion III coach on the list.

“I really like the people, but I also think the most exciting thing is how bright the future is for our athletic department with our new leadership,” Raff said. “I think we’re forming a clear vision for the future, and it’s going to be really fun building it. Also, building towards this championship we can get in 2016, because we have to look at recruiting and what we’re going to look like in three years.”

Meanwhile, Hart is entering her fourth season as the head coach of the volleyball team after taking over in 2010 as the in-terim head coach. Hart is a graduate of NKU and played volleyball at the univer-sity for four seasons.

Hart was a three-time All-American in her playing career, and received the post-graduate scholarship. She was also the recipient of the Great Lakes Valley Con-ference woman of the year award.

“NKU’s very exciting... There’s a lot of growth and we have strong leadership with President Mearns and our new AD [Athletic Director], Ken,” Hart said. “I think we can do a lot of great things in athletics. We’re still growing, new build-ings are being built every day, and as an athletic program, we’re just rising to the top.

Thus far, the team’s season has started out a little rocky, starting 0-3. But the Norse have bounced back, winning four of their last six matches, which has the Norse currently at 4-5.

“I want to win championships,” Hart said. “Right now we’re working to build a program that’s consistent and can win championships when we can compete in 2016. Right now it’s important to get the right student athletes, graduate the stu-dent athletes, and make sure they’re the best they can be academically, athleti-cally, and out in the community. So that’s what we’re working on right now.”

Evan MerrillSTAFF WRITER

Volleyball coaches discuss D-I journey, Norse community

Liz Hart (Top) and Randi Raff (Bottom) coached on the volleyball team this season at an away match. The next volleyball game is against Florida International on Sept. 20.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NKU ATHLETICS

SPORTSschedule 9/20Volleyball vs. Florida International in West Lafayette, Ind. at 4 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Xavier in Cincinnati, Ohio at 6:30 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. Wright State in Dayton, Ohio at 8 p.m.

9/21Women’s Tennis NKU Invitational at NKU

Volleyball vs. Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. at noon

Volleyball vs. Syracuse in West Lafayette, Ind. at 5 p.m.

9/22Softball vs. Urbana in Oxford, Ohio at 1 p.m. (Exhibition)Men’s Soccer vs. Marshall in Huntington, W. Va. at 2:30 p.m.

Softball vs. Miami of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio at 3 p.m. (Exhibition)

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Technology is evolving. Faster and faster, ev-eryday.

And the amount of people using it is following the same pattern.

Just in the time it took me to write these words, countless people all over the world are logged on to the Internet.

In fact, over 144.8 billion emails are sent each day, according to a Radicati Group study on me-dia use.

And in the world of journalism, this shift in where people allot their attention to is some-thing we must take into account.

As stated in our own story on big data, accord-ing to the Facebook data science page, people on Facebook share more than 684,000 bits of con-tent a day.

Not to mention the 72 hours (259,200 sec-onds) of new video to YouTube that are upload-ed a minute, according to Youtube viewership statistics.

These are surefi re facts that the way people spend their time and consume their media has and constantly continues to change.

People no longer sit at their house and wait for the morning paper.

We are all taking the initiative into our own hands, getting online and getting the news

for ourselves.And while we at The Northerner have said

that we understand this change, we haven’t re-ally embraced it like we have said we should.

So to take one step into the future of journal-ism, in this new digital age, we have decided as a team that there is no better time to make this change than now.

No, this doesn’t mean we will stop the produc-tion of our weekly print publication, but that we will take advantage of all the innovative resourc-es we have been given at this university and charge full steam ahead into the digital world of new media journalism.

We understand the new niche that our print publication has, with more issue based stories combined in themed editions of the paper, a changing trend in which you have probably al-ready noticed for The Northerner for this year. So you may see a reduction in the size of the print publication, but we don’t plan on getting rid of the entire print platform.

But we plan to focus more on things such as video, interactive media, social media and other things this quickly evolving world has to offer. And what better way to do this, than after an in-formative technology themed issue to help you take this journey with us into the age of digital news.

Kevin SchultzEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

the northerner print edition - septemeber 19, 2013

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