The Student Government Association’s office in Atherton Union has a new look.

The door was open, and boxes were scattered everywhere as SGA President Mike Keller stood atop a step stool, remodeling the room.

“I have no complaints about last year’s SGA group,” Keller said, “but this year we’re going to focus on some new goals.”

Keller said SGA wants to make changes that are more than cosmetic.

“We’re working with Butler IT right now to make a nicer, easier-to-use website,” Keller said.

Keller said the website will be online in September, and students can volunteer to receive a weekly newsletter via email.

Keller said his biggest goal was being physically accessible.

“I really want students to feel like they can just stop by the SGA office any time,” Keller said. “Our door will always be open.”

After two summer retreats and multiple mini assemblies, SGA has come up with a list of over 100 goals for the 2012-13 school year.

“We definitely want to continue on the great foundation that was left for us,” said Scott Nemeth, vice president of administration. “We’re going to inherit some really cool grants and projects this year.”

Those projects include new Brita water stations as part of the Council on Presidential Affairs Green Operations sector and a new bike rental system that will give students the opportunity to check out bikes.

“We want to make more big projects out of student ideas,” Nemeth said.

SGA has already begun scheduling coffee chats in Starbucks, where students will get a chance to talk to SGA and Butler officials about changes and ideas they would like to see implemented.

SGA also wants to distribute more surveys to students to help prioritize the projects for the year.

One of SGA’s largest annual projects is the Butlerpalooza concert.

Butlerpalooza is scheduled for Sep. 7, and while the artist may soon be revealed program board chair Stevan Tomich said he is sworn to secrecy.

“I really can’t tell anything, but this year there will be an after party in the Reilly Room after the concert,” Tomich said.

Time will tell if SGA is ready for its latest challenges, but Keller said he has tremendous faith in the group.

“I’m just constantly amazed by this new group’s enthusiasm,” Keller said.

“If we keep it up, I really think that we’ll be able to make some positive changes to the campus this year.”

Students are not the only ones working behind the scenes for Butler’s Student Government Association.

The PuLSE Office has four individuals who advise SGA and its various boards.

Dean of Student Life Irene Stevens said the role of an SGA adviser is to help executive members do the job to the best of their ability and help them avoid pitfalls they may encounter.

“I don’t necessarily always have the answers,” said Caroline Huck-Watson, director of the PuLSE Office. “But I can also help direct someone to figure out where those are.”

Huck-Watson advises the Council on Presidential Affairs, Finance Board, the SGA president and SGA’s Executive Board. As PuLSE director, she also helps other staff advisers when issues arise.

SGA President Al Carroll said the advisers are there to say when students are or are not on the right track.

“We don’t always agree with them,” Carroll said. “But that’s the way it is.”

She said that while there are no specific guidelines for her to follow as adviser, there are expectations in terms of the role she plays. She said the entire PuLSE staff follows university law and procedures.

She said that doing so allows the advisers to help students navigate university systems.

Other PuLSE advisers include Julie Pakenham, associate director; Rob Miller, assistant director; and Jen Agnew, assistant director.

The PuLSE staff reports to Stevens.

“I also work with the exec on some issues occasionally,” Stevens said. “It’s not unusual for me to have a meeting with the president of SGA, in particular the CPA president and vice president, about various issues.”

Stevens also said that her role allows her to attend various SGA assemblies.

“It gives me a sense of what’s going on with students and what the issues are that they’re dealing with,” Stevens said. “I do enjoy going in and hearing what they’re talking about.”

Stevens said the advisers are able to provide students with a historical perspective of SGA and the university.

“I rely on Caroline quite a bit,” SGA President-elect Mike Keller said. “Al has been great with the transition, but Caroline is who I look to for knowledge of the past.”

Huck-Watson said she sees challenging students as one of her roles.

“I would hope my role is that when students are making decisions, I’m helping them see a variety of different perspectives so that they can make the most informed decision that they can at that time,” Huck-Watson said.

She said she is ever-evolving as an adviser.

“It’s such a moment of pride to see a student be a successful leader, to make change on campus, to really feel empowered, to lead a group and to make decisions that have an impact on our community,” Huck-Watson said. “That happens every year. It’s so wonderful.”

Keller said he’s already had a great experience working with the advisers leading up to his transition into office.

The advisers sat in on his vice president interviews.

“It is my decision,” Keller said. “None of them tried to influence it, but they were able to provide a lot of helpful pros and cons for each candidate.”

Carroll said he has great respect and gratitude for all of the SGA advisers.

“They make my life easier,” Carroll said. “I’m thankful for that.”

Huck-Watson said she is blessed to have the opportunity to work with Butler students in such a profound way.

“I look around sometimes at events and things that are going on that our students are accomplishing,” Huck-Watson said. “It just takes my breath away sometimes.”

When student leaders apply, campaign for and put hours into their roles, they should also be able to defend themselves on their own.

It’s time to take the training wheels off of Student Government Association.

While I believe that faculty advisers for Student Government Association have good intentions, some of the actions in assembly leave me thinking they are overinvolved.

Last Wednesday, Dean of Student Life Irene Stevens’ announcement at the student assembly is a prime example.

In reference to The Collegian’s recent push for data from SGA’s recent elections, Stevens inferred that the push for this information has caused a sort of chaos on campus.

“There’s a tone that (SGA adviser) Caroline Huck-Watson or (SGA President) Al Carroll would do anything dishonest,” Stevens said. “I wish the tone was more civil.”

Executive board members were appointed to these positions by fellow students.

When a staff member—meant to serve the entire university, not just SGA—makes an announcement like this, it undermines the trust fellow students put in their leaders to make informed, grown-up decisions.

SGA assembly is a place for students to take the initiative, so staff advice simply isn’t warranted.

Administrators should take a hint from President Jim Danko, who has emphasized his belief that faculty should have supreme reign over Faculty Senate.

I would like to see advisers take a back-seat role in SGA.

If the Collegian can independently put out a newspaper each week, SGA leaders should be able to do their jobs all by themselves, too.

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STAFF EDITORIAL | SGA, show us the numbers

Student Government Association this afternoon killed a motion to release detailed results from its recent elections.

Junior Taylor Meador and former presidential candidate Katie Palmer made a motion to rescind a vote that was passed 58-55 last Wednesday to release the data.

Palmer originally submitted a “motion to reconsider” the decision on Monday, four days after the vote.

Motions to reconsider” have to be submitted on the same day that the original vote was taken. “Motions to rescind” can be made at any time.

When SGA was called to order, Carroll said he wanted to make a correction and announced that the motion had changed to a “motion to rescind” this afternoon.

“Apparently, AJ has been telling us that we’ve been using the wrong words, but we just haven’t been listening,” Carroll said. Carroll was last year’s parliamentarian.

In an interview with The Collegian on Tuesday, Carroll said that the motion was a “motion to reconsider.”

Teare also said in an email to The Collegian that the motion was a “motion to reconsider.”

To pass assembly, the “motion to rescind” had to receive a two-thirds vote of the quorum.

After the vote, Carroll said that two-thirds voted to rescind. No count was taken or requested.

Before the vote, those in favor of retracting the original vote were allowed to show a PowerPoint presentation on their reasoning.

In the presentation, Meador said that releasing the numbers could potentially follow the candidates through the rest of their college careers and into their future jobs.

“It would discourage people from participating in student government,” Meador said. “We don’t need that on this campus.”

Palmer, acting as a representative of CPA, remained quiet during the presentation.

A representative from Alpha Phi said it was an assumption that the data would follow students into their careers.

“I don’t think someone will make a hiring decision based on how many votes a person received in an election at Butler University,” she said. “I think they’ll look at it, if anything, and say that that person actually ran.”

Another point in the presentation was that there is “adequate oversight” of the current electoral procedures so releasing the numbers is not necessary.

“It’s a fool-proof system,” Meador said. “There are already four neutral parties looking at this data.”

The only people who are allowed to see the detailed election results are Carroll, SGA adviser Caroline Huck-Watson, Election Oversight Committee Chair James Schubert and David Alder, Butler’s senior web systems analyst.

Carroll, Huck-Watson and Schubert all have publically expressed that they do not believe the data should be released.

In discussion, junior Abby Robison, the representative for Demia, said that there should be more oversight.

“It’s ridiculous and kind of sketchy that only four people actually see these numbers,” Robison said.

“To say that we don’t trust those four people and the employees of the PuLSE office, and our elected officials is disrespectful to our officials, to our students, to our assembly and to the university,” Meador said.

Assembly members applauded when Meador replied.

EJ Oldfield, a representative from Residential College, said that releasing the numbers would make elections “a numbers game.”

“It stops being about a candidate’s platform and more about a numbers thing,” Oldfield said.

In the presentation, Meador and Palmer said that SGA positions are not public offices.

Every Butler student pays a student fee each semester. A majority of that fee goes into SGA’s $700,000-plus budget, which is disbursed by SGA’s boards.

“If they’re overseeing our money, why shouldn’t we know?” junior CMENC representative Katie Bolinger said.

Robison said transparency in student government is important.

“We keep talking about transparency like it’s an ideal,” Robison said. “But clearly, SGA isn’t founded on ideals.”

Schubert, a freshman, said that though larger, public elections release the numbers, not every election does.

“Caucuses don’t always release the numbers,” he said.

A major argument against releasing the numbers has been whether the candidates’ feelings could be hurt.

“I don’t think that we should pit students against each other by printing the numbers,” Meador said.

A representative said that candidates shouldn’t focus on the numbers.

“If you’re really worried about the numbers, you shouldn’t be running in the first place,” he said. “Stop worrying about the numbers and start focusing on the school and how you’re going to change it.”

As of press time, the detailed election votes will not be released to the student body and Schubert also has not responded to the Collegian’s requests to receive the number of students who voted in last Wednesday’s presidential run-off election.

This data was released to The Collegian in the first presidential election last Monday and in previous years.

It may always get brought up at Student Government Association assembly meetings, but the meeting frequency will not change any time soon.

SGA President Al Carroll said that the idea to move assembly to every other week as opposed to every week like it is now is brought up every year.

“The administration wouldn’t change it because it wouldn’t work,” Carroll said. “Student opinion and votes couldn’t be collected.”

Junior physical education and exercise science major Ariel Rudd said she believes it would be a good idea to change meeting frequency.

“Unfortunately, many SGA representatives don’t report back to their organizations, because a lot of what we cover in assembly is unchanging due to the frequency of the meetings,” she said. “I think more people would come to assembly if it were bi-weekly, and I think they would take the info back to their
organizations.”

However, many clubs and organizations meet
every other week, and if assembly was changed to meet bi-weekly, there would be no way to coordinate with every group, Carroll said during assembly earlier this month.

“It would be difficult because there would be a chance that SGA assembly would meet on the off weeks of these organizations,” sophomore arts administration and public relations major Allie Combs said. “Then the SGA representative would never be able to relay the information from assembly to their constituents, and that is the whole reason assembly exists in the first place.”

Kelsa Reynolds, vice president of operations for SGA, said that any type of business vote discussion would be delayed almost four weeks.

Anything in need of discussing needs to be brought up in advance before actually being discussed, she said, so if assembly was on a bi-weekly schedule, that business may be long forgotten by the time SGA
meets again.

“Considering how fast-paced our society is, for our student government to work at a pace different than the pace of the student body’s lives is inefficient and folly,” sophomore pharmacy major EJ Oldfield said. “Although some weeks this does mean shorter assembly due to a lack of discussion points, SGA is better off staying up-to-date with events on campus rather than being a week behind.”

If it were to change, Reynolds said word about anything going on would not get out, and few people on campus would know about any programming.

“SGA is all about effective communication, and if [assembly meetings] were to change, there would be a huge communication gap,” Reynolds said. “That’s not what SGA is about.”

CPA Chair Mike Tirman, said that members are always brainstorming different ideas on how SGA can be better, but he, with the rest of the executive board, understands that bi-weekly meetings would be a mistake.

“There’s a ton that goes on,” Tirman said. “We have to be careful.

“We have to keep the line of communication open, and assembly is the best way of doing that.”

Many of the SGA representatives agree with the executive board on the idea that it would be the wrong decision to change assembly to every other week.

Reynolds said SGA will be sticking to weekly meetings, and if next year’s officers want to, they can think about changing it next year.

SGA assembly is held every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Krannert Room.

Butler University’s Student Government Association will decide this afternoon whether to support a bill currently making its way through the Indiana General Assembly.

The bill would protect minors from criminal charges involving alcohol consumption and will move to the House of Representatives after unanimously passing the Indiana Senate.

Indiana Lifeline Law, Senate

Bill 274, provides immunity for the crimes of public intoxication, minor possession, minor consumption and minor transportation of alcohol if minors are seeking medical assistance through law enforcement.

SGA President Al Carroll is joining student government associations at Purdue University, Indiana University, University of Southern Indiana and Ball State University in a coalition supporting the bill.

“It’s important for us to make note of what’s going on in the state,” Carroll said.

SGA representatives will vote on a resolution supporting the Indiana Lifeline Law this afternoon in assembly.

“(The resolution) will be sent to the Indiana House of Representatives in hopes of having an impact,” Carroll said.

Carroll said he sees first hand as a residence assistant that Butler students take advantage of seeking help if they need it.

“I hope people continue to find help and feel more secure in doing so because of this,” Carroll said.

Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, said this is already a practice at the university.

“We have an option, unlike city police, to report to student affairs and have the student go through that process, which leaves no criminal offense on the student’s record,” Hunter said.

BUPD officers are obligated under the Clery Act to report any criminal activity on the campus, but that doesn’t affect the student, Hunter said.

“I can’t ignore alcohol consumption because the law is the law, but we do have discretion under the Indiana code,” Hunter said.

This practice is reflected in the 2010 Comprehensive Combined Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report. During that year, there were 274 total liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action and 2 liquor law arrests.

“Getting the student help by teaming up with student affairs is the best model,” Hunter said.

Students may be afraid of disciplinary actions that surround these instances, but Hunter said that is the last thing the student should worry about.

“Someone dying is a grieving process for the institution,” Hunter said. “I’d rather you’d just call us.”

Hunter said he can’t say how the passing of the bill and the support of SGA will affect how students make the call in a moment of need.

“Do I hope it will help? You bet,” Hunter said. “But in the moment, it’s hard to do the right thing.”

Irene Stevens, dean of student life, said that the increase in high-risk drinking is a concern for university officials.

“We’ve seen an increase in the past three years,” Stevens said. “In the fall term we had 19 students go to the hospital when we used to have about nine a year.”

Stevens said what Butler currently does is similar to what the bill is stating.

“We use an educational approach depending on the severity of the violation,” Stevens said.

Students who face alcohol violations are subject to online alcohol teaching sessions, essay writing, counseling or seminars, depending on the severity of the violation, Stevens said.

Students who are arrested or have faced multiple sanctions can be put on conduct probation, meaning he or she would not be in good standing in the university.

University officials are currently reevaluating their system to implement new practices and improve current ones, Stevens said.

“We had an alcohol task force evaluate and make recommendations for things we can do differently,” Stevens said. “So hopefully next year it will be different in education, alcohol policy and better choices.”

Purdue Student Body President Brett Highley said that the support of this law will bring a positive effect on the personal safety and well-being of students.

“It is important to realize that the effects of this law will not only result in more young adults seeking medical attention when it is needed,” Highley said. “This increase will also lead to more targeted educational efforts to serve as an earlier intervention for those individuals who need it most before irresponsible drinking patterns become habitual.”

The work continues as student leaders prepare for the bill to appear in the House.

“In the coming weeks we will continue to meet with legislators to articulate the challenges our communities face dealing with high-risk drinking practices and demonstrate that we have responded with a sound policy,” Highley said.

As the semester draws to a close, the short break allows Student Government Association Executive Board members time to reflect on their progress so far.

Executive members said the biggest improvement to SGA is opening the weekly Assembly meetings to the entire campus.

Vice president of operations Kelsa Reynolds said, “We have had the highest attendance at the SGA Assembly meetings that I can remember over the past three years. This is a direct result of assembly being open to anyone on campus.”

Dan Schramm, vice president of finance, said the inclusion of students outside of representatives from the campus organizations has been a key factor in generating more participation and input from the larger Butler community.

“I think opening up assembly to the entire campus has been a big improvement on years past,” he said. “If students want to take advantage of it, the opportunity is there for them to be more involved with SGA’s decision-making process.”

Schramm said within the executive board, the dynamic works well because people are not afraid to challenge or improve upon new ideas.

“I think there is the perfect amount of disagreement on the board to produce good ideas without the massive inefficiency that typically characterizes bureaucracy,” he said.

Schramm said he would like to see more participation on the financial aspect of the organization as well as giving a monthly budget update as outlined in the SGA constitution.

“I hope next semester we get a lot more participation in grants, and we end up using all of the money that we have allotted to the grants line item,” he said.

Schramm said he was previously unaware the budgets updates were supposed to occur on a monthly basis and that the update would be starting with the first Assembly meeting next semester.

Vice president of programming Jon Himes said though the executive board was passionate about constantly improving the organization, he thought there could be a better way of involving general Assembly members.

“I would like to see Assembly become more engaged, and I think that SGA Exec can do a better job of engaging Assembly members,” he said.

Himes said the strengths of the executive board lie in their innovative pursuits to improve the campus atmosphere for students.

“I think this Exec board is very creative and willing to try new things,” he said. “For example, we sought out and implemented the SGA Shuttle tracking system, enabling students to see where the shuttle is at all times.”

Student body president Al Carroll said he thought the direction SGA took this semester was a positive move toward making sure more people were getting involved and having a voice in the organization.

Carroll said his wish for the spring semester is to ensure the organization is having meaningful conversations within their meeting times because he felt discussion sometimes fell short on deeper issues. On the flip side, he said he thought the executive officers did a better job of balancing the opportunity to share opinions, but ensuring the meetings weren’t a waste of students’ time.

Carroll said the most difficult obstacle was searching the span of SGA’s reach and understanding what was going on at the outskirts of the organization.

“Sometimes it’s hard to know everything that’s going on, on all levels,” he said. “Each board has individual committees and groups and it’s kind of hard to know how far SGA’s reach goes.”

Carroll said he has interest in rerunning for his role as student body president for the 2012-2013 school year, assuming the students would want him in that position again.

“It’s hard to say,” he said. “It’s really hard to say.  As far as running again, it’s something I’ve thought about and something I’m not ready to rule out quite yet. As far as me being at the helm of this organization, I think I could handle another year.  But it depends a lot on whether students on campus want me to go another round.”

Carroll said he’s going to take the next few weeks to ask where he can best serve the university. Whether that involves another presidency or taking a “backseat position,” he isn’t sure, but he said he will serve the students in some capacity.

There is a lot riding on next week’s non-conference men’s basketball game between Butler and Purdue.

For Butler Student Government Association President Al Carroll and Purdue Student Government Association President Brett Highley, the game’s result will determine which one of them has to don the opposing team’s gear.

The individual who comes out on the losing end of the wager will be forced to wear a T-shirt, temporary tattoo and face paint in support of the other team at his next SGA meeting.

“When we saw they were meeting up at the Crossroads Classic, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity for something like this,” Carroll said.

Of course, neither Carroll nor Highley expects to be the loser of the bet.

“Al and I both agree that he looks incredibly stylish in gold and black, so this wager was really a no-brainer,” Highley said.

Carroll said that he is “pretty confident in our Dawgs.”

“I know the basketball team wouldn’t put me through [wearing Purdue gear],” Carroll said.

Such a wager was a first for both Carroll and Highley, although both said they would be open to similar proposals with other schools in the future.

Highley summed up both men’s thoughts on the bet in one sentence.

“The tattoo may be temporary, but I assure you the thrill of victory shall long endure,” Highley said.

Student Government Association assemblies are full of rules and ways to make meetings go smoothly. And although Robert’s Rules of Order are commonly referred to at weekly meetings, apparently SGA’s own constitution gathers dust.

SGA’s Constitution is “only available through [the SGA] listserv” and is “not published on the official SGA website,” according to the constitution itself.

A semester of meetings has resulted in a few observations that lead me to believe that members of the executive board may want to pick up a copy of their own guidelines.

Throughout the nearly four months of meetings, assembly members were—according to Article V, Section 4, Item C—supposed to receive four budget update presentations given by the Vice President of Finance Dan Schramm.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.

So while representatives approve a budget of more than $700,000 in a year, they actually have no idea how that’s being spent as of now.

SGA President Al Carroll responded to the constitutional oversight, saying, “The constitution is a guideline for the best practices. It’s to let us know what we should be doing. It’s not the United States Constitution. It’s not law.”

If the constitution is to let them know what they should be doing, why aren’t they doing it?

When that section of the constitution was written, Carroll said, “things were done a lot differently.”

He said there is a lag between the financial reports the groups receive and the meetings, saying that they’re just now receiving information from October.

Finding out two months after the fact would still be better than hearing nothing at all.

SGA updates the grant budget every week, Carroll said. This is true.

But grants only make up $36,500 of the more than $700,000 SGA budget. All students have a stake in SGA, because all students contribute money to the organization.

More troubling is the indifference and almost confusion about the constitution and its purpose than the fact that it is not being followed.

A constitution is supposed to serve as a set of rules, not something to follow when you feel like it.

If a constitution—a constitution written, drafted and approved by that organization—can’t hold an organization accountable for its actions, what can?

The information is not accessible to every student. In fact, it didn’t sound as if the president knew exactly what information was available to which people.

“I’m sure all the information that’s available money-wise is updated,” Carroll said. “I know I have access to it. I think most other people do as well.”

Still, the most troubling part is that it seems like SGA’s own president wasn’t aware of the responsibilities delegated to the vice president of finance.

“I think the vice president of finance has a lot of stuff to deal with, and no one’s brought it up,” Carroll said. “I’m sure if someone brought it up, Dan would execute it.”

The statement from the president concerns me. A student in a leadership position should understand the role as outlined by the organization.

During an interview with The Collegian for this week’s issue, it had appeared that someone had actually brought the issue to Schramm’s attention.

Schramm noted that a goal he’s set for next semester is to give a monthly budget update.

I’m looking forward to those changes, since they will keep track of the money SGA controls.

In my time as news editor, never have I once had to have someone else from outside of the organization tell me what my role on the paper is.

Before applying for this position, I took the time to read over what I would be expected to do.

Perhaps SGA executive board members’ roles and responsibilities would be easier to understand if they were outlined in one, singular, governing document—a constitution of sorts.
Oh, wait.

Jim Danko will soon don his academic regalia and be inaugurated Saturday as Butler University’s 21st president.

Danko said he envisions the event as a moment to think about both the present and the future of Butler.

“I hope [the inauguration] energizes the community to think beyond the current ways of thinking,” Danko said. “It’s an inflection point that reopens the spotlight on the community. It’s also self-reflection and a chance to celebrate community.”

The inauguration, “Imagine the Possibilities,” will honor and officially welcome the Danko family to the university.

The entire Butler community is invited to the installation ceremony, college exhibits and an orchestra concert to celebrate the occasion.

Students said they are looking forward to the inauguration festivities.

“Some of my friends are singing in the inauguration ceremonies,” said Faith Lindsay, a senior biology major. “I’m excited for them.”

Student Government Association President Al Carroll said he wants Danko and the inauguration to highlight the best aspects of the university.

“I want to get a sense of community that would otherwise be unmatched,” Carroll said. “We want a president that’s devoted to the university and to students of the university.”

Kate Langdon, a junior philosophy major, said faculty, staff and students have put a lot of time and effort into the inauguration, and it will be a good time to consider the state of the university.

“The inauguration gives us time to reflect on what Butler University does,” Langdon said. “It’s an opportunity to step back and see where we are and where the future needs to go. The inauguration is a great time to do this.”

Sally Childs-Helton, special collections and rare books librarian at Butler, said she believes the inauguration marks a pivotal moment in Butler’s history.

“It marks a major transition point, and it marks a time to reassess where the university is and where it’s going,” Childs-Helton said.
She said a university’s history is important, but so is its future.

“It’s important to pay attention to the history of the university and use it to gauge  the future,” Childs-Helton said.

First Lady Bethanie Danko said she hopes her husband’s inauguration will be a special time for the Butler community.

“Attendees should expect to be inspired and excited about the future,” she said.

The installation ceremony will take place Saturday, Nov. 12 at 11 a.m. in Clowes Memorial Hall.

Inauguration Week Events

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9
Innovation and Impact: An Inaugural Exhibit
9 a.m.-6 p.m.—Irwin Library

THURSDAY, Nov. 10
Innovation and Impact: An Inaugural Exhibit
9 a.m.-4 p.m.—Irwin Library

Campus Reception for Innovation and Impact
4-6 p.m.—Irwin Library. Invitation only.

FRIDAY, Nov. 11
Innovation and Impact: An Inaugural Exhibit
9 a.m.-6 p.m.—Irwin Library

Butler Faculty and Staff Reception
2-4 p.m.—Reilly Room in Atherton Union
3:15 p.m.—Remarks

SATURDAY, Nov. 12
Innovation and Impact: An Inaugural Exhibit
10 a.m.-6 p.m.—Irwin Library

Student Breakfast
9-10 a.m.—Johnson Board Room in Robertson Hall

Installation Ceremony
11 a.m.—Clowes Memorial Hall

Delegates Luncheon
1 p.m.—Reilly Room in Atherton Union. Invitation only.

Inaugural Gala
6 p.m.—Indianapolis Museum of Art. Invitation only.

SUNDAY, Nov. 13
Innovation and Impact: An Inaugural Exhibit
10 a.m.-6 p.m.—Irwin Library

Butler Symphony Orchestra Concert
3 p.m.—Clowes Memorial Hall. Community reception immediately following the concert.