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  • Butler battles $10 million deficit

    Butler battles $10 million deficit

    KATIE GOODRICH | EDITOR IN CHIEF Butler University’s budget is in the red. $10 million in the red. Next year, the university will take another “strategic loss” of $2-3 million, according to an April 4 email from Bruce Arick, vice president for finance and administration. The largest class in Butler’s history is graduating, and they…

  • Can you really graduate “Doubt Free?”

    Can you really graduate “Doubt Free?”

    VANESSA STAUBLIN | CONTRIBUTING WRITER Each year students across the nation submit their application for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Federal Student Aid, an office within the U.S. Department of Education, receives applications from students who are entering college all the way to graduate students.  This year students who were interested in receiving…

  • Senior Carah Austin presents a passion for penguins

    Senior Carah Austin presents a passion for penguins

    BLAKELY HEATON & KRISTIN CAMILIERE | STAFF REPORTERS    Butler senior Carah Austin loved penguins since she was a little girl, all thanks to a life-sized emperor penguin stuffed animal her dad bought her.       This summer, she went to Mystic, Connecticut, to research African penguins at Mystic Aquarium. She discovered her research…

  • Diversity

    MATT DEL BUSTO & JOZ CABRERA | STAFF REPORTERS Diversity is a continuously evolving word. Whether it is used in regards to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, socioeconomic status, ability or any other myriad of categories, diversity is a hot topic on college campuses across the nation.       Butler is no different.  …

  • Farewell to Schwitzer Hall: End of an era

    Farewell to Schwitzer Hall: End of an era

    ANNIE WEBER | NEWS EDITOR   Current Schwitzer residents will be the last to live in the residence hall, as it will close and be demolished after this semester ends.       Rich Michal, executive director of facilities for Butler, said it makes more sense financially to tear Schwitzer completely down. It would have…

  • Fruits of our labor: Former editor-in-chief reflects, looks ahead

    JULIAN WYLLIE | GUEST COLUMNIST | jwyllie@butler.edu Most memories, while dear to our hearts in the present, may eventually crumble like seed fragments damaged in the dry summer sun. Amazing people, places and times will hopefully stick to our brain cells, but it is nearly impossible to replicate this astounding mix of anxiousness that culminates…

  • Flashback four years: What was life like in 2012?

    ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION EDITOR | adprice1@butler.edu Four years ago, I was about to embark on my third year of high school. I was watching the premier of young adult novel-based movies I knew nothing about with a boy I was trying to learn more about. I was getting my driving permit and starting to…

  • Sentimental seniorisms

    TAYLOR JADE POWELL | DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR | tjpowell@butler.edu Four years ago, I sat at a computer writing a final column for my high school newspaper. As the editor-in-chief, it was customary for me to bid my farewells and leave the staff and readers with any wisdom (I thought) I had to give. It started as…

  • 16 things Butler’s class of ’16 doesn’t regret

    ALEX BARTLOW | ASST. OPINION EDITOR | abartlow@butler.edu I often wonder about the legacy I wish to leave at Butler University upon my graduation in 2018. Will I be remembered? Will I be an inspiration? Will I be anything? Desperation aside, I will be one thing for certain: a lifelong bulldog. Butler University has been…