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Men’s basketball falls to #1 Villanova

MARISA MILLER | SPORTS CO-EDITOR | mnmille1@butler.edu The Butler University men’s basketball team lost another Big East game to Villanova University 77-67 on Feb. 20. With the loss, Butler falls to 18-9 overall and 7-8 in conference play. Villanova improves to 24-3 on the season and 13-1 in Big East play. Kelan Martin led the…
Softball drops four games at Nashville tournament

GRANT ANSCHUETZ | STAFF REPORTER | ganschue@butler.edu The Butler University softball team, 3-6 on the season, came out of the Tiger Classic, a tournament hosted by Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a 1-4 record. The Bulldogs lost both games on Feb. 19, lost a Feb. 20 night game and split a pair of…
Women’s tennis swept by SIUE

DANA LEE | SPORTS REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu Efforts from the Butler University women’s tennis team fell short at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Saturday. With the 7-0 loss, the team’s record drops to 1-10 overall. The Bulldogs found little success in singles play. Sophomore Bailey Padgett has played consistently in the No. 1 singles slot…
Bulldogs nip Huskies in tightly contested men’s tennis match

JIMMY LAFAKIS | STAFF REPORTER | jlafakis@butler.edu Freshman Mason Dragos provided the heroics for the Butler University men’s tennis team in a 4-3 win over Northern Illinois University on Feb. 19. With the match knotted at 3-3, Dragos defeated opponent Louis-Phillipe Hame 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Make no mistake—the Bulldogs made a team effort to boost their…
Baseball team hopes to improve as star players return

PHIL TOR | STAFF REPORTER | ptor@butler.edu After falling one game short of the Big East tournament, the Butler University baseball team is back and ready to make another run at the postseason. The team welcomes back a good group of veteran players who will mix well with a talented 2015 recruiting class. According to…
Softball drops two games on first day of Nashville tournament

GRANT ANSCHUETZ | STAFF REPORTER | ganschue@butler.edu The Butler University softball team started a five game weekend in Nashville, Tennessee on Feb. 19. It was a rough start to the weekend for the Bulldogs. They lost two games on Friday. Their first loss came at East Tennessee State University, and Louisiana-Monroe University handed the Bulldogs their…
Black Student Union sends shipment of water to Flint

MATT DEL BUSTO | STAFF REPORTER In the midst of the national water crisis in Flint, a group at Butler decided to do something about it. Kayla Long, secretary for Black Student Union (BSU), is a first year critical communications and media studies and digital media productions double major. Long said that after the story…
The Bowl isn’t the only thing that’s Super

SAM KNEPPRATH | STAFF REPORTER Much like the world around us, fifty years does a lot in the ways of the Super Bowl. From the nostalgic yesteryears in which the Green Bay Packers took on the Kansas City Chiefs in what was, at the time, referred to as the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, to…
Black voices, black pride: Corporate creativity

CAMERON ALFORD | CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST I have found my voice as a black student here at Butler University. It took me two-and-a-half years of successfully struggling through academics, leadership and continuous writing to find something I could be proud of about myself and my black history. I learned so much about myself and my history…