JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor According to Butler’s student handbook, freshmen weren’t supposed to enter Greek houses until Sept. 8. Nevertheless, plenty freshmen still found a way in, parties ensued, and no immediate harm was done. If this is the case, should the university bother to enforce the rule at all? In my…
Nostalgia and the joys from old wounds
JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor My ignorance as a child made me believe that no place on the planet was quite like Brooklyn, New York: The borough of kings where over 2.5 million people call home today. Although I’d like to believe that my devotion to the city is unique, in truth, most…
Lady bulldogs own campus
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | chartsel@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist The Bulldog dating scene is made strange by the uneven ratio of men to women. The gender gap at Butler University is no secret—our university has a ratio of 39 percent male and 61 percent female, according to the 2014-15 US News & World Report profile of the…
How The Collegian discovers news
MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | Public Editor I tell my Writing for Print Media classes that news is “anything you don’t know.” When that is your definition, news is everywhere. And that, editor-in-chief Marais Jacon-Duffy told me last week, is how The Collegian approaches newsgathering. “The easiest thing for me has always been to keep…
In memory of Dr. Bobby Fong
Like most faculty who knew him personally, I was saddened and shocked to learn of former President Bobby Fong’s passing due to a sudden heart attack. While at Butler, he championed high academic standards and encouraged personal contact. He was kind, decent and very much a humanitarian who had his flaws like most of us,…