PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST Seventy-four percent of adults online use social networking sites, according to Pew Research Center. This percentage surprised me; I thought the statistic would be much larger. It seems as though we live in a day and age that is completely dominated by the Internet and its various forms of social…
Basketball, bias, and Beery
MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | PUBLIC EDITOR Sports writers have a rule: No cheering in the press box. That’s surely easier for most of them than it is for junior Kyle Beery, the Collegian’s sports editor. Whenever he’s covering Butler University men’s basketball for the paper, he’s writing about a team he’s been rooting for…
Alcoholism is real
MORGAN LEGEL | OPINION EDITOR There are many common phrases dealing with alcohol on a college campus, ranging from “I swear to drunk I’m not God” to “You are not an alcoholic until you graduate.” Both of these phrases probably come out of college students’ mouths every weekend, but one holds a little more weight…
The discourse right under our noses
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | OPINION COLUMNIST The typical Butler University student is utterly unaware of the university’s duty to be part of a larger academic conversation—and even more unaware of how well it executes this role. This trend concerns me recently because of a publication that Booth Magazine just released. The MFA Program in Creative Writing…
Spring break struggles
PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST After waiting for what seems like forever, this weekend signals the highly anticipated beginning of spring break. Ah, spring break, that beautiful, if brief, period during a college student’s life when one can unwind and relax, preferably somewhere beautiful and on a beach. Spring break is often viewed as a…
40 days to a better you
PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST As a spiritual preparation for the Easter holiday in early April, the Lenten season is traditionally known as a time of fasting and self-sacrifice. During Lent, some will choose to give up their favorite sweets while having cheat days on Sunday, or maybe some will abstain from meat every Friday.…
You know you go to Butler when…
ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION COLUMNIST You know you go to Butler University when… Freshman year, your dormitory is hot all year round, due to the lack of air conditioning in the summer and the blazing furnaces in the winter. Over half of your flex dollars are gone by the first month, spent mostly on frappucinos…
#sorrynotsorry
HAYLEY ROSS | OPINION COLUMNIST “Say you’re sorry.” That is one of the first things our parents teach us when we are little. And our pre-school teachers, dance instructors, soccer coaches, babysitters and basically every other adult in our young lives remind us regularly. Sorry is the word that will make everything better. We were…
Avoid anonymous sources
MARC ALLAN | PUBLIC EDITOR Occasionally I read something that causes me to cringe. The story “Butler’s Cultural Requirement causes concern,” which ran on page four of the Feb. 18 Collegian, resulted in one of those moments. In the story, reporter Kyle Kitowski quoted a sophomore accounting major who thinks the cultural requirement—taking in eight…
Embracing Butler’s Cultural Requirement
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | OPINION COLUMNIST Butler University was founded on liberal arts, and the university has a responsibility to foster this culture. Last week, an unnamed accounting major said he or she usually tries to leave Butler cultural events early because they did not see their value, claiming they had never attended one they enjoyed.…