Author: mlegel

  • Livin’ the dream

    Livin’ the dream

    HAYLEY ROSS | OPINION COLUMNIST     “And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler.”   I do not think I could say it better than good ol’ Robert Frost did in “The Road Not Taken.” Do you ever wonder how different life would be if you chose a different path when…

  • Chatter at the Collegian

    MARC ALLAN | PUBLIC EDITOR It’s one thing to put out a newspaper and quite another to get people to pay attention to the content. So it has been fascinating to watch the Collegian staff aggressively using digital media to expand the paper’s reach from simply a Wednesday-only print product to something that is part…

  • Valentine’s-Shmalentine’s

    PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST Dinner reservations at romantic restaurants. Extravagant flower arrangements. Advance tickets for “Fifty Shades of Grey,” if one wants a very interesting date night. All of this and more will take place this weekend in order to celebrate the upcoming holiday of love, Valentine’s Day. The celebration has a long history,…

  • The Butler Bucket List

    ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION COLUMNIST There are people who know how to make anything lively or enjoyable. They know how to turn a casual evening in their rooms into a rip-roaring night out with friends. These people know how to balance school, work and social life. I have never been one of those people. School…

  • Black lives matter

    Black lives matter

    DAVID MCNEAL | CONTRIBUTING WRITER   Chattel slavery officially ended on Dec. 6, 1865. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in the U.S.  President Barack Obama was inaugurated Jan. 20, 2009.  One would find it hard to believe anyone could feel unequal  in Obama’s America. Why would people at Butler, enjoying all the…

  • Snapchat gets backlash

    CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | OPINION COLUMNIST Relationships at Butler will have to be based on trust and not a “Best Friends” list now that Snapchat released its game-changing update. The update includes adding friends by scanning someone else’s personalized Snapchat ghost, a “Discover” section with media from a number of outlets and the infamous change that…

  • The “Starbucks Experience”

    HAYLEY ROSS | OPINION COLUMNIST Picture this… Resting in front of me is my laptop, my notebook, my backpack, my water bottle and, of course, my trusted Starbucks coffee. My headphones are plugged in, but Florence and the Machine is playing so low that I can still hear the Bruno Mars song playing from the…

  • Internships are nothing to fear

      PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST   The internship: a coveted goal and crucial position that, at some point, all college students want to possess. It is constantly drilled into students’ brain that obtaining the all-important internship is the key to professional success. This may seem a daunting task because of the significance that is…

  • Don’t judge so swiftly

    Don’t judge so swiftly

    ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION COLUMNIST   I have not been comfortable sharing this with others, or even admitting this to myself for a while now. Whenever there was any talk of the subject, I would appear uninterested, a little disgusted, delivering the occasional eye roll and head shake. See, it was something that I had…