Author: Matthew VanTryon | Editor-In-Chief

BREAKING: Board of Trustees extends President Danko’s contract

ANNIE WEBER AND JYLIAN VIGAR / CO-NEWS EDITORS Butler University President James Danko will remain in office through 2020. His five-year contract extension was announced Friday morning at the Academic Year Welcome. Board of Trustees Chair Keith Burks announced the board’s unanimous decision to faculty and staff. Danko took office in 2011 and had one…
Butler announces increase in parking permit prices for 2015-16 school year

MATTHEW VANTRYON | Editor In Chief Butler University has raised parking permit prices for the second time in three years. The university sent an email to faculty, staff and students Wednesday detailing permit prices and policies for the 2015-16 school year. Permits for the I-Lot will cost $100. Permits for the I-Lot, which was constructed…
Southport senior Joey Brunk commits to Butler

MATTHEW VANTRYON | Editor-In-Chief 6-10 center Joey Brunk, a senior at Southport High School, has verbally committed to Butler, as first reported by Kyle Neddenriep of the Indianapolis Star. He averaged 16.5 points per game and nine rebounds per game as a junior. Brunk took only two official visits, one to Oklahoma and one…
Butler grad named associate athletic director for communication

MATTHEW VANTRYON | Editor in chief John Dedman ’03 is the school’s new associate athletic director for communication, according to a press release from the athletic department. Dedman will assume the responsibilities formerly held by Jim McGrath, who retired after working as Butler’s sports information director since 1981. Read about McGrath and his career “This…
Butler mourns the loss of associate professor

KATIE GOODRICH | MANAGING EDITOR Becky Cramer, Butler University associate professor of education, died on Saturday. Her family surrounded her, according to a university-wide release from Ena Shelley, dean of the College of Education. She received her undergraduate degree from California Baptist University in 1999. Cramer earned her masters’ degree from the University of California,…
Presidential Commission on Sexual Assault prepares recommendations

MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR Butler University President James Danko announced the creation of the Presidential Commission on Sexual Assault last April, and the commission will present recommendations to Danko by the end of the school year concerning how to address the issue of sexual assault on campus moving forward. A commission steering committee provided…
Seeking Justice: How sexual assault victims can pursue action

MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR A Butler University student with the pseudonym “Eliza Quincey” posted a blog on April 11, 2014, titled “Since Everyone Thinks I’m Being ‘Too Emotional’ About My Rape, Here Are Just The Facts Of How My University Swept It Under The Rug,” detailing allegations of missteps in Butler’s handling of her…
“No matter more urgent…” How the Religious Freedom Restoration Act affects Butler

MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR Butler University President James Danko condemned the state’s enactment into law of Indiana Senate Bill 101, known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, in a statement to the Butler community Sunday. Danko said the bill first came up in conversation a week ago with his cabinet members, comprising the university’s…
President Danko’s email to Butler community from March 29

Dear Members of the Butler Community, As president of Butler University I am particularly sensitive to the importance of supporting and facilitating an environment of open dialogue and critical inquiry, where free speech and a wide range of opinion is valued and respected. Thus, it is with a certain degree of apprehension that I step…