BEN SIECK | Sports Editor The calendar has flipped to April, Butler University’s class of 2014 faces a little more than a month of schooling before graduation commencement. When the new graduates walk to receive their diplomas, it will be the culmination of a lifetime of academic work. However, the graduating seniors on the Butler…
Baseball Bounces Back
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler baseball team headed to Macomb, Ill., last weekend to face off against the Western Illinois Leathernecks in a three-game series. The Bulldogs came into the series looking to improve their record of 7-12. However, Western Illinois scored 11 runs while holding Butler to just two. With the loss…
Bulldogs’ Season Ends in WIT
BRENDAN KING | Staff Reporter The Butler women’s basketball team’s first season in the Big East Conference came to an end last Thursday, as the Bulldogs fell to the South Dakota State Jackrabbits 78-61 in the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Butler’s starting lineup struggled to hit shots for most of the…
Butler Ramping Up For ArtsFest 2014
VANESSA STAUBLIN | Staff Reporter Jordan College of the Arts students and professors are preparing for the second annual ArtsFest, which begins next month. ArtsFest is a 14-day event, held at Butler, celebrating the arts. Freshman theatre major Sarah Tam said the festival covers all different aspects of the arts, including music, visual art, dance…
Butler’s Basketball Blues
JULIAN WYLLIE | Columnist With a disappointing men’s basketball season recently completed, it is time to reflect on what went wrong on the court. The season started well, better than some may have expected. But when Big East Conference play began, things went awry quickly. Dan Bere, a Butler men’s basketball analyst, agrees with this…
Changes Enforced, Discussed
COLIN LIKAS & SARAH STOESZ | Editor-In-Chief, Staff Reporter Butler University is raising its tuition for the 2014-2015 school year and moving forward to increase the amount of on-campus housing by fall 2016. President James Danko emailed the Butler community last Wednesday with an announcement about the March Board of Trustees meeting. The first topic…
College of Business Announces 2013 Placement Rate
ALEXANDRA BODE | Staff Reporter Butler University’s College of Business recently announced a 97 percent placement rate for 2013 graduates. A few days later, the number was determined to actually be 98 percent. This placement rate is equal to the average rate over the past five years. “The success is from the quality of academics…
Conference is First of its Kind at Butler
BREANNA MANLEY | Staff Reporter Filmmakers, journalists and scholars will present 10 exhibitions on the topic of “Engaging the Community” at Butler University starting April 1. The exhibitions are part of the first Conference on Ethics and Public Argumentation, presented by the College of Communication. “We have some great speakers from a number of…
Get Over Post-Break Woes
MORGAN LEGEL | Columnist Spring break is not forever. Students don’t get to stay in exotic locations and live on the beach. We come back to campus, and so do our teachers, many of whom have jumped right back into busy academic schedules. After all, spring break only lasts a week. But is one week…
Butler Golf Continues its Hot Start
MITCH RIPORTELLA | Staff Reporter The Butler men’s golf team began its season over spring break at the two-day Bulldog Invitational tournament in Jacksonville, Fla. The men had a strong showing in their second outing of the season, beating nine other teams to win the tournament. The Bulldogs ended the first day with the lowest…