Author: Nate

  • Tenure and promotions explained

    KATIE GOODRICH | Asst. News Editor Twenty-nine faculty members will be in tenured or promoted positions next school year. Provost Kathryn Morris announced the news to campus via email on Wednesday. Twelve faculty members received a promotion to professor, and 17 received tenure and promotion to associate professor. Having tenure status indicates that the university…

  • Track & Field Seniors Face Graduation Hurdles

    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…