Butler University’s long-standing relationship with Aramark limits what students eat and when they can eat. Aramark began providing food service at Butler in 1998, and outside vendors have had little opportunity to make inroads on campus since then. When Jimmy John’s passed out free sandwiches on campus earlier this semester and the local food trucks…
New dietician brings healthy advice
Photo by Heather Iwinski Butler University welcomed dietician Brooke Pearson to campus at the end of August, and she will be offering a variety of new nutrition services and seminars. “It’s been kind of a whirlwind start,” Pearson said. In a wellness survey, students named nutrition as the number one issue they wanted to receive…
Plans for observatory renovation in place
Photo by Rafael Porto Plans for updates and renovations to Butler University’s Holcomb Observatory to enhance student learning are in the works. Butler is a member of the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy consortium. The consortium will start a $350,000 refurbishment of the Butler telescope after it finishes renovations to SARA’s other telescopes in…
Butler officials not concerned with report on university value
Yahoo! Finance recently published a study that concluded that public universities are currently a better value for students than private universities. The Yahoo! study used information gathered through PayScale, a salary research company, and evaluated the schools based on their cost per year and the salaries of recent graduates. It did not, however, consider financial…
Bad cooks and hot showers cause incessant fire alarms
Students flooded out of residence halls in response to a fire drill on Thursday night, and this was not the first time for most students. Lindsey Birt, Butler University Police Department environmental health and safety specialist, said there have been 17 fire alarms that have gone off since Aug. 22 at Butler. Schwitzer Hall set…
Men’s soccer: Bulldogs look forward to Ohio State
The Butler Men’s soccer team will begin a stretch of three consecutive matches in Ohio with a non-conference game at Ohio State tonight. Since 1998, the Bulldogs and Buckeyes have played eight games with the Buckeyes leading the series with six wins and two losses against Butler. The two teams last met at Jesse Owens…
Cross Country: places 16th at Notre Dame
The Butler men’s and women’s cross country teams sent full squads to the 57th Annual Notre Dame Invitational this past weekend – or at least, they were supposed to. The entirety of the nationally-ranked women’s team (No. 21) was scratched from the meet, in hopes of both keeping legs fresh and avoiding additional injuries, and…
Football: Bulldogs move to 2-0 in conference play
Butler will play for a trophy next Saturday after upending rival Dayton 21-11 Saturday afternoon. Junior running back Trae Heeter led the Bulldogs with 159 rushing yards and two touchdowns. The Bulldogs (3-2, 2-0) remain undefeated in Pioneer League play with the win. Butler has won three of four in the lifetime series with Dayton.…
Butler welcomes newest Hall of Fame inductees
On Saturday night, Butler inducted seven new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame. The inductees were Clyde McEntire, Norman “Norm” Ellenberger, Lynn Schreiber Wallace, Charles “Chuck” Orban, Beth Christiansen Hutson, Fraser Thompson and James “Jim” McGrath. “It’s a tremendous honor,” McGrath said. “To be recognized for doing your job is almost beyond the scope…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…the librarian?
Comparing Butler University librarians to Clark Kent may seem like a ludicrous analogy. After all, librarians are commonly thought to simply stand around, sort books and read all day. Upon closer inspection, however, Butler University librarians prove to have a capacity for learning, teaching and assisting in research that straddles the line of being superhuman.…