Author: Nate

  • 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…

  • STAFF EDITORIAL

    OUR POINT THIS WEEK: The way the Anti-harassment training program should be approached is in a way that shows its importance and necessity at Butler | 18-0-3   On March 5, Butler University launched a digital workplace harassment prevention program as part of a series of training courses on the topic. The program and any…

  • Internet Aggression is Unhealthy and Unwarranted

    MAGGIE MONSON | Copy Chief The comments section on nearly any article on the Internet can be a scary place. People use the comfort of anonymity to post anything that comes to mind without using a filter. The worst comments range from ignorant to purposefully hateful and offensive. Some people believe what they are posting,…

  • New Bulldogs Offer Hope

    BRENDAN KING | Staff Reporter With the Butler men’s basketball team’s season completed, fans are looking to the future. Two recruits may give Bulldogs’ fans hope that the future is now. Head Coach Brandon Miller has brought in two talented recruits for the 2014 season that have Bulldogs fans excited about the coming years in…

  • New Dean Chosen for COB

    MARAIS JACON-DUFFY | News Editor Stephen Standifird will begin serving as dean of Butler’s College of Business on June 1. Standifird is currently the dean of the Schroeder School of Business at the University of Evansville. He previously served as associate dean and director of undergraduate programs at the University of San Diego’s School of…

  • One-minute Plays Offer Snapshot into the Lives of Hoosiers

    KEVIN VOGEL | Arts, Etc. Editor What kind of story could you tell in one minute? Could you make us laugh? How about cry? Could you blast a paradigm, present a life-changing idea or capture the essence of a generation? This was the challenge put forth to 25 Indiana playwrights ahead of the first Basile…

  • Online and Hybrid Classes Emerged

    RYAN LOVELACE | Managing Editor Butler University has approximately doubled the amount of online and hybrid classes it offers since summer 2013. Online courses are offered strictly online, whereas hybrid courses involve some amount of in-class or in-person meetings. Julianne Miranda, senior director of the Center for Academic Technology, said student and faculty enthusiasm spurred…

  • Opera Takes to the Sky

    BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter The Butler Opera will take its performance of “Il Mondo della Luna” (“The World on the Moon”) as close to the moon as possible on Butler University’s campus. The 75-minute show will be staged in the Holcomb Observatory. Thomas Studebaker, assistant professor of voice and director of the lyric theatre…