Author: Nate

  • For your health: wellness on tap

    Imagine a drink that energizes, increases muscle volume, improves cognitive performance, curbs appetite, lifts your mood and cures hangovers—all while registering at zero calories. This wonder drink is actually a reality. In fact, it’s on tap. Chemists call it oxidane. We know it as water. We all know water is important, but how much H2O…

  • Ultimate Frisbee: Club offers multiple ways to compete

    Butler’s ultimate frisbee club holds pickup games for more relaxed players who are just trying to have fun, but it also offers a chance to play on a travel team that competes at the intercollegiate level. The club opens its arms to all individuals no matter their skill level. Senior Andrew Erlandson, president of the…

  • Strength and Conditioning: Coach makes impact behind the scenes

    At center stage of Butler athletics are the National Championship runs, the All-Americans, the conference titles and Athletes of the Week. Behind the scenes, however, Butler’s strength and conditioning program plays a key role in making all this possible. What people see on the outside is a major reflection of what happens behind closed doors,…

  • Volleyball: Team loses on the road

    The Butler Volleyball team (11-8, 1-4) fell to Saint Louis (6-13, 1-4) on Saturday evening three sets to one. The Bulldogs had to play behind during the entire set except for when they won the first point. Butler was down by as many as six when the score was14-20. The Bulldogs were able to then…

  • Men’s soccer: game-winner beats Bulldogs

    The Butler men’s soccer team looks to shake off a nail biting conference road match against nationally ranked Xavier. The two teams played to a scoreless tie through the first half of the match.  Xavier midfielder Andrew Jordan’s short shot to the right corner of the net at 42 minute ended the gridlock between both…

  • Women’s soccer: Bulldogs stay perfect in A-10

    The Butler women’s soccer team will take on Richmond Friday, marking the Bulldogs’ first Atlantic 10 road match of the season. The Bulldogs have started their inaugural season in the A-10 with a 2-0-1 record in conference play. Butler has not lost a match since Sept. 7, winning five matches and tying one game in…

  • JCA connects students with new core

    The Jordan College of Arts’ core curriculum is evolving in order to increase student awareness of the many forms of art that are taught within the rooms of Lilly Hall. The changes began rolling out with this year’s freshman class as a pilot course and will continue to trail the class of 2016 as they…

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Students will be involved in creation of online radio

    To the editor of the Butler Collegian: Donald Perin interviewed me for the Oct. 25 edition of the Collegian about a project that I have been working on for over a year: a “web radio station,” as part of the newly formed College of Communications Media Group. I am greatly disappointed with the tone of…

  • OPINION | Students should get more political

    Butler University students need to recognize that the Student Government Association does much more than entertain students. Students can and should do more to make their college experience the best it can be. This cliché does not simply refer to concerts and extracurricular activities but also to activism and making the university a better place…