BY MATTHEW VANTRYON | ASST. SPORTS EDITOR The Butler men’s basketball team (13-16, 3-14) traveled to DePaul (11-20, 3-15) Thursday night looking to break a seven-game slide. An offensive onslaught led to a 79-46 win and spoiled DePaul’s senior night. Junior guard Alex Barlow scored a career-high 19 points to lead the rout. Butler dominated…
OVERTIME: Still hope for men’s basketball despite dismal campaign
BY BEN SIECK | SPORTS EDITOR Brad Stevens bolted to the National Basketball Association. Junior forward Roosevelt Jones suffered a season-ending injury before playing a regular-season game. Blue II died, and the Butler men’s basketball team is barreling toward its first losing season in nearly a decade. For fans used to a certain level of…
Affordable apparel is an option
MORGAN LEGEL | Columnist Butler University’s school spirit will always be high, but unfortunately, so will its bookstore’s prices on merchandise. Students want to show spirit by wearing Butler blues, but how can that happen when a simple sweatshirt is so expensive? According to the Butler Bookstore’s website, the cheapest sweatshirt not on clearance for…
A new route for sex dialogue
JULIANNE STRIBIAK | Staff Reporter Do you have a sex-related question you may be uncomfortable asking? Butler University students can ask sex-related questions to the BrdsNBz text service to receive an answer from a trained educator. Monique Hensley is the program manager of Health Care Education and Training, which offers the text service, and said…
Baseball continues to struggle
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter Butler’s baseball team is coming off another rough weekend in which it dropped all three of its games. They now look ahead to the home opener. The schedule for last weekend’s games was changed last minute. Instead of facing Samford for a three-game series, Butler played Samford on Friday and…
Beauty is more than physical appearance
MAGGIE MONSON | Columnist The 500 Festival Princess Program is not a beauty pageant in description. The 33 women selected each year as part of the program are ambassadors for the festival and are judged based on a number of criteria, none of which is their physical appearance. This program focuses heavily on volunteer service…
Behind the scenes with student managers
RHYAN HENSON | Multimedia Editor Few people may know about the cog that keeps the Butler men’s basketball program running smoothly: the managers. The managers have a myriad of duties. They show up to practices and games 45 to 90 minutes beforehand to fill water bottles, Gatorade tubs and ice chests. They are also in…
Bringing speeches to Butler students
KATIE GOODRICH | Asst. News Editor Butler University hosts several speaker series that allow the audience to get to know the people behind various works While students know the guests involved, the process of getting them to Butler is likely less understood. The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series brings six speakers to campus each…
Bulldogs begin spring season
MITCH RIPORTELLA | Staff Reporter Butler’s men and women’s golf teams are gearing up for the start of the 2014 season this week, with their first competitions being held over Spring Break. This will be both teams’ first season in the Big East, with the men moving over from the Atlantic Ten Conference and the…
Bulldogs prepare for tournament
BRENDAN KING | Staff Reporter The Butler women’s basketball team won a key game on the road against Creighton Tuesday night by a score of 67-59 to gain momentum going into the Big East Tournament starting on Saturday. Senior forward Daress McClung led the way for Bulldogs in the offensive department as she scored 20…