Author: Nate

  • OPINION | Advisers should advise, not lead

    When student leaders apply, campaign for and put hours into their roles, they should also be able to defend themselves on their own. It’s time to take the training wheels off of Student Government Association. While I believe that faculty advisers for Student Government Association have good intentions, some of the actions in assembly leave…

  • OPINION | Coons a good pick for VP

    Student Government Association President-elect Mike Keller made a bold move by choosing to have UnoBlessed Coons serve another year as the vice president of diversity programming, but it is a decision that I believe will benefit R.E.A.C.H. and Butler University. This appointment seemed to me, at first, contrary to what Keller said during his campaign…

  • OPINION | The administrative assistant does not need a Ph.D.

    For a short-staffed faculty like Butler University’s, the hiring of a person with a doctorate degree is a good idea. Unless it’s to be an aide to President Jim Danko. The level of qualification for the hiring is ironic because the university is dropping its internship coordinator in the College of Communication. This seems to…

  • OPINION | Voting restrictions limit student voting ability

    The right to vote is under attack across our country, and this attack originated in our state. Beginning in 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court backed Indiana’s 2005 law that forced voters to show photo identification, thousands of senior citizens, the poor and minority voters have been locked out of casting ballots. Butler University students…

  • STAFF EDITORIAL | Student issues must come first

    Published April 10, 2012 OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Hiring unnecessary staff while vital positions are being cut is not the way to help Butler students succeed | VOTE: 27-0-4 A core curriculum program  $400,000 in the red. Four percent increases in tuition. Recent controversies whirling around campus seem to be following the tone of money,…

  • BOYS IN HEELS | The adventures of the Theater Department with “The Love of Don Perlimplin”

    A world of dreams and men in high heels is coming to Butler University in the theater production of “The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden” this weekend.

  • LILLY HALL AFTER DARK | Students stay long after the lights go down

    As the sun set on Thursday, Lilly Hall was bubbling with activity. Musical scales and melodies echoed outside the practice rooms on the second floor, classes were wrapping up in the ensemble rooms on the first floor, and the Butler Theatre was alight with people preparing for a week of tech rehearsals. “[Lilly] is my…

  • Dev featured at Butler’s first music festival

    Classes are wrapping up, exams are approaching and Program Board’s concerts committee and MEISA, the recording industry club, are providing students with one last shebang. The annual spring concert line-up was announced Wednesday. Dev, Zion I, DJ Benzi, Shiny Penny and the Critical Shoes and The Tribe and Big Cats! will perform at the first…

  • Lyric theater sets sail with “H.M.S. Pinafore”

    The lyric theater students are taking to the high seas of laughter for their latest spring production. Set in the 1800s, “H.M.S. Pinafore” is a classic love story about Josephine (played by junior Lacey Kriston and sophomore Gina Ceragioli), the daughter of a captain, destined to be married to a much older Sir Joseph Porter…