Author: Nate

For a guy whose favorite superhero is the Flash, it was a dream come true for Student Government Association President-elect Mike Keller to jump to the front of the pack, bolt across the finish line and claim the SGA presidency. Keller was born in the small-town of Winamac, Ind., a city in the northwest part…

Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell spent all day Tuesday at Butler University speaking to classes during the day and telling his story in the evening as part of the Howard L. Schrott lecture series. For Mitchell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006, it all began after seeing the movie “Mississippi Burning,” where the disappearance of civil…

Through a recent flurry of strategic sidewalk graffiti, a relatively unknown online tool has come to light: Butler’s mobile website. Through the domain m.butler.edu, students can access a website specifically designed for their mobile devices. Using the site, students can track the Student Government Association shuttle, check what’s for lunch at Atherton or click an…

Internship and Career Services recently held a Skype series with current Butler students and Butler alumni in the Chicago area, hoping to connect students interested in the Chicago market to alumni there. This is the first time the office has used Skype for connecting students and alumni, Jeremy Walthall, ICS office coordinator, said. Walthall said…

Two unrelated alleged sexual assaults recently were reported to the Butler University Police Department. BUPD’s case log states that an officer took a report of a forcible rape in Residential College on March 4. The police also were made aware on Feb. 24 of another possible sexual assault that allegedly occurred at the Sigma Chi…

Butler University’s environmental groups say they hope to ramp up their efforts to improve the university’s greenness despite a slew of fragmented campus groups and lax participation from the community. One challenge for Butler’s green community is its own organization. There are a host of green-oriented organizations on campus working on similar projects, which tends…

Butler University President Jim Danko addressed finances and a tuition increase in his report about last week’s Board of Trustees retreat to Faculty Senate on Tuesday morning. Danko said that while tuition increases are unpopular, they are necessary to the current budget. “If we had a zero percent tuition increase, we’d be in the red…