Author: Nate

  • Run-off between Keller, Reynolds today

    None of the four presidential candidates in this year’s Student Government Association election received a majority vote on Monday, prompting a run-off this afternoon between Michael Keller and Kelsa Reynolds. All Butler students can vote through a link distributed through campus email and on the log-in page for BUMail from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.…

  • Cars towed last week in Clowes Hall lot

    Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity expect to soon be better able to park their cars along the street in front of their house. A city resolution, backed by the fraternity’s house corps, the Butler University Police Department, the university parking committee and the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, allows for a stretch on the east…

  • Vote details will not be released

    RELATED STORIES: PART 1 | Vote details will not be released PART 2 | SGA to release election vote numbers PART 3 | Despite assembly vote, election data not released STAFF EDITORIAL | SGA, show us the numbers Part 4 | SGA kills motion to release election results Part 5 | National SGA advises Butler…

  • Provost search committee starts work

    A search committee comprised of faculty and staff has been assembled in order to find a new Butler University provost. The committee includes representatives from each college, a member of the Board of Trustees and other faculty members, according to an email sent from President Jim Danko to university faculty. Representatives were elected by faculty…

  • IT looks to increase information sharing

    Butler University students will soon be more acquainted with Google programs when BUmail is linked with Google Apps later this spring. According to the Butler Information Technology website, Google Docs will be the first app fully supported through BUmail, but “most other apps (e.g. Sites, Blogger, YouTube, Google+, etc.) will be available for use at…

  • Raw sewage causes Lilly shutdown

    Administrators closed Lilly Hall on Monday night after more than four inches of raw sewage flooded the building’s basement, which administrators said created a potential biohazard. By Tuesday morning, regularly scheduled classes went on as usual, although bathrooms and running water were unavailable. The reason for the foul problem was that the sewage ejection pump…

  • Athletics revenue continues to increase

    The Butler men’s basketball team recorded 117 victories in four seasons prior to the 2011-12 campaign.

  • Men’s basketball: Men drop Raiders

    The Butler men’s basketball team started off the Horizon League tournament with a 70-52 victory over Wright State at Hinkle Fieldhouse Tuesday night. It was a tale of two halves for the Bulldogs (19-13), who headed to the locker room with a one point lead. “I thought in the first 10 minutes we were just…

  • Golf: With high expectations, teams prepare for spring season

    It is that time of the year again. No, not the wildly popular basketball spectacle that is March Madness. Rather, now is the return of a sport after a long hiatus—golf. The golf season is split into two separate sections—one for the fall semester and one for the spring. But in between those seasons is…