Author: Nate

  • Football: Markley leads Butler over Davidson

    The Butler football team sent its seniors out in style with a 17-7 conference win over Davidson Saturday. The game marked the final home game for Butler’s 23 seniors. Each of those seniors saw action in the win, except quarterback Andrew Huck, who is nursing a shoulder injury suffered in Butler’s Homecoming loss to Marist.…

  • Men’s basketball: Bulldogs dominate Grizzlies

    In the second game of its exhibition season, the Butler men’s basketball team hosted Franklin College in front of a crowd of 8,586 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. In contrast to their first exhibition contest, the Bulldogs immediately took control of the game, leading from start to finish in an eventual 91-53 victory. Junior center Andrew Smith…

  • Women’s soccer: Season ends in league semis

    Despite a career-best eight saves from sophomore goalkeeper Julie Burton and a stonewall defense, the Butler women’s soccer team saw its season come to an end with a 1-0 loss to No. 15 Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the semifinals of the Horizon League Soccer Championships. “We played extremely well,” sophomore Ali Backscheider said. “It didn’t work out…

  • Cross country: Bulldogs prepare for regional meet

    Butler University is nationally known for its consecutive runs in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, but this fall there is a new champion on campus. Actually, there are two of them—sophomore cross country runners Callum Hawkins and Shelbi Burnett. The duo grabbed top honors in the men’s and women’s races in the Horizon…

  • Art students revive club

    Last fall, art became an official major in the Jordan College of Fine Arts.  This fall, art students are reviving an organization that brings art back to the students. The Visual Arts Student Organization is open to everyone and welcomes students of all levels of talent and majors. Elizabeth Mix, an associate professor of art…

  • Student group to perform in jazz festival

    Clowes Memorial Hall will overflow with skeetin’ and scattin’ and a hint of doodley dattin’ Saturday night as part of the 11th Annual Butler Vocal Jazz Fest. Butler University’s student vocal jazz group, Jordan Jazz, is busy preparing for the more than 150 high school students coming to Butler on Friday to participate. “It’s an…

  • Student hip-hop group to host dance-off

    The Urban Arts Crew, Butler University’s new student hip-hop organization, is co-sponsoring a large break dancing competition on campus this week. The competition, called “Release the Dawgs,” will be held in the Reilly Room on Friday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m.  Doors open at 8 p.m. Steven Han, the sophomore pharmacy major who is leading…

  • School of music premieres new work for inauguration

    The Butler University Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of an orchestral commission by renowned composer Akira Kobayashi next week. The concert is part of the inauguration celebration for new Butler University President Jim Danko. The piece, entitled “Astraea,” was written specifically for the BSO and accompanies the “Fire of Desire” art symposium at…

  • Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut

    After celebrating our president’s inauguration this weekend, be sure to blow out a candle for Butler University’s  most famous student. No, we’re not talking about Gordon Hayward or Shelvin Mack, we’re talking about Hoosier author Kurt Vonnegut. The author of such novels like “Cat’s Cradle” and “Slaughterhouse-Five” was enrolled at Butler for a short time…