Author: Nate

  • RotoDawg: Injury bug bites stars

    Millions of fantasy football team owners might just have seen their seasons crash and burn due to injuries Sunday. Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles is out for the year with a torn ACL. If you had him, you are now facing an uphill battle on scale with trying to beat Joey Chestnut in…

  • Volleyball: Bulldogs open league play 1-1

    The brooms were out Saturday afternoon as the Butler volleyball team swept Youngstown State 3-0 to gain its first Horizon League win of the season. The win provided those in attendance with plenty to cheer about just one day after the Bulldogs (5-8, 1-1) opened conference play with a loss to Cleveland State. Butler jumped…

  • College of Communication implements new changes

    The College of Communication is undergoing changes this year to help students be competitive in the job market. This has caused Butler University community members to disscuss how these changes impact students. Journalism Convergence Journalism now combines print, digital and broadcast into one major, instead of separate majors for electronic journalism and print journalism. Senior…

  • Sexual assault report raises concerns regarding campus safety

    University warnings have been in the campus consciousness following last Wednesday’s email from Butler University Police Department regarding an alleged sexual assault by an undisclosed individual that occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. Andrew Ryan, assistant chief of police at BUPD, said what is alleged to have happened at Phi Kappa Psi suggested…

  • Student Conduct Board allows students to be represented by peers

    Butler University students  who violate the rules might face more than the student code of conduct, when they make an appeal. The Student Conduct Board made up of peers is called upon when a student appeals the decision that the university board has come to during an administrative hearing. It is made up of students,…

  • BUPD will begin using social networking to reach students

    Word gets out faster than ever on Facebook and Twitter. Soon Butler University emergency alerts will, too. Next semester expects students, faculty and staff to have the option of receiving official Butler notifications on the popular social media websites. “It’s the age we live in,” said Andrew Ryan, assistant chief of police at Butler University…

  • Put up tougher fight for diversity

    Butler University’s devotion to diversity might look good on paper, but the numbers say otherwise. According to Butler records, the number of African American, Asian American, Native American and other students enrolled for the 2009-2010 year was 11.3 percent. This pales in comparison to the 31.4 percent national average for comparable private four-year universities in…

  • Two years, two windows, two broken greenhouse roofs

    Glass rained down last week in the Butler University greenhouse for the second year in a row. Phil Villani, associate professor of biological sciences and the manager of the greenhouse, said someone tried to walk on the metal grates between the glass window panes sometime during the weekend of Sept. 10. While the person did…

  • Shuttle service leaves AV residents feeling left behind

    Students are raising concerns that the Student Government Association shuttle bus that runs on the weekends from campus to Broad Ripple and Glendale is failing to stop at the pick up point located at the Apartment Village. Senior Audra Winger said she and her friends were left waiting outside of AV on multiple occasions for…