Author: Nate

  • How Facebook blurs the line between our real, digitial selves

    In less than a decade, there will be an entire generation of people who have never lived without Facebook. If that does not terrify you, it should. Facebook users in our generation, which is nearly all of us, are increasingly using the Web site not as a networking tool, but as a means to recreate…

  • Hollywood composer guides Butler musicians for Halloween concert

    Golden Globe nominee Christopher Young scored big with the Butler Symphony Orchestra and fans during a Halloween performance at Clowes Memorial Hall Sunday. Known most often for his terrifying compositions, Young’s music can be found in the major motion pictures of “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” “The Grudge” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street Part…

  • What to do with ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

    A little over a month ago, a filibuster by Sen. John McCain effectively blocked a defense bill that contained an amendment which would have repealed the infamous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Personally, I am opposed to “don’t ask, don’t tell”.  I feel that anyone willing to serve and protect his or her country should…

  • Election 2010: Coverage of Indiana and the nation

  • Marathon to go through campus

    The 2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon may cause some dilemmas for Butler University students and parents Nov. 6. The marathon, which highlights some of Indianapolis’s more recognizable monuments like Lucas Oil Stadium, the Arts Garden and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, will go through campus as part of the course. Ben Hunter, Butler University Chief of…

  • Republicans reclaim House in nation and state

    Republicans are taking the country back. That was the anthem of Indiana Republicans as they celebrated a multitude of wins in the midterm elections last night. Whistles and cheers rang out like battle cries in downtown Indianapolis’ Union Station where the Republican Party came together.  The crowd sported campaign t-shirts and chanted candidate slogans to…

  • In the face of loss, Democrats have hope

    Despite the Democratic Party lagging behind in polls and early voting results nationwide, spirits were high at the Indiana Democratic Party Election Party at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. The defining event of the night was certainly the Senate race, where Democrat Brad Ellsworth battled Republican Dan Coats for Evan Bayh’s open Senate seat. Ellsworth lost…

  • Coats takes Senate; Carson hangs on to 7th

    The 2010 midterm elections had people glued to their television screens as results came in on Tuesday night. Cnn.com states that experts were predicting the Republicans would win control of the House of Representatives. The Republican party needed a net gain of 39 seats to reach the 218 majority of the 435 seats in the…

  • Stewart brings sanity, comedy to capital

    When it was certain that President Barack Obama would be the first sitting president to appear on “The Daily Show,” a perfect storm was brewing for Jon Stewart. Not only would Stewart be interviewing the leader of the free world, but it was perfect publicity for his “Rally to Restore Sanity”, held in Washington, D.C.,…