MATTHEW VANTRYON | STAFF REPORTER Butler began the Brandon Miller Era Saturday night on a high note with an 89-58 home win against Lamar. The offense picked up where it left off in the team’s exhibition games. The Bulldogs’ (1-0) 89 points is the most in a season opener since the 2000-2001 season when they…
Football team routs rival Valpo to keep postseason hopes alive
The Butler football team still has the postseason in its sights after a 72-12 rout of rival Valparaiso in the Hoosier Helmet Game on Saturday. The Bulldogs (8-3, 6-1 PFL) won their second consecutive game to remain in a three-way tie atop the Pioneer Football League standings with San Diego and Marist. The Bulldogs broke…
Butler Cultural Requirements: “Eight before you graduate”
ALEXANDRA BODE STAFF REPORTER Typing ‘www.butler.edu/core’ into your search bar will lead you to the main website for the Butler University Core Curriculum. Then, if you look further, you will see a list of the core requirements. If you click on Butler Cultural Requirements, two bullet points will appear which state the learning objectives for…
Tis’ the Season
By Rhyan Henson The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and this means two things: There will be a lot of people stressed, and there will be a lot of people sick on campus. With the end of the semester rush for classes, students will be doing everything they can to squeeze out those last points…
Heavy rains put campus in the dark
KATIE GOODRICH STAFF REPORTER Halloween night was especially spooky this year with power outages in four buildings on campus. Irwin Library, Jordan Hall, part of Lilly Hall and Residential College lost power around 7:30 p.m, said Rich Michal, executive director of facilities. Students in ResCo were evacuated Thursday night because of safety concerns. Michal said…
Lost Legacies
By Tony Epsinal “There’s no point in saving a school that trains people to manage fleets of horses if the motorcar has taken over horse-drawn transportation.’’ Those were the words President Michael McRobbie of Indiana University used about the historic Ernie Pyle School of Journalism. Recently, the IU board of trustees voted to merge the…
WITH INTERNSHIPS COMES RESPONSIBILITY
By Collegian Staff Internships are becoming increasingly relevant and important for college and future jobs. Many employers are not interested in hiring an individual who has no experience outside the classroom, and such experience can be gained through internships. Unfortunately, Butler University’s colleges contain a mixed bag of internship programs. They also contain students with…
BACK TO THEIR ROOTS: THE BUTLER-CTS PARTNERSHIP
MARAIS JACON-DUFFY and MAGGIE MONSON | News Editor and Copy Editor The Christian Theological Seminary may be known by most Butler University students as a group of large buildings at the end of Greek row or a residence where some students live. However, the history between CTS and Butler reveals a much deeper relationship than…
You don’t have to look sick to be sick
MAGGIE MONSON | Copy Editor I don’t look sick. I go to classes, I hang out with my friends and I work hard on this publication. To any outsider looking in on my life, I seem perfectly normal. However, I have a chronic illness. I face daily health struggles, but this isn’t always immediately obvious…
A little privacy here
By Mitch Riportella Apparently deciding that America’s distrust of the government isn’t strong enough, The National Security Agency is giving citizens something else to worry about. The agency has allegedly tapped into private data centers of Google and Yahoo, according to the Washington Post and leaked documents from the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The…