Author: Nate

  • Opinion | Dorm damages affect all residents

    Damage to the dorm buildings on campus is happening constantly. Students are destroying the places where they have to live. Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t see the appeal in wrecking my home. Last weekend in Ross Hall, a student ripped a water fountain out of the wall. The weekend before that, three…

  • Opinion | Value of Degree Increasing

    A Butler degree means a lot in the real world. “Even though The Butler Way wasn’t as prominent when I was in school, aspects of it were definitely prevalent in my college career and continue to be in my work career,” alumna Leslie Hoggatt said. Hoggatt graduated in 2004 with degrees in administration and flute…

  • Baseball: Bulldogs swept in home opener

    Butler dropped three games at Bulldog Park against Saint Louis this weekend, falling to 13-15 overall and 4-5 in Atlantic 10 play. This was Butler’s first series at home this season due to bad weather earlier in the year. On Friday, the Billikens (22-10, 8-1) won 6-3. Saturday’s game ended 10-5 in favor of Saint…

  • Records broken in softball’s opening weekend

    The Butler softball team lost 11-2 at Ball State (24-11) yesterday. Junior infielder Krista Hakola went 2-for-2 at the plate and drove in a run for the Bulldogs. Butler split a two-game series against Atlantic 10 foe George Washington last weekend. In the first game, the two teams were deadlocked until the seventh inning when…

  • No. 31 Notre Dame topples Bulldogs

    The Butler men’s tennis team fell to  No. 31 nationally-ranked Notre Dame 7-0 last weekend. For the Bulldogs (8-11) freshman Brandon Woods took his No. 4 singles match into a third-set tie-breaker before falling 2-1. Woods, combined with sophomore doubles partner Pulok Bhattacharya, won five games before eventually losing 8-5. In singles play, Bhattacharya lost…

  • Track teams split for weekend invites

    The Butler track and field teams split this weekend to compete in the Miami Invitational in Oxford, Ohio, and the Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz. Sophomore Tom Curr placed third in the men’s 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:42.79 in Arizona. Junior Ross Clarke recorded a time of 3:43.94 and finished in sixth…

  • Dean of student life to retire

    Irene Stevens, dean of student life, said she never thought she would have ended up working in student affairs on a college campus. Now, after 15 years of work at Butler University, Stevens is reflecting on her time before she retires at the end of the academic year. Stevens originally went to Boise State University…

  • SGA rollover account used to fund campus projects

    Every year, the Student Government Association puts together a budget based on the portion of the student activity fee it receives each year. Although SGA intends to use the entire $288 student activity fee, there is usually money left over from the budget that goes into the rollover account. Most SGA committees usually finish the…

  • Changes made to fall 2013 finals

    The academic affairs committee is taking up a change for next semester’s finals schedule. At this week’s Faculty Senate meeting, Mary Macmanus Ramsbottom, associate provost for student academic affairs, showed staff the proposed schedule change. The schedule, as it originally stood, had finals running Dec. 16-21, with the due date for grades at 10 a.m.…