Culture

  • Butler Symphony Orchestra shines in season debut

    Ladies and gentlemen, your Butler University Symphony Orchestra! If you were in the Schrott Center on Sept. 19, you know there isn’t much more to say. In its first concert of the year, the new hall gave the ensemble a clarity and presence that it never seemed to have onstage in Clowes Memorial Hall. The…

  • JCA ensemble plays new student music

    WRITTEN BY HANNAH HARTZELL, STAFF REPORTER The Jordan College of the Arts Composers’ Orchestra is not a typical orchestra.  It plays strictly new music and brings unique and envelope-pushing music to the stage.  The group will showcase this unique focus at its first concert of the year Oct. 10. According to Michael Schelle, JCACO founder…

  • Clothes in the throes of autumn

    GINNY SPELLMAN, STAFF REPORTER TAYLOR POWELL, ASST. OPINION EDITOR As temperatures become cooler and tans begin to fade, students are forced to put away their flip-flops and shorts, dig through their closets,and find something more suitable to wear in the Indiana weather. In terms of fashion, transitioning from season to season may not always be…

  • Veggie tales from the CUE Farm

    BY HANNAH HARTZELL, STAFF REPORTER There’s a small but powerful operation taking place on the edge of the Butler bubble. Not everyone knows about the Center for Urban Ecology Farm, but everyone certainly experiences the fruits of its labor in the dining halls. Some of the farm’s produce is sold to the dining halls of…

  • Graffiti: Not your mother’s portraits

    BRITTANY GARRETT: STAFF REPORTER “Tagging”—the art of graffiti—has only recently found its way into the world of accepted art forms. Existing in the nebulous region between self-expression and public desecration, the idea is still quite controversial. Despite this, exhibitions of graffiti art have sprung up in established and venerated artistic venues from Los Angeles to…

  • Majestic African Textiles traces history through garments

    WRITTEN BY GINNY SPELLMAN, STAFF REPORTER The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents a comprehensive collection of African garments in its Majestic African Textiles exhibition. This limited-time display includes an assortment of royal garments, ritual wear and intricately decorated items from North and sub-Saharan Africa. Each garment in the collection  is significant and showcases the beauty…

  • Faculty member: Open discussion needed for tuition policy

    [Tuition remission] is a subject that greatly concerns me as both a faculty member who got three children through the commencement ceremony and a current [Faculty] Senator. CONTRIBUTED BY STEPHAN LAURENT-FAESI | Dance professor, Jordan College of the Arts The topic is a tough one. On one hand is the institution’s need for revenue to…

  • New York Times bestseller to speak next week

    WRITTEN BY MARIA LEICHTY, STAFF REPORTER Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides is coming to Butler University. Most renowned for his novels “The Virgin Suicides,” “Middlesex” and “The Marriage Plot,” Eugenides will discuss these books on Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Atherton Union. English professor Dan Barden, a member of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting…

  • Upcoming concert could cause space issue at the Schrott Center

    WRITTEN BY EMILY WILLIAMS, STAFF REPORTER A combined concert means a combined audience of various Butler University School of Music supporters. A combined concert in the Schrott Center means that there is a real possibility of more people wanting to hear the concert than seats available in the Schrott Center, Robert Grechesky, director of the…