Culture

  • Student businesses bring condoms, soaps, music to campus

    Expect your pockets to feel a little lighter, Butler. The Real Business Experience  projects have firmly established themselves on campus. RBE is a program for sophomore business students. Students form teams, think up a business idea and then attempt to market it to the campus community or wider, depending on the product. Businesses this year…

  • Musical group promotes peace mission

    From Africa to Latin America to Butler University, Playing for Change uses the universal language of music to transcend…

  • Butler students pursue rock star dreams

    We may not have Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee-Lo or Blake Shelton, but Butler University is searching for its new voice. Java Jams started last Wednesday with seven eager participants, although only five of them will continue to perform again on Feb. 29 during the second round. Only three of those performers will make it…

  • New student groups encourage faith, professionalism

    Two new student groups join a Butler University’s other campus organizations this semester: Converge and P3 (“p-cubed”). While Converge seeks to enhance campus spirituality, Professional Presence and Profile (or P3) aims to increase students’ professional prospects and images. Austin Weaver, a fourth-year pharmacy student and vice-president of Converge, said the group is an answer to…

  • Environmentally Friendly

    When Sarah Strobl came to Butler University as a pharmacy student, her story and life plan changed after a two-week tropical biology class in Panama. During the summer of 2010, the rainforest was Strobl’s classroom, and she said she was always lagging behind the group, completely in awe of everything. As she gazed at the…

  • Music and lyrics: the power of poetry

    If you are looking to let loose your inner lyricist, the voice that always seems to sum up the events of your life in apt metaphors and wry similes, the Power Poetry Jam is for you. Arielle Arzu, BSU’s vice president of volunteerism, said the Power Poetry Jam will be educational. “It’s a great way…

  • VIDEO | African drumming

    The Butler Community Arts school hosts African drumming classes…

  • Grammy Winner Discusses Accountability

    Seven-time Grammy-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin was welcomed to Clowes Memorial Hall this past

  • Learning to be human

    Through movement and placement, Butler’s theater department and its chair William Fisher create a performance rife with deception, class tension and mistrust.  William Fisher absentmindedly flicks his dark-rimmed glasses behind his desk. “I don’t think theater is plays,’” he says. “Theater exists, and plays are a part of theater.” Since becoming the chair of Butler’s…