Culture

  • Senior theater major wows

    Senior theater major Becca Muszynski’s senior project, devised-theater play “Split Second,” which ran last weekend, has simultaneously raised the bar for future theater students and attested to the strength of the theater program. Muszynski’s piece was a solid introduction to devised theater, or improvisation for non-theater majors. The piece had structure and a theme, but…

  • Nerdfighters Unite

    John Green: Author, vlogger, world suck-remover, award-winner. Green is making his way to Clowes Memorial Hall Tuesday for the conclusion of the fall 2011 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. It won’t be a long drive—Green is a Naptown native who lives here with his wife and son. Green has won an array of awards…

  • Senior theater major directs “Split Second”

      There’s more than homecoming this weekend. Head over to Lilly Hall 328 Friday at 8 p.m. or Saturday at 9 p.m. to enjoy a piece of theater from one of Butler’s students. Becca Muszynski, a senior theater major, directed and devised “Split Second” for her senior project. Muszynski describes the piece as “a devised…

  • Music faculty take the stage

    Many students enroll in the music department of the Jordan College of Fine Arts to hone their skills and learn to perform.  This semester, their professors are striving to do the same. The Faculty Artist Series is one way the music school encourages faculty to remain professionally active. The series of recitals, which take place…

  • A clothing line that gives back

    Not many college students can say that a book about Winston Churchill propelled them to success, but not many college students are Wade Markley and Albert Jennings. Markley, a sophomore accounting and management information systems major at Butler University, and Jennings, a freshman at Ball State University, had planned to start a business since their…

  • New dance group brings hip-hop culture to campus

    A new artistic movement is sweeping the nation and Butler University is about to dance its way in, literally. “Street art,” or “urban art,”  is a  catch-all phrase for practices like graffiti, parkour and hip-hop dancing, These terms are becoming institutionally accepted across the United States and around the globe. At Butler, urban art is…

  • Kick off your Sunday shoes

    Identity crises, hard work  and teenage angst turn out to be issues that span generations. The remake of the cult-classic “Footloose” speaks to an audience not all that different from twenty years ago. Directed by Craig Brewer, the film puts a modern spin on an old favorite.  For anyone who is not a master of…

  • Making that good old harmony

    Prepare yourselves, Butler University. Our two favorite a cappella groups have been hitting the rehearsal room and recording studio, ready to serenade the campus community within the next couple of months. Expect concerts, new CDs and covers of everyone from Amy Winehouse to Ben Folds. OUT OF THE DAWG HOUSE Out of the Dawg House…

  • Podium Expressions seeks big childhood names

    Remember the Reading Rainbow song? That little ditty was a part of many a child’s Saturday morning ritual—sitting in the living room with a bowl of Cap’n Crunch, listening to the wisdom of LeVar Burton. And just think, Burton might be coming to Butler University, or at least, that’s the hope of Sarah Kuchinsky and…