Culture

  • Dueling Pianos event was entertaining, but lacked proper planning and participation

    With Saturday’s performance by Dueling Pianos International complete, October events on campus are off to a lukewarm start. The performance, which took place from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., featured two good-spirited keyboarders on two quarter-sized faux-piano electric keyboards, which appeared comically small in the expansive Reilly Room. Brandon Kent and Landon Rocks were both…

  • Clowes brings the beauty, the beastly and a Broadway tour

    Once upon a time just happens to be next week at Clowes Memorial Hall. Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is taking the stage at Clowes from Oct. 11 to Oct. 16. And don’t worry, the musical rings true to the ever-popular Disney movie. “I think most of us remember the movie from our childhood, regardless…

  • Autumn Rhapsody

    [tab: Article] The air is getting crisp, the leaves are turning and pumpkin spice lattés abound. It’s this time of year that makes Butler look like the perfect campus, with students walking to class in their cardigans and boots; big trees turning from green to yellow and orange; and organizations sitting outside Starbucks, organizing for…

  • Nobel Prize nominee to address peace activism

    As the war in Afghanistan nears the 10 year mark,   America is on the minds of many and its role in a peaceful future. Cindy Sheehan, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and national director of Peace of the Action, will be speaking at Butler University in early October on the topic of “The War Economy…

  • Stop and smell the flowers

    There’s a new addition to Butler’s gardens. The Thomas E. Willey Memorial Rock Garden, added in memoriam for a former history professor, is just behind the bell tower that you hear ringing as you head off to your 9 a.m. class. With this new addition, we wanted to explore just what is hiding behind Robertson…

  • Butler concert replays Chinese history

    Mao Zedong is known for many things, but an appreciation for non-proletarian art is not one of them. “There is, in fact, no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above all classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics,” he said in 1964. On Oct. 2, at least 100…

  • Coffeehouse seeks to bring unknown bands to campus

    With the school year well under way, it is perfectly natural to be thinking about healthy diversions from all that studying. Strapped for ideas? Student Government Association’s Program Board has just the solution:  the Coffeehouse series. This monthly, on-campus concert series is free to students.  Free food. Free admission. Free swag. Katie Carlson, co-chair of…

  • 24 hours proves enough time to create a symphony

    A person can do a lot in one rotation of the Earth. Eight student composers and four performers from Butler University’s Jordan College of Fine Arts chose to use 24 hours between Friday and Saturday preparing for the semi-annual 24 Hour Concert, which returned again this semester after a year absent from campus. The goal:…

  • Professor’s 9/11 piece resonates powerfully

    “The Empty Sky,” a piece inspired by 9/11, received its debut performance at the University of Indianapolis Monday. Butler University’s assistant professor of composition Frank Felice wrote the oboe piece and  University of Indianapolis faculty oboist Pam French performed it. The piece occurs in three sections. The first section is extremely open: soft, plaintive motives…