Culture

Mardi Gras: Bringing New Orleans to ResCo

GABBY MOLINE | STAFF REPORTER Mardi Gras is known throughout the United States as a large celebration in New Orleans that features delicious Cajun food, masks and more. On Tuesday, February 9, Mardi Gras found its way to Butler’s campus, provided by the Efroymson Diversity Center and the diversity groups. Students of all different ages…
Bulldogs of Butler: Brooks Carey

LIZZY HACKL | ASSIST. CULTURE EDITOR This is the latest installment of our Bulldog of Butler series. We hope to highlight the many people on this campus. Click here to read more stories about your fellow Dawgs. What do these things have in common: Vineyard Vines Representative, Delta Gamma member and a human version of…
Founders Week

TESSA WOHLBERG | STAFF REPORTER The Founder’s Week kickoff event, held in Irwin Library, marked the start of an important week at Butler University. The highlight of the event was the unveiling of a restored 1887 class photo. Gertrude Mahorney, the first African-American to graduate from Butler, was included in the photo. Mahorney’s historic degree…
Butler kept warm with Cocoa for Theta

LIZZY HACKL | ASSIST. CULTURE EDITOR Cold weather can’t keep these girls down. The ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority hosted their annual Cocoa for Theta philanthropy event on February 4. There was a fun, Pop playlist in the background with girls dancing, delicious hot chocolate pouring and Butler students socializing and catching up. This…
From a Butler student to a TV producer

ASHLEY TOMASZEWSKI | STAFF REPORTER For many, becoming part of the television world is a childhood dream. Butler senior Emi Dammers has turned this dream into a reality. The process has been anything but easy, Dammers said. She has devoted countless hours of hard work to creating her own original TV series, How to Be Human.…
Midwinter Dance Festival

GABBY MOLINE | STAFF REPORTER February 10 through 14, Butler’s dance company will perform their Midwinter Dance Festival, a combination of classical ballet and modern dance. The 2016 Midwinter Dance will showcase pieces from resident choreographers, such as Stephan Laurent and Susan McGuire, as well as guest choreographer Lesley Telford. Butler’s dance department, currently one…
Bulldogs of Butler

LIZZY HACKL | ASSIST. CULTURE EDITOR Name: Lauren Hattory Year: First-year From: Rolling Meadows, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) Major: Marketing (as of now) Minor: Nothing declared, but hopes to declare MIS (Management Information Systems, which deals with IT, or Information Technology) Dream job: To work in IT for a large international company “I would…
“It Gets Better”

SAM KNEPPRATH | STAFF REPORTER Sometimes you’re confused. Sometimes you may think the world is going to end and you’re clearly out of options and furthermore, out of people to go to for support. You start doubting not only your friends and family, but yourself as well. With all of these thoughts and fears running…
String quartet comes to campus

SAM KNEPPRATH | STAFF REPORTER When it comes to instrumentation, there is not an underappreciated group quite like the string family: the violin, viola and the cello. Butler students could experience the sounds of these instruments this past Tuesday in the Eidson Duckwall Recital Hall through the mastered hands of Larry Shapiro, Byron Plexico, Colette Abel,…