ALEX TARNOWSKI | STAFF REPORTER Butler Ballet presented the annual Midwinter Dance Festival last week at the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts. A group of dancers in gray rolled through a cloud of fog, imitating the rain. Girls in white shifted through intricate formations and circles, portraying the spokes of a wheel. A…
The community of music
ASHLEY WALDEN | STAFF REPORTER With a beautiful and wide array of choral pieces, both the Butler University Chorale and the Chamber Singers seek to inspire the audience’s inner voice in their upcoming concert. The concert will take place on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts. …
BayStreet Brassworks: Review
WESLEY SEXTON | STAFF REPORTER BayStreet Brassworks visited Butler University last night to take part in the Duckwall Artist Series at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall. The Duckwall Artist Series began in January, and BayStreet Brassworks was the fifth of many ensembles and artists to perform. For what comparisons are worth, BayStreet Brassworks’s performance was a…
Student composer prepares for upcoming recital
SHAUNA KASKE | STAFF REPORTER Anyone who knows Harriet Steinke would say she has a very distinct personality. She is the kind of woman that makes the entire class laugh with her purposefully blunt questions. Steinke is simply a spunky girl from Detroit, Michigan, but she also happens to be a brilliant composer in the school…
Sara Erb rules the bassoon
GRETCHEN E. MAYER | STAFF REPORTER Junior Sara Erb will play the bassoon on Sunday, Feb. 15 in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall at 2 p.m. Her instrument is taller than her, but that has not stopped her from seeing success. A Journey Erb, a native of Goshen, Indiana, did not play the bassoon until six…
Bulldogs of Butler: Carly Allen
SARAH COFFING | CULTURE EDITOR Junior Carly Allen is trying to balance jobs, schoolwork and free time. With 12 minutes left before her next class, the Columbus, Ohio, native is lounging on a couch in the College of Education, busily typing away on her laptop. As a mathematics and middle/secondary education double major, classes are…
Looking for a laugh
TYLER SPRINGER | STAFF REPORTER Some people say good things come to those who wait. Unfortunately, audience members had to wait far too long for any funny material to laugh at during a R.E.A.C.H. sponsored comedy show Feb. 5. The show, a part of Butler’s Founder’s Week, consisted of three comedians hoping to get some…
Queen of tunes
ASHLEY WALDEN | STAFF REPORTER For Chloe Boelter, the definition of a long day of classes consists largely of rehearsals for her numerous upcoming performances. Having just come from opera theatre rehearsal, Boelter takes a snack break at Starbucks before heading back to Lilly Hall to rehearse with the jazz band for her recital on…
From Sudan to Indy
CAMERON ALFORD | STAFF REPORTER Freshman Reem Negash, a political science and psychology major and sociology minor, says that making others happy is her focus in life. It can be “making someone laugh if they are feeling bad…it’s like an external force that helps me feel better about myself,” she said. Negash was born in…
Like mother, like daughter
KATIE GOODRICH | STAFF REPORTER Diane Timmerman, chair of Butler University’s theatre department, applied to teach a two-week class in Rome almost two years ago. At the same time, her daughter was applying to colleges. Timmerman emailed a friend about doing an acting workshop more than a year in advance to prepare for her upcoming…