Culture

  • Percussion Ensemble put on unique concert

    Percussion Ensemble put on unique concert

    ALEX TARNOWSKI | STAFF REPORTER Wooden blocks, bowing metal and monkey chants.  The Percussion Ensemble concert Wednesday evening was anything but normal.   “Performing in this concert is very different,” performer Pat Petrus said.  “The pieces we play are very unusual.  That’s what makes it more fun.” The large crowd of Butler University students and…

  • Kappa Kappa Gamma fundraises for Reading is Fundamental

    Kappa Kappa Gamma fundraises for Reading is Fundamental

    GABBY MOLINE | STAFF REPORTER Butler University’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma celebrated the fall season while raising money for Reading is Fundamental at their annual event Kappa Harvest. Standing on the front lawn of the Kappa Kastle, sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma greeted and welcomed visitors to their home on Oct. 21. As the…

  • Alliance annual drag show in support of creative expression and Damien Center

    Alliance annual drag show in support of creative expression and Damien Center

    SAM KNEPPRATH | STAFF REPORTER Butler’s Alliance hosted the annual drag show last night.  With this event of glitz, glamor and showmanship, Butler’s LGBTQIA+ Alliance took over the Reilly Room in style along with a purpose in mind: awareness. That is the goal not only for those wanting to express themselves in an outlet, but…

  • REVIEW: Poetry Lunch Hour

    REVIEW: Poetry Lunch Hour

    SAM KNEPPRATH | STAFF REPORTER It was a cool Friday afternoon. The leaves were stirring around in a pool of oranges and maroons. The sun was comfortably nestled in the clouds, and from within the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing bellowed good soup, good poetry and most of all good tidings. This was just one…

  • Date night in Madrid

    Date night in Madrid

    Photo courtesy of Wiki Commons. CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | CULTURE REPORTER   We met up at km 0, which marks the geographical center of Spain. It was visible walking out of Sol, the main train station for tourists like me. My date was madrileño, which means he is from and lives in Madrid. He knew all…

  • Butler hosts Oympian Shawn Johnson

    Butler hosts Oympian Shawn Johnson

    NATALIE BLOOM | ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR On the evening of Oct. 5, Butler University’s Student Government Association hosted Shawn Johnson in the Reilly Room. Johnson gained fame after competing in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in artistic gymnastics. There, she won four medals, three of which were silver and one gold. However, the journey to the…

  • REVIEW: Macari and Stern

    GABBY MOLINE | STAFF REPORTER Students and community members gathered at the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts Oct. 6 to hear poets Anne Marie Macari and Gerald Stern. More than 100 people of all different ages and backgrounds packed into the Schrott Center. Some were students looking to achieve a Butler Cultural Requirement,…

  • Bulldogs of Butler: The story of a relationship

    Bulldogs of Butler: The story of a relationship

    ISABELLA FERRARI | STAFF REPORTER From Columbus, Ohio, to Butler University, juniors Maddi Rasor and Jack Preston stay together wherever they go. “Freshman year of high school, we were in the same math class,” Rasor said. “We weren’t really friends all the way back then, but that’s when we technically met.” They started dating their…

  • Stand Tall Project

    Stand Tall Project

    LAUREN OOLEY | STAFF REPORTER Noelle Rich, as a resident assistant in Butler University’s Ross Hall, started the Stand Tall Project last September during Sexual Assault Awareness Week. She was inspired by pictures of sexual assault survivors holding up signs of negative things said to them about their situations. “It’s a difficult issue to talk…