While the university was enthralled with the upcoming vote on HJR-6 in the next session of Indiana’s General Assembly, I was pleased to see Mr. Lovelace’s article highlighting Rev. Allan Boesak and The Desmond Tutu Center in the Nov. 20 issue of The Collegian. I became aware of Boesak last year during his semester tenure…
Former director: Collegian has brought reform to Butler, voice to community
Your article on The Collegian’s budget shortfall raised more questions than it answered. Permit me to add some additional ingredients to the mix and perhaps stir the pot. In 1986, James Neal, former Board of Trustees member, owner and publisher of the Noblesville Ledger and former Indiana Republican chairman, produced a gala to mark the…
Past editors: Collegian essential to campus
We were disheartened to read the Oct. 16 story “Red Ink”—disheartened with the prospect of someday losing The Butler Collegian and with an administration seemingly comfortable with letting that happen. The demise of The Collegian would not only impact the student journalists who spend their time reporting, editing and shooting photographs. It would end a…
College of Business should listen to its students
By James Huber Senior marketing major I want to start this letter by saying I believe Butler has one of the top business schools in the country. I believe the fact that Butler requires its COB students to complete two internships is key. The staff dedicated to helping students find internships is incredible. I believe…
Collegian’s look at sexual assault complacent
By Kate Siegfried Senior media, rhetoric and culture and gender, women and sexual studies double major The Collegian’s recent coverage on sexual assault offers a complacent understanding that is detrimental to our campus culture. The Sept. 18 article aptly demonstrated sexual assault is a problem on college campuses. However, the authors failed to question why…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Glad my student isn’t going to Butler
Patricia Bowman wrote the following in an email to President Danko in response to the College Fix article. Butler University was initially on my daughter’s college list: However, we decided against it for various reasons. All students should be open to new perspectives—but why are students in this course required to be someone they are…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | “College Fix” article disappointing
My former adviser at Butler sent me an opinion piece by Ryan Lovelace in The College Fix in which he expresses some troubling opinions on the nature of Butler’s liberal arts curriculum and the liberal arts in general. As a former photography editor of The Collegian, my first reaction was disappointment that a journalist from…
UNIVERSITY RESPONSE | A message to Butler from President Danko about inclusivity
University President Jim Danko wrote the following message to the entire campus December 1. Dear Butler University Students, Faculty and Staff: According to our Statement of Guiding Principles, at Butler University we work toward respect and dignity for all individuals in our community and aim to promote an open and tolerant environment for voicing opinions.…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Staff members deserve the recognition
I’d like to thank The Collegian for taking the time to recognize our hard-working staff in the article “The men behind the Butler blooms.” It was exciting to see a positive article about the often unseen hard work of those on staff who make this campus amazing! I appreciated seeing this and just wanted to…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | More positive stories would benefit the Collegian
Kudos… kind of. For the first time in my four years of being at Butler, I have finally been given the opportunity to read a fun, refreshing, non-opinionated, interesting story. “The men behind the Butler blooms” was a great story. I am not getting my hopes up or anything, but maybe more students would read…