KARL AGGER | STAFF REPORTER In the Black Box Theatre of Lilly Hall, a hush comes over the audience. There is no curtain to be drawn for this stage, but all the same a show is about to begin. The play, “Crime and Punishment,” is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic nineteenth century novel, adapted…
Butler’s Undergraduate Research Conference 2015
KIRSTEN ADAIR | STAFF REPORTER On Friday, Butler’s 27th annual Undergraduate Research Conference gave students an opportunity to learn about other students’ research, from explaining how power plants affect fish in nearby rivers to examining the role of fathers in television sitcoms. The URC is a yearly event in which undergraduate participants from colleges and…
Spring sports
ANNIE WEBER | STAFF REPORTER Butler students competed for a cause this past weekend during the annual Spring Sports Spectacular. Spring Sports is an event created to raise money for the Special Olympics. Every sorority and fraternity is represented, as well as an independent team for those who are not members of a Greek organization.…
A closer look at sexual assault reporting
MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR Nearly one year ago, a protest on Butler University’s campus held by faculty and students in support of a Butler student with the blog pseudonym “Eliza Quincey” shed a light on potential deficiencies in the sexual assault process. “Eliza” posted a pair of blog posts telling of an alleged rape…
Butler’s housing nightmare
KIRSTEN ADAIR | STAFF REPORTER Every student living on campus will have a bed, but not all students will be happy about where they end up resting their heads next semester. Student housing selection was held for rising sophomores and juniors this past Tuesday and the Tuesday before. Rising juniors chose on March 31 and…
Hitting the jackpot
ANNIE WEBER | STAFF REPORTER Jim McKneight knows the feeling of having millions of dollars transferred into his bank account in an instant. He helped grow and sell three companies as CFO and sold them for over $100 million. Now he is a business professor here at Butler. You know those blue bags of ice…
Students suffer from seasonal depression
MIRANDA MARITATO | STAFF REPORTER Thirty percent of college students experience depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. This depression ranges from seasonal affective disorder to major depressive disorder. “Seasonal affective disorder is a colloquialism, not a psychiatric disorder,” psychology professor Joel Martin said. “It is actually a subtype of major depressive disorder.”…
Finals week edges closer
KARL AGGER | STAFF REPORTER For Butler students, the month of April does not just bring warmer weather. It also brings a great big heap of stress. Stress, a common enough problem at any time during the school year, becomes even more acute as the semester nears its end. There are only six weeks of…
5 Things to Know (Week 10)
Don’t have time to watch or read the news? No problem! The Butler Collegian’s editor-in-chief has compiled a list of the top five things he thinks readers should know this week. Let’s keep this short, sweet and to the point. The truth will traumatize. Fact 1: It matters where you go to college:…
“No matter more urgent…” How the Religious Freedom Restoration Act affects Butler
MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR Butler University President James Danko condemned the state’s enactment into law of Indiana Senate Bill 101, known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, in a statement to the Butler community Sunday. Danko said the bill first came up in conversation a week ago with his cabinet members, comprising the university’s…