JYLIAN VIGAR / STAFF REPORTER From playing Dungeons & Dragons as a child to working with technology at the University of Virginia, a Butler English professor has always been interested in video games. “The complexity of video games today allows you to immerse yourself in another world, which is the same thing as a novel,”…
Students can help impoverished and intern overseas
ALEXANDRA BODE / STAFF REPORTER Two Butler University students are working to bring a chapter of Nourish International to Butler. The group’s mission is “to engage students and empower communities to make a lasting impact on extreme poverty,” according to their website. Junior Sarah Zimmerman spent the spring 2014 semester studying in Latin America where…
$25,000 allocated for SGA app
KATIE GOODRICH/ NEWS CO-EDITOR The Innovation Fund allotted grant money to develop a new Butler mobile app. Austin Del Priore, vice president of administration for the Student Government Association, and Rachel Skelton, Council on Presidential Affairs member, applied for a grant to kick start the process. The Innovation Fund gives money to various projects each…
The light at the end of the tunnel: Streetscape project slated for June 2015
SARAH STOESZ/ ASST. NEWS EDITOR The gateway to Butler University is getting a whole new look. The construction on Sunset Avenue is part of the Streetscape project, which aims to beautify entrances to campus. This project is expected to be completed by June 2015. Medians lined with trees will divide Sunset Avenue. Bike lanes and…
Jogger found dead on campus
MARAIS JACON-DUFFY / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A male jogger was found dead on Butler University’s campus on Aug. 27. Butler University Police Department responded to a call about an unconscious person near the Carillon Tower on Lake Road. Indianapolis Fire Department and Eskenazi Health medics were on the scene with BUPD. After 40 minutes of CPR and…
JCA adjunct, Indianapolis Children’s Choir director, dies at 55
NATALIE SMITH/ NEWS CO-EDITOR Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir and Butler adjunct professor Cheryl West died on Saturday. Ronald Caltabiano, dean of the Jordan College of the Arts, sent an email informing the campus her death. West, 55, was rushed to the hospital late Friday night after a severe cerebral hemorrhage, as stated in…
Crime numbers high over holiday weekend
MARAIS JACON-DUFFY/ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Butler University Police Department cited 6 incidents of possession or consumption of alcohol by a minor over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, according the the department’s daily crime log. All incidents except one resulted in a summons arrest, where the students involved are issued a ticket and required to…
Students save on software
KATIE GOODRICH/ NEWS CO-EDITOR Butler University Information Technology released free Microsoft programs three days before students moved back to campus. The Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus package includes the latest versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for either Mac or PC. Students can download the Microsoft programs on five devices and sync them on five mobile…
New detective at BUPD brings experience
NATALIE SMITH/ NEWS CO-EDITOR She turned in her badge to the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Police Department in May. Her 35-year career had come to a close. It was a chance for rest on her retirement plan. But Diane Sweeney does not rest. She spent her entire three-month retirement working on her doctoral degree in…
Parking garage to relieve neighborhood
NATALIE SMITH | nmsmith1@butler.edu | News Co-Editor The last, little brown house on the Berkley knoll sits on the corner of Sunset Avenue and Berkley Road. Catherine Golden has lived in that house “forever.” She wants to stay there just as long. The issue that Golden and other Butler-Tarkington residents expressed concern with is the…