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…
New residence hall to house 600 upperclassmen
JYLIAN VIGAR | jvigar@butler.edu | News Reporter August 2016 will bring 600 new beds to Butler University. “Dated dorms don’t provide what students need today,” said Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs. “It is time to start living into this promise of the experience that we can and should give our students.…
Class of 2018 smaller, more diverse
SARAH STOESZ | sstoesz@butler.edu | Asst. News Editor Butler’s newest freshman class followed the recent trend of declining class sizes. There are 988 new first-year students on campus. This is 11 percent decrease from just two years ago. In his State of the University speech, Butler University President James Danko said there was “more softness”…
Students switch to newest majors
JUSTINA KAISER | jakaiser@butler.edu | Contributing News Reporter A basketball mishap left his leg in a cast. Sports always dominated Mark Pearson’s life from five different high school activities to club basketball in college. Three years after he entered Butler as a journalism major, Pearson had a chance to connect his education with his passion…
SGA to launch website, town hall meetings
MIRANDA MIRATATO | mmaritat@butler.edu | News Reporter Student Government Association members attended retreats to bond before preparing to get down to business in the new academic year. Different groups of students attended two retreats over the summer to begin executing SGA President Chad Pingel’s goals. The first retreat held was for the executive board.…
The Red Zone heightens risk of sexual assault
JULIANNE STRIBIAK / STAFF REPORTER “Will I make new friends?” “How will I adjust to campus life?” “Will I get homesick?” These are the type of questions new students ask during their first weeks on college campuses. There’s another question which isn’t readily asked: “Will I be sexually assaulted?” Sexual assault is any behavior that…