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Tornados and tweets: Students react to weather warnings on social media

KATIE GOODRICH | EDITOR IN CHIEF | KMGOODRI@BUTLER.EDU This story will continue to be updated as events unfold. A tornado warning ended the first day of classes a little early. One tornado touched down in Kokomo, and funnel clouds were reported in Brownsburg and near Eagle Creek Park. The first warning expired at 4:45, but a new warning…
Campus Construction Update

Annie Weber | News Editor | aeweber@butler.edu Construction is a regular part of Butler University’s landscape under President James Danko’s 2020 Vision. While several projects are complete, construction crews are far from packing up. Rich Michal, executive director of facilities for Butler, gave the low-down of what projects are complete, what projects are in the…
Life in Fairview

Blakely Heaton | Assistant News Editor | bnheaton@butler.edu Students can now call Fairview House, the newest residence hall on Butler University’s campus, a home. Fairview officially opened to students this month and can house up to 633 students. Currently, Fairview is operating at near-full capacity. This housing facility is unlike any other at Butler University,…
Butler’s biggest class getting SOGgy

Katie Goodrich | Editor in Chief | kmgoodri@butler.edu Rain and enthusiastic upperclassmen greeted 1,272 new dawgs Jaci Bansch walked into Fairview House with mixed emotions as she moved in for her first year at Butler University, along with the rest of her fellow first-years who make up Butler’s largest class ever. She was pleasantly surprised…
Ambassadors of Change Program celebrates 20 years of service

Katie Goodrich | Editor in Chief | kmgoodri@butler.edu 20 years. 1,000 students. 20,000 hours of community service. This is what the Ambassadors of Change program accomplished in its first 20 years. The pre-welcome week program, commonly called AOC, focuses on community service and leadership development. “AOC is unique because it’s a combination of a week…
Former men’s basketball player Joel Cornette dies at 35

MARISA MILLER | SPORTS CO-EDITOR | mnmille1@butler.edu Former Butler men’s basketball standout Joel Cornette died early Tuesday morning in his Chicago apartment. He was a member of the basketball program from 1999-2003 and made three NCAA tournament appearances. He was 35. “This morning, we spoke with the Cornette Family, who has confirmed that their beloved…
College of Business renamed in honor of $25 million donation

Katie Goodrich | Editor in Chief | kmgoodri@butler.edu Butler University received the largest individual gift in the university’s history. Andre Lacy and his wife Julia gave a $25 million donation. In honor of the gift, Butler renamed the College of Business the Andre B. Lacy School of Business. Lacy, chairman of Lacy Diversified Industries, will…
Butler battles $10 million deficit

KATIE GOODRICH | EDITOR IN CHIEF Butler University’s budget is in the red. $10 million in the red. Next year, the university will take another “strategic loss” of $2-3 million, according to an April 4 email from Bruce Arick, vice president for finance and administration. The largest class in Butler’s history is graduating, and they…
Can you really graduate “Doubt Free?”

VANESSA STAUBLIN | CONTRIBUTING WRITER Each year students across the nation submit their application for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Federal Student Aid, an office within the U.S. Department of Education, receives applications from students who are entering college all the way to graduate students. This year students who were interested in receiving…