ALESANDRA RABELLINO | Contributing Writer In the mailboxes of the average American 17-year-old, one might find birthday cards from relatives, high school report cards and informational college brochures. Travel 6,000 miles across the globe to Israel, however, and something different will be found in the mailbox of a 17-year-old. Rather than preparing for college and…
Lambda Pi Eta Reinstated at Butler
MARAIS JACON-DUFFY | News Editor College of Communication students have the opportunity to rush for a new type of fraternity. Lambda Pi Eta is a nationally represented honors fraternity for upperclassmen studying in a communication field. Organizational communication professor Jessica Moore will serve as the group’s faculty sponsor. Moore, who was a collegiate Lambda Pi…
Students Honored for On-Campus Employment
COLIN LIKAS | Editor in Chief Select Butler University student employees and their employers filled the Schrott Center lobby yesterday for an award ceremony where one student win a statewide honor. Senior Eric Sanders, Irwin Library music and fine arts technician, earned Butler’s Student Employee of the Year award. Additionally, Sanders received Indiana’s Employee of…
Four players transferring from women’s basketball program
Four women’s basketball players are transferring from the program. Redshirt sophomore Haley Howard, freshman Ashton Feldhaus, junior Taylor Schippers and junior Liz Stratman will be leaving the university, according to a statement from Butler University athletic department. Howard has been in the program for three years and has played for two, after suffering an injury…
April Showers Flood Campus
SARAH STOESZ | Staff Reporter Butler University plans to improve sidewalk drainage in the summer of 2015 to prevent flooding on campus after heavy rainfall. Campus was hit late last week and early this week with heavy rain, causing flooding in some areas. Atherton Union experienced flooding last Thursday, Assistant Chief of Police Bill Weber…
Co-ed Housing in Apartment Village Causes New Concerns
COLIN LIKAS | Editor-In-Chief It’s not uncommon to have men and women living in the same floor of a residence hall on Butler’s campus. However, Butler will get its first taste of co-educational, on-campus rooms this fall in Apartment Village. Co-educational, also known as co-ed, living descibes an area in which men and women can…
Lack of Air Conditioning has Atherton Union Sweating
JULIANNE STRIBIAK | Staff Reporter Atherton Union will be without air conditioning for the next six to eight weeks. Rich Michal, executive director of facilities, said the 21-year-old cooling towers that sit south of Jordan Hall need to be replaced. “This winter was especially hard on everything,” Michal said. “So we decided now’s the time,…
New Minor Created within College of Education
MIRANDA MARITATO | Staff Reporter The College of Education will offer recreation and sports studies as a new minor starting in fall 2014. The minor is designed for students looking to engage in health, physical activity, recreation and sports outside of school studies said Mindy Welch associate professor of physical education. Welch is also the…
Parking Committee Faces Tough Task
NATALIE SMITH | Asst. News Editor It’s 11 a.m. on a Tuesday. A group sits down with an agenda, ready to discuss, recommend and vote on one of Butler University’s most controversial topics—parking. This group of 15 faculty and staff members and two students is called the parking committee. “The committee meets to discuss issues…
Student Town Hall Addresses Questions, Concerns
KATIE GOODRICH | Asst. News Editor Butler University students have answers to important questions from administrators and an idea of the university’s future after last week’s Student Town Hall. “I am sure you will see some explosive transformation in the coming months,” President James Danko said. “There has been some quiet time during our strategic…