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BLAKELY HEATON | STAFF REPORTER On Nov. 16 Butler University students joined together and wore black to support the French students of Butler and for all of those affected by the recent tragedies in Paris. Last Friday, six terrorist attacks took place at various locations throughout Paris. After the attacks, ISIS, a well-known Sunni jihadist militant group,…

BLAKELY HEATON | STAFF REPORTER Bulldogs in the Streets, or BITS, will be a new student organization on Butler’s campus after applications are reviewed and positions are appointed this November. BITS, in the past, has been a one-day service project at the start of the school year where students, faculty and community members would sign…

MATTHEW FLECKENSTEIN & MATTHEW DEL BUSTO | STAFF REPORTERS Vanessa Staublin, a senior strategic communications major, has night class most days. She walks to her home in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood, Mace dangling on her keychain and using the flashlight app on her phone. Staublin felt safe when she first came to Butler University, but that…

ANNIE WEBER | CO-NEWS EDITOR Cooper Dinges, 25, said he lives under the motto “the few, the proud.” After high school, he spent four years in the Marines as an amphibious assault vehicle crewman. He continues to be one of “the few” as a veteran at Butler University. Dinges is president and founder of BU…

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KRISTIN CAMILIERE | STAFF REPORTER Chase Bank decided to remove its ATM from Butler University’s campus Club in late October. “We came to the end of our agreement term; Butler was prepared to renew but Chase made the decision that they didn’t want to renew,” Bruce Arick, vice president of finance and administration, said. Arick…