News

Eva Kor shares survival story with Indianapolis community

KIRSTEN ADAIR | ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Holocaust survivor Eva Kor sent a message of resilience and forgiveness through her story on Oct. 22 in Clowes Memorial Hall. Kor began the season of Distinguished Speakers Distinctive Voices lecture series, which is a partnership between the city of Indianapolis and Butler University as a diversity initiative that is…
Students prepare for another advising season

MATT DEL BUSTO | STAFF REPORTER Academic advising for Butler University’s 2016 spring classes officially began. Rainie Grant, a sophomore political science and French double major, said she is looking forward to her spring advising meeting. “I really love academic advising,” Grant said. “That’s probably one of the things I look forward to the most…
The cause of IT chaos

KRISTIN CAMILIERE | STAFF REPORTER Butler University’s Information Technology discovered an issue that delayed outgoing mail sent from Butler servers to outside servers. This issue was not fixed until almost a full day later, causing outbound messages not to be sent from approximately 11:00 a.m. Oct. 13 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 14. When students download…
Campus Ministry USA protests, Bulldogs bite back

MATTHEW VANTRYON and JYLIAN VIGAR | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF and CO-NEWS EDITOR Photo by Tyler Springer Butler University students encountered members of the Campus Ministry USA group this afternoon in front of Atherton Union and gathered together to voice their desire for equality and love. Several members of Campus Ministry USA arrived around noon and held signs in…
Faculty Senate discuss e-learning at Oct. 13 meeting

MATTHEW FLECKENSTEIN | STAFF REPORTER E-learning, the courses students can take online over the summer, was the focus of the Oct. 13 Faculty Senate meeting. Original e-learning committee members Mary Macmanus Ramsbottom and Julie Miller gave a presentation on the study of e-learning performed last summer. Provost Kate Morris gave the original goal for the…
Andrew Ryan returns to BUPD after arrest

BROOKLYN RAINES | STAFF REPORTER Andrew Ryan, a Butler University Police Department captain, was granted conditional driving privileges at a pre-trial conference on Sept. 23. Ryan was arrested on Sept. 8 after failing two sobriety tests, which were taken after a car crash Ryan was involved in on the Eastside of Indianapolis. Ryan’s BAC was…
Apartment Village fire alarms have residents fired up

KIRSTEN ADAIR | ASST. NEWS EDITOR | kadair@butler.edu Sensitive fire alarms led to confusion in Apartment Village over the past few weeks. Residents in Apartment Village have received emails from Hope England, the residence life coordinator for Apartment Village, advising students to be wary of following cooking instructions and warning against taking steamy showers. The smoke…
Nolan Read gone too soon, but his spirit lives on

MATTHEW VANTRYON | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / Photo courtesy of “Remembering Nolan Read” Facebook page Even when Nolan Paul Read was in elementary school, his mother Leah Read felt his future was bright. Each October, Leah and Nolan would go door to door in their Texas neighborhood as he sold popcorn for Boy Scouts. Though small in…
Students getting heated about heating

MATTHEW DEL BUSTO | STAFF REPORTER Recently, the Butler Facilities staff temporarily turned off the air conditioning in buildings around campus in preparation to switch from cooling to heating, causing a temperature increase in some of the buildings. Richard Michal, executive director of facilities, said the Butler Facilities staff have begun preparing to switch systems…