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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…
Sexual assault commission with legislators, plans to rally campus

The new commission on sexual assault created by University President James Danko progressed with work on new legislation over the summer. At the end of the 2013-14 academic year, Danko announced the formation of the commission. The initial mission of the group consisting of students, faculty and staff was to develop a plan to stop…