RELATED STORIES: PART 1 | Vote details will not be released PART 2 | SGA to release election vote numbers PART 3 | Despite assembly vote, election data not released STAFF EDITORIAL | SGA, show us the numbers Part 4 | SGA kills motion to release election results The American Student Government Association is weighing…
Faculty face budget, programming demands
For the next two weeks, Susan Zurbuchen will be busier than usual. On top of her regular class load and the responsibilities that come with her role as chair of Butler University’s Arts Administration program, she is taxed with finding enough time to schedule half-hour appointments with each of her 35 advisees. The two-person Arts…
Spot open on SGA exec board
Next year’s team of seven executives in Student Government Association is almost complete, but President-elect Mike Keller is still looking for one more. The SGA vice president of diversity position, one of six vice presidential positions, remains vacant because no one has applied. While the position remains empty, the remaining vice presidential positions and parliamentarian…
Center for Urban Ecology busy this spring
The Center for Urban Ecology at Butler University is busy working on initiatives that its staff hopes will benefit the environment and the community. Tim Carter, director for the center, said the campus farm will expand as a result of a grant from the Nina Mason Charitable Trust. The added land will help provide room…
TIME editor to speak at commencement
On Saturday, May 12, only one thing will be standing between graduating Butler University seniors and their hard-earned diplomas—Rick Stengel. Stengel, managing editor of TIME Magazine, recently accepted Butler’s invitation to deliver an address at the 2012 commencement ceremony. Stengel’s accomplishments include various positions at TIME Magazine, a period of time as president and CEO…
New libraries dean to take reins
One Dean Miller will leave, and another Dean Miller will start at the end of this semester. Butler University chose Julie Miller to become the new dean of libraries when current Dean Lewis Miller retires. “Butler excited me because it’s a place where the emphasis is on academic excellence and student success,” Julie Miller said.…
Faculty Senate to endorse open search
Faculty Senate members voted by a narrow margin to endorse an open search for the next provost. No discussion proceeded the 13-12-3 vote, but it has been a topic of conversation in the Senate since the search to permanently fill the spot began. Arguments for an open search included transparency and the ability for faculty…
SGA kills motion to release election results
Student Government Association this afternoon killed a motion to release detailed results from its recent elections….
Despite assembly vote, election data not released
The Student Government Association president has suspended the release of detailed election results from last week’s races, despite the assembly’s vote last Wednesday to publicly release the data.
Picking up the trash
Mounting trash along the Central Canal Trail adjacent to Butler University grew so large that it could no longer be ignored. Nathan Holt, president of Sigma Nu, said he received a complaint from an anonymous student through Becky Druetzler, director of Greek life, about the trash on the hill behind the Sigma Nu fraternity house.…