A little boy wouldn’t smile or talk. His teacher wrote him off as a student with too many special needs to progress. Senior education major Marie Spear didn’t. She created a puppet, “Tommy Trash,” to teach the boy about recycling. Together, Spear and the boy made a video with Tommy Trash to show the rest…
Senior making run in mayoral election
While most seniors are focused on finishing their final semester, Chris McBarnes is busy campaigning as a Republican Party candidate for the mayoral elections in Frankfort, Ind. “If I could stand up and make a difference and put the hope back into the community, reviving the American dream in Frankfort, then I should do it,”…
Butler student traditions spotlighted in book
Butler University student traditions—like jumping into Star Fountain, playing Campus Golf and joining Dawg Pound—will be highlighted in a book put together by Butler University Student Foundation. The book will be given to incoming freshmen as an easy way to see all of Butler’s traditions and will be passed on from class to class, freshman…
Celebration of Scholarship draws community to Irwin
The 10th annual Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activity exhibit in Irwin Library is giving Butler University faculty and staff the opportunity to exhibit their creative endeavors to the entire Butler community. The program began in 2002 with the idea that faculty needed the opportunity to share their outside projects with students and colleagues. The…
Speech team participates in state competition
Butler University’s speech team has been counting its successes in recent forensics tournaments and competitions. Last Saturday, the team participated in the state competition, with several events to follow. The state competition was held at Ball State University and included eight schools from across Indiana. Butler’s team consisted of six students. Junior Matt Miller took…
Campus farm sells produce shares
The Butler Campus Farm is starting a program to develop relationships between people and the food they eat. Consumers can purchase “shares” of produce for as little as $17 per week, which provides enough produce to feed two people. Each week, shareholders will receive a crate of fresh produce grown at the Campus Farm. The…
Single women start more businesses
Erin Albert’s résumé must look a little crowded. She graduated from Butler University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and went on to earn her doctorate of pharmacy at Shenandoah University in Virginia and a master’s degree in business administration at Concordia University. She is currently pursuing a law degree and has been…
Snowcoming still brings out students
What Snowcoming lacked in Butler royalty, it made up for in relaxed, fun events. Cutting the king and queen competition didn’t stop students from enjoying Snowcoming 2011 all across campus. Junior Brittany Dorsett, special events co-chair, explained that because students are already so “over-programmed” the special events committee wanted this year’s Snowcoming events to feel…
Non-believers welcome
On Feb. 11, as part of its “Big Questions” series, the Center for Faith and Vocation welcomed interfaith activist Chris Stedman to campus. The title of his talk was “Secular Humanism and Interfaith Action: Is There Room for the Non-Believer?” Stedman serves as an interfaith and community service fellow at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard…
Paid internships to focus on faith
The Butler University Center for Faith and Vocation is happy to announce it will continue its tradition of offering paid internships in faith-based fields for students. From 2004-10, the CFV was given grant money from the Lilly Endowment fund to sponsor students seeking internships in a religious field, Judy Cebula, CFV director, said. She said…