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…
Johnson recognized for mentorship
Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs, was recently named a finalist for the Inspire Awards, which College Mentors for Kids present to individuals who excel at mentoring in their workplace or community. Johnson said he was surprised when he saw the first congratulatory e-mail pop up in his inbox explaining that he had been…
PRSSA students apply classroom experience
Members of Butler University’s branch of Public Relations Student Society of America are currently participating in the Bateman Competition, a nation-wide case study competition for public relations students. The purpose of the competition is to give students “an opportunity to apply their classroom education and internship experiences to create and implement a full public relations…
CUE director guides interns, campus farm
By Ali Hendricks Under the twinkling carousel lights at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Tim Carter held his smallest daughter on a horse and smiled as his other two children beamed at the sight of all the bright carousel animals. “We’re just going to do one more ride after this one,” he said. Carter allowed…
Events in Egypt hit close to home
For most Butler University students, the issues in Egypt are far away. But for one student, the events in Egypt strike close to her heart. On Jan. 25, Sandra Guirguis said she entered her First Year Seminar classroom 30 minutes late with a petrified look on her face. That was the day 20,000 protesters ran…
Campus begins to recover from last week’s ice storm
Upon hearing of the coming ice storm last week, Butler University employees worked to prepare the campus for whatever the winter storm might bring and to keep students informed of preparations. Last Monday afternoon, a team of faculty from student affairs, information resources, food services, a representative from the office of the provost and the…