Michael Dahlie, Butler University’s Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence, has been named a winner of the 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award. According to the Giles Whiting Foundation website, whitingfoundation.org, the Whiting Writers’ Award was established in 1985 to support creative writing. The award is given annually to “10 emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.” The award…
Alum donates $1 million for creative writing center
By the fall of 2011, Butler University will have its very own center for creative writing. Jeremy Efroymson, a Butler graduate and local supporter of the arts, has pledged to donate $1 million to buy the home at 530 W. Hampton Drive, which was the University president’s house from 1965 to 1979. This is not…
Newman on Newton
Bill Newman knows his Newton. Newman visited Butler University on Monday to present on chemistry and alchemy as part of he Fall 2010 Woods Lecture Series. Newman is a professor in the department of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University in Bloomington. He teaches courses on the history of matter theory and the…
Efroymson fund gives Butler $1 million
The following is a Butler University News Release. The Collegian will have our own coverage in next week’s issue. The Efroymson Family Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation, and Jeremy Efroymson will donate $1 million to Butler University to buy the home at 530 W. Hampton Drive – which from 1965 to 1979…
MBA program receives top ranks
The part-time Butler University Master’s of Business Administration program has recently been in the limelight. BusinessWeek magazine named the MBA program 36th in the nation and 8th in the Midwest. The Princeton Review also recognized the program, listing it in its “Best 300 Business Schools” list. Student surveys, as well as entrance exam scores and…
Bye-bye Bobby
Butler University President Bobby Fong announced at 1:30 p.m. on Friday that he will be leaving Butler at the end of the academic year to accept the presidency at Ursinus College. Ursinus is a small liberal arts school of 1,700 students in Collegeville, Pa. After reviewing more than 100 applications, the board of trustees and…
Students compete in ‘Battle of the Brains’
On Oct. 23, four students from Butler University competed in the 35th annual IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, also know as the Battle of the Brains. The students, seniors David Johnson and Jason Norris along with freshmen Dino Filippi and Kyler Naylor participated in the East Central North American Regional, which…
Students look past graduation, into job market
Given the economic situation, it is no surprise that most young graduates face challenges finding jobs, even in fields with high demand. The latest example of frustrated college graduates is the anonymous Boston College third-year law student, who wrote an open letter to the dean, proposing to exchange his degree for a full tuition reimbursement.…
Strategic communication department holds town hall to address concerns
Strategic communication students will not experience any changes in graduation requirements despite changes in course offerings for the spring semester. Strategic communications program director Mark Rademacher held a town hall meeting to answer questions students asked about potential requirement changes on Thursday in Gallahue Hall. Strategic communications encompasses public relations and advertising programs. The class…
Estridge Homes president addesses problems in American society
Butler, we have a problem. At least that’s what the president of Estridge Homes said last Thursday. “Right now, our country has an anti-leadership movement afoot,” Paul Estridge Jr. said. Estridge spoke to a half-full room of Butler students about their role in destroying the lazy mentality that he said many people have about leadership.…