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  • SGA’s narrow vote doubles volunteerism budget

    The ayes had it when members of Butler University’s Student Government Association passed a motion that doubled the volunteerism budget to $20,000 last Wednesday. In its original plan, volunteerism made up $10,000 of SGA’s $683,822 overall budget proposal. The original budget was calculated using numbers sent to the organization by university officials to estimate the…

  • Council on Presidential Affairs to host summit to certify sustainability on campus

    In an effort to create awareness about sustainability on campus and within student organizations, Council on Presidential Affairs will host a Green Summit Oct. 7. The event, which will be held in the Reilly Room, will determine which of the nearly 150 student organizations on campus can be certified as “green organizations.” “We want to…

  • Multicultural enrollment could strain diversity programs

    Student groups at Butler University said they’re going to work harder to protect diversity in their organizations in light of the lower freshman multicultural enrollment this year. “It is absolutely imperative that student organizations reach across the table and work with each other,” Caitlin Jackson, president of Demia Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, said. Should the…

  • Administration satisfied with second

    Butler University is runner-up again this year, and it’s not because of a basketball game. Butler clinched the No. 2 spot in U.S. News’ list of best Midwest colleges for the second year in a row, and university officials said they don’t see any need to become No. 1. “It seems like No. 2 has…

  • Faculty senate tables vote that could close meetings

    Butler University faculty senate members will decide at their next meeting how much  access top-level administrators will have to their meetings. The proposal to amend the current practice comes from a new face on campus this  year—university President Jim Danko—Margaret Brabant, chair of faculty senate, said at Tuesday’s meeting. Who qualifies as a top-level administrator…

  • Individualized major serves students craving options

    With advising for the spring semester only a month away, Butler University underclassmen soon will consider what course of action they want to take with their academic futures. But when the most common major among incoming freshmen is the exploratory studies major, according to Tom Weede, vice president of enrollment management, some students struggle to…

  • Multicultural enrollment below US average

    After dropping more than 1 percent in a year, multicultural student enrollment at Butler University is one-third the national rate at other private, four-year, not-for-profit institutions. Multicultural students—African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Americans and other non-Caucasian students—make up 11.3 percent of Butler’s population, down from 12.4 percent last year. On average, multicultural students made up 31.9 percent…

  • Former SGA presidential candidate questions budget

    Part of the Student Government Association budget is still awaiting approval after assembly members questioned some of its items at Wednesday’s assembly meeting. Members voted to table the $25,800 miscellaneous expenses section of SGA’s nearly $670,000 proposed budget until today’s meeting. Senior Anna Roueche, who represents the Council on Presidential Affairs at assembly, first questioned…

  • College of Communication implements new changes

    The College of Communication is undergoing changes this year to help students be competitive in the job market. This has caused Butler University community members to disscuss how these changes impact students. Journalism Convergence Journalism now combines print, digital and broadcast into one major, instead of separate majors for electronic journalism and print journalism. Senior…