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  • 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.…

  • Media arts department creates Web series

    Members of the Butler University media arts department held open auditions for students to act in a comedic Web series produced and created by students. Since his junior year in high school, junior Trevor Roach has been waiting for the chance to make a Web series. Now he finally has that chance, thanks to the…

  • Alum poses questions about ‘The Butler Way’

    As election night approached, one Butler University alumnus found a piece of campaign communication to be offensive and against “the Butler Way.” Butler alumnus Eddie Journey received a mailer Oct. 15 from congressional candidate and Butler sociology professor Marvin Scott. Journey said he was under the impression that at an institution like Butler, diversity would…

  • Election 2010: Coverage of Indiana and the nation

  • Marathon to go through campus

    The 2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon may cause some dilemmas for Butler University students and parents Nov. 6. The marathon, which highlights some of Indianapolis’s more recognizable monuments like Lucas Oil Stadium, the Arts Garden and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, will go through campus as part of the course. Ben Hunter, Butler University Chief of…

  • Republicans reclaim House in nation and state

    Republicans are taking the country back. That was the anthem of Indiana Republicans as they celebrated a multitude of wins in the midterm elections last night. Whistles and cheers rang out like battle cries in downtown Indianapolis’ Union Station where the Republican Party came together.  The crowd sported campaign t-shirts and chanted candidate slogans to…

  • In the face of loss, Democrats have hope

    Despite the Democratic Party lagging behind in polls and early voting results nationwide, spirits were high at the Indiana Democratic Party Election Party at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. The defining event of the night was certainly the Senate race, where Democrat Brad Ellsworth battled Republican Dan Coats for Evan Bayh’s open Senate seat. Ellsworth lost…

  • Coats takes Senate; Carson hangs on to 7th

    The 2010 midterm elections had people glued to their television screens as results came in on Tuesday night. Cnn.com states that experts were predicting the Republicans would win control of the House of Representatives. The Republican party needed a net gain of 39 seats to reach the 218 majority of the 435 seats in the…