MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | Public Editor No one likes making mistakes, whether it’s a basketball player bricking foul shots or a newspaper reporter getting facts wrong. But mistakes happen. As I pointed out in last week’s column, The Collegian’s Sept. 10 story about former Butler President Bobby Fong’s death had some factual errors. Editor-in-Chief…
Comfort at a cost
JUSTINA KAISER | jakaiser@butler.edu | Contributing Columnist For an environment dedicated to future success, many Butler University students look a little too comfortable. Some students dress professionally, but, unless a group presentation is at stake, most appear to dress down rather than up. Students shuffle past in T-shirts and jeans. Some professors share the same…
Slow down, it’s not a rush
JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor According to Butler’s student handbook, freshmen weren’t supposed to enter Greek houses until Sept. 8. Nevertheless, plenty freshmen still found a way in, parties ensued, and no immediate harm was done. If this is the case, should the university bother to enforce the rule at all? In my…
Butler housing: Is it too simple to work?
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | chartsel@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist Students with high lottery numbers should not have to live in on-campus apartments they cannot afford. As a small school, Butler University has a fundamentally simple housing lottery. Students choose their housing intention online; weeks later, they receive a message with a random lottery number. Lower numbers choose…
Learning from our mistakes
MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | Public Editor The only people who see the contents of The Collegian before it is printed are the staff members. Not the president, not the dean, not the chair of the School of Journalism, not the paper’s faculty adviser and—certainly—not me. So I don’t know whether there is a correction…
Ease off the Yak
PAIGE LISTON | pliston@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist The increasingly popular phone application, Yik Yak, will celebrate its one-year anniversary this November, and Butler students have joined the frenzy. Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, graduates of Furman University in South Carolina and the creators of Yik Yak, now own the third-ranked program in the iTunes App Store,…
Nostalgia and the joys from old wounds
JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor My ignorance as a child made me believe that no place on the planet was quite like Brooklyn, New York: The borough of kings where over 2.5 million people call home today. Although I’d like to believe that my devotion to the city is unique, in truth, most…
As sickness spreads, stick to the script
PAIGE LISTON | pliston@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist Between studying for exams and making time for an active social life, college students tend to forget about their personal health. This is especially true now, at the beginning of the year, when some students are struggling to make the transition to college life. Julie Howerton, director of health…
Lady bulldogs own campus
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | chartsel@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist The Bulldog dating scene is made strange by the uneven ratio of men to women. The gender gap at Butler University is no secret—our university has a ratio of 39 percent male and 61 percent female, according to the 2014-15 US News & World Report profile of the…
One suicide is too many
MORGAN LEGEL | mlegel@butler.edu | Asst. Opinion Editor Every 13.3 minutes, someone commits suicide, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Every 14 minutes, someone else is left to deal with it. Members of the Butler community have probably dealt with suicide in one way or another. Whether it is within their family or friend…