ALEXIS PRICE | adprice1@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist When I first approached senior Brendon Holl on a campus bench outside of Atherton Union, I did not know a thing about him. I didn’t know his name. I didn’t know his major. I certainly didn’t know if he could play the guitar that was leaning on the right side…
Participate in Homecoming !
PAIGE LISTON | pliston@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist Get involved. This reminder has been burned in your brain ever since you were a freshman in high school. Without a doubt, student involvement is even more important during the Homecoming festivities. At Butler, Homecoming week is an easy way for every student on campus to participate and feel…
Collegian to improve editing
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…