Opinion

  • I’ve got my eye on Holcomb…

    I’ve got my eye on Holcomb…

    JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor In 2000, Butler was just the eighth-ranked regional university in the Midwest, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. But in the last 14 years, Butler has risen to second place on the U.S. News and World Report’s rankings. Creighton University in Nebraska holds the coveted…

  • Avoid the “easy” A

    Avoid the “easy” A

    ALEX BARTLOW | abartlow@butler.edu | Opinion Columnist We all know the phrase “C’s get degrees.” Some students are perfectly OK with that. However, there are a number of us, myself included, who want to be more than just average students. With mid-terms right around the corner, college students locally and nationally are pushing themselves and their professors…

  • The art of storytelling

    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

    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…