Opinion

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…
How The Collegian discovers news

MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | Public Editor I tell my Writing for Print Media classes that news is “anything you don’t know.” When that is your definition, news is everywhere. And that, editor-in-chief Marais Jacon-Duffy told me last week, is how The Collegian approaches newsgathering. “The easiest thing for me has always been to keep…
STAFF EDITORIAL: No block party? Now what do we do?

Our point THIS WEEK: Students should not wait for Block Party to get involved Block Party, a Butler tradition where around 140 student organizations assemble to promote campus involvement, was canceled twice due to rain. Fortunately, Caroline Huck-Watson, the director of the programs for leadership and service education office, had a backup plan. On…