Opinion

MAGGIE MONSON | Copy Chief Two young girls have received criticism from their elementary schools in the past few weeks for failing to conform to the schools’ ideas of femininity. Kamryn Renfro, 9, shaved her head in solidarity with a friend undergoing chemotherapy and was not allowed to return to school until the board of…

JULIAN WYLLIE | Columnist With a disappointing men’s basketball season recently completed, it is time to reflect on what went wrong on the court. The season started well, better than some may have expected. But when Big East Conference play began, things went awry quickly. Dan Bere, a Butler men’s basketball analyst, agrees with this…

MORGAN LEGEL | Columnist Spring break is not forever.  Students don’t get to stay in exotic locations and live on the beach. We come back to campus, and so do our teachers, many of whom have jumped right back into busy academic schedules. After all, spring break only lasts a week. But is one week…

OUR POINT THIS WEEK: The way the Anti-harassment training program should be approached is in a way that shows its importance and necessity at Butler | 18-0-3   On March 5, Butler University launched a digital workplace harassment prevention program as part of a series of training courses on the topic. The program and any…

MAGGIE MONSON | Copy Chief The comments section on nearly any article on the Internet can be a scary place. People use the comfort of anonymity to post anything that comes to mind without using a filter. The worst comments range from ignorant to purposefully hateful and offensive. Some people believe what they are posting,…

TONY ESPINAL | Asst. Opinion Editor The fight for same-sex rights still rages on, even today. But in the midst of all the fighting, it is easy to lose track of why people fight. In the fight for respect and equality, it appears that the same people who fight for their rights often resort to…

MORGAN LEGEL | Columnist Butler University’s school spirit will always be high, but unfortunately, so will its bookstore’s prices on merchandise. Students want to show spirit  by wearing Butler blues, but how can that happen when a simple sweatshirt is so expensive? According to the Butler Bookstore’s website, the cheapest sweatshirt not on clearance for…

MAGGIE MONSON | Columnist The 500 Festival Princess Program is not a beauty pageant in description. The 33 women selected each year as part of the program are ambassadors for the festival and are judged based on a number of criteria, none of which is their physical appearance. This program focuses heavily on volunteer service…

JULIAN WYLLIE | Columnist President James Danko may not want to admit this, but he is a businessman. Should students be worried or concerned, frightened or skeptical? Yes, they should, but not for reasons that you think. Students should question if Butler’s leader is considering their opinions when the university decides to make drastic changes.…