Butler University recently added dietician Brooke Pearson to its staff. Pearson has already organized presentations about health, talked with Aramark managers and plans to work with student organizations, including Peers Advocating Wellness for Students. Members of the Butler community, with Aramark’s help, should build off these opportunities and continue taking steps toward healthier lifestyles. Along…
OPINION | Butler’s custodians deserve increased wages, benefits
With all of the talk about the ongoing and upcoming Hinkle Fieldhouse renovations, Butler University is forgetting about the behind-the-scenes workers. The Hinkle Campaign’s goal is to raise $16 million in order to fully restore the 84-year-old fieldhouse. That’s a lot of money, but it isn’t the most important number in this project. Five is…
OPINION | New online radio should incorporate student ideas
Butler University will witness the return of a radio station to campus. However, students will not be tuning into their car radios to listen because this radio station will be online. College of Communication faculty members are working on licensing music to play and setting up the station through Butler’s Information Technology department. Mark Harris,…
OPINION | Vote based on your conscience, not on electability
Community members should vote with their consciences in this election, and nothing more. If that means voting third party—or not at all—students, faculty and staff should do so. Voting is a symbolic act. In a nation of nearly 320 million people, individual votes may not carry much weight. However, citizens should use their votes not…
STAFF EDITORIAL | Students’ schedules demand extended curfew
Butler University’s buildings and facilities are notorious for having their doors locked early. Students looking for a place to exercise, study, or hang out on campus past 10:30 or 11 p.m. will be hard-pressed to find a place outside student housing to suit their needs. While appropriate for a suburban town, this curfew does not…
OPINION | Butler should consider adding bike lanes across campus
The addition of bike lanes could benefit Butler University in a myriad of ways. Creating bike lanes would improve the safety of everyone’s commute. Adding these lanes would give cyclers a place to safely ride their bikes without having to weave between the walkers on the sidewalk or traffic on the street. “The reason I…
OPINION | Student-run groups should consolidate
For a school of approximately 4,000 undergraduate students, Butler University has a vibrant extracurricular student life. When I first visited Butler’s campus as a prospective student in fall 2010, around 115 student-run organizations exist. Now there are over 150 student-run organizations, according to the university’s website. There needs to be a consolidation of student-run groups…
OPINION | SGA Assembly: fulfill duty to campus and student body
On Sep. 19, Student Government Association assembly voted and passed the SGA budget proposal. This familiar procedure took place in a matter of minutes with little debate or concern raised about where approximately $750,000 would be going. This all-too-common scenario illustrates an issue that assembly must face—SGA representatives need to take their jobs more seriously.…
OPINION | Know your rights when dealing with the police
Students and the rest of the community need to educate themselves about their rights with respect to the police. Last Tuesday, Butler University Police Department released a timely warning about a police impersonator. On Sept. 11, a man claiming to be a police officer stopped a student and had her complete a breathalyzer test.. The…
STAFF EDITORIAL | Where’s the transparency, BUPD?
Published Sept. 25, 2012 Butler University Police Department has the power to arrest in certain areas outside of Butler’s campus. BUPD officers are also equipped with firearms and other tools used by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers. So why won’t BUPD release all incident reports to those who request them like other police forces do?…