According to some, Butler University functions like a community of care. The university attempts to find work for spouses and partners of professors and administrators, and this brings Butler employees closer together. However, this stands in direct contradiction to Butler’s current policy. According to the “consensual relationships” policy—found on Butler’s website—”the University prohibits consensual relationships”…
OPINION | Advisers should advise, not lead
When student leaders apply, campaign for and put hours into their roles, they should also be able to defend themselves on their own. It’s time to take the training wheels off of Student Government Association. While I believe that faculty advisers for Student Government Association have good intentions, some of the actions in assembly leave…
OPINION | Coons a good pick for VP
Student Government Association President-elect Mike Keller made a bold move by choosing to have UnoBlessed Coons serve another year as the vice president of diversity programming, but it is a decision that I believe will benefit R.E.A.C.H. and Butler University. This appointment seemed to me, at first, contrary to what Keller said during his campaign…
OPINION | The administrative assistant does not need a Ph.D.
For a short-staffed faculty like Butler University’s, the hiring of a person with a doctorate degree is a good idea. Unless it’s to be an aide to President Jim Danko. The level of qualification for the hiring is ironic because the university is dropping its internship coordinator in the College of Communication. This seems to…
OPINION | Voting restrictions limit student voting ability
The right to vote is under attack across our country, and this attack originated in our state. Beginning in 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court backed Indiana’s 2005 law that forced voters to show photo identification, thousands of senior citizens, the poor and minority voters have been locked out of casting ballots. Butler University students…
STAFF EDITORIAL | Student issues must come first
Published April 10, 2012 OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Hiring unnecessary staff while vital positions are being cut is not the way to help Butler students succeed | VOTE: 27-0-4 A core curriculum program $400,000 in the red. Four percent increases in tuition. Recent controversies whirling around campus seem to be following the tone of money,…
STAFF EDITORIAL | Housing must be addressed
Next year’s junior class just finished its housing lottery. And some people didn’t hit the jackpot.
OPINION | Student activists should reprioritize
Published April 3, 2012 Imagine if students did not take to the streets on college campuses protesting the Vietnam War, race relations, sexual morals, women’s rights or the role of authority in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What achievements would be nonexistent today? Participation in community service by college students is at an all-time…
OPINION | Education crisis affects more than teachers
Butler University administrators spend a lot of time talking about the Pharmacy program and the College of Business—and for good reason. But the College of Education deserves some attention as well. Maybe it’s just me—I’ve lived with and am friends with several education majors—but it seems that Butler’s COE does a lot for its students…
OPINION | It’s the passion that counts
The recent struggle for Student Government Association President-elect Mike Keller to find nominees for the position of vice president of diversity programming has shed some light on the issue of filling SGA vacancies—and how best to push and represent diversity on Butler University’s campus. SGA usually requires that applicants for vice president of diversity programming…