Opinion

  • OPINION | Artists and audience need to think before they post, tweet and film

    Free Speech Week was two weeks ago, and I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how great a privilege free speech really is. But the more I contemplate it, the more a certain phrase keeps popping into my head—just because I can doesn’t mean I should. And with so many outlets for free…

  • OPINION | Service learning should serve more

    Butler University incorporates service learning—volunteer work—into several courses. Frankly, Bulldogs should be even more involved in the community, and the university should incentivize them. I’ve heard faculty and students complain about the confines of the Butler Bubble, of being trapped in a world unrelated to Indianapolis. My advice? Go out and volunteer around the city.…

  • OPINION | Mandatory volunteering doesn’t help

    Baby-sitting small children sounds like fun for some people. I am not one of those people. I am all for helping the world. My version of helping the world though is not making sure that all the students at a community center have their afternoon snacks and play nicely on the playground. Through the university’s…

  • CARTOON | Pomp and Circumstance

  • CARTOON | Speaking shouldn’t scare

  • OPINION | People should know their status

    HIV seems to have gained a stigma in America as a disease that college students aren’t at risk of contracting. Many people are unwilling to get tested for HIV simply because they think there is no way that they could have it. I understand that it is very unlikely to contract HIV if you have…

  • OPINION | Protest must do more than occupy

    Occupy Wall Street slowly has been getting more national news attention in the past week and a handful of Bulldogs have taken up the cause here in Indianapolis. I can wholeheartedly agree with their posted goals, and I offer my support to the movement as a whole. However, I hesitate to say they will succeed.…

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Comics go too far, don’t cover all sides

    As I read The Butler Collegian in passing, I find it to be a solidly assembled work. I do have one growing concern that reared its ugly head, as of late. I would like to bring attention to the cartoons that have been published in recent weeks in The Collegian. I enjoy reading political cartoons…

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pharmacy comic misrepresents reality and university

    I find the cartoon portrayed in last week’s Collegian entitled “White Coat Culture” to be completely biased, inaccurate, and unsubstantiated. No one can deny that the pharmacy job market is beginning to level out.  Older pharmacists have delayed retirement and some chain drugstores have cut back hours.  There are no longer large sign-on bonuses or…