KATHLEEN BERRY | OPINION COLUMNIST | keberry@butler.edu Sitting cafeteria-style during meals, eating ice cream on the daily, sleeping in bunk beds, stopping to pet every dog you see and using a bike as your primary mode of transportation may all seem like activities lost to the same years spent on a set of monkey bars.…
Why college students should be excited for a new governor in Indiana
MADI MCGUIRE | OPINION COLUMNIST | mjmcguir@butler.edu This election season has been hectic, to say the least, and seems to be the topic of many college students’ conversations. The presidential election is certainly important, but Indiana residents have even more with which to concern themselves. Gov. Mike Pence accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination. This…
Lee: When athletes become heroes
Cartoon by Carissa Marquardt. DANA LEE | STAFF COLUMNIST | delee1@butler.edu Today, more than any other time in our history, is a time for heroes. For better or worse, athletes are magnified into larger-than-life personas, stretching past the media’s spotlight and seeping into our lives in an osmosis of fame and glory. They are immortalized…
First year frenzy: Top 5 most overwhelming college experiences
KATHLEEN BERRY | OPINION COLUMNIST | keberry@butler.edu For everything liberating about arriving on a college campus to the average first-year student, especially those living out of earshot of the infamous “my house, my rules,” there are just as many instances in which fun can turn into frustration. The following is a compilation of those latter…
Firsy day of college: The first of many firsts
First day of high school vs. first day of college. Illustration by Maria Rapisarda. DOUGLAS ROCHE III | OPINION COLUMNIST | droche@butler.edu Last Wednesday was the first day of school for Butler students, but for first-year students, it was monumental—it was their first day of college. It was the first of many firsts for…
Lee: The Olympics, set on pause
DANA LEE | STAFF REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu Watch for the moments of pause in every Olympic game. The silence that settles on air after the broadcaster speaks. The still in the arena before a buzzer accelerates a line of swimmers from their blocks. The second hand of a clock making its way around the circumference…
My neighbor is a Trip… No, literally!
Photo courtesy of Madi McGuire. MADI MCGUIRE | OPINION COLUMNIST | mjmcguir@butler.edu As a sophomore, I am fortunate to live in Apartment Village after the big Fairview over-packing controversy. If you never lived in Ross or Schwitzer Hall, I cannot explain to you how exciting it is to have my own room, a single shower…
How to manage college, friends and this crazy election year
Cartoon by Maria Rapisarda MARIA RAPISARDA | ASST. OPINION EDITOR | mrapisar@butler.edu Growing up, my parents told me there were four things you do not talk about: money, sex, religion and politics. Obviously, I outgrew this rule quickly and began to ask all of my friends in high school their views on religion and politics.…
Editor in chief sends letter to Collegian readers
KATIE GOODRICH | EDITOR IN CHIEF | kmgoodri@butler.edu Dear Collegian readers, Each new school year brings changes, and the Collegian is no exception. This year we are returning to a weekly print product, which will be eight pages of content in full color delivered every Wednesday. This bit of news (and it is very good…
So, I went to a Trump rally
ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION EDITOR | adprice1@butler.edu If you would have told me almost three years ago, when I took my first political science class, I would attend a political rally, I would have scoffed, rolled my eyes and probably said something about not believing in party affiliation. And if you told me the rally…