CAMERON ALFORD | CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST Who are you? Without a name, birth date, or a racial category to define you, who are you at the core? I believe we, as humans, categorize ourselves in order to feel a sense of belonging to something. When I think about acceptance, I don’t think about being recognized as…
Stop being so nice
DAVID MCNEAL | CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I am beginning to believe the world we live in reflects this proverb a little too well, and coming to Butler only strengthened that belief. Butler University is filled with nice people. We hold doors for each other. Thank you’s, compliments…
The discourse right under our noses
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | OPINION COLUMNIST The typical Butler University student is utterly unaware of the university’s duty to be part of a larger academic conversation—and even more unaware of how well it executes this role. This trend concerns me recently because of a publication that Booth Magazine just released. The MFA Program in Creative Writing…
Spring break struggles
PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST After waiting for what seems like forever, this weekend signals the highly anticipated beginning of spring break. Ah, spring break, that beautiful, if brief, period during a college student’s life when one can unwind and relax, preferably somewhere beautiful and on a beach. Spring break is often viewed as a…
40 days to a better you
PAIGE LISTON | OPINION COLUMNIST As a spiritual preparation for the Easter holiday in early April, the Lenten season is traditionally known as a time of fasting and self-sacrifice. During Lent, some will choose to give up their favorite sweets while having cheat days on Sunday, or maybe some will abstain from meat every Friday.…
You know you go to Butler when…
ALEXIS PRICE | OPINION COLUMNIST You know you go to Butler University when… Freshman year, your dormitory is hot all year round, due to the lack of air conditioning in the summer and the blazing furnaces in the winter. Over half of your flex dollars are gone by the first month, spent mostly on frappucinos…
#sorrynotsorry
HAYLEY ROSS | OPINION COLUMNIST “Say you’re sorry.” That is one of the first things our parents teach us when we are little. And our pre-school teachers, dance instructors, soccer coaches, babysitters and basically every other adult in our young lives remind us regularly. Sorry is the word that will make everything better. We were…
Avoid anonymous sources
MARC ALLAN | PUBLIC EDITOR Occasionally I read something that causes me to cringe. The story “Butler’s Cultural Requirement causes concern,” which ran on page four of the Feb. 18 Collegian, resulted in one of those moments. In the story, reporter Kyle Kitowski quoted a sophomore accounting major who thinks the cultural requirement—taking in eight…
Embracing Butler’s Cultural Requirement
CHRISTIAN HARTSELLE | OPINION COLUMNIST Butler University was founded on liberal arts, and the university has a responsibility to foster this culture. Last week, an unnamed accounting major said he or she usually tries to leave Butler cultural events early because they did not see their value, claiming they had never attended one they enjoyed.…
Tear down that wall: The little things
CAMERON ALFORD | CONTRIBUTING WRITER The little things in life make the greatest impact. From a simple “hello” to the slightest twitch in body language, the smallest gesture can make a huge difference. On Jan. 29, Zoë Morgan, a black prospective student from South Bend, visited campus. Our encounter started with a simple “hello” in…