MARC ALLAN | mallan@butler.edu | PUBLIC EDITOR Sports writers have a rule: No cheering in the press box. That’s surely easier for most of them than it is for junior Kyle Beery, the Collegian’s sports editor. Whenever he’s covering Butler University men’s basketball for the paper, he’s writing about a team he’s been rooting for…
Alcoholism is real
MORGAN LEGEL | OPINION EDITOR There are many common phrases dealing with alcohol on a college campus, ranging from “I swear to drunk I’m not God” to “You are not an alcoholic until you graduate.” Both of these phrases probably come out of college students’ mouths every weekend, but one holds a little more weight…
Talk to me, You’ll Understand
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…