DANA LEE | STAFF REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu The Butler University women’s tennis team ended a weekend series of matches with one win and two losses. After a dominant 6-1 win at home over the University of Indianapolis on Feb. 12, the team fell to Lipscomb 6-1 on Feb. 13. The loss pushed Butler’s overall record…
Bulldogs of Butler: Brooks Carey
LIZZY HACKL | ASSIST. CULTURE EDITOR This is the latest installment of our Bulldog of Butler series. We hope to highlight the many people on this campus. Click here to read more stories about your fellow Dawgs. What do these things have in common: Vineyard Vines Representative, Delta Gamma member and a human version of…
Men’s tennis drops second straight match
JIMMY LAFAKIS | SPORTS REPORTER | jlafakis@butler.edu The Butler University men’s tennis team fell at the hands of the No. 46 University of Louisville Cardinals 1-6 on Feb. 12 on their court. The Cardinals boosted their overall record to 4-5, while the Bulldogs dropped to 2-6. Louisville seized the doubles point and never relinquished the…
Lee: Sports media may change some, but it won’t change me
DANA LEE | STAFF REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu I hope the TV network will not mind if I refuse to wear heels. Should it matter? No. Will it? Yes. I see myself teetering treacherously towards a future as a heel-adorned sports reporter, and my career ending with unfortunate headlines: “ESPN Reporter Slips on Ice Covering NHL”…
From a Butler student to a TV producer
ASHLEY TOMASZEWSKI | STAFF REPORTER For many, becoming part of the television world is a childhood dream. Butler senior Emi Dammers has turned this dream into a reality. The process has been anything but easy, Dammers said. She has devoted countless hours of hard work to creating her own original TV series, How to Be Human.…
Women’s tennis loses to Bradley
DANA LEE | STAFF REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu The Butler University women’s tennis team fell to Bradley University at home on Feb. 6 with a final score of 6-1. The defeat puts the team’s season record to 0-6. Junior Kailey Eaton was the sole winner for the Bulldogs after gaining the upperhand at No. 3 singles.…
Black voices, black pride: School spirit
Illustration by Camille Bates CAMERON ALFORD | CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST “To handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.” Carter G. Woodson made this statement referencing the miseducation of black students in America in his…
Schwitzer Hall to be closed and torn down
ANNIE WEBER | NEWS EDITOR Several meeting dates discussing the future of Schwitzer Hall were announced in an email from Chief of Staff Benjamin Hunter Tuesday morning. The current residence hall for first-year women will be closed and decommissioned after this academic year. The Board of Trustees has approved a preliminary plan for a new…
Butler softball begins season in Alabama
GRANT ANSCHUETZ | STAFF REPORTER | ganschue@butler.edu Although the weather may not suggest it, the Butler University softball team will have their first game in less than a week. They won’t be playing in the Indianapolis winter, however. Auburn, Alabama is the first stop of their trip down south. Six-year head coach Scott Hall said…
Butler women’s basketball snaps seven game losing streak, defeats Providence
ZACH HORRALL | SPORTS CO-EDITOR | zhorrall@butler.edu The Butler University women’s basketball team snapped a seven game losing streak to defeat Providence College 65-50 and win their second game of 2016 on Feb. 7 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Bulldogs’ other 2016 win also came against the Friars on their court Jan. 8. They now sit at…