Justine Koontz, who recently completed her masters degree in choral conducting and composition at Butler University, is currently abroad in Latvia and researching choral culture as a Fulbright scholar.
Basketball players receive money for schooling costs
ZACH HORALL | STAFF REPORTER The NCAA will now allow Division I programs to give basketball student-athletes a stipend for the cost of attendance, an allowance to help them pay for outside expenses while in college. The Big East announced in May that all men’s and women’s basketball programs in the conference will give their...
No pay? Don’t intern.
JULIAN WYLLIE | jwyllie@butler.edu | Opinion Editor Completing an internship does not guarantee future success or wealth. This is especially true for students working as an unpaid intern. The hiring rate for college graduates who completed an unpaid internship was 37 percent, according to a National Association for Colleges and Employers survey in May 2013....
LJ Under Fire: Freshman Caucus Hosts a Roast
MARAIS JACON-DUFFY | News Editor Most Butler University students have heard about Levester Johnson’s tweet treats, love for social media or, at the very least, his nickname “LJ.” What many would not know is that Johnson is a diehard country music fan and that he takes pride in his home gardening. Due to his prominence...
Students jump on new student handler job
MIRANDA MARITATO STAFF REPORTER Butler students looking for a more “paws-on” employment opportunity on campus may be fit to be a handler for Butler’s live mascot, Blue III. The Butler Blue Crew is searching for Butler students to serve as Trip’s handlers and social media liaisons. The group will be composed of 15 to 20...
Saving money now could save students later
By Tony Espinal If you haven’t started thinking about saving money for emergencies or retirement, start now. While I was a student at Indiana University, money was never a big issue for me. I had a monthly stipend from my time in the military to pay my bills. I had good credit. I would work...
Peace Corps recruits Butler students
Kate Goodrich | Staff Reporter The Peace Corps will have a booth at the Big Dawg Fair this afternoon. The willingness of Butler students to volunteer regularly attracts Peace Corps recruiters and brings them to Butler’s campus. “We’ve seen our applicants from Butler definitely have that spirit of volunteerism and that global perspective,” said Jessica...
Veterans Adjust to Campus
It didn’t take long for Chuck Pennington to go from run-of-the-mill private second class in the U.S. Army to a hero. As a medic on his first deployment in Iraq, Pennington was riding in a tactical vehicle when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device. The attack was effective enough to take out...
MORE ON THE SGA BUDGET
All 3,953 members of Butler University’s student body pay $144 each semester in student activity fees. Of this $144, about $90 goes to fund Butler’s Student Government Association. The full budget, which has been voted on by members of the assembly every week since the first meeting on Sept. 14, has been finalized—that is, unless...
Carroll: ‘I will spend this year’s money on this year’
MORE ON THE SGA BUDGET Every year, each Butler University student pays about $288 in student activity fees. Every year, about $180 of those fees go to Student Government Association. And every year, SGA’s executive board and SGA representatives are faced with the task of using those funds to engage students with programs that are...