NATALIE SMITH | nmsmith1@butler.edu | News Co-Editor The last, little brown house on the Berkley knoll sits on the corner of Sunset Avenue and Berkley Road. Catherine Golden has lived in that house “forever.” She wants to stay there just as long. The issue that Golden and other Butler-Tarkington residents expressed concern with is the...
By: Marais Jacon-Duffy Editor-in-Chief Butler will begin construction on a new student-housing facility and a multi-use parking garage sometime in this coming school year. Plans for the new residence hall and parking garage were approved by Butler’s Board of Trustees and announced to faculty and staff in an email by University President James Danko yesterday....
NATALIE SMITH | Asst. News Editor It’s 11 a.m. on a Tuesday. A group sits down with an agenda, ready to discuss, recommend and vote on one of Butler University’s most controversial topics—parking. This group of 15 faculty and staff members and two students is called the parking committee. “The committee meets to discuss issues...
JULIANNE STRIBIAK | Staff Reporter Bright green tickets decorate the windshields of many students’ cars and the dollars add up. Junior Jordan Murphy said he received at least 10 parking tickets this year and tried to appeal at least two. “None of them were appealed because they didn’t see my explanation as a good enough...
MICHAEL BECKER Michael Becker is a guest columnist this week. He is senior strategic communication major. I cringe at the thought of parking at Butler University. He got me again. Another ticket from Butler parking enforcement officer Aaron Chalmers. It is one of nearly two dozen I have incidentally and haphazardly acquired during the three-and-a-half...
MIRANDA MARITATO | Staff Reporter Butler University Police Department organized a waitlist for B parking permits to accommodate students. Students who were seeking B permits after they had been sold out were able to sign up on the waitlist. Students who have changed housing arrangements, graduated, or left to study abroad gave back their B...
Taylor Powell | Opinion Editor The number of Residential College parking spaces has decreased due to the inadequate removal of street snow in addition to the already limited parking spots available to building residents. Large heaps of snow that have since turned into mounds of ice now occupy a significant amount of parallel-parking spots...
COLIN LIKAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Butler University parking committee discussed and debated the future of freshman parking, a sliding cost scale for faculty and staff parking decals and a new flex parking lot at its meeting Tuesday. A large portion of the two-hour meeting was used to contemplate potential new policies for freshman parking on campus....
Katie Goodrich | Staff Reporter Student Government Association and the Butler University Police Department plan to make further parking changes in addition to the changes announced prior to Fall Break. The two groups worked together to implement changes that would be beneficial for the students and the parking situation. Ben Hunter, chief of staff and...
Miranda Maritato | Staff Reporter Butler faculty is working to change the current regulations for parking lot two, located outside of the Fairbanks Center. In an effort to draw attention to the issue, College of Communication administrative assistant Maggie McGlynn and Liberal Arts and Sciences administrative assistant Amy Aldridge formed a petition to allow their...
