Activism

  • Letter to the Editor: Students demand answers, action

    Letter to the Editor: Students demand answers, action

    Butler administration canceled an event featuring activist Angela Davis without the input of students who planned the event for four months. Now, they’re demanding for the event to be reinstated and an apology be issued to Davis.

  • The irony of conservative activism: sports boycotters in 2020

    The irony of conservative activism: sports boycotters in 2020

    Unsurprisingly, recent support for the Black Lives Matter movement has been met with backlash similar to what Colin Kaepernick faced in 2016.

  • Why you should be protesting on campus

    Why you should be protesting on campus

    Stop underestimating your power.

  • Your vote really does matter

    Your vote really does matter

    College students have a lot on their minds. We have due dates, deadlines, internships to apply for and our entire futures to worry about. Apparently, now we have the responsibility of worrying about our nation’s entire future as well.

  • Butler students attend Washington’s March for Our Lives

    Butler students attend Washington’s March for Our Lives

    The malice and aggression that suffocates most politically-charged public events was absent. Perhaps, this is due to the maturity and poignant power dynamic of student organizers.

  • Going Green at BU

    Going Green at BU

    Opinion Editor, Maria Rapisarda, provides tips for college students on how they can live an environmentally friendly life while on campus

  • OPINION | Anger over politicians’ words should spread to Congress’ actions

    “Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” This remark made by Richard Mourdock, Indiana’s Republican Senate candidate, during a recent debate highlights major misperceptions of rape within our culture. His comment was the most recent in a litany of insensitive statements politicians have…

  • OPINION | Students should get more political

    Butler University students need to recognize that the Student Government Association does much more than entertain students. Students can and should do more to make their college experience the best it can be. This cliché does not simply refer to concerts and extracurricular activities but also to activism and making the university a better place…