Black Student Union

  • Same campus, different experience: a discussion with the Black Student Union

    Same campus, different experience: a discussion with the Black Student Union

    Columnist Nate Lemen discusses the experience of being a black student on a predominantly white campus with three executive members of the Black Student Union.

  • Observing a history of racial diversity

    Butler University boasts a rich history of racial acceptance. However, some decades of Butler’s history are also tainted with influence from the Ku Klux Klan and segregation. “Ovid Butler had a very high vision of racial equality, which was, unfortunately, not always upheld,” Sally Childs-Helton, Irwin Library’s rare books and special collections librarian,  said. Butler’s…

  • Dueling Pianos event was entertaining, but lacked proper planning and participation

    With Saturday’s performance by Dueling Pianos International complete, October events on campus are off to a lukewarm start. The performance, which took place from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., featured two good-spirited keyboarders on two quarter-sized faux-piano electric keyboards, which appeared comically small in the expansive Reilly Room. Brandon Kent and Landon Rocks were both…