Fitz and the Tantrums, an indie-pop band, will headline this year’s Butlerpalooza concert.
Collegian preview 4.18
Host Kennedy Aiman gives viewers an inside look at the top stories from the Collegian this week. Stories include a potential pay increase for the SGA President, the money Butler earned from the NCAA Tournament, a preview at the final visiting writer of the year and a hot take about commencement speaker David Brooks.
Butler SGA hosts 2017 Homecoming
Events from games to movies and food trucks will be on campus for students to enjoy.
DNCE to headline Butlerpalooza 2017
Dance-rock band DNCE will perform at this year’s Butlerpalooza, SGA announced.
OPINION | SGA should heed advice of national government expert
When Butler University’s Student Government Association failed to release the vote totals from the recent SGA presidential election even after the SGA assembly voted in favor of releasing them, I felt that it was a large misstep for SGA. Now, those who think it is wrong to release the numbers should think again about their…
Meet the SGA candidates
Applications for Student Government Association president are in, and the candidates have begun the race to become next year’s student body leader. The candidates will participate in a meet and greet this afternoon at Starbucks from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Their first debate is slated for Feb. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the…
OPINION | Make presidential votes count
It’s not a national election, but SGA presidential campaigns are sure to entertain. Butler University students may be thinking like I am that this U.S. presidential campaign season has gone on long enough, considering all of the media hype it gets. Butler students are soon going to feel the hype getting closer to home as…
Electric Leader
With a determined expression, large headphones wrapped strategically around his head and the whispered count of beats, Mike Tirman is able to take a plain beat and make it dance. He calls himself DJ Frontir when he’s mixing beats, but when he’s mixing with students, faculty and administration at Butler University, he’s known as the…
OPINION | Good journalism clearly calls for more transparency at Butler
The Butler Collegian has undergone quite the facelift this year by reporting on things that impact the entire student body, by looking at things not just at face value and by source-building and digging around for newsworthy stories. The Collegian has started a conversation on campus that I don’t always like to hear, but it’s…
OPINION | Conflict of interest policy necessary
In a perfect world, college students could do any combination of things and never have a problem, but, as Butler University is not a perfect world, conflicts of interest are an unfortunate byproduct of being an active student leader on campus. Typically, leaders in student government are also leaders in a variety of other organizations,…