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  • BOESAK: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO BUTLER

    Allan Aubrey Boesak was born in Kakamas, Northern Cape, South Africa, in 1945. Now he works more than 8,000 miles away. Here are some key moments in Boesak’s journey to Indianapolis. (Read more about Boesak and The Desmond Tutu Center he was named director of HERE.)  

  • A Center and its Director

    BY RYAN LOVELACE | Managing Editor #96479074 / gettyimages.com Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary have moved at “light speed” to launch The Desmond Tutu Center while expressing no concerns about the project or the leadership of the Rev. Allan Boesak. Boesak, a former anti-apartheid activist and politician in South Africa, arrived in Indianapolis in fall…

  • RED INK

    COLIN LIKAS | Editor-in-Chief The Butler Collegian is struggling financially­—along with other school newspapers and the nation’s newspaper industry—and is searching for new business models and revenue streams. Changes in technology and the recent recession have resulted in advertising revenue falling from a high of $42,000 seven years ago to a new low of less…

  • Assessing the value of student journalism

    BY MALLORY DUNCAN | ASST. ARTS, ETC. EDITOR The Butler Collegian has been publishing since 1886. The impact it—and other student newspapers—can have on their respective college and university campuses can be far reaching. “College papers are essential because not only do they just help the students learn how to do journalism but they help…

  • Joint Butler University-Christian Theological Seminary Center announced

    BY KEVIN VOGEL | ARTS, ETC. EDITOR BREAKING NEWS Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary will be partnering to operate a center for “leadership development in social justice and reconciliation, international relationships and interreligious bridge-building.” The center was announced tonight before a speech by Archbishop Desmond Tutu—for whom the new center is named—by Christian Theological…

  • Faculty member: Open discussion needed for tuition policy

    [Tuition remission] is a subject that greatly concerns me as both a faculty member who got three children through the commencement ceremony and a current [Faculty] Senator. CONTRIBUTED BY STEPHAN LAURENT-FAESI | Dance professor, Jordan College of the Arts The topic is a tough one. On one hand is the institution’s need for revenue to…

  • Reaction to parking changes varies

    BY JEFF STANICH | NEWS EDITOR Parking permits for the majority of Butler University’s students will cost nearly three times as much as last year. Students have had various reactions to the change, both in favor and against. Sophomore Serena Caress said the more expensive permit forced her to leave her car at home. “I…

  • IMPD has lead on Sunday’s armed robbery

    BY MELISSA IANNUZZI | ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Butler University and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Departments are searching for individuals who robbed two Butler students at gunpoint. Detective Bruce Allee said IMPD appears to have a lead in the case. Two Butler students were walking on 42nd Street around 3 a.m. Sunday when a car stopped…

  • Diversity, excitement and concern: a glance at Butler’s newest class

    ALEXANDRA BODE Staff Reporter   Butler University welcomed a record-breaking class last weekend. It was not size, but the group’s diversity which put it in the school’s history books. The class of 2017 is the most ethnically and geographically diverse freshman class to date. Of the 1,025 new students,  14.4 percent label themselves as “multicultural,”…