Butler University officials suspect a lightning strike may be the reason that power is out in most of the campus’s buildings. Around 3:30 p.m., the Butler University Police Department sent an alert about a possible lightning strike to Butler’s power plant, located behind Schwitzer Hall. The outage affects all campus buildings except for Apartment Village, BUPD…
INTERNSHIPS IN SPOTLIGHT | CCOM position cut
This story is part of a series evaluating the internship coordinator position in the College of Communication. Part One | Internships in the spotlight—CCOM position cut Part Two | Students, Alum Petition CCOM Part Three | Internship Coordinator’s Contract to Expire Part Four | Coordinator Seeks Legal Counsel Jill McCarter | News Editor | jmccarte@butler.edu…
OPINION | Elevators a hazard to handicapped students
When the fire alarm went off in the basement of Jordan Hall on March 15, Kevin Weingartner couldn’t scurry up the stairs with the rest of his Butler University classmates who smirked at the buzzing drone, and were thankful to leave class a few minutes early.
OPINION | Butler, enforce couple policy
According to some, Butler University functions like a community of care. The university attempts to find work for spouses and partners of professors and administrators, and this brings Butler employees closer together. However, this stands in direct contradiction to Butler’s current policy. According to the “consensual relationships” policy—found on Butler’s website—”the University prohibits consensual relationships”…
OPINION | The administrative assistant does not need a Ph.D.
For a short-staffed faculty like Butler University’s, the hiring of a person with a doctorate degree is a good idea. Unless it’s to be an aide to President Jim Danko. The level of qualification for the hiring is ironic because the university is dropping its internship coordinator in the College of Communication. This seems to…
OPINION | Voting restrictions limit student voting ability
The right to vote is under attack across our country, and this attack originated in our state. Beginning in 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court backed Indiana’s 2005 law that forced voters to show photo identification, thousands of senior citizens, the poor and minority voters have been locked out of casting ballots. Butler University students…
LILLY HALL AFTER DARK | Students stay long after the lights go down
As the sun set on Thursday, Lilly Hall was bubbling with activity. Musical scales and melodies echoed outside the practice rooms on the second floor, classes were wrapping up in the ensemble rooms on the first floor, and the Butler Theatre was alight with people preparing for a week of tech rehearsals. “[Lilly] is my…
Inside Academics Part II | Core Curriculum short $400k
Butler University is $400,000 short of funding next year’s core curriculum, the 30-hour set of required classes for all Butler students.
Admits up for next year
Butler University has increased both its number of applications received and the number of admittances extended for the class of 2016. Tom Weede, vice president for enrollment management, said that Butler has admitted about 6,300 students for next semester. “That was right around our goal for what we were hoping to admit,” he said. Weede…
Reform affects student teachers
It has become more difficult to place Butler’s approximately 100 student teachers in the midst of education reform and the state’s new teacher evaluation standards, said Sue Stahl, director of student personnel services in the College of Education. The new evaluation guidelines will become effective next school year. Those who receive low ratings can be…