Expect your pockets to feel a little lighter, Butler. The Real Business Experience projects have firmly established themselves on campus. RBE is a program for sophomore business students. Students form teams, think up a business idea and then attempt to market it to the campus community or wider, depending on the product. Businesses this year…
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Being black at Butler
Jill McCarter | News Editor | jmccarte@butler.edu A look at the past, present and future of black students’ experiences and enrollment at Butler University. Walking down the sidewalks of Butler University before her freshman year during an admissions tour, Kazmyn Perry realized that if she chose to attend, she would be in the minority. Still,…
BU Giving looks to students for donations
Butler University officials said they hope to increase the school’s alumni gift ranking by inducing current students and recent graduates to donate. Butler’s 2011-12 alumni giving rate is 22 percent, according to US News and World Report, ranking the school 18th out of about 600 comprehensive regional universities. It takes almost 300 new undergraduate alumni…
New meal plan could take effect next year
Butler students may be seeing a change next school year based on student feedback about meal plans and dining services. A proposed meal plan would allow for unlimited entry into the residential dining halls during the meal blocks. There would be no restriction on the number of swipes during the meal block. The meal exchange…
Palmer, Reynolds seek to end SGA female presidency drought
There have been only five female Student Government Association presidents in the past 21 years at Butler University—something candidates Kelsa Reynolds and Katie Palmer hope to change this election. Despite Butler’s female majority and large female participation in SGA, the number of past female presidents is low. There are certain stereotypes female candidates have to…
BU Bigs honored for work
Nearly 20 Butler University students were recognized on Monday for their work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana as part of National Mentoring Month. Butler was among the 25 corporate partners acknowledged for creating an environment that encourages work with Big Brothers Big Sisters. “It says a lot about these companies that their…
OPINION | Solve donation deficit by controlling tuition hikes
Butler University may find it cannot draw water from wells that have already been drained dry. Across the nation, universities have raised tuition. Butler is no exception. In 1984 Butler tuition was $5,640—and that was after a nearly 14 percent increase from the year before. Today, with inflation, that would come out to $12,210.36. This…
OPINION | Timeline is a lesson for security
Facebook’s new Timeline layout will soon be every user’s default, and it will be like all other layout updates – a big pain. It will be annoying, confusing and frustrating. Facebook pages will be made to protest it which will like all the protest pages before it, be useless. The new layout presents issues that…
OPINION | Everyone should partake in Black History Month
A fairly common misconception about Black History Month is that it’s only a time for African-Americans. This is false. It’s a time for every American, no matter their race, to reflect on our nation’s past and learn about its history. February is Black History Month, and Butler University is hosting a string of events called…