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  • Student group to perform in jazz festival

    Clowes Memorial Hall will overflow with skeetin’ and scattin’ and a hint of doodley dattin’ Saturday night as part of the 11th Annual Butler Vocal Jazz Fest. Butler University’s student vocal jazz group, Jordan Jazz, is busy preparing for the more than 150 high school students coming to Butler on Friday to participate. “It’s an…

  • School of music premieres new work for inauguration

    The Butler University Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of an orchestral commission by renowned composer Akira Kobayashi next week. The concert is part of the inauguration celebration for new Butler University President Jim Danko. The piece, entitled “Astraea,” was written specifically for the BSO and accompanies the “Fire of Desire” art symposium at…

  • Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut

    After celebrating our president’s inauguration this weekend, be sure to blow out a candle for Butler University’s  most famous student. No, we’re not talking about Gordon Hayward or Shelvin Mack, we’re talking about Hoosier author Kurt Vonnegut. The author of such novels like “Cat’s Cradle” and “Slaughterhouse-Five” was enrolled at Butler for a short time…

  • OPINION | Streets need more than signage for stopping

    In major cities all around the world, crosswalks are utilized to help pedestrians safely traverse busy streets. College campuses throughout the country are overrun by students when classes end, with cars unable to maneuver around the masses. At Butler University, with our small student population and heavily trafficked streets, it is a hazard to cross…

  • OPINION | Donor points fund Dawgs’ points

    High-caliber athletics come at a price—one that some fans argue is too high. The Collegian reported in “Seat not saved” on Nov. 2 that  some season ticket holders were told to increase their donation to retain their seats in accordance with the athletics department’s priority points program. While it’s unfortunate, it is a reality that…

  • STAFF EDITORIAL | University should cut consumption, fix printers

    It’s a familiar story. A student finishes a paper with only 10 minutes to spare and runs to the nearest printer, only to find it hopelessly jammed. He or she fires off a barely coherent email to the professor and sprints to class, arriving sweaty and panting, only to hear that Dr. So-and-so doesn’t accept…

  • Flooding poses problem for campus officials

    Chris Goff | Copy Chief | cgoff@butler.edu Kyler Naylor | Staff Writer | knaylor@butler.edu A few hours of rain can mean as much as an inch of standing water and waves of headaches for Butler University students looking to traverse campus sidewalks. Senior secondary education major Kyle Black said he was riding his bike to…

  • Campus dining hall offers solution to ‘lunch crunch’

    Students looking to escape the crowd in Residential College during lunch hours can now purchase to-go containers. Dining Services added the option to purchase a reusable to-go container during lunch and breakfast hours at ResCo. After students make their first purchase of the container, which costs $5, they return their rinsed container and swap it…

  • Expansions reflect rise in students with disabilities

    Butler University’s Student Disability Services and Learning Resource Center both expanded this fall to better accommodate the rising number of students requiring additional academic services. Student Disability Services Butler’s number of students with disabilities rose from 160  students in fall 2007 to approximately 230 at the start of this year—representing about 5 percent of the…