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The good, the bad and the dirty of random roommates

Illustration by Jessica Lee. CARISSA MARQUARDT | OPINION EDITOR | cfmarqua@butler.edu MARIA RAPISARDA | ASST. OPINION EDITOR | mrapisar@butler.edu Considering your first college roommate could mean the difference between a horror story and a fairy tale when you tell your family about them. Hearing so many of the former and not enough of the latter

Did you know?: Five fun facts about Butler University

Photo courtesy of Richie Diesterheft on Flickr. KATHLEEN BERRY | OPINION COLUMNIST | keberry@butler.edu Butler University is both school and home to its students, but how much do you really know about good ol’ BU? Here are five fun facts that might just blow your mind. One Dawg, Two Dawg. Red Dawg, Blue Dawg. According

Why social media has morphed into an approval-seeker of others

Butler student checks her Snapchat. Photo by Michael Brown. DOUGLAS ROCHE III | OPINION COLUMNIST | droche@butler.edu The internet drives society today. There is no other way around it.  It is our generation’s invention of the light bulb.  I would love to be able to go back to 1990 just before the World Wide Web

Importance of the first woman candidate of a major party

Illustration by Jessica Lee. MARIA RAPISARDA | ASST. OPINION EDITOR | mrapisar@butler.edu A joke was made when Sen. Bernie Sanders was still in the running that no matter who was elected as president, a milestone would be reached. If Sanders was elected, we would have the first Jewish president. If Hillary Clinton was elected, we

Nine or 19? Being a college kid is being a kid all over again

KATHLEEN BERRY | OPINION COLUMNIST | keberry@butler.edu Sitting cafeteria-style during meals, eating ice cream on the daily, sleeping in bunk beds, stopping to pet every dog you see and using a bike as your primary mode of transportation may all seem like activities lost to the same years spent on a set of monkey bars.

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