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  • The First 55: Endless ways to be a Bulldog

    The First 55: Endless ways to be a Bulldog

    From Aug. 24 through Oct. 17, The First 55 encourages Butler students to make the most of the first 55 days of the school year with events like Weeks of Welcome, Homecoming, athletic events and Family Weekend. Assistant Multimedia Editor Nia Followell shares why the first days of school are important.

  • Butler University hosts Block Party for first-year students

    Butler University hosts Block Party for first-year students

    Block party is an annual event hosted at Hinkle Fieldhouse concluding Butler’s first-year students’ orientation week. Multimedia Reporter Blaine Raider talks about the importance of this event. 

  • Welcome from Butler’s SOGs

    Welcome from Butler’s SOGs

    “There are a lot of people here that want to help you.”

  • What I’ve learned after my first two weeks at Butler

    What I’ve learned after my first two weeks at Butler

    Illustration by Maria Rapisarda. DOUGLAS ROCHE III | OPINION COLUMNIST | droche@butler.edu On Aug. 20, I moved into Ross Hall and began the next chapter in my life: college.  While that was only two weeks ago, it feels more like two days. It seems it was just yesterday I hugged my mom and dad goodbye…

  • 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.…