Autumn on Butler University’s campus. Photo from Flickr. CARISSA MARQUARDT | OPINION EDITOR | cfmarqua@butler.edu It may not feel like it, but it is official: fall has arrived. This time last year I was becoming an icicle at a renaissance fair, red-nosed and numb-fingered thanks to a relentless sprinkle of frozen rain. This time last…
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…
Hometown of state flag celebrates Indiana’s Bicentennial
Historical marker posted in downtown Mooresville. Photo by Madi McGuire. MADI MCGUIRE | STAFF REPORTER | mjmcguir@butler.edu Mooresville is a small town southwest of Indianapolis and is known as the home of the state flag. This December, the flag is turning 100-years-old while the state of Indiana turns 200. The bicentennial celebration is happening all…
Why Brock Turner’s release after half a six-month sentence is wrong
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons DOUGLAS ROCHE III | OPINION COLUMNIST | droche@butler.edu On June 2, Stanford rapist Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in Santa Clara county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious 22 year-old female behind a dumpster at a party on Jan. 18. On Sept. 2, Turner was released early for…
Things you did not know about apartment living
JENNA VORIS | OPINION COLUMNIST | jmvoris1@butler.edu Last year, I walked into my first Butler apartment excited and full of anticipation. Something about having my own dishwasher and a bathroom I did not have to share with 20 other girls made me feel like an official “adult.” Imagine my surprise when I walked into my…
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…
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.…