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  • Butler summer housing to be in the Apartment Village this year

    Butler summer housing to be in the Apartment Village this year

    Students have multiple options for living on or near campus over the summer. This year, on-campus housing will be in the Apartment Village, instead of ResCo, where students have lived during summers in the past.

  • Butler rising sophomores stuck in ResCo for 2019-20 school year

    Butler rising sophomores stuck in ResCo for 2019-20 school year

    Rising sophomores were stuck waiting for hours after their scheduled times at a room selection event on March 27. About eighty of those students will have to live in ResCo instead of Fairview next year.

  • ResCo residents deal with six fire alarms

    ResCo residents deal with six fire alarms

    Six fire alarms occured in the building in the past week, issue identified.

  • BUPD Crime Log: Feb. 20 – Feb. 27

    BUPD Crime Log: Feb. 20 – Feb. 27

    Between Feb. 20 and Feb. 27, BUPD reported 14 instances of crime on or related to Butler’s campus. Reports included vandalism, unlawful entry, and theft from a building as well as three separate incidents in Resco.

  • Heavy rains put campus in the dark

    KATIE GOODRICH STAFF REPORTER Halloween night was especially spooky this year with power outages in four buildings on campus. Irwin Library, Jordan Hall, part of Lilly Hall and Residential College lost power around 7:30 p.m, said Rich Michal, executive director of facilities. Students in ResCo were evacuated Thursday night because of safety concerns. Michal said…

  • Checking in on freshmen in ResCo

    Despite being removed from other first-year students, freshmen in Residential College are showing no signs of disadvantage after nearly two semesters at Butler University. On Aug. 31, The Collegian published an article checking in on first-year students in the freshman unit of ResCo to compare their social experience with freshmen living in other residence halls…

  • Mardi Gras ‘a learning experience’

    The Diversity Center held its first student-organized Mardi Gras celebration on Feb. 21 in the Residential College dining room. The event featured Butler University’s Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Pivec, assistant director of music, Cajun cuisine provided by Yats, psychic readings and a Mardi Gras Faux Floats contest. Bobbie Gibson, assistant director of…

  • Plan for international living unit in the works

    The International Student Services Office is making plans for an international living unit next semester in ResCo, according to the office’s associate director. The unit would potentially feature 20 international students and 20 domestic students and the hope is that this arrangement will better integrate international students into the Butler culture. “I feel peers have…

  • Administration working to improve rentention rates

    The retention rates at Butler University have been consistent over the years, but the university is looking to bring them closer to 100 percent. Right now, Butler’s average retention from first to second year is 88 percent. “If you don’t retain students there, they won’t be there for their junior year,” Associate Provost Mary Macmanus…