students
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Letter to my perpetrator: “I do not owe you anything”
“The Impact of 98 Seconds” is releasing the first in a collection of letters from a victim of sexual assault to their perpetrator. The letters are kept anonymous to protect their authors and help them feel comfortable talking about their experiences.
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Your vote really does matter
College students have a lot on their minds. We have due dates, deadlines, internships to apply for and our entire futures to worry about. Apparently, now we have the responsibility of worrying about our nation’s entire future as well.
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Diversity, excitement and concern: a glance at Butler’s newest class
ALEXANDRA BODE Staff Reporter Butler University welcomed a record-breaking class last weekend. It was not size, but the group’s diversity which put it in the school’s history books. The class of 2017 is the most ethnically and geographically diverse freshman class to date. Of the 1,025 new students, 14.4 percent label themselves as “multicultural,”…
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Official Situation
While many Butler University students like to watch men’s basketball games and try their hand in self-officiating, only a select few actually get the opportunity to take part in the real deal. Students are getting that opportunity at the Health and Recreation Complex through the intramural program. Student officials have to go through a two-day…
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OPINION | Students: Take initiative to communicate
Students should be more accountable for the information that administrators send to them. Focusing on information that administrators circulate at the beginning of each semester is critical because every year there are important new policies that students should know. Administrators utilize many tools to try and open lines of communication for students, including email, the…
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College of miscommunication?
The head of a student organization filed a complaint with the Council on Presidential Affairs about the College of Communication after several posters promoting a speaker were removed from the Fairbanks Center. Senior Jonathan Spear, president of ADrenaline, Butler University’s advertising club, said he felt his club’s free speech rights were being violated by the…
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A more than delicious Taste
If you have not been to Taste Café, then you have not experienced what food is supposed to taste like. Maybe that is why it is called Taste. Taste Café primarily specializes in breakfast and lunch but has recently begun serving dinner as well on Wednesday and Thursday nights. For first timers entering the restaurant,…
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STAFF EDITORIAL | Independence, free speech necessary for student organizations
We at the Butler Collegian believe it is the right of all active student organizations to exercise their First Amendment right of free speech and to act as the independent organizations they are. We are outraged that members of the Butler University faculty and staff would take it upon themselves to regulate the planned activities…