The Butler Collegian deeply regrets a blog post written by one of our staff members and the anguish it has caused members of the Butler University community. The Collegian strives to hold itself to the highest journalistic standards to act as a professional newsroom. We feel the weight of that responsibility now more than ever.…
Student blog post causes controversy
A Butler Collegian staff member wrote an opinion column that was posted Nov. 27 on The College Fix, a news and commentary website run by the Student Free Press Association, unaffiliated with the Collegian or the university. In the piece, the student explains his reasoning for dropping one of Butler’s political science classes. The class…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Glad my student isn’t going to Butler
Patricia Bowman wrote the following in an email to President Danko in response to the College Fix article. Butler University was initially on my daughter’s college list: However, we decided against it for various reasons. All students should be open to new perspectives—but why are students in this course required to be someone they are…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | “College Fix” article disappointing
My former adviser at Butler sent me an opinion piece by Ryan Lovelace in The College Fix in which he expresses some troubling opinions on the nature of Butler’s liberal arts curriculum and the liberal arts in general. As a former photography editor of The Collegian, my first reaction was disappointment that a journalist from…