DONALD PERIN STAFF REPORTER Cooper Dinges went through the ice-breaker activities with a far different perspective than the typical incoming freshman. It was not because of the awkward questions and group activities, but because Dinges is a 23-year-old veteran Marine Corps corporal. Dinges is the vice president of the new Veterans Club on Butler University’s…
Veterans Adjust to Campus
It didn’t take long for Chuck Pennington to go from run-of-the-mill private second class in the U.S. Army to a hero. As a medic on his first deployment in Iraq, Pennington was riding in a tactical vehicle when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device. The attack was effective enough to take out…