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The Butler University Student Government Association hopes to settle confusion over the eligibility of some members who sit on a key election committee. A vote is scheduled in this afternoon’s assembly on whether to suspend a provision of the SGA constitution that requires members of the Election Oversight Committee to have served at least two consecutive semesters in SGA assembly. The EOC plays a major role in SGA elections. The committee sets election dates, oversees budgets, enforces campaign rules and veriﬁes election results. Four students elected last semester to the seven-person

committee are freshmen. They are now the focus of eligibility concerns after EOC chair James Schubert, himself a freshman, grew concerned with the eligibility of the current committee. Those in favor of the possible suspension say that there are not enough willing upperclassmen to ﬁll the committee. Those opposed to it say freshmen should not be allowed to serve on the committee because they are inexperienced. The language in the SGA bylaws previously had been construed as allowing freshmen to serve on the EOC, as long as they simultaneously were a representative in assembly during their ﬁrst two semesters. Found in Article XI, Section 1, of the constitution, the tenure clause was initially inserted as an amendment two years ago. “That was back in a time in SGA

when we didn’t talk about things very much,” parliamentarian AJ Teare said. A suspension of the semester requirement, which requires a two-thirds vote, is expected to be temporary. Teare said SGA plans to eventually amend its constitution to plainly permit all SGA representatives to sit on the EOC, regardless of semesters served. “We’re going to do that later with a bunch of other changes,” Teare said. “This [potential suspension] is just so we can run effectively, legally to the constitution.” Former EOC chair Anna Roueche said she’s not so sure the twosemesters language actually bars freshmen. When she headed the committee two years ago, freshmen did serve. Teare said he expects the rule see eoc page 3

SGA’s Election Oversight Committee is charged with the task of keeping tabs on SGA candidates. Last year, EOC oversaw the campaigns and debates between Al Carroll and Anna Roueche. Photo by Ryan Love

SGA to take up drinking bill If this state bill becomes law, certain intoxicated minors would be protected. AISHA TOWNSEND

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Butler University President Jim Danko and other administrators held a town hall discussion on Monday to address questions and concerns voiced by students. Twenty students, less than 1 percent of the student body, attended the event in Jordan Hall.

Endowment part of discussion at president’s town hall SARA PRUZIN SPRUZIN@BUTLER.EDU

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Economic and spatial growth were on the minds of students and vice presidents at Butler University President Jim Danko’s town hall meeting on Monday night, where about 20 students asked questions and voiced concerns to university administrators. Danko, along with Vice Presidents Bruce Arick, Levester Johnson, Gerald Carlson and Chief of Staff and Executive Director of Public Safety Ben Hunter, ﬁelded questions from members of the Butler community. Both Danko and Arick said growing Butler’s funding is one of their goals. Butler’s current endowment is about $150 million, and Arick said there is a goal of increasing it to $175 million by 2014. Danko said he has hopes of doubling it under his tenure. A larger endowment, he said, would be more prone to market change but would allow for more continuity year to year. “I’ve never been at an institution so tuition-dependent,” Danko said. “It’s like we’re waiting to hear whether or not that last student is coming so we can decide what we can do.” Arick said it could be grown through new gifts, and more money would give the university more ﬂexibility and the ability to

I’ve never been at an institution so tuitiondependent. It’s like we’re waiting to hear whether or not that last student is coming so we can decide what we can do. JIM DANKO UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT do more. “I’ve never talked to a CFO who said their endowment is too big,” he said. Danko said that only about 25 percent of living alumni give back to the university. Danko is embarking on a national tour to connect with alumni and promote the university. Senior Nathan Krout asked about students’ role in building an alumni network, which would contribute to that money. Danko said relationships are important, and students are a source of building them. “It’s one thing for me to reach out, but it’s a whole other level when a student does,” he said. With a growing budget comes

the idea of a growing size. Prompted by a question from sophomore Nathan Holden about the breadth of academic curriculum offered, Danko said that while a smaller size allows closer community and interactions, it does limit course offerings and areas because of a smaller faculty size. He said there’s not a clear desire for the size of the campus, and it will be an item on the next Board of Trustee’s meeting. “We really have to settle on this vision of the university,” Danko said. Krout asked about renovations, and Johnson said residence hall improvement would be a component of them. “It’s not just about building new places but also about maintaining what we have,” Johnson said. The town hall was a part of Danko’s attempt to ﬁnd new ways to interact with students in a variety of different venues. He has posted three dates of ofﬁce hours for speaking to different classes and faculty. He said they will help him to better understand the needs of the university. “While I may not have all the answers, we’ll at least begin to know some of the answers,” he said. The Collegian was unable to reach administrators from university advancement or alumni and parent programs by press time.

Butler University’s Student Government Association will decide this afternoon whether to support a bill currently making its way through the Indiana General Assembly. The bill would protect minors from criminal charges involving alcohol consumption and will move to the House of Representatives after unanimously passing the Indiana Senate. Indiana Lifeline Law, Senate Bill 274, provides immunity for the crimes of public intoxication, minor possession, minor consumption and minor transportation of alcohol if minors are seeking medical assistance through law enforcement. SGA President Al Carroll is joining student government associations at Purdue University, Indiana University, University of Southern Indiana and Ball State University in a coalition supporting the bill. “It’s important for us to make note of what’s going on in the state,” Carroll said. SGA representatives will vote on a resolution supporting the Indiana Lifeline Law this afternoon in assembly. “(The resolution) will be sent to the Indiana House of Representatives in hopes of having an impact,” Carroll said. Carroll said he sees ﬁrst hand as a residence assistant that Butler students take advantage of seeking help if they need it. “I hope people continue to ﬁnd help and feel more secure in doing so because of this,” Carroll said. Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, said this is already a practice at the university. “We have an option, unlike city police, to report to student affairs and have the student go through that process, which leaves no criminal offense on the student’s record,” Hunter said.

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Someone dying is a grieving process for the institution. I’d rather you’d just call us. BEN HUNTER CHIEF OF STAFF, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY BUPD officers are obligated under the Clery Act to report any criminal activity on the campus, but that doesn’t affect the student, Hunter said. “I can’t ignore alcohol consumption because the law is the law, but we do have discretion under the Indiana code,” Hunter said. This practice is reflected in the 2010 Comprehensive Combined Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report. During that year, there were 274 total liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action and 2 liquor law arrests. “Getting the student help by teaming up with student affairs is the best model,” Hunter said. Students may be afraid of disciplinary actions that surround these instances, but Hunter said that is the last thing the student should worry about. “Someone dying is a grieving process for the institution,” Hunter said. “I’d rather you’d just call us.” Hunter said he can’t say how the passing of the bill and the support of SGA will affect how students make the call in a moment of need. “Do I hope it will help? You bet,” Hunter said. “But in the moment, it’s hard to do the right thing.” Irene Stevens, dean of student life, said that the increase in high-risk drinking is a concern for university officials. “We’ve seen an increase in the past three years,” Stevens said. “In the fall term we had 19 students go to the hospital when we used to have about nine a year.” Stevens said what see lifeline page 3

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Plan for international living unit in the works New unit would be located in ResCo and would house 40 students.

A unit of international students may be housed in ResCo next year if enough students are willing to participate.

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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 the ability to introduce them into the Butler culture,” Hillary Zorman, associate director of international student services, said. “The staff can only do so much.” International students would live with a domestic student to better help the integration process. “Roommates are key in the process,” Zorman said. “[Domestic students] have friends they can introduce them to and help them feel they are a part of the Butler community.” International and domestic students would be spread throughout the wing, Zorman said. “We don’t want to isolate international students,” Zorman

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said. “We want a mix of domestic and international students.” The unit’s existence depends upon the willingness of domestic students to volunteer to be a part of it. Zorman said she believes this will not be an issue, judging from the amount of students who participated in Diversity Ambassadors for the International Orientation earlier this year. Zorman said she hopes the new wing will take root in ResCo and then possibly spread to other places on campus like the Apartment Village. “I hope it is here forever and we

can expand it through campus,” she said. Freshman Stephen Rooney, who is currently rooming with freshman Sam O’Neill, a student from New Zealand, said he encourages others to volunteer to room with international students. “You’re going to get a good experience with it,” Rooney said. “You’ll learn a lot about places in the world that you’ve never been and you’ll probably never get a chance to visit.” In addition to living in New Zealand, O’Neill has also lived in Germany, Australia and Indonesia. Freshman Brennan Walker’s

living experience with an international student is different from Rooney’s due to a language barrier. Walker’s roommate, Manuel Baldizon, is from Guatemala. “The language barrier is difﬁcult, but it’s something you can get around very easily,” Walker said. Walker said he feels his experience has taught him how to interact with people with different backgrounds. “Being at Butler, you get a lot of people with the same backgrounds,” Walker said. “Manuel told me about how things here are different than living there. It’s pretty cool to learn about all the other things that

happen in different cultures.” International students help add to the diversity and Butler experience, Zoman said. “International students are incredible people with incredible stories,” Zorman said. “The diversity they can provide is good for Butler University. She also said she believes both international students and domestic students beneﬁt from the international experience. “The international student isn’t the only one gaining from our culture,” Zorman said, “but [domestic students and Butler] gain as well.”

Registration for summer courses opens today LUKE SHAW

afternoons, which leaves time for an internship. Classes are broken into two sessions, beginning May 15 and June 25. Because the same amount of contact time is required for the six-week courses and semesterlong courses, summer classes usually last three to four hours and meet four to ﬁve times a week. Registrar Sondrea Ozolins said class schedules are designed to put students in “the best learning situation.” A typical day for a summer study student consists of one to two classes a day on top of an internship or summer job, she said. To sophomore Freedy Rastede, an electrical engineering and physics major who has taken

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Registration for summer courses at Butler University starts today, and ofﬁcials say that the experience could help students catch up, boost their résumés or travel. For students who don’t want to spend their vacation lounging on the pool deck, a Butler summer session may be an option. Whether enrolling in classes, starting an internship, participating in the Indiana Brain Gain or studying abroad, Butler students have a variety of options to keep busy this summer. If students decide to stay and study at Butler, classes are offered in the mornings or

office coordinator of ICS, said. “But we are definitely a tool that should be utilized by students.” All internship openings are posted on the ICS website using B.L.U.E., a program that lists internship positions across the country. The ICS office holds normal hours during the summer, and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Students who choose to stay on campus during their vacation can also participate in the Indiana Brain Gain, a program that is “designed to help students connect with the Indianapolis culture and community during the summer,” according to the ICS website. Each Wednesday, Brain Gain participants attend a cultural event, ranging from cooking

summer classes at Butler, the long classes weren’t a problem. “Class was taught at a faster pace,” he said. “But I was still able to keep up and get a lot done.” Junior chemistry major Dylan Harmison said he also liked the class structure. “Honestly, I almost preferred it to the long, drawn-out learning of classes during the school year,” he said. The Butler summer session also offers internship assistance to students over their break. Students interested in gaining career experience in their respective ﬁelds can make an appointment with Internship and Career Services. “We can’t guarantee you an internship,” Jeremy Walthall,

classes to company tours. In order to participate in the Brain Gain, students must live in the University Terrace or Apartment Village. All Brain Gain applications are due by 5 p.m. on March 30. If students need a break from Butler during their vacation but still want to get credit, study abroad programs are also available through the Center for Global Education. To sophomore Kyle Graden, an international business and Spanish major, choosing to study abroad during the summer was a no-brainer. “In order to do all my credits, I had to do summer school,” he said. “I ﬁgured what better way than a trip to Mexico?”

Students pursue off-campus summer studies

BY THE NUMBERS The most popular subjects for Butler students to study during the 2011 summer sessions were pharmacy, business and chemistry. Other popular areas are listed below, ranked by the number of credit hours taken. Graphic by Hayleigh Colombo

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Butler University students who want to crack open their textbooks this summer outside of the Butler Bubble may have to jump through a few extra hoops in order to get credit. Getting transfer credit for courses requires approval from the department head, the dean of the college or the core administrator and the student’s adviser before the student can apply for summer courses at another college, said Sonya Moore, coordinator of transfer credit. Students are not allowed to take pass-or-fail courses elsewhere, and they must complete their last 30 hours at Butler. Some of Butler’s colleges have different requirements for obtaining transfer credits. Most colleges and majors require a grade above a C615 for the credit to transfer, but COPHS has tighter

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take two courses in financial accounting and organizational behavior over the summer at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. “I was abroad previously, and I wanted to graduate early,” Patrick said. “It was just convenient to get those six credits out of the way.” A disadvantage of non-Butler summer courses is the inequality in the learning environment. Summer terms at other schools can be different than Butler’s. Contact hours are squeezed into a shorter period of time. Credit is based on contact hours, so the workload is usually different than it would be during a regular term. “The transfer policy applies to all colleges, but in some cases, it is difficult for students to find pharmacy or chemistry classes that meet the standards required for advancement,” Ozolins said. Ozolins explained that, with chemistry, if a student is not happy with the original grade he or she receives, he or she can

restrictions. “Students must make sure to read instructions according to their college,” Moore said. In order to get transfer credits, students must ﬁll out a transfer credit approval form, which is available online on the registrar’s page of the Butler website. There are two different forms: one for core curriculum and one for courses in a certain college. Advisers are utilized throughout the process to make sure the student takes the right course and gets the desired credit. Proximity to home and lower cost are common advantages of taking courses elsewhere over the summer. Several courses, such as chemistry, are difﬁcult to get into, which makes taking them elsewhere an appealing option. “If a student lives far away from Butler, they will choose a school closer to home,” Registrar Sondrea Ozolins said. “It’s all the student’s choice.” Tory Patrick, who graduated from Butler in 2011, decided to

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retake the course to achieve a higher grade. However, the grade does not change if the course is taken at another school. Ozolins said she is always glad to see a summer term ﬁll up, and the school is examining how to make the term more interesting for students. “We try to keep students interested and involved,” Ozolins said. When deciding to take summer courses elsewhere, students have a few restrictions regarding schools. The college must be regionally accredited and a part of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. According to their websites, Indiana, Purdue and DePauw Universities follow a similar set of rules for recognizing transfer credits from other universities and colleges. When a summer course is completed, an ofﬁcial transcript must be sent to Registration and Records here at Butler.

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suspension to be approved. “I’m 100 percent sure,” he said. Last Wednesday the committee introduced the topic orally as an assembly announcement. Today EOC eligibility is on the agenda as new business. Council on Presidential Affairs Chair Mike Tirman said the matter may be put to a vote, even though SGA ordinarily would not vote on new business, because the issue was broached a week ago. He said that gives representatives the typical week to weigh their decision. Tirman said it’s important to resolve uncertainty about the committee. “What’s going on is really to clarify,” Tirman said. “Although I am never in favor of just changing the constitution frivolously, this is one point where it makes sense because we want it to be understandable to the next generation of EOC members who have to read it and make a judgment call.” Roueche said only allowing students with two prior semesters in assembly to join the EOC would limit the pool of available talent. “Except for my freshman year, I feel like it’s been a real struggle to get seven people to serve (on the EOC),” Roueche said. “It’s like pulling teeth, really.” Freshman music theory major Nathan Smith said he supports the idea of students benefitting from semesters of learning before joining the EOC. “You need to understand the university and the organization,” Smith said. “I really do believe you need some form of experience.” But Roueche said she ran eagerly, though unsuccessfully, for election to EOC as a freshman. “I had lots of ideas,” she said. “I think discounting freshmen disregards any experience they might have had in high school or fresh ideas and new perspectives.” Teare said many of the top candidates for the EOC are freshmen, and that is why he and many others in SGA believe the constitution needs to be amended to guarantee eligibility for all representatives who are otherwise in good standing. While the EOC prepares for spring elections, they are waiting for a firm resolution that could come as soon as today if the vote to suspend the two-consecutive-semesters rule is successful. “We don’t want someone to come back and say, ‘Well, this EOC isn’t legitimate in the first place,’” Teare said. “That’s what I want to get fixed and run smoothly from here out.”

Senior Ronald Nored dances with students at Butler University’s Labaratory School 60 on Tuesday. Nored is one of the Butler students student teaching at the school, which opened in August. Photo by Rachel Anderson

Butler University’s Laboratory School 60, a 15-year culmination of work, offers a non-traditional curriculum and environment for young students. KYLER NAYLOR KNAYLOR@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Butler University Laboratory School is now entering its second semester of educating both students and student teachers. The school, a collaboration between Butler and Indianapolis Public Schools, is located at 3330 N. Pennsylvania Ave. and serves nearly 100 children in preschool through ﬁrst grade classes. Ron Smith, a Butler graduate and the school’s principal, said he is very pleased with where the school is at, but would like it to see it continue to grow and improve. “I don’t think this is a school that will ever stand still,” he said. “I think it’s a school that will always be looking forward to the future to think about how we can do our work better, how we can make our learning community stronger than it already is.” Based on the Reggio Emilia philosophy, the school is a unique and tailored learning experience. Reggio Emilia is an educational style that believes “children have 100 ways of knowing, learning and expressing their understanding and interpretations of the world,” said COE Dean Ena Shelley, an expert on Reggio Emilia. “All children are seen as capable, competent, powerful learners with ideas that should be honored and examined.” The lab school isn’t a typical elementary school. The low lighting, the open space, the tables of varying heights—everything comes together to create a comfortable, relaxing,

natural atmosphere. Its costs are equal to those of a typical elementary school. The physical environment of Reggioinspired schools and traditional schools differ signiﬁcantly, Shelley said. “When one visits the lab school, one sees classrooms that are aesthetically beautiful, and every learning material is intentionally planned to engage children in deep investigations,” she said. The Reggio-inspired environment is designed to help students relax and focus, steering away from the harsh ﬂuorescent lighting of some typical elementary schools. Cathy Hargrove, a professor of education, said getting students to think beyond a white sheet of paper allows teachers to use a variety of materials to demonstrate skills and concepts. “It gives children a variety of ways to be able to sit and interact with one another,” she said. “The environments are created for the children, not the adult. We want them to feel that sense of success.” Young children aren’t the only students learning at the lab school. The school also is designed to allow Butler undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in education, and it has a classroom dedicated to a Butler course that meets all day twice a week. The lab school is fortunate that undergraduates get to see Butler graduates working with students immersed in the Reggio philosophy, Hargrove said.

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Classrooms at Butler University’s Laboratory School 60 are tailored to ﬁt the Reggio Emilia philosophy.

In fact, every teacher is a Butler graduate. “There’s real application backing all of the things they’re studying and learning about in class. It makes the learning visible for them,” she said. “We are the Butler University Laboratory School, so there’s a very tight ﬁt with the College of Education and this school, and a memo of understanding between the Indianapolis School Board and between the Board of Trustees at Butler that outlines how this school will be staffed and what this school will be,” Smith said.

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Butler currently does is similar to what the bill is stating. “We use an educational approach depending on the severity of the violation,” Stevens said. Students who face alcohol violations are subject to online alcohol teaching sessions, essay writing, counseling or seminars, depending on the severity of the violation, Stevens said. Students who are arrested or have faced multiple sanctions can be put on conduct probation, meaning he or she would not be in good standing in the university. University ofﬁcials are currently reevaluating their system to implement new practices and improve current ones, Stevens said. “We had an alcohol task force evaluate and make recommendations for things we

can do differently,” Stevens said. “So hopefully next year it will be different in education, alcohol policy and better choices.” Purdue Student Body President Brett Highley said that the support of this law will bring a positive effect on the personal safety and well-being of students. “It is important to realize that the effects of this law will not only result in more young adults seeking medical attention when it is needed,” Highley said. “This increase will also lead to more targeted educational efforts to serve as an earlier intervention for those individuals who need it most before irresponsible drinking patterns become habitual.” The work continues as student leaders prepare for the bill to appear in the House. “In the coming weeks we will continue to meet with legislators to articulate the challenges our communities face dealing with high-risk drinking practices and demonstrate that we have responded with a sound policy,” Highley said.

CORRECTIONS The Jan. 25 issue of The Butler Collegian contained incorrect information. -In “Trial period of controversial DoupleMap nears end,” it was stated that 200 people signed the petition. Two people signed the petition. -In “Welcome to the party,” junior Taylor Staniszeski was listed as a speech pathology major. Staniszeski is a communications sciences and disorders major. -In “BUPD’s new K-9 challenges fame of Butler Blue II,” it was stated that Marcus the dog is a drug-snifﬁng dog. He is not. The Butler Collegian corrects errors of fact. Questions should be directed to editor in chief Hayleigh Colombo (hcolombo@butler.edu).

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R.E.A.C.H. Week ‘a sign of good things to come’

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Renting out houses crosses minds of students Prosperous as it seems, leasing during the Super Bowl could prove costly. LAUREN STARK

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R.E.A.C.H. hosted an ice cream social on Thursday. Students ate ice cream from locally-owned Lick and watched “I Don’t Know How She Does It.”

After a change in leadership, R.E.A.C.H chair is looking forward to more events. RYAN LOVELACE RLOVELAC@BUTLER.EDU

Throughout R.E.A.C.H. Week, the organization held events like Blindfolded Speed Dating.

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About 400 students attended annual R.E.A.C.H. Week celebrations, which culminated Friday. With events like “Ethnic Fest: Celebration of the Chinese New Year” and a screening of the new movie “Red Tails,” R.E.A.C.H. sought fun ways to promote diversity within the categories of gender, spirituality, race and sexual orientation. UnoBlessed Coons, vice president of diversity programming and R.E.A.C.H. chair, said she believes R.E.A.C.H. Week was a success. Last semester, Coons stepped into the role of R.E.A.C.H. chair after former chair Alex Montgomery stepped down from the organization. This change left Coons with less time to plan and organize the week’s events. “Despite being late into the game, I think we did a good job of getting new people, especially freshmen, to turn out at our events,” Coons said. The Chinese New Year celebration was the most well

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attended, Coons said. Organizers brought food for 100 people, and at least 150 people attended the event. The celebration was this year’s “Ethnic Fest,” which typically occurs during the fall semester. As reported in a Sept. 21, 2011 issue of The Butler Collegian, Butler’s multicultural enrollment is one-third the national rate at other private, four-year, not-forproﬁt institutions. Despite the challenges this presents to groups like R.E.A.C.H., the organization remains as devoted to its message as ever. As an ofﬁciating member of R.E.A.C.H. who deals with issues of gender and spirituality, Brittany Staten said R.E.A.C.H. Week was all about “a chance for R.E.A.C.H.

to be seen.” “It gives students the opportunity to do things they wouldn’t normally do and learn about things students wouldn’t normally learn about,” Staten said. Staten said she believes the short window between the start of the spring semester and R.E.A.C.H. Week may have contributed to a lack of student awareness on campus, but she is proud of the work R.E.A.C.H. did to promote its events. Staten said R.E.A.C.H. Week events were successful in spite of a lack of signiﬁcant advertising around campus. Staten said as a group in the beginning phases of promoting its message, she saw this week as progress and a sign of more good things to come.

While Patriots and Giants players are hoping to cash in on touchdown drives this weekend at Super Bowl XLVI, some Butler University students may be hoping to cash in on the drives some fans will make to see the game. Several students have considered renting out their living spaces to visitors who choose not to stay in a conventional hotel when they travel to Indianapolis. A quick Travelocity search shows that almost all hotels in or around the city are sold out for the weekend, and any available rooms are sure to come at a high cost. For example, a three-star hotel room twenty minutes from the stadium goes for more than $600 a night, according to http:// championshiprooms.com. One alternative is renting for the weekend. Senior communication studies major Ashley Sullivan had considered renting the house she and ﬁve other students rent on Berkley Road. Sullivan heard about people renting out their properties for the game through her job at Encore Sotheby’s International Realty. Three of the six roommates discussed the possibility. “We thought about it,” Sullivan said. “But I’m pretty sure that because we just rent, the landlord would have to be the one to do it.” Ben Hunter, chief of staff and director of public safety, echoed Sullivan’s concern. “If you’re going to rent to someone you don’t know and you’re going to sublease on your lease, then does that violate your lease?” Hunter said. Sullivan also said that a college house might not be the property most fans are looking to rent. “I feel like most people—at least through the company that I work for—are looking for highend, huge houses for parties,” she said. Indianapolis XLVI Rentals is one of the many websites recently created to serve the demand. Its homes near campus rent for more than $3,000 a night. This is good money for college students— as long as their houses have an indoor pool, a gymnasium or a gourmet kitchen, as the houses on the site have. Should students still consider renting, they should be cautious. “I would be very careful

having anyone come into your home, someone you don’t know,” Hunter said. Senior pharmacy major Matt Heinsen rents a house on 43rd Street and said he would fear renting to a stranger. “If it was for a friend, I would probably let them stay at my house,” Heinsen said. “I wouldn’t be able to trust strangers, though, to come into my house.” Students should be businesslike if they choose to rent, Irene Stevens, dean of student life, said. “Check references, check your housing contract, deal in cash and have some inspection of the facility before and after and some agreement written,” Stevens said. “It should all be in writing—some agreement about damage to the facility, because otherwise your landlord is going to come back on you for any damage.” Damage is a consequence all renters should consider. “People are concerned about their house getting trashed,” Sullivan said. “[Fans] are coming to celebrate an event. They’re coming to tailgate. They’re coming to party. “At the end of the weekend, you have to come back and live in that space.” Students living on campus also considered the opportunity. “I saw the signs in the city that said, ‘Rent your home out for $10,000 for the weekend,’” freshman journalism major Marais Jacon-Duffy said. “I wondered if I could rent out my dorm room. I would just sleep in a friend’s room if I could make ten grand.” However for students living at Butler, the weekend will have to be a time for fun and not for business. Renting out campus housing is against policy, Karla Cunningham, director of residence life, said. Cunningham pointed to page 66 of the Butler Student Handbook, which says, “Renting or subleasing of residence hall or apartment space is prohibited.” “It’s a security issue,” Stevens said. “I would feel kind of bad putting a strange person in the middle of my unit,” JaconDuffy said. “It might be kind of dangerous, depending on who I rented to.” Stevens also said that because on-campus housing is accessed using students’ ID cards, a renter would not be able to enter. Overall, there are more risks to renting than beneﬁts, Heinsen said. “I think some Butler students probably want some extra cash,” Heinsen said, “but I wouldn’t be willing to risk my personal safety or my possessions by letting strangers in.”

Photo by Maria Porter

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sun setting on the Horizon?

Stuck in the middle of the league standings, Butler will need to improve soon. MARISSA JOHNSON MKJOHNSO@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

The Butler men’s basketball team dropped two in a row last weekend to fall to 12-11 on the season. At this point, basketball fans may be wondering what has happened to the squad that took part in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship each of the last two seasons. The two-time defending Horizon League champion Bulldogs are currently tied for fifth in the conference standings at 6-5. “We’ve been in some games that we’ve had a chance to win and we didn’t,” coach Brad Stevens said. “We’ve won some games that could’ve gone either way. So 6-5 is about what’s right.” This team is far different from the one that was runner-up in the national championship game last season. “There is a lot of room for improvement,” senior guard Ronald Nored said. “It’s tough with us adding so many new people.” Following the 2010-11 season, the Bulldogs lost three of their top five players in scoring, free throw shooting and rebounding as well as four of their top five players in 3-point shooting. Offense has been especially hard to come by for the Bulldogs, who

Stevens reminds of legend JERREN FAIR

For more on the men’s basketball team’s tough weekend, as well as results from other Butler sports, check out the briefs on page 7 or go to www.thebutlercollegian. are currently ranked eighth of 10 Horizon League teams in shooting from the field. In addition, Butler is last in the league shooting from 3-point land and eighth in the conference shooting from the free throw line. “I don’t think that there is any doubt that we need to be able to figure out different ways to score,” Stevens said. ”Everyone needs to get better.” The Bulldogs’ top shooter in terms of field goal percentage is junior center Andrew Smith. However, Smith only attempted four shots in the team’s 80-68 loss to Green Bay last weekend. “Our goal is always [to pass from] inside [to] out[side] and regardless of who’s in the middle, that’s always how we’re going to play,” Smith said. “If I have open looks, I’ll take them.” Through 23 games, Butler is ranked 270th of 338 Division I teams in points per game. By comparison, league opponent Detroit is currently ranked 75th through 23 games in the same category. “We’ve played really well in some games but have not been able to close it out,” Nored said. Nored said the team’s biggest weakness is maintaining resiliency

Photos by Maria Porter

Butler men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens has seen his team fall in 11 games this season, giving the Bulldogs their most losses since a 13-loss 2005-06 season. in difficult situations. “We need to accept a challenge,” Nored said. “Whether we’re up or it’s a close game, we need to fight through and [be] mentally tougher.” Luckily for the Bulldogs, their situation is not all doom and gloom thanks to their play on defense. “We can definitely show that we are going to be the nastiest defensive team on the floor,” sophomore forward Khyle Marshall said. “Nothing can keep us from that.” The Bulldogs rank fifth in the league in points allowed per game, less than three points behind leagueleading Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Butler is also third in the league in both rebound margin—rebounds

recorded versus rebounds allowed—and steals. Another bright spot for Butler is that it will get to play four of its last seven games—not including the ESPN BracketBusters game—in Hinkle Fieldhouse, where the team holds a 7-4 record. In addition, the Bulldogs were 6-4 in conference play at this time last season before going on to win 14 consecutive games, including a victory in the Horizon League championship game. “I believe in this team a lot, and I show it through the way I play,” Nored said. “If we can continue to ﬁght and toughen up mentally, we can do great things.”

While some interesting stories came out of the sports world this past year, none were as tumultuous as the sex abuse scandal that rocked Penn State University in Happy Valley, Pa. The reason it was voted the biggest sports story of 2011, according to Yahoo!, was not only because of its scandalous nature but also because of the unblemished legacy that the school had built. This legacy was largely credited to the late Joe Paterno, who was the head football coach at Penn State for 46 years. Paterno passed away last week due to complications with lung cancer. So what does this have to do with Butler? The basketball program here is similar to the football program at Penn State in many ways. Paterno inherited a program that was good—but not great— just like Brad Stevens inherited a program in the same condition. Each coach has also stressed the importance of academics. Paterno dubbed his academic enthusiasm the “Grand Experiment,” as it blended the monikers student and athlete into the true meaning of the word “student-athlete.” He believed it was possible to fuse the two words and ideas together, an unheralded thought at see STEVENS page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Stratman, McClung make jump to Butler BETH WERGE BWERGE@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Photo from Butler Athletics

Athletics department hosts Hinkle tours AUSTIN MONTEITH AND COLIN LIKAS AMONTEIT@BUTLER.EDU CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU With Super Bowl festivities taking place in Indianapolis this week, Butler’s athletics department is providing free tours of Hinkle Fieldhouse. Matt Harris, manager of fan development, said people on the tours will get to see the main ﬂoor, main concourse, old pool and possibly the basketball locker rooms, among other areas. “There are not a lot of arenas like Hinkle,” Harris said. “With so many people coming from out of town, it’s a chance for people to get to see Hinkle.” The tours have also drawn individuals from nearby cities. Linda Saft and Gretchen Schassberger, natives of Westﬁeld,

have attended events at Hinkle before, including participating in a school-organized sing-along in the ﬁeldhouse as children. The duo attended the 12 p.m. tour on Monday. “[The tour] was an opportunity to see what [we] don’t get to see during games,” Saft said. Neither Saft nor Schassberger had been on such a tour before, but Schassberger said they enjoy going to colleges to view athletic facilities. “We’ll do this tour now, and then we’ll come back when they remodel,” Schassberger said. Harris said that the athletics department would consider having future tours during major events in Indianapolis. The tours will continue today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Butler women’s basketball team typically has a challenge recruiting top athletes in a state known for its hoops history. But this year has been different. In addition to incoming freshmen, coach Beth Couture recently attained two transfers, 6-foot3 freshman forward Elizabeth Stratman (Xavier) and 6-0 junior forward Daress McClung (Cincinnati), each of whom has already begun to train with the Bulldogs. “We had strongly recruited both of them,” Couture said. “We followed Daress through high school, and we were ﬁrst to offer Liz a scholarship her freshman year.” Stratman averaged 13.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a four-year starter at Heritage Christian in New Palestine. She also helped lead the Eagles to back-to-back state championships in 2008 and 2009 and received All-State honors her senior year. Stratman, whose father played football at Butler, participated in

12 games at Xavier this season, averaging 3.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per contest. McClung, a Lawrence North graduate, averaged 14 points and nine rebounds per game during her junior season. In the same year, McClung was part of the state-winning Amateur Athletic Union Indiana Elite basketball team. While at Cincinnati, McClung played in 26 games over two seasons. She averaged eight points per game in the team’s ﬁrst four contests her sophomore year before missing the remainder of the season because of an ankle injury that required surgery. In her only full season with the Bearcats, McClung started nine contests and averaged ﬁve points per game. She also recorded 22 steals and 17 blocks. “[Daress and I] had played together since seventh grade,” Butler junior forward Liz Jennings said. “I know what she’s capable of, and that experience with a Big East team will bring a spark. “She’s been doing well in practice and is already helping us improve each day.”

McCLUNG Jennings had positive things to say about Stratman as well. “Liz came from a really good program at Heritage Christian,” Jennings said. “Her fundamentals alone will be a huge asset, and her knowledge of the game will deﬁnitely help us get to the next level.” Through their own selection processes, McClung and Stratman chose Cincinnati and Xavier, respectively, only to end up back in Indianapolis. “Daress had a commitment to go to Cincinnati,” Couture said, “but we had a relationship already with her, and she decided she wanted to come to Butler.” Stratman was in the same position but changed her mind on where she wanted to

STRATMAN be after one semester at Xavier. “We were fortunate,” Couture said. “They just kind of ended up on our doorstep.” McClung and Stratman won’t be able to play until next year due to NCAA compliance rules. “I understand the rules, but it is frustrating,” Jennings said. “The good thing is that, since Liz transferred halfway through the school year, she’ll be eligible right before conference [play].” Despite having to wait, Couture is optimistic about the transfers’ potential effect on the team. “They will deﬁnitely help us,” Couture said. “They’re both such strong post players, and they’ve played against great competition.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hamm leads team to split ANDRÉ SMITH

AMSMITH5@BUTLER.EDU ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

The Butler women’s basketball team ended the week on a high note after beating Milwaukee (613, 2-7) 76-63 at home on Saturday. According to Butler coach Beth Couture, working hard for rebounds and assists was crucial for the Bulldogs (8-12, 4-5). Butler ended the game with 40 rebounds to Milwaukee’s 19. “I think we were aggressive,” Couture said. “I was really pleased with their fight. At halftime I told them we really have to pick up the defense, and I think that was the difference.” Sophomore center Sarah Hamm had her best outing of the season, posting a career-high 30 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks. After the Panthers cut their deficit to one point with 7:04 remaining, Hamm scored two quick field goals

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to give Butler momentum and a 63-58 lead. Hamm attributed her success on the ﬂoor to her teammates, including junior forward Becca Bornhorst, who had 10 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and sophomore guard Jenna Cobb, who also posted a career-high 16 points with six assists. “I think we have to play hard to get out of those kinds of situations,” Hamm said. “I think what really helps

me are the playmakers who make things happen and get me points.” Couture said she also recognized Bornhorst’s positive impact on the game. “[Bornhorst] having six [defensive rebounds] and four [offensive rebounds] is what we need her to do,” Couture said. “Her 10 points were great, but at the end of the day we really need her rebounds, so I thought she was really good.” Bornhorst said she tried to ﬁnd a good formula to help her make good plays for her team. “I just let the game come to me, and I ﬁnally found a rhythm and just played relaxed,” Bornhorst said. “Our team played well all around, and we executed offensively and hit shots.” The game served as a stark contrast to the team’s 60-36 home loss to No. 9 Green Bay on Thursday. Despite losing the

contest, the Bulldogs kept the Phoenix (19-0, 9-0) to their lowest score of the season. Their previous low was 65 points against Wisconsin. “I thought in the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes we played really good defense but could not score,” Couture said. After being down 42-13

at halftime, the Bulldogs attempted to make a comeback in the second half, outscoring the Phoenix 23-18. It bore resemblance to Butler’s 60-57 comeback win over Loyola of Chicago on Jan. 21 but ultimately had a different result. “We just got back to the gameplan [in the second

THURSDAY

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Wright State 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Eastern Kentucky 2 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Detroit 12 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS vs. Southern Illinois 1 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS vs. Harvard 9:30 a.m.

I think what really helps me are the playmakers who make things happen and get me points. SARAH HAMM SOPHOMORE CENTER

Photo by Taylor Cox

Butler senior guard Devin Brierly (right) calls out to a teammate while being defended by Green Bay junior forward Sarah Eichler during the Bulldogs’ 60-36 loss to the No. 9 Phoenix on Thursday.

half],” Couture said. “When you play the No. 9 team in the country, and they play like that, it is hard to make a comeback.” The Bulldogs will start a two-game road swing tomorrow night at Cleveland State before heading to Youngstown State on Saturday.

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the time he started coaching. First and foremost, Paterno was a mentor to his players— not only in football but also in life. By putting student-athletes ﬁrst, he was able to achieve success on and off the gridiron. As of 2007, Penn State football players had a 74 percent graduation rate, which was 19 percent above the national average at the time.

Photo from MCT Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno (right) interacts with Tamba Hali, a former defender for the team following Hali’s commencement in 2006.

IN BRIEF

Men’s basketball drops pair of road games

Swim team topples Valparaiso

In Wisconsin, Butler dropped contests to Horizon League foes Green Bay and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Bulldogs fell to the Phoenix 80-68 on Saturday, following a 53-42 loss to the Panthers on Thursday. The defeats pushed the squad to ﬁfth in the league.

Freshman Lauren Scotti’s victories in the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke gave Butler a team win on Saturday. Scotti was later named the Horizon League Women’s Swimmer of the Week after the victory over Valparaiso and Monmouth.

Track and ﬁeld strong at Indiana Relays

Men’s tennis loses third straight

Freshmen Nicole Hudec and Tom Curr narrowly missed breaking school records last weekend in Bloomington. Hudec nearly broke Butler’s bests in the triple jump and long jump. Curr’s time in the invitational 800-meter run was three-hundreths of a second off the school record.

The Bulldogs fell to 0-3 in the spring season with a loss on Wisconsin’s home turf on Saturday. In No. 6 singles, freshman Billy Weldon recorded Butler’s lone victory of the match. Butler also lost to Northern Illinois on Friday in a match hosted by the Huskies.

THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN | PAGE 7 By the same token, Brad Stevens demands academic success as well. Stevens’ teams posted perfect academic progress rates—a statistic determined by academic eligibility and retention of a team’s athletes—in two of his first three years as head coach at Butler. When Paterno was first hired, people often confused Penn State for Penn, the Ivy League school in Philadelphia, because Penn State was not a household name in the world of college sports. Before Stevens was hired, Butler was just another small mid-major capable of producing an upset. The Nittany Lions’ football program rose to the national spotlight and became a powerhouse during Paterno’s tenure. This included two national championships and five undefeated seasons. Stevens is now entering his fifth season as head coach at Butler. He boasts a 118-26 record and back-to-back appearances in the national championship game. What is happening at Butler is something special. Brad Stevens is a special coach, worth every penny of the $554,941 he earned last year. Only 35, he has plenty of years left on the sidelines if he so desires. Yet Stevens will never take credit for the success of his team. He is too humble a person for that, just like Paterno was. Stevens will graciously praise his players for the team’s success, not the other way around. In that, he exemplifies a tradition of the school: The Butler Way. While Stevens is a fundamental aspect of the recent success Butler has grown accustomed to, the players, the alumni and the fans are the ones contributing to the legacy upon which Stevens is rapidly building. Hopefully Brad will take a page from Paterno’s book and stay at Butler for many years to come. Contact staff writer Jerren Fair at jfair@butler.edu.

Photo by Maria Porter Butler men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens (right) embraces Shawn Vanzant following the Bulldogs’ Elite Eight win over Florida last season.

Tribute, plaque to honor Hinkle creators KYLE BEERY

KBEERY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Photo by Marcy Thornsberry

Senior Kahﬁi King waits for a return against DePaul on Sunday.

Women’s tennis falls DePaul shut out Butler in the Bulldogs’ ﬁrst home match of the spring season on Sunday. The squad also lost it’s season-opening match to Indiana on Saturday.

Very few individuals can say one of their family members was responsible for the creation of Indiana icon Hinkle Fieldhouse. Tomorrow 13 people will be on campus to see their ancestors’ contributions remembered. In total, 41 men will be honored during the ﬁrst TV timeout of tomorrow’s men’s basketball game against Wright State. In 1926, those 41 individuals, including Arthur Jordan, John Reilly, John W. Atherton, Joseph Irwin, Richard M. Fairbanks and James I. Holcomb, began raising $750,000 to

build the now iconic Hinkle Fieldhouse. “It’s a big part of the state of Indiana’s history,” Vice President for Advancement Mark Helmus said. “The tribute will teach many people about the men who made Hinkle a reality.” Aside from hosting Butler basketball games since the late 1920s, Hinkle has been home to many historic events and has been occupied by various inﬂuential people. For more than 60 years, Hinkle was the site of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament. Presidents Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have spoken there

as well. Track legend Jesse Owens tied the indoor world record for the 60-yard dash during the 1935 Butler Relays in Hinkle. The legendary movie “Hoosiers” also was filmed inside Hinkle. “Hinkle has a larger than life reputation,” Associate Athletic Director Tom Crowley said. Crowley said the tribute is also meaningful because it is important to all of the country, not just the Indianapolis area. Hinkle’s creators will also be honored with a plaque inside the fieldhouse. There is currently nothing inside the fieldhouse stating when or by whom it was constructed.

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Photos by Anne Carpenter

Welcome back, Jimmy

Once Jimmy Fallon saw Butler University’s ﬂash mob YouTube video, he said he couldn’t wait to visit during his week-long visit to Indianapolis for the Super Bowl. Before delivering a hilarious two-hour show on Sunday, Fallon sat down with The Collegian to discuss bulldogs, Steak ‘n Shake and traveling with his show for the very ﬁrst time. Unfortunately, he didn’t mention his surprise campus visit to Schwitzer Hall and Atherton Union that he made on Monday night. CAITLIN O’ROURKE

COROURKE@BUTLER.EDU ARTS ETC. EDITOR

Collegian: Did you see the flash mob or any of the Butler tweets? Did that influence you to come? Jimmy Fallon: I absolutely saw the flash mob. It was amazing. The “Jimmy Back to Butler” campaign was getting some steam. I saw it on Twitter and remember thinking like, that’s awesome, because we’re going out there. Then I saw the link to the YouTube video, and that was the one that really floored me. I couldn’t believe it. It was one of the coolest things. Everyone doing the Jimmy Fallon dip, and you had the mascot out there. It was so positive and so cool. So much hard work went into that. So it made me call up the school and go, “Hey, how do we set this up?” Literally, this is our only night off while we’re out here in Indianapolis, so I was like, “We’re ready to play, if you guys are ready to play.” We talked to the school, and they were great with setting it up, and now, here we are. We were running around today; I probably still have makeup on because I was dressed as a woman. The “Real Housewives of Late Night” come to Indy for the Super Bowl: that’s one of the sketches we’re doing. I don’t want to give that many spoilers away, but five or six Colts are doing it as well. They play their wives. It’s really awkward. They’re not good actors, but they’re really funny. It’s very, very good. Some of them

are good actors, actually. You’ll see it on Thursday night. It’s definitely something I don’t think Colts fans have ever seen. This is our first time on the road and first time doing a live show. We’re psyched to come to Indianapolis. We wanted to come with our guns blazing, you know. On Super Bowl Sunday, we’re doing a live show, our first ever. And so, we’re going to do a spoof of what could have been the the half time show. We’re going to imitate LMFAO, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Eminem, Bruno Mars. I don’t know who else. There’s so many. I’m blanking out. It’s pretty silly. It’ll be fun. That’s Sunday night. We’re going to do a musical opening of the show with Butler students too. And we’re getting Blue Two. He’s got a lot of followers on Twitter. He’s a very popular dog. He couldn’t make it tonight. He’s too busy. He’s got a previous engagement. Collegian: How long have you been here? What have you done so far? Jimmy Fallon: I’ve been here two days. It’s gorgeous. We’ve been all over the place, shot last night on the streets. We’re redoing the opening of the show. Normally, it’s me running through the streets of New York City. Now, it’s me running through the streets of Indianapolis. We got a lot of great shots of the streets and we saw some kids— gotta have love for IUPUI. They’re people too, so some of them are in the opening. We also got to go to Lucas Oil Stadium last night. We got to go out on the field. It was pretty insane. It’s a gorgeous stadium. It’s

unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it. Did a lot of running though there—I think I ran 700 yards. I was hurting last night. We were also at the Circle and saw the monuments. We tried to squeeze in all we possibly could. We’re going to the race track tomorrow and doing a head swap, which involves switching people’s heads on their bodies. This one’s pretty crazy. It involves kidnapping Bob Costas. Marco Andretti is going to help us out with that, get a real Indy driver. Collegian: What’s going to be different about the show? Jimmy Fallon: Well, the opening is a love letter to Indy. The Super Bowl Village is just packed with people. There really is no option but to stay there. That’s where everything is. It’s great, but it was hard getting footage and running around with cameras. But really, it turned out great. Everyone is in great spirits. It feels like you guys have done this before, even though you haven’t. It’s fun because everyone has really come together [on the show]. It’s like camp, because we’re like strangers here, and we know New York like the back of our hand. Usually, we’ll just meet up, but now we’re like “Hey, where are you going for dinner? Oh, where are you going for breakfast? Are you awake yet? Are you asleep yet?’” Everyone has been so hospitable and so nice, giving us recommendations for restaurants, bars, for anything we want to see. Mug-n-Bun has come up a couple

Be sure to catch “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” all this week at 12:35 a.m. on NBC for his special Indianapolis episodes. The show will be taped at the Hilbert Circle Theatre, located downtown. times. We’ve been to Steak ‘n Shake and St. Elmo’s. We had the shrimp cocktail. One of my producers was like, “It wasn’t that hot.” I sat there just waiting for him to take a second bite, because clearly he didn’t do it right. Then he started coughing. It was addictive pain. It hurts, but I want one more! Collegian: Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl? Jimmy Fallon: I’m from New York, so the Giants. I’m actually a Jets fan, so you go with the Jets as far as they can, then root for the Giants. Really, this is being nerdy, but I just want a good, close game, because then, people won’t tune out of the Super Bowl. They’ll keep their eyes glued to the TV, and then, we get good ratings. Collegian: Final question: Who would win in a ﬁght—you, Conan, Stewart or Colbert? Jimmy Fallon: I’m a lover, not a ﬁghter. But if they asked, I wouldn’t be opposed to a four-way.

The Butler Arts and Entertainment Calendar 1 No events scheduled

2 No events scheduled

3 Super Bowl Gospel Celebration Clowes Memorial Hall 7:30 p.m.

4 Shaquille O’Neal’s All-Star Comedy Jam Clowes Memorial Hall 9 p.m. Gridiron Celebrity Hoops Hinkle Fieldhouse, 7 p.m.

5 No events scheduled

6 JCFA Faculty Recital Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall 5 p.m.

7 No events scheduled

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Artist brings American premiere SARVARY KOLLER SKOLLER@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Bands go barefoot

This year, the Butler Ballet’s Midwinter Dance Festival features a performance that will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Butler Community. The commissioned piece is “Por Vos Muero” by noted Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato. Kevin Irving, Duato’s former ballet master, is staging the piece. Irving said he doubts that this piece will ever be performed at another American university. Born in Valencia, Spain, Duato started training professionally for the ballet at age 18, now 55-years-old, his pieces have been staged all over the world. “His work is so popular, so there is a huge demand of staging of his work,” Irving said. “So I continue to work by his side.” Irving said he also has a close relationship with Butler dance professor Derek Reid, and Reid is the reason that Irving brought one of Duato’s works to Butler. “It’s because I live in the States and have this connection to a professor here that we were able to make it happen,” Irving said. “I don’t see that happening ever again.” Senior dance major Olivia Yoch will perform in the commissioned piece. She said Butler Ballet members are thrilled to perform a piece by Duato. “We’re all very happy to have the opportunity to learn something like this,” Yoch said. Yoch said Butler Ballet members are also elated at the opportunity to work with Irving. “It’s just amazing to get to work with someone

ANNE CARPENTER ACCARPEN@BUTLER.EDU ARTS ETC. ASST. EDITOR

WITHIN THIS ISSUE

Photo by Reid Bruner Musical duo Evan and David Schroeder write and play music for the Butler Catholic Community Sunday Mass. Playing the guitar and the piano, the brothers specialize in composing their own music and performing it.

It takes two

Together, Butler twins compose and perform original music weekly at Mass. KEVIN VOGEL KJVOGEL@BUTLER.EDU

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If singing counts as praying twice, these identical twins have sent up more prayers than they can count. Evan and David Schroeder have added their musical talents to the dedicated group of young singers and instrumentalists who perform at Butler Catholic Community Mass every Sunday in the Johnson Room in Robertson Hall. During Mass, Evan plays piano, and David plays guitar with freshman Brendon Holl. The twins have been performing sacred music for years. Before coming to Butler last fall, they played every other week for a congregation in Richmond as part of a folk group. They said the experience taught them a lot about improvisation techniques,

More than 300 million people go without shoes every day around the world. That’s 600 million bare feet exposed to the grit of daily life. One group of Butler University business students is encouraging people to go barefoot and support a cause that helps lower these statistics. Starting at 3 p.m. on Feb. 4, the Reilly Room will host the musical stylings of Kevin Crafton and the High Tides and Shiny Penny and the Critical Shoes— both of which feature Butler students. In collaboration with Samaritan’s Feet, a group that raises money to give shoes to children in need, a sophomore Real Business Experience group, BU Entertainment, hopes to raise awareness through a free barefoot beneﬁt concert. Andrew Wallace, a sophomore accounting major and CEO of BU Entertainment, said people should come to support their fellow Butler students and a great cause. “[Students will be] supporting a charity that

since they would often see the music for the ﬁrst time only minutes before actually playing. The Butler Catholic Community musicians, Evan said, are much more organized, with sophomore Alaina Bartkowiak sending music by email a few days in advance. They said improvisation is still an important part of their performance, however. Rev. Jeff Godecker said that one of the most important parts of a successful liturgy is music that engages the congregation. Describing the Schroeder twins and their contributions, he smiled widely and said, “[They’re] awesome, and I don’t use that word very often.” Evan also composed a mass in addition to playing piano for the liturgy. Evan’s mass, tentatively called “Mass of Royalty,” reﬂects the recent changes in church liturgy, and while

delivers shoes to kids who have never been given anything, let alone shoes,” Wallace said. The idea to begin this group stemmed from Wallace noticing immense musical talent among his peers who weren’t necessarily music majors. Doris Almaraz, a sophomore Spanish and accounting double major and the CFO of BU Entertainment, said Wallace wanted to start a business that would provide resources and a break for hidden talents. “What better way to give back than to partner with a charity that raises money to give shoes that are critically needed by millions of children all over the world?” Almaraz said. But with this beneﬁt concert, the group’s mission has gone beyond just giving a band a chance to headline their own show. The group is raising awareness for a very real problem, and most importantly, a problem that has a solution. Brad DiCarlo, a sophomore pre-physical therapy major and a member of Shiny Penny and the Critical Shoes, said he didn’t realize how many people went without shoes and now feels honored to be a part of something that raises

it resembles other modern settings, it contains colorful harmonies and is a refreshing and engaging work. Evan, a recording industry studies and business ﬁnance major, said he has future sacred music ambitions. “I hope to set psalms and maybe another mass someday,” he said. Evan’s mass is further brought to life by the inspired guitar playing of David, a music education major. Full of tasteful melodic embellishment, David’s playing is agile. On top of the Schroeders’ and Holl’s contributions, the music was enhanced by the choir and other instrumentalists. Evan said that it is very important for the Butler community to know that the musicians of the Butler Catholic Community can always use more voices or instruments. “The more the merrier,” he said.

The twins describe their relationship as very close, as may be expected from brothers who differ in appearance only by a haircut. “We switched instruments in high school, just to see if our director could tell the difference,” David said. He couldn’t. Describing how people might tell him apart from his brother, David smiled and said, “I’m better looking.” They had no intentions of picking the same school— (in fact, David said he wanted to go somewhere different than his brother)— and visited different colleges on different days. In the end, they both ended up choosing Butler. And this choice turned out to beneﬁt the Butler Catholic Community, for these two men embody Godecker’s homily on Sunday: God works through one’s relationships on Earth.

Photo courtesy of Shiny Penny and the Critical Shoes

Shiny Penny and the Critical Shoes, which features Butler students, is scheduled to perform Saturday in the Reilly Room. awareness and gives back in a creative way. JT Thomas, a sophomore international studies and Spanish major and COO of the group, said that as much as the guys in the band love to wear their critical shoes, the band will not have them on at the concert. “My initial reaction to playing barefoot was, ‘Shoot, this is going to be a challenge switching my guitar pedals

with my toes,’” DiCarlo said. Thomas said the most difﬁcult part of coordinating the event has been making sure everything comes together smoothly. But said he’s up for the challenge, and so is BU Entertainment. “I am anxious to play this concert at a sweet venue like Butler and for this really great cause,” DiCarlo said. “It will deﬁnitely be a rockin’ show.”

It’s just amazing to get to work with someone who’s so well known and in connection with a famous choreographer. OLIVIA YOCH SENIOR, DANCE MAJOR

who’s so well known and in connection with a famous choreographer,” Yoch said. “Any contact with someone of his stature can only do good things for the department.” Yoch said Irving is an excellent teacher and mentor to the dancers. “He’s very exacting and demanding,” Yoch said. “You aren’t going to slack off and you want to get it right. “Irving is always willing to work with the dancers on technique.” In turn, Irving said he could not be more impressed with the dance students at Butler. “I’ve been extremely pleased with how the dancers have responded to this piece and the practices,” Irving said. “I think it will turn out to be fantastic.” Duato’s work is very intricate, but Irving said the dancers are capturing the work’s intention well. “Nacho’s work is very ﬂuid, and it’s very linked to the music,” Irving said. “It’s a projection back into the times of romanticism and chivalry and the dancers are doing an excellent job transporting it back to that time.” The Midwinter Dance Festival is Feb. 17 and 18.

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Lifeline Law could save lives OUR POINT THIS WEEK:The bill would encourage students to alert

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here is a nightmare situation that no Butler University student wants to suffer through. A friend drinks too much, and making one phone call to the police could save his or her life. Although, it could also end in spending the night in a drunk tank. The Indiana Senate recently unanimously passed a bill that, if signed, could become a medical amnesty law. The law would grant legal immunity to students who call emergency services for alcohol poisoning if the calling student follows certain rules. We at The Butler Collegian believe that this law could save lives and encourage students to be more careful in general. The bill requires the caller to identify him or herself on the

phone, they must have called about a medical emergency and must cooperate with police and EMTs. Students who believe a peer is suffering from alcohol poisoning can call without fear of alcoholrelated felony or misdemeanor charges if they follow the rules. Backed by representatives of Indiana and Purdue Universities among others, Senate Bill 274 tries to give those afraid of legal backlash a “way out” when they call emergency services. Cornell University published a study in 2006 that showed that, under “medical amnesty” laws like this, alcohol-related emergency calls dramatically incresaed but did not show a corresponding spike in alcohol consumption. So, no more people are drinking, but more are calling. This seems to indicate that the

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sponsored by Butler University Health Education, points out that the Butler University Police Department is more concerned with keeping students alive than arresting them. Yet students may still have concerns about calling the police. While underage drinking is nothing new, it is still a crime and it is sometimes hard to remember that calling was the right choice while spending the evening with police ofﬁcers. So, even if BUPD refers cases to student affairs, the law puts in writing what students hope for. Medical amnesty acts like a safety net, giving attention to those who need it most. The medical amnesty bill will reach the Indiana House of Representatives in the coming. weeks, and we hope they pass it.

International unit houses SGA would rather go around opportunity, chances for constitution than amend it RHYAN W HENSON exchange

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law can save lives. The law also doesn’t keep responsibility from the students entirely. They may receive citations and other repercussions but are free from criminal charges related to alcohol consumption, possession and public intoxication. The ill student may still be charged for alcohol-related violations. The legislation also indirectly encourages more responsible behavior another way, since the caller is required to identify himself or herself and be present to cooperate with responders. This way, the ill person is not left to mercies of nature or others. Butler University has always done a good job of stressing alcohol safety. Red Cup Culture, the alcohol information presentations

Foreign and domestic students could live and learn with one another next year.

n the fall of 2012, Butler University students may be able to experience foreign cultures, live among those who speak different languages and not even have to leave the comfort of Butler’s campus. Next year, 20 domestic students could have a chance to live with 20 international students in a new unit in Residential College. This international unit would be a great opportunity for both domestic and foreign students to absorb new ideas, take in new cultures and expand their point of view. What is the root of all stereotypes? Ignorance. How does someone keep from being ignorant and, therefore, keep from believing stereotypes? He or she educates him or herself about things that they are ignorant about. Living with students from foreign nations can educate those who do not understand cultures outside the United States. In turn

they would dispell stereotypes. Hillary Zorman, the associate director of international student services office and self proclaimed “go-to girl” for international students, said that she hopes that the new unit will help foreign students become better acclimated to the Butler culture. Zorman makes a good point. Domestic and foreign students living together would make the language barrier less difficult for a foreign student. Faculty members can only do so much to help with adjustment. Zorman said finding students to live in such a unit would not be difficult since volunteer applicants for the Diversity Ambassadors for the International Orientation had to be turned away. So Butler students, when looking for a place to live next year, sign up to live in ResCo’s international students unit. With a vast majority of Butler students

hailing from the Midwest, if you walk up to a stranger and ask if he or she is a pharmacy major from the Chicago area, there is a good chance you would be right about one of the two. Among a group of geologically similar people, international students are a splash of colorful ideas, concepts and cultures. Such diversity not only helps broaden cultural horizons. It is exciting to hear an international accent while walking to class or sitting in Starbucks. Butler student Stephen Rooney advises living with international students. “You’re going to get a good experience with it,” he said. “You’ll learn a lot about places in the world that you’ve never been and you’ll probably never get a chance to visit. It’s a chance to become more cultured.” Rooney’s roommate Sam O’Neill is a New Zealand native who plays tennis for Butler. O’Neill has also lived in Indonesia, Australia and Germany. O’Neill said that studying in America has been a fun experience, but he was surprised to ﬁnd that some Americans could not even point out New Zealand on a map. Perhaps he can help them ﬁnd it. Contact asst. opinion editor Donald Perin at dperin@butler.edu.

hile we’ve come to expect federal government ofﬁcials bickering among one another and not serving their constituents, we do not expect such acts from Butler University’s Student Government Association. It is appalling that such an important group on campus is in such disarray. One recent point of contention: SGA can’t agree on whether to follow a simple provision in its own constitution: how long a student has to serve in assembly before they can join the Election Oversight Committee, the organization’s most inﬂuential committee. The committee’s constitutional provision reads that “the committee shall consist of seven full time SGA Representatives who are in good standing with the University and who have been representatives in the SGA Assembly for at least two consecutive semesters.” There are currently four freshmen on the seven person committee. SGA’s constitution was drafted years ago and has already been updated this year, so it is disappointing that members still can’t agree on fundamental principles or determine what to add or leave out. EOC is trying to ignore the constitution and let freshman serve on the committee without having the proper credentials. Right now, the committee is not trying to amend the constitutionm but just temporarily suspend it to allow freshmen to serve. Parliamentarian AJ Teare said that SGA plans on eventually perminently amending its constitution so that all SGA representatives can sit on the EOC, regardless of how many semesters they have served in assembly, despite a provision in SGA’s constitution. The EOC is the most important committee since it is in charge of forming all of the other SGA committees. “It all starts with the EOC and how proactive they are,” said Anna Roueche, former chair of the EOC. Roueche said freshmen and people who had not served two consecutive semesters in assembly

SGA aims to avoid its own rules. do serve on committees. If the constitution has been in place for years, there is no reason that a debate should be taking place on this cut and dry topic. These debates are just delaying conversation and progress on topics that actually need to be addressed, like how to manage the budget. Council on Presidential Affairs Chair Mike Tirman said that resolving the uncertainty with the EOC is important. “Although I am never in favor of just changing the constitution frivolously,” Tirman said, “this is one point where it makes sense because we want it to be understandable to the next generation of EOC members who have to read it and make a judgment call.” Freshman Nathan Smith supports two semesters of service in SGA before joining EOC. “Coming into college, I had no idea what SGA was,” Smith said. “You need to understand the university and the organization. I really do believe you need some form of experience.” SGA is stagnating, as the semester moves on, unable to put qualiﬁed people in the right positions. With all of this internal confusion and chaos, someone has to be held responsible for the inadequacy of SGA. SGA President Al Carroll has to grab the reigns and take control of his organization. Someone has to be held accountable for the inadequacy of SGA and the petty debates which end up crippling SGA and the student body as a whole. Contact columnist Rhyan Henson at rhenson@butler.edu.

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Bulldog fans should use less bite, bark with team

he Butler University men’s basketball team currently holds a 12-11 record, but judging the behavior of some fans might lead you to think it was 0-23. I would offer speciﬁc examples, but most of what I say inside Hinkle Fieldhouse is not ﬁt for print. I’m as guilty as any member of the Bulldog community. A broad summary would be that the referees are obviously in collusion with the enemy, the Bulldogs themselves have failed to spot the gap in the opponent’s offense and the audience could shoot better. By playing strong throughout the past two seasons, the team has raised expectations. The Butler fandom should realize that without the amazing talent, hard work and heartening team spirit of the Dawgs, we would not have nothing to be upset about. So it is only right that we shift away from screaming like disappointed children to an attitude more similar to the Butler Way. As bad as I may be, as a general rule, I cannot hold a candle to some of the even more “devoted” fans. While sitting in the stands, someone once quipped between gulps of soda that it had been six minutes since the Bulldogs scored. His friend immediately responded, “It’s a Butler game after all.”

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Butler men’s basketball fans should focus on the team’s successes— not minor struggles. The fact is fans are spoiled. And it is sometimes almost offensive how blind we are to that. The team came up with back-toback tournament runs, with two finales that sound too cheesy to fit the next big sports movie. And in both years, commentators, now ex-friends and competitors’ fans—both real and imaginary—all dismissed the Bulldogs as lucky, awkward Cinderellas. So fans have more than a little righteous frustration. No matter what the analysts say, the team has shown that it does not matter that Butler is relatively small in size or that the team has an odd affinity for baby-faced boys who shoot like pros. The Bulldogs have a lot to be proud of. Coach Brad Stevens led the team through two seasons that

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left brackets across the country shattered and left expectations spread across living rooms like popcorn on the seats of Hinkle. And for the past ﬁve years, season ticket sales have increased. On top of all of that, last year’s average attendance was 7,178, which was the highest in several decades, associate athletic director Michael Freeman said. Fans may ﬁnd it easy to forget past successes in the face of more recent “tragedies.” So let the community try to remember that the Bulldogs

changed the way people think about basketball. Recall all those ridiculously sappy stories about how Butler won the heart of the nation. And even with my cynical heart, those awful cliché stories about brotherhood and team spirit made me believe in the team. Butler put together—and continues to put together—fantastic programs with less money spent on the whole team than larger schools spend on every individual player. And if the Butler Way means half as much as the university wants

Butler and Greek system grow stronger together

hen the spirit of competition overwhelms Butler University during recruitment week, it is easy for individual Greek organizations to forget that they are part of one Greek community. Chapter members are busy thinking of the upcoming semester and what can be done to improve each of their own organizations. Butler has a thriving, strong Greek system due to energetic student leaders, active alumni support and an institution that helps the organizations excel. I raise for your consideration a bold statement to reﬂect upon: Without a university that encourages Greek organizations to succeed, our outlook on the Greek community today would be severely altered. For the past 18 months, I have had the opportunity to serve on my fraternity’s national board of directors. I have had to sit at the table voting to rescind charters across the country due to violations against laws, university policies or our own fraternity risk procedures. While this is a process an organization uses as a last option, occasionally charters need to be suspended for one reason or another. But at some point in the conversation leading up to the vote, it is usually asked, “Is this campus worth revisiting at a later date?” Meaning, does the university allow Greeks to thrive and view the organizations through a positive lens, and will we return here to recolonize? Sadly, the answer is usually “no.” Some administrations are forcefully

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Butler’s strong Greek system results from a strong university and reflects well on Butler. pushing away Greek life. In other cases, a university’s chapter constantly struggles to fill its own recruitment numbers, a sign that the chapter would not succeed at the university. It would be easy to think negatively of the university when it applies punishments to Greek houses. “In most cases, I can understand the university is viewed in a negative light, but at the end of the day, we walk away with a positive experience,” senior Laura Urrutia, vice president of recruitment at Alpha Chi Omega, said. See, view trends from the 30,000 foot level, and the picture suddenly looks different. I sincerely believe that if I was at the table and someone asked if Butler’s campus was one to revisit, my answer would be a resounding, “Yes.” Butler stands out. The institution is filling its freshman class quota, and so are the 14 organizations. Because of our university’s successes in accepting high-caliber students, developing them academically and

supporting them in the organizations they join, Greek life has been able to achieve success as well. “I believe Butler has an extremely strong system,” said senior Josh Ruff, past president of the Interfraternity Council Chapters on campus. “This was a great year just based on the numbers.” “I would be run over if we said Butler is open for expansion,” Becky Druetzler, director of Greek life, said. Not a bad position to be in if Butler ever decided it wanted to expand. However, it is not only about the numbers. Our campus has dedicated student leaders, and this is shown through the annual program for new ofﬁcers and leaders, called “Greeks Leading Greeks,” which is hosted by the Order of Omega. This event took place on Jan. 29. The agenda featured a guest to speak about how the already existing Greek culture on campus can improve and then a roundtable discussion in which members of different Greek organizations on campus helped one another’s chapter. “Our community has a high sense of character,” said senior Alex Snyder, president of the Order of Omega chapter. “We hold everyone to high standards.” Butler helps college students enrich their Greek life experience, advances the growth of the Greek community and provides an atmosphere that allows Greek members to progress on their own academic missions. Contact columnist Matt Kasper at mkasper@butler.edu.

it to, that means fans—myself included—should remember how inspiring it was to watch the team handle its losses with far more grace and class than most players do when they win. The Bulldogs can pull off miracles. The players took a nerdy kid—yours truly—who could not come up with one witty comparison between two sports things and made him into the envy of the most devout soccer hooligan. Contact opinion editor Jeremy Algate at jalgate@butler.edu.

PawPrints

BY MARCY THORNSBERRY

What Super Bowl event are you looking forward to the most? “Watching Tom Brady cry yet again after losing another Super Bowl to Eli Manning. ” Blake Stephenson Junior

“Jimmy Fallon.”

“The halftime show. ”

“NFL Village.”

Karl Wiersum Junior

Julia Levine Freshman

Kirstie Dobbs Junior

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012

DANCING THEIR WAY TO A NEW RECORD

For 12 hours on Saturday, more than 300 Butler students stood in honor of kids who can’t. The largest student-run fundraiser on campus, Butler University Dance Marathon raised $108,031.55 this year for Riley Hospital for Children. This year BUDM also celebrated its 10th anniversary. It has raised a total of $450,483.49. By Rachel Anderson

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So @jimmyfallon is roaming around @butleru ﬁlming and going into our all-girl dorm!?!?! #whatisgoongon #cometotridelta @Katiee_Marie Shout out to the girls from Schwitzer Hall. #ButlerU @jimmyfallon You can delete a person out of your phone or block them on Facebook, but you can’t avoid seeing them around campus #BUgirlproblems @BUgrlproblems My goal someday is to be as cheerful and happy about my job as our @butleru mail lady Pam. @johnconz @butleru students! Join @ButlerPRSSA to welcome sports marketing pros from across the country: 2/1 715815pm PB204! @kaylawininger Kudos to our #DanceMarathon colleges @BUDM_ButlerU @UODanceMarathon & U of Colorado. All held weekend events to raise $ for local hospitals! @CMNHospitals

TOP: Participants show the total amount raised at the end of the 12-hour marathon. Photo courtesy of Chelsea Backus ABOVE LEFT: Students participated in different activities throughout the day, including basketball, moon bouncing and jumping rope. ABOVE RIGHT: Senior Kristina Alberello and Braden Tamosaitis, 6, hang out together during the marathon. Tamosaitis is a Riley kid and Alberello was this year’s family relations coordinator. BOTTOM RIGHT: Freshman Sara Doverspike busts a move during free time at BUDM. BOTTOM LEFT: The theme of BUDM 2012 was Space Jam. Students entered the gym through a rocketship designed and built by senior Eric Shoemaker, a member of the operations and technology committee.