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SGA president-elect still undetermined

Final count not in for SGA positions

BY JILL MCCARTER

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jmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

espite the larger student body, fewer students voted in Monday’s Student Government election.

Numbers are down nearly 15 percent from last year’s election. 1,050 students voted this year, compared to the 1,232 that cast ballots last year.

Candidates for next year’s SGA executive board are awaiting the results from Monday’s election as of press time.

According to the SGA election guidelines, violations can be submitted to the Election Oversight Committee for 24 hours after the polls close.

If violations are found, the candidate then has a chance to meet with the SGA assembly to appeal those violation charges.

The EOC, which is comprised of seven students, has until next Monday to determine the winners of this year’s elections.

If the EOC finds that a candidate has acquired more than four minor violations, that candidate is disqualified from the election, regardless of the number of votes they received.

More than 100 students attended Rock the Vote in the Reilly Room on Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Students were able to cast their votes online from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through a link sent in Monday’s Butler Connection.

ROCKING THE VOTE: Sophomore David Deye was among students who cast their votes Monday at Rock the Vote in the Reilly Room. The polls were open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Students could attend the event or vote online using a link in Monday’s Butler Connection. (Photo by Maria Porter)

Student Government Association Candidates

CLASS OF 2012 PRESIDENT

CLASS OF 2013 PRESIDENT

CLASS OF 2014 PRESIDENT

Chris Beaman

Scott Nemeth

Katie Palmer

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Ashley Merryman

Kelsey Mulverhill Stevan Tomich II

Kyle Graden

TREASURER

TREASURER

SECRETARY

Amanda Huffman

SECRETARY

Mike Keller

SECRETARY

Brayton Jones

Lauren Pedigo Al Carroll

SGA PRESIDENT

Bethany Schrader Katie Wachel Anna Roueche

Adjunct receives national sportswriting award

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEEN adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

The United States Basketball Association has presented an adjunct professor in the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism with a 2010 Best Writing Award.

Woods received the award for the Indianapolis Star article he wrote during Butler’s Final Four run titled, “Butler’s Miracle Run Continues.”

“Honestly, I’m a little embarrassed,” Woods said. “It was kind of a surprise, but a very nice surprise.”

Woods placed second in the Game News/Spot News category behind John Feinstein, who is best known for writing “On the Brink,” a book about Bob Knight and Indiana University basketball.

“I think it was especially flattering for me [to get the award] because the firstplace winner was John Feinstein, who is a very famous author and has many more credentials than I do,” Woods said.

Woods said the competition is tough for sports journalists.

“I think that college basketball reporters are among the best writers on their respective staffs,” he said. “There

are some terrific journalists covering college basketball, that’s for sure.”

Myke Van De Voort, a sophomore electronic journalism major, agreed but said Woods’ writing sets him apart.

“He makes his pieces seems professional, while also laid back and entertaining to read,” he said. “David Woods’ writing is humorous and informational in all the right ways.”

Senior marketing major Kyle Murphy said Woods’ writing was worth praise for another reason.

“Woods writes in a way that allows all audiences, whether sports savvy or not, to understand and follow along,” he said. “I would also argue that Woods likes to feed off of fan’s emotions and writes in a way that allows fans to relate.”

Woods said that he enjoys covering Butler sports because it allows him to do one of his favorite things.

“My favorite thing in sports journalism is telling stories,” he said, “Butler is very fertile territory for storytelling and that’s one of the reasons why I enjoy covering this program for the Indianapolis Star.”

Jukes returns to share experiences with AFC

BY GRACE WALLACE gwallace@butler.edu | asst. news editor

DAVID WOODS In addition to his job as a sportswriter, Woods is also the author of two books about Butler Basketball—”The Butler Way” and “Underdawgs.”

Murphy said that the Butler story wouldn’t be heard without Woods.

“We owe him for being the go-to guy with all things Butler,” Murphy said.

“Without his coverage, Butler would have to wait until another Final Four to __________________________see woods page 2

As a sophomore in college, Avery Jukes said he didn’t have any plans to make the world a better place. His trip to Uganda changed everything.

Jukes was the guest speaker at Friday’s “Big Questions at the Blue House” event for the Center for Faith and Vocation.

“Big Questions at the Blue House” is an event held monthly for students, faculty and staff. Judy Cebula, CFV director, said the series features “salon style” questions to help one another find the answers in life.

“The key is finding some way to center yourself,” Cebula said. “I think it really means we’d have to use our minds and our hearts or else you will get overwhelmed.”

As the founder of his own nonprofit organization, Jukes

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for Kids, Jukes was asked to come and speak about the potential everyone has to make a difference in the world.

“His heart is really big,” Cebula said. “I’m really excited we get to hear Avery tell his story and his purpose.”

Jukes shared his story with students, faculty and community members.

Jukes first had contact with the Ambassadors for Children organization when some members made a presentation at a required event for his physical education class. He then joined his fellow students in their goal of raising enough money to build a primary school and travel to Uganda to volunteer.

“I always liked to travel to try different things and new experiences,” Jukes said.

“You can’t experience a lot of things if you never leave the ________________see jukes page 3

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Shelley tackles issues in COE address First state of the college address focuses on adaptation

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEEN adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

Embrace change.

That was the challenge Dean Ena Shelley presented at the first State of the College of Education address Tuesday night.

The dean held the address in order to hear the voices of her college and motivate them to embrace the college’s vision of change.

“Every member of the College of Education has to engage in ENA SHELLEY this change

if we want to change the world of education right now,” Shelley said.

Embracing change is in the COE’s veins, it’s vision statement, she said.

“The world is changing right under our feet,” she said. “That’s why you have to be prepared to do things differently.

“We are preparing students for a world that we can’t imagine.”

The COE is beginning numerous projects, all focused on changing what is or should be.

Butler has fostered a partnership with Shortridge High School.

“We are in our infancy in this partnership,” Shelley said, “The partnership is unfolding and growing and it will continue.”

The COE is also beginning a partnership with Indianapolis Public

School 60. The school will be a lab may not be on your terms but you school, and can’t look at will solely the obstahire teachers cles. Look with Butler at the posexperience. sibilities.”

Shelley Shelley said the lab encouraged school was a students not to be dream come true. discourThe COE aged by the had a vision, turbulent and they education could impleworld. ment it here, “EducaEna Shelley tion is like she said.

“If you DEAN, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION riding on a dream it and roller coastyou put your er, somedream out there and work towards times you just have to close your it, it will happen,” Shelley said. “It eyes and scream,” she said.

If you dream it and put your dream out there, it will happen.

Shelley said the only way to get through the experience is through collaboration in the education field.

“I know that we have to unite and we have to continue to press forward,” she said.

Sophomore Ali Arends, a physical education major, agreed.

“Even here at this speech, it’s great because all of the different types of education majors can come together to change things,” she said.

Shelley said she has a vision of change to help resolve the current turmoil in education currently.

“I want to see the boundary lines disappear between the school systems,” she said. “With collaboration, I hope Butler students are the catalysts to help make that happen.”

Professor contributes to social justice book Author puts focus on sex trafficking TOP CHEF: Executive Chef Scott Tope (center, back row), of Atherton Union’s Marketplace, recently completed an exclusive six-month certification program for the Culinary Institute of America. (Photo courtesy of Scott Tope)

Chef earns prime certification

BY BROOKE DEADY bdeady@butler.edu | staff writer

It seems like Atherton is in good hands.

Scott Tope, the executive chef in the Atherton Dining Hall, has earned his ProChef II certification from the Culinary Institute of America.

For this six-month program, Aramark has 25 slots open annually. It takes a vice president within Aramark to recommend chefs, and then the chef must apply to the institute.

The institute then accepts or declines the application.

“It’s based on experience and skill levels,” Tope said.

Food Service Director Stacey Puck said the ProChef Certification is “a comprehensive professional development and culinary skills verification program which measures core culinary, managerial and financial acumen, including a chef’s skill in taste, proper cooking methods, authenticity, plating, use of all ingredients and hygiene.”

The six-month process involves a lot of testing, according to Tope. He was required to do online research and testing 10 weeks out, and two weeks before he went to the University of Minnesota to practice and get up to speed on everything. Tope then went to Hyde Park, N.Y., for a week.

A typical week for the chefs consisted of four 14- to 18-hour days of testing and studying. Criteria lists were sent out three weeks before, so the chefs knew what to be ready for.

They were required to send the grocery lists in, but not everything on the list was purchased. This forces them to improvise,

FINE DINING: Scott Tope learned how to make Chicken Gallantine. (Photo courtesy of Scott Tope)

which improves their cooking styles.

Each day consisted of five hours of cooking, half an hour to an hour and a half of judges critiquing the prepared dishes, two hours of written testing and more critique and two hours of preparation for the next day.

“Each night we would head back to the hotel and spend four more hours studying,” Tope said. “Then, at 4 a.m. the next day, study groups began and by 6 a.m., we were back in the kitchen.”

During the testing process, chefs were tested on proficiency, management, finance, human resources, healthy cuisine and cooking, Mediterranean cuisine, baking and pastry, cold food, kitchen equipment and skills.

“It’s pretty much like a mini Master Chef exam,” Tope said.

Tope said this is probably his biggest accomplishment so far because it is only two levels under a Master Chef.

“The next level is ProChef III, and I’ll probably begin that in a year, to a year and a half,” he said.

This accomplishment means a lot for Tope’s career, he said, because he now has an institution showing a benchmark of where he is professionally. “[This accomplishment] gives Butler the ability to say with pride that we have an accomplished, certified chef,” Tope said.

The quality of food is set to improve.

“We are very proud of how hard Scott has worked to achieve the certification of ProChef II,” Puck said. “He will be able to share the knowledge and skills he mastered through the certification within our dining program, both the residential components and catering.”

As for changes and future ideas for Atherton food, there looks to be a good amount of change coming to Butler.

On Friday, Tope started working with suppliers to find food trends and the interesting things that people will want to see and eat.

More healthy options will become available. Already set up around the dining hall are the new hydration stations, the new deli, more sustainable produce and healthier soups.

Tope plans on using different methods of cooking, such as braising, smoking and making sure less saturated fats are used. He also said they will be working on a lot more Mediterranean foods.

“I would expect that he will bring a renewed passion for food and dining back to Butler,” Puck said.

Tope’s door is always open.

“I love e-mails and getting more ideas and suggestions,” Tope said. “We look at trends, but sometimes we miss the trends,” Tope said. “[If you have] trends, ideas, we’d love to hear them.”

rokhi gathered was among related research gathered during her dissertation work.

She presented the first draft of this writing in 2007 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.

“I was then offered to publish my work in SUNY University’s Gender Studies journal called Wagadu, which eventually transformed into another offer to publish a revised version of the work in the book as you find today,” Shahrokhi said.

With this chapter, Shahrokhi said she tried to write a more layered narrative

men and women who make a living in sex trafficking and Sholeh Shahrokhi can was even granted a look into now add “author” to her réthe underground sex market sumé. where many of these women The assistant professor end up. of anthropology has writ“I also spend a great deal ten a chapter titled “Beyond of my time doing archival reTragedy: A Cultural Critique search on local and historical of “Sex Trafficking of Young literature that I believe has Iranian Women” for the book contributed to a particular Sex Trafficking, Human view of the woman and her Rights, and Social Justice. body,” Shahrokhi said. “It Shahrokhi said this chapwas based on all of these difter is an exploration of transferent forms of explorations national sex work from an that I argued that a sustainanthropological perspective. able foundational change in “As the title suggests, in sex trafficking in that area this piece I focused on young cannot be achieved without women from a particular improving socioeconomics region in the world who of the families, changhave made for an upsurge ing our educational proin sex trafficking movegrams, not just about sex ment from southern Iran but about human worth, to the underground marand keep pressing against kets in the [United Arab those attitudes that perEmirates],” Shahrokhi petuate women as infesaid. rior to men, sex as idealShahrokhi lived in Tehized commodity and a ran, Iran from 2000 to 2005, sex worker as a ‘diseased’ where she “carried out her body.” dissertation research on Finally, she argued that teenage runaways in the the parallel changes in city.” views and policies must “It became quickly clear be made from within and to me that both the public Sholeh Shahrokhi not imported as the rescue and the government was and liberation missions particularly anxious about PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY that the United States govthe growing number of ernment was preaching to runaway girls, as these girls about sex work and sex traf- do in Iraq and Afghanistan were assumed to be fallen in ficking, so to get away from at the time. prostitution circles either in old traditions of “saving the “Sex work, either in exthe city or exported abroad,” victim” or blaming the usual change for money or access Shahrokhi said. suspects. to food, shelter and positions That’s when she decided This chapter acknowledg- of power, is said to be as old to follow up on the Tehran es the importance of politi- as any form of exchange sex route to Dubai, United cal-economy and the allure among human populations,” Arab Emirates as side work of money for the sex worker, Shahrokhi said. “So it is not to her research. To get a clos- but it also wants us to think shocking to hear of bodies er look, Shahrokhi sought of these women not just as being sold or bartered in out her connections in Teh- silenced victims of poor eco- the same way we might be ran, traveled to several Ira- nomics. astounded by many other nian towns and cities on the Shahrokhi said she fol- forms of social problems in coast of the Persian Gulf and lowed the route from fami- our world. visited Dubai for about 10 lies who have sold their “In my view, too often the days. daughters, often under discussion of sex traffickPublication in the social the cloak of marriage to a ing falls flat on conventional sciences is a prolonged pro- wealthier family in border- routes of broken economies cess. The information Shah- ing Pakistan. She spoke with and corruption.”

BY BROOKE DEADY

bdeady@butler.edu | staff writer

“The discussion of sex trafficking falls flat.

woods: NATIONALLY RANKED AUTHOR continued from page 1 make news even in its own story.

Van De Voort said Woods and his books have played an important role for the Butler nation.

“Because of him, the whole nation knows about the Butler Way and what it stands for,” Van De Voort said. “He is able to make this small school seem so much more important to the rest of the country.”

Woods said that he thinks the story of Butler basketball is simply amazing.

“Butler’s story doesn’t have a lot of sex and scandal in it,” Woods said, “but if I would have introduced that [to the story] I

would have had to make something up.”

Woods said that although he loves the Butler story, he’s a little worn out after so many Butler related projects. He has covered Butler sports since the fall of 2007.

“I’m almost bulldog-ed out,” he said.

Van De Voort said that regardless of his attitude about Butler, Woods’ writing shows devotion to the Butler nation while still being realistic.

“He has the right balance of positive outlook with realism and taking things the way they are,” Van De Voort said. “It’s not always easy to swallow for die-hards, but it’s always something we need to hear.”

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Writer, activist promotes everyday feminism

BY SARA PRUZIN spruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Veronica Arreola’s business cards read professional feminist, writer and mom.

She said those are the things she wants everyone she meets to know about her and form how she lives her life and goes about her work.

Arreola spoke Tuesday night as a part of the Gender, Women’s and Sexualities program Speaker Series.

She is a Chicago-based writer, blogger, activist and director of an academic support program for women majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at University of Illinois-Chicago.

Even though she has “feminist” engraved on her business cards now, she said she used to struggle with the title and how best to conduct herself as a feminist.

“I was thinking a professional feminist was Gloria Steinem, someone who’s on CNN, someone who has book on the bestseller list, someone who made a living off the lecture circuit,” she said. “That wasn’t me and that still isn’t me.”

She said after working for feminist causes like the National Organization for Women, she eventually reevaluated what she wanted to achieve and came up with the idea of titling herself as a professional feminist.

“The professional feminist is a feminist who does their work whether they are running a women’s shelter or a coffee shop with feminist values and ethics,” she said. “They view their work through a feminist lens.”

This view includes incorporating feminism into any profession.

In her own work at UIC, she tries to increase women’s interest in science and engineering, keep women in the programs and deal with any equality issues that arise.

She said these women can have feminist sensibilities while pursuing science, technology and engineering degrees.

She shared similar stories about friends who are journalists, artists and purse makers by trade, but who incorporate feminism into how they do their work and live their lives.

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FEMINIST, WRITER, MOM: Veronica Arreola talked about promoting feminism through her work as a writer and her job. (Photo by Maria Porter) assumptions.

“Before, if someone was a feminist and they were striving to put their views out, I would probably avoid it,” she said. “But now, I think I’ll be more open.”

Stephanie Rosienski, a senior history and political science major, said that while Arreola offered some good points, she discredited the value of a women’s and gen-

der studies background too much.

“I don’t think she really understands the depth of being a feminist critical thinker,” Rosienski said.

“It’s not enough to just be educated. You have to have a women’s studies background to build your social consciousness and really understand the structures involved.”

Continued recognition for women’s struggles

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“Those are the women in my life who are professional feminists,” she said.

“When we think about professional feminism, we have to think about the everyday life.”

While she said that a gender or women’s studies degree can lead people to feminist causes and equip them with the tools to be feminists who understand theories and history, it does not have to be their career for them to have an impact.

“I wouldn’t abandon your passion,” she said.

Arreola also said that the goal should not be to elect more feminist politicians, but to encourage feminism in ordinary careers and lifestyles.

“We can elect all the politicians we want who support feminist ideals,” she said. “But everyday life we can’t change until we have more everyday people who believe in feminism.”

Nina Langheinrich, a freshman exploratory business major, said the talk made her think more deeply about the idea of feminism and reconsider some of her

aammermu@butler.edu | staff writer

March is Women’s History Month and Butler University’s Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance chapter, Demia, and the gender, women and sexuality studies program have several events planned in the coming month to celebrate.

The two groups have a variety of events planned from feminist speakers to all female rock bands, but they all have the same motive: to spread the message that gender inequality is not just a concern of the past.

“It is a powerful reminder of the necessity for continued recognition for women’s struggles during all times and all places, including the present,” Ageeth Sluis, assistant professor of history and a gender studies faculty member said.

The purpose of Women’s History Month is to remember the enormous battles women fought in the past that give today’s women the opportunities that we have today, and it is also a call to realize the struggles we still have

ahead.

The gender studies program and Demia recognized the continuous importance of Women’s History Month and have consequently planned a month full of events for its recognition and celebration.

Bethany Hughes, award-winning historian and author, will lecture on her book “Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore, and How to Write the Biography of a Hole.” There will be a post-presentation book signing and reception.

The Vagina Monologues will also be held Friday at 7 p.m. in the Reilly Room.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana is hosting a rally at the Indiana Statehouse on Sunday. The rally will go from 10:30 a.m. to noon, with registration beginning at 9:30 a.m. The rally aims to generate support for Planned Parenthood services that are at risk for losing federal funding.

“Planned Parenthood and women’s health are under attack this legislative session,” Brooke Campbell, assistant professor of gender studies, said. “Sev-

enteen bills limiting access to reproductive health care have been introduced in Indiana.”

Caitlin Jackson, co-president of Demia, said a student s also working to coordinate a women’s art festival.

Sluis said people sometimes overlook how new the study of women’s history is, and how much things have changed because of it.

“I think it is important for all of us to remember that the study of women’s history is a young discipline, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s,” Sluis said.

“It is certainly one of the larger academic accomplishments of second-wave feminism.”

She said all of these events are put into place to celebrate the importance of women’s history, and for the continuous recognition of their accomplishments.

“It is difficult to imagine for us that, before the inception of women’s history, history deemed worthy of studying and teaching was that of ‘great,’ upperclass, white men,” Sluis said. “A rather narrow view of the past, right?”

The Calendar March 4 - A lecture on “Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore, and How to Write the Biography of a Hole” 3 p.m. Johnson Room -The Vagina Monologues 7 p.m. in the Reilly Room March 6 -Planned Parenthood rally 10:30 a.m. at the Indiana Statehouse March 10 -Presentation and feminist pizza from 12-1 p.m.

March 21 -The last day to submit an article for the next issue of The VaJournal.

March 23rd -A sexual health program 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall 141.

-Feminist pizza and student presentation from 12-1 p.m.

-The local all girl band “Neon Love Life” will perform at 7 p.m. in Starbucks.

jukes: FOUNDATION continued from page 1 “I can travel, experience new things and do something I like—which is helping with the school.”

Ambassadors for Children raised $45,000 for the cause in Uganda that year and in June, several members traveled to the country to help clear land and begin preparing for construction of the new school they helped fund.

“There’s a lot of things you see on TV and a lot of things you hear—third world countries aren’t what you see on TV,” Jukes said.

“It’s not as bad as everyone makes it seem,” Jukes said.

Jukes said he was immediately touched by the spirit and cheerfulness of the kids he met.

“Lots of them don’t have shoes and their clothes are dirty, but they’re still happy,” he said. “They don’t have even half of the things that you have, but they are still just as happy as you.”

While in Uganda, Jukes had the opportunity to visit other nearby primary schools and even volunteer as a pharmacist for a day when they worked with another organization to set up a local medical clinic for the village.

“We had the swab HIV test and seven out of the 25 people we saw tested posi-

JUKES IN UGANDA: Avery Jukes plays with children on a trip to Uganda. He visited schools and helped with a clinic in the country. He hopes to raise money to build a school. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Pignolet) tive for HIV—three or four of which were children,” he said. “It was pretty sad and eye opening and I will always remember how impacting that was to me.

“It’s a part of their culture that is very different,” Jukes said.

Upon returning to the states, Jukes said he knew he wanted to do something more for the people of Uganda, but that it was hard to know where to begin his efforts.

“It’s overwhelming,” Jukes said. “Where do you begin? You have to know what you have a belief in

and what you want to help change—you can’t change everything and you can’t change it all in a day.”

Another struggle of where to start was how to make people in the United States understand his cause and why it was so important for them to support the cause, Jukes said.

Jukes’ original goal was to raise money to give students in Uganda scholarships to American or European universities for the chance to receive a higher-level education.

Upon learning that most students never finish sec-

ondary school and how poor the quality of education was for those who do, Jukes said he had to modify his goal to focus on raising money for the children of Uganda to receive better foundational educations.

“Its my goal to one day build our own secondary school, but that is a pretty lofty goal—around $200,000,” he said. “Hopefully in the future if we can become bigger and raise more money, we can start our own secondary schools and after that we can look to get college scholarships for students.”

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Beyond the Butler Bubble Alumni recognized as rising stars

BY SARA PRUZIN spruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Butler University alumni are at the top of their class, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list.

Sara Snow and Jeremy Stephenson were recently named to the yearly list, which recognizes the top rising stars in the Central Indiana business community.

Snow graduated from Butler in 1998 and went on to host several television shows about natural, environmentally-conscious living, was a correspondent for CNN. In 2009, she released a book called “Sara Snow’s Fresh Living.”

Snow was born into green living. Her father was in the natural and organic foods industry when she was younger, and she grew up in a sustainable home in rural Michigan. Since that time, she said she has seen the green movement evolve.

“For a while green was fashionable and trendy,” she said. “Today

it has finally just become common, mainstream living.”

She said her focus when educating people is on making small steps toward more environmentally conscious living that she said are paramount to health and the environment.

“Our planet is sick and our neighbors, if not ourselves, are sick,” she said. “It’s time for us to make some changes. But I think it’s really important that people not become so overwhelmed by the big picture of everything that could or should be done that they are unable to make simple changes.”

Snow said her time at Butler, where she earned degrees in telecommunications and theater performance, both encouraged and challenged her. While she has currently given up television to raise her daughter, she still writes for publications, runs her website and sits on the board of two nonprofit organizations.

While these projects keep her

busy, she said being passionate about what she does makes them enjoyable.

“Whatever it is that you like to do, do that,” she said. “Otherwise, you’ll burn out and you won’t ever feel fulfilled, no matter what accolades get piled on top of you.”

Stephenson graduated from Butler in 1999 and now serves as the executive vice president of REI Real Estate Services, based in Indianapolis.

He oversees real estate development projects and handles the legal aspects of development for projects in Indianapolis and around the country.

“Basically, from A to Z, we’re creating a vision of what we want to see for the urban skyline,” he said.

His most recent project was downtown Indianapolis’s JW Marriott Hotel, which, he said, involved extensive negotiation with the city and contractors but brought jobs and visitors to the city. He said it has been his greatest professional

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accomplishment.

The company’s future projects are mostly urban projects like the hotel and multi-family housing developments.

While the company is based in Indianapolis, Stephenson said the company is looking at other cities that are ripe for such opportunities.

He said his Butler education, first a bachelor’s degree in political science and then a Master of Business

Administration, prepared him well for taking on such projects by giving him a broad education. He said his involvement in different groups and his academics helped him to become a critical thinker and gave him a desire to be a lifelong learner.

“It allowed me to be able to see the big picture of a project,” he said.

“It gives anyone a good opportunity in any chosen field to make an impact.”

Best Buddies gives members a different look at those with disabilities

BY AJA CACAN acacan@butler.edu | staff writer

BY KATE SIEGFRIED ksiegfri@butler.edu | staff writer

To generate awareness, funds and inspiration, the student-run movement “Be Haiti” will be hosting a “Be Haiti” week beginning March 5.

“Be Haiti” was formed by Haiti native and fourth year physician assistant major Ketura Isidor and 2008 Butler graduate Michael Hole.

The organization is now led

by Isidor, senior biology and Spanish major Tori Morken and senior political science and international studies major Marcus Hagberg.

The immediate goal of the campaign is to raise money to expand a health clinic for women and children in Isidor’s home town, Les Caynes, Haiti, and to raise awareness. The hope is to inspire students to become involved with the campaign.

The week will kick off on Monday with a cultural event that will educate attendees on all aspects of the culture of Haiti, from food to traditions. The event will feature Haitian food, salsa dancing, games and a fashion show of everyday Haitian clothing.

Tuesday will follow with an open panel.

“With the panel, we hope to generate conversation about the current crisis in Haiti so we can discuss how

it can be fixed, and also to raise awareness of the situation,” Morken said.

Morken and Hagberg explained that most people understand the state of Haiti is not good right now. This will provide an opportunity for students to bounce ideas off of each other, not only about the current state of Haiti, but where Haiti can go from here.

Providing immediate help to Haiti will not be the only topic, but ideas for preventing crises like these from happening in the first place will also be discussed.

The panel discussion has also been approved as a cultural requirement event.

On Thursday, a poverty banquet will be held. People will get a ticket, and based on their ticket they will either receive a large meal, or a scarce meal. The banquet will provide a visual of the amount of people in the world who have more than enough to eat, versus those who are starving.

“The poverty banquet will be a really great capstone event of the week,” Hagberg said.

For the entire week, and possibly the entire month of March, pieces of artwork that Isidor brought back from Haiti will be available for viewing and auction in Irwin Library.

While the main audience of the week will be Butler students, “Be Haiti” is also reaching out to the Indianapolis community.

“Be Haiti” is working with Provocate, a website that “connects community initiatives,” according to their website, to get the Indianapolis community involved.

“The overall goal of the week is to generate interest, fundraising, educate and inspire people to join the cause,” Morken said.

After spring break, “Be Haiti” is planning on holding a social giveback event in Broad Ripple, along with other activities to get students involved.

“After the week is over, I hope students continue thinking about what they learned at the events, and talk about their experiences with others so they’ll be inspired to help out as much as possible,” Hagberg said.

March is National Disabilities Awareness Month and to mark the occasion, Butler’s chapter of Best Buddies is organizing events geared toward directing attention to those affected by intellectual disabilities.

Butler’s chapter has approximately 90 members and is the largest in Indiana. It is part of more than 1,500 national and international chapters of Best Buddies International.

According to its website, bestbuddies.org, the organization’s mission is “to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”

One of the hallmarks of the chapter’s work this month will be the “End the R-Word” campaign, which is in its third year at Butler.

March 2 is the national day to sign the pledge, but Butler’s Best Buddies chapter will be offering students the opportunity to sign the pledge throughout the month.

According to Butler chapter president, senior integrated communications and Spanish major Graham Kilian, the campaign’s message has often been challenged and misunderstood in the past.

“I want to be clear that were not trying to remove the word from the English language,” Kilian said. “We’re trying to educate people about the consequences of using the word

and how it affects people. It’s not any sort of attack on free speech.”

Events coordinator for the Butler chapter, psychology and French major Elizabeth Erb said she agrees and said encouraging people to consider their use of the word.

“It’s more about encouraging people to think and understand the underlying implications of what the word means,” Erb said.

Through Best Buddies, students are matched with a person from the Indianapolis area with an intellectual disability.

For the past four years, Kilian has been working with Derek, a 26-year old with cerebral palsy.

“Best Buddies gives people with disabilities that extra confidence they need,” Kilian said. “It’s often not that they cannot do something, but they’re not given the opportunity to do so.

“It’s taught me to truly appreciate everything I have and not take things for granted.”

Kilian said the increased membership of the chapter this year has allowed it to utilize better marketing skills such as signage and posters, as well as word of mouth, to make the campaign more visible.

Throughout the month, the chapter plans to maintain a presence on campus, encouraging students to sign the pledge.

The campaign will culminate in a large chapter event on March 27. Details are still in the works, but Kilian is looking at organizing a talent show or karaoke night.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

SPORTS THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN

Senior Day win clinches byes Bulldogs share league title, take No. 2 seed to Milwaukee

BY LANCE RINKER lrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

The Butler men’s basketball team earned a share of its fifth consecutive Horizon League regular season title Saturday, when it defeated Loyola, 63-56, in front of a soldout crowd.

However, tiebreakers will send the Bulldogs (21-9, 13-5 HL) to Milwaukee as the No. 2 seed, which grants them a first- and second-round bye in the conference tournament.

The victory could have been the last home game for the 2011 senior class, which consists of guard Alex Anglin, guard Zach Hahn, forward Matt Howard, guard Grant Leiendecker and guard Shawn Vanzant.

During the past four seasons, the five seniors have helped lead the Bulldogs to four Horizon League regular season championships, two Horizon League tournament titles and three straight NCAA tournament appearances, including last year’s national runner-up finish.

Their 110 wins are the second-most by any senior class in Butler men’s basketball history.

A 7-2 Butler run just after the 13-minute mark in Saturday’s contest was capped by five straight points from junior guard Shelvin Mack, giving the Bulldogs a 14-10 lead.

The Ramblers (16-14, 7-11) responded with an 11-2 run

of their own, taking a 21-16 advantage with 7:41 remaining in the first half.

Loyola held that lead until the one-minute mark when junior guard Ronald Nored scored in transition, drew a foul and attempted to convert the three-point play at the free-throw line. Nored’s free toss was off the mark, but Howard pulled down the rebound and found a cutting Nored who laid it up and in to give Butler a 29-26 lead.

The Bulldogs would never trail again.

On the final possession of the half, Mack drained a 3-pointer as time expired to send the Bulldogs into the locker room with a 32-26 lead. Mack scored 14 firsthalf points and finished the game with 18, leading all scorers.

A few minutes before halftime, Butler head coach Brad Stevens, left the game to see an eye doctor.

“My vision got progressively worse as we were getting ready to start the game,” Stevens said in a press release. “By the final media timeout of the first half, I could not see the other end of the court and everything in front of me was blurry.”

Stevens was later diagnosed with a corneal edema, a condition in which the cornea swells from being overly hydrated by accumulated fluid.

Stevens recovered and returned to practice on Sun-

day.

Associate head coach Matthew Graves relieved Stevens in the second half and was at the helm when sophomore guard Chase Stigall put on a show.

Stigall, who was held scoreless in the first half, scored five consecutive points to start the second.

He finished with 10 points, including a momentum-shifting play near the eight-minute mark, when Loyola freshman guard Denzel Brito grabbed a defensive rebound following a missed 3-pointer by Howard.

As Stigall’s teammates hustled down the court to defend the Ramblers transition offense, Stigall snuck up behind Brito, stole the ball and converted a layup.

However, the Bulldogs needed help from a few seniors to seal the victory.

Putting Loyola’s comeback hopes further out of reach, Vanzant, who finished with 10 points, knocked down a 3-pointer to put the Bulldogs up by eight, 60-52.

Hahn was able to help seal Butler’s 63-56 victory by sinking two crucial free throws in the game’s final minute.

Nored finished with eight points, and sophomore center Andrew Smith finished with six points and a gameleading 11 rebounds.

Following the game, feelings were bittersweet as the seniors said their goodbyes to the home crowd and re-

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Trees remind of sports traditions

BY STEVEN PEEK speek@butler.edu | sports editor

STEADY AS HE GOES: Junior point guard Ronald Nored looks for an open teammate in Saturday’s game. (Photo by Maria Porter) flected on their time at Butler University.

“Now that it’s over, it’s a little bit crazy to think that you’re never playing on Hinkle’s floor again as a Butler Bulldog,” Howard said.

“We’re very appreciative of everyone that came out. We haven’t had a crowd like that all year.”

The city of Connersville, Ind., bought 1,400 tickets to see Howard, a Connersville native, put up nine points and seven rebounds in his Hinkle finale.

New Castle (Ind.) High School, alma mater of Hahn

and Stigall, purchased 200 tickets for the afternoon game.

Butler will play in the Horizon League Tournament Semifinals at 6 p.m. on Saturday in Milwaukee. The Bulldogs face the winner of a Cleveland State-Wright State contest, which takes place Friday evening.

Regardless, Graves is confident that his squad is peaking at the right time.

“Heading into postseason play, the way we have been defending is encouraging,” Graves said. “We are right where we need to be.”

What if a Wright State fan burned down Hinkle Fieldhouse? Or a Valparaiso fan rented a wrecking ball to knock it down?

An equally devastating event happened at Auburn University a few weeks ago when Harvey Updyke Jr., a 62-year-old University of Alabama fan, allegedly poisoned two sprawling oak trees at “Toomer’s Corner” with an herbicide because the Tigers defeated the Crimson Tide in a November football game.

The trees will be missed, which may sound silly to people north of the Mason-Dixon line.

But the trees, which Tiger students cover in toilet paper after every football win, have been an iconic location in Auburn athletics for decades.

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Bulldogs at home this week

WEDNESDAY NONE

THURSDAY NONE

FRIDAY NONE

SATURDAY

ALEX ANGLIN

ZACH HAHN

MATT HOWARD

GRANT LEIENDECKER

SHAWN VANZANT

Ring leads swim team at HL meet

BY MATT RHINESMITH mrhinesm@butler.edu | sports staff writer

At her first Horizon League championship meet, freshman Kaitie Ring wasted no time making her presence known to the rest of the league.

Ring, who swam the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard backstroke, along with the 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, the 400yard freestyle relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay, had a meet full of best times.

She swam the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 2:12.56, her best of the season, and had the fastest relay leg of the 400-meter free relay, swimming it in 54.68.

However, her biggest accomplishment of the meet was breaking the Butler school record in the 100-yard backstroke, with a time of 58.94.

“All the adrenaline from being at finals really got me excited,” Ring said. “It was great to have all my teammates and my parents there to cheer me on.”

Ring posted her performance despite several torn tendons in her ankle, an injury that occurred halfway through this season.

“I was definitely worried I wouldn’t be able to come back from that and swim the way I wanted,” she said. “But I worked hard with the rehab and got myself to a place where I knew I could swim fast.”

Butler head coach Maurice Stewart said he was also impressed with Ring’s performance.

“She has overcome great adversity this season with illness and injury, but her determination to succeed helped [Ring] achieve a personal breakthrough,” he said. “It was exciting to watch.”

Freshman Lauren Lambrecht also helped carry the Bulldogs to an eighth-place finish in the conference meet.

She played a key part in the 200yard freestyle relay, the 200-yard medley relay, the 400-yard freestyle relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay, along with finishing 14th in the 200yard butterfly.

Her time in the 200-yard butterfly, 2:10.37, is a season best time and the fifth fastest in Butler history.

“I thought it was really cool how they had finals at night,” she said. “It really got my adrenaline going and

helped me swim that much faster.”

Kathleen Brannen, a freshman distance specialist, swam in the 500yard freestyle, 1000-yard freestyle, the mile and several relays.

“The longer races are the toughest because you really have to focus on your race, and not everyone in the lanes next to you,” she said. “You have to learn how to swim in your bubble.”

Brannen finished 20th in the women’s 1000-yard freestyle, with sophomore Kyle Johannsen and freshman Lauren Need close behind her at 26th and 27th, respectively.

Brannen’s time of 10:57.67 in the 1000-yard freestyle was her personal best and one of the five fastest times in Butler history for the event.

Brannen, Need and Johannsen finished 24th, 26th and 27th respectively in the 500-yard freestyle. All three failed to qualify for the finals.

The 400-yard medley relay team of freshmen Regan Girten and Rosalie Fidanze, Need and Johannsen finished eighth with a time of 4:21.54.

The 800-yard freestyle relay team would have recorded an eighth-place finish had it not been for a disquali-

fication. The team of Brannen, Need, Lambrecht and Ring swam a time of 8:18.59.

The team was happy with its performance.

“You always want to finish better than eighth, but I think this is a great place to start with a really young team,” Lambrecht said. “We’ve already started recruiting some fast girls for next year, so our goal will be to beat this year’s finish next year.”

Brannen, along with Ring and Lambrecht, will be asked to take on more of a leadership role next season.

“The competition was really fast this year,” Brannen said. “I thought we had some good swims, but hopefully we can get better in the offseason and come back next year and improve on this year.”

Stewart said that the Horizon League Championships were an eyeopening experience for the young Butler team.

“This team will definitely improve as they gain experience and awareness of what to expect at future conference championships,” he said.

“The future will be a successful one for Butler swimming.”

BASEBALL vs. Oakland 12 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Oakland 3 p.m.

SUNDAY MEN’S TENNIS vs. Dayton 5 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Oakland 12 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Oakland 3 p.m.

MONDAY NONE

TUESDAY BASEBALL vs. Taylor 3 p.m.

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Game, set, match

Women’s tennis picks up four wins

BY BILLY KLIMCZAK

bklimcza@butler.edu | sports staff writer

The Butler women’s tennis team will enter its Saturday match on a five-match winning streak after capturing four wins in five days.

Two of those wins were against schools the Bulldogs (5-3) had never defeated before.

Xavier (4-6) was one of those foes, and the Musketeers fell 5-2 on Feb. 23.

“This match definitely means

EYE ON THE BALL: Freshman Caroline Hedrick hits a forehand. (Photo by Maria Porter)

a lot,” senior Gabriela Bobrowski said. “After our start to the season, we can definitely tell that things are starting to come together.”

Two days later, the team found itself facing another opponent Butler had never beaten, the Redbirds of Illinois State (2-4).

Things were difficult in the beginning for the Bulldogs when Bobrowski and sophomore Brittany Farmer lost their matches’ first sets.

However, neither was willing to give up. Each battled back to win their matches and help guide the Bulldogs to a 5-2 win.

“I recognized at the beginning of the year that things were just not clicking,” head coach Jason Suscha said. “We’d come close in every one of our matches, but we just couldn’t get everything to work at the same time.

“With a couple wins under our belt, I can definitely see all of the gears starting to turn at once.”

The Bulldogs headed home with momentum and played Suscha’s alma mater, the Evansville Purple Aces (6-3), the next day.

The match started with a tightlycontested set of doubles duels.

Butler’s freshmen duo of Gabrielle Rubenstein and Stephanie McLoughlin dropped a close match at No. 1 doubles. But, the Bulldogs clinched the doubles point thanks to a No. 2 doubles win by Bobrowski and Farmer and a No. 3 doubles win by senior Natali Jaimes and freshman Caroline Hedrick.

Hedrick came back after her doubles win to provide the Bulldogs with yet another key performance.

After dropping her first set, 6-0, she rolled past Evansville junior Dora Kotsiou, 6-2, 6-0, in the final two sets of the No. 2 singles match.

Her win provided Butler with its third consecutive 5-2 victory.

Bobrowski said fatigue could strike them at any moment, due to playing so many matches on consecutive days. “[Suscha] was saying that even if we didn’t feel it, we would eventually get fatigued,” she said. “We definitely couldn’t afford to make mistakes and do any more work than we needed.

“I think that helped us against Evansville, and even more so against Dayton.”

Butler completed a 4-0 week with a 6-1 victory against Dayton (2-5) on Sunday afternoon.

The Bulldogs, as they had done throughout the week, started by winning the doubles point.

Butler then won five of six singles matches, with four of the victories coming in straight sets to seal the undefeated weekend.

Butler’s three freshmen—Hedrick at No. 2 singles, McLoughlin at No. 3 and Rubenstein at No. 5—each posted convincing wins.

Bobrowski also won easily at No. 4 singles, and Farmer won in three sets at the No. 6 spot.

The Bulldogs’ schedule continues versus DePaul Saturday and Ball State Sunday.

“After this past week, I feel like the team is prepared to face those top caliber teams on our schedule,” Suscha said. “Whether it be DePaul, Ball State or Georgia, I believe we’ll be ready for them with a greater sense of confidence.”

LOOKING UP: Senior Gabriela Bobrowski crushes a serve. (Photo by Maria Porter)

Wisconsin Woes: WBB drops two on road

BY BILLY KLIMCZAK bklimcza@butler.edu | sports staff writer

A pair of losses in Wisconsin has jeopardized the Butler women’s basketball team’s chances of clinching the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Horizon League tournament.

Saturday, the Bulldogs (17-12, 11-6 HL) faced the No. 13 Green Bay Phoenix.

Butler got off to a strong start, trailing by two eight minutes into the game. However, the Phoenix (27-1, 16-0 HL) turned up the heat, finishing the half on a 10-0 run to send the Bulldogs into the locker room facing a 4123 deficit.

“They did a lot of really good things, but we did a lot of things to make them good,” Butler senior guard Brittany Bowen said.

“The whole game was just 40 minutes of ups

and downs.

“We need to concentrate on the little things so that if we do face them again, the downs don’t hurt us as much.”

Green Bay was able to dominate the second half, finishing with a school record 93 points en route to a 93-57 victory. The win was the 27th of the season for Green Bay— also a school record.

Two days earlier, Butler lost to host Milwaukee, 73-66.

The game was close throughout, with neither team leading by more than nine.

Milwaukee senior forward Lindsay Laur scored 20 points and sophmore guard Sami Tucker added 17.

Milwaukee finished the night with eight 3-pointers and shot a perfect 17-for-17 from

the free-throw line.

Foul trouble led to unfamiliar lineups for the Bulldogs, which forced junior guard Devin Brierly to come in after senior point guard Azjah Bass picked up her fourth foul early in the second half.

But this didn’t seem to faze the Bulldogs.

Butler took a 11-7 lead following a 3-pointer by senior guard Alyssa Pittman. The Bulldogs extended their lead, 17-13, before going on a 3:32 scoring drought that saw Milwaukee tie the game at 20.

The Panthers scored the next eight points to take a 28-20 lead with 5:22 to play in the first half. However, Butler battled back and made a 12-4 run to end the half and tie the score at 32.

Just like the first half, the second half was

a back-and-forth bout. A three-point play by Laur put Milwaukee ahead, 69-64, with just 30 seconds to go.

The Bulldogs responded and Pittman found senior forward Chloe Hamilton for a layup with 19 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to two. However, the Panthers were able to seal the victory at the free throw line, winning 73-66.

Butler faces Valparaiso this Saturday in a must-win game to clinch second place in next week’s Horizon League tournament.

Head coach Beth Couture is still optimistic about her squad’s chances.

“You know, if you could script an ending to a season, this would be an ideal way to do it,” Couture said. “We are in a good position because we are in control of our own fate.”

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overtime: AUBURN TREES HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF TRADITION IN SPORTS

TREE LOVE: Auburn fans used handmade signs and toilet paper rolls to pay their respects at “Toomer’s Corner” oak trees. The pair of oaks represented more than one hundred years of football tradition. (Photo from MCT) continued from page 5 Auburn since the pair of 130-year-old oak trees were large enough to be toilet-papered.

For anyone to purposefully damage a school’s icon and end a tradition appalls me. Feel free to mock or verbally bash it, but don’t end it. Doing so only makes you look foolish, or even a little bit jealous.

Thank goodness Auburn police took action, arresting Updyke for first-degree criminal mischief.

Although now, Alabama law enforcement is forced to give time and energy to guarding prominant sites on Alabama’s campus for fear of retaliation. Police specifically fear that damage might be done to either the statue of former head coach Paul William “Bear” Bryant or the site where a statue of current head coach Nick Saban will be built.

Sports are full of traditions because they easily inspire pride and loyalty in fans. They are something that the older fans can teach

Baseball picks up back-to-back wins

BY COLIN LIKAS

clikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

The Butler men’s baseball team picked up its second consecutive victory last night, defeating IPFW, 8-3.

Senior third baseman Grant Fillipitch went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs for the Bulldogs (2-3), while senior second baseman Luke Duncan added two RBIs. Butler got the offense going early against the Mastadons (0-1), scoring three runs in both the second and third innings.

Junior Mike Hernandez picked up the win for the Bulldogs, who had eight pitchers see action in the game.

The Bulldogs picked up their first win of the season against South Carolina-Upstate on Sunday, topping the Spartans (4-4), 10-9.

Fillipitch finished the day a triple short of hitting for the cycle, going 3-for-4 with a home run and an RBI. Senior designated hitter Kyle Waggoner also had a strong day, going 3-for-5 with two RBIs. He was named Ho-

rizon League Player of the Week for hitting .412 and tallying seven RBIs during the road trip.

“Our hitters really broke out today and did a nice job,” head coach Steve Farley said.

“After losing a tough game to Gardner-Webb, I wasn’t sure how the guys would bounce back.”

With the game tied at 8 going into the ninth, Butler played some small ball to produce the go-ahead run.

Freshman Zach Sizemore walked to open the frame and, after a sacrifice bunt and a passed ball, scored on a sacrifice fly from Waggoner to put the Bulldogs up, 9-8.

Butler added another run before the inning ended courtesy of an RBI single by junior shortstop Griffin Richeson.

Sophomore Chase Byerly held off a comeback by Upstate in the bottom of the inning and picked up his first save of the season.

Sophomore Joel Leichty picked up the win in relief for Butler.

The day before the win,

Butler dropped both ends of a doubleheader against Gardner-Webb University.

The second of the two games was a close affair, and, although the Bulldogs led for six innings, the Runnin’ Bulldogs (6-3) pulled out a 6-5 victory.

Butler used a strong second inning to take an early 4-0 lead.

Down 5-1 in the seventh, Gardner-Webb tied the contest, led by junior rightfielder Adam McFarland’s two RBIs. In the bottom of the ninth, freshman third baseman Scott Coleman scored the game-winning run for the Runnin’ Bulldogs on a wild pitch.

The first game of the doubleheader wasn’t as competitive, as Butler fell behind early and dropped an 11-4 decision.

The Bulldogs opened their season on Friday with a 10-2 loss to Wofford (6-2).

Butler now heads to Oakland to take on the Golden Grizzlies (0-3) in back-toback doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday.

LET IT RIP: Senior infielder Luke Duncan, seen taking a cut in a game against Cleveland State last season, has two hits and two RBIs in 12 plate appearances in Butler’s first four games this season. (Photo by Ryan Murach)

the younger ones, which unites generations in a common goal—cheering for their team.

Traditions are priceless, especially in collegiate athletics, and should never be disrespected by rival fans.

Oddly enough, football has a near monopoly on some of the best collegiate sports traditions.

Some are landmarks, such as Toomer’s Corner or Notre Dame’s “Touchdown Jesus,” that symbolize past accomplishments.

But many of the most powerful are actions—things that all fans or participants do to symbolize their loyalty.

Notre Dame football players have touched a locker room sign that reads “Play Like A Champion Today” before they step on to the field ever since former head coach Lou Holtz hung it above the exit.

Florida State football has their Seminoledressed mascot, “Chief Osceola” as he is known, ride a horse on to the field and plant a flaming spear at midfield.

Clemson football fans have “The Most Exciting 25 Seconds in College Football” as players gather around “Howard’s Rock”— a rock brought back from Death Valley by former head coach Frank Howard—and then run down a ramp while the band plays the Tiger Rag. Professional sports aren’t short of the traditions, though, as bleacherreport.com’s “The 15 Best Traditions in Sports” pointed out.

Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch and the shaving cream pie in the face for hitting a walk-off. Soccer players exchange jerseys after games. Hockey has playoff beards and the New Zealand national rugby team has the Haka, a traditional Maori dance, they perform to intimidate opponents be-

fore every match.

Traditions unite people, whether it’s singing a specific set of songs during the holidays or going to a certain restaurant with friends.

Why should sports be any different?

So shame on you, Updyke, for seeking to harm a tradition and an institution. It doesn’t make Alabama look any better. In fact, it only made fellow Crimson Tide fans cast you from their circle of trust and label your actions as those of a madman.

Oh yeah, and Auburn fans, don’t get any crazy ideas of retaliation. You’d be sinking to the same level of your most hated rival.

RESPECT THE CHIEF: “Chief Osceola” represents Florida State’s proud history. (Photo from MCT)

Track teams take third

BY MATT RHINESMITH

mrhinesm@butler.edu | sports staff writer

In his last Horizon League Indoor Championship meet, senior Kris Gauson went out with a bang.

Gauson won both the 800-meter run and the mile with only 50 minutes of rest in between and led Butler to a third-place finish at the Horizon League Indoor Championships.

“He’s in great shape,” head coach Matt Roe said. “He was very decisive in both races at this meet and is squarely on the bubble of getting to the NCAA Indoor Championships.”

Gauson’s time of 1:51.40 in the 800-meter barely edged Butler freshman Ross Clarke’s time of 1:52.00, which was good for secondplace.

Sophomore Craig Jordan finished in fourth, with a time of 1:52.06.

It was the first time in Clarke’s career that he ran the 800-meter. Coupled with his performances in the mile and 3000-meter run (6th, 8:38.32), Clarke became the first Horizon League athlete to score in three events at a conference championship meet.

“He’s one of the best freshmen in the country,” Roe said. “This meet really showed how tough he is, his versatility and how bright the future is for him.

“To be able to run all three events, it’s amazing.”

In the mile, it was once again Gauson and Clarke battling at the front, with Gauson winning his second title of the meet with a time of 4:07.86. Clarke ran a 4:09.81, finishing in second.

The men’s 3000-meter run was also dominated by Butler runners. Senior Justin Roeder won the event with a time of 8:27.17, junior Matt Proctor took second place with a time of 8:29.22 and fellow junior Craig Gundersen ran 8:29.73, good for third-place.

Butler also received contributions from freshman Alex Berry and senior Brent Sever, who finished fifth-place in the 400-meter dash and the 60-meter hurdles, respectively.

The 4x400 meter relay team of Berry, Gauson and freshmen Andrew Wallace and Brad Magnetta also did well, placing sixth and setting a new Butler record with a time of 3:21.93.

“We scored all the races out and we had the men finishing third, so we were happy with our finish,” Roe said.

The Butler women also took third as a team on their side of the conference championships. Like the men, a majority of their points came from distance events.

Sophomores Kirsty Legg and Katie Clark continued their season-long success in the middle distance events. Legg ran a preliminary time of 2:10.72 in the 800-meter run, a new Horizon League record.

Legg followed that up with two individual championships in the 800-meter and the mile, with times of 2:12.33 and 5:03.70, respectively.

As for Clark, it was a meet full of secondplace finishes. She started off her day by taking second in the 5000-meter run, finished just behind Legg in the mile at 5:03.90 and took second in the 3000-meter with a time of 9:48.60.

Milwaukee swept the meet at the GaREAT Complex in Geneva, Ohio, winning both the men’s and women’s titles.

Butler will have a chance to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind., on Friday and Saturday.

After the NCAA Indoor Championship meet, which will be held in College Station, Texas on March 11 and 12, Butler’s first outdoor meet will be the Stanford Invitational on March 25.

A&E

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Taking Shakespeare to a new level Tim Hardy infuses ‘As You Like It’ with ‘Mad Men’ style

BY JILL MCCARTER jmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

Shakespeare meets the 1950s in Butler University Theatre Department’s mainstage production of “As You Like It,” which opens at 8 tonight in Lilly Hall Studio Theatre 168.

Director Tim Hardy is the university’s first Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist. It is a four-year program that will bring a theater professional from another country to Butler for 8-10 weeks each year to teach and design or direct a production.

Hardy is looking forward to presenting a new take on the Shakespearean classic to appeal to a modern-day audience. The production is based off of life in the 1950s and has “a Mad Men look.”

“If you put actors in doublets and tights and make them walk around and speak funny, the modern audience can look at them and dismiss them right away,” Hardy said. “If you make it more modern, they say ‘Blimey, that’s us,’ and that’s what I’m really trying to go for.”

Shakespeare can be difficult to navigate, so Hardy said he wanted to make sure that the audience and the actors alike understood what was happening.

“Reading Shakespeare is hell, but when you perform it and you go see it, it’s so much easier to understand,” Hardy said.

“As You Like It” is one of Shakespeare’s more complicated pieces, Hardy said.

“It’s a more mature story,” Hardy said.

“This is about love, really. Not puppy dog love, but real grown up love and how the characters come to find it.”

“As You Like It” tells the story of Rosalind and Orlando, played by senior Steph Gray and sophomore Tyler Ostrander, respectively, as they work to get their happy ending.

After being banished from court by the duke, Rosalind runs off to the forest with her cousin, Celia and her jester, Touchstone, played by freshman Megan Medley and senior Jill Harman, respectively. Rosalind starts dress-

ing like a young man before everything gets resolved.

“It’s a harder play to get a hold of, but all of the cast members got it,” Hardy said.

“They have worked so hard, and it’s just been great.”

The students of Butler impressed Hardy and convinced him to return after directing last year’s mainstage production of “The Merchant of Venice.”

“I love it here,” Hardy said. “The work ethic and the students here are impressive.

“You don’t have to teach them about professional attitudes, which is all I know. They all just have it.”

After touring the country and working with numerous universities and institutions, Hardy said the faculty members of Butler’s Theatre Department are unique because they are genuinely happy with what they are doing.

“Sometimes, faculties are full of people who teach because they screwed up at everything else,” Hardy said. “Here, they are successful outside of teaching, and because they are happy and successful in themselves, they benefit the students.

“Rarely is that the case.”

The cast of “As You Like It” has been as impressed with Hardy as he’s been with them.

“He’s a great director,” Ostrander said.

“He came with an awesome idea for the show and has gotten everyone involved excited for how it will turn out.”

Cast members said they are grateful to have the experience of working with him through the program.

“The Butler Theatre professors are invaluable and always wonderful to work with,” senior performer Bradley Bankemper said.

“To have Tim, though, offers a new perspective that normally wouldn’t be available to us.”

Hardy’s long résumé and experiences have helped some cast members feel ready

A WELL-RESPECTED MAN: Tim Hardy is back at Butler, after directing “The Merchant of Venice” and performing his one-man show, “Galileo” recently. This year, he’s directing “As You Like It,” ‘50s style (Photo courtesy of Tim Hardy) for tonight’s performance.

“I was a little nervous coming into rehearsals for the first time, but that didn’t last long,” senior performer Stefan LeBlanc said.

“With Tim’s guidance keeping me on track with character choices, I feel very comfortable with my role.”

A faculty member of Britain’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Hardy has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Academy and directed and performed in productions across the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany and the United States.

Though it’s important to teach, Hardy said, it’s even more important to find a time to perform.

“If I stand out in front of someone and tell them how to do Shakespeare, the only justification for that is that I do it myself,” Hardy said. “I know how hard and how scary it is,

and that’s a good thing to remember because it’s what I think of as I direct and teach.”

Hardy found time to perform in a oneman show about Galileo that premiered in Indianapolis in 2009.

“120 minutes on my own is terrifying,” Hardy said. “So I decided to do it in Indianapolis, because if I screwed up, [being] 4,000 miles from home is good.”

After the show wraps up on Sunday, Hardy plans on going to New York with his wife for a break before performing Galileo in England. Ultimately, though, plans are still unclear and there is talk that Hardy will return to Indianapolis.

“As You Like It” will run March 2-5 at 8 p.m. and March 5 and 6 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, and can be reserved by calling (317) 940-9247 or by emailing theatrereservations@butler.edu.

Breaking out the beads

The best bets for celebrating Mardi Gras in Indy

BY BRIAN WANBAUGH bwanbaug@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

Break out the beads, your elaborate mask and as much purple, yellow and green clothing as you can because Mardi Gras is here again. Although Mardi Gras is unfortunately always on a Tuesday, there is no reason you can’t enjoy yourself this weekend instead. Here are some suggestions for your Mardi Gras festivities.

The parties begin on Friday, with the Mass Ave. Mardi Gras Mambo downtown. Running from 6-10 p.m., Mardi Gras Mambo offers typical celebrations with an artful twist in the way only Mass. Ave. could. You can walk along the avenue and take in some art with the Indianapolis Downtown Artists & Dealers Association First Friday Art Tour, all while collecting beads and listening to live entertainment.

If you’re feeling like something with a bit more energy, then the Athenaeum Theater is the place for you. High Energy Band and DJ Cassio Ferrari will be playing Brazilian style Carnival music for your listening and dancing pleasure.

For those 21 and older: When it comes to dance parties, no place does it bigger than the Vogue in Broad Ripple.

On Saturday, this Mardi Gras party will feature all the dancing you could want, plus cash prizes for whomever has the most beads at the end of the night.

If going to dance clubs is not your thing, or you’re looking for something a little more authentic, then the Indianapolis Carnival Brazil at the Jazz Kitchen on College Ave. is the place for you. Beginning at 10 p.m. Saturday and running until 3 a.m. Sunday, this party will make you feel as if you’ve stepped straight into Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The Indiana University Brazilian Ensemble, a group of 20 or so drummers who specialize in the rhythmic beat of Brazilian Carnival music, will be there along with Flores do Samba, a samba dance group. DJ Kyle Long will also be there mixing Carnival music for a memorable dance party.

If you get tired from all the samba dancing, you can just sit down and enjoy videos of the actual Carnival festival in Rio de Janeiro or an exhibition of photos and videos of Rio de Janeiro from Brazilian artist Artur Silva.

While taking in the sights and sounds of the party, be sure to sample some of the Brazilian dishes, appetizers and drinks the Jazz Kitchen will be serving, including Brazil’s national cocktail, the caipirinha, and the country’s national dish, feijoada. Tickets cost $10 for students and $12 for general admission.

When Mardi Gras actually does come around on March 8, be sure to have your King Cake ready to eat. Pick one up at Fresh Market on College Ave. and enjoy the traditionally cinnamon roll-style cake. When eating the cake, do not be surprised if you find a small trinket in it.

According to some traditions, the person who finds the trinket in their slice has good luck for the year. However, other traditions say that person has to buy the cake next year—you choose which tradition to follow.

If you’re feeling a little adventurous this year, we support that and fully encourage buying a spontaneous plane ticket or jumping into your car for 18 hours and heading down to New

Orleans for the next week—just don’t tell your professors we gave you the idea.

After all, New Orleans is the be-all, end-all of Mardi Gras parties. We’re pretty sure it’s supposed to be on everyone’s bucket list, and there is no time like the present.

A CELEBRATION LIKE NO OTHER: Mardi Gras may be celebrated best in New Orleans, but Indianapolis is offering some impressive events at venues like the Vogue and Jazz Kitchen, and on Mass Ave. (Photo from MCT)

The Butler Arts and Entertainment Calendar 2 Lord of the Dance 7:30 p.m.

Clowes Memorial Hall As You Like It 8:00 p.m.

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3 As You Like It 8:00 p.m.

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Shen Yun 7:30 p.m.

Clowes Memorial Hall As You Like It 8 p.m., LH168 Simon Docking 8 p.m., Eidson-Duckwall

Simon Docking 10 a.m., Eidson-Duckwall As You Like It 2 p.m., 8 p.m.—LH168 Shen Yun 7:30 Clowes Memorial Hall

6 As You Like It 2 p.m.

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7 Woods Lecture: Katy Payne 7:30 p.m.

Reilly Room Visiting Writer’s Series: Bob Hicok 7:30 p.m.

Johnson Room

8 JCFA Faculty Artist Series 7:30 p.m.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

Silent Bob ‘Strikes’ Again

Adele’s ‘21’ reflects singer’s personal, spiritual growth

Kevin Smith brings ‘Red State’ to campus

BY AJA CACAN acacan@butler.edu | staff writer

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BY CAITLIN O’ROURKE corourke@butler.edu | a&e editor

Out of all the theaters, in all the towns in all the world, Kevin Smith is coming to Butler.

Smith, who wrote and directed the film “Red State,” surprised everyone when he bought his own film—instead of auctioning it off—at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Now, he is taking the film on a crosscountry tour to forego the millions put into advertising and instead do a viral campaign, depending on his cult-like followers to spread the word well enough by its October release.

The horror flick’s plot has so far been kept under wraps, but the basis is that three boys visit an online pornography site and are given an invitation for sex. When they road trip to the given place, they meet a sinister fundamentalist group instead.

“He’s so known for comedy, I really want to see how he can translate into horror,” Katie Johnson, a freshman pharmacy and English double major, said.

It’s true that Smith is well known for comedy; he has a small cult following after producing indie films such as “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.”

If you know a Smith fan, you know a diehard Smith fan.

It’s working to his advantage. According to the film’s website, www.coopersdell.com, all the areas where the movie has shown have sold the minimum amount he needed to not owe the theatre anything. That includes Clowes Memorial Hall.

“Ticket sales have been really good so far, given that Clowes and Kevin Smith are trying to promote the show through social media only,” Joshua Lingenfelter, director of marketing at Clowes, said. “I think the fact that it’s a premiere of his brand new movie followed by his signature ‘Evening with Kevin Smith’ where he answers questions from the audience and tells some amazingly funny stories will push a lot of tickets.”

If there are a significant amount of fans like Johnson and Conor Owens, a freshman pharmacy major, it won’t be a problem.

When asked about why they wanted to go to the movie premiere, they had a simple answer: it’s Kevin Smith. Period. No other reason needed.

This is good, as the movie has gotten mixed reviews since its debut at Sundance.

Comments range from “clever,” from the Hollywood Reporter, to “so off-the-map that it doesn’t cohere,” from Screen International.

Despite being nervous about the genrechange, Owens said he’s just going to trust

CULT KING: Kevin Smith is bringing his new horror flick, “Red State” to Clowes Memorial Hall. (Photo from MCT) Smith.

The showing is something new for Clowes, Lingenfelter said. The biggest outof-the-ordinary hurdle has been trying to find a projection system that is the size of the Clowes stage—about 70 feet diagonally.

The format of the film requires a special high definition player and a projector that is currently being shipped from Chicago.

It’s a crazy concept for a film—rumors have said it is based on the ever-controversial Westboro Baptist Church—and a crazy idea for promotion, but so far, it looks like everything is turning out just like Smith hoped it would.

“Dude is god,” Johnson said.

RED STATE Directed by Kevin Smith Starring John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Michael Angarano Friday, March 11 8 p.m.

Tickets: $45, $65 For mature audiences, 16 & up

ust one in a line of soulful British female singer-songwriters recently on the scene, Adele continues to make waves with her distinctive style. Her new album, “21,” released Feb. 22, is much more than a sequential follow-up to her 2008 debut, “19.”

The 22-year-old singer plays on this numeric theme to bring a level of maturity and growth to her music. The album starts with “Rolling In The Deep,” with Adele’s soulful voice juxtaposed against a rolling chorus.

This is followed by another fast-paced track, the anthemic “Rumour Has It,” in which she defiantly chants, “Just ‘cause I said it / Don’t mean that I meant it. People say crazy things.”

Just from listening to these first two tracks, it’s almost safe to assume she has established a theme for the remainder of the album.

However, Adele literally turns the tables and reverts to a slower, more soulful style with the appropriately named “Turning Tables.”

In this ballad about independence and growth, she sings, “Next time I’ll be braver / I’ll be my own savior.”

“Don’t You Remember” runs along a similar vein, proving that churning out catchy pop ballads is still what Adele does best.

In the spirit of these two songs, the rest of the album’s tracks become increasingly measured and slow, incorporating more piano and an emphasis on the singer’s vocals.

“Set Fire To The Rain” epitomizes the power ballad, an appropriate midpoint along the continuum of Adele’s musical experiment. With its climactic chorus, this track elevates the middle of the album, preventing it from getting lost in the relative mellowness of the songs that precede and

follow it.

Adele continues to keep the listener interested with “Take It All,” a soulful track performed in a classical jazz style. This is arguably one of the more simplistic songs on the album, with nothing more than Adele’s smooth vocals and booming chorus over a melodic piano.

Although the middle of the album becomes markedly less fast-paced as it goes on, no two of Adele’s ballads ever sound the same.

Throughout, she skillfully manipulates variations in style and rhythm.

Then comes “I’ll Be Waiting,” in which Adele confidently declares “I’ll be waiting for you / Until you’re ready to love me again.”

It is almost an ode to personal and spiritual growth, a theme that the singer reverts to time and again on this album.

On the last few tracks, she seems to dig deeper into the core of her album’s message.

The previous track segues nicely into “One And Only,” which is about humility and honesty with oneself, with Adele knowingly declaring “Nobody’s perfect / Trust me, I learned it.”

The generic name of “Track 10, Lovesong,” makes it unrecognizable before actually listening and finding that this is indeed a cover of the famous hit by The Cure.

Adele preserves the tone of the original while masterfully adapting the song to her own style.

Despite its slight varia-

tions in individual song styles, the album is pretty uniform in its overall impression in the listener.

The final track, “Someone Like You,” nicely rounds off this experience. The raw language of the song makes it admittedly one of the most open and vulnerable of the whole set, so it blends in while also standing out.

One of the hallmarks of “21” is that Adele never seems anything but honest about her own strengths and weaknesses. If the album offers a limited experience in anything, it is only because it is necessarily the reflections, through song, of a young person navigating through life, facing and overcoming obstacles to achieve self-fulfillment and growth.

SOUL SISTER: Adele’s ‘21’ shows her maturing sound. (Photo from MCT)

21 | ALBUM REVIEW Adele’s new album is a soulful, reflective expression of a young woman finding her way through life. While there are only slight variations in song style throughout the album, all the songs are honest, raw and smooth, making an overall classic album that can appeal to a broad age group.

5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair, 1 = poor

Grab a slice

The best pizza for any mood in Broad Ripple

BY CAITLIN O’ROURKE & BRIAN WANBAUGH collegian@butler.edu | a&e editors

Broad Ripple can be positively daunting when trying to choose a restaurant, but let’s face it—most of the time, college students just really crave a piece of pizza. Part of the reason may have to be that they themselves don’t have to drive to get it, but that’s hardly the point.

We have collected every pizza place in the Broad Ripple area and determined what kind of pizza they have, when is the best time to get it and, of course, which is simply the best.

Best Atmosphere: Greek’s Pizzeria Hidden off the main drag, Greek’s offers some pretty unique options in comparison to the rest of the choices on our list. Their menu includes pizza, but it also has pizza “shells”—not unlike calzones—pasta dishes and some pretty killer garlic bread, including feta cheesetopped garlic bread. It’s a relaxing atmosphere, far away from the noisy main strip. The porch in the back of the restaurant is perfect during spring and summertime. While the food is decent, it’s definitely not our favorite slice. It’s a different option, but there are other picks on the list that, for the same price, offer much more unique and delicious choices.

Best Late Night Option: HotBox Pizza Let’s face it—HotBox is a guilty pleasure that is saved for late night food cravings or weekends when every other Broad Ripple option is closed. It’s not healthy and it’s not exactly refined, but sometimes, you really just need the extra large chicken bacon ranch pizza and about three or four orders of their infamous breadsticks with nacho cheese or marinara sauce. Yes, most of the time it sounds horrible, but when it’s midnight, nothing else sounds as good and every Butler student knows it.

Best Original Pizza: Marco’s The fastest growing pizza company in the United States is an easy choice if you’re craving a late night snack. It’s good any other time too. Marco’s routinely has excellent deals including the Big Square Deal Combo: a large, one topping square pizza with cheesy bread and a two liter of soda for $12.99. One of the best things about Marco’s is that they deliver to campus as well. So, whether it’s a weekday afternoon or a weekend night, give Marco’s a call and get yourself some good pizza at a cheap price, without leaving the comfort of your room.

Best Deals: Za Pizzeria Za Pizzeria is one of the most unique pizza shops in Broad Ripple. Offering thinly sliced, New York style-esque pieces, this pie is full of flavor. Located right in the heart of Broad Ripple, it is easy to find and convenient if you’re craving a single slice after a night out. At Za, you can buy slices individually, ranging from $3 for plain cheese or $3.50 for a specialty slice. We recommend the Friday specialty slice: the Porky’s. With Canadian bacon, andouille sausage, hand pulled Italian sausage, pepperoni, bacon, mozzarella and provolone, this slice is perfect for the meat lover.

Best of the Best: Bazbeaux’s Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Bazbeaux’s has become a staple of Broad Ripple dining establishments. Bazbeaux’s has 23 different pizzas to choose from, including a meat lover’s dream in the Colossus, with pepperoni, Italian sausage, ham, mushroom, red onion, green pepper and black olives. The cheesy deliciousness of the Pizza Alla Quattro Formaggio features romano, cheddar, ricotta, mozzarella, provolone, bacon and mushroom. The Bazbeaux’s special is simple, yet delicious with fresh basil, garlic and sun-dried tomatoes.

If any of the pre-created pizzas don’t make your mouth water, you can choose from over 50 different toppings to make your own tasty pizza.

The Best Of

ndy These local spots in Indy have A&E’s stamp of approval—a new place featured each week!

Details: The Indianapolis Zoo 1200 W. Washington St. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. www.indianapoliszoo.com Distance from Butler: 20-25 minutes Specials: Grand Opening of the Warthog and Bat exhibits March 18 and a Travel Night Preview of the Zoo

LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE: HotBox Pizza (left) and ZA (right) are among some of the best pizza places in Broad Ripple. Each option provides students a variety of choices. (Photos by: (left) Erin Drennan, (right) Emily Newell)

Why We Love This Place: As the weather turns warmer, people are not the only ones stirring from a long winter. The animals are also ready to enjoy spring and summer as well, so why not go enjoy an afternoon at the Indianapolis Zoo, where the Marine Mammal and Plains Biome exhibits are particularly enjoyable.

Want us to feature your favorite Indy spot? Send submissions to corourke@butler.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: While we support Indiana Senate Bill 292, we are concerned with the possible drawbacks of such legislation. | VOTE: 17-2

New gun bill spurs concerns

On Feb. 14, a bill was passed in the Indiana Senate that would permit individuals to carry firearms in Indiana municipal buildings, such as Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium.

While we understand the intentions of the bill, we hesitate to support allowing individuals carrying loaded handguns in highly trafficked areas.

A common misconception of this new bill is that anyone who owns a gun will simply be able to tote it around with them while they are out in public.

However, in order to carry a concealed weapon at any time, one must have passed a rigorous process in order to receive a concealed handgun permit. This process includes a background check, a written test, a required fee and attending a firearm safety class.

If this legislation is passed, only individuals who have a concealed handgun permit will be able to carry them in locations such as the Indiana Convention Center, city parks, libraries and any other municipal buildings.

The reason this bill raises so much concern is because the areas where guns are may be permitted are often family oriented—parks in particular.

In the event something were to go awry or there were some sort of accident, the fear is that children

could easily be injured.

There are also many who are concerned about the timing of this legislation, as the 2012 Super Bowl will be played in Indianapolis. If this bill is signed into law, it will be effective when the game is played. However, the Super Bowl is unique, and it is described as a “National Special Security Event.”

This means that the event’s security is overseen by the FBI and Secret Service, giving them the power to strike down any local laws and effectively ban handguns on game day.

Also, if this legislation is enacted, there are ways in which buildings like Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium can avoid adherence to the law. Since the Colts organization has a contract with Lucas Oil for use of the stadium, they can simply put a notification on tickets, telling fans that handguns are banned at that particular event.

In an interview with the Terre Haute Tribune Star, State Sen. Brent Steele said, “The Colts could bar a ticket holder from wearing the color green if they wanted to.”

It is entirely up to the organization.

Also, the legislation will provide security throughout the state of Indiana.

Internationally, the United Kingdom is infamous for their ban on firearms in 1997.

While crime rates in London soared exponentially, we do not feel that allowing individuals with concealed handgun permits will really lower the crime rates. Although they may be able to prevent a crime, it would probably be a scarce occurance.

We feel that by allowing individuals to carry concealed handguns into events, the negatives far outweigh the benefits.

In the event something were to go awry.... children could easily be injured.

The civil war—a new cause for celebration in the south

BY LEXIE SMITH

lhsmith@butler.edu | opinion editor

1865 marked the official ending of the Civil War, one of the bloodiest, most violent wars fought in American history. It was a war marked by racism, vicious slavery and innumerable deaths of American citizens.

So why on earth would Southerners be embracing and even celebrating the 150th anniversary of the war now? The fact that people are cheering for the history of the Civil War instead of commemorating it is despicable, insulting and overwhelmingly ignorant.

Several southern states, including South Carolina, were throwing celebration extravaganzas, complete with costumes to “commemorate” the Civil War. This doesn’t seem like a commemoration to me. This seems like a celebration of slavery and outright brutality in the South. Why is this permissible? Someone surely should stand up and tell these people that blatant celebration is rude and distasteful.

There is still racism lurking beneath the surface of our country— we’re all aware. It’s bad enough that it is simmering in some corners of the country, but the fact that slavery era is celebrated is unacceptable. My biggest complaint about this celebra-

COMMEMORATION OR CELEBRATION? Most people would not consider the Civil War a cause for celebration. Recently, in light of the 150-year anniversary of the Civil War, Southerners have put on balls and productions that are blatant celebrations. (Photo from MCT) tion is that Southerners don’t seem to be paying respect to historical events, but instead they appear to be looking back at the past with nostalgia, yearning for what once was.

“It’s almost like celebrating the Holocaust,” Bernard Simelton, President of Alabama’s Conference of the NAACP said in an interview with USA Today.

More than 620,000 people, or two percent of the population, died in the Civil War. That’s not even counting civilians who were killed in crossfire.

Therefore, I find it exceedingly difficult for anyone to applaud this massive loss of life.

Also, permitting people to celebrate such an atrocity makes me nervous that it could cause a new upris-

ing of anti-Semitism and racism. It has always been said we must study history to ensure we don’t repeat it.

The fact that no one is stepping up and preventing these celebrations is equally disturbing. The United States is no longer divided; we are a solid nation, therefore it is the responsibility of other states to address and modify this behavior.

Mark Simpson, South Carolina Division Commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans said, “War and death is never something to celebrate, but we do celebrate the courage and the integrity of 170 men who signed their signatures to the Article of Secession—the courage of men to do what they think is right.”

I want to believe that this is the

motivation for the various galas Southerners are holding in light of the 150-year anniversary, but I know better. The South’s representation and celebration of the anniversary of the Civil War is insensitive and unnecessary.

Whether Southerners are commemorating the courage of Confederate soldiers from the Civil War or celebrating deep-seated racism and slavery is debatable. Either way, I can’t condone their celebrations.

They lack respect, couth and awareness.

Commemorating the Civil War is a process that needs to be taken on delicately and respectfully, due to its overwhelmingly controversial nature in American history.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

Walker unfairly demonized for Wisconsin vision

BY SAM HYER shyer@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

For the past two weeks, it has been impossible to turn on the TV or log on to the Internet and not see something about the ruckus in Wisconsin.

The protests and demonstrations by union workers in regards to their collective bargaining rights has successfully been turned into a media circus. With Governor Scott Walker being vilified and compared to Hitler and state Democrats fleeing to Illinois, it is getting painful to watch.

It’s not surprising, though, because Walker has the courage to finally address an issue that this country has faced for years: the all-too-powerful public unions.

Last week, the streets outside the capital building in Madison were filled with teachers and other unionized members of the public sector.

Walker’s proposed budget repair bill would require public employees to pay 5.8 percent of their salary towards their own pension benefits.

I applaud Walker for his strong stance on the subject and his willingness to attack the issue head-on. This is a problem that states have been dealing with for quite some time now.

While public employee benefits have continued to surge in states, the average taxpayer who foots this bill has been cutting back due to the economic times.

In Wisconsin, public employees pay less than one percent of their salary toward their pensions. The Wisconsin taxpayer essentially pays for the benefits of the public employees in the state.

Wisconsin is currently facing a deficit of $137 million. At the rate the state is spending, it is projected to rocket to $3.6 billion in the next two years.

Similar problems are plaguing states like Ohio and Indiana as well, with Ohio Governor John Kasich addressing his state’s pension problems and Indiana democrats also fleeing to Illinois.

I think that there is also a major misunderstanding across the country about what the proposed legislation in Wisconsin actually entails.

The fact that there are protesters in Wisconsin comparing Walker to Adolph Hitler and the destruction of unions in Germany in the 1930s shows a complete lack of understanding of the issue.

UNDER FIRE: Since the proposal of his budget fixing legislation, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has been villified for his plans to improve the state.

Public union workers flooded to the state’s capitol in Wisconsin by the thousands to protest the major provisions of the legislation. (Photo from MCT There are people who say Walker is evil and intends to completely strip unions of their collective bargaining rights.

This is not accurate.

What Walker’s proposal would do is take away unions’ collective bargaining rights on things pertaining to pensions and benefits. Unions will still be able to bargain on their wages and other issues.

By taking a strong stance and not budging from this issue in Wisconsin, Walker is giving a highly contentious issue the attention that it finally deserves, after years of very little.

Unions have manipulated state legislatures across the country for incredible pension packages at the taxpayer’s expense.

In the private sector, when unions use collective bargaining to improve or change their pension plans, they are dealing with the company management and profits that a company has made from paying customers.

In public sector unions, when union management seeks to

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drastically change or improve their pension plans, it is at the taxpayer’s expense.

Due to public union’s influence in state legislatures and ability to employ some of the most powerful lobbying teams in the country, it is simply far too easy for public unions to manipulate elected officials and dump thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to receive the changes they demand.

Even President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this.

In the 1930s, Roosevelt proclaimed, “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transported into the public service.”

It was true in Roosevelt’s era and it is true today. The powerful influence that public unions have over state legislatures needs to be checked.

The time has come for the American taxpayer to stop footing the bill for some of the best, over-the-top pension plans in the country.

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Ciera Oshodi sophomore

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Jenny Gleason junior

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COLLEGIAN Photo Contest campus

Where in the^world is the Butler gnome?

LAST WEEK’S WINNER Name- Myke Van De Voort Gnome Location- Lower Level of Bookstore Major- Electronic Journalism Hometown- Naperville, IL Why do you love Butler? It feels like home. From my fraternity brothers to my professors to the basketball team, everyone I’ve met here has changed my life for the better and I would not be who I am today without them.

Photos by Erin Drennan

The first person to correctly guess the location of the Butler gnome and e-mail the answer to collegian@butler.edu will be featured in next week’s Collegian!