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Administrators look to find spots for unlucky students OLIVIA INGLE OINGLE@BUTLER.EDU ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR

Several rising sophomores and juniors found themselves on a 2012-13 housing wait list after last week’s housing selection nights.

The lists contain a total of 90 students—36 sophomores and 54 juniors.

“We’re going to go through those wait lists as quickly as we can to get everyone into a place where they are pleased,” said Karla Cunningham, director of residence life.

Cunningham said the wait lists aren’t an unusual circumstance.

Twenty-four students were placed on wait lists for Apartment Village last year.

Dean of Student Life Irene Stevens said the housing shortage always gets worked out over the summer.

“Unfortunately I know it’s disconcerting to the students, but we will find a space,” Stevens said. “Once we get an idea of the incoming class and the numbers there and the numbers of the returning students, we juggle things around a little bit and see what comes out.”

Seniors were given first priority in room selection at Apartment Village. Seniors have the option of living off campus. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors have to live on campus.

Stevens said this year’s wait list is longer than last year’s because a few more seniors than usual signed up to live in Apartment Village. She also said next year’s junior class is bigger than usual.

“It may very well be that most of University Terrace will be juniors, where in the past it’s mostly been sophomores,” Stevens said. “UT is our flexible space that allows us to move people around a little bit.”

She said residence life doesn’t want to have to limit the number of seniors allowed to live in Apartment Village.

“Our philosophy has always been to reward seniors for being seniors, and if they want to live on campus in the village or in UT, we try to accommodate that,” Stevens said.

Sophomore pharmacy major Caroline Hedrick said she is waitlisted for AV but was assigned an apartment in UT. “Hopefully I’ll get AV as a senior,” Hedrick said.

“It’s not that big of a deal for me, but it’s definitely an inconvenience.”

Cunningham said some sophomores who didn’t get a room in Residential College have already been placed in Ross and Schwitzer Halls.

Freshman marketing major Allison Altenberger said she and three roommates put ResCo as their first choice and UT as their second but still were placed in Schwitzer. She said they are on the wait lists for Resco and UT in case a spot opens up.

“I am very disappointed in what has happened, but I am simply sharing my situation and the facts,” Altenberger said. “I think in doing that it will make the whole Butler

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LAUREN STARK LESTARK@BUTLER.EDU COPY EDITOR Butler University has increased both its number of applications received and the number of admittances extended for the class of 2016.

Tom Weede, vice president for enrollment management, said that Butler has admitted about 6,300 students for next semester.

“That was right around our goal for what we were hoping to admit,” he said.

Weede said that that number could rise even higher because of late

Assault case reported Phi Kappa Psi focus of recent investigations.

The Butler University Police Department is investigating a woman’s allegation that she may have been drugged while at a Dec. 2 party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

The woman, whose name was not released by police upon her request, first made the allegation to BUPD March 8. She is not certain her drink was spiked.

“It probably occurred here if something happened,” Hunter said.

After it was ordered to stop operations in the fall, the fraternity could come under renewed scrutiny if the latest allegation has weight.

“If evidence bears out one particular location on campus is an issue, then student affairs will deal with it,” said Ben Hunter, chief of staff. see phi psi page 2

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Opinion: Butler needs to address the housing crisis.

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INCIDENT TIMELINE FEBRUARY 2011 Roofies and Randos Butler investigates Facebook event started by a Phi Kappa Psi member. Fraternity president confirms it was a non-chapteraffiliated event.

SEPT. 13 2011 Sexual Assault Report BUPD reports sexual assault at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

SEPT. 15 2011 Cease and Desist Chapter ordered to stop operations so that BUPD can investigate.

JANUARY 2012 Members evaluated “A few” members forced to move out and given alumni status.

MARCH 8 2012 Drug allegation A woman reported to BUPD that she may have been drugged Dec. 2 at a Phi Kappa Psi party.

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Admits up for next year applicants, late sports recruits or specialty performers in the Jordan College of Fine Arts.

Weede said that the ideal size of the class of 2016 is about 1,000 students, just a bit above the size of the current freshman class.

Dropping from 6,000 admitted students to 1,000 enrolled students may seem difficult, but Dean of Admission Scott Ham said the office of admission made a concerted effort to admit a high number like this.

“Nationally trending, students are applying to more institutions,” Ham said. “Because students are applying to more schools, we have to make more offers of admission.”

This is a 9 percent increase in the number of offers from last year.

A&E: Butler University launched Google Apps for students.

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More than 9,500 students applied to Butler this year, a 3 percent increase from last year.

Sports: Ronald Nored landed a gig as Brownsburg’s head coach.

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People don’t enroll at a college because it has a good basketball team.

TOM WEEDE VP FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT Ham said that ease of applying to college is one reason for this.

“The Common Application makes it so easy to apply to 10 or 15 schools simply by clicking a link,” he said.

In addition, the office saw an increase in the total number of applications it

received. More than 9,500 students applied to Butler.

This is a 3 percent increase from last year, building on the 41 percent increase in 2010.

Success of the Butler men’s basketball team is still a major reason for the increase.

“I think the basketball tournaments the last couple years have introduced the university to people who didn’t know about it before,” Weede said. “But the nice thing is people don’t enroll at a college because it has a good basketball team. They enroll because it has the right size, fit, location, majors.”

Lade Akande, an admission counselor, said that basketball success is only the first step. see admits page 4

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Students in a natural world class, part of the core curriculum, work in lab groups.

HAYLEIGH COLOMBO SARA PRUZIN COLLEGIAN@BUTLER.EDU Butler University is $400,000 short of funding next year’s core curriculum, the 30-hour set of required classes for all Butler students.

Administrators said they are trying to find creative solutions to fix the problem—such as rewarding students credit for high AP test scores—but the funding shortage could signal future tweaks to the current core, which was instituted fall of 2010.

“It is an open question about whether we can afford the core as it’s currently constituted,” said College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Jay Howard. “You could make an argument that we can’t afford this one.

All of that hasn’t been fully fleshed out.”

Associate Provost Laura

Behling, who also serves as the senior core administrator, said it is always a challenge to allocate money.

“Sometimes we have resources in the places we need to have them, and sometimes we don’t,” she said.

Howard said part of the challenge with directing the core is that the authority over the curriculum should come from the bottom up, but administrators control the purse strings.

“Faculty need to control and own the curriculum,” Howard said. “I’m a little cautious as an administrator to start telling the faculty what to do, but there are resource constraints on what can be done.”

Behling said the university is still offering “a robust selection of courses in all of the areas” and is able to staff the number of see academics page 4

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SGA budgets for next year

Assembly to vote on US housing act BROOKE DEADY BDEADY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER A resolution to allow tax deductible contributions for non-profit, non-universityowned housing will be voted on today in Student Government Association assembly.

The resolution is the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act. If passed, SGA would throw its support behind this federal policy proposal.

Senior Ginnye Cubel brought up the resolution last week as new business.

Cubel is part of a student lobbying program that is going to Washington, D.C., at the end of the month to meet with congressional leaders. When she heard about this resolution, she decided it needed to be discussed with university leaders.

Non-university housing includes Greek houses, co-ops

and religious group housing.

Cubel said that the act gives people incentive to donate to these non-profit housing options. “[The funds coming in] can go toward rewiring, fire sprinklers and other safety measures that may not have been updated in a few years,” she said.

Also, the housing could drop in cost if more funds and donations come in.

“Who doesn’t love low-cost things?” Cubel said.

A lot of people have come to Cubel with questions about the act since the document is written in formal language.

She said that once she has explained the concept, people seem pretty interested in it.

If SGA passes the resolution today, Cubel will take Butler’s vote with her to D.C. at the end of the month to show the congressional leaders that students are behind this act.

IN BRIEF | SGA ELECTION DATA

SGA vote totals were released in 2008 JILL MCCARTER JMCCARTE@BUTLER.EDU

NEWS EDITOR

Vote totals from Butler University’s 2008 Student Government Association presidential election were released to The Collegian.

When The Collegian asked for this year’s election numbers, SGA adviser Caroline Huck-Watson and SGA President Al Carroll both said that the numbers would not be released to the public or to The Collegian.

Carroll and Huck-Watson both said that the numbers had never been released in years prior.

The numbers were released five years ago.

On page one of the April 9, 2008, issue of The Collegian, voting totals for each of the three

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presidential candidates are listed.

It is not clear if numbers from other years were not released because The Collegian did not request them or if SGA did not want to release them.

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After more than a month of debates and multiple delays, the results are finally in.

Ryan Waggoner was announced as Butler University’s 200809 Student Government Association (SGA) president in a campus-wide e-mail Friday.

Waggoner said he responded to the news with a sense of excitement and disbelief after four difficult weeks leading up to the announcement.

“The relief is indescribable,” he said. “It’s a really good feeling.”

Waggoner won the election with 60 percent of the vote.

Junior Joseph Groot earned 23 percent of the votes, and junior Alex Olympidis earned 17 percent.

The announcement came following Wednesday’s SGA assembly decision to use the results of the original March 3 election to determine the new SGA president.

“The constitutional amendment the assembly passed to validate the results of the first election was an excellent decision,” Waggoner said.

“The student body deserved to know who the SGA president was. They were ready to end the debate.”

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Voting Breakdown Ryan Waggoner 801 Joey Groot 301 Alex J. Olympidis 222

Collegian photo by Juli Doshan

THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Sophomore Ryan Waggoner will be the next president of Student Government Association.

Piven backs Obama during Butler visit amandafrankel afrankel@butler.edu Jeremy Piven, known to many as super agent Ari Gold from the HBO television series “Entourage,” visited Butler University to speak on behalf of democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Thursday.

“I thought it went great,” Piven said. “The questions asked by the student body were good, and I was impressed by the amount of people that showed up.”

However, some students said they believed Piven was displeased with the amount of stuSee PIVEN Page 4

Jeremy Piven Actor

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After Wednesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) assembly meeting, several amendments to the by-laws were approved relating to the duties of the Election Commission.

Chad Lesczynski, a sophomore Respecting Embracing and Achieving Community Harmony board member, and Betsy Ummel, a senior/secondyear pharmacy major and contemporary entertainment cochair of the Program Board, presented the amendments to the assembly.

Lesczynski and Ummel noted four main changes to the bylaws with regard to the Election Commission’s duties: 1.) The Election Commission shall now be responsible for running the elections of the SGA president and class officers instead of being empowered to decide all matters.

2.) Rather than “supervising any disputes or appeals related to the election,” the Election Commission will now only be responsible for investigating allegations and violations related to the election guidelines.

3.) The Election Commission is no longer “empowered to decide all matters related to election regulation infractions.”

4.) “Appeals of Election Commission disciplinary decisions and appeals regarding the validity of election results shall be brought to and voted on by

SGA assembly by a majority vote (50 percent plus one vote).”

“The main thing we added is that appeals will go to assembly because there was no appealing process,” Ummel said.

“Appeals went to the Election Commission only. There should be someone else involved in the appeals.”

Ummel said the amendments were presented to the assembly because of the month-long delay in deciding a new SGA president, a delay that has partially been attributed to the Election Commission.

Although Ummel said she agrees an Election Commission is needed, she said it is still a new body that needs a more narrowly defined job.

“The problem is mainly that (the Election Commission) forgot that we are on a time schedule,” Ummel said.

“Getting a president is important because we still need to get the Executive Board. The Election Commission failed in the overall picture and the urgency and importance of getting a president.”

Sophomore Election Commission member Ali Newell said although commission members thought the rules for campaigning and appeals were clear-cut, the rules need to be redefined based on this year’s setbacks.

“I think it’s that the student population was disappointed in See AMENDMENT Page 4

Rapper Common brings beats to Butler timkemper tkemper@butler.edu Grammy Award-winning rapper Common has received critical acclaim for his politically and socially inspired rhymes. It turns out he has some stage presence, too.

Performing at Clowes Memorial Hall Thursday, the Chicago rapper displayed lyrical creativity, acting talent and even some charm.

At one point during his hour-long set, he took Butler University sophomore Adrians Cleveland on stage and serenaded her with his song “I Want You” from his latest album, “Finding Forever.”

Sporting a black flat cap with a green Johnny Coltrane T-shirt, dark blue jeans and black sneakers, Common whirled around Cleveland, playfully brushing her shoulder while rapping, “Thoughts take me to when we were close, addicted to your love, feel I need another dose.”

“I was so nervous,” Cleveland said. “I just sat there, smiled and tried not to fall over.”

Earlier in the performance, Common used the stage as a political platform.

An outspoken supporter of Democratic presidential hope-

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ful Sen. Barack Obama (DIll.), he told the crowd to go out and “vote for my man Barack Obama.”

“He can make our situation better,” he said, adding a couple of choice words for President George W. Bush.

Beyond a small dose of political rhetoric, Common stuck to what made him famous: hip-hop.

He got the crowd rocking to his hit “Go!” and nearly all 1,700 people in attendance were waving their hands to a cover of Kanye West’s “Throw ‘Em Up.” During “Testify,” a Grammy-nominated song about a woman who manipulates the police and a judge into convicting her boyfriend of a murder she committed, Common acted out the court scene from the song’s second and third verses.

As the beat dropped, he sat hunched over in pain, pretending he was the tearful woman.

“She’s shaking like she took it the hardest,” he said in a slow deep voice. “A spin artist, she brought her face up laughing. That’s when the prosecutor realized what happened.”

The performance mirrored See COMMON Page 4

Watts Part Two A professor discusses Butler President Bobby Fong’s leadership.

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SGA assembly will vote today to approve more of next year’s budget. This is the first year that the current administration will create the budget for the next administration.

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Assembly will continue to approve next year’s budget this afternoon.

BEN HORVATH BHORVATH@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER The remaining portion of the Butler University Student Government Association’s 2012-13 budget most likely will be approved today at assembly, said Dan Schramm, vice president of finance. SGA approved almost half of its budget at the last meeting.

“Only some of the smaller boards remain,” Schramm said. “If it isn’t approved this week, it will be the week after.”

It is the first time the next year’s budget has been approved by the previous year’s administration.

The new system is designed to give boards more time to schedule events, since they will now know over the summer how much money they have, said Schramm.

The new budgeting system will most benefit Program Board, said Council on Presidential Affairs Chair Mike Tirman.

Program Board makes up more than 54 percent — the largest part of the $655,000 budget.

Derek Friederich, next year’s vice president of finance, said one of the main things he is focused

knowledge, combined with the new executives’ ideas,” Friederich said.

Keller said one of the disadvantages of the new system is that new executive board members are not familiar with SGA and therefore may have difficulty budgeting.

Schramm also said it is difficult not knowing the definite dollar amount while budgeting, whereas in the past the university could provide SGA with a better number.

“We have to go off a $655,000 assumption, which is a safe number,” Schramm said.

Keller said as president he plans to tweak the budgeting system.

“It needs to be late enough for new executive members to become more acclimated and talk to the right people,” Keller said. “It is a step in the right direction though.”

SGA assembly approves the budget in chunks by a simple majority after executive members have a meeting to discuss the budget, Keller said.

Prior to voting, the assembly goes over the budget line by line and has a discussion about it, Keller said.

The budget can be amended at any point during the year by a simple majority, Keller said, but Schramm said budget amendments are rare.

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residence hall on campus, but no decision has been made in that respect,” Stevens said. “It probably won’t be made until the trustees and administration set some goals for student enrollment, as far as the numbers they think are ideal for Butler. It’s a combination of enrollment and facilities.”

Stevens said that she is asking waitlisted students to be patient.

“There’s no need to be too concerned,” she said. “There will be space come fall.”

Collegian photo by Juli Doshan

COMMON SENSE: Student Government Association’s Program Board Concert Committee said it made the right choice by selecting Common for Butler University’s spring concert.

Senior Project Theater major Katie Hannigan sets an art gallery twist for the classic Greek romance “Orpheus and Eurydice.”

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Bulldogs Swept by UIC The baseball team was swept in a threegame series at UIC after defeating Marian College at Victory Field.

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There is a suspect in the case who is known by the victim and who has been identified to police, according to BUPD’s case log.

Hunter said it is possible that Detective Bruce Allee, head of the investigation, has narrowed the search to one person.

Allee said the investigation is ongoing.

“He’ll either close it out if it’s unfounded, or he’ll leave it open and continue to investigate,” Hunter said.

The university hit Phi Kappa Psi with a cease-and-desist order following an alleged sexual assault that is said to have occurred on its property in September. That case is still under investigation.

Dean of Student Life Irene Stevens, citing university privacy policy, did not disclose whether the fraternity remains under sanction.

“Phi Psi should not have had a party on December 2,” Stevens said.

“Conduct probation typically [means] no parties.”

Under state law, the act of slipping a drug into a person’s drink is assault. BUPD has listed the alleged act as battery with bodily injury.

Hunter said the case is difficult to investigate.

“We don’t have the drink,” he said. “We didn’t have a whole lot to go off. We’ll look at it and see what we can do to move it forward.”

More than three months passed between the time the woman believes her drink was spiked and the first report to police. Hunter said he didn’t expect that to hinder the investigation.

“At some point, like two years from now, it does lose its ability to go back and be pieced together,” he said. “December, I don’t know that that’s such a huge hurdle.”

Phi Kappa Psi president Ryan

on improving next year is utilizing R.E.A.C.H. grants more effectively.

“R.E.A.C.H. programming on this campus has potential,” Friederich said. “Next year we need to focus on publicizing more awareness.”

Tirman introduced a new line item under the CPA’s expenses, which is designed to make the campus more “green” through advertisement, and programs like Recylemania.

“One of my hopes last year was that I wanted to expand CPA’s role in sustainability,” Tirman said. “I think we were successful this year, and this new line item will help us improve even more.”

Most of CPA’s $13,000 budget this year was used for green programs, Tirman said.

CPA brought the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment contract to President Jim Danko this year, which puts Butler on a path toward sustainability and carbon neutrality, Tirman said.

The new system of budgeting has pros and cons, SGA Presidentelect Mike Keller said.

Friederich said one of the main advantages of the budgeting system is the communication between the old and new executives.

“I like the new system because you get the old executives’

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community aware of a crucial problem that needs to be fixed.”

Stevens said on-campus housing is a numbers game that will continue for a while.

“I think the trustees have looked at whether or not we need another

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An alleged assault at Phi Kappa Psi led BUPD to investigate the claim.

Medas did not respond to a request for comment. Individual members, citing fraternity policy, declined comment on Phi Kappa Psi’s standing with Butler.

“Probation typically lasts longer than a couple months,” Stevens said.

Hunter said he was not aware of any similar reports stemming from the night of Dec. 2 or from Phi Kappa Psi in general.

Stevens said her office will wait for BUPD to complete its investigation before reaching any decision on potential discipline, which could apply to an individual, to a Greek house or to both.

“We always take past behavior and past sanctions into account, whether it be individual or group,” Stevens said. “Sanctions will be more stringent on the second and third violation.”

It is possible the case could be presented to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, though Hunter said criminal charges are unlikely.

“It’s going to be difficult to go that route because you don’t have evidence,” he said.

University discipline, Hunter said, is possible if the allegation is found to be true.

The victim has the option to

ask student affairs to pursue university conduct charges.

Stevens, who oversees all conduct outside Butler’s residence halls, would then determine whether to charge a student or an organization with a violation.

In his fourth year at Butler, Hunter said spiked drinks have not been an issue during his tenure.

“If it is, it’s not getting reported,” he said. “If this is occurring in our community, it’s disappointing, to say the least.

We want people to report them to us.”

Stevens said students should keep drinks in closed containers and avoid leaving them unattended.

Allee said they should realize drugs like Rohypnol, commonly called roofies, could appear at just about any location.

“We know they’re out there,” he said. “We don’t know if they’re pervasive. It’s much more of a hazard away from school than it is here.”

Allee said the drugs severely slow respiration and could even prove fatal if the person does not get to the hospital as quickly as possible.

There is no timeline for BUPD’s investigation.

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Reform affects student teachers Education reform and new teacher evaluation standards pose challenges for COE students looking for jobs.

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Butler freshman Taylor Goff experiments with media by working as a freelance videographer.

Student media group to launch CHRIS GOFF CGOFF@BUTLER.EDU COPY CHIEF Butler University’s student media organizations will merge as part of an expanded, multi-platform enterprise set for launch this fall, College of Communication faculty announced.

New ventures include an internet radio station, increased television coverage through Collegian TV and enhanced output in commercial videos from Deep Blue Productions.

The media group, which has yet to be named, will be independently run. All positions will be paid, and students from all colleges will be eligible to apply.

The aim, creators said, is to prepare students for successful careers in media while simultaneously improving campus news and entertainment.

“When students have the tools and the freedom, they do some fantastic things,” said Nancy Whitmore, an associate professor in CCOM and Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism director.

Whitmore, along with professor Kenneth Creech, first conceived the idea of an upgraded, umbrella structure nearly two years ago when CCOM formed.

“It’s the right move,” Creech said.

“We felt what was missing was that component that allows students all across the college to really draw on the talents of one another.”

Content will be produced in cooperative fashion and labeled with a common brand and packaging.

Whitmore said the media group will help CCOM recruit and give students an edge in the job market.

Shelby Seibring, a sophomore journalism and strategic communication major who works on “The Butler Beat,” a weekly news show, said she is excited by the media group.

“It’s nice if you can integrate writing and TV, because a bunch of broadcasting is going online,” Seibring said. “It’ll be nice to get experience in both.”

Craig Pinkus, a member of the CCOM Board of Visitors that advised Whitmore and Creech, said the move ends historical isolation between student media and makes the college more attractive to prospective students.

“Kids in high school are going to be highly dependent on steering,” Pinkus said. “Communicating this integrated approach should mean a lot to counselors.”

Interim CCOM Dean Bill Neher approved the proposal last spring.

Then-Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jamie Comstock and Vice President for University Advancement Mark Helmus signed off in October.

Comstock suggested that the university create the radio station.

Butler once had a traditional station, WAJC, which folded in the 1990s.

Creech said the new station will be based online to follow modern trends. CCOM purchased equipment to allow streaming of sporting events and perhaps performing arts shows.

Butler also used to maintain a

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We felt what was missing was that component that allows students all across the college to really draw on the talents of one another.

KENNETH CREECH CREATIVE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR television station, WTBU, in the former department of radio and television that existed within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

“Those were great venues for the students,” Creech said. “We hear from graduates how valuable those experiences really were. It’s that ‘learning while doing’ that we felt was just not where it ought to be.”

The college is set to invest in new equipment, new cameras and a television adviser to renew its commitment to TV, Whitmore said.

IndyBlue Records and Publishing, an existing student group, also will receive a shot in the arm under the new enterprise and will produce records for people in the greater Butler community.

Whitmore said the undertakings will teach students things they can’t learn in a classroom.

“As hard as we try and as close as we get, we can’t replicate running a newsroom, a budget, selling advertising, taking criticism, taking praise, handling manipulations,” she said. “The stakes are always so much higher when you really publish rather than hand in a paper for a class.”

Seibring said that will look good on a résumé.

“When you’re in an interview, you can say you have all those experiences,” she said.

Plans for professional workshops are included in the media group’s formation.

“Curriculum revisions are slow,” Whitmore said. “Media changes quickly.”

Creech said the organization is self-financing because all the components either charge for output or sell advertising.

“We’re hoping we can make a substantial amount that will defray most of the costs,” Whitmore said.

The official name has been withheld, Whitmore said, in order to use the rights for fundraising.

It has become more difficult to place Butler’s approximately 100 student teachers in the midst of education reform and the state’s new teacher evaluation standards, said Sue Stahl, director of student personnel services in the College of Education.

The new evaluation guidelines will become effective next school year. Those who receive low ratings can be dismissed at the end of the school year. If a teacher is rated as ineffective twice over two years, he or she can also be dismissed.

Allison Wright, a senior elementary education major, has been student teaching all school year, first in Washington Township and then in Carmel Clay schools.

She said faculty at both schools have discussed the new evaluation system.

“Schools can be nervous about having student teachers and whether or not that will affect their test scores or evaluations,” she said.

Those ratings are based mostly on observations and also in part on the students’ test scores.

The state’s model is called RISE, but other districts have been implementing their own systems to meet the evaluation standard.

Other reform measures that are beginning to take effect are creation of vouchers, an increase in the number of charter schools and the state’s ability to take over failing schools.

Wright said that she will definitely take into consideration how a district evaluates teachers when she is applying for jobs but that it is not a major concern in her mind.

“You just take it as it is and do what is best for the kids,” Wright said. “If you’re helping them, everything will be fine.”

Stahl said last year was “tough” for placements, so members of the COE went out ahead of time this year to talk to districts about what taking on a Butler student means and what they could gain.

This was done in order to overcome an initial reaction from administrators and teachers who are already juggling mandates from the state.

“With some of them, it’s almost like they put their hands up and say, ‘Oh no, I can’t take one more thing,’” she said.

Stahl said that reaction usually changes once

(Reform) has affected all of education, because it’s an era of high-stakes accountability.

SUE STAHL DIRECTOR OF STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES they reconsider how much classroom experience Butler student teachers have and once the college’s model of student teaching is explained to them.

The COE has started to implement co-teaching, which allows a cooperating teacher to stay in the room for the duration of the student’s placement.

It allows them to split the class into groups or have two teachers teaching at the same time.

“Once the schools have got a grasp and understand our co-teaching approach, it’s a much more fluid process for those of us here at Butler,” she said.

Lindley Mundell, a senior elementary education major, student taught in Avon in the fall and is now in Wayne Township schools.

Mundell said she had more control over the classroom during her first placement but that she finds the co-teaching model to be good for both the student teacher and the cooperating teacher.

“It is so great, so worth it, and we learn so much from one another,” she said. “It’s really neat because we can steal ideas from each other, and it makes all of us better.”

Mundell said the reforms are coming at a good time for students graduating in May, even if they might be challenging.

“We’re learning it right alongside those experienced teachers,” she said. “We’re not going to know anything else, whereas it’s a major change for them.”

She said she will take into account the attitude of the school district toward the reforms to see if it aligns with her goals for her students.

It will create an interesting balancing act, Mundell said.

“You have to go in with a different mindset and show that you can abide by the reforms and also be an advocate for the children,” she said.

No matter the district or the age of the students, Stahl said reforms have impacted student teaching and education as a whole. “(Reform) has affected all of education, because it’s an era of high-stakes accountability,” Stahl said.

“Schools are under tremendous pressure moneywise and results-wise to show that children are progressing.”

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seats needed, but that it has made them reevaluate staffing.

“I think we’re able to do some interesting things given the way we’re able to staff,” Behling said. “On that level, students are seeing positives in the way we’re able to staff the core curriculum.”

Interim Provost Kathryn Morris said the core looks “pretty good” for the fall, although the university is in the process of hiring four more instructors and adjuncts as needed.

Biology professor Tom Dolan, who serves on the university’s core curriculum committee, said the core requires additional resources even though the university tries to staff it internally.

Staffing decisions are made by individual departments and colleges, but the committee can ask them to “step up and embrace the core,” Dolan said.

“We are in our resource constricted environment, but I think we deliver a fine and unique core,” Dolan said. “We can be vigilant and cover what we offer.”

One change that was approved in Faculty Senate on March 27 was to allow AP credits from high school to fulfill relevant core requirements for incoming freshmen. This would start next spring.

The AP credit policy also would be applied retroactively to all current students.

Sophomore Tako Iwai said that since he achieved at least a four on two AP tests in high school, the new policy would help him and other incoming freshmen.

“It would give me more time to take on a minor now,” Iwai said.

Freshman Carly Messinger said it would have been helpful to know this in high school because she took four AP classes but decided not to take the tests because Butler didn’t recognize them.

“Knowing that now, I would’ve taken the tests,” Messinger said.

Howard said that tweaks like this could begin to solve the core deficit.

“If you accept AP courses as equivalent then you reduce demand,” he said. “With a number of tweaks, we may be able to solve this problem.

There’s no single magic bullet that solves everything.”

Dolan said that while accepting AP credit will reduce staff and student numbers in certain areas of the core, that was not its initial intention.

“It’s an evolutionary move that looks at what students are bringing into the core while taking into account that it existed in the old core,” Dolan said.

Also, since Indiana’s public universities must accept AP credit, Butler would be following the state norm.

Morris said that this motion is part of a “finetuning process” that attempts to make the core as effective as possible.

It’s not realistic to go back to the old core, Howard said, but he put the authority on the faculty.

“I think it would be a mistake for administrators to top-down say, ‘here’s what’s going to happen,’” Howard said.

Behling said the curriculum should be part of an ongoing conversation, and that it is an important concern.

“Our commitment,” she said, “Is that students get the courses they need over the years they are here in order to graduate.”

BY THE NUMBERS 9,658 students have applied this year—a 3 percent increase from 2011.

About 6,300 have been admitted so far—an increase of 9 percent.

The goal size for the class of 2016 is about 1,000 students.

ADMITS: UNIVERSITY SEES INCREASE IN APPLICANTS FROM PAGE ONE

“They (high school students) got on the web and realized that Butler is a small, liberal arts school, the class sizes are small, there are not teaching assistants,” Akande said. “They found out all these great things, and that’s what drew them to Butler even more.”

Akande, who works with high school students from not only the Midwest but also the Southeast and Puerto Rico, said that the championship appearances have also increased the number of out-of-state applications.

Ham said that a final factor in the growth of applications is word-of-mouth, starting with students.

“They go home and talk about what a great experience they had,” Ham said. “The best promotion that Butler University can have is a satisfied student.”

Sarah Barnes Diaz, Ena Shelley and Katie Ceranski were recognized as this year’s Women of Distinction.

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campus.

“The best way I promote (women’s rights) is through making sure (women) are heard and are encouraged to run for leadership positions,” Ceranski said.

“The award not only means supporting women’s rights but being a woman leader and speaking for women on campus.”

STUDENT: KATIE CERANSKI Ceranski, who is president of Amnesty International on campus, said the award means a lot to her. Ceranski said she tries to stand up for women’s rights on

STAFF: SARAH BARNES DIAZ Diaz said she helps women on campus through mentoring in Peers Advocating Wellness for Students. A couple students whom Diaz mentors in the program nominated her for the award.

“I feel so honored,” Diaz said. “I tend to work with a lot of female students, and I look for opportunities to promote women’s well-being. The best ways to promote women’s rights are through education and relationship building.”

Ultimately, Diaz said she believes the award can serve to encourage women to reach their fullest potential.

“I think that it is important to recognize women, because I think it encourages us to work a little bit harder to work to be (a woman of distinction),” Diaz said. “To

hree women were named Women of Distinction at Butler University on March 29 in the Diversity Center.

Katie Ceranski, a senior marketing and integrated communications major; Sarah Barnes Diaz, the health education and outreach programs coordinator; and College of Education Dean Ena Shelley were all named Women of Distinction.

The criteria for being nominated are that the woman is an outstanding leader, reaches out to others, creates a vision and pushes others to reach it, has a defined role for herself, faces challenges head on, carries herself with dignity and pride and is a serious woman who rules her life with energy, integrity and love.

me being a woman of distinction is about respecting others and having grace and poise.”

FACULTY: ENA SHELLEY Shelley said she hopes to encourage other women to reach their full potential.

“I promote feminism through trying to empower women around me to see how capable they are,” Shelley said. “I think it is important to take the time to reflect inside ourselves, because that is where the power is.”

Shelley said the award makes her reflect on how she lives her life.

“For me (the award) means trying to model how you balance your work, life and career,” Shelley said. “It is just about being thoughtful that you represent many women.”

Shelley said she tries to encourage women to do this by empowering them.

“I usually try to put women in situations where I think they can solve problems quickly and stay focused,” Shelley said.

“Sometimes I jokingly wonder how much different the university would be if it were run by women.”

Checking in on freshmen in ResCo Nearly two semesters later, freshmen living in Residential College have adjusted to their quarters.

KYLER NAYLOR KNAYLOR@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR Despite being removed from other firstyear students, freshmen in Residential College are showing no signs of disadvantage after nearly two semesters at Butler University.

On Aug. 31, The Collegian published an article checking in on first-year students in the freshman unit of ResCo to compare their social experience with freshmen living in other residence halls during the beginning of the fall semester.

Now after nearly a full year at Butler, both groups of students seem to be equally involved.

“I think they’re starting to get their wings,” said Emily Welch, a sophomore history and anthropology major and resident assistant for the freshman unit in ResCo. “They’ve made friends, they’re more comfortable, they know campus, they know how classes work. They’ve gotten into the Butler groove.”

Despite being isolated from freshmen in other residence halls, freshmen living in ResCo said they don’t feel less involved than their peers.

“I’m pretty evenly involved as other people,” said Olivia Wolfe, a freshman international studies and Spanish major, said. “I feel like I have the same amount of things as other people.”

Many of the freshmen said Greek recruitment was a great way for them to connect with other students. “[My roommate] and I went to rush week, and that really helped us meet a lot of people,” freshman business major Steven Gianakas said.

After two semesters of getting to know each other, some freshmen said they enjoyed the “close-knit” atmosphere more, while others said they would have preferred to be around more people in the other residence halls.

“We do have a much closer family here and closer connections with people,” Wolfe said. “I like having the few closer relationships than knowing everyone in my hallway and not having as many close ones.”

Other students feel like this semester

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While Residential College traditionally houses sophomores, there is a wing for freshman students. The university works to create programming to help them socialize in the more closed-off atmosphere.

I think they’re starting to get their wings...They’ve gotten into the Butler groove.

EMILY WELCH RESCO RESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT has been better than the first.

“Definitely first semester I would have rather been in Ross,” said freshman Daniel Young, an actuarial science and finance major. “Second semester is neutral, because the pros even out the cons.”

More students said the experience can be as good as the students make it.

“I feel like you get close bonds wherever you live; it’s just how much time you spend with people,” Gianakas said.

For freshman pharmacy major Trevor Phenis, living in Ross made him more comfortable with dorm life.

“Initially I was nervous about moving into the dorms and having to meet new people,” he said in an email. “[Living in Ross] has allowed me to see

things from another point of view.”

Passing out door stops to prop doors open was one way Welch encouraged a community atmosphere, she said. “[Having doorstops] is helping people overcome a real structural barrier to building intimacy,” assistant professor of psychology Alison O’Malley said.

“It’s a way to quickly establish common ground, common affiliations, information you don’t get with a closed door.”

The interaction between individual factors and the environment affects how students thrive in a situation like the freshmen in ResCo are experiencing, O’Malley said.

The way ResCo is designed may pose no barrier to an extroverted student, but more introverted students must put forth extra energy, she said.

Welch said programming challenges have changed with the semester.

“First semester a lot of the programming was around ‘Let’s do big group stuff and get to know each other,’” she said. “Second semester it’s more trying to get it planned around their other activities.”

Welch said first semester she felt it was important to push her residents into going to events and connecting, but said she knows now they can find some of those avenues for themselves.

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Nored nabs job at high school

BEHIND THE MASKS

Catchers critical to teams’ success

The senior is the new head coach of Brownsburg’s boys’ basketball team.

MARISSA JOHNSON

COLIN LIKAS CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU

MKJOHNSO@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

SPORTS EDITOR

Former men’s basketball player Ronald Nored is one senior who knows what he will be doing after graduation next month.

Nored was named the next head basketball coach of Brownsburg High School’s boys’ basketball team last week.

Nored is replacing Josh Kendrick, who coached the team for eight seasons.

He was approved by Brownsburg’s school board last Wednesday and met with his new team shortly afterward. “[Brownsburg] is a great community and a great place,” Nored said. “I’m excited to get the opportunity to build a program and be a head coach.”

Nored said Brownsburg Superintendent of Schools Jim Snapp approached him about the position and that he realized it was something he wanted to do after being interviewed.

Brownsburg athletic director Greg Hill said that Nored was chosen from a pool of approximately 50 candidates.

“You can’t live in Central Indiana without knowing about his success,” Hill said. “We knew we had an opening, and we discovered he was the right guy.”

Hill said that Nored was given a one-year contract, which is typical for high school coaches.

Other details of the contract were not disclosed.

Hill said one of the key reasons behind Nored’s hiring was his time spent at Butler.

“The culture that seems to be prevalent in the Butler Way would work here,” Hill said. “We’re hoping he picked up a little of the temperament of [Butler] coach [Brad] Stevens.”

Bringing a different culture to Brownsburg is something that Nored said he will be focusing on.

“We want to establish a culture of excellence like we have at Butler,” Nored said.

“Being the best we can be is really important to me.”

Nored will be filling the shoes of a man who led the team to a Class 4A state championship title in 2008.

The player who hit the winning shot for Brownsburg in the final game that season was Gordon Hayward, who played alongside Nored at Butler for two seasons.

Nored said the Utah Jazz forward’s opinion factored into his decision.

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Butler junior catcher Nick Hladek (left) talks with coach Steve Farley (center) and freshman pitcher Eric Stout during a game against Dayton earlier this season.

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Butler senior catcher Alyssa Coleman receives a pitch during warmups for a game against Loyola of Chicago. Coleman is one of three catchers on the team this season.

Fall sports staying busy AUSTIN MONTEITH AMONTEIT@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Spring has arrived on campus, but that does not mean the school’s fall athletic teams are resting easy.

The Butler men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball teams are currently participating in spring seasons even though their regular seasons are still months away.

The men’s and women’s soccer teams are both in the middle of month-long exhibition seasons that run from late March to the end of April.

The men’s squad took on Oakland last Saturday and has four games remaining this spring. The women’s team has already faced three teams and will take on Indiana on April 21.

Men’s soccer coach Paul Snape said playing games against other schools in the offseason gives players a

chance to face off against different competitors.

“The problem is when you play against each other, you can get stale,” Snape said, “so playing other teams is a great opportunity to stay fresh.”

Junior forward Katie Griswold, a member of the women’s soccer team, said spring games help the team plan strategy for the fall season. “[Spring games] let our coaches see what we need to work on, what will best suit the team and which formations will fit our team best,” Griswold said.

The volleyball team has matches scheduled on each of the first three Saturdays in April.

Junior outside hitter Rachel Barber said that the younger members of the team take advantage of the spring season. “(The spring season) see SPRING page 7

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SOFTBALL vs. UIC 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs. UIC 12 p.m.

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Their names do not usually make headlines, and they do not get credit for wins. In fact, they go completely unnoticed most of the time.

They are the ones behind the masks—the catchers for the Butler baseball and softball teams.

The baseball team has four players who have manned the position this season: seniors Nick Hladek and Brian Padove, junior Radley Haddad and sophomore Ryan Wojciechowski.

The softball team has used a rotation of three catchers: seniors Mallory Winters and Alyssa Coleman and freshman Maria Leichty.

The catching position is a unique one and has been argued to be one of the most vital across all sports.

“To me, catcher is one of the most important positions on the team,” Butler baseball coach Steve Farley said.

“Major league scouts say that the quickest way to get to the big leagues is to be a catcher—every team wants a solid player at that position.”

In Little League play, catcher is often one of the least-desired positions.

Winters, however, has been catching since she was 12 years old.

The best of the softball team’s catchers in fielding percentage, Winters started her softball career as a pitcher.

For more on Butler’s catchers and results from other Butler sports, see the briefs on page 6 or visit www.thebutlercollegian. com.

She said she decided to try catching one day and “really liked it.”

Hladek also started catching at a young age.

“When you’re little, no one wants to catch because you’re getting beat up, and it’s hot in all the gear,” Hladek said. “I liked it because I got to be in on every play.”

Pitchers and catchers are the only players that touch the ball every single play, but softball coach Scott Hall said it requires an immense amount of focus.

“They’re the only player than can see everything that’s going on,” Hall said.

“Everyone else has a sort of blind spot, so [catchers] have to know what’s going on.”

Catchers do not typically get the same kind of recognition that other players on the field do, but they say they are OK with that.

“I think of it as the middlechild syndrome,” Winters said. “You’re not the star.

You’re overlooked in the family and on the field, but you have a duty—whether that is catering to the pitcher or getting yelled at for the see CATCHERS page 7

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IN BRIEF

Baseball goes on the offensive in victories The Butler baseball team piled up runs against Wabash yesterday, taking advantage of five errors and winning by a score of 17-3.

The Bulldogs (16-13, 5-4) broke open the game with five runs in the fourth inning and four runs in the fifth innings against the Little Giants (1314).

Junior Pat Gelwicks continued to lead Butler offensively. The designated hitter had a home run and five RBI in the contest.

Senior right fielder Mike Hoscheit had a home run and three RBI, and senior shortstop Griffin Richeson had three hits and scored three runs from the leadoff spot.

Seven of the Bulldogs’ 17 runs were unearned.

Last weekend, Butler took two out of three games in a weekend series against Youngstown State.

With the victories, the Bulldogs moved into second place in the Horizon League.

On Sunday the team defeated the Penguins (4-22, 2-7) 18-5 behind a strong performance from Gelwicks.

Gelwicks was a force once again, going 5 for 7 with a home run, a double and three RBI. Senior pitcher Mike Hernandez gave up one earned run and scattered six hits over six innings pitched.

On Saturday the Penguins got the

best of the Bulldogs, who committed four errors in the first three innings of the game.

Youngstown State won the game by a 9-3 margin despite tallying only three earned runs.

On Friday Butler senior pitcher and Youngstown native Dom Silvestri had a successful homecoming, leading the Bulldogs to a 7-5 win.

Silvestri pitched six innings, giving up three earned runs on five hits to improve his record to 3-0.

The Bulldogs will jump back into conference action when they take on Milwaukee in a three-game series from Thursday to Saturday.

-Kyle Beery

WABASH VS BUTLER, APRIL 3 Photo by Marcy Thornsberry

Butler senior shortstop Griffin Richeson rounds third base during the Bulldogs’ 17-3 victory over Wabash yesterday.

Women’s tennis toppled by Saint Louis The Butler women’s tennis team suffered a 5-2 loss to Saint Louis on Sunday.

The Bulldogs (5-11, 2-1) received victories from sophomore Gabrielle Rubenstein at No. 3 singles and junior Brittany Farmer at No. 4 singles.

The Billikens (9-8) swept the remainder of the singles matches and took two of three doubles matches.

On Saturday, Butler grabbed its second win in

Horizon League play this season, defeating Detroit 5-2.

The Bulldogs received wins in the top two and bottom two singles matches.

The team also won two of three doubles matches against the Titans (4-9, 1-2).

Senior Cam Thompson and sophomores Caroline Hedrick, Stephanie McLoughlin and Angelina Qin had singles wins for Butler.

The Bulldogs will continue their season Saturday at Wright State.

-André Smith

SAINT LOUIS VS BUTLER, APRIL 1 SINGLES No. 1: Nalepa (SLU) def. Hedrick (BU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 No. 2: Hollis (SLU) def. McLoughlin (BU) 6-3, 6-2 DOUBLES No. 1: Nalepa/Elmore (SLU) def. McLoughlin/Rubenstein (BU) 8-4

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Track and field strong in West Lafayette The Butler track and field team had another strong showing, this time at the Mike Poehlein Invitational last weekend.

Freshman Nicole Hudec surpassed Jen Connor’s 14-year-old triple jump record of 34-5 1/2 with a leap of 35-0 1/4. The leap gave her a fifth-place finish.

In the distance events, junior Kaitlyn Love placed

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fourth in the 800-meter run (2:13.24) and third in the 1500-meter run (4:41.04).

Junior Shelbi Burnett made her way to a third-place finish in the women’s steeplechase with a time of 11:08.71.

Junior Craig Jordan led the men in the steeplechase, posting a race-winning time of 9:20.94.

The majority of the Bulldogs will be in Oxford, Ohio, for the Miami of Ohio Invitational Saturday.

-Beth Werge

MIKE POEHLEIN INVITATIONAL, MARCH 30-31 WOMEN’S TRIPLE JUMP Hudec: 35-0 1/4—5th place, new school record MEN’S STEEPLECHASE Jordan: 9:20.45­—1st place WOMEN’S STEEPLECHASE Burnett: 11:08.71—3rd place

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Men’s tennis drops three straight The Butler men’s tennis team fell to Detroit 4-3 in a Horizon League match Saturday morning.

Freshmen Austin Woldmoe and Tommy Marx collected victories in singles action for the Bulldogs (3-14, 2-1).

While the Bulldogs won the doubles point by taking two of the three matches, the Titans (6-11, 1-2) won the other four singles matches to get past Butler.

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In a non-conference match later that day, Butler fell 4-3 to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

With the victory Saturday, the Jaguars (8-13) defeated Butler in two consecutive matches for the first time ever.

Last Thursday the Bulldogs left Ball State with a 6-1 loss to the Cardinals (14-7).

Butler will travel to Wright State Saturday looking for its third win in league play.

-Kyle Beery

DETROIT VS BUTLER, MARCH 31 SINGLES No. 1: Woldmoe (BU) def. Tolomei (DET) 6-1, 6-0 No. 2: Marx (BU) def. Latosinsky (DET) 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 DOUBLES No. 1: Woldmoe/Weldon (BU) def. Basha/Cheung (DET) 8-5

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Photo by Rachel Anderson

Butler junior pitcher Jenny Esparza, seen during a practice, earned the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week honor earlier this week.

The Butler softball team was one inning away from sweeping its three-game homestand against Loyola of Chicago last weekend.

The Bulldogs (9-21, 3-3) were unable to accomplish the feat, though, and finished the weekend with two victories.

In the first game against the Ramblers (10-14, 3-3), junior pitcher Jenny Esparza made her first start at home and led Butler to a 2-0 win.

Esparza, who was later named the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week, fired a three-hit shutout, finishing with seven strikeouts and one

walk.

Butler recorded only four hits in the contest, but they proved to be enough. Junior first baseman Meaghan Sullivan had two hits, and RBI were recorded by senior centerfielder Lauren McNulty and shortstop Kayla Gray.

In the second game of the series, Loyola staged a fifthinning comeback to defeat Butler 5-4.

McNulty hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 advantage.

Butler increased its lead in the bottom of the third inning with a run-scoring double by Sullivan, who later scored on a sacrifice bunt by McNulty.

Errors cost the Bulldogs

though.

Two defensive miscues in the top of the fifth inning led to a two-out grand slam

by Loyola sophomore first baseman Lauren Zaworski.

Butler sophomore pitcher Leah Bry took the loss for the Bulldogs despite not allowing an earned run in five innings of work.

In the rubber game of the series, Butler defeated Loyola 4-0.

The Bulldogs took advantage of a fielding error and two walks to get on the board in the bottom of the first inning.

They extended their lead with an RBI double by Gray in the bottom of the fourth inning and a two-run double

by senior right fielder Jessica Huey in the fifth inning.

Esparza started the game for Butler and recorded another victory. She finished with five strikeouts and allowed two hits in four innings of work.

Senior pitcher Breanna Fisher came on in relief of Esparza and scored a save.

The conference games against Loyola followed an 8-1 victory over Michigan State last Thursday.

Esparza pitched four innings and earned what would be the first of three consecutive victories.

Butler is taking on Indiana State in a doubleheader today and will host Illinois-Chicago for three games this weekend.

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day.”

Haddad, who leads the team in doubles and has the third-highest batting average among the Bulldogs, said that catchers are not supposed to be noticed.

“I was told once that if you’re a catcher and no one notices you, you did a great job,” Haddad said. “You’re just supposed to do the things you’re supposed to do, do them right, and you’ll do a good job.”

Senior pitcher Brad Schnitzer described catchers as field generals, while sophomore pitcher Leah Bry said she thinks of them as queens and kings of the field.

“You have to be a leader when you’re a catcher,” Bry said. “Everyone’s looking at the pitchers, but they’re really ruling what’s going on.”

Farley said that it takes a certain kind of person to be able to work with different pitchers and be the leader on the field.

“Each catcher has his own personality, and each guy needs to know how to push the buttons of the various

Photos by Marcy Thornsberry

Butler junior catchers Radley Haddad (left) and Nick Hladek, left, have shared a majority of the catching duties for the baseball team this season. Butler freshman catcher Maria Leichty, right, has appeared in 21 games for the softball team this season. pitchers they work with,” Farley said. “You have to know when to pat a pitcher on the back and when to kind of kick him in the butt.”

Catchers take a lot of

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or not,” Nored said.

Each of the three seasons following the state championship run has resulted in a losing record for the school though.

This is something that Nored said he hopes to turn around, although it is not his only priority.

“I also want to focus on academics and push the kids with that,” Nored said. “I want guys to have a fun experience at Brownsburg.”

In a press release, Stevens said that Nored was “an absolute joy to coach,” adding that he is “very intelligent and has a high level of passion for the game.”

Likewise, Nored had only positive things to say about Stevens.

“What I’ve learned from coach Stevens is something I can use in my coaching,” Nored said. “I want our program to be run on the same principles.”

Junior center Andrew Smith played with Nored for three seasons and said that Nored has what it takes to coach a team.

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benefits the younger players the most,” Barber said. “It’s about getting comfortable with each other and allowing the coaches to develop players.”

The football team may not have games scheduled for the offseason, but coach Jeff Voris has 14 practices planned between March 23 and April 20.

blame for when things go wrong, whether they are actually at fault or not.

“We don’t expect a lot of high fives,” Coleman said.

“Most of the time we’re

I also want to focus on academics and push the kids with that.

getting yelled at, but it’s worth it knowing that we’re a part of it.”

Despite the negative aspects of the job, Butler’s catchers said they love what

they do.

“It takes a lot to be a catcher,” Haddad said. “It’s tough. It’s mentally and physically taxing—you’re getting beat up back there.

It’s a warrior position.

“It’s a beautiful thing to succeed, but I love knowing that, no matter what, I get to come back out and play again tomorrow.”

PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL

Reggie Miller headed to Hall of Fame COLIN LIKAS CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU SPORTS EDITOR

RONALD NORED BROWNSBURG BOYS’ BASKETBALL COACH “I’m just really happy for Ron,” Smith said. “He’s a leader and a really hard worker, and he’s proven that his whole life.”

Nored’s hiring has been met with excitement by those in and around Brownsburg.

“There is a lot of positive buzz in the community,” Hill said. “It has had a nice effect on the entire school community, and we’re anxious to see him in action.”

While the Brownsburg job may be the first of many for Nored, he said he is not thinking about possible future positions right now.

“My goal is to be at Brownsburg,” Nored said.

The practices will culminate in the annual Blue-White Spring Game on April 21.

Sophomore running back Trae Heeter said that the squad focuses on reimplementing the team’s formations.

It also gives younger players time to impress the coaching staff.

“In the spring, we re-install either our offensive schemes or our defensive schemes,” Heeter said.

“It’s basically a time for the guys that have been here to continue to work on their skills and for the freshmen and sophomores to go out there and show the coaches what they can do.”

Former Indiana Pacers shooting guard Reggie Miller was announced as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2012 class Monday.

Miller, who played the entirety of his 18-year NBA career with the Pacers, will be one of 12 players, coaches and referees inducted on Sept. 7.

The five-time All-Star played more games with a single NBA team than all but two players in league history before retiring in 2005.

“I hope what people remember is that I had the chance to play 18 years with one organization,” Miller said in an interview with Photo courtesy of MCT The Washington Post. “If Former Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller was announced as a member of anything, I hope people the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2012 class Monday. understand that you can be just as successful in a small start an All-Star game.

Ralph Sampson, Jamaal market as you can in New He was a member of the Wilkes, Chet Walker and York or L.A. or Chicago. gold medal-winning United Don Barksdale; two-time “I wouldn’t trade those States men’s basketball team Olympic gold medalists 18 years for anything.” in 1996 as well.

Katrina McClain and Miller ended his playing In his interview with The Lydija Alexeeva; American career as the league leader Washington Post, Miller said Basketball Association in 3-point baskets made. His that he would not rule out a star Mel Daniels; Nike comark of 2,560 was surpassed return to Indianapolis as the founder Phil Knight; referee

by Ray Allen of the Boston president of the Pacers.

Hank Nichols; and the AllCeltics in Feb. 2011.

Other members of the American Red Heads, which In 1995, Miller became 2012 induction class include: was the female equivalent of the first Indiana Pacer to coach Don Nelson; players the Harlem Globetrotters.

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AppCampus Group projects no longer require an actual meeting and date nights can be planned via mobile applications...Welcome to a new age of technology and a campus accessible anywhere in the world.

By Anne Carpenter

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he days of scouring the library for empty tables to accommodate group members appear to be coming to a close.

Now students do not even have to meet with their groups to complete a group project.

Butler University’s Information Technology has launched a new way to stay connected on campus by promoting and encouraging students to use Google Docs—a part of Google Apps.

Google Docs is a suite of tools designed to help make group collaboration easier, said Tyler Johnston, the systems support project coordinator for the IT department.

“The reaction [from the students] has been overwhelmingly positive,” Johnston said.

“We’re really excited about that.”

The new tool allows students to chat about a document, make changes and read it all in real time.

Students can access the document from anywhere in the world—Study abroad students, that means you too.

Johnston said that more than 700 students have logged in since the program’s launch last Thursday.

Even Butler Blue II was spotted using Google Docs to help train Blue III. Google saw the tweet documenting Blue III’s education and retweeted it, causing

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it to go viral.

“As Tyler says, we use the dog to our advantage,” said Sandy Meers, a junior management and information systems major.

Who can resist a face like that?

Kodi Colip, a senior marketing and art + design major, said that social media and technology are important for universities because it helps keep them current.

“We need to stay with the students,” Colip said. “We need to make sure we don’t fall behind.”

Colip said that other college campuses have apps designed for their students, and Butler is working to move its technology in that direction.

For instance, the university’s website has a more condensed version that is accessible from a mobile device that highlights what is most important to students.

Athletic schedules, dining options and the Student Government Association shuttle schedule are available at the touch of a finger.

Students can even check what books are available in the library for their next research paper.

However, the walks through campus to class are not going away any time soon, and technology cannot replace every aspect of a classroom.

Since just about every student and his roommate has a smartphone, mobile apps have evolved from just fun and games into useful tools.

Need to stay organized and have a straight schedule?

Want to keep track of your spending in Broad Ripple?

Looking for new places to eat on the weekend?

No worries—there’s an app for that.

Just shake and go. This app from Urbanspoon will guide you to all kinds of food no matter where you are.

Technically not an app, but can be accessed on your phone in order to gain access to sports schedules and such.

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This app is useful for on-the-go word references and includes audio, etymology and a thesaurus.

Can you really afford Starbucks today? This app helps you keep track of your spending and receipts.

Homegrown: Campus farm is more than food CAITLIN O’ROURKE COROURKE@BUTLER.EDU ARTS ETC. EDITOR While Butler University erupts with color and life as the plants revive, the Butler Campus Farm has taken advantage of the unexpected warmth to start business.

Tim Dorsey, the recently hired farm manager, has been leading the effort, taking care of a farm that keeps getting bigger and more advanced each semester.

Dorsey said that they’re not entirely ahead, since the space is so new.

“With all the early warm weather, I keep thinking we should be further along,” he said. “Then I look at the date.”

Things that have been planted so far include onions, shallots, herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and native flowers. Nothing is in the outside growing space yet, though. It’s just inside the hoop house.

The hoop house is similar to a greenhouse. The key difference is that greenhouses are heated, while hoop houses, or cold houses, are not. Even during the winter, if the curtains are closed, temperatures within the house can reach up to 90 degrees.

Plants have been growing there all through the winter months, planted in October.

The hoop house plants take a bit longer to grow, so only now is the produce being sold to local restaurants.

Dorsey said the Patachou brand—especially Napolese, its pizza restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue—has been their best customer, although Black Market on Massachusetts Avenue has purchased from them, along with about nine more restaurants.

Arrangements have already started with Twenty Tap on College Avenue.

It’s a lot of work, but Dorsey said that besides his regular student volunteers, many groups on campus offer their help on weekends, including local alumni and a group from Ross Hall.

Some of his regular volunteers include Amy

Coffman, a junior education major, and about nine other education majors. They work on the farm once a week with students from IPS 91, who in turn do related projects at school.

“I’ve learned so much,” Coffman said. “It’s been really enjoyable having this opportunity.”

The farm is also eager for the new buildings around the intramural area to be built, and one will include counter space for farm pickup.

Normally, they sell on the Mall, but the new space will be temperature-controlled, allowing the produce to stay fresh right until it’s picked up.

“It gives our customers a chance to touch base with the farm,” Dorsey said. “They really get to see the area where their produce is being grown.”

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The Butler Campus Farm has a wide variety of produce in the works including tomatoes, shallots, herbs, cauliflower, peppers and more.

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Putting the swagger into Hink SARVARY KOLLER SKOLLER@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Photo by Rachel Anderson

Out of the Dawg House releases a new album, “Unsupervised,” in April at their spring concert.

Out of the Dawg House goes old school KEVIN VOGEL

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Between local performances, a road tour in Florida and torching a piano during a photo session, Out of the Dawg House has found time to release a fulllength album.

The 11-member male a cappella group on campus has had a busy semester, performing at the Super Bowl Village in early February and traveling alongside the Butler University Chorale on their Florida tour over spring break. Later this month, the group will travel to Michigan for a concert.

The album “Unsupervised” should be released later this month and builds upon material from the group’s last release, the sixtrack EP “Six to Midnight.”

It will be sold for $10 and will be available in the Butler University Bookstore and through iTunes.

Janine Frainier of the university bookstore said OOTDH has not been in contact about the new album

Unsupervised Track List “Carry on My Wayward Son” (Kansas) “Give a Little More” (Maroon 5) “Effington” (Ben Folds) “Crazy Love” (Van Morrison) “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” (The Proclaimers) “Party in the U.S.A.” (Miley Cyrus) “The Longest Time” (Billy Joel) “Somebody that I Used to Know” (Gotye) “Dreaming with a Broken Heart” (John Mayer) “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (Frankie Valli) “Lullaby” (Josh Groban) “Insomniac” (Billy Pilgrim)

but that typically about five copies of each OOTDH release are stocked at a time.

Sophomore arts administration major Tim Jans, who sings with OOTDH, said the album is two years in the making. He said the group was hoping to release the CD in December, but the recording process took longer than anticipated.

“Unsupervised” will be the fourth full-length CD released by the group, and the first since their 2009 Christmas album. That album was recorded in Butler’s recording studio space in the Fairbanks Building with producer Andy Riehle, senior vocal performance and recording industry studies major and OOTDH member.

Jans said the CD will focus on “old-ish” songs instead of contemporary music. He said these older songs were extremely popular on the Florida tour.

“All the old people down there were really liking the classics,” he said, laughing.

The album, sporting a picture of an upright piano engulfed in flames, will be made available starting at Out of the Dawg House’s spring concert on April 28 at 7 p.m. in the Reilly Room.

Jans said that preparing for a concert is different than preparing for a recording. A concert, he said, will feature the group’s entire repertoire of about 20 songs. Three or

four of these songs, he said, are completely new to the group to keep the concerts from being “the same-old, same-old.”

Preparing for a concert, then, involves covering a lot of music quickly.

On the other hand, the group must concentrate on finessing one song and really going into detail with the music and harmonies rehearsing for a recording Jans said that joining Out of the Dawg House was one the best decisions he made at Butler.

His favorite part of being in such an active group?

“The friendships I’ve made with many people of different backgrounds,” he said.

Friendships, said junior music major Myles Pinder, are forged inside and outside the rehearsal room.

“All the guys in the group are my friends,” he said.

“Some are even my best friends. I spend time with most of them outside of rehearsals and performances, just hanging out.”

A composer for the ages SARVARY KOLLER SKOLLER@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

The legacy of a man considered to be one of the top five most programmed composers—along with Handel, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart—can be found deep within the workings of Butler University’s Lilly Hall.

This composer, teacher and faculty member is music theory and history professor James Mulholland.

Mulholland has worked as a music professor at Butler for 47 years.

Mulholland’s interest in music can be traced back to his childhood in Mississippi. He said his mother sang and played piano constantly. His father had a love of poetry and words.

“I grew up with a great respect for music, for beautiful poetry and for beautiful prose,” Mulholland said.

“I just thought it was something that everyone did.”

Growing up outside of the city, Mulholland said he was a recluse with his parents. Support from both of his parents resulted in an early talent and aptitude for music and the arts as a whole.

“I started studying piano as early as eight, but I started singing even before I was eight in church,” Mulholland said.

“When I would sing, everyone would love my soprano voice, and I loved the attention.”

Mulholland said singing is part of his identity and personality. He said he uses music as a means of communication.

In addition to piano and vocals, Mulholland said he studied almost all instruments as a student interested in composition during his college years at Louisiana State University. Piano still remains as his instrument of

choice today.

Mulholland said he found inspiration for his musical compositions through his father’s love of poetry, especially poetry

by English poets, which he considers to be his heritage.

Mulholland combines love of singing, composition and poetry in his compositions. He said 90 percent of his compositions are vocal compositions, whether joined by piano or an ensemble. While he mainly writes vocal compositions, he said he wants to begin writing more pieces for piano.

With commission bookings throughout the year 2014, Mulholland has become one of the most commissioned composers of his generation. Over his career, he has commissioned more than 600 compositions.

As a full-time professor, Mulholland said it is often difficult to find time to compose. He said he has forced himself to compose at least four hours everyday.

“The one thing that a person that writes has to have is discipline,” Mulholland said. “You are your boss.

You’re your own quality control.”

His work has not gone unrecognized.

Mulholland is the recipient of the Butler University Medal of Distinction, the State of Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash award, the State of Indiana Distinguished Hoosier award, the Louisiana State University School of Music Alumnus of the Year award and the City of Indianapolis Proclamation Distinguished Citizen award.

Students and faculty also recognize the achievements of Mulholland.

Music and fine arts librarian Sheridan Stormes said Mulholland’s work has brought prospective students to Butler.

Prospective students auditioning at Butler often mention a love for

Butler University student by day, Hink the Bulldog by night. The time has come to select two brave people to mask their identities and transform into the Butler mascot.

Mascot auditions are swiftly approaching.

Auditions will be split into two parts. The first part is an interview conducted by spirit coordinator Jamie Troyer.

“As the mascot for the entire school, you represent Butler,” Troyer said. “I think it’s important for the interested students to really want the position.”

The second part of the interview consists of trying on the mascot suit and acting in front of the judges. Troyer said she will watch how students move in the costume, react to fabricated situations and demonstrate school spirit. She said experience is not a prerequisite for the job.

“Students can’t be expected to have experience as a mascot,” Troyer said.

“Instead, we look for students with potential.”

Senior economics major Jerren Fair auditioned at the end of his freshman year.

“I tried out because I just thought it would be something fun to do,” Fair said. “The tryouts were pretty simple with an interview and trying on the costume.”

As a third-year mascot, Fair said he understands the character of Hink well.

“Hink has a different walk than any other person since mascots have to be animated,” Fair said. “It’s not hard to do, but you have to get used to it.”

Fair said the costume isn’t that heavy, but after an entire sports event, the bulky bulldog head can prove to give the shoulders and neck quite a workout. While the costume doesn’t smell as awful as most people would suspect, Fair said he warns potential new mascots to watch what they eat before a big game.

“It doesn’t smell too bad once you’re in the costume,” Fair said. “You get used to it. What you can smell is your own breath, so watch

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Photo courtesy of James Mulholland

Professor James Mulholland is considered one of the most programmed composers.

his music.

Sophomore marketing and Spanish major Lauren Ezell said she appreciates Mulholland not only as a famous composer but as an outstanding teacher as well. Ezell is in Mulholland’s music and action class.

“He is a patron of the arts, but he’s still very realistic and down-to-earth,” Ezell said. “The first class we tried to find out more about his fame as a composer, but he was really humble about it and didn’t like talking about himself.”

Even though Ezell isn’t a music major, she said she appreciates the fact that Mulholland understands that he isn’t always teaching students who have an innate passion for music.

“He teaches students by inspiring them to develop an appreciation for music,” Ezell said, “Even if they never appreciated music before.”

Photo by Maria Porter

what you eat before. Pasta or Qdoba is never good.”

Performing in front of thousands of people during basketball games has turned Fair into a seasoned mascot without wobbly knees or an accelerated heart rate. But Fair said he still feels fairly ridiculous on occasion.

“It’s fun and exciting, but you usually feel pretty stupid doing it,” Fair said. “Hink is supposed to walk around with swagger, so you have to awkwardly reach your arms and legs as far as they will go. I call it stretching out the bubble.”

Troyer and Fair both said the No. 1 rule as a mascot is to always remain in costume.

Fair said he learned this lesson by experience.

“I was at a charity event in Zionsville in February when a little girl came up to give me a high five,” Fair said.

“Her hand slipped under my glove, and she realized I wasn’t a real bulldog and freaked out.”

Troyer said that while about half of the children are terrified of Hink, the other half are completely enamored with the lovable, huggable puppy.

“It’s larger than the student,” Troyer said. “The mascots aren’t representing themselves as people because the audience doesn’t know who is inside the suit. They represent Butler University.”

Mascot tryouts are scheduled Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in Hinkle Fieldhouse. Troyer said she expects about 10 students total to show up for auditions, and two will be chosen for the next academic year.

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Housing must be addressed

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: The university needs to implement solutions to student housing problems or find new ones. | VOTE: 32-0-3

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ext year’s junior class just finished its housing lottery.

And some people didn’t hit the jackpot.

For the second year in a row, several students found themselves on a waitlist.

The same scenario has occurred in years past, and the resolution promised by administrators to these students never seems to come.

Butler University has seen several record-breaking classes in the past few years.

While growing classes can benefit Butler in many ways, the growth presents new challenges.

The university must address

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Housing affects nearly every student—especially when freshmen through juniors are normally required to live on campus.

New housing for freshmen would help more than the current crunch.

It will help by attracting prospective students. The university stands to gain more money and more notoriety from bigger classes.

Alternatively, poorly maintained or unattractive housing could drive touring students away.

The university has a few shortterm choices to make, obviously.

To address the current crisis, the university needs to find more places to put the already enrolled students.

But looking forward, patches will not suffice.

Room and board are set to increase this coming academic year.

Yet new housing facilities will not appear in the fall.

The housing issue will not resolve itself.

In fact, short of long-lasting solutions—new buildings—Butler appears to be out of options.

Growth means a lot of good things for the future: newer buildings, more professors and degrees that carry even more prestige.

But first, we have to find somewhere for our current students to go.

Butler students also victims of racial profiling Trayvon Martin’s death brings out voices from inside the Butler community.

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rayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old black boy, was killed because of fear. Because one man thought he was suspicious and acted on his fears instead of questioning them, a child is dead.

I wondered how this incident could lead to even more fear in the lives of young black men who have seen Martin’s face splashed across the news. I wondered if this story caused them to question their worth and safety as young black men in society, and if they feared more for their lives now than ever.

I talked to some black male students at Butler University to get their take on the situation.

Each of them knew about Martin. A young boy in Florida. Wearing a hoodie in the rain. Carrying a bag of Skittles and iced tea. Shot by a neighborhood watchman, who remains free. None of the men I interviewed were surprised that Martin was killed.

We live in a society where people who look like them are automatically suspicious. And the senseless killing of black men is nothing new to them, either.

“It’s sad, and it’s terrifying because

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it can honestly happen to any of us,” said SGA President Al Carroll, a junior who lives just 20 minutes away from the suburb of Sanford, Fla., where Martin was killed.

“Am I surprised? Not so much.

Being an African-American male, things happen like this all the time,” said Todd Deloney, a junior from Hammond.

He’s talking about being racially profiled.

He had it happen as an eighthgrader when he went to Walgreen’s to buy a greeting card and a clerk accused him of trying to steal.

At some point, they’ve all experienced something similar.

Hollis Fullilove, a sophomore, has witnessed the fear of others in his home in East Chicago, and on Butler’s campus.

“Being a young black male at a predominately white school, people think I’m a thug, and I might try to hurt them,” Fullilove said. “I walk on campus, and girls grab their purses

and go the other way at night.”

These fears are unfounded and unwarranted. But they happen.

“If you are willing to judge someone off of the way that they look, then you’re not willing to learn anything about them to begin with,” Fullilove said.

A lot of young black men don’t have the chance to make a first impression before they are judged. It’s unfair that people don’t bother to get to know them, but make assumptions based on what they see from the outside. And it doesn’t matter what neighborhood or city they grew up in.

Carroll’s mother owns her own business and his father is a former NASA executive in Florida. He lives on a golf course, and his father bought a golf cart for the family’s use.

“I’ve been pulled over on my golf cart with people asking me many a time, ‘Who does this belong to?’”

Carroll said. “I’ve had plenty of those situations, being in the suburbs, a young black kid in a golf cart, when many of the white kids didn’t have golf carts to be riding around in.

Some people did think that looked suspicious.”

Carroll has been questioned in malls, movie theaters and events he’s attended with his parents. To him, how he dresses and what he says don’t matter much.

“I don’t think dress has anything to

do with it,” he said. “I don’t think the way I dress has as much to do with it as I’m black. And I can’t take this off.”

If anything, the Martin case has made these men more aware of the prejudices and fears that people have.

But that increased awareness doesn’t mean changing their lives for others’ sake.

Senior Chris Parker said, “I think it makes me reevaluate, and really think about people’s perceptions of me as I walk around on a daily basis.

I don’t really think it’s going to change anything because I don’t want to live my life based on other people’s perceptions.”

Fear is a strange thing. It can be passed down and passed on through people. It can be shared in a whisper or loudly expressed. Fear can make the unknown into frightening possibilities that wait around every corner. But the good thing about fears—like myths— is that they can be dispelled.

“If you really want to sit down and get a chance to know me, you say ‘Hello, how are you doing?’ and you’ll talk to me,” Fullilove said. “You’ll know within five minutes of talking to me that I’m not here to cause any trouble with anybody.”

It’s that simple.

Lydia Johnson is an English writing major and secretary of Black Student Union. She can be contacted at collegian@butler.edu.

Students should not take library for granted RHYAN HENSON

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the housing shortage if it wants to continue growing.

Apartment Village filled up with seniors, who got first pick, and then incoming juniors.

The overflow of students pushed sophomores out of University Terrace, and the sophomores then filled Residential College and spilled over into Schwitzer and Ross Halls.

The administration likely has major plans in the works right now for various campus improvement opportunities.

But Butler needs to address the housing shortage as soon as possible.

New library dean will better involve students and faculty with library’s resources.

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new face will be seen around the stacks of Irwin Library come June 1.

Julie Miller, newly appointed dean of libraries, will replace current dean Lewis Miller. Julie Miller said she was attracted to Butler University because of the academic

excellence here.

While this is good, the main focus I want to see from the library is the continual improvement of the resources it provides students.

The library is the most under appreciated building on campus.

Yes, the library is packed around midterms and finals but not that many people actually use the library for more than a place to do homework.

The library’s effort to provide the campus with information is commonly overlooked.

From the online databases they set up to the digitizing of older documents, there are so many things that the library does to give away information.

Yet, when students look for information the first place they go to is Wikipedia.

Students should use the libraries, and in return the library should be more interactive with students and faculty so that when people need to do searches they feel more confident in the library’s resources.

I want to see the library continue to digitize older documents. The historical documents that are housed in the library are some of the richest spots for information on campus; yet, not many students know about it.

Digitizing and posting these things online so students can easily access them is a big help to everyone.

Miller can successfully involve more and more students in the library’s resources and all it has to offer.

Going directly to the students and faculty to see what they want and need is a good way to begin

involving more people and learning how to give them better access to information.

Miller has published several articles on and has been studying ways to re-spawn libraries, so I have full faith that she can do it.

Butler hit a home run with Miller.

Her abilities and expectations are exactly what Butler needs to take our academics to the next level by directly involving the library.

Her emphasis to get more participation from the student body will improve the overall academics of the school, and I believe that Butler students will be bettereducated by the time they graduate if they take advantage of the library.

Contact columnist Rhyan Henson at rhenson@butler.edu.

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Student activists should reprioritize

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It’s the passion that counts

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he recent struggle for Student Government Association President-elect Mike Keller to find nominees for the position of vice president of diversity programming has shed some light on the issue of filling SGA vacancies—and how best to push and represent diversity on Butler University’s campus.

SGA usually requires that applicants for vice president of diversity programming have served on R.E.A.C.H. before running for the position, but nobody from R.E.A.C.H. stepped up to run.

Keller then extended the applicant pool to the general campus population. He said that the current four applicants exceeded his expectations and that he expects more.

Perhaps more SGA positions should be opened in a similar fashion, to give those not involved with SGA a better chance to represent the greater student body.

The fact that a position that influences the administration on how to diversify Butler is usually closed off from the general public makes very little sense to me.

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DONALD PERIN

Opening applicant pools for SGA positions welcomes diversity in itself.

I think this open applicant pool for vice president of diversity programming should be a permanent change.

The position ought to be held by a student who is open-minded and driven to educate the Butler community on diverse cultures, ways of life and frames of mind.

Not to say that the people in R.E.A.C.H. do not strive to do these things, but when no one steps up to a leadership position, they show that those who are part of an organization are not always those fit to run it.

Keller said that open applicant pools work better for some positions than others if the applicant has qualifications matching the position.

However, Keller said that some positions like those on the Council on Presidential Affairs, Program Board and Finance Board are areas that require experience in order to effectively lead them.

Butler may not be famous for being an ethnically diverse campus, with a vast majority of the student body being classified as “white non-Hispanic.”

However, there are plenty of students here, both inside and outside of SGA, who are diverse in their ethnicity, in ways of life and in schools of thought.

If an applicant for vice president of diversity programming is white, black or even neon green, it does not matter. If he or she is openminded and care about educating the Butler community on diversity, he or she should be able to run.

Contact asst. opinion editor Donald Perin at dperin@butler.edu.

Education crisis affects more than teachers

utler University administrators spend a lot of time talking about the Pharmacy program and the College of Business—and for good reason.

But the College of Education deserves some attention as well.

Maybe it’s just me—I’ve lived with and am friends with several education majors—but it seems that Butler’s COE does a lot for its students as well.

The COE fights for educational pedagogy in a country and state with reputations for coming down hard on teachers.

The university says that the College of Education has fantastic post-graduation employment rates.

But before education majors ever see their own teaching contract, they have to student teach.

To student teach, they need to be placed in a school.

In light of school takeovers, as well as changes in teacher and school evaluations and licensing, it can become more difficult to place student teachers.

Butler has a good reputation, and its prospective teachers carry themselves well.

Schools, even those facing problems, should take student teachers for their own and the student teachers’ benefit.

Our student teachers bring optimism, strong educational theory and open minds.

JEREMY ALGATE

COE majors and all Butler students need to get involved in talk about school reform.

Students will soon be part of this world and could contribute to the solution.

In many situations, it seems, politicians see successful schools as the result of hard-working students.

In failing schools, we are almost always reminded of the teachers.

Very rarely—in either case— does anyone mention conditions outside the classroom.

The reality of the situation is a lot more complex than finding someone to blame.

Any real solution has to accept that fact.

Butler, in general, seems to be preparing its education students to fight the good fight while remaining employable.

Many of my friends in the program have a healthy dose of cynicism.

They know they will be asked to work long hours outside the classroom with little chance of recognition.

“Our professors do a good job of preparing us to defend our existence with cross-curriculum work,” said Katie Bolinger, a junior music education major. “They let us know what to expect as far as being held to sometimes ridiculous standards.”

They still retain their passion for the children, too.

“We’re really optimistic,” said Melissa Rangel, a junior secondary education and English literature major. “A lot of focus is on how we can be a force for change.”

But education majors will need more than just passion and pragmatism.

“I can read books about problems in the education system from 30 or 40 years ago, and they completely apply to things now,” said Rangel.

“We basically have the same system we had a hundred years ago—and it’s still not working.”

The Indiana school system and our national education policy need a serious overhaul soon.

Otherwise, passionate, pragmatic teachers will be lost in the demanding system of testing.

Contact opinion editor Jeremy Algate at jalgate@butler.edu.

magine if students did not take to the streets on college campuses protesting the Vietnam War, race relations, sexual morals, women’s rights or the role of authority in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

What achievements would be nonexistent today?

Participation in community service by college students is at an all-time high, yet voting and other forms of political participation have fallen to their lowest levels since 1971, when American citizens 18 and over received the right to vote.

The typical Butler University student is not lazy but rather extremely over-programmed.

The time and energy being devoted by Butler students is amazing, but I think more of us should become politically active in order to bring societal change.

There are three actions that I would consider categories of change that students are involved in on campus: dedication to service projects, philanthropic engagement and political activism.

But political activism is the one category that is very rare for our campus, whereas philanthropy and service projects are widely popular.

You especially see the philanthropy events almost every day you walk into Starbucks or out onto the patio.

But with Peace Week— sponsored by the peace studies minors and majors in collaboration with other clubs and groups—beginning on April 16, the turnout for events won’t nearly draw the same as a philanthropy or service project.

Why? One reason might have to deal with the direct engagement students have during philanthropy events and service projects.

A student spending an afternoon at Wheeler Mission directly helps out the poor and needy of the Indianapolis community.

Compare this to a student who attempts to organize a petition and plan a rally to get more government support addressing the poor and needy in Indianapolis.

This student is not interacting

MATT KASPER

Butler students must refocus on political— not just charitable— causes. with the people his or her action is trying to help.

Another reason might be the results coming from a service project or the achievement of hitting a monetary target at a philanthropy event.

These results are tangible, understandable and rewarded.

A student will not see a successful result by just spending a week devoted to a cause through political action.

The investment of time and energy to bring about a political achievement takes years.

A final reason a student does not want to get involved with a political activity is that the political arena is perceived as corrupt, polarized and difficult to overcome.

Promoting and having a rally on campus to end the war in Afghanistan or for a certain political candidate will have an opposing side.

And our generation seems opposed to confrontation.

I suppose that no matter what the Butler student does, whether it be a service project, a philanthropic endeavor or a political action, we can take the words of Robert F. Kennedy to heart: “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

I like to think that, as students, we are not ignoring the issues facing our country, our generation or our world, but we are tackling the problems each in different ways.

I just wish they were more politically oriented.

Contact columnist Matt Kasper at mkasper@butler.edu.

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BY REID BRUNER

If you could fix or change one thing on campus, what would it be?

“Adding more outside patio tables so people can do homework easier while outdoors.”

Dan Young Freshman “I think juniors should be allowed to live off campus. ” Amber Mills Sophomore

“Costs outside tuition, especially since we live on campus until senior year.”

Kaylin Beckwith Sophomore “C-Club should be open 24/7 or at least have later hours.”

Braxton Blakley Freshman

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012

New robots cut costs Computer science adds robots to cut costs for Butler’s robot programming class.

Far left: Students in Panos Linos’s robot programming class work with Scribblers robots last semester.

RYAN LOVELACE RLOVELAC@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER Artificial intelligence will meet Butler intelligence with a lower expense than before.

The department of computer science and software engineering purchased 45 new robots last week in the hope of alleviating a financial burden for Butler University students.

The 45 new robots and kits for the robot programming class will be provided free of charge to future students.The robot used to be an out-of-pocket expense.

The robots, called Scribblers, are made by Parallax Inc. and resemble the common robotic vacuum cleaners seen on late-night infomercials.

The Scribblers can perform several functions, including singing, dancing, drawing and avoiding falling down the stairs.

The robots act at the direction of a student who writes software that gives instructions to the robot via a Bluetooth connection from the student’s computer.

Panos Linos, the professor who has taught the robot programming class for its first two years, said the cost was enough to make some students look elsewhere.

“I had students that would come to me and say, ‘Listen, I’m a single mother, I want to take this class, but I can’t afford it,’” Linos said.

Linos said the total cost of the core curriculum class was between

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$400 and $500.

Linos said the robots have the ability to learn, and the idea of artificial intelligence as it is portrayed in movies is growing ever closer.

“No matter whether we want it or we like it or not, the robots are coming in our lives,” Linos said.

Some Butler students are finding it especially hard to get the Scribblers out of their hands after the course.

Amanda Parker, a freshman public relations major who took the class last semester, still has her Scribbler after unsuccessful attempts to sell it online with Linos’ help.

Parker said no one from the department ever offered to purchase her Scribbler or told her the plans of purchasing new Scribblers.

“That kind of makes me a little upset,” Parker said. “I’m not going to use my robot anymore, so someone else might need it because it is difficult to get, and it is expensive.”

Stephanie Pan, a freshman digital media production and German major who took the class last semester, said she has also been unable to sell her robot.

“I guess we were kind of like the

test class,” Pan said. “I know some people would complain about it, but if we were the test subjects for the department, I think that’s fine.”

Pan said she took the class because it was one of the few analytical reasoning classes left available to her at the time of her registration, but she is glad she got stuck with it, since she said she learned a lot.

Pan said the way the Scribbler’s sensors work is similar to the sensors used by automatic doors and soap dispensers.

“I fixed (a soap dispenser) in Schwitzer’s bathroom because I found out how the sensors worked,” Pan said.

Jackie Bossard, a junior finance student who took the class last semester, said she thought the class was initially difficult because she had no background in programming, but she still found the class to be fun.

“In the end, even though I had to stay up all night quite a few times finishing my projects, it still was kind of fun because at least you’re doing something instead of just reading something,” Bossard said.

Linos said the class was

Left: Freshman Kameron Woods works to operate his Scribbler for a project last fall.

Photos courtesy of Brent Smith

specifically designed for students without experience in computer science.

“To me, it’s a revolutionary new way of teaching this discipline to people that are either afraid to try it or that think they might be intimidated by it,” Linos said.

Linos said past students have used the robots to perform classical dances, memorize and play the piano and create a program that can aid blind students.

Linos said Butler uses the robots as a member of the Institute for Personal Robots in Education and is exploring ways to develop a network for the robots and to use smartphones to control the robots.

Linos said he plans to attend a workshop at Georgia Tech, one of the institute’s co-founders, within a year to learn more and will be training another professor to teach the class to meet the high demand from students.

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