Sept. 19, 2012

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Opinion: Students need to take initiative to get out and explore the city.

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Arts, Etc. Take a look inside the president’s house.

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Sports: Check out the new men’s tennis coach.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

HOPKINS DISMISSED

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Junior guard Chrishawn Hopkins was released from the men’s basketball team for failure to meet the team’s rules and standards. Hopkins, seen here in a 2011 game against Loyola, averaged more than nine points per game last season.

ANALYSIS

He was like a brother to me.

Family and teammates sad to hear of Hopkins’ dismissal.

AUSTIN MONTEITH AMONTEIT@BUTLER.EDU ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Junior guard Chrishawn Hopkins was dismissed from the Butler men’s basketball team, according to a statement released by the athletics department last Wednesday.

“I am sorry to have to announce that Chrishawn Hopkins has been dismissed from our team,” coach Brad Stevens said in the release.

“We consider it a privilege to represent Butler University as a member of our team. With that privilege comes a requirement and responsibility to meet the standard of our team rules.

“Dismissal is the consequence of failure to do so.”

Stevens did not say which rule Hopkins violated.

Hopkins’ family also released a statement on Wednesday shortly after Stevens’ statement was released.

“It’s with extreme regret that

we were informed today that Chrishawn was released from the Butler men’s basketball program,” the statement said. “His dismissal was due to a repeat violation of team rules and standards.”

The statement went on to thank the university for the opportunity Hopkins received at Butler, saying his mistakes “will not define who Chrishawn is as a person or a player.”

“On behalf of our family, we extend our deepest and sincerest apologies to everyone whom this impacts,” the statement said.

The Indianapolis Star has reported Hopkins has been suspended by the university and plans to transfer to another institution.

Hopkins did not return phone calls or emails from The Collegian.

Stevens was not available for comment to The Collegian.

Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs, declined to comment on Hopkins’ status with the university.

Sophomore forward Roosevelt Jones said in a text message last Wednesday that the news was,

Replacement vital to team’s success

MATT RHINESMITH

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BY THE NUMBERS: CHRISHAWN HOPKINS -Played all 37 of Butler’s games during the 2011-12 season, starting 24 of them -Averaged 9.1 points per game last season, third-highest on the team -Shot 78.7 percent from the free-throw line last season, second-highest on the team -Hit a 3-point basket off the bench in Butler’s win over Florida in the 2011 NCAA Tournament

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Student shot with pellet gun at AV

Suspect name not released in incident JILL MCCARTER JMCCARTE@BUTLER.EDU

NEWS EDITOR

Butler University Police Department refused to release the full incident report of a pellet gun shooting that occurred Sept. 11 at Apartment Village.

JILL MCCARTER JMCCARTE@BUTLER.EDU

EDITOR IN CHIEF

A student shot another student in the head and shoulder with a pellet gun at Apartment Village on Sept. 11.

Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, refused to release the full incident report. The Collegian was granted access to a redacted version of the report.

Around 6 p.m., Officer Jason Downs and Sgt. Tony Rivera of Butler University Police Department responded to a call from the victim at Apartment Village Building H. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the victim had

The Butler men’s basketball team will be facing Atlantic 10 Conference competition for the first time this season without junior guard Chrishawn Hopkins.

Hopkins, who was dismissed from the team on Wednesday, Sept. 12, was expected to grow into more of a leadership role and be a force on the court for the Bulldogs this season.

With the loss of Hopkins, Butler loses a starter from last year’s squad.

The shooting guard played in all 37 contests last season, starting 24 of them. He averaged 9.1 points per game, good enough

FERPA

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bloody welts near her ear and on her shoulder, according to the report.

The victim was able to identify where the shots came from. Officers then questioned the suspect, a black male student, who said he aimed at the victim and shot her with the air pellet gun.

Officers then photographed the evidence, which included an air pellet gun and pellets, according to the report.

The victim declined to press criminal charges. The case has been referred to the office of Student see incident page 3

Officials initially cited the Family Education and Privacy Rights Act as the reason the report could not be released.

The federal law, known as FERPA, is overseen by the U.S. Department of Education. It was created to prevent the release of educational records.

In 1992, Congress added a section to the law that outlines what does and does not constitute an educational record.

The U.S. Department of Education clearly states, “’Law enforcement unit records’ are

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not ‘education records’ subject to privacy protections of FERPA. As such, the law enforcement unit may…disclose law enforcement unit records to third parties without the eligible student’s prior written consent.”

When asked about the federal department’s definition of a law enforcement document, Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, told The Collegian in an email that since the case had been turned over to student affairs, it was no longer a law enforcement document and is now a disciplinary issue.

Adam Goldstein, an attorney advocate with the Student Press Law Center based in Virginia, said that if a document is created for any law enforcement purposes, it is not protected by FERPA. He said anyone using the federal law to keep such information secret was running the risk of see reports page 4

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Number of parking spots remains stagnant Few new spaces were created this year, but parking spaces exist for all permit holders.

Assembly to vote on new budget JILL MCCARTER JMCCARTE@BUTLER.EDU

EDITOR IN CHIEF

COLIN LIKAS CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU MANAGING EDITOR

The state of parking on campus for students, faculty and staff at Butler University has not changed much in the last academic year, according to school officials.

Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, said some parking spaces have been added, but the parking situation is still relatively static.

While few actual spaces were created for the new school year, Assistant Chief of Police Bill Weber said parking spaces exist for everyone with a permit.

“I am sure there are people who are not happy with the parking situation,” Weber said. “While not everybody gets to park where they want to park, there is always parking available.”

Weber said some changes have recently been made in certain parking areas for those with ‘A’ (faculty), ‘B’ (resident) and ‘C’ (commuter) permits.

Faculty parking has been added behind Clowes Memorial Hall, and the area that previously allowed residential parking in front of the Fairbanks Center now hosts faculty parking.

Four handicapped parking spaces have also been added to the Fairbanks lot, and a strip of parking on Sunset Avenue near Residential College now permits commuter parking instead of faculty parking.

Weber said that he and Aaron Chalmers, parking enforcement officer, are always looking for the best ways to reallocate available parking.

“We try to rebalance to find the best mix of parking where it’s convenient to the most number of people,” Weber said.

Weber’s report said a total of 3,190 parking spaces existed across campus, excluding spots in private lots of Greek houses.

The Collegian reported in its Aug. 31, 2011 issue that 3,222 parking spots were available on campus, excluding private Greek spaces and side-street parking.

The three lots containing the most spots were at the Apartment Village, the shared lot of ResCo and Irwin Library and that of Schwitzer Hall—with 532, 478 and 318 spots, respectively. The Facilities Building

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

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Parking space issues may be alleviated with plans for a parking garage in the works. has a 317-space parking area as well.

More ‘A’ permits were given out than any other permit last year.

According to Weber’s statistics, approximately 44 percent of the 804 vehicles with the ‘A’ permit could park in one of Butler’s four largest lots.

Weber said he and Chalmers will put together another report during this winter break, adding that giving a number to each of the university’s 32 parking areas should make parking statistics more accurate.

Relief for parking issues and complaints may be on the horizon, however, in the form of a parking garage.

Hunter said a parking structure would go a significant way toward solving Butler’s parking headaches.

“I think that with any new building, no matter what we do, we should take parking and parking policies into consideration,” Hunter said.

Richard Michal, executive director of facilities, said Butler is in the final stages of selecting a firm to work with on a potential parking garage.

An initial field of 12 or 13 applicants has been narrowed down to three, each of whom will have a followup meeting with school officials on Monday.

Michal said officials hope to be in a position to recommend a firm Butler would like to work with to the Board of Trustees by the end of this month.

“There are still a lot of things to work out,” Michal said. “(Cost is) part of the criteria for these developers, (and) who is going to give us the most

cost-effective approach.”

Michal said school officials hope that the garage, which is expected to house approximately 1,000 parking spaces, will be open by Aug. 2014.

The defined site for the garage is in the Clowes parking lot, which would eliminate around 200 parking spots in that area.

As many as 250 more spots would be erased if the school is able to go through with its planned changes in Butler’s streetscape, Michal said.

The road, adjoining buildings, street furniture—such as benches— and trees, make up the streetscape “We’re aggressively pursuing federal funding opportunities to redo our streetscapes to eliminate parking on our streets,” Michal said. “(This) gives us an opportunity to consolidate a lot of that parking in one location and also gives us an opportunity for the projects that are laid out in the master plan.”

Michal said Butler’s master plan makes a recommendation for “one, if not a couple more parking structures.”

A multi-mode transportation hub could also be made possible with the creation of a parking garage, complementing the Health and Recreation Complex’s bike share program.

While these ideas currently sit in the planning stages, Weber said Butler is focusing on necessary changes.

“If the university wants to grow, we need more parking,” Weber said.

“I think the university is heading in the right direction by putting up these proposals for a parking garage.”

Butler University’s Student Government Association will vote this afternoon to approve the largest budget in the organization’s history.

More than $748,000 collected from student fees will be allocated to student organizations and programs.

Each year, Butler students pay approximately $288 in student fees. About $180 goes to SGA. Representatives from Butler’s more than 150 student organizations will vote on how that money will be allocated.

There are six boards that fall under the SGA umbrella—Council on Presidential Affairs, the Finance Executive Board, Public Relations, Operations, R.E.A.C.H. and Program Board.

SGA’s budget covers expenses accrued by each of those boards. It also funds—among other things—class activities, club sports, a presidential initiative, basketball trips and a volunteerism budget.

Assembly will go through the budget line by line to determine the final figure.

The executive board has made suggestions to this year’s budget, which was originally determined over the summer.

This year’s proposed budget increased by more than $45,000 from last year.

Each student is represented by at least one person in the assembly. Residential halls, Greek houses and every university-recognized student organization are required to have at least one representative.

The Collegian will report the final budget after this afternoon’s meeting.

SGA assembly meetings are open to every student.

The meeting is today in PB150 at 4:30.

Program Board $383,800

2012-13 SGA Budget

(as proposed by SGA executive board)

SGA Expenses $78,188 Operations $75,400

R.E.A.C.H. $59,000 Finance Executive Board $52,000

Miscellaneous $30,700 Council on Public Relations Presidential $27,200 Affairs $23,000 Cushion $12,621 Class Allocations $6,500 -Taylor Meador

Organization gets denied JEFF STANICH JSTANICH@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR A prospective student organization was denied endorsement by the Student Government Association last Wednesday, and is up for appeal today.

The National Society for Leadership and Success was presented before SGA executives and was denied endorsement.

SGA Assembly will now listen to the NSLS’s presentation, and will vote to pass it or not.

If the NSLS is approved in the SGA assembly, Irene Stevens, dean of student life, and PuLSE Office Director Caroline Huck-Watson will then review it.

Brian Hannon, the president of the NSLS if it is approved, understands SGA’s initial hesitation but says the organization will help Butler students.

“I think the group was initially rejected by the SGA board because they were worried the fees required to start the organization are too much and too corporate-based,” MIKE KELLER: Said Hannon said in an email “It is NSLS would take away their responsibility to protect money from other groups. the student body from getting scammed, so I understand their viewpoint.”

“The networking possibilities, nationally-recognized speakers and community service events all would be a huge benefit to this campus,” Hannon said.

SGA President Mike Keller said that when the NSLS presented, there were specific parts of the group’s constitution that caused concern.

The financial aspect of the constitution stated that an $85 admission fee to the group was required for each new student.

Of that $85, only $5 went back to Butler University, and $80 went to the national headquarters of the group.

We’re looking out for students and the campus community.

MIKE KELLER SGA PRESIDENT Keller also said that a 3.0 GPA was required to be eligible for the group, which he said did not seem high enough to be considered an honors group, especially here at Butler.

“We really didn’t feel comfortable saying this was a good organization for the students because it would take away money from other groups that are more beneficial,” Keller said.

Marielle Slagel, SGA vice president of operations, said the whole presentation made the SGA executives question if this group could really benefit Butler.

“We are looking out for students and the campus community and are skeptical of the membership fee as well as the benefits that students would receive from the National Society of Leadership and Success,” Slagel said.

Even though Stevens has not seen the group this year, she said that the same group attempted to start a chapter here at Butler in the past.

Two years ago the NSLS made a presentation to HuckWatson, and she raised her initial concerns to Stevens.

Huck-Watson researched the group online and told Stevens that it is a “for-profit” group, in which the NSLS had to raise thousands of dollars a year just to support its own programs.

The online website for the NSLS boasts 221,000 members yet its membership benefits said there is $100,000 available in scholarships. So if each member were to receive benefits. each individual would only receive $0.45.

“There are better ways to go for a leadership group than to pay a lot of money to a for-profit organization, in my opinion,” Stevens said.

The NSLS will present to SGA Assembly this afternoon.

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New faces among administration The last year has brought new faces and new roles to top Butler positions MARAIS JACON DUFFY MJACONDU@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Changes in Butler University’s administrative roles have been on the rise in the last year.

With new positions coming into existence and other positions opening following retirements, at least five new administrative positions have been filled since President Jim Danko’s inauguration in August 2011.

“Any president, CEO or leader in any sphere, has their own work style,” said Ben Hunter, chief of staff and director of public safety, who was appointed to the newly created position last school year.

“We’re helping Butler become more efficient by creating new positions and shifting people around.”

The most recent additions to Butler’s administrative staff include a new interim vice president of university of advancement and an interim vice president of university relations.

Shari Alexander Richey will serve as the interim vice president of Advancement, effective Oct. 1.

Richey has served on the Board of

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Affairs.

As of press time, Irene Stevens, dean of student life, said that the case was still in the disciplinary process and that hearings had not yet concluded.

Stevens said that university policy prevented her from

Trustees for over nine years.

Marcia Dowell, the former vice president of university relations, stepped down from her position this August to move with her husband to Evansville, Ind. Courtney Tuell will serve as the interim executive director of university relations meanwhile and search to fill the position continues.

Tuell, a Butler alumna, has served as the director of public relations for the university since 2006.

Tuell said that she doesn’t worry much about the responsibilities in her new administrative role because of past experience.

Tuell had served as the interim executive director for university relations once prior, from June to December 2007.

“For that reason, I think some feel a sense of stability with me in this role again,” Tuell said.

Those two positions, as well as the provost position, are still

waiting to be permananetly filled.

In a letter regarding the search to fill open administrative positions, Danko said, “It is especially important to me that we find the right person, as I expect to spend a considerable amount of time working and traveling as we embark on this major capital campaign towards the future.”

Hunter said he is confident in the changes to Butler’s administration.

“All the changes that President Danko has made were definitely in the best interest of the university,” Hunter said. “It’s all about how to best and most efficiently run and operate the university.”

Other new administration members include Gary Edgerton as the dean of the College of Communications and Kathryn Morris as interim provost following Jamie Comstock’s departure.

Hunter said that, for him, the transition to a new senior administrative position was smooth and welcoming.

“I have been received quite well in the new position,” Hunter said. “The nature of Butler’s senior administration staff, and Butler in general, is that everyone gets along, and everyone knows each other. It’s not like a major institution, and I definitely think that’s an advantage that we have.”

commenting further on the matter.

Hunter said that the case is still open and that the victim may still decide to press charges.

The incident is listed on the daily crime log maintained by BUPD in accordance with the Clery Act, a federal law that requires campus crimes to be recorded.

Room 103 in Apartment Village Building H, is the listed location in the report, which is open to public inspection and can be

found on BUPD’s website.

When The Collegian attempted to contact those living in the apartment, a woman answered the door. She said that she had heard about the incident but had no comment on the details.

Collegian sources have linked former men’s basketball player Chrishawn Hopkins to the incident.

University officials have not confirmed or denied these reports.

Hopkins has not commented on the issue.

Everyone gets along and everyone knows each other.

BEN HUNTER CHIEF OF STAFF AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Greek life proves to be a positive experience RYAN LOVELACE

RLOVELAC@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR

A 2011 survey of Butler University Greek students found that more than 90 percent of respondents felt they were a part of the campus community. The survey said Butler Greeks felt included in their campus community more than other private institutions’ Greek organizations.

However, some Butler students not involved in Greek life feel less involved on campus, said Irene Stevens, dean of student life.

“Students have said they feel like they have more opportunities for involvement if they join,” Stevens said. “I don’t know that I necessarily believe that. You can be as involved as you want to be.”

Stevens said every student should join some student organization to relieve the stress that comes with college life.

Independent Council President Regan Girten said the stress associated with being left out at Butler almost caused her to leave during her freshman year.

Girten said Independent Council exists to bridge the gap between Greeks and non-Greeks, who may feel left out because they do not choose to rush.

“I just want people to be included in things,” Girten said.

“It seems like all events are Greekrelated.”

Alexis Spooner, president of the Panhellenic Association that serves as the governing body of sororities, said Greek life does not dominate opportunities and events available on campus. It just makes student involvement easier.

“Before I joined a house, I was literally in my dorm room not doing anything but dance,” Spooner said. “And then I joined, and it was like there was so much I could be doing, and then I kind of

Greek life helped me prepare how to relate with people day-in, day-out.

SEAN SULLIVAN BUTLER ALUMNI just took off from there.”

Becky Druetzler, director of Greek life, said Butler’s Greek life is viewed quite positively at Butler and in the community at-large and said interested and prospective students often seek her and student leaders out to ask about how to get involved.

Girten said she’s yet to attend a homecoming because she is unhappy with the lack of opportunity to get involved as an independent student.

“I think a lot of people look down to (Independent Council),” Girten said.

“There’s the stereotype that Independent Council doesn’t do anything, so why should we include them?” said Sean Sullivan, recent Butler alumnus and former vice president of recruiting for the Interfraternity Council that serves as the governing body of fraternities. “The fraternity or sorority is not the be-all and endall.”

Sullivan said he did not join a fraternity because of the “Animal House” stereotype of fraternities but because he wanted to make friends. He said his involvement helps at his current job as a technical recruiter for Robert Half Technology in Indianapolis.

“Greek life helped me prepare to relate with people day-in day-out,” Sullivan said. “Being in a fraternity or sorority is kind of like a business in that it has to be well-run.”

Hours Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 10:30 am - 1:00 am Thursday 10:30 am - 3:00 am Friday & Saturday 10:30 am - 4:00 am Sunday 10:30 am - 12:00 am

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Suspicious individual reported on campus

Butler University Police Department wants to lock campus earlier to avoid trespasser activity.

Photo by Jaclyn McConnel

BUPD aims to lock campus earlier KELLY ROSTIN KROSTIN@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Plans to lock academic campus buildings at an earlier time are currently on the table to prevent unaffiliated trespassers from putting student safety at risk.

Assistant Chief of Police Bill Weber, wants to start locking up campus buildings at 9 p.m. instead of 10 p.m., as well as opening them at 7 a.m. instead of 6 a.m.

Weber said he would like to see this applied to Jordan Hall, Gallahue Hall, Holcomb Building, the Pharmacy and Health Sciences Building and Lilly Hall, given that the deans of those buildings permit him to do so.

All of these buildings, with the exception of Gallahue and Fairbanks building, have key card access, meaning students can scan their IDs to get into the building anytime they want.

An earlier locking time would only mean that students would have to scan their cards to enter those buildings after 9 p.m.

“It’s not unusual that we have found people who are not Butleraffiliated in the buildings,” Weber said. “I want to secure the campus and hold it in tighter when it gets to be nighttime to keep people who have no business on campus from wandering into a building just to look around.”

Incidences have occurred where random trespassers have been caught wandering the halls of various buildings, which, Weber said, could put student safety at risk.

One incident occurred roughly three weeks ago, when a minor was caught and arrested for

wandering around the third floor of Atherton Union. The minor was not affiliated with the university, Weber said.

Whether the minor had malicious intentions is unknown, but Weber said that locking the doors at an earlier time is a precautionary notion that could prevent outsiders from compromising student safety.

“Unfortunately, bad things could happen to young people,” Weber said. “I would love to see students more aware of their surroundings and suspicious behavior.”

Before Weber makes any decisions or takes action, he said he wants feedback from both students and the deans of each college, hoping to see many people in agreement with his proposal.

He approached the Student Government Association to receive feedback.

“I don’t want to catch anybody off guard,” Weber said. “The most important aspect of this is student safety, and I think about student safety all of the time.”

SGA President Mike Keller said that the SGA Assembly feedback was taken through a poll with nonbinding results and was generally positive.

“Weber was able to cite a few specific examples of where there have been instances of theft and also just people being in the buildings who shouldn’t be,” Keller said. “I think it was a really convincing argument, and if we can cut down on those things just by closing up the buildings a little earlier, I think it’s a good move to do.”

Keller said that student response was probably positive

because of the key card access at all academic buildings except for Fairbanks, which stays unlocked until 11 p.m.

“It’s not as much as an inconvenience for students as it used to be,” Keller said.

Keller said that the only concern of the assembly was keeping individual rooms inside the buildings unlocked so that students could still use them for studying purposes.

Weber said only the exterior of the buildings will be affected by this closing time as opposed to individual rooms.

Other students expressed concerns with regard to the number of doors that actually offer key card access.

Sophomore Alex Felt frequently studies at Jordan Hall late at night and said that sometimes the placement of key card access doors is inconvenient when it’s late.

“It would be more beneficial to have more doors with the key card access,” Felt said. “Butler is really strong and stands out as a university with its academics, and access to study areas is really important for students.”

Weber said that changes to safety take time as a step-by-step process.

“All in all, I’m very happy with the safety of campus,” Weber said.

“But anything that a student can do to protect themselves is a good thing.”

Keller agrees, also adding that he is impressed with the police department’s steps in keeping student’s protected.

“I think BUPD is doing a good job to make sure that campus is kept to the people who should be here,” Keller said.

Freshmen differ on alcohol expectations ALLISON HALL AAHALL1@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Freshmen arrived Aug. 18 with bags and books in tow, but also came with differing expectations.

Freshmen had mixed expectations on the alcohol policy and how it is enforced.

“I thought (the alcohol policy) was going to be enforced a lot more than it actually is,” freshman Jordan Reisman said.

Reisman said the one measure that he did not expect was the excise police.

Taking a look back at the previous year, sophomore Christina Perry, a resident assistant in Schwitzer Hall, said the message has changed from last year to this year.

“With the Red Cup Culture video as a freshman, I didn’t really feel like they were giving off that it’s not okay if you drink,” Perry said. “But if you’re going to drink, it’s your choice, and we want you to be safe.”

She said that posters serve as a reminder that you need to be 21 to consume. Otherwise, you shouldn’t be drinking.

Freshman Elaine Coughlin, said she did not expect the policy enforcement.

“Everyone is talking about these undercover cops,” she said.

“I didn’t think it was going to be that intense.”

Similar to Coughlin, freshman Abby Krabacher said, “I thought it was going to be a lot more relaxed.”

Assistant Chief of Police

Photo by Heather Iwinski

Along with other college expectations and activities, freshmen experience the alcohol policy on campus.

Andrew Ryan, said the policy depends on what students should expect.

“We respond to student behavior specifically as it relates to drug and alcohol use,” Ryan said. “We would respond to their behavior and then take the appropriate steps to make sure that the student is safe.”

Ryan said there have been some changes from previous years.

“We’ve been a little more strict in interpreting behaviors and issuing summons arrests along with the student affairs report,”

Ryan said.

Butler University Police Department has issued five summons arrests in September and made one custodial arrest this month. State excise police have made 10 summons arrests.

“The crackdown is a little bit excessive,” freshman Laurent Dupuis said.

In regard to the rest of the year, Ryan said, “We will adjust our staffing needs as needed, so there may be certain times of the year that you may see more officers working.”

The Butler University Police Department issued a timely warning Tuesday afternoon to warn students about a suspicious individual on campus.

Assistant Chief of Police Bill Weber issued the warning after a student was approached Sept. 11.

A man approached a female student at 10 p.m. between Jordan Hall and the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He identified himself as a police officer by showing a badge in his wallet.

The man told the student he needed to give her an alcohol breath test.

After she did, he let her go.

The Indiana State Excise Police have been working on Butler’s campus as a part of the Intensified College Enforcement program. Its presence on campus this year has caused students to be more aware of police activity.

The man involved is reported to be a white male, 27 to 33 years old, around six feet tall and clean-shaven.

BUPD and the excise police have confirmed that the unknown man is not from either organization.

The warning said excise police normally work in pairs and do not make random stops without probable cause.

The report said a student can request an officer to produce additional identification, and the excise police will most likely show a photo ID card. If detained by the excise police, a student can request a BUPD officer be present as well.

BUPD said it reminds students to contact the department for a safety transportation escort if they need it and to take note of the locations of the Code Blue phones.

If a student encounters a stranger on campus, call BUPD at 317940-9999.

To receive timely warning notifications, students, faculty and staff can sign up for DawgAlert by going to my.butler.edu and searching under the “My Info Tab.” -Tara McElmurry

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violating the law and could be fined.

“Just because it’s moved to a different department doesn’t mean that the incident report doesn’t exist,” Goldstein said.

“There’s no reason for the department to say that the report is covered. That’s no excuse.”

POLICE RECORDS Hunter then told The Collegian that since Butler is a private institution, records kept by the department did not fall under the same public records laws as public institutions.

Since Butler police officers have arresting powers, they can be considered as the functional equivalent of a public agency and must follow open records laws.

“These are not special officers,” a representative with the Indiana State Police Department told The Collegian. “They have to follow the same rules that every other officer in the state has to follow.”

The Butler University Police Department’s website on Monday read, “Officers are appointed under statutes of the State of Indiana with full police powers, sharing concurrent jurisdiction in the boundaries of Marion County with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.”

On Tuesday, this statement had changed. The website now reads, “Our police patrol supervisors and police officers are appointed under the statutes of the State of Indiana with full police power and are available 24 hours a day throughout the year.

They are graduates of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.”

When asked about the department’s jurisdiction, Hunter said that the department made no arrests, nor did it send the case to a government prosecutor. Therefore, he said, the case was not public record.

Until the department presents a case to a government agency, Hunter said that the records are private.

STUDENT CONDUCT SYSTEM Most incidents at Butler are not charged in the criminal court system. Instead, the Office of Student Affairs handles incidents.

As outlined by the residence life guidelines in the 2012-13 student handbook, residents may

not possess or store firearms— including pellet guns—in their rooms or in any other place in residence halls or university apartment buildings.

Anyone possessing such items is subject to severe student conduct action, which may include suspension or dismissal.

University rules of conduct state that a student can be subject to sanctions if he or she is involved in behavior that could or does result in the physical injury of another person and if a student possesses firearms.

The university’s conduct system consists of administrative reviews and dispositions, administrative appeals, a student conduct board, a university appeals board and appeals to the president.

While most offenses committed on campus will normally result in student conduct action by the university, the handbook states that students can be accountable to both civil and criminal authorities and to the university for acts that constitute violations of such laws.

CRIME IN INDIANA Both the redacted incident report and the crime report on the Clery log have the incident listed as “criminal recklessness.”

Under Indiana law, criminal recklessness includes a person who recklessly, knowingly or intentionally inflicts serious bodily injury on another person.

Hunter said the officers who answered the call and filed the report submit what charge should be connected to an incident. Hunter said that he wouldn’t have submitted the report as criminal recklessness, which can result in jail time, fines or community service.

It is unlikely that the incident report from last week’s pellet gun shooting will be released, Hunter said. The case is “victim-driven,” and its release is dependent on if the victim decides to press criminal charges.

As of press time, the victim has decided to not press charges and to keep the suspect’s consequences at the university level.

FERPA states that there are exemptions to the release of an incident report.

The most common exemptions are records that would compromise an ongoing investigation.

Hunter said the victim has roughly a year to decide if she wants to press charges. Until then, he said, the case could remain open.

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TENNIS

From rejection to head coach BETH WERGE BWERGE@BUTLER.EDU

Photo by Colin LIkas

Parker Ross, seen here at men’s tennis practice, was named the new coach after Jason Suscha stepped down after the previous new season.

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for third on the team.

The question now is: where does Butler go from here?

If this year’s team could afford to lose a player at any position, it would be in the backcourt. The 2012-13 version of the Bulldogs features plenty of backcourt depth. Stevens now will have an easier time giving players the minutes they need to improve.

Senior transfer Rotnei Clarke is already penciled in as the starter at point guard, replacing Ronald Nored. Hopkins probably would have started at the shooting guard position, but that spot is now vacant.

A platoon of players will step into that role for the team this season.

Sophomore guard Jackson Aldridge figures to play a more prominent role in the season. His playing time decreased down the stretch last season, but he should see some minutes early on.

Senior Chase Stigall and

DISMISSED: HOPKINS EXCUSED FROM TEAM

sophomores Elliott Kampen and Alex Barlow could also fight for time.

Stigall is a reliable defender and also is very familiar with Stevens’ offensive and defensive systems, having played in them for three years.

Kampen and Barlow, both walk-ons last season, saw important minutes down the stretch last year, leading me to believe that Stevens trusts them in important situations.

Butler’s three newcomers, Kellen Dunham, Devontae Morgan and Chris HarrisonDocks, all could see time at Hopkins’ position as well.

The 6’6” Dunham might see the most. While only a freshman, he proved himself a good shooter in his high school career.

Pair Dunham’s shooting skills with those of Clarke, and Butler could light up some Atlantic 10 scoreboards this season.

However, Dunham will need to show he is a capable defender as well, something not easily learned in Stevens’ complex system.

The rest of the starting lineup seems fairly predictable.

Senior Andrew Smith will

He started on his front porch at just two years old when his mom gave STAFF REPORTER him a racquetball racket to improve his hand-eye coordination.

The first offer tennis coach Parker Nearly two decades later, Ross Ross received from Butler was a full decided to make tennis the sport ride scholarship to play on the men’s he’d pursue in college, thinking he tennis team. But in taking too long could go further on the tennis court to make a decision, he practically than in other sports. handed someone else He chose to play at four years’ tuition to Butler over Michigan the school.

State and the University When he received of Iowa, two powerhouse an offer this summer tennis institutions. to coach that same Butler had certainly team, he made sure wanted him—he was a not to pass it up. national circuit veteran Ross is taking with high potential to over the men’s squad help a Bulldog squad— for former longtime but he did not act quickly coach Jason Suscha, ROSS: Men’s tennis coach enough. who stepped down “I chose Butler,” Ross after the previous said, “and then, the head season. coach called me back and said, “The old coach was great; I loved ‘Sorry, we don’t have a scholarship him,” Ross said. “But it wasn’t for you anymore.’” long ago that I was (like) Tommy But Ross never gave up on Marks, a sophomore on my team. I attending Butler. He went to Iowa can relate to these kids. I can easily for a couple of years, and, realizing communicate. I’m telling them it wasn’t a good fit, he contacted everything I wish I had known ten Suscha and ended up transferring years ago. in 2004.

Ross’ return to Butler has been Over the course of his career at full of twists and turns as well as Butler, Ross was twice named to the arrivals and departures.

All-Horizon League and was the The Libertyville, Ill., native was co-captain of two Butler teams that the first in his family to play tennis. won league championships and

anchor the Bulldogs in the paint.

Junior Khyle Marshall will bring athleticism to court, something the team will be lacking with the loss of Hopkins, and sophomore Roosevelt Jones looks to build off a strong freshman season.

Jones has an interesting skill set. While not the best shooter, he proved last year that he has the strength and stamina to play in the paint, as well as the athleticism and ball-handling skills to run the offense from time to time.

Whichever direction Stevens and the team decide to go, replacing Hopkins will not be easy, especially when joining one of the best college basketball conferences in the country this season.

Some might think the team will play better without Hopkins.

They may say that the junior never truly fit into the offensive system the team was trying to run.

But that ability to create shots for himself was what made him so valuable to the program.

Though there’s still a month until practice officially starts, the Butler basketball team is making headlines.

Dartmouth too much for Bulldogs

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“sad to hear.”

“He was like a brother to me and everybody else on the team,” Jones said. He will be greatly missed, but I know he will bounce back from this.”

On Sept. 14, Hopkins posted on Twitter, “Just hit me that I’m losing control over everything I love everything that makes my life complete all In a blink of an eye #gottagetitback.”

Current and former Butler players also took to Twitter last week to give their reactions to the news of Hopkins’ dismissal.

Former Butler player Garrett Butcher tweeted, “Very unfortunate news but mistakes don’t define a person. #unbelievable.”

Jones tweeted, “Is this real?”

Former Bulldog Ronald Nored tweeted, “Unbelievable.”

Hopkins averaged 9.1 points per game last season, starting 24 games for the Bulldogs.

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The Butler football team got off to a slow start Saturday night against the Dartmouth Big Green and never recovered, falling 35-7.

The Bulldogs (1-2) were able to keep pace for most of the first half in their first-ever game against an Ivy League opponent.

Despite giving up an 85-yard touchdown on the opening kickoff to Miles Gay, Butler trailed 14-7 late in the half. But Dartmouth was able to score with 19 seconds left to lead 21-7 in their season opener.

Butler coach Jeff Voris said the team kept it closer than the score shows.

“We didn’t play complementary football,” Voris said. “When the defense got a stop, we didn’t capitalize on it, and when the offense scored, they came back and scored.”

The Bulldogs threatened multiple times in the second half, but they lost momentum after a goal-line stand by the Big Green (1-0) in the fourth quarter.

Butler receivers Derek O’Connor and JT Mesch each set career highs in

Collegian File Photo

Chrishawn Hopkins, seen in a game against Valparaiso last season, was dismissed from the men’s basketball team last week.

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advanced to the NCAA tournament.

He posted a 36-29 singles record and a 39-27 doubles record before graduating from Butler with a degree in media arts in 2006.

“I made some of my best friends here—my wife, my best man in my wedding,” Ross said.

Following graduation, he went into consulting in Chicago for a few years.

“Then I was like, ‘You know what? I don’t really like consulting,’” Ross said.

Two years later, he decided to resign.

Amidst both job and city transfers, Ross needed to find something to keep himself busy in the meantime.

He coached at Five Seasons Tennis Club and the Lawrence Township Tennis Association in Indianapolis, even working with athletes in the U.S. Tennis Association’s junior circuit.

“One thing led to another, doors just kept opening,” said Ross, who spent two seasons as a men’s assistant coach under Suscha. “And why would I try to resist something that’s so natural to me? Getting back into it was a sign I never should’ve left in the first place.

“I went from being rejected by this school to being head coach. I love Butler University.”

the losing effort. O’Connor had 164 receiving yards on nine receptions, both career marks. Mesch accumulated 67 yards on his record eight catches.

O’Connor caught a 5-yard pass from quarterback Matt Lancaster in the second quarter for the team’s only points.

The Bulldogs return home on Saturday to open Pioneer Football League play against Campbell University.

“Our goal is to win the conference championship, and that starts this week,” Lancaster said.

The Camels (1-2) fell on the road last week to No. 6 Old Dominion 70-14.

Campbell junior quarterback Dakota Wolf, made his first career start last week in the loss.

He, like Butler’s Lancaster is an athletic quarterback that can run the ball.

Wolf finished with 22 carries for 101 yards and a touchdown. He threw for 56 yards on 8-of-16 passing.

Voris said Campbell is a relatively new program, but it has a good team.

“They’re kind of a mirror image to us,” Voris said.

Kickoff is at noon on Saturday.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Maccagnone leads team to pair of victories STAFF REPORTER

Photo by Marko Tomich

Freshman Sophia Maccagnone, seen clearing the ball against Eastern Illinois last Friday, currently leads all Bulldog scorers with five goals.

Volleyball goes 2-1 in Butler Invitational The Butler volleyball team (10-4) defeated Kent State (39) in straight sets on Saturday evening.

Leading the Bulldogs were sophomores Jadyn Yarling, who tallied 13 digs, and Kelly Kyle with 12 digs.

Additionally, sophomore Erica Stahl contributed with six blocks, and sophomore Belle Obert led the team with 17 kills.

The team defeated

Southeast Missouri State (66) three sets to two on Friday afternoon.

Junior Maggie Harbison had 17 kills, Stahl tallied nine blocks and Yarling had 27 digs.

Butler lost to the University of California Davis three sets to none on Friday evening.

Leading the Bulldogs was Yarling, who had 22 digs, along with Obert, who had 13 kills, and Stahl, who had five blocks.

-Peter Brown

KENT STATE AT BUTLER, SEPT. 15 TEAM Butler Kent State

1st 25 16

2nd 25 19

3rd 34 32

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The Butler women’s soccer team defeated the Ball State Cardinals (3-3-2) 2-1 on the road after rallying from an early deficit.

The Bulldogs are now 2-2 when playing on the road.

The Bulldogs (6-3-1) were down the majority of the first half after an early goal by Ball State.

In the 44th minute freshman Sophia Maccagnone dribbled past two Cardinal defensemen before drilling a shot past the goalkeeper to tie the match.

Four minutes into the second half, senior Claire Milam tallied another goal for Butler.

Milam’s goal gave the Bulldogs

Men’s soccer ties two ranked teams Butler’s first contest in last weekend’s Akron Tournament matched them up against No. 11 South Florida (4-1-1).

The match ended in a stalemate with sophomore forward Chad Rigg and freshman forward Jeff Adkins scoring for the Bulldogs.

Game two of the tournament pitted Butler (1-

The Bulldogs will play Youngstown State in the Butler Bowl for Senior Day Saturday. the advantage they needed to put away the Cardinals.

The physical contest saw 35 fouls.

Last Friday, the Bulldogs pummeled the Eastern Illinois Panthers (2-6-0) 3-0 in their night match at the Butler Bowl.

The Bulldogs outshot the Panthers 27-4 in the one-sided contest.

Butler goalkeeper junior Julie Burton got her second start of the year and delivered a clean sheet.

Burton recorded one save in the victory.

1-4) against No. 10 St. John’s.

For the second consecutive match, the Bulldogs settled for a draw.

Junior Jordan Burt and sophomores Brandon Fricke and Zach Steinberger of Butler were named to the Akron All-Tournament Team.

The two ties kept the Bulldogs unbeaten in regular season tournament play this year.

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BUTLER VS ST. JOHN’S, SEPT. 16 TEAM 1st 2nd OT 2OT Butler 1 0 0 0 St. John’s 0 1 0 0

Final 1 1

A foul in the box set up Maccagnone to break the scoreless tie. Maccagnone buried a penalty kick into the back of the net, giving the Bulldogs the 1-0 lead.

Maccagnone stretched the Bulldog lead to 2-0 in the 80th minute after scoring her second goal of the match.

The Bulldogs held a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.

In the waning moments of the game, junior Olivia Colosimo delivered a corner kick to junior Ali Backscheider, who gave Butler its final goal.

Maccagnone leads the team with five goals, including three in her last two matches.

She was named the Atlantic-10 Rookie of the Week.

Cross country does well in Terre Haute The Butler cross country team finished second in the men’s competition at the Indiana Intercollegiate Meet in Terre Haute on Friday.

The Hoosiers took home the team championship in the 27-team field, finishing with 49 points. The Bulldogs came in second with 70 points, followed by host Indiana State with 79 points.

Sophomore Tom Curr had the best finish for Butler in the 8-kilometer men’s race, placing third with a time of 24:57.

Indiana State freshman John Mascari took top honors in the event, and senior teammate Albaro

Escalera captured second place.

Sophomore James Martin came in 12th place for the Bulldogs, crossing the line with a time of 25:14.

Freshman Erik Peterson grabbed 14th place with a time of 25:21 and was followed by sophomore Harry Ellis in 15th place (25:22).

In his first race with Butler, junior Tom Anderson ran a time of 25:44 for a 27thplace finish.

The squad will compete at the Notre Dame Invitational on Sept. 28. The women’s team will be in action on Friday at the Toledo Interregional Bubble Buster.

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FOOTBALL

Lack of scholarships not an obstacle for Pioneer League KYLE BEERY KBEERY@BUTLER.EDU

STAFF REPORTER

Much of the focus in today’s college football landscape is placed on conference expansion and profit.

Not all college football conferences, however, are about bigtime spending and marketing.

Butler’s conference, the Pioneer Football League, is competitive at the Division I level and does so without players on scholarships.

The conference has been a non-scholarship league since its formation in 1992 and will remain a non-scholarship league next season when it begins receiving an automatic bid for the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

League commissioner Patty Viverito said the league has more of an academic focus.

“It’s a good fit academically and athletically,” she said.

Viverito said that most athletes deciding between a scholarship program and the PFL are inclined to take the scholarship offer, but the league still attracts good athletes

and remains competitive.

“I think the lack of a postseason opportunity has been our biggest hurdle, but we are overcoming that,” Viverito said.

She said the league has valued cost sensibility from the very beginning. Now, the addition of a postseason opportunity could add more incentive for athletes to commit to the league despite a lack of scholarships.

Butler head football coach Jeff Voris said the league still sees good football players, most of whom didn’t receive scholarships elsewhere.

“There’s more good players than there are scholarships,” Voris said.

“Once the scholarship opportunity isn’t there, guys start looking for ‘Where can I play at the highest level?’”

The Bulldogs’ starting quarterback, Matt Lancaster, is a transfer from Illinois State.

Lancaster chose Illinois State because of the full-ride scholarship he received, despite always being a fan of Butler.

“I knew a lot about the program, and I knew it was non-scholarship,

but at the time, coming out of high school it was kind of neat to have a scholarship,” Lancaster said.

Lancaster said he left Illinois State because playing under the scholarship became too much about the coach’s philosophy and felt out of place with lifestyles of other players.

“Sometimes when you get to that level, unfortunately, it becomes more of a job than something that you actually enjoy,” Lancaster said.

He said there are advantages to a scholarship, but he agrees with Voris in saying that there are plenty of good non-scholarship players.

“I think you might get more depth with scholarship programs, but I still believe that any player is capable of helping a team win,” Lancaster said.

Lancaster said he thinks the success of a team comes with cohesion.

“There’s a lot of people that are deserving of scholarships, and there’s a lot of people that aren’t,” Lancaster said. “I think it just depends on how the team works together and goes out there and performs on the field.”

Collegian File Photo

Redshirt junior quarterback Matt Lancaster (7) stands in the backfield before taking a snap in the Sept. 8 game against Franklin at the Butler Bowl.

Fundraising important to Butler athletic programs PETER BROWN PBROWN1@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Anyone who has been by the Butler baseball or softball fields can attest to how much they have improved over the past two years.

Both fields were renovated with new bleachers, backstop walls and nets, bullpens, cages, wall padding , dugouts and improved playing surfaces. Additionally an indoor hitting facility was built.

A large part of those changes are a result of fundraising, which helps every athletic team at Butler.

Fundraising is done several ways at Butler.

Kyle Smith, assistant director of the Bulldog Club, describes the club as being “the umbrella” for all fundraising activities.

Membership to the Bulldog Club can be given to anyone, whether he or she gives $1 million or just $1.

In addition to the Bulldog Club, each team has its own individual gift fund.

“If someone wants to come in and give to soccer or volleyball, they can do that, and we have a lot of people that do that,” Smith said.

Fundraising comes into play if a team wants to do a project that is not approved by its budget.

Examples of this are the baseball and softball facilities.

“The facility upgrades have been strictly from money that has been in teams gift funds and help from the Bulldog Club,” Smith said.

Money that is given to a specific team’s fund is also used for replacing or improving equipment, improving travel and food accommodations and improving facilities.

Athletic coaches also work with the Bulldog Club to reach out to former players and current or former donors.

Fundraising by coaches was not always available for teams.

When Steve Farley, coach of the baseball team, arrived in the early ‘90s, the university did not allow coaches to fundraise.

When Farley first started out fundraising,

he sent out letters in the fall and spring to all his former alumni to tell them how the team would benefit from a donation.

Upon sending out his initial letter, “lots of nice donations came in,” Farley said.

For the past few years, the players have been sending out letters to potential donors, usually people back in their hometowns.

Farley said this money goes toward the team’s spring break trip to Arizona.

Last year, Bob Haddad, father of senior baseball catcher Radley Haddad, played a big part in the remodeling of Bulldog Park.

Haddad was able to put together a plan to help with the remodeling process, which included a new backstop, new patios and new dugouts. With his connections, he was able to save the team some money on bricks, concrete and other materials.

The volleyball team, similarly to baseball, has help from its alumni with raising money.

Volleyball also does an online auction to generate funds, coach Sharon Clark said.

Fortunately, fundraising has not been impacted by the economy. Smith said total

Bulldog Club and team athletic funds have had a 98 percent increase over the past five years.

Additionally, the Bulldog Club in each of the past two years has amassed more than 2,700 donors, a feat that has never been accomplished before. In prior years, the Bulldog Club did not even reach 2,000 members.

Over the past five years, total Bulldog Club membership has increased by 63 percent.

“Now, we’re probably as good as we’ve ever been,” Farley said. “If you talk to our seniors, they would say (the field) is as nice as it’s ever been down there.”

While fundraising and Bulldog Club memberships are at an all-time high, Smith believes that the switch to the Atlantic 10 Conference will help fundraising even more at Butler.

“It’s hard to get a defined reason why someone gives,” Smith said. “But the A-10 is obviously going to generate excitement, which can only benefit fundraising.”

Men’s club basketball team gearing up for new season MARKO TOMICH MTOMICH@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Butler club sports are a way for students to compete on a regular basis, which is exactly what the men’s club basketball team looks to do in its second year.

“We decided to make the club team because we wanted a far more competitive playing environment,” club president Carl Miller said.

“We also wanted the opportunity to represent our school and play against other universities.”

Miller is not only president of the team but also plays guard and

Photo by Marko Tomich

One of the coaches for the men’s club basketball team speaks to members of the team during a practice at the Health and Recreation Complex.

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forward for the team.

The team finished 11-6 and placed second in the regional qualifier at Dayton last year.

“This year, the team will compete in three major tournaments.

In the fall they will play at the Southern Illinois Saluki Shootout.

In the Spring the team will participate in a regional qualifier at Oakland University in Michigan and a national championship tournament.

John Prittie, team vice president, hopes to increase the level of competition this year.

“We are looking to broaden our horizon a bit this year and play some varsity and JV teams from Division III schools,” Prittie said.

The club held tryouts Sept. 10 and 11 at the Butler Health and Recreation Complex.

The coaches, Miller and Prittie, looked for specific traits and skills during the tryout process to select their team.

“We pick players based on not only skill but their ability to play team basketball,” Prittie said.

“We look for players who are willing to make the extra pass, so

Photo by Marko Tomich

A member of the men’s club basketball team prepares to shoot a free throw during a practice at the Health and Recreation Complex. in other words, The Butler Way undoubtedly carries over to the club team.”

Freshman Mark Pearson is excited for the competition, as well as to play with some upperclassmen.

“Being a freshman, it is a great experience to play older guys that have been through it before,” Pearson said. “Our team this year has the potential to be solid, but we need to make sure we gel and stay united as one.”

Another first-year player, sophomore Dillon Daniel said he thinks he will fit in really well and cannot wait to start playing.

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MEN’S SOCCER vs. Evansville 7:00 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL at Dayton 7:00 p.m.

FOOTBALL vs. Campbell 12:00 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL at Xavier 3:00 p.m.

“I’m looking forward to getting back onto the court and playing for an organized team,” Daniel said. “We have a lot of speed and shooters on the team, so I think we will be running a lot and trying to get the ball in transition, which plays into my style.”

The team used to cover most of its costs through initial team dues. This year, the team will receive money from the Student Government Association.

“Last year, we relied on both the initial team member fee and some help from alumni,” Prittie said.

“This year, we will receive money because we are a club sport.”

SATURDAY

WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Youngstown St. 5:30 p.m.

Senior Day

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ARTS, ETC.

A peek inside the president’s house MARIA LEICHTY MLEICHTY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Bulldogs everywhere.

It is like the game “I Spy” when it comes to finding all the bulldogs located in Butler University President Jim Danko’s house. A bulldog poster, salt shaker, wine stopper and multiple bulldog statues can be seen scattered throughout the rooms.

Butler’s mascot is a staple in the Danko’s decorations as much as the Danko’s house has become a staple on Buler’s campus.

The president and his wife Bethanie currently live in the Carter House at the corner of Sunset Avenue and Blue Ridge Road.

Butler’s previous president, Bobby Fong, was the first president to live in the house when he moved into the house in 2001. When Fong left for Ursinus College in 2011, the Dankos moved in.

The Dankos have lived there for the past year.

It is a Cotswold Cottage style home and was built in 1932.

Butler acquired it in 1974.

“We didn’t even consider not living on campus,” Bethanie Danko said. “When we are on campus and this close to everyone, we are accessible to our whole community. We are right here. We know what is going on.”

Bethanie Danko said each room has its different purposes.

The foyer invites people inside, with rays of light splashing off an outdoorsy painting which hangs above two plants and sunflowers.

The stairs to the second floor sit directly to the left, and an arched door frame leads into the front room on the right.

The front room provides two sitting areas, each with its own coffee table and a frontal view of the fireplace.

Personal paintings decorate the room—one of which was painted by Mrs. Danko’s brother and another painting President Danko received from a priest during his time at Villanova University.

The sun room connects the front room to the living room, creating more sitting space. The windows to the backyard reflect a stone wall, a reminder that this room used to be the garage in the 1970s and 80s.

The living room seats about 15 to 20 people, at least. The big couches, multiple reclining chairs and double-door entrance to the patio present a less formal environment for bigger student groups.

The patio offers an outdoor option for student get-togethers, with a sleek wooden table surrounded by a wooden fence.

The kitchen centers around a granite-topped island where a tin bulldog is displayed. Amish-style paintings from Lancaster, Penn., cover the back wall, while a miniature black stove sits the counter as a memento from Mrs. Danko’s 11 years living in a log cabin.

The dining room fulfills the need for a formal dinner table that any president’s house would require.

A vintage bathroom completes the first floor layout.

“We have decorated the house to deliberately feel relaxing and not to make it feel too formal,” Mrs. Danko explained.

The Dankos changed very little structurally when they came. They repainted the walls a lighter color and added their own furniture and paintings.

“This house is really a work space,” Bethanie Danko said.

“We entertain donors here, we have students here, we have other friends of Butler here and even Coach Stevens has been here. This is really their home, so we feel like this is a very important part of our job.”

Student gatherings are a staple in the Danko house.

The Dankos did not make many changes to the structure of the house, but they repainted the walls and furnished the house when they moved in.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 , 2012

Photos by Maria Leichty

LEFT: The Dankos frequently entertain student guests in the living room. RIGHT, TOP: Jim and Bethanie Danko live in the Carter House once occupied by former president Bobby Fong and his wife. RIGHT, BOTTOM: Bethanie Danko prepares for house guests in the kitchen.

“The reason that we wanted to live on campus is because we love students and we want to spend time with them and understand how their Butler experiences are going,” Bethanie Danko said.

Twitter is the most common form of invitation for these gatherings.

“We want to be accessible to students for any number of situations, even if only to tweet out an invitation to come by for a study break or Halloween treat,” Jim Danko said via email.

When the Dankos bought new tables for their patio over the summer, they hosted a cook-out for Butler students.

Last week, when author Margaret Atwood came for the Visiting Writers Series, students visited with her over dinner in the living room.

Jim Danko tweeted after the Atwood lecture, “Great gathering at @ButlerPrez home with @MargaretAtwood with @butleru students & faculty.”

“I do also think it is a less formal way to get to know Jim as your university president when you are here in our home and you are having dinner with us,” Bethanie Danko said.

Their priority is accessibility, both she and her husband said.

Junior Callie Dennison said the house was convenient to stop by for a scavenger hunt she was a part of.

Her goal was to go around to houses and trade a small item for something bigger and better at each house.

She had an old toaster when she arrived at the Dankos’ house.

“Mrs. Danko was really welcoming and generous, and wouldn’t let us leave until she gave us the best thing she could get, which ended up being a hardback Butler history book,” Dennison said.

Yes, definitely better than a toaster.

Guests can be found on the patio outside when the weather is nice.

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THEATRE

Balinese dance featured in performance

Photo by Jaclyn McConnell

Butler students rehearse for the Balinese Spectacular performance this weekend at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In foreground, V.I.T.A. artist I Nyoman Sedana’s son is also featured in the performance.

Balinese visiting artist brings new style, technique to Butler Theatre Department.

SARVARY KOLLER SKOLLER@BUTLER.EDU ARTS, ETC. ASST. EDITOR The sharp twang of traditional gamelan instruments mixed with colorful, gold-leafed costumes and precise hand movements are bringing Balinese culture to the Indianapolis community this semester.

Butler University theatre students dove headfirst into the artistic practices of Bali—an island province of Indonesia—during the past two weeks in preparation for this weekend’s Balinese Spectacular performance at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I Nyoman Sedana, this year’s visiting international theatre artist,

his wife and his two children made the trip to Butler from their home in Bali to provide students with the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Balinese dances.

Sedana said the traditional performance consists of five different segments: a shadow puppet show, a greeting dance featuring 13 females called the Pushpanjali, a warrior dance with four males holding spears, a dance featuring his wife and daughter as birds and a chant called the Kecak.

The performance will lack narration, Sedana said, as is normal in Balinese tradition.

“For this performance, the story will be obscure because we don’t have a narrator,” Sedana said. “We will make stronger vocals and chorus and movement to help the audience.”

Angie Malone, JCA’s costume shop manager, said all of the costumes are brightly colored, goldpainted masterpieces. Some of the

This is something you normally would never be able to experience unless you were in Bali.

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women’s costumes were actually brought over from Bali, and the rest of the costumes were made to imitate the traditional garb.

With only two weeks to prepare the costumes, Malone said Sedana has been crucial to correctly creating the ensembles.

“Dr. Sedana has been such a wealth of knowledge,” Malone said.

“We couldn’t figure out how to put together the costumes at first, so he has been giving us a real education.”

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It wasn’t until the couple got married that they realized the music they could create together.

They had avoided performing together, but a conversation during their first anniversary got Johannes Dietrich and Marie-Aline Cadieux thinking.

And soon, they’ll bring their performance to Butler.

The duo follows performances by music professors Kate Boyd, Douglas Spaniol and David Murray.

Duo Terlano, guest artists, a violin and cello duet, will perform in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Dietrich and Cadieux—the husband and wife that make up Duo Terlano—play violin and cello, respectively.

The couple had originally tried to steer away from performing together.

“Everything else was going so well, we were worried about how the music would turn out,” Dietrich said.

While on vacation for their first wedding anniversary, though, the two musicians decided to form a performing group, resulting in the birth of Duo Terlano.

The unusual name was taken from the northern Italian town, Terlano, where the two were spending their anniversary, Dietrich said.

Once they made the decision to play together, Dietrich said their playing experience was “more fun than anyone should have the right to have, performing as musicians.”

The group has multiple connections with Jordan College of the Arts faculty, including longstanding ties to violin professor Davis Brooks, Johannes said.

The idea of a recital at Butler came when he and his wife attended a baroque performance workshop last summer with Butler bass instructor David Murray.

In addition to performing, both Dietrich and Cadieux hold teaching positions as well.

Dietrich is a faculty member of

Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Penn., and Cadieux is both a professor of music at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and an adjunct cello instructor at Lebanon Valley College.

Despite the relative scarcity of music written for a violin and cello duo, the group has no trouble holding an extensive repertoire list.

Duo Terlano’s biography states that, in addition to looking for lesser-performed works from the baroque, classical and romantic eras, the group also frequently commissions new works, including original compositions and new arrangements.

The range of Duo Terlano’s repertoire can be seen in the program it has planned for its upcoming performance, which Dietrich called “eclectic.”

The scheduled program, covering 300 years of music, features duos composed by Beethoven, Kodály, Carlo Antonio Campioni and modern Bostonian composer Elena Ruehr, as well as an arrangement of portions from Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.”

The Beethoven piece is a repurposed clarinet and bassoon duo. The Kodaly composition— which Dietrich characterized as “a monster piece”—was written just prior to World War II and contains a dark tone in spite of Kodaly’s signature folk music elements.

The Campioni piece was added when Dietrich and Cadieux “caught the baroque bug” after attending Murray’s workshop.

Looking for a pedagogical tool around which to build baroque performance techniques, Dietrich looked through the online International Music Score Library Project archives until he found Campioni’s Six Duets for Violin and Violincello.

In addition to performing at various colleges and concert halls around the country, Dietrich and Cadieux offer master classes and clinics at public schools and universities.

Dietrich will be presenting a master class at 4 p.m. on Tuesday in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall.

dances.

“The dancing is very exact in the hand movements,” Powell said.

“It’s all about the precise way you hold your hands, which has been new for a lot of us.

But Dr. Sedana is so thrilled with how we are willing to try new things, and he is so willing to accept our lack of knowledge about his culture and educate us.”

The Balinese Spectacular performance is open to the public at the IMA this Friday and Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for IMA members and free for Butler students with ID. Albert said she hopes people from all over the community will take advantage of this cultural opportunity.

“It’s such a beautiful and once-ina-lifetime experience,” Albert said.

“This is something you normally would never be able to experience unless you were in Bali.”

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Malone was not the only person at Butler to benefit from Sedana’s visit to Indianapolis.

Senior theatre major Lauren Albert worked with Sedana last week and will perform in both the Pushpanjali and the Kecak.

“He is very professional,” Albert said, “and the reason you love working with him is because he loves what he does. He doesn’t look at us as people who don’t understand his culture or the dances. He looks at us as strong students.”

Albert said the performance will serve as a preview for people to get a taste of Balinese dance before the casted performance of “Bali Dream” the first two weekends of November.

Senior theatre major Kate Powell said the Balinese Spectacular rehearsals and performance will serve as the audition for Bali Dream.

Powell said she is impressed with the amount of progress that has been made in such a short time, considering the difficulty of the

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Visiting author Margaret Atwood answers questions during a session at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing last Thursday.

Vivian S. Delbrook Series opens CHASE MONROE CMONROE@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

A thought or an idea is where all pieces of literature get their start.

It is scribbled down on a piece of paper before being transformed into a story in front of our eyes.

With the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, Butler University students will be able to gain insight into the minds of writers that bring such works to life.

The series regularly hosts public readings and question-andanswer sessions with influential contemporary writers.

A committee made of Butler professors—all creative writers within the English department—is in charge of producing the list of potential writers to visit Butler.

“The committee, along with a selected number of graduate students, come together and brainstorm a list of potential writers,” said Chris Forhan, assistant English professor. “We weigh the pros and cons of each writer, as well as trying to maintain diversity of style between the visiting writers. We try and get both writers with a large appeal as well as lesser-known writers.”

Once the list of writers is decided upon, the committee

VIVIAN S. DELBROOK SERIES Poet Patricia Smith will hold a reading session this evening at 7:30.

attempts to bring them to campus.

Forhan said the committee usually goes through the writers’ booking agents, addressing topics like pay and time the writer can spend in sessions with the community.

The series is not limited to just reading sessions and Q&A’s, though.

It also includes a writers-inresidence program, in which one fiction writer and one poet stay on campus for an additional period of time after their initial session. During this time, they visit classes, teach workshops and hold conferences.

This year’s first visiting writer was Margaret Atwood, who was on campus Sept. 12 and 13.

Atwood has more than 50 volumes of poetry, non-fiction and short stories to her name and has written 10 novels. Instead of holding a traditional reading of her works, she gave a lecture with the subject “Can you write the future?”

The speech delved not only into prediction and speculation about the future but also into Atwood’s own life, society as a whole and writing in general.

Atwood’s speech referenced her own works and experiences, as well as the works of famed poet Alfred Tennyson and author H.G. Wells.

“I was genuinely surprised by both the humor of Atwood as well as her being so up-to-date with the times,” freshman Emma Salter said.

“It is no wonder she is considered one of the ten best personalities on Twitter.”

The next visiting writer in the series is poet Patricia Smith.

Smith will be holding her reading session this evening, with a Q&A session tomorrow morning.

Where Atwood’s themes and works stray into speculative fiction, Smith focuses on civil rights and cultural relations, and her poetry is done in a style known as poetry slam.

“I’m excited to hear Patricia Smith speak,” freshman Hannah Cianci said. “After hearing Atwood, it will be interesting to see the different style and themes in which a poet thinks and writes, as compared to a more novel-focused writer.”

The remainder of the year’s lineup of visiting writers includes author Peter Steinhart (Oct. 8), poet Eduardo C. Corral (Oct. 24), author Yiyun Li (Nov. 8) and poet Robert Pinsky (Nov. 28).

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ndianapolis is the 12th largest city in the United States.

However, looking at how often Butler students take time to explore the city, one would never know.

Students should embrace the many cultural opportunities set before them, courtesy of the city of Indianapolis.

Instead, students seem to have isolated themselves to campus and Broad Ripple.

There is so much more to Indianapolis, and this decision to cloister themselves away from the city works as a detriment.

College is supposed to be a time where students enrich their lives by learning about and exploring the perspectives of others.

And while students often venture downtown to volunteer for various non-profits and shelters, they rarely travel there to patronize small businesses and connect with the local community.

Eating at hole-in-the-wall restaurants, viewing various art galleries, attending local music and theater performances and participating in cultural festivals are all potential activities students can participate in to have fun and see different sides of life.

There are cultural hotbeds aside from Broad Ripple.

Fountain Square hosts multiple art gallery openings on the first

Nightlife thrives in many areas around Indianapolis, not just in Broad Ripple Friday of every month, and Massachusetts Avenue is home to dozens of local shops and restaurants.

This past weekend alone, two festivals occurred—Fiesta Indianapolis and Indy’s Irish Festival.

Several unique restaurants can also be found outside the Butler Bubble, including the Ethiopian

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Sexual assault is an issue to highlight year round, not just for one week.

Sexual Assault Awareness Week has come to Butler University again, compelling campus to think about a subject many want to ignore.

These programs perfectly demonstrate the right way to involve people on the topic: education and respect for human beings.

Sexual assault occurs with terrifying frequency in the world, this country and at Butler.

These organizers are shedding light on this issue.

Sarah Barnes Diaz, health education and outreach programs coordinator, and Mindy Wallpe, staff psychologist at Counseling and Consultation services, were the main organizers.

“We have to talk about this,” Wallpe said. “It’s uncomfortable to talk about it, but we have to.”

Most importantly, the week brings together several groups and involves as much of the campus as possible.

Peers Advocating Wellness for Students; the Intrafraternity Council; the Panhellenic Association; Greek Educators, Advocates and Resources; Butler University Police Department and Counseling and Consultation Services are all major players—but there are more.

This year, the programs went to the residence halls with films and discussions to try to reach as many students as possible, Wallpe said.

Taking the issue to where students live makes it even easier for them to get involved and active.

The programs have also been strategically scheduled.

Scheduling the events during Welcome Week might cause them to get ignored.

By now students have settled

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into their classes and hopefully can make time for important events like this one.

And more programs are on the horizon.

BUPD is considering programs like Men against Rape and others, Wallpe said.

Sexual assault does not just happen, and programs like these help teach that.

These organizers know this and emphasize changing the way people think about the issue.

Until people understand that the community must change its attitude, sexual assault will continue to be a problem.

As with any other harmful behavior, sexual assault happens more often when people refuse to believe it is a big deal.

And of course, sexual assault is not just any other harmful behavior.

It is an epidemic when an assault takes place every two minutes in the United States.

Luckily, the organizers of this week’s programs know this and are doing their part to encourage everyone—not just those “at risk”—to participate and grow.

“We can’t drop it after this week,” Wallpe said. “We have to educate each other. We have to change our culture.”

Wallpe and Diaz, with the cooperation of student and administrative groups, are doing just that.

Hopefully we can make our awareness last longer than just this week.

Contact columnist Jeremy Algate at jalgate@butler.edu.

restaurant Abyssinia off 38th Street and the downtown Spanish restaurant Barcelona Tapas.

Suffice it to say, there is a world of opportunities waiting beyond the Butler threshold.

While some might blame Indy’s lackluster promotional ability or the Butler administration for not bringing attention to more of these events and locations, students are

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ultimately responsible for whether or not they take the initiative to hit the streets of Indianapolis.

Whatever prevents students from delving into the city—from laziness to fear of the outside world—it must be shaken off.

We as a student body owe it to the city that welcomed us here to become more active participants in its culture and life.

Great ButlerPalooza shows room for improvement Concert committee should consider student opinion when setting ButlerPalooza lineup.

Pouring rain did not stop Butler University students from coming out to Clowes Memorial Hall and jamming to Smash Mouth and Chiddy Bang last weekend at ButlerPalooza.

The concerts committee, a part the Student Government Association, did an exceptional job dealing with planning issues when bad weather rolled in.

However, there is room for improvement.

The concerts committee should take student opinion into account when selecting bands.

“Smash Mouth was someone that could work well at Butler and get people to come see Chiddy Bang,” said senior Maddie Silverstein, co-chair of the concerts committee. “We had to get someone that would draw people that didn’t listen to Chiddy Bang.”

Smash Mouth did just that, bringing out everyone who loved them when their hit “All Star” was featured in “Shrek” and flooded the airwaves.

“I enjoyed Smash Mouth more than Chiddy,” sophomore Michael Deloria said. “A big part of that was because of the nostalgia. I listened to Smash Mouth a lot as a kid.”

The problem lies in how obsolete Smash Mouth is. “All Star” was a single off Smash Mouth’s 1999 album “Astro Lounge,” and Shrek came out in 2001.

Smash Mouth has been irrelevant for a decade, and since then other great bands and acts have risen to fame.

The nostalgia factor was certainly a big draw, but when Smash Mouth’s lead singer, Steve

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Harwell, said that they would be playing songs from their new album, I zoned out.

It’s hard to get excited about a band’s new music when people only know one or two of its previous songs.

Freshman Hanna Holman said while the nostalgia drew some people, knowing most of Chiddy Bang’s songs is what made the hip hop duo enjoyable.

Silverstein said that multiple factors go into selecting acts for ButlerPalooza. The bands’ schedules, the combination of bands and the costs of booking a band are taken into consideration.

The concerts committee can’t really afford to book acts like Eminem or Skrillex.

While Smash Mouth fit into all those requirements, the concerts committee ought to poll students on who they want to see.

Silverstein said that the committee has tried taking student opinion in the past but that the feedback they received gave them expensive musicians like Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Lil’ Wayne.

“They could get a poll of bands in their budget,” Deloria said. “They’d get a much better turnout.”

While Smash Mouth might not be the ideal band to bring to campus, dancing around to “All Star” and the cover of The Monkees’ song “I’m a Believer” was a blast.

The concerts committee has room for improvement, but all things considered, it put together a success.

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

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Chalking not an effective action Social-issue student groups on campus should do more consciousnessraising than chalking.

Bulldogs for Life recently took to Butler University’s sidewalks, but not with chants and picket signs in broad daylight.

These protestors were strangely silent, using chalk to scrawl their opinions on sidewalks by night.

This attempt to bring a heady social-issue discussion to the forefront is commendable, but it ultimately fails to raise consciousness.

Several factors render chalking an ineffective form of protest.

Generally, the aim of any protest is to force the community to listen to the concerns of those rallying.

Disruption is a key component of grabbing a community’s attention.

The concerns posed by protestors can easily be ignored unless the action directly cuts into or disrupts the community.

Chalking doesn’t force the passerby to recognize the humanity and concerns of those demonstrating.

In fact, people can literally walk all over the contentions both sides have raised.

Also, the anonymity provided by chalking means no one is held accountable for what is written.

This lack of accountability

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can lead to unhelpful, polarized discussion.

This is illustrated by the chalkback of unidentified pro-choice individuals.

These vigilante chalkers wrote pro-choice quips and reactions to Bulldogs for Life’s statements.

Unfortunately, the action has led to the misconception that Demia: Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is responsible for these reactions, intensifying the campus debate.

Although Demia is prochoice, it did not chalk back and discouraged members from doing so, said Kate Langdon, Demia executive board member.

“Some members felt it was Demia’s duty to chalk back,” she said, “but we realized the likelihood that a chalk-back would only increase hostilities between the two views and organizations,” Also, the full complexity of the issue cannot be boiled down to a basic talking point or onesentence quip.

Ultimately, chalking limits meaningful discussion about abortion or any other issue instead of opening the field for future conversation.

Despite the limitations

Cartoon by Audrey Meyer

of chalking, Elizabeth Pieta, president of Bulldogs for Life, sees its benefits.

“I think it takes more than chalking to change someone’s mind about abortion, but (chalking) does start the campus conversation on the topic,” Pieta said.

Bulldogs for Life has the right to chalk, but this should be done in conjunction with more effective actions, events and protests.

Parking solutions should be instated here and now The current parking options and policy should be tweaked to give students more leeway.

Administrators must find a temporary way to ease the parking problem on campus.

This parking issue especially affects those who live in the Apartment Village, University Terrace, or have to walk a great distance to and from classes.

The lack of parking spaces close to the majority of the academic halls for those who own HV or C decals creates an issue.

There has to be somewhere on campus near the academic buildings that students who live further away can park.

So far this year, the weather has been nice.

But once the air becomes nippier and nastier, driving can become a downright necessity.

If a light snow or heavy shower passes through, classes won’t be canceled, and students will still be required to attend those classes.

A 20 minute walk to class seems a lot longer than it really is in cold weather and it can have a negative impact on students’ health.

The long walks could not only cause students to catch illnesses, but also could lead to injuries.

A thin layer of ice is enough for

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someone to fall and severely hurt themselves.

Some students who have a previous injury may not be able to easily walk a long way across campus or ride a bike.

Another option has to be made available for those who physically can’t make the walk or bike ride.

By tweaking the current policy, some of these issues could be resolved.

The university could allow more street parking near campus.

Also, all residential halls and apartment complexes could share parking, allowing AV and UT residents to park on campus when needed.

In an extreme case, a bus could be employed to drive students to campus—similar to the one Student Government Association provides to take students from campus to Broad Ripple.

The current policy is also slightly contradictory.

After 10 days the ticket price will increase according to the text on the parking tickets.

But student accounts say the price will remain at $25 even after the 10-day period delineated by

the ticket.

Students should not be held accountable for not understanding the terms if neither student accounts nor Butler University Police Department can work out the terms of the parking tickets.

Another issue is the money the university makes from ticketing.

The Collegian reported last November in “Parking Revenue brings in nearly $370,000” that BUPD made $104,290 in parking tickets during the 2010-11 school year.

As the student body grows, Butler is making more and more money from parking tickets.

This raises the question if solutions are drifting out slowly because tickets bring in extra money for the university.

Also, as the student body increases every year, the university needs to put more urgency on solving the parking issue in the present instead of just waiting for a parking garage to be constructed.

I know students have made the long walks to class in the past but improving a flawed system is never a bad thing.

Administration has been working over the past few years to find better solutions, but a solution must be created to address the problem here and now.

Contact columnist Rhyan Henson at rhenson@butler.edu.

Demia and Bulldogs for Life could host public forums and debates for students to hear fuller arguments from both pro-life and pro-choice students.

They could organize rallies where action is disruptive.

They could form actual protests where words are backed up by presence and accountability.

These different forms of political and social action will benefit the groups invested in

these issues by raising awareness in more conducive manners.

Butler’s campus will also be all the better for this change in political climate because legitimate, open discussion will begin.

Contact opinion editor Reid Bruner at rmbruner@butler.edu.

Voting is a right every student should exercise Students need to take the time and initiative to give voice at the polls by voting this November.

While the 2008 Presidential Election marked the secondlargest group of youth voters in voting history, the conversation regarding the youth vote for the 2012 election has been mum.

And even with the large youth turnout, 18- to 24-year-olds still marked the smallest voting group in the 2008 election.

As a student body and demographic group, Butler University students must turn up at the polls this November for the 2012 Presidential Election.

It is the civic duty of each citizen to vote. Our democracy depends upon its voting system.

Despite this duty, the youth vote has not been nearly as vocal as it was four years ago.

All young adults need to be voting to strengthen the voice of their generation.

Perhaps youth voters are uninformed in terms of politics and government and, therefore, feel uncomfortable placing a vote.

Perhaps they are apathetic toward the election and candidates.

Apathy toward government is far more dangerous than lack of information, but neither are

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excusable.

The solution is to read up and investigate.

Dissect the platforms for the candidates. Ask questions.

Researching any topic for a short period of time should lead any voter to be both informed and angry about something.

Every U.S. high school senior is required to take a government class for a reason.

Knowledge is power.

In recent months, the discussion of voting has turned to voter identification laws, which require some form of ID to vote, most times with strict photo requirements.

While voting should simply be a right, voter ID laws have made voting in elections a privilege.

To write off your vote due to apathy or lack of political knowledge is to do a disservice to those whose ability to vote has been revoked with the recent policy.

A vote, however small, always counts.

Contact guest columnist Taylor Meador at tmeador@butler.edu.

PawPrints

BY HEATHER IWINSKI

“It’s hard to imagine any other mascot.

I’ll just say a tiger.”

Shelby True Senior Psychology

If you had to change the Butler mascot, what would you change it to?

“I’d have to go with a hawk.

Hawks are cool.”

Colgan McNerney Sophomore Exploratory business

“A bullfrog.

Our chant at basketball games would be obnoxious.”

Bryant Dawson Sophomore Science, techonology & society

“The only thing I can think of is barracuda because it still has the alliteration.”

Molly Kellner Freshman Music education

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A statue of a dinosaur adorned with a witch’s hat sits outside the Children’s Museum. It is the largest children’s museum in the world and has a multitude of interactive exhibits as well as a fully-functioning antique carousel.

Admission is free on the first Thursday of the month.

ABOVE: The Indianapolis skyline highlights the view when visiting Crown Hill Cemetery. The cemetery houses numerous notable names, including the founder of Butler University, Ovid Butler, infamous bank robber John Dillinger and the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison. LEFT: A cat lounges in the window of a shop on Massachusetts Avenue. The Mass Ave Arts District boasts a number of independently-owned boutiques and restaurants.

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The lights of the Fountain Square Theatre building reflect off the Lady Spray statue off Shelby Street. The Fountain Square Cultural District features a number of antique shops and restaurants as well as being the local hub for Indy artists.

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