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BUPD increases security for Welcome Week by allyson dobberteen adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

The Butler University Police Department (BUPD) ramped up their night patrols during the first two weekends of school.

The freshman class, the largest incoming class in Butler’s history, is part of the reason Chief of Police Ben Hunter said he thought a bigger task force was necessary.

“One of the things we wanted to do was have a good police presence on campus,” he said.

Assistant Chief of Police Andrew Ryan said that it’s important for freshmen to see a police presence during the first few weeks of school, when people are still settling in and adjusting to their new environments.

In order to have extra patrols during that time, additional funding was needed.

“We got the approval to fund more overtime in order to be out there and visible and present,” Ryan said.

Junior Grace Fisher said she thinks the extra security definitely had an impact on the campus.

“Honestly, it put a damper on Welcome Week, but I guess it’s good because it’s teaching freshmen that there are other things to do besides partying,” she said.

Even though some students thought the extra patrol hampered Welcome Week activities, Hunter said it’s necessary to be seen from the beginning.

It’s important to show students that they really are there to protect the students and faculty on campus, Hunter said.

“We make sure we’re actively moving and patrolling the streets and interacting with students, faculty, staff and parents,” Hunter said.

BUPD’s added security is not permanent and the department will go back to regular staffing this weekend.

The goal of the of the extra officers on Segways, bicycles and on foot was to maintain a safe campus, Hunter said.

“It wasn’t any type of intimidation factor or anything like that,” Hunter said. “It was

just good old-fashioned community policing.”

Both Ryan and Hunter said that one of their main goals was to change how students perceive BUPD officers.

“I’m always surprised when people see a police officer walk up them,” Hunter said.

“They always think they’re going to get arrested. That’s not the case.”

With increased media coverage, Hunter said that he was worried about people targeting campus.

“There are people that see that [there is a large number of freshman] and think ‘well, I know they’re going to bring laptops, and iPods and GPS units,’” Hunter said. “Not all students are good at getting those things inside so there was potential for crime.”

Last year’s Welcome Week brought on an onslaught of car break-ins and thefts. This was one of the things the additional staff focused on during this year’s event.

“We used the opportunity to hit the parking lots and be visible so that if there was anyone targeting our campus they would see police officers,” Hunter said.

Hunter said that there were no problems in parking lots during the first week of school.

“We didn’t have those incidents, but you never know if high visibility contributes to making people not commit crimes either,” Hunter said.

Since Butler’s campus is in the heart of the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood, Ryan said that one of the goals of BUPD is to inform students about their responsibilities as good, respectful neighbors and not to just catch violations.

“We just stopped in at one or two of the parties,” Ryan said. “They weren’t being crazy or anything, but they were out there so we told them what the good neighbor thing is to do.”

Because of the growing student body, Butler might be in the spotlight for people in the community who may bring trouble to the campus.

“We felt it was important for us to be visible, not only so that our students know we

cruisin’ On the job: Sergeant Mike Banner is one of 13 Butler University Police Department officers.

BUPD raised the amount of security and patrolling throughout the first two weeks. (Photo by Caroline Johnson) were out there, but also so that we were seen by members of the community and by any potential person that may want to come onto campus and cause problems,” Ryan said.

Both officers said they were pleased with the results of Welcome Week.

Hunter said that he feels confident that the staff will continue to make students on campus and in the community feel safe.

“There were a lot of positive interactions,” Hunter said. “I’m very happy with my staff from that standpoint.”

Butler tests PrintSmart program by molly kordas

mkordas@butler.edu | staff writer

This year, the Butler University PrintSmart program put into effect a paper allocation project to raise awareness about how much peper is wasted by students on campus on a daily basis.

The idea for this program developed because Butler was, until now, one of the few schools without a paper accounting program.

“The idea has been floating around for about five years,” Project Manager Tyler Johnston said. “Most other schools do print accounting, even most high schools even do it, so we were kind of out of the norm as far as not having allotments for students.”

Because it is unusual for a university to go without a paper allotment program, Information Technology (IT) began to seriously look into the program’s necessity during the fall of 2009.

IT’s newly purchased program shows students exactly how much paper they are using. The system shows not only the physical amount of paper used, but also its impact on the environment in terms of carbon emissions, the number of trees lost and energy used. ___________see PrintSmart page 3

by grace wallace

mirrors to link visitors with the environment, Carter said. rip…drip…drip.

“Using the mirrors will allow you to see yourself reflected within the rivThe sound of rain dripping from the gutter isn’t unfamiliar to er to connect that you are the one who can make a difference,” he said. area residents, we experienced the third wettest June on record.

Carter said the idea is that the science behind the “Raindrop” application, But where does the rain go after it falls? in combination with the physical artworks, will display the urban ecologiButler University’s Center for Urban Ecology (CUE) plans to solve this cal effects to a vast and diverse audience from the Indianapolis community. mystery with the development of its project titled ‘Following the Life of Wa“[The project uses] affective learning contrasted with cognitive learning ter’ (FLOW). so you are not just learning head knowledge, but you are connected with the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gave a $257,000, material through environment, emotions, concerns and people,” Carter said. three-year grant to CUE. IMA Director of Education and Visitor Experience Linda Duke said Mary The grant will allow CUE to develop a smartphone Miss’ goal is that people will develop a better underapplication called “Raindrop” to exhibit the flow of standing of the importance of our local waterways in water from the Indianapolis community into the White terms of our health and quality of life.

River.

Duke said, “[Miss] seeks to make the river and canal CUE’s main goal is to show people how water is afand the whole complex water ecology more visible and fected by the actions they take in their own backyards to attract people and arouse their wonder and curiosbefore running into the river. ity about these matters scientifically, aesthetically and “We want people to realize that what they do on a even to raise an interest in policies and laws that affect house and for their house [wherever they are] connects the health of the waterways,” said Duke. with the people and the river all the way in downtown Duke said Miss has been talking with the IMA for Indianapolis,” said Tim Carter, director of CUE. a number of years to create a project to help raise en“Raindrop” will use templates to allow users to see vironmental awareness in the new 100 Acres: The Virhow water flows and track the pollutants water picks ginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. up as it travels from their house to two different points She said Miss’ idea for FLOW seemed like the peron the White River, Carter said. fect fit.

Users will be able to view three separate condi“She envisions the FLOW project here in IndiaTim Carter tions—the water’s path in current conditions and napolis as a kind of model for what other cities could Director, Center for Urban Ecology weather, the path water has taken historically in the do with public art that increases understanding and past and how the climate patterns will change with fuawareness of the environment,” Duke said. ture conditions.

The FLOW project will debut in September of 2011 with the opening of CUE will collaborate with Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) and New the IMA exhibit and the availability of the “Raindrop” application.

York City’s Mary Miss Studio, to pilot the FLOW project within the IndiaCarter said the chance to help pilot this project is a great opportunity for napolis community. the university.

Carter said artist Mary Miss will create a physical exhibit at the IMA in“For Butler, this is a nationally significant initiative,” Carter said. “We can volving “walkable river maps.” be very proud to have started this national program here in Indianapolis and There will be stopping points along the Central Canal Towpath that use at Butler as this is locally, regionally and nationally important.”

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gwallace@butler.edu | assistant news editor

We can be very proud to have started this national program.

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Missing trees: Students returned to campus to find piles of mulch replacing the trees that once stood along Hampton Drive in front of Schwitzer Hall. Mike Gardner, vice president of operations for Butler University, said the trees had diseases, or were so close to dead, they were merely stumps. There are plans for the empty piles of mulch to be replaced with 16 new trees to once again line that part of the university campus. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

by Allyson Dobberteen adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

For returning students, the lawn in front of Schwitzer Hall might look a little bit naked.

Eight trees were removed along Hampton Drive on the south side of Butler University’s campus over the summer.

Mike Gardner, vice president for operations, said plans to reline the road with new trees have been in place for years.

“A good portion of them were diseased and/or dying,” he said.

“We had significantly pruned three of them until they were almost more stump than they were tree.

“There were a couple of Silver Maples that were, for lack of a better term, messy trees.”

Gardner said there are plans to plant 16 new trees along Hampton Drive this fall to replace the re-

moved trees.

“We’ll be planting predominantly different types of maple,” he said.

Gardner said a variety of species were removed.

Junior biology and education major Madie Podgorski said the replacement of the trees was a great idea.

“It’s wonderful that they are replanting double the amount of native maple trees,” she said. “The trees make campus more comfortable because they provide shade and beauty.”

There was a Swamp White oak at the southeast corner of Atherton.

There were also a walnut, a catalpa, two cherry trees, and the silver maples.

Director for the Center for Urban Ecology Tim Carter said that anytime large trees are removed it changes the campus environment.

“Maintenance and landscaping decisions obviously have a big impact on the look, feel and function of campus,” he said.

Carter said that all trees on campus not only contribute to the cultural atmosphere of campus but also the health of Butler’s ecosystem.

“All the trees on campus remove many pollutants from the atmosphere,” he said. “If students spend any time outside, I would think they would want their environment to be healthy and productive.”

Gardner and his staff are taking a special interest in the university’s trees.

“We’ve got a 1993 tree inventory that I’ve asked my staff to dust off and update,” he said. “That takes some time but I think it will open up some eyes as to how many trees we’ve really added and planted on

campus in the last 17 years.”

Gardner also said the campus boasts Marion county’s largest white oak tree, located on the northside of Robertson Hall, which he estimates is over 400 years old.

“It’s a neat tree, which we have taken great steps to preserve.”

Gardner said Butler has made maintaining and improving the green space on campus a priority for the future.

“We will continue to monitor the landscape of the campus and plant trees where we can,” he said. “If you look at the master plan going forward, it really provides for more green space than exists today.

“If we were to build all the buildings in the master plan someday, most of those buildings are on current parking lots, which would allow us to turn around and create courtyards between the buildings.”

Though the university has taken great efforts to preserve other trees campus-wide, it wasn’t a possibility for the trees along Hampton Drive.

“Trees, like people, have a finite life,” Gardner said. “At some point in time, they die.”

Gardner said he also has student safety in mind when deciding which trees must go.

He does an annual night-walk of the campus to determine which spots on campus don’t provide enough visibility for student safety.

“We spent a lot of time this summer limbing up trees primarily out here on the main mall,” Gardner said, “just to provide a visibility and get a little more light into spaces,” he said.

“That’s at the crux of this. We have to provide the safest campus possible and sometimes that means a tree might have to be cut down.”

Media programs merge in new college

by Aja cacan

acacan@butler.edu | staff writer

Earlier this summer, Butler finalized the process of creating its sixth college— The College of Communication—which will integrate all of the existing communications and media programs under one roof.

The decision was the result of a proposal made last year by several of Butler’s communication and media departments.

“There have been two failed attempts to try to converge these departments together in one,” Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jamie Comstock said.

“They failed for various reasons, primarily because of university politics and appropriate funding mechanisms and such.”

As technology has advanced, the connection between all the communication disciplines become even closer.

“One of the things that I noticed was this oddity the communication studies department and the School of Journalism were in one college and the media arts department was in another college,” Comstock said. “A person who is interested in journalism needs to understand electronic journalism, print journalism and web journalism.”

The reasoning for the integration stems from the increasingly blurred lines between different types of communication and media as well as the difficulty of managing such a broad program through different departments in different colleges.

Some programs were split up in such a way that prevented them from operating to their full potential.

“A significant need was in journalism,” Nancy Whitmore, journalism department program director said.

“Our program had the print side in the School of Journalism in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the electronic side was in the Media Arts Department, and today journalists have to do both,” she said.

The College of Communication will merge all these programs.

“With us at two different colleges, it just wasn’t possible to converge those two programs,” Whitmore said.

Currently, the College of Communication is divided into six different departments: strategic communication, creative media and entertainment, critical media and rhetorical studies, communication sciences and disorders, organizational communication and leadership and journalism.

Students entering this fall into the College of Communication have more changes coming their way.

“We’re going to work on creating a new major this year,” Whitmore said. “It will most likely be a multimedia journalism major that will encompass the entire discipline.”

Instead of having to choose, journalism students will be able to take part in a more integrated program.

Students in communication fields other than journalism will also have the benefit of a more inclusive communications program, as well as more resources.

“The university already had everything,” Bill Neher, interim dean of the college of communication, said.

“We have a very large budget, certainly more than adequate for up-to-date equipment.”

Comstock added, the allocated resources came not from new revenue dollars, but from existing budgets that were moved into the new college.

“We’ve had increased interest from alumni, from prospective students and from colleagues in the field around the country,” Neher said.

Along with increased interest from alumni and colleagues, the new college provides an opportunity for the faculty to do new and different things with the old curriculum.

“I think the college is going to be so successful because the faculty is strong and they’re all energized about it and are already starting to enhance the curriculum,” Comstock said.

The College of Communication began operating in the fall 2010 and is housed in The Fairbanks Center.

New friends: Hudson Pangan is the son of Faculty-in-Residence Dr. Catherine Pangan. Pagan and her family live together in Shcwitzer Residence Hall. Hudson has made friends with many of the Schwitzer Hall Resident Assistants as well as the other residents. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Catherine Pangan)

Combining work and family

by Amber sapp

asapp@butler.edu | staff writer

Butler University offers a unique experience for faculty members to live with students in the dorms through a program faculty-in-residence.

It also creates a very unusual situation for the families of faculty-in-residence.

After talking to Deb Lecklider and Meredith Beilfuss, both faculty-in-residence, Catherine Pangan was convinced that the faculty-inresidence program would be an incredible experience.

“I sent in my application and then was interviewed by a team that included Dean [Irene] Stevens,” Pangan said. “I remember getting the call. We were all at the Indianapolis Zoo, and I saw Dr. Stevens’ number pop up.

“I never thought in a million years that we would get it, because I wanted it so badly. [After] she said that we got it, we were all celebrating at the zoo.”

Pangan, assistant professor in the College of Education, knew her desire to become a faculty-in-residence would affect her entire family, but luckily her husband, Roland Pangan, was fully supportive of the move.

“He was all for [moving into Schwitzer],” Pangan said. “I had mentioned that I really wanted to apply for this position and he was like

‘Oh, yeah let’s do it!’ He was open from the start, which is exciting and wonderful. He fits right in. He loves to do all the programming [with students] too.”

Although their living arrangements are much different than before, Pangan insists on keeping their family life as routine as possible, especially with her son, Hudson.

“We really try to maintain the family atmosphere,” Pangan said. “We make him set the table in Atherton every night. Also, his bedtime is still 8:00 p.m. even though he is in a freshman dorm.

“Everybody is super respectful. I am more worried about us being loud in the morning and waking the girls.”

According to Pangan, the students living in Schwitzer Hall, both last year and this year, have become like family.

“It’s getting to be like he has 500 sisters,” Pangan said. “He adores the Schwitzer residents and [in return] they seem extremely protective of him.

“He loves inviting them in for snacks and he also loves visiting their rooms.”

Hudson, who claims his favorite day of the year besides Christmas is Butler move-in day, has a mutual adoration of the students living in Schwitzer Hall.

“I was getting lonely at [our] other house,” Hudson said. “[But now] my favorite part of living here [is that] I have lots of friends who live in Schwitzer.”

Professor Chris Bungard, the faculty-in-residence at Ross hall, has had similar positive experiences living in the dorm setting.

“Becoming a faculty-inresidence [began as] a very good way to meet Butler students and to understand them better,” Bungard said.

“You end up learning a lot about what it is like to live on this campus and to be a part of this university.

“Living with the students is a perspective that I think a lot of faculty do not end up getting.”

Bungard, an assistant professor in classical studies, made the decision to apply for the position before he and his wife, Kara Bungard, were married. At the time, she was hesitant about his choice.

“It was kind of a tough decision in part because you can only live in the apartment with your spouse. So she could only move in once we got married, and it put her in a tricky situation,” Bungard said. “But ultimately she came around to it.

“We got married last December and so she moved into Ross halfway through the year.”

Despite his wife’s initial uncertainty, Bungard said that she interacts with the students very well.

“Once we played ultimate Frisbee at night with a glowin-the-dark Frisbee, which was actually her idea,” Bungard said. “It is nice [to have her around] because it is somebody else who has ideas of things.”

While they are both enjoying their positions right now, Bungard says that he is not sure how much longer he will be a faculty-in-residence.

“One of the factors involved is if my wife and I end up having kids anytime soon,” Bungard said.

“I think that the apartments in Residential College work really well for having a family.”

Bungard said, he knows faculty-in-residence John Esteb has basically raised his two children in Residential College.

The layout of those apartments have more privacy, which would be better for raising a family, he said.

For now, both the Pangans and Bungards are happy with their living arrangements.

“I just keep coming across the word gift,” Pangan said.

“It is just such a gift and privilege for the people to share their lives and college experiences with us.”

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

BUPDBEAT August 25 3:20 a.m.—43rd Street: Hit and run 4:30 p.m.—Holcomb Building: Theft 11:04 p.m.—Ross Hall: Vandalism August 26 5:46 a.m.—Schwitzer Hall: Missing person August 27 2:32 p.m.—Irwin Library: Fire alarm activation 3:17 p.m.—University Terrace: Fire alarm activation 8:45 p.m.—Schwitzer parking lot: Hit and run August 28 11:46 p.m.—Green House: Liquor law violation August 29 3:30 a.m.—Outside of University Terrace: Public intoxication 4:44 a.m.—Ross Hall: Liquor law violation

New faculty members share new ideas AMBER SAPP

asapp@butler.edu | staff writer

With more than 30 new faculty members joining the Butler community this year, students are not the only ones anxiously preparing for the rest of the fall semester. “[Before the first day of class] I like to develop a course map so both the students and I have a clear plan about where we are headed in our studies and are confident we can meet our learning objectives,” Jill Kirby, a new professor in the College of Business, said.

This fall, Kirby is teaching corporate finance courses for both the undergraduate and MBA programs. She will teach courses in risk management and Insurance in the spring.

“I meet with various faculty and staff members to see what resources are available to help students complete their class projects,” Kirby said.

Stephanie Fernhaber, who will teach the Management 101, the Freshman Business Experience class, said she is most nervous about “figuring out how everything works here at Butler.”

Both Kirby and Fernhaber said they were attracted to Butler’s College of Business because of it’s emphasis on real-life training.

“I worked as the actuarial director of risk management reserving for CNA Insurance in Chicago,” Kirby said. “I was an actuary for 17 years, so having worked in the corporate world before coming to academia, I liked the idea of teaching in an environment that stresses real world applications of the theory taught in class.”

For other new faculty members, some say it was the community on campus that attracted them most to Butler.

“I came to Butler because of the passionate, dedicated and wonderful faculty, staff and students I met when I interviewed,” Kelli Esteves, a College of Education professor, said.

“On paper, Butler was everything I was looking for—a small university with a strong national reputation, a focus on teaching, mostly residential campus with a vibrant campus life—but it was really the faculty, staff and students that made Butler my first choice.”

Esteves’ classes focus on theories of learning and development and their role in education.

Although she said she is nervous about remembering her students’ names, she said she is looking forward to sharing her passion for the subject matter with them.

Esteves said, “I love what I am teaching and feel very strongly that the

printsmart: NEW PRINTING POLICY

Continued from page 1 Johnston said he hopes the program will show the students that there has been a lot of carelessness in printing on campus.

“We’d seen a huge increase in the amount of waste that people were leaving,” Johnston said. “People would print a document and never actually pick it up from the printer.”

Freshman Ashanti Banks, said she doesn’t feel the allotments are necessarily a bad thing. “[The allotments] seem like enough to print out papers and assignments,” Banks said. “It makes people think about what they print and whether it’s really that important.”

In January 2010, the PrintSmart software was installed to monitor students’ printing.

In August 2010, the PrintSmart allotment program was initiated.

Sophomore Sarah Ferry said, not all aspects of the program, such as the number of pages allotted, have been scrutinized enough.

“It’s going to be caseby-case really,” Ferry said.

“There are just a lot of factors involved.”

Students in the College of

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Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) receive 4,000 pages, while all other students receive 1,200 pages.

“The amount of paper that [COPHS] students were printing threw off the campus average so much that it really just made sense to apportion the totals separately,” Johnston said.

He said part of COPHS students’ additional fee for the Mobile Computing Program goes toward the additional paper and ink.

Junior Yael Kurganoff said she thinks the allocation numbers should be based off the student’s department.

“I think they need to see per department how much paper is used,” Kurganoff said. “If they could do a study on what each college prints off, that would be interesting to see.”

Other students like sophomore Doug Johnson, a music education major, said that the amount allotted should be plenty for most students.

“I think unless you are actually wasting your printing, you should have plenty to last,” Johnson said.

Because this is a trial year for PrintSmart, students who do run over their allotment will not be charged any additional fees.

content will help students become better teachers, whether that will be in the field of music education, dance pedagogy, physical therapy, elementary education or middle/secondary education.”

Kathie Freed is making her debut in the math department at Butler, after teaching at Carmel (Ind.) High School for over 30 years.

Freed said, “Teaching at the university level is a little scary after 34 years in high school. I am used to 90 minute block class sessions, so 50 minutes seems like so little time.”

However, Freed said she calms these anxieties by being prepared for her classes.

“I try to get a scope of what material is covered in each course and have worked on a syllabus,” she said.

Many new faculty members say they are looking forward to starting the year and making an impact on their students and fellow faculty members.

“I love working with students at this level,” Freed said. “All of these young people have so many interesting activities and ambitions.

“I hope to help my students achieve their goals and become thoughtful and productive members of society.”

FRESH FACES: Jill Kirby and Stephanie Fernhaber are just two of the many new faculty members to look for on campus this year. (Photos courtesy of Jill Kirby and Stephanie Fernhaber)

AmeriCorps awards grant to university student volunteers

BY SARAH HOLCOMBE

sholcomb@butler.edu | assistant news editor

Butler University’s Center for Citizenship and Community (CCC) has been awarded an $11,320 AmeriCorps grant to help facilitate community service among Butler students.

“It’s a little bit odd, because we haven’t really received money,” Dr. Donald Braid, director of the CCC, said.

“We have received the possibility of education stipends, so students who complete 300 hours of service are eligible to receive an $11,320 education stipend, which can be used to pay loans, tuition or any other expenses related to education.”

Some of the primary beneficiaries of the AmeriCorps grant will be student employees of the CCC, known as Advocates for Community Engagement (ACE).

Senior Lauren Graham, ACE leader, said it is their job to act as a liaison between Butler and the community to make the service learning process run smoothly between university students and volunteer sites.

“We monitor the volunteers that come from Butler at their designated volunteer site,” Graham said. “We monitor the volunteers that come in, schedule the times they come in and what it is exactly that they might be doing when they come in.”

Braid said having student employees on staff is crucial to the success and survival of the CCC’s service learning projects.

“I can’t be at every site, so I have to trust the ACEs to help build and maintain the relationships between Butler students and the sites we’re sending them to,” Braid said. “Trust is an absolute essential in those relationships.

“The ACE is there to understand what the volunteers are there for and to understand what the site needs, so that the students can do something of value at the site and it becomes a positive thing.”

This year, for the first time, Butler is making sure that students volunteer by requiring freshmen to take a service learning class.

“There are around 30 sections of service learning classes this semester and we’re adding more every minute,” Braid said.

Although being an ACE requires hard work and dedication, Graham said she stays with it because she gets to see constant improvement at the volunteer site—both within the Butler volunteers and within herself.

“I think the biggest thing for me has to do with what I’ve been learning throughout the last year and the people that I’ve met,” Graham said.

“My networking has skyrocketed

and I know so much more now about the community that I never knew before I got this job.”

Graham said she enjoys seeing her peers receive the same gratification she has experienced herself.

“When you know somebody is coming to volunteer because they have a certain amount of service hours that they need to fulfill, but then they go beyond those hours or they come back next semester, you see the impact that it’s making on them,” she said.

Sophomore ACE, Jasmen Rice, said she agrees with Graham that being an ACE is not only another job on campus—it’s a lifestyle.

“In simple terms, I’m helping and that’s kind of what I base my life off of-- just to know that I’m helping,” Rice said.

Braid said that he hopes with the added incentive of the AmeriCorps grant, more students will be motivated to volunteer and feel the positive effects of service learning for themselves.

“This is a great opportunity for students to go out and learn about the community and to learn about themselves while providing a service,” Braid said. “What’s important is that it’s always reciprocal. I send students into the community because the community individuals can teach students things that we can’t teach them here on campus.”

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New Campus Parking Safety OUR POINT THIS WEEK: NEW PARKING ARRANGEMENTS ARE DANGEROUS FOR STUDENTS AS DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS | VOTE: 24-0.

New parking arrangements on Butler’s campus, made to accommodate the new freshmen class, are dangerous to both student drivers and pedestrians.

On Sunset Avenue, parking spaces on both sides of the street make it dangerous for passing cars. It is also dangerous for students living in Residential College because when pulling out, parked cars obstruct the driver’s view.

The newly installed pedestrian walkway between Ross Hall and Residential College aims to draw the attention of distracted drivers, but the location is still dangerous for pedestrians as many drivers are not paying attention to the cobblestone crossing.

While texting or talking on their cell phones, pedestrians do not pay attention to approaching cars.

It would be more effective to have a stop sign at the crosswalks around campus to protect both drivers and pedestrians from unwanted accidents.

Increased visibility should make a difference, but visibility is difficult because of an excess of street parking.

The problem is hard to solve because of the campus’ geographic location.

We have limited space in which to fit so many vehicles.

With the largest freshmen class in Butler history this year, parking has become even tighter.

The university is doing its best to adapt itself to the large freshmen class, but we feel it could adapt in a better way.

Simply painting the curb of the sidewalk white on Sunset Avenue does not safely integrate more parking spaces.

In the long run, if there is continued parking on both sides of Sunset Avenue, the road will need to

On Sunset Avenue, parking on both sides of the street makes it dangerous for drivers because the road is too narrow for passing cars. be widened to accommodate more cars and pedestrians.

However, road construction on Sunset would pose a problem for nearby residents because there is not a way to widen the road without taking some of their property.

The problem also poses challenges because there is so little space for more parking when the university is in the midst of long-term growth. If the future freshmen classes continue to grow, permanent parking solutions will need to be implemented as opposed to tweaking street parking.

The university could make overflow parking at Hinkle Stadium available to students other than commuters.

This could potentially cut down on hazardous parking along busy streets such as Sunset Avenue and Hampton Drive, which are used by students daily.

This problem, although difficult to solve, needs to be looked into further by the university in order to find permanent solutions to increased parking.

The new parking available is more a short-term solution to a long-term problem due to its dangerous characteristics for drivers and pedestrians alike.

Another way to help prevent accidents between drivers and pedestrians, and drivers and other drivers, is to install several speed limit signs throughout campus. These speed limit signs would help cut down on reckless driving and keep pedestrians safe when crossing the street.

BUPD should also work to remind all students to remain alert when walking around campus or crossing the streets. Pedestrian awareness is key in preventing accidents on campus. A sincere effort by students and faculty members can help keep our campus accident free during this time of increased traffic.

While we applaud the university’s efforts to control parking this year, we insist upon improvements for the safety of all members of the Butler community.

The volume of cars in the future will only continue to grow, so the sooner more parking is available, and old parking is improved, the sooner the university can grow safely.

This semester’s new parking arrangements have eliminated a temporary problem but will not be effective in the long run. The university needs to continue to be aware of the increased population of students and the potential for future safety issues for students, staff and residents of the area. For now, we as a student body can do our best to be safe drivers and aware pedestrians.

Crowd-surfing during lunch by lexie smith

lhsmith@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

After my EN 185 class at 11 a.m., I make my way towards ResCo to put my bag in my room and to eat lunch.

But, when I make my way down three flights of stairs and to the front of the cafeteria to eat, the line is stretched all the way past the front desk and snakes through the columns of the lobby.

At this point, I have to go to Atherton to eat.

The lines are shorter at Atherton, but as I walk into the cafeteria, every table is occupied, and at times, overflowing with too many people cramped around the tabletops.

I end up waiting in various lines for roughly 10 minutes to get an entrée and spend a few more minutes grabbing all my sides and

my drink.

By the time I sit down and start eating with friends, it’s nearly a quarter to one.

This overflow, I believe, is caused by the massive freshmen class this year.

With 1,067 students, it makes sense that finding a place to eat my lunch in a timely fashion is one of the harder tasks I face this year.

It is not the freshmen class’ fault that it takes me 30 minutes to get my lunch; they are just trying to get in and out like the rest of us.

I think that C-Club should start allowing meal exchanges during the lunch hour.

According to Stacey Puck, director of food service, last week, “ResCo was at 670 [students] and it only has 273 seats.”

If meal exchanges were allowed, I think more students would use C-Club and therefore lessen the lines and crowds in both Atherton and ResCo.

I know some students do go to C-Club for lunch, but to purchase food, they have to use their flex dollars and because no meal exchanges are offered, lunch can end up being very expensive.

Puck said C-Club does not accept meal exchanges during lunch because, “[the large] amount of commuters we serve during dinner and also, the meal plans aren’t set up for a meal exchange at lunch time.”

If a student used flex dollars at C-Club every day for lunch, their flex dollars wouldn’t last them more than a month.

Meal exchanges would be helpful during lunch due to the fair amount of seating in C-Club. It would help eliminate lines and long waits for all students because everyone would be spread out more evenly thoughout the different dining halls.

My main qualm is that we have three dining areas

on campus and with such a large incoming class I think we need to use these dining accommodations to the fullest, especially when the lunch rush is the biggest problem.

Using all three dining halls during lunch would help everyone be able to get in and get out, without worrying about being late to class.

Also, in Atherton and ResCo, perhaps more tables would help, rather than rearranged tables.

A second dining services worker to scan ID cards in ResCo would help expedite the eating process even more.

For the given situation, I think that dining services is doing a great job keeping up with the large volume of students, but improvements are necessary.

The amount of students coming in as freshmen in the following years will most likely continue to grow

due to the large amount of publicity we received from the basketball team during March Madness. Therefore, long term changes need to be implemented to help everyone’s dining experience.

In response to this year’s record-breaking freshman class, Puck said that dining services were ready. “We increased labor and C-Club added a third register,” she said. “Supervisors are also available on the floor if someone has questions.”

If meal exchanges were permitted in C-Club during the lunch hour, it would help reduce the lines in both ResCo and Atherton and provide students with ‘grab and go’ convenience if they had classes immediately following lunch.

However, there is hope.

Puck said, “The first week is always like this.”

She said by next week, lunch should be back to normal size.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Internships provide value even without pay

BY JACQUELINE CROMLEIGH

jcromlei@butler.edu | asst. opimiom editor

For those who do not know me, there are few things I ever like to plan. I like the spontaneity of things, the mystery. But there has always been one part of life I have planned—my education.

Why should I plan? Well, because I know I need to.

In the mass chaos of life, I have mapped out my goals and benchmarks to get to where I want to go.

I know I want to be able to take every opportunity to further my career. I want to be able to know that I have the experiences and qualities I need to be successful.

That is why I have constantly desired to get an internship, even multiple internships, before I graduate.

When I found out that over the past couple of months that something could eventually mess with my plan, most would understand why I would be a just a little irritated.

So what is fooling with this plan of mine? It is the debate over unpaid internships—a debate that could potentially lead to control over private businesses in the free market.

According to the New York Times, “the Department of Labor says it is cracking down on firms that fail to pay interns properly.”

This is causing many across the country to ask the question, “Are unpaid internships illegal?”

On the surface, it would seem like a simple answer, but if one looks closer at the major implications, they would realize what forgoing these experiences would leave us with.

In a society where careers ask for experience, one must realize the importance of any type of internship. Without the practice and knowledge of a career, what company would ever hire anyone?

“Today’s employers will not even look at a student who doesn’t have some type

of career experience while in college,” Gary Beaulieu, director of internship and career services at Butler, said.

Beaulieu is right. I know students just graduating from college from my hometown of Columbus, Ohio that have excellent degrees from excellent universitiesbut they have no job lined up.

Why on earth would this happen to such intelligent students? It is because they did not get the internship experience to take them to the level an employer needs.

Our classroom learning can only take us so far.

So instead of graduating college with a job, these graduates are trying to complete an internship that will finally make them look good on paper to an employer.

That is not my ideal situ-

one option, I would want to have the experience, to have something to talk about in an interview. I would want to be able to prove I was worthy of a job.

“I know that many students would like the pay, even if it is small, but students should think about gaining the experience of being in the professional world,” Beaulieu said.

So let’s review: we get rid of internships, we get rid of experience, but that is not the worst of it.

The main implication could cause what our country has prided itself in—our free market—to start to disintegrate before our very eyes.

If we were to take steps in the direction of this enforcement, the government would essentially interfere with what employers have the right to do, eventually cutting our options for experience in the future.

Not only would this cut our internship options, but this government intervention will only lead to more problems and more control, which will eventually hurt our generation the most.

Gary Beaulieu Jeffery Tucker, editor of mises.org, said Director, Internship and “who loses if this Carreer Servicecs crackdown succeeds?

The same groups that are winning under the ation. present increase in internI know it is life and my ships: young people and plan might not be perfect, their employers and wouldbut why not be prepared? be employers. “ Why not take any kind of inSo if we lose, who wins? ternship and be able to have The government does. a career in the future?

They win by taking over our In a time of economic un- right to private entities, our rest, when some businesses freedom to control our own do not have the money to businesses. give out, why should we be This increase in governcomplaining? ment interference seems We are getting valuable even more unbearable than experience that could make working for a free, helpful us money in the future. experience.

“An unpaid experience is With this brewing storm absolutely worth it,” Beau- of legal woes, it is something lieu said. “An internship (or that should be called to the other career related experi- attention of all college stuence) should be more about dents. the experience and networkMaybe we should get the ing rather than about mak- valuable experience of an ining money.” ternship before the governOf course, if I was offered ment gets any bigger. a paid internship over an So, next summer, I’ll be unpaid internship, I would applying for as many internmuch rather be paid. ships as possible, whether But, if I was stuck with paid or not.

Today’s employers will not even look at a student who doesn’t have some type of career experience while in college.

VALUABLE INTERNSHIP EXPERIEnCE: Above a student works at a computer. Knowledge learned from internships prepare students for their future and are important to hiring employers. (Collegian Photo from MCT)

OBAMA FAMILY VACATION: The presidential family (minus Malia Obama) spent a few days in the Gulf of Mexico enjoying the water, sunshine and no oil in sight. (Graphic from MCT)

Gulf Vacation for the President

BY TARA DOERZBACHER tdoerzba@butler.edu | opinion editor

This summer has seen criticisms of our president.

First, he was criticized for not taking more responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and now for his summer vacations.

Many people are quick to jump to conclusions and assume the worst. The president has continued to work even while he has been vacationing. His job is not one with a time sheet.

His involvement in the environmental after-math from the spill has been great and I find little to criticize.

He chose to make a point by vacationing in the Gulf, showing that our beaches are still safe.

In a CNN.com article, Stephen Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University in Miami who puts together an annual list of America’s best beaches, said, “Absolutely, I want him to take his shirt off and get in the water and show it is clean and safe, he said.

There is no better symbol than the president of the United States showing us the way.”

Many people this summer chose to go elsewhere or cancel their Gulf Coast vacations simply because of the possibility of oil on the beaches, but president Obama made sure the news caught wind of his vacation and showed him and his daughter swimming in the ocean.

I was on the Gulf Coast around the same time Obama took his vacation and there was no talk of oil in the water.

From the tourist standpoint, Gulf shore life has changed very minimally—besides the decline of visitors this year.

Many chose to point fingers at Obama for taking more than one vacation this summer, but I see it as a good thing.

Besides showing our country that the Gulf Coast is safe, Obama is showing how important family is.

Even when you are the busiest man in the country, it is important to take a time-out from life and enjoy the people you love the most.

CNN recently reported on Obama’s beach vacation stating, “a photo was published on

the White House Flickr page showing a smiling President Obama and his daughter Sasha taking a dip in the gulf waters off Alligator Point in Panama City Beach, Florida.”

They continue to say, “No reporters or press cameras were present for the swim, but the image will nonetheless send a message that the White House has saught to convey with the families first trip: the Gulf Coast is open for business.”

Obama and his family also spent 10 days in Martha’s Vineyard towards the end of August.

They spent a lot of time indoors, playing board games together due to rainy weather, showing their support for an American value that many take for granted from time to time—simple family time.

While some choose to constantly criticize the president about his every move, I think we could all look a little deeper and take his actions as those of someone who cares for the country and its people.

So many people today look at the negative actions of the president, but past generations always respected the president.

It seems most of the news today focuses solely on the president’s negative actions rather than his positive actions.

We would all live happier if we chose to look at the glass as half-full rather than half empty, especially if we were to apply that thinking to the way we view our government.

I truly believe they do the best they can and represent our desires and needs as accurately as possible.

Our governmental system is the best and has been for hundreds of years and I think if more people came to trust those in charge, a lot more would get done and we would all live more positively.

The president’s vacations this summer were met with negative feedback, but I hope most of our country can appreciate his dedication to his family.

Without family systems like the president’s, our country would not have been able to function the way it has for hundreds of years.

The family structure is part of the backbone of this country and should be respected and appreciated.

Without family systems like the president’s, our country would not have been able to function the way it has for hundreds of years.

PawPrints

BY ERIN DRENNAN

What class are you looking forward to most this year?

“Writing for Print Media because it is interactive with different newspapers and a lot of group work.”

Larry Don freshman

“Freshman Business Experience because we get to develop a business plan and see it in action.”

“Social Psychlogy because I am interested to see why people behave and the way that they do.”

Rob Beckett freshman

Kelly Crider sophomore

“Public Communications Campaigns because we get the chance to work with real clients.”

Shannon McGhee senior

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PostSecret confesses in Fountain Square The secret stops at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art by megan schipp

mschipp@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

Secret feelings of selfdoubt flood from the starkwhite walls filled with colorful postcards all written to Frank Warren, “the most trusted stranger in America,” as part of his PostSecret exhibit “Confessions on Life, Death, and God.” It is currently being displayed at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) in downtown’s Fountain Square.

Warren’s “confessors” have contributed to a diverse collection of hand-made postcards disclosing some of their deepest, innermost thoughts about life’s many questions, all written anonymously to be displayed on his Web site for the world to see. Warren is delivered around 1,000 postcards a week to his residence just outside of Washington, D.C. He chooses 10-20 to place Postsecret.com every Sunday.

While the Web site displays postcards that are both comical and concerning, the iMOCA exhibit takes on a more solemn mood as it reveals feelings of hope, doubt and fear illustrated within the postcards, featuring secrets of infidelity, sexuality and molestation.

One postcard presenting a picture of a church steeple read “I hate to go back to the place I LOVE because you hurt me so much,” another reveals a conflict of ideas as it announces “I don’t believe in God anymore but I talk to my Grandpa a lot. He lives in heaven.”

The project is a confessional of sorts, allowing people to realize there are strangers who share in the same feelings.

What started out as an art project for his local community in 2004 has now become a worldwide phenomenon.

The idea for PostSecret first came after a dream War-

moment of need: PostSecret, currently on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) in Fountain Square, has influenced movements to prevent suicide. The Fountain Square travelling exhibit deal with aspects of religion. Both CNN and Time Magazine have covered the phenomenon. (Photo licensed under creative commons from Flickr user Foxtongue) ren had while visiting Paris.

Sleeping next to a drawer housing a few postcards he had just bought from a local vendor, Warren dreamed that the words on the postcards had been rearranged to display new messages which he later tried to recreate. He then handed out 3,000 self-addressed postcards to strangers of which he had asked to mail him their secrets.

Warren soon used the idea for his local art project to raise support for suicide prevention; he lost a family member to suicide. The project eventually became the larger world of PostSecret.

“We think we’re keeping secrets, but the secrets are actually keeping us,” Warren said in an article on CNN.com. “With one courageous decision, you’ve freed a part of your life.”

In recent months, PostSecret has been at the fore-

front of the news (featured

by Time Magazine and CNN) when a San Francisco resident revealed through PostSecret that they planned to jump off of the Golden Gate bridge.

“I have lived in San Francisco since I was young.…

I am illegal … I am not wanted here. I don’t belong anywhere. This summer I plan to jump off the Golden Gate.”

Within 24 hours concerned city residents created a Facebook group, “Please Don’t Jump,” pleading with the creator of the card to not go through with the act.

In addition, a rally at the Golden Gate bridge was held and messages of hope were written in the pavement. Warren hopes that the message will also be sent out to those who are still considering jumping, according to an article on Time.com.

PostSecret was awarded

a Web Blog of the Year award along with an award from the Mental Health Association in which it said PostSecret is “moving the cause of mental health forward.”

Its concept can be seen in the All-American Rejects music video “Dirty Little Secrets” and has been made into five New York Times bestselling books. The latest edition is “Confessions on Life, Death, and God.” Warren hides a PostSecret of his own within the hard binding of each of his books and he speaks to college campuses about the project.

The PostSecret exhibit opened at iMOCA Aug. 6 and will remain open through Sept. 18th.

The iMOCA is open Thursday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and has free admission.

It is located in the Fountain Square district at 1043 Virginia Ave.

Dance the Night Away 1. When Love Takes Over (feat. Kelly Rowland) – David Guetta 2. Getting Over You – David Guetta & Chris Willis 3. (It’s Time To) Beat Dat Beat – DJ Pauly D 4. Stereo Love – Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina 5. Ghosts N Stuff – Deadmau5 6. Memories (feat. Kid Cudi) – David Guetta 7. Cooler Than Me (CPR Remix Radio Edit) – DB Sound 8. All I Ever Wanted (Radio Editi) – Basshunter 9. We No Speak Americano – Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP 10. Just Dance (RedOne Remix) – Lady Gaga & Kardinal Offishall

Papa Roux: the perfect Cajun joint Restaurant provides another Cajun option for Indy

by ashleigh taylor

ataylor@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

H

ead to the East side of Indianapolis, pull up to local Cajun restaurant Papa Roux and be prepared to have the best Cajun meal of your life.

Don’t underestimate this restaurant. From the outside, it looks small and a little underwhelming. The meals, however, are not.

For those who have never had the pleasure of experiencing Cajun food, it is a distinct taste.

Cajun is a type of cooking that originated in Louisiana and is a mix of African, Canadian, French and Native American influences.

A typical Cajun meal is cooked in three different pots. One pot is reserved for the rice and cornbread, another is for vegetables and the third and final pot is used for the main dish. Onions, celery and bell peppers are basic ingredients of the cuisine that can be found in many Cajun dishes.

Bayleaf, cayenne pepper, parsley and scallions are some of the main seasonings that are incorporated in a multitude of Cajun dishes.

The primary foods found

Cajun Cooking: Papa Roux features Cajun cuisine. There are multiple sandwich options, along with tons of sides. (Photo by Rachel Senn) in the main dishes include chicken, fish, pork, shrimp or turkey.

If you want your food to be hot and spicy, there are also dishes for that. One such dish is the chili, a veg-

etarian and is very spicy.

Various peppers are added for flavor, not heat.

The favorite dish at Papa Roux is the restaurant’s Chicken Po-Boy. This sublike sandwich is made with

Papa Roux | restaurant Review Papa Roux has a great selection of sandwiches—the house favorite is the Chicken Po-Boy. The atmosphere is fun and friendly, with the option to enjoy outside seating if it’s nice. Don’t pass this one up.

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tender chicken, a secret Cajun mayonnaise called Vouxdoux and coleslaw.

While dining in, visitors can receive their choice of unlimited sides, including cornbread, bread pudding, white rice, applesauce, red beans and rice and etouffee.

Sweet tea is available free of charge.

Generally, there’s a sandwich, stew or soup for any taste, and you can add or subtract anything to or from a sandwich.

The environment inside Papa Roux is friendly and fun.

Upon ordering food and drink, customers make their way to one of the inside or outside tables and raise the flag attached to the napkin holder. can order their sides at the table while waiting for the main dish.

Customers should be sure to enter Papa Roux with a voracious appetite and an empty stomach as the food will keep you full for hours on end. With so many options and unlimited sides to choose from, one thing is impossible to ignore: the proprietors at Papa Roux do not want their patrons walking away hungy.

Papa Roux is located at 8950 E. 10th St.

Hoosier blues: The Reverend Peyton takes the Big Damn Band out of Indiana and across the world. (Photo courtesy of bigdamnband.com)

Brown County Blues The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

by Daniel Domsic

ddomsic@butler.edu | a&e editor

A bearded man plucks and twangs away at a guitar. His singing voice is deep and guttural. A fiery woman keeps up with him, scritching and scratching at a metal washboard. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, from Brown County, Ind., has a show this weekend in Indianapolis before touring the country and the world.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (BDB), a country/blues band, is on tour and is playing at the Military Park in Indianapolis on Sunday. The show is part of the Rib America Fest.

The band goes on at 2:30 p.m., with the set time being from 2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

Admission is free before 1:00 p.m. and $5 afterwards. The

group is playing along with old school country and classic rock acts.

Rev. Peyton, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton and the drummer/five gallon bucket player Aaron “Cuz” Persinger sing about seeing family members on the television show “Cops,” murder in rural Indiana, dealing with tough times and perform dance tunes, such as “Clap your Hands.”

Hoosier country-blues will be performed across the globe by BDB, as they make stops throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The trio from Brown County toured as a part of Warped Tour this summer and now they are gracing the world stage.

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Local band jascha. debuts new EP at Radio Radio

by Arika herron

acherron@butler.edu | editor-in-chief

In front of a packed house at Radio Radio last Saturday, local fivepiece outfit jascha.—a self-described indie rock/alt-country band—had fans on their feet and singing along during the release show for their latest studio recording.

“We just had a blast,” guitarist Jordan Updike said. “My favorite thing is having people you don’t know show up and they’re singing along to your songs.”

Fans weren’t just singing. They were singing, dancing, shaking, squeezing in between the high tables and chrome barstools and buying jascha.’s latest EP “At the Mouth of the Well of the Twister Serpent/Indianapolis: The Paris of the Midwest.”

The four-song EP, which runs just 12 and a half minutes, was a collaboration between jascha. and local singer/songwriter Kate Lamont.

She’s featured on every track of recording, which reflects the bands indie rock side.

“It was originally supposed to be half rock and half alt-country, but we couldn’t get the rock songs down to just two,” Updike said.

While a country effort will follow, the rock EP came first, released as a 7-inch vinyl album along with a CD. It might seem a little old school, but jascha. is just one of many bands getting back on the vinyl bandwagon. Nielsen Soundscan announced that vinyl sales increased 33 percent from 2008 to 2009.

“As more people just download music, people want something more special, more organic [than a CD],” drummer Bryan Unruh said.

“We’re rebelling against the digital takeover.”

Not only do fans appreciate the touch, they ask for it.

“At our last CD release show, people wanted to buy the album, but only on vinyl,” said Jascha, the band’s namesake and lead singer/ songwriter.

But Jascha, who prefers to go without his last name, hasn’t always had a stable lineup behind him.

He started as a solo artist about six years ago in Indianapolis and would play by himself or with anyone that was available.

“Jascha would call like 20 friends and invite anyone who could make it to play with him,” Updike said.

“One time we played with 12 people on stage.”

Updike was one of those friends playing with Jascha and it was after a show that Updike and friendLauren Moore approached him about something more permanent.

“I told Jascha, ‘Look, you’re a great artist but a terrible business man, let me help you,’” Updike said.

They started looking for serious band members and found Nathan Lucas and Unruh two weeks before recording on their first album started.

Listening to “There’s Nothing Like Love for Making you Miserable,” you can’t even tell that Lucas, formerly a guitarist, learned the bass in those two weeks and Unruh was learning the songs and writing the scratch tracks in the studio. And by studio, they really mean a room in Jascha’s duplex—with walls lined with mattresses.

“Neighbors moved in [the other

sing along: jascha. debuted their new EP Saturday night at Radio Radio in Fountain Square. The new album consists of four songs that show off the band’s indie rock stylings. The local band goes on a tour of the Midwest Friday. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Rubenstein) half of the duplex] the day we were It worked. west kicks off Friday in Chicago. supposed to start recording,” UpSince then, jascha. has played jascha. will make its rounds before dike said. “Jascha baked them cook- shows with national acts Those heading back to Indianapolis to ies; they never said a word!”

Darlins and The Reverend Peyton’s play at ORANJE on Sept. 18.

The CD was well received and Big Damn Band.

“We might play shows on the got buzz within the local music It recently signed with Standard tour for 20 people,” Jascha said, scene, including a positive review Recording and has Uptown Lo- “but it’s still a good time. from local music site My Old Ken- cals handling their promotion and “On our last tour we played on tucky Blog last September, but they booking. While Moore took her a street corner between shows, and still had to make a name for them- leave, she has been succeeded by we probably will again. We’re not selves, playing any shows they newest member Katie Purifoy who above that.” could. joined just a few weeks ago.

So whether you run into them on “We were even playing open Things seem to finally be coming the streets—in which case be sure to mics,” Updike said, “[We were] just together as jascha. prepares for their throw a buck or two their way—or trying to get people excited about first tour as a band. make it one of their shows, don’t be the music [we] were playing.”

The two-week tour of the Mid- afraid to sing along.

Don’t let “Takers” take your hard-earned cash

TAKE NOTES: Director Jon Luessenhop converses with Ghost (Tip “T.I.” Harris) in between scenes. Even with assistance from the director, “Takers” was still a disaster. The script did not help the cast at all, either. (Photo from MCT) by daniel domsic

ddomsic@butler.edu | a&e editor

Three aspects make heist movies great: intensity, production quality and the ability to suspend disbelief.

“Takers” hardly makes the grade in those categories and is by far one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year.

It is a typical revenge/ heist gone wrong story.

A professional crew of bank robbers just completed their annual job. Their lavish lifestyles are interrupted when one of their own, Ghost (Tip “T.I.” Harris), is released from prison and approaches the group with a big job: steal an armored car loaded with millions of dollars.

This story has been done before, but it sounds like it would be cool, right? Wrong.

For starters, the cast was absolutely absurd.

An assortment of rappers, crappy actors and some actors just looking for a paycheck show up on screen.

Hayden Christensen is the group’s tough guy (who thought that was a good idea?), Chris Brown (yes, the one you’re thinking of) is the immature dude and Idris Elba is the always fearless robber.

Paul Walker took a break from “Fast and the Furious” to phone in another garbage anti-hero role and to collect another paycheck. There are a few others, but they’re not really worth mentioning.

Oh, yeah, Matt Dillon is the loose cannon cop after the group, and if anyone should be able to act in this motley group, it’s Dillon. Too bad the script did not do him any favors, nor did it help the rest of the cast out.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the script was written on napkins at a local Dunkin’ Donuts in Hollywood fifteen minutes before the big pitch to the movie executives.

Cheesy dialogue (along the lines of “That’s what we do. We take. We’re takers.”), half-hearted jokes and failures to sound half-way intelligent run rampant.

That’s not even the worst of it.

An exasperated truck driver yells, “The street blew

up,” while Ghost narrates John’s (Walker) actions, every other word being an expletive.

If that was not bad enough the situations these characters get into are downright awful. Jesse (Brown) has a minute long parkour scene while running from the cops.

In one jump he manages to vault over a minivan in rush hour traffic.

In Brown’s joke of a chase, it seemed like the camera cut about every two seconds in an attempt to hide the hilarity of him pole vaulting over moving traffic.

One character, looking like a John Woo reject, dies while leaping over a couch, guns blazing.

Two others decide they have nothing left to live for and decide to start killing cops.

Detective Jack Welles (Dillon) chases after the bad guys with his daughter in the car.

Is it possible for any moviegoer to like these characters?

Everyone else that appears in the film is stiffer than cardboard.

Of course, (spoiler alert) the Russian gangsters that Ghost secretly works with have those stereotypical accent and every other cop is gruff and grisly.

When you have T.I. and Chris Brown, who needs creativity?

Director John Luessenhop does his best to compensate, and sometimes he manages to turn a piece of charcoal into a diamond that it remains untarnished for about a minute.

An overly-artistic façade was used in an attempt to hide the poor acting and plot points.

Tons of partially obscured camera angles are used to give the film a gritty air.

Close-ups are used a lot, making the film look a little bit like a commercial (the

first two minutes could have been a Ray-Ban ad).

Later in the film, two main characters decide to take on an army of cops and get taken down.

Luessenhop proved in an earlier fire fight he could film a cool looking battle, but when two main characters get gunned down, he ruins it.

At times, “Takers” had me cringing from awful writing, holding back unintentional laughter and forcing me to comment out loud how big of a pile of steaming refuse the film was. I hate movie talking, so that is an indicator of how ridiculous “Takers” was.

Save your money for another movie, because “Takers” is worth less than the cost of the paper your ticket is printed on.

“Is it possible for any moviegoer to like these characters?”

The Best Of

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

Takers| Movie Review

Details: Mug n’ Bun Drive-in 5211 W. 10th St. Distance from Butler: 20 minute drive

“Takers” was horribly acted, terribly written and completely and utterly unenjoyable. It tried to cover up problems with style and it did not work at all. The movie was doomed from the start because of its major plot pitfalls.

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

Specials: Homemade rootbeer, low prices, classic drive-in appeal Why We Love This Place: Mug n’ Bun serves up traditional coronary inducing American food. The rootbeer is cold and delicious. Cheeseburgers, though a little skimpy to some standards, are delicious and juicy like they should be and they manage to be filling. Not a fan of burgers? Try fish ‘n’ chips, ribeye sandwiches and an assortment of fried goodness. The food is cheap (a triple with cheese is $4.10) and is a fantastic alternative to the over produced, albeit nearby, fast food options. The rootbeer by itself is worth the drive.

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wednesday, September 1, 2010

sports the butler collegian

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Men’s soccer finishes exhibition season unblemished; ready for home opener

by Mike Ellis

mellis@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

The Butler soccer team finished its exhibition season on a positive note after defeating Northwestern 4-1 at the Shindigz National Soccer Festival in Fort Wayne, Ind., Sunday afternoon.

After falling behind 1-0 in the first half, the Bulldogs reeled off four consecutive goals, cruising to victory.

Sophomore Tyler Pollock said he and his teammates came out ready to play.

“We just came out excited,” Pollock said. “We were getting tired of exhibition games and decided we were going to play our game.”

Senior captain Ben Sippola began the scoring barrage with a first-half goal, assisted by freshman Austin Oldham.

Butler head coach Kelly Findley said Sippola’s performance in Sunday’s game stood out.

“I thought Ben Sippola was in-

volved in all of our goals,” Findley said.

Freshman Adam Glanzer followed with what proved to be the game-winning goal off a pass by sophomore Blake Leyden.

Sophomore Julian Cardona and senior Jacob Capito added goals of their own to put the contest out of reach for Northwestern.

Cardona was assisted by Pollock and Capito scored off a penalty kick.

Findley said he was extremely pleased with his team’s overall performance.

“I thought we defended well and created chances,” he said. “I felt our finishing lacked. I really think we could have scored seven goals.”

Despite that, Findley said he is happy with where his team stands.

“Right now everyone knows their roles, which is an ideal place to be as we prepare to start the regular season.”

Northwestern is ranked ninth in

kick-off: Senior goalkeeper Fabian Knopfler prepares to launch the ball downfield, hoping to catch the defenders off-guard. (Photo by Caroline Johnson)

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Friday Teamwork: (from left) Jacob Capito, Kyle Pateros and Tyler Pollock celebrate a Butler goal.. BU opens the regular season this afternoon at the Bowl. (Photo by Caroline Johnson) the Preseason NSCAA/Adidas preseason poll and is projected to finish third in the Big Ten Conference this season.

While Findley asserted the Wildcats did not play their best game Sunday, he said he believes the outcome also indicates his team’s potential this season.

“Northwestern is a good program,” Findley said. “They’re wellcoached and I think they’re a top 10 caliber team.

“It was a good day for us, and it was a bad day for them, but I feel [the win] speaks well to how good we are too. I think we have a chance to go deep into the [NCAA] tournament this year.”

The Bulldogs’ regular season begins today at 5 p.m. when they battle IPFW at the newly renovated Butler Bowl.

Pollock said his team is eagerly anticipating the opportunity to play its first regular season game at the new Bowl.

IPFW also participated in the Shindigz National Soccer Festival,

Women’s Soccer vs. Miami (OH) 5 p.m.

which Findley said provided his team with an opportunity to view its upcoming opponent on both Friday and Sunday. “[IPFW is] your typical Divison I team,” he said. “They work hard and they have good athletes.

“The new season marks a fresh start, so we’re looking for them to come out and be excited.”

The Bulldogs were recently selected as the preseason favorite to repeat as Horizon League regular season champions in 2010.

Voting was completed by the head coaches of each Horizon League school.

Butler received five of the nine first place votes.

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Butler (5) Green Bay (4) UIC Valparaiso Loyola

6. Cleveland State 7. Milwaukee 8. Wright State 9. Detroit

(First place votes in parentheses)

Women’s soccer falls to in-state foes Indiana State, Indiana defeat Bulldogs at home

by Lance Rinker

lrinker@butler.edu | staff writer

The Butler women’s soccer team hosted a pair of games at the newly renovated Butler Bowl this weekend.

In their home opener Friday, the Bulldogs (0-4) fell 1-0 to the Indiana State University Sycamores (2-2).

The Bulldogs had 12 shots on the day, doubling that of their opponent, who had several opportunities to score in the first half. Butler recorded four shots on goal during the game, three of those coming in the first half.

Indiana State’s Kourtney Vassar was yellow-carded in the game’s seventh minute, setting up a penalty kick for Butler senior Sarah Phelps.

However, Phelps’ attempt was thwarted by a save by ISU goalkeeper Emily Lahay.

Head coach Tari St. John noted the missed penalty kick as an obstacle that her young team will have to overcome.

“We have 11 freshmen on the team, nine of which are getting significant minutes, so there are going to be some tremendous growing pains,” she said.

The score remained deadlocked at zero until the 71st minute when ISU junior Ashley Collins took a pass from junior Alison Gasparovich and scored the lone goal of the game.

Collins’ shot was Indiana State’s only shot on goal.

“I thought we were about to break them,” St. John said.

“It changes the landscape of a game when you go down a goal.”

Although the Bulldogs lost the game, St. John viewed it as a learning experience.

“You need to be able to look at a game, regardless of what the scoreboard says and say, ‘What did we do well? What didn’t we do well?’” she said. “That is what you need to focus on.”

Sunday afternoon the Bulldogs hosted Big Ten power Indiana.

The Hoosiers (2-1) defeated Butler 6-0, but the score did not reflect the Bulldogs’ performance, as Butler trailed by just one goal at halftime.

The Bulldogs were down 2-0 in the 59th minute when the game took a drastic turn.

Butler senior goalkeeper Olivia Walter was issued a controversial red card after an incident involving Indiana junior Devon Beach.

“It was a call that normally wouldn’t be called,” Walter said. “The girl [Beach] was on a breakaway and she tripped as I tried to grab the ball.

“The referee called a foul on me because I was the last defender.”

Following the red card, the Bulldogs were forced to play the remainder of the game with just 10 players.

The Hoosiers went on to score three goals in the game’s final 15 minutes to seal their second victory of the season.

St. John said it was a vital experience that her squad

gained from going toe-to-toe with a Big Ten team like Indiana.

Walter also noticed some encouraging signs.

“IU scored a great first goal, but even after that, we didn’t get our heads down,” she said. “We are an extremely young team, so it was great to see that.”

The loss wrapped up a five-day stretch for the Bulldogs, that included a 1-0 loss at Xavier on Wednesday.

Three of the Bulldogs’ four losses this season have been decided by a single goal.

Butler will get a short break before continuing its season this Friday when it hosts the Miami (Ohio) Red Hawks at 5:00 p.m. at the Butler Bowl.

Battle for the ball: Butler sophomore forward Rachael Melendez fights off an Indiana State foe for the ball as her teammate looks for the pass. Butler lost 1-0 to the Sycamores on Friday. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

September Women’s Soccer Schedule Miami (OH.) - Friday St. Louis. - Sept. 10 @Oregon St.­—Sept. 17 vs. Oregon­—Sept. 19 Oakland - Sept. 24 Wright St - Sept. 26 @IUPUI - Sept. 29

tough loss: Freshman midfielder Nikki Hafele unleashes a pass against Indiana University on Sunday afternoon at the Bowl in an effort to get back in the game. The Bulldogs lost 6-0. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

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wednesday, September 1 2010

Volleyball mishits at Baylor by matt lawder mlawder@butler.edu | staff writer

Starting off their season against stiff competition in Waco, Texas, the Butler women’s volleyball team went 0-3 last weekend in the Baylor University Classic.

Despite the three losses, the squad did get to see its new freshmen in action for the first time and tested several new lineups.

“It’s always tough to go 0-3,” head coach Sharon Clark said. “But I’m not too disappointed. We scheduled the tournament for tough competition and it definitely gave us a chance to try a lot of new things.”

Beginning the tournament on Friday night, the Bulldogs faced off against Southern Methodist University (SMU), dropping their season opener 1-3.

In the first set, the SMU Mustangs opened the scoring behind the serving of junior Kelli Beccera, jumping out to a 3-0 lead.

Butler never had the chance to lead during the first set as Beccera, who was later named to the All-Tournament Team, served for 10 of SMU’s points.

The Mustangs won the first set 1825.

Butler rallied in the second set and won 25-18, aided by seven kills from senior Jessie Wolfe.

The Bulldogs led late in the third set, 17-16, but could only manage one more point the rest of the set and the Mustangs took a 2-1 overall lead.

Butler stumbled early in the fourth set, making nine errors in the first eleven points to find themselves down 10-1.

SMU finished the set 25-10 and won the match 3-1.

“Despite the score, the games were pretty close,” Clark said. “But by the fourth game [SMU] had the control and confidence and we could not get it to swing back our way.”

Butler did not have long to reflect on their loss as they faced the Lumberjacks of Stephen F. Austin State University Saturday morning.

Butler kept the first two sets close but lost both in the final points.

“We had trouble finishing at the end of sets,” sophomore Gina Vera said. “I think we weren’t able get those last points. We readjusted at halftime and told ourselves, ‘We’re not going to get swept.’”

The adjustments worked in the third set. Butler was finally able to finish off the Lumberjacks 26-24.

The Bulldogs kept up the pressure in the fourth set, running up an 8-1 lead off the serving of senior Katie Daprile and freshman Maggie Harbi-

son.

Butler never let Stephen F. Austin back into the match, winning 25-18 to even up the match at two games apiece.

In the final set, the Bulldogs stayed close, never letting the Lumberjacks up by more than two points, until Stephen F. Austin closed out the set 15-12 and the match 3-2.

Despite the loss, Butler had several outstanding individual performances.

Daprile accumulated 33 digs, which is the tenth-highest single game total in Butler history.

Vera racked up 55 assists while Wolfe and junior Maureen Bamiro combined for 47 kills for the Bulldogs.

“Bamiro had a good weekend,” Clark said. “She was great at the net and for Katie, that 30 digs club is a milestone for a single match.”

Wolfe, who also had 18 kills against SMU and 14 kills against Baylor, was named to the All-Tournament Team.

After the loss to Stephen F. Austin, the Bulldogs had to come back later in the day to face Baylor, the tournament host.

Butler battled with the Bears, who made it to last year’s Sweet Sixteen, in the first set and had a game point opportunity leading 24-23, but Baylor carried the next three points to win the

first set 26-24.

After the first set, the Bears started to assert themselves rolling in the next two sets 25-17.

Although the Bulldogs returned home without a win, the tournament was a chance for a team with so many new players to start building an identity.

“I think the toughest thing is getting everyone settled into their roles,” Clark said. “We all have to figure out where everyone fits.”

Vera agreed with Clark that it was a problem that the team could only fix together.

“As a team, we need to adapt quicker and start talking sooner,” Vera said.

“We didn’t react fast enough last weekend. Another thing we’ll be working on is sticking to the scouting.”

Butler bounced back in their first home game of the season, defeating Marian University 25-15, 25-22, 25-19.

Bamiro was the backbone for the Bulldogs at the net. She hit 0.786 (11 kills, 14 attempts) and had 3.5 blocks.

Wolfe also had 11 kills and added 13 digs.

The squad will be back on the road this weekend at the University of Arizona Classic in Tuscon, Ariz. where it will take on Arizona, Cal State Bakersfield and Louisville.

Serve it up: Freshman outside hitter Maureen Nesbit serves to Marian University in Butler’s first home match at Hinkle Fieldhouse Tuesday night.. Butler won 3-0. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

Women’s golf looks to put best foot forward by lance rinker lrinker@butler.edu | staff writer

Head women’s golf coach Bill Mattingly expects his team to contend for the Horizon League Championship—a task he knows is more than possible with his returning cast.

“That’s our goal,” he said. “We didn’t graduate anyone.”

Last season the Bulldogs got off to a quick start, winning the Chicago State Invitational.

After that, Mattingly’s squad played well but was not able to transfer that same success from the fall to the spring.

No players graduated from last year’s team and a few newcomers will look to add to the Bulldogs lineup.

Ali Restaino and Lauren Patishall will join this year’s squad as freshmen.

Restaino enjoyed a successful high school career at Birmingham (Mich.) Seaholm High School.

She was a stalwart for her team all four years and had a tournament average of 82.6.

Lauren Patishall, a graduate of Pendleton Heights (Ind.) High School shot a sectional-low 79 at the Anderson-Highland Sectional last fall.

Returning sophomores Julia Porter and Ali Arends both averaged scores of around 86 last season and look to improve upon those marks this season.

The Bulldogs return two juniors, Michele Nash and Clare Cornelius,who both played significant roles last season.

Nash, who led Butler last season with a 79.6 average, placed second in the Indiana Women’s Golf Association State Amateur Championship this summer.

Cornelius, a two-time Academic All-American, was the winner of a collegiate series tournament held at Notre Dame in July.

Molly Fields and Marcy Moreman are the team’s lone seniors. Fields, along with the aformentioned Nash, was named to the All-Horizon League Team after last season.

Moreman finished strong last season and posted impressive results, including a runner-up finish at the Butler Spring Invitational. Moreman was named Horizon League Golf Athlete of the Week for her career-best 75 that she posted at the tournament.

Coach Mattingly called the spring invite Moreman’s best tournament.

“She really came on strong at the end of the year,” he said.

Contending for the Horizon League Championship is the team’s number one goal.

The Bulldogs placed third at the league championship this past April.

Nash tied for fourth in the final individual standings, and Cornelius posted a “top 10” individual performance.

Fields, Porter and Moreman all finished within the top 20.

Last year’s tournament was held in Lexington, Ky., however, much to the excitement of the involved coaches and players, this year’s tournament will be played in Florida.

Many conferences, including the Horizon League, have been deliberating in recent years about moving their respective tournament to warmer weather sites.

With this year’s Horizon League Championship being held at Howey-in-the-Hills Golf Course in Fla., the playing conditions should be ideal.

The tournament is scheduled for April 20-22.

The Bulldogs tee off their season this Sunday when they travel to Jacksonville, Ala. for the Chris Bannister Golf Classic.

During the fall, Butler will compete in five other tournaments, including the Chicago State Invitational (Sep. 20-21) which they did well in last season.

The Bulldogs will host their own invitational tournament the first week of October.

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Obscure Little League rules not worth it steven peek

speek@butler.edu | staff position

Some recently developed Little League World Series (LLWS) rules are having damaging effects on how the LLWS teaches boys to respect the purity of baseball and compete fairly.

The simple things about the game are becoming hard to enjoy because of these rules.

Specifically, I take issue with the rule prohibiting head-first slides.

The new rule is hampering how aggressively the kids can play baseball.

I believe the rule was created in accordance with the LLWS committee’s understood desire to avoid injuries in the tournament.

But perhaps the worst part about the rule is that these injuries can occur even under preventative rules.

This uneccessary rule was most recently applied in a detrimental way during the international semifinal. (The international and American finalists play each other for the

LLWS title.)

Chinese Taipei’s team sealed a victory against Panama due to this tournament rule that has no place in the regulations.

A player from Panama hit a double with two outs in the inning, slid head-first into second base without being tagged and was called out by the umpire due to the rule, which exists to cut down on the possibility of a broken finger, hand or wrist when sliding.

But I feel the same could easily happen to a foot or ankle when sliding feet-first.

This rule is an obstruction to the game because some players learn to slide head-first while others learn to go feet-first.

I understand that the LLWS committee is trying to reduce injuries, but outlawing the techniques that kids use most is discriminatory toward certain training methods and is not practicing what the LLWS preaches.

I am not against all LLWS rules.

Good rules have been born from medical concerns, such as the pitch count limit.

This is a rule that does not determine a game’s outcome but protects kids from having to throw 100 or more pitches in a game.

The rule emerged after the LLWS committee responded to medical doctors voicing concerns about the negative effects of a six month-long season on a throwing arm.

The LLWS for ages 11-12 instituted an 85-pitch maximum in 2007, and any batter that a pitcher begins throwing to, for example at pitch number 83 or 84, is allowed to be pitched until the end of the at-bat.

Sometimes the limit forces a pitcher to come out before a coach wants him to, but I have never watched a game in which this limit put a team in a make-it-or-break-it situation.

The whole purpose of the rule is to protect young kids’ arms from wearing down over the course of the tournament.

The rule also stipulates that if a pitcher throws 61 or more pitches in a day, they are required to rest for three calendar days.

Some managers are beginning to adjust

Out at home: Hawaii’s Brycen Yoshi is tagged out at the plate by Toms River, New Jersey catcher Jeff Ciervo during the United States Championship Saturday. Hawaii won 3-1 to advance to the LLWS World Championship game, where they lost 4-1 to Japan snapping America’s win streak. (Photo courtesy of MCT)

their strategies to get around the rule.

If a player pitches 20 or less pitches in a day, they are not required to rest any number of days from pitching. The result is the new 20-pitch specialist.

Washington’s team (which emerged from the Northwest Regional) employed this strategy in their LLWS quarterfinal game against the Southwest Regional team from Texas.

Washington has one player who throws a fastball well, one who throws a breaking ball well and a third who throws both well. The coach had the first two throw 20 pitches each before having the third boy pitch the last few innings.

Employing this tactic can be good for a team’s defensive strategy and can upset an opponent’s offensive rhythm.

But the tactic is taking away from the purity of the game, and the committee overseeing the LLWS is responsible.

The committee should instead enforce a maximum pitch count and leave the rest to the coaches.

The LLWS committee has created rules under pretenses, not facts. They are attempting to protect kids from possible injuries, but are injuring the game in the process.

Their intentions are good, and the tournament still stands as one of the most popular and worthwhile sporting events in America.

It offers a healthy atmosphere for the players to meet former Major League Baseball players and get a full range of experiences both on and off the field.

The constant media attention is a realworld experience as well.

Also, the existence of the LLWS is a testament to baseball’s popularity throughout the world.

Although it is America’s pastime, baseball has moved like a shockwave through Latin America, the Far East and now into Europe.

Each part of the world has learned from the others and developed its own style.

But there are side effects to regulations that are more impacting than any injury could be.

After all, nothing the LLWS committee does can prevent a line drive from hitting a shortstop or a base runner from colliding with an infielder.

I say let the boys play.