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Ben Folds to perform at Clowes by allyson dobberteen adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

“Three sad semesters, it was only fifteen grand.”

It might sound like any college student’s sob story, but it’s a lyric from Ben Folds’ song “Army,” a song that could be heard at Butler University Ben Folds will be performing at Clowes Memorial Hall on Saturday, Oct. 23 as Butler University’s fall concert.

Ben Folds, formerly of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five, has a piano-centered sound and satirical lyrics that have gained him global popularity.

According to benfolds.com, Folds’ upcoming album, Lonely Avenue, is schedule for release on Sept. 28.

The album is a collaboration with Nick Hornby, an English novelist and music enthusiast. It features 11 new songs with lyrics by Hornby and music by Folds.

Max Taylor, co-chair of the Program Board’s concert committee, said that Folds’ music is “a soundtrack to good times.”

He describes Folds as a, “pop pianist, singer-songwriter.”

Taylor said that Folds’ concerts are known to be a unique.

“He improvises a lot, so I think everyone will have a good time,” Taylor said.

The Program Board’s Concert Committee decided to use Folds’ concert to bring back a long-standing Butler tradition.

The committee’s Co-Chair Elyse Carlucci said, “It used to be a tradition to always have a concert on Homecoming about 10 years or so ago.

“We decided that it would be cool to bring the tradition back,” she said.

Carlucci also hopes the Folds concert will bring the entire Butler community together.

“I think a lot of non-Greek students feel a little left out of a lot of homecoming festivities,” she said. “So this is just another fun thing for all of campus to do that’s not just for Greek life.”

Taylor agreed with Carlucci.

“We thought that homecoming already brings everyone together, so why not finish the night like that?” he said.

Freshman Abby Miller said the idea of holding the concert on homecoming is a good one.

“I would really enjoy him [Folds] coming to Butler during homecoming week,” she said. “I think that it would be a good event to hold then, and who doesn’t like concerts?”

Taylor said the committee chose Folds because of his ap-

“Landed”: The Butler University concert committee was able to land Ben Folds as this year’s fall concert event. The concert will be held on Saturday Oct. 23 during Homecoming Week. Tickets will be available to students for $15 on Sept. 21 at the Clowes box office. (Photo courtesy of MCT) peal to a wide variety of people.

“We really felt that we wanted to reflect both the alumni that are going to be here and current students,” Taylor said.

“Folds has a lot of generations of followers because he’s been around for so long.

“Pretty much anyone who has been in college during the last 15 years was a Ben Folds fan.”

Nora Burke, a sophomore music major, is one of those fans.

“I think he’s talented,” she said. “He’s like Billy Joel, but better.”

Taylor encourages all students to come out for the concert.

“If you like fun, you will like going to a Butler concert,” he said.

The concert will start at 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m.

Student tickets go on sale on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at the Clowes box office. Faculty and staff can purchase tickets on Monday, Sept. 27. Tickets will be sold to the general public starting on Oct. 11.

Tickets are $15 for all Butler students with a student ID and $20 for faculty and staff. Alumni will also receive a special discount on tickets.

Additional staff at Health Center brings convenience to students by amber sapp

asapp@butler.edu | staff writer

playing around for a cause: Close to 1,200 water balloons were thrown in a campus-wide water balloon fight to raise money for Butler University’s Dance Marathon. See story on page 4. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

The Butler University Health Center is offering more services to students by adding both a psychiatrist and a full-time doctor to the staff.

DeLynn Williams will provide psychiatric services to Butler students and faculty.

Williams attended medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her residency at Indiana University.

Right now, there are 11 therapists on staff, including three full-time staff members.

Eight additional people come in and train for the year from other schools. All staff members have either a masters’s degree or a doctorate.

Williams will be able to provide prescriptions, complete evaluations and manage medication.

“No one else here is able to do that so we are thrilled to be able to add that to the service,” Keith Magnus, director of counseling services, said.

This is not the first time Butler has offered these kinds of services.

Budget cuts in 2003 resulted in the loss of a psychiatrist on-campus.

“We still cannot afford to have someone, so what we did was say ‘let’s at least bring one here under our roof’ and we’ll figure something out,” Magnus said.

Students will be charged for psychiatric services at the health center, but will not be charged for anything else, Magnus said.

Even though Magnus said he is disappointed that they cannot offer the services for free, he said he is still hopeful that students will benefit from the convenience of the services offered on-campus.

“Rather than sending students to Methodist or down the road to her private practice or someone else’s private practice, we have got her,” Magnus said. “It is more of a

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convenience issue, and it is going to be less expensive than those other options.”

Initial evaluations by Williams will cost $120. Each follow-up visit will cost $60.

Magnus said the counseling center staff members look forward to this addition to the staff.

Before Williams had joined the staff, Magnus would have to communicate with other doctors and pharmacists to make sure everyone was on the same page as far as care goes, Magnus said.

With Williams on staff, it takes a lot of the middle men out of the picture.

“Ordinarily, if we are seeing a student and suggest to them to take something like an anti-depressant, we have to do a fair amount of leg work to make that happen,” Magnus said. “This is so much easier in terms of quality of care.”

In addition to the psychiatrist, health services also welcomed Dr. Maria Fletcher to the staff as a full-time doctor.

Students like sophomore Tracy Wiesbrook said they are grateful and relieved for the new staff member, saying the addition will make health services more convenient.

Wiesbrook said she struggled last year in trying to see the doctor to get allergy shots.

She said she hopes that this will make it easier.

“Luckily, I do not have to get allergy shots anymore, but I was still relieved I would not have to jump through hoops to see a doctor on campus,” Wiesbrook said.

Wiesbrook received care from Fletcher after suffering from a serious earache.

“I went in during a walk-in period and I saw the doctor within 20 minutes,” Wiesbrook said. “Compared to last year, I could not believe I was in the same health center because it was really organized and quick.”

The center is open on weekdays with special hours set for allergy shots and walk-ins.

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Student interns with EPA

by Tara McElmurry and molly kordas collegian@butler.edu

Landing the perfect internship is important for college students these days as real world experience becomes more important to future employers.

One Butler student was able to earn an internship so exclusive only two other students in the country were able to land it.

Senior economics and criminology double major Mark Giacomantonio applied for an internship with the Criminal Investigative Division of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in San Francisco.

Federal internships are some of the most competitive programs but also some of the best experiences, Giacomantonio said.

“I’ve always kind of had an interest in federal law enforcement so I figured it was a good way to just kind of get my feet wet and see if I actually liked it,” he said.

He applied through an extensive sixmonth process which required Giacomantonio to send in a résumé, a writing sample, a cover letter, a letter of recommendation and an unofficial transcript. He then received a pre-interview questionnaire to fill out.

Three months went by before he had his first phone interview, after which Giacomantonio had four more phone interviews between March and May. The interviews were with people from human resources, other agents at the branch and his boss, Giacomantonio said.

After Giacomantonio was chosen for the internship, he had to go through on-the-job training.

He worked along side federal law enforcement agents or “special agents.”

Giacomantonio said he worked with a balance of male and female agents who had a background in environmental issues.

“All the work I did was under the watchful eye of one of the special agents,” Giaco-

mantonio said. “Everything I did was under their supervision and they would train me about issues and procedures as they came up.

“I did not have to go to any additional training that they could not provide to me on-site.”

While on the West Coast, Giacomantonio worked 40 hour weeks: from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., five days a week.

He said his workday length would also vary depending on the task he was doing or what the agent he was working with had for him to do that day.

Giacomantonio said it was an experience he would recommend to anyone interested in federal law enforcement.

“The best part was the hands-on experience that I gained,” Giacomantonio said. “I got to see how a Federal law enforcement agency works from the inside out.

“I got a good picture of what it is like to be a special agent.”

Like any job, Giacomantonio’s position wasn’t all action all the time.

“Also [I got to see] what its pros and cons of the job are,” he said.

“My least favorite part was when it got really slow and everyone’s cases were at trial because then there was nothing new for me to do.”

In general, internships give students not only on-the-job experience for their résumé, but they also illuminate career choices and prepare students for the professional world, according to the Butler University Office of Internship and Career Services.

“Because internships are thought of as real life experience, employers feel [students who have completed internships] have significantly more experience than someone who does not,” Gary Beaulieu, director of career planning and development, said. ______see epa internship page 4

Being ‘blunt’ about breast cancer awareness by grace wallace

gwallace@butler.edu | asst. news editor

“As young college students, you think you are invincible,” communications instructor Donna Gray said.

Her point?

Breast cancer is now affecting 1 in every 8 women before the age of 40.

A Butler University journalism class, Strategic Communication for Nonprofits, has teamed up with Young Survival Coalition (YSC) to create a breast cancer awareness campaign for college campuses.

The class, in its third year of existence, works with a different nonprofit organization in the area each semester and works to implement a campaign within the community, Gray said.

She said the task this year is to pilot a breast cancer awareness campaign on campus that, if proven successful, could potentially be taken to other colleges nationwide.

Edward Kanis, program director for the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism, said the idea to partner up with YSC came from Butler alumna Julie Burns, who now works for YSC. Kanis said it seemed like a great opportunity to really take hold of implementing the volunteer work that the university’s new strategic plan entails.

The Strategic Communication for Nonprofits class has eight students currently, all of whom said they were fired up for this year’s project.

“YSC is a national organization and the campaign we create will be run on a local level,” senior Brenden Hudson said. “And if successful, they will use [our ideas] nationally.”

Students in the class said this particular cause was something close to their hearts as every student in the class has been affected by breast cancer, either via a friend or family member.

“I don’t think we were aware of how much our age is affected by [breast cancer],” senior Maria Keyler said. “Learning more definitely was something that has shocked us and we have

become more passionate about the cause.”

Gray said the lack of education on cancer prevention is concerning as the warnings seem to go in one ear and out the other of young people today.

“We know things but we don’t take advantage of that knowledge,” Gray said.

During class, she used examples such as texting and driving and drinking and driving to point out that though the information is available, younger age groups tend to ignore it.

The class does not want their campaign to be something that is desensitized or forgettable—they want it to have a meaning and impact the entire campus.

“The older generation is more conservative,” Keyler said. “We need to be blunt about it—no ‘behind closed doors.’

“Personally, I think it’s something that needs to be talked about.”

During a campaign brain-

storming session, the class looked for different ways to bring the breast cancer issue close to home and show students that they need to take action now.

Gray said students would see the effects when comparing the campaign to their peers.

For instance, within just one of the sorority houses on campus, there could be 13 women affected by breast cancer before the time they are forty, statistically speaking, she said.

“We have to create a mirror as a real-life situation that our group is involved in,” Kanis said. “It could be upsetting or offensive, but we need to be edgier with our campaign to show how breast cancer is hitting women younger and younger.”

Kanis said the class hopes have their campaign ready to hit campus sometime in November.

He encourages all Butler students to support the group.

Everybody do your share: The canoe group gets ready to launch off the river bank to start their part of the cleanup. Students cleared trash from the river and its banks on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Kari Maxwell)

White River cleanup fun for students, good for environment by sarah holcombe

sholcomb@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Last Saturday, a group of about 30 Butler University students hit the White River and its shores to clean it up.

The White Rive Cleanup is a service project put on by the Center for Urban Ecology (CUE) and takes place once per year.

Butler has adopted a 1.5 mile stretch of the White River through the Hoosier River Watch Adopt-aRiver program.

Sophomore Dan French particpated in the cleanup for his seond year.

“This year, when I arrived, I found out I was in the canoes,” French said. “We all met at the Rocky Ripple Town Center, and they already had all the canoes and everything organized.”

There were two groups at the cleanup. One group was in canoes and the other group was walking along the the toe path and river bank.

French said that as a freshman he was in the group that was on foot along the banks.

He said both experiences were fun, but very different.

“At one point we found a steering helm, like for a boat.,” he said.

In addition to the steering helm, French’s canoe found a 30 foot rope, headlights from a car, big black plastic tubs that would be used for landscaping ponds, metal

a tire,” Ramsey said. “There was one canoe beside us that had a bunch a big stuff, but mostly we found a lot of beer cans, cigarette cases and plastic bags and cups.”

She said she believes that for the most part, Butler is doing a good job of keeping the river clean.

“I’m glad I participated. I think I would do it again,” Ramsey said. “I think it’s a fun thing and it’s a good way to get involved with the sEnvironmental Concerns Organization and CUE because you get to know people and meet people.”

French said he too would participate in the White River Cleanup again.

Dan French “It was a lot of fun,” SOPHOMORE he said. “You’re helping clean up your area and sheeting that had fallen from you’re getting stuff out of a roof, car parts, bottles and the river that doesn’t need to cans. be there.”

Sophomore Tabatha “If you’re looking for Ramsey also participated in something that’s not a conthe White River Cleanup for tinuous project, but you her second time. want to put service on your She too was in a canoe résumé, or you just want to and said she witnessed a lot help out, it’s a good way to of interesting items being do it,” French said. “It’s realcollected during the cleanup. ly a lot of fun, and it’s a good “[In my canoe] we found way to meet new people.”

You’re helping clean up your area. You’re getting stuff out of the river that doesn’t need to be there.

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Butler Bowl changes funded through donations

by Allyson dobberteen adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

Less than a year ago, the Butler Bowl was a source of embarrassment for the Bulldogs.

The Bowl is now a source of pride after recent renovations to the press box and grand stands.

“We want our athletes, our alumni and friends to have pride in how we present ourselves,” Butler University President Bobby Fong said. “Given the condition of the original bowl, it wasn’t a source of pride.”

Fong said that when he came to Butler 2001, the stadium was just the remnants of what had been built in 1928.

“There was a bank of empty stands that nobody could sit on because the concrete had deteriorated to the point where it was dangerous,” he said.

Fong said the project was funded largely through the ButlerRising campaign, which was a campaign to improve Butler’s human capital through receiving monetary donations.

“We were able to collect money for the turf field as part of our campaign,” he said. “Then as part of our public phase we were able to accumulate additional money that took care of the stands and paid for what was meant to be a much more modest press box.”

The project cost $2.5 million with roughly $1.2 million coming from the campaign.

The rest of the money came out

a box to be proud of: A new press box was one of the renovations made to The Butler Bowl. The completed project will be done by this Saturday’s home football game where the Butler Bulldogs will face off against the Taylor Trojans. (Photo by Rachel Senn) of the athletic’s fund.

The landscaping that went along with the construction was a separate project, Mike Gardner, Vice President of Operations, said.

It was funded through the university’s operating budget.

“The decision was made to use additional contributions from the athletic revenues to expand the project, and that’s what you see today,” Fong said.

He said to raise the money, the school targeted people who might have an “intersection” with the project.

“Part of what we do in fundraising is try to talk about the university and ask individual donors where their own interests lie in terms of leaving a legacy,” he said. “As in all campaigns, we try to put out projects that are important to the university and that may draw people

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Writer-in-Residence by aja cacun

acacun@butler.edu | staff writer

This year, Butler’s Creative Writing Master’s of Fine Arts (MFA) Program will have its own Writer-inResidence, Michael Dahlie.

Dahlie will be working closely with graduate students, teaching two writing workshops for MFA students as well as a craft class and senior capstone in the sping.

Dahlie said the transition from being a full-time writer to being in an academic environment has always been something he has wanted to do.

“Teaching has always been the long-term plan for me,” Dahlie said.

Andy Levy, Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing, played a major role in the selection process.

“We advertised it nationally and we tried to get the best writer,” he said. “We decided what we wanted was an emerging writer, someone whose first book or second book had been published.”

Levy said they loved Dahlie’s writing because it really stood out.

Dahlie has written one novel, 2008’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living, for which he received the distinguished PEN Hemmingway Award.

The recipient of the award is chosen by a panel of three distinguished fiction writers and is given to one new author yearly.

The hope is that Dahlie will bring something new and unique to the MFA program.

“Dahlie is different from the full-time faculty [the students] already gotten to know, [he is] someone whose career is going in a different trajectory,” Levy said.

In addition to working with the MFA program, Dahlie will also be working with Butler undergraduates.

“Most of his responsibilities are in the MFA program,” Levy said. “He’s supposed to teach prose workshops, read and advise on Masters ___see writer-in-residence page 4

with a personal interest.”

Craig Hardee, the construction manager for the project, said the stadium will be complete in time for the first home football game on Saturday.

Hardee said the renovations were a little rough going at first.

“For a project with this type and amount of masonry, it has been completed in rapid fashion taking into account the considerable

weather delays in the beginning,” he said. “We had 49 rain days in April, May and June.

“Then we had 57 days over 90 degrees this summer.”

Hardee said that the renovations have been needed for years.

He said the end product makes for a very comprehensive design.

“It is a building befitting of its location, being both responsive and supporting of Hinkle and respecting its architectural history,” he said.

The stadium is also befitting of something else.

“It seems like we needed a stadium that would live up to the increasing competitiveness of our sports teams, and I think we’ve reached that point,” Fong said. “I know the football and soccer teams are very excited about what’s been done.

“It’s a better experience for them as student athletes.”

Hardee believes it will help in the recruiting process as well.

“For athletics, it will be a great recruiting tool as well as be a wonderful home stadium for football and soccer games,” he said.

Claire Milam, a sophomore on the Butler women’s soccer team, said that the improved stadium definitely helps to bring pride to Butler athletics.

“The stadium does make me feel proud to be a Butler athlete,” she said. “When we have other teams come to our home field, we’re excited that we have such a wonderful facility to play on.”

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In case you missed some of the major things happening outside of campus, here are this week’s headlines and stories in a nutshell.

1) Student loan debt exceeds credit card debt in America. Loans for students attending for-profit universities and colleges most likely account for more than half of the $850 billion in student debt.

2) BP resumes drilling. The relief well will seal the well that spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. CEO Bob Dudley says he expects less than $20 billion in payouts.

3) Lady Gaga wins big. Lady Gaga walked away with eight moonmen at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, including the prestigious “Video of the Year” award.

4) Wage gaps between men and women are shrinking. The recession has caused the salary differences between female and male employees to close up. The salary difference is down almost 6 percent, the smallest in history.

5) The mosque controversy continues. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says that the site where an Islamic community center is nothing near ‘hallowed ground’ in wake of protests in New York City from both sides of the argument. written and Compiled by Jill mccarter

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Students fight for a cause

Water balloon fight on mall benefits Butler University Dance Marathon by amber sapp

asapp@butler.edu | staff writer

And the fight begins: Between 80 and 100 students participated in the water balloon fight to benefit Riley Hospital. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

Brightly colored water balloons sailed through the air and shrieks echoed on the mall as participants were drenched with water.

Friday, marked the first water balloon fight which founders hope could become an annual tradition.

Freshman Brian Howard said the idea evolved after receiving a bag of water balloons as gag gift from his girlfriend.

“It was just going to be me and a small group of guys having a water balloon fight,” Howard said. “We threw the idea around with some guys in the Delta Tau Delta house and they said that a bunch of them would want to do it.”

What started as an idea between a group of college students became a Facebook event with almost 300 people planning to attend, and later it became a way to help with a cause.

Howard and fellow freshman Will Butler decided to organize the fight in conjunction with the Butler University Dance Marathon (BUDM) to raise money for The Riley Children’s Hospital.

“The idea didn’t really come about until two nights beforehand,” Howard said. “We thought at first it was just going to be fun, but then we saw how many people had responded to the Facebook page and we were like, ‘let’s do this for a good cause.’”

After talking to sophomore Scott Schmelzer, head of recruitment for BUDM, they decided to collaborate by asking each student to bring $1 which would be donated to the charity.

Even as first year students, Butler and Howard found it easy to become involved on campus early in the school year.

Butler said he chose to help with BUDM after attending the call-out meeting.

“I have always been interested in helping kids and dance marathon just seemed like a good way to raise money for kids,” Butler said. “I liked the idea and the fundraising and just kind of went with it.”

Butler then encouraged Howard to get involved with BUDM. Howard and Butler both said the planning for the event was simple.

“We had shoeboxes with holes cut out to collect money,” Butler said. “We just set it next to the balloons and asked that people donate at least a dollar.”

Howard and Butler provided 1,000 balloons for the fight and asked people to bring some additional balloons if possible.

The afternoon of the water balloon fight, students started gathering on the mall 30 minutes before it was scheduled to begin.

During that time, some students signed up to become dancers for BUDM and others walked around soliciting donations.

Butler said the event raised $120 and between 80 and 100 students attended.

“The water balloon fight will be coming back,” he said.

“We would like to make it a tradition the weekend after Labor Day.” Next year, Butler said his goal will be to have 300 students in attendance.

Butler said the group is looking into organizing a snowball fight and sledding on the mall to continue to raise money for The Riley Children’s Hospital.

‘Whiskers and Paws’ to help Humane Society cause by jill mccarter

jmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

As Indianapolis Humane Societies (IHS) fill up, students on campus are looking for ways to help out.

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) of Butler University is joining forces with the IHS to help raise money to pay for costly medical expenses the many dogs and cats have racked up, sophomore and vice president of community service Amy Gaisser said.

“It’s important to get involved in something in your own community,” Gaisser said.

“The animals can’t help themselves.”

After making a trip to the IHS, Gaisser said the NSCS decided it would be one of the group’s philanthropy projects.

IHS is able to hold 300 animals, but more than 550 cats and dogs are currently at the shelter.

This means some animals are at risk of being euthanized.

However, the threat of euthanasia isn’t

the only thing working against these animals. A lot of the animals suffer from health problems that range in severity.

“Some of them are suffering from things like eye problems, while others are bigger problems like heartworm,” Gaisser said.

In order to help out IHS, 1,000 T-shirts were donated to the Butler chapter of NSCS to sell this week at Starbucks.

Since the shirts were donated, Gaisser said all of the profits will go straight to the IHS shelters around town.

“Right now we’re hoping to sell all of the shirts for $5 each,” Gaisser said. “That will give the humane society $5,000 that they did not have before, and that can get a lot done.”

Shirts will be on sale through tomorrow on the Starbucks patio. They are $5 and come in three different colors.

For students wishing to help, but unable to purchase the IHS T-shirt, Gaisser said the IHS is also looking for volunteers to walk, clean and feed the shelter animals.

HUMANE SOCIETY OVERCROWDING: Members of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars are working to help with the overcrowding problem at the Indianapolis Humane Society. (Photo courtesy of Amy Gaisser)

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“Moments in time”: Adjunct professor of music Gary Walters released his first solo album, “Moments in Time.”

Walters will be performing in this year’s Faculty Artist Series on Oct. 5. at 7:30 p.m. (Photo courtesy of Gary Walters) by jill mccarter

jmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

You can now find a Butler University faculty member’s work among the likes of Lady Gaga and Eminem in the iTunes store.

Adjunct professor of music and jazz pianist Gary Walters released his first album, “Moments in Time” earlier this year.

Walters, who has also been performing professionally since the age of 15, has recorded with other artists, but “Moments in Time” will be Walters’ first solo album.

“There’s a certain level of freedom when you record a solo album,” Walters said.

“You can do your work the way you’d like to.”

Walters said recording his first solo album was more practical than recording a collaborative project.

“If I just record myself playing the piano, I obviously don’t have to hire others to work with me and to some

degree, that’s very practical,” Walters said.

While recording the album, Walters used a different kind of approach in the studio.

“I wanted to have the energy of a live show,” he said.

“There’s a certain type of energy that you can only get in live music.”

To preserve this “feel,” Walters said he played hourlong sets and just recorded it all. He would take a break then play another set.

“Some songs, it would take three or four takes, while other songs were done in one take,” Walters said.

Walters said that he is unsure about what the world can expect to see from him in the future, but he hopes that it is only good.

“I think if I make another CD, I would like to see more collaborations on it,” Walters said. “I really enjoy working with other artists.”

A “huge fan of all music”,

Walters said that one of his favorite artists is Herbie Hancock.

“He really brought a lot to the world of jazz,” Walters said.

Walters earned his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Ball State University and then went on to earn his Masters in Music in Composition from Butler.

Walters said he is proud of his final project, which can be purchased on iTunes, at Indy CD and Vinyl or online at cdbaby.com.

“Of course, you don’t have to go any of those places,” Walters said. “I’m always willing to sell out of the office to anyone who would like it.”

Walters will be performing at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall as part of the Faculty Artist Series on Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. The event is free to the public.

He will also be performing at the Jazz Kitchen on College Ave. on Oct. 23.

“Studies have shown that students who do internships often have a higher salary offer than those that don’t have career related experience,” Beaulieu said.

Internships, he said, are a great launchingpoint into the real world job market. They allow students to take the abstract concepts learned in class and actually apply them.

For many students, note cards and handouts don’t provide enough insight to truly learn the material.

Internships often teach students what professors cannot.

“It’s a time to practice a career on for size and decide if this career is for them or not,” Beaulieu said.

Now, more internship programs allow students like Giacomantonio to truly engage in work alongside professionals, instead of running mundane errands like getting coffee.

“I loved every second of it,” Giacomantonio said.

“The people I worked with were great.

They gave me a lot of freedom to do actually what the agents do. I didn’t just copy papers

or anything like that.”

Many employers help interns to network and get the most out of their internship experience.

“I got great experience and I had great bosses that would allow me to work on other things while I was out there,” Giacomantonio said. “They encouraged me to go out and meet people and work with different agencies on cases.”

No matter what the area of study, the Butler University Office of Internship and Career Services makes it clear that every student should do at least one internship before graduating.

“To set themselves up for success, students should do at least one experience,” Beaulieu said. ”If one is required to graduate, then I would recommend doing two experiences.

The economy is really tough and the more experience a student has, the better off they will be.”

Giacomantonio said he will return to San Francisco next summer to finish his internship with the EPA. He said he also hopes to continue working there after he graduates.

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theses and just generally bring a fresh perspective.”

Part of that fresh perspective stems from the years Dahlie spent living in New York City. He said he is excited to bring the knowlege and connections he obtained in the city here to Butler.

“We’re going to do a publishing panel this fall,” Dahlie said.

“We’ll bring in an agent and an editor from a press and literary journal, and they’ll talk about their experiences and what happens when a manuscript arrives on their desk.”

Dahlie said these publishing panels will be fiercely

beneficial in the long-run because they give students a taste of the real world, while

academic setting is that students can really focus on making their writing better,” Dahlie said. “But that being said, it’s also important for them to see what happens in the publishing world. The most important thing that it does is demystify the process.”

Levy too said he is extremely excited for all the possibilities the publishing panels could potentially bring about.

“It will help, “make [the students] more confident that they can Michael Dahlie take their career in more Writer-in-Residence ambitious directions,” Levy said. “I’m very happy we’re doing this and Michael is going to be still maintaining all the cominstrumental in making that forts of the classroom. happen.”

“The nice thing about an

It’s important for [students] to see what happens in the publishing world.

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: The controversial “I love boobies” bracelets should be allowed in schools | VOTE: 21-0 “I love boobies.” What is so wrong with that?

Many schools across the country are banning breast cancer awareness bracelets with the phrase, “I love boobies,” after being deemed inappropriate by school officials.

We at The Butler Collegian believe that students should be allowed to wear these bracelets with pride and without contest.

According to a Sept. 1 article in USA Today, the bracelets, created by Keep A Breast Foundation (KAB) out of Carlsbad, Calif., have been banned in at least five states.

While some schools banned the bracelets completely, some still allow students to wear the bracelets inside out, defeating the message.

But this message is too important for this kind of treatment. Breast cancer is a serious disease that wreaks serious havoc on women and their families. We are not just impressed that students are spreading awareness amongst their peers, we are amazed.

In a generation that thinks itself invincible, we are proud to see students, as young as middle

school, stepping up and spreading the word to their friends and classmates about a cause that has been close to many of them.

This is a cause that can hit home, even at a young age.

According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), “The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is a little less than 1 in 8.”

The ACS has also found that the chance a breast cancer patient will be alive five years after diagnosis is lower in women under 40.

With such staggering statistics, we think that it is good that someone is targeting a younger generation, which is the goal of KAB. Students are spreading positive awareness, so why would it matter how it is spelled out on a bracelet?

Not only do the “boobie” bracelets ignite awareness, they spark conversation, which is exactly their purpose.

In the USA Today article, KAB founder Shaney Jo Darden said, “That’s the whole idea, it’s getting people to talk about breast cancer, it’s getting peo-

We are not just impressed that students are spreading awareness amongst their peers, we are amazed.

ple to share their feelings about how this disease has impacted their life,” she says. “The bracelet is doing what it’s meant to do — it’s making people talk.”

By not allowing some students to wear bracelets to support the cause, the schools are impeding the student’s right to free speech.

In Tinker v. Des Moines, a case in the 1970s where students protested the Vietnam War by wearing black arm bands to school, the Supreme Court sided with freedom of expression, letting students where the arm bands. That same standard should apply to students today and the “I love boobies” bracelets.

The case states, “In wearing armbands, the petitioners were quiet and passive. They were not disruptive and did not infringe upon the rights of others.”

Though we are sure schools would recognize the fact that these bracelets are used for a good cause, they are clearly not disruptive.

These kids are teenagers; they have heard the word “boobie” before.

And they are acting advocates for their community. Their devotion is something we should applaud.

Let the students have the freedom they deserve.

If students are mature enough to spread awareness and support a cure for breast cancer, they are ready to wear an “I love boobies” bracelet.

Burning controversy cools down

by LEXIE SMITH

tention of the American public and give his small, idiotic sect of ‘IslamaFlorida pastor Terry phobes’ their 15 minutes of fame.

Jones, a senior pastor Jones claimed that he would call for the Dove World off his Quran burning only if the Outreach Center, ad- “ground zero Mosque” relocated. vocated burning the The main focus is the fact that a Quran on the anniver- Florida extremist thought he could get away sary of the Sept. with burn11 terrorist ating a relitacks this past gious text, Saturday. but it is also “After imabout how mense pressure little we rethe Florida pasally know tor backtracked about the and called off Islam and the burning afhow we reter several ofact when ficials, includwe hear ing President anything Obama urged associated him to do so,” with it.

Aliyah Shahid New York Daily I could New York Daily News staff writer News writer not believe Aliyah Shahid the nerve of reported. these people Although I am thankful that Jones to set up a mosque at the location called off the burning, I wonder why where our country suffered an unanyone would consider this proposi- speakable loss. I will admit, when I tion an acceptable way to commemo- heard that there was a mosque near rate the loss of our citizens on Sept. ground zero, I was livid.

11.

However, if one were to read furWhat is even more shocking to me ther, they would see that this mosque than the acceptance of such religious is not as bad as it may seem. This intolerance is how Jones was able to mosque is not a mosque at all: it is steal the country’s attention. a community center that contains a Jones only made his claim about worship space. burning the Quran to capture the at“Earlier this year, an organization lhsmith@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

After immense pressure the Florida pastor backtracked and called off the burning

called the Cordoba Initiative was granted permission by the appropriate authorities in New York City to turn an old Burlington Coat Factory at 51 Park Place in lower Manhattan into a community center,” Huffington Post writer Jason Linkins said.

This community center is headed

by Feisal Abdul Rauf, who has devoted his life to oppose groups such as al-Qaida.

He also works to teach children to be tolerant of other cultures and religions.

“The proposed community center was to include a basketball court and space for different religious communities in New York City to have interfaith relations,” Linkins said.

So, this “ground zero mosque” turns out to not even be located on the actual ground zero site, but two blocks away. It turns out it wasn’t a mosque at all.

Reading that, I felt foolish for allowing myself to be so overcome by anger.

However, one has to take into account that a large amount of the American public will not go to that extra length to discover the truth behind a shocking news brief.

When Jones’ plans to burn the Quran were spilled, the American public, including the media, began begging and pleading with Jones to call off the burning. Even President Obama urged Jones to cancel his book burning.

Why did the American public al-

low themselves to be so overtaken by one man’s radical plans? After all the exposure that Jones and his church have received, their organization will be talked about for years to come: a mission they intended to accomplish by the proposed book burning.

Our fear is what gave Jones’ book burning scare so much legitimacy.

Jones announced he would call off his Quran burning only if Rauf relocated the site of his community center.

Subsequently, the American public began begging Jones not to burn the Quran.

Every media station was overtaken by the crippling fear that this man was going to burn the religious text of Islam.

However, if the American public had ignored Jones’ unimportant and irrational claims, the Quran still would not have been burned and Jones and his church would not have lived rent-free in our heads for the past few days.

Although I’m thankful that we dodged a very provocative and dangerous bullet with the burning of the Quran, we unfortunately gave Jones a platform to showcase his propaganda and forced the media to bend to his will, no matter how ridiculous.

Jones successfully embarrassed the American media by hijacking news coverage for a week and using scare tactics to inspire even our highest official to ask him to call off his display of immaturity.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Overcrowded pet shelters need your help

BY TARA DOERZBACHER

tdoerzba@butler.edu | opinion editor

NEVER FORGET: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, service men raise a torn flag at a ceremony in New York City. It serves as a reminder of the brave heroes and innocent victims whose sacrificed their lives—something that should never be forgotten. (Photo from MCT)

Always remember 9/11

BY JACQUELINE CROMLEIGH jcromlei@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

On Sept. 11, 2001 our nation was put at a stand still and stood on edge. It is a day I will never forget and, even nine years later, it is one day we should never let slip from our

memory.

Driving in the car with my sorority sisters this past Saturday morning, I knew I could not.

Our moods were solemn as we talked about how almost a decade ago we experienced terrorist attacks that changed the lives of everyone in our country.

Our stories quiet filled the car as we discussed our remembrances of that horrific morning. We shared stories of families, friends and our own experiences.

I remember mine vividly: I was a fifth grade student at Wyandot Run Elementary School in Powell, Ohio. As we were sitting in class, waiting for recess, a mother of a student in our class came in.

She told us that our nation was under attack, scaring the entire class of fifth graders.

We were shocked.

Our teacher turned on the news while we just sat wondering what was happening.

Before we knew it, we were rushed out to recess, still unable to understand what had taken place.

As we sat outside on the jungle gym, mind filled with thoughts of my uncle’s our fifth grade minds searched for an- plane landing safely in Cincinnati and swers to questions that had none. my aunt who was a flight attendant at How could someone do this? How the time. It reminded me of the fear I felt could this happen? Were we safe? that day.

Those questions surrounded us, and I I know I will never forget those stostill ask them to this day. ries. How could I? How could anyone?

That day the end of school was difI have begun to realize that maybe ferent. Instead of riding the bus home, our generation was too young to really my dad was there to pick up my broth- understand what was happening. ers and I. We swarmed him with our As we sat there, sheltered in our questions. schools, we did not realize what that When I got home from school, I re- day really meant. member sitting down, and seeing tears But now we should. in my parents’ eyes as they explained to “We owe them remembrance,” fortheir innocent children what had hap- mer President Bush said on Sept. 11, pened.

2002.

When I heard And we do owe the truth, my them that. We owe 10-year-old conremembrance to cept of safety was those who died for sent into a tailspin. us. We owe those The bubble I had heroes. around my life George W. Bush We need to realstarted to burst.

43rd PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ize that by rememMy dad continbering Sept. 11, we ued to explain: bad are remembering men, planes, death. them.

They are simple words with comI will never forget those people who plex meaning, and it was so much for a died going to work that day or those young girl to wrap her head around. who risked their lives to save so many.

It was even more for my 8-year-old I will never forget the footage of New brother who quietly asked if we were York City that morning. safe.

And even though I was young, I My dad said he would keep us safe, will never forget the tears I saw in my and that was all we knew. father’s eyes as he explained what had Riding in the car last Saturday it be- happened. came silent long enough for me to think I will never forget because those are about that day again. This time my the same tears I am shedding now.

We owe them remembrance.

The Humane Society of Indianapolis and other close affiliates are experiencing increased overcrowding of homeless animals in their facilities.

In light of this, Butler should actively give back to our community organizations that help our four-legged friends.

“We are actually budgeted for 300 animals and we have 550 in the system right now,” Christine Jeschke, director of shelter operations at the Indianapolis location, said.

According to Indy.com, the Noblesville location is overcrowded by nearly 100 pets.

The overcrowding is due to our struggling economy. In an article from the Indianapolis Star, Jeschke explains this. “[People} are downsizing into smaller [living spaces] that don’t have yards and are moving into apartment complexes where they can’t take their pets,” she said. “They literally have no choice but to turn their animal in to a shelter.”

Some people just can’t afford to feed their pets anymore.

In any case, people’s lives have been turned upside down by the economy. They have to change everything, give up so much, and find their pets a new home in area shelters.

The Humane Society of Indianapolis is just 15 minutes from Butler’s campus, located on Michigan Road. Being a nonprofit, the organization relies heavily on volunteers. They have openings every day of the week, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., so there is a time slot for any schedule.

The Humane Society also relies on foster parents for animals. Fostering lessens the overcrowding in the Humane Society buildings and provides a better environment for animals that need close care.

If you don’t have the time to volunteer or room to foster a pet, consider donating a percentage of your income to the Humane Society.

The Humane Society puts $600 into each animal that they take care of. With so many overcrowded facilities it becomes increasingly expensive for organizations to house pets, but it costs under $150 to adopt a pet.

Instead of continually breeding animals, people should be looking to help those that already need a home.

This past May I chose to adopt my dog Willow, from a rescue organization called P.A.W.S. Similar to the Human Society, P.A.W.S. is a great organization that helps animals find a home and people find their best friend.

Want to get class credit for helping out? Butler offers a physical fitness course called “Walking, Wagging and Wellness”. In this class you go to the Humane Society twice a week and spend time with the animals as well as help the people that work there.

“The other day we helped clean the cages and did laundry to take time off the hands of the employees,” senior Stephanie Tutterow said. “The number of animals is always fluctuating and they always seem stressed out about it.”

This is a serious problem around the county that needs to be identified and accepted. The treatment of or pets is a reflection on our society and we are currently overlooking this facet.

With our community involvement, the Humane Society’s overcrowding could be drastically lessened, if not eliminated completely.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Collegian informative the “bubble”

inside

It seems that people only write letters to the editor to complain or criticize. That changes now.

I was disturbed and taken aback while reading last week’s issue to find a letter to the editor criticizing the content of this publication for writing shallow articles, insignificant to anyone outside of “The Butler Bubble” and detrimental to the mind set of the incoming freshmen class. I must respectfully disagree with said remark.

Granted The Butler Collegian is not my first option as a news source and perhaps I skip articles about sports or Greek culture; but, that is my option as a reader. I do not think it is the responsibility of The Butler Collegian to inform me of anything but Butler simply because my tastes for media exceed “The Butler Bubble.”

Where else is a commuter to learn about campus parking? Surely, USA Today will not be informing me and surely, it is not the least of my concerns (as I enjoy not paying parking tickets).

It seems to me that rather than The But-

ler Collegian trying to cater to all the various tastes of a diverse campus, we as individuals of the Indianapolis community should take the responsibility upon ourselves to “think about the world around us.”

Let’s teach the freshman class that when they pick up The Butler Collegian their global awareness does not stop there. We have access to the Indianapolis Star, USA Today, The New York Times, NUVO, as well as access to magazine subscriptions through Irwin Library. It isn’t as though the Butler campus doesn’t acknowledge the world outside of our bubble; it just doesn’t need to make front page news on our university’s publication.

It also strikes me that perhaps someone isn’t reading their newspaper in its entirety as I recall almost writing a previous letter of praise concerning the first issue, as it most certainly did contain a compelling article regarding “the proposed Muslim center near Ground Zero.” Mary Beth Sekela, a favorite Collegian journalist I’ve been following for over a year now, tackled such critical thinking and global awareness in “Freedom greater than pride, anger at Ground Zero.”

In short, I defend The Butler Collegian for its focused Butler news with a mere sprin-

PawPrints

BY ERIN DRENNAN

“My favorite place on the weekends is probably my house. ” James Caleca Freshman

kling of “pressing” issues. I believe the staff performs both competently and adequately within the realm of a student newspaper.

Quite frankly, if The Butler Collegian began to resemble those other newspapers I pick up I wouldn’t need to pick it up. Kudos for delivering me Butler University’s news!

Danielle E.R. Valenilla Senior

Greek system divides students Let it be known that this is not a letter written out of bitterness from a wannabeGreek student. This is written to finally provide a legitimate, objective criticism of the social Greek system at Butler. Note the use of the word system; this is not a letter to criticize people within the system.

The Greek system is exclusive. Period.

Only so many students can be in each house, and only certain students can be in each house. Exclusivity destroys unity and creates divisions.

The Greek system also constructs artificial friends and foes. While genuine relationships can be made within Greek organizations, the

system set up the structure for these relationships.

The structure of the Greek system, by way of exclusive houses and continual competitions, establishes an environment where rivalries thrive. As much of campus life revolves around the social Greek system and most of Butler’s student body is not Greek, Butler is divided.

The social Greek system is Butler’s most negative aspect. Butler’s student body would be much better off—united and active—if the social Greek system did not exist.

Yes, the Greek system does great philanthropic work, gives students many activities in which to be involved, and is an effective social network. But at what cost? What sort of system supports these things? A system built on judgment, artificial social constructs, and exclusivity.

Philanthropic work, campus activities, and social networking can exist without the Greek system. Butler could have a happier, healthier student body without the social Greek system.

Concerned Student Junior

What is your favorite hang out on the weekends?

“In my dorm room, because the dorms here are pretty big and cozy.”

Kelly Borter Freshman

“I spend a lot of my time on the weekends at the baseball house.”

Scott Sutton Freshman

“I go home a lot on the weekends, so I’d say my house.”

Jasmine Lancaster Sophomore

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JCFA dancers star in new ‘Glee’ commercial Butler flash mob takes over Monument Circle to film new advertisement by megan schipp

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

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utler University’s dance program proved “we can dance if we want to” in a flash mob performance at the State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in downtown Indianapolis last Thursday.

The routine was part of a promotional video shot

by Fox 59 for the season premiere of their hit musical-drama “Glee,” which has quickly chassèd up the charts since its appearance in 2009.

“A producer at Fox contacted me with the idea and I thought it would be ideal for the dance department students, particularly to kick off the new school year,” Butler dance professor Cynthia Pratt said.

A flash mob is orchestrated through different forms of media to bring as many people to one spot to congregate or complete an action.

The inspiration for the dance came directly from a “Glee” episode in which the actors jazzed to the 80s hit song “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats during a flash mob in the middle of a mall.

Just like in the “Glee” episode, Butler students received looks of shock and smiles when those around them realized they were caught in the middle of a musical.

The dance started with a small group of dancers dressed in colorful “Glee” T-shirts parading down the steps of the monument, dancing to the song.

As the music played, Jordan College of Fine Arts (JCFA) dance students joined in on the act.

Some were dressed in regular street wear and surprised the person next to them when they jumped into the routine.

safety dance: Jordan College of Fine Arts students had no idea they were going to be front of center in a “Glee” commercial at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. The flash mob was secretive enough to fool Butler students outside the school of dance. The dance may be shown on Sept. 21 at 8:00 p.m. during the ‘Glee’ premiere. (Photo courtesy of Brent Smith) By the end of the three minute musical presentation, the at-first small group of 10 dancers became a group of 80, and the looks of surprise became beaming smiles as hands clapped and voices hollered for the Butler dancers who were cleverly blending their way back into the lunch crowd.

“No one had any idea that we were going to start dancing,” junior dance major and flash mob participant Emily Tashjian said. “We had no rehearsals at the location and there was no information sent to the public about anything that was going to happen.

“People may have been suspicious about the news trucks and a few cameras around, but overall everyone had no idea.”

Few Butler University students knew that the event was taking place, either.

“If I would have known Butler was going to do something this cool I would have

taken my lunch downtown to watch it,” junior Chrissy Grubbs said. “Even some of my dancer friends didn’t tell me it was happening.

“There is so much talent in our small school dance department and no one really realizes it, but now the whole city knows.”

The flash mob performance may be new to the JCFA students but this isn’t the first outbreak of “Glee fever.”

In April, a group of around 1,000 people met in Seattle to partake in their own “Glee” flash mob presentation. Like the “spontaneous” one of the Butler students, this had also been planned far in advance according to KING 5 TV. In May the outbreak appeared at Ohio State University where a group of 70 students and workers participated in a dance to “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey to promote the opening of their new student union.

Although few realized it

was happening, information on the event had been sent out to a small group of people only a couple days before.

Like most students you may not have been able to see the act first hand, but there are videos of the Butler University flash mob performance on YouTube and even on the Fox 59 Web site, fox59. com. The video-link can also be found in the Butler Connection.

Pratt said JCFA has no other flash mob performances planned for Butler students.

It is a “one-time thing,” she said. If Fox 59 chooses to show the flash mob footage, familiar faces may be seen Sept. 21 at 8:00 p.m. during the channel’s season premiere of “Glee.”

Whether the recording is used or not, Pratt said she and the rest of the Butler community is proud of the spectacular performance done by the JCFA students.

The Essential Ben Folds Playlist 1. B-----s Ain’t Shit 2. Army 3. Brick 4. Hiroshima 5. Annie Waits

6. Still Fighting It 7. Gracie 8. Jesusland 9. Rockin’ the Suburbs 10. The Luckiest

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1. Caring is Creepy - The Shins 2. Warning Sign - Coldplay 3. First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes 4. On the Radio - Regina Spektor 5. Keep It Together - Guster 6. Just Pretend - The Bens 7. Wheels - Cake 8. In Other Words - Ben Kweller 9. Catch My Disease - Ben Lee 10. I Should Have Known Better - She & Him

Egypt Central to rock Indy’s Emerson Theater Alternative rock band playing downtown show tonight

metal at the emerson: Egypt Central mixes fast paced guitar action with screaming vocals. The group has been together for nine years and has had their tunes in different feature film soundtracks, including the horror flick “The Cave” and the bloody action romp “The Condemned.” They’re here in Indianapolis tonight. (Photo courtesy of New Ocean Media) by ashleigh taylor

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

Celebrating their ninth anniversary as a band in October, the members of Egypt Central are on a roll, making a stop in the Circle City to provide fast guitar riffs and deep vocals.

The alternative rock band plays the Emerson Theater tonight at 6:30 p.m. (4630 E. 10th St.) with Non-

point. Tickets are $20, and it is an all ages show.

Egypt Central formed when members Heath Hindman and John Falls were looking to put a band together and found Blake Allison and Joey Chicago.

At the time, Allison and Chicago were playing in bands in Memphis, Tenn.

“We would practice in an old school building. Now it’s broke

down,” Chicago said.

With Falls on vocals, Allison on drums, Chicago on bass and Hindman on guitar and back-up vocals, it wasn’t much longer until the members of Egypt Central saw the results of their hard work.

“Within eight months, after eight shows, we ended up getting a [record] deal,” Chicago said.

Emerson Central employs a solid beat, reminiscent of steady rock and

roll. The drums and bass sound similar to REO Speedwagon, while the vocals and overtones have a death metal influence.

The band caught the attention of former Lava Records CEO Jason Flom.

After listening to their demo and seeing Egypt Central perform live, Flom signed the band.

Their debut album was recorded with producer Josh Abraham in Los

Angeles.

Since then, Egypt Central’s music has appeared in several movies.

Their song “Taking You Down” can be found on the soundtrack of “The Cave” and the song “Over and Under” was featured on the soundtrack for the movie “The Condemned.”

Chicago said Egypt Central has developed a message for its fans: “Continue to fight and be determined by what you believe in, life throws different curves at you all the time.”

The members of Egypt Central enjoy seeing their music come full circle, as well as seeing how their fans react. “[We like] The completion of everything,” Chicago said, “the energy that I get out of the fans. We want you to be satisfied.”

The band will begin recording a new album in Nashville on Oct. 11, with an expected release date in early 2011.

If you’re unable to make it to tonight’s show, Egypt Central will be performing in Evansville, Ind., on Sept. 17 at Woody’s West, where ticket prices range from $15 to $18, and the concert is open to people ages 21 and over.

For more updates and news on Egypt Central, you can check out youtube.com/egyptcentraltv.

The site includes personal messages to the fans, footage from their tour, studio footage and a look into what the and is all about.

Chicago said, “We pride ourselves in being energetic and entertaining.”

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Vision for social change at ‘Blind Spots’

by Dan domsic

ddomsic@butler.edu / a&e editor

The audience slowly files into a black box in Lilly Hall.

People shuffle around other patrons and step over actors sprawled across the floor. Under dim lights, “Blind Spots” is set to challenge viewers’ comfort zone.

“Blind Spots: An Exploration of Empathy and Ensemble” is one part performance, one part social experiment. The show was staged in eight separate segments, with each individual segment focusing on how people perceive themselves, others and their interactions.

The performance is senior Amalia Howard’s project with the Butler Summer Institute. Howard said she has been meeting with her sixperson ensemble since May, working with exercises that introduced each performer and their own personal experiences.

This genre of performance is what Howard calls “theater for social change,” a path Howard said she would like to follow in the future.

“This particular show was inspired by the work me and my ensemble did this summer,” she said.

“We did a lot of exercises from theater for social change; things where

you share personal stories or you do exercises that build you as a group.

“From there we found a lot of themes about identity and perception among people our age.”

Each member of the audience was given a program with two fillin-the-blank statements: “I am...” and “I want...”

After filling in the blanks, each person handed their program back to an usher.

Contemplating all of the silly things I could write, I chose to say “I am a journalist. I want success.”

Howard hoped her prospective theater-goers would take it seriously, which some did.

The programs were redistributed at random. I received someone’s program that read “I am moist. I want a towel.”

Between each act, a plushy soccer ball was thrown around the room and the person who caught it read their two sentences aloud.

Each set of sentences was a small, cathartic experience, punctuating each tense act.

One of the more forlorn statements was “I am an American still hurting from 9/11 and I want peace for our country.”

Howard’s play made a power-

THEATEr FOR CHANGE : Performers of “Blind Spots” challenge comfort zones as they act out experiences of self-doubt in a theatric experiment for social reform. There were eight acts in performance, lasting just over one hour. (Photo courtesy of Amalia Lynn Howard)

ful attempt to understand other people.

Starting off, the tone was set with a dancelike routine performed to “I Will Possess Your Heart” by Death Cab for Cutie, while each member of the ensemble acted out a daily task.

It was quickly followed by a segment called “Close Your Eyes These local spots in Indy have A&E’s stamp of approval—a new place featured each week!

(You Can’t See Details: Indianapolis Museum of Art Me),” in which a 4011 N. Pennsylvania St. Distance from Butler: 25 minute walk, 4 minutes by car Why We Love This Place: Beauty cannot be bound by anything at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. There is more than enough to do at the IMA to keep arts lovers busy for more than a few weekends. The Toby Theater inside the sprawling building plays a variety of films. 100 Acres offers up tons of art and a glorious park to walk through.

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blind woman muses about how she would rather be blind than exposed to human judgment.

Moving down the line to the fifth act, the theme of listening and understanding others is further exemplified.

“Ord: An Exercise in Listening” took only two of Howard’s ensemble members to express an idea.

The situation was simple: a man who does not speak English is explaining something no one in the audience could truly know and he eventually gets on a bus or a train.

When a woman who only speaks English sits next to him, the man is forced to listen and not talk, sneaking stymied expressions at the audience.

Slowly, it becomes evident that sometimes all a person needs is somebody there to listen.

With each act, the intensity level moved up and down on the comfort scale.

Nearing the end of the production, each audience member was paired up with another and made to look into each other’s eyes.

Some of the ensemble’s actions verged on physically violent or disturbing. There are a lot of extreme movements in “Blind Spots.” It could be a little unsettling, to the point that it was bothersome.

But the extremes of the production were polarized by Howard’s themes, which shined brightly for social change.

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VMAs signal change in pop by ann powers MCT

Here’s a prediction, inspired by the annual festival of hype and cheap humor known as the MTV Video Music Awards: In 2011, pop will take a major turn toward the pursuit of depth.

The high and low points of Sunday’s chapter in VMA history indicated that pop’s top artists are sobering up from the long party the past decade represented, when exhibitionism and forced frivolousness served an innovative but unabashedly bling-oriented pop scene.

The official ceremony opened with Eminem and Rihanna performing their smash “Love the Way You Lie,“ a perfect example of how pop can tackle important subjects (domestic violence, in this case) and still be commercially viable.

The show’s runaway winner, Lady Gaga, used her time at the microphone to promote her favorite political cause, gay rights. Only another year of music unfolding will show whether the mist of maturity wafting through the Nokia Theatre is a sign that pop is heading into a period when artists seek to make big statements within songs that will endure—and if this pendulum swing will produce the same amount of truly fun, sonically risky music that this crowd has given us in its early days.

The past decade has been a great one for proving that pop’s lighter side can have depth and meaning, too.

Contrary to what some naysayers declare, the mainstream has offered real innovation, along with plenty of pleasure.

Was that it?: Actors Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek shine despite a poor ending in “Get Low”—a film based off the true story of Felix “Bush” Breazeale’s pre-death funeral party. (Photos courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Funeral is death of “Get Low”

by Arika Herron

acherron@butler.edu | editor in chief

Go GO GAgA: Lady Gaga, a top winner at the 2010 VMAs on Sept.

12, performs here at the 2010 Grammys in January. (Photo from MCT) Women have gained important ground. Producers like RedOne, Gaga’s man from Morocco, and Max Martin’s Scandinavian heirs, have made the scene more international. New technologies have defeated stale guitar-god ideas about what makes music powerful and “real.”

Yet along with these changes has come lip-licking, nervous hedonism that can push earnestness and strong individualism too far to the margins.

Not that pop doesn’t have its share of young visionaries, even during this era of android virtuosity and hit songs immediately turned into jingles for Target.

Nicki Minaj and will.i.am, performing in polyethylene costumes during the VMAs pre-show program showed how what most considered too weird when Grace Jones first stalked the stage is now the starting block for musical adventurers.

Jones hasn’t always been charitable about her obvious inheritor, Lady Gaga, but the younger diva’s VMAs sweep should give her doubters a chance to admit that she is

not just a passing fancy.

Gaga’s rise has been exciting, in part, because she keeps maturing as an artist.

She’s learned to use her outlandish costumes to express herself rather than just be owned by them. Her music has improved and her willingness to speak out as a champion of gay rights, and non-traditional lifestyles, in general places her within a real community, not just a marketing plan.

Gaga made a strong statement by bringing several exmilitary personnel affected by the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy along as her entourage.

While accepting the night’s ultimate prize, Best Video of the Year for “Bad Romance,” the winner of eight trophies sang a few bars of the gay disco anthem “Born This Way,” as a means of announcing the title of her new album.

Just a day after Sept. 11, when tensions surrounding religious intolerance reached a frightening pitch, Gaga’s call for compassion enforced the astounding fact that the moment’s biggest pop star is a bonafide radical.

In the new film “Get Low,” Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) thinks it’s about time that he get low, but not in the way most students are probably imagining.

The film is set in 1938—way before Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys made popular a song by the same name—and at 74 years old, Mr. Bush thinks it’s about time to end his 40-year stint as a recluse and plan his funeral.

There’s just one slight hang up—Bush isn’t dead and he won’t be come time for the funeral. This could be an issue for some funeral directors, but not Frank Quinn (Bill Murray).

Quinn’s business is hurting, people aren’t dying and Bush has money, so the funeral party is born.

There are two things that make this film worth seeing: Duvall’s pitch-perfect performance as Bush and the painstaking care taken in bringing to life this genuine piece of Americana.

Duvall seems more than at home as the disagreeable hermit; the part could have been written for him. He delivers Bush believably whether he’s scaring away the kids who throw rocks through his windows, talking to his beloved mule or asking for forgiveness.

With such a performance, its even more impressive that he doesn’t completely steal the show from Murray as the greedy funeral director with a soft side or the equally wellacted Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek).

When “Get Low” falls short, it isn’t the fault of bad acting or poor execution.

The film is shot beautifully and is unwaveringly true to its time.

The first hour is everything you could want—conflict, humor, unrequited love and mystery. It all builds up to the big event that turns out to not be much of an event at all.

The live-funeral party is true—Felix “Bush” Breazeale threw himself the biggest party Tennessee’s Roane County had ever seen—but the scene does not come across as something that 12,000 people from 14 states would have traveled all that way to attend.

I was disappointed that I traveled 10 minutes to have the movie end that way.

The writers inevitably stray from the original story, as in just about any story based on true events, and I only wonder why they didn’t do more. They had no problem adding plot lines and characters—and doing it well, as Murray’s and Spacek’s characters are fictional—so why not add to the final scene? The entire movie leads up to the funeral where Bush will finally reveal the reason he’s spent 40 years alone in the woods.

He spills his secret but the whole thing comes across so flat that I was left asking, “Is that it?”

While “Get Low” is inevitably drawing a larger crowd than its inspiration, I hope for those people’s sake that the original was more eventful than it’s recreation.

“Get Low” gets three stars for the most promising two-thirds of a movie I’ve seen in a long time and possibly the most anticlimactic end ever.

Get Low | Film Review “Get Low” is well-acted, true to its time and based on an intriguing true story, but the brilliant beginning leads up to a lackluster finish. The sting of disappointment is unavoidable, but rent it to at least save some cash.

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

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Women’s soccer clinches win in OT

by Lance Rinker

lrinker@butler.edu | staff writer

The Butler women’s soccer team heads west this weekend after a week of competition at home.

They will be looking to extend their two-game winning streak that began against Miami (Ohio) earlier this month and continued last Friday against the St. Louis Billikens.

Butler (2-4) captured their second consecutive victory in an overtime win versus the visiting Billikens.

Sophomore Katie Griswold, who recorded a “hat trick” Sept. 3 against Miami, again led the offense of the Bulldogs.

With about three minutes remaining in the first overtime period, Griswold took a pass from sophomore Rachael Melendez and scored the game’s lone goal to secure the win for Butler.

The game’s large amount of physical play was just one factor that the Bulldogs had to deal with Friday.

Bulldog head coach Tari St. John said that her squad did not mind the physicality of the game.

“I think we embraced it,” she said. “We just said, ‘If this is the way the game is going to be called, we will step up and play that way.

We’ll push the limits.’”

The inabiility of freshman Jackie Hafele, who has started three games for the Bulldogs, to take the field was compounded by a Bulldog injury during the game.

Freshman Olivia Colosimo took a hard kick from a Billiken player in the game’s 43rd minute and received treatment at halftime. Despite the injury, she took the field in the second half and played 78 minutes.

Colomiso said that she played through the pain for her teammates.

“We were in this game and really wanted to win,” she said. “I felt like I owed it to my team to put myself out there and to play hard.”

Despite her second half

girls just wanna have wins: The Bulldogs celebrate after sealing their overtime win against St. Louis.

The win has helped turn a four-game losing streak into a two-game winning streak. (Photo by Rachel Senn) return, the decision was made to sit Colosimo during overtime instead of risking further injury, forcing her to watch the decisive extra period from the sidelines.

“It’s always tough watch-

ing your team play,” Colosimo said. “I tried to be as encouraging as possible.”

The Bulldogs utilized five bench players in the first half and four in the second half.

Freshman Ali Backscheider and sophomore Claire Milam got significant minutes for the Bulldogs, recording 81 minutes and 51 minutes respectively.

Sophomore Heather Keiser and freshmen Rachel Sklarski and Molly Allen also played vital roles off of the bench.

St. John stressed the importance of her squad’s mental toughness against the talented and physical Billikens.

“I don’t think that soccer-wise we were the better team,” St. John said. “But our mental toughness and just a pure will to win got us through.

“Coming off of that Miami game, they tasted what it is to win a game. It didn’t matter that they were coming at

us. We were going to find a way to win this game.”

Junior goalkeeper Olivia Walter thwarted all three of St. Louis’ shots on goal and recorded her first shutout of the young season.

The Bulldogs, despite getting off to a slow start with four straight losses, are heating up and have scored six goals in the past two games.

Of those six goals, Griswold has netted four of them.

Melendez contributed the other two goals as well as two assists.

Butler has had this week to improve before they play in Corvallis, Ore. While there, they will participate in the Oregon State Tournament.

The tournament pits the Bulldogs against Pac-10 teams Oregon State (4-0) and Oregon (2-3-2).

They return home to host Oakland (1-4-1) Sept. 24 at 4 p.m.

Two female Bulldogs named Horizon League Athletes of the Week After emerging from her first track season nationally ranked as the fifth-fastest freshman in the mile, the well-rehearsed strides of sophomore Kirsty Legg are starting to pay off.

The Horizon League named Legg the Female Cross Country Athlete of the Week Sept. 6 after finishing the University of Illinois’ 4K Illini Challenge in 14:16.0 and placing first.

“I was very pleased, and I was very surprised to hear I won the award,” Legg said. “My teammates were the ones who told me about it, and they congratulated me.”

Legg’s 14:16.0 performance was only five seconds short of matching the meet record, although it is likely she did not know how well she was doing.

“I try not to think about anything during the race,” Legg said. “I don’t even think about my pace.”

Legg, a native of Middlesbrough, England, was not recruited by any American cross country or track programs until Butler contacted her.

Interesting circumstances allowed Butler to sign Legg without much competition.

“I was ranked sixth in the 1500-meter race in 2008,” Legg said.

“But because I ran a good time late in the season, other universities already had their recruits they wanted.

“Once I had spoken to [assistant coach Darren] Gauson and met him in person, my decision was final to come to Butler.”

Legg said that the decision to attend Butler and transition to living

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Using her head: Butler freshman midfielder Nikki Hafele dribbles around SLU sophomore defender Emily Viviano at the Butler Bowl. Hafele has started all six games for Butler this season. (Photo by Rachel Senn)

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in the United States was not difficult.

“I didn’t see the move as such a big decision because it was a great opportunity that universities in England don’t offer,” she said. “My mom is coming to watch me this summer during the track season, and she keeps up with how I do online.”

But Legg is more than a onewoman team.

“I want us to have a solid team this season, so I don’t think about my time,” she said. “We do a lot of work in practice sessions to train for the race, and we all try to run together to finish in a pack.

“We don’t even worry about what other teams are doing because we want to focus on our performance. If we think about them, it takes away from what we do.”

According to Legg, what the Butler women’s cross country team wants to do this season is win the Horizon League meet and do well enough at regionals to compete at nationals.

“We have a much stronger team this year,” Legg said. “Last year, we were very young, but now we have all gained a little experience. We are even trying to place one through five in a race this year.”

Legg and her teammates have three more events before running at the Horizon League Championships in Chicago Oct. 30.

The first of those three is the Indiana Intercollegiates this Friday at 4:30 p.m. in West Lafayette, Ind. According to Butler head coach Matt Roe, Legg will not run the Intercollegiates event in order to rest and will run the 5K at the Notre Dame Invitational Oct. 1.

by scott schmelzer sschmelz@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Last week, sophomore forward Katie Griswold garnered an award that isn’t often won by Butler women’s soccer players.

On the heels of a 5-2 win over Miami (Ohio) in which Griswold scored the first hat trick of her career, she received honors as the Horizon League soccer player of the week.

All three goals were the first three of her young season, and they couldn’t have come at a better time.

“It felt the best to score the first goal. The goal was my first of the season,” Griswold said. “I felt like it had broken the ice for me.

“The third goal was just really thrilling because it had given me a hat trick. Three goals in one game in college—it doesn’t happen very often, so it was pretty exciting to get one.”

A difficult non-conference schedule left the women’s soccer team’s looking for their first win after going 0-4.

However, they are back on track, due to Griswold’s goal scoring.

“When I first found out [about the award], I was very surprised and excited,” Griswold said. “Both Ric and Tari, my coaches, texted me and told me congratulations and that they were very proud.”

That pride should grow as Griswold is on pace to have the season of her life.

After a freshman season with just five goals and four assists, Griswold has already scored four goals this season, including the game-winning goal against St. Louis this last week.

Griswold, a Youngstown, Ohio native, is a biomedical engineering major, part of Butler’s five-year Engineering Dual Degree Program.

Her life aspirations are unclear she said, but she’s enjoying soccer and school.

Individually, she said she understands her job on the team and will always do it to the best of her ability to ensure individual, and thus team, success.

“My goal for this season is just to score as many goals for my team as I can,” Griswold said. “My role on the team is mainly to score goals, so that is what I am going to do my best to do.”

Griswold is hoping that successfully playing her role will create more victories.

The team plans on viewing the four losses they have suffered so far as a learning experience and a set of benchmarks on which they will gauge their progress.

“Our team goal is for each player to give all they have out on the field so that we can win the Horizon League tournament,” Griswold said.

“The non-conference games we are playing now mean a lot to us, but our focus is set for Sept. 26, which is the day we start conference play.”

After six games, the progress is clear.

The team’s goal differential in the last two games is plus four, exceeding the goal differential from their first three losses.

The Bulldogs have won their last two games, and are 2-2 at home.

With better road play and Griswold leading the attack, these ladies are dangerous.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal made tennis history when he defeated Novak Djokovic in four sets, winning the US Open late Monday evening.

The feat makes Nadal the seventh player in the history of tennis to earn the career Grand Slam (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open). He also became the first player since Rod Laver (1969) to win the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open in the same year.

Now all Nadal has to do is prove he can keep it up.

“From start to finish, it was Rafa Nadal,” CBS Sports analyst and tennis legend John McEnroe said. “He dominated this event for two weeks and finally won his first US Open title.”

Nadal simply outlasted the third-seeded Djokovic, gradually exhausting the Serbian both physically and mentally during nearly four hours of tennis.

“Right now, [Nadal] is the best player in the world,” Djokovic told CBS Sports’ Bill Macatee.

“He absolutely deserved to win.”

With nine major titles at just 24 years old, the question at hand is this: where does Nadal rank among the game’s all-time greats?

Nadal’s attention to detail and seemingly never-ending determination have produced nine major titles and a career Grand Slam.

Without question, he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Laver, Federer, Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg.

While commentating for ESPN2 during Nadal’s quarterfinal match, McEnroe said he currently considers the Spaniard the No. 4 player of all-time behind Federer, Laver and Sampras, and that his current rankings, “could change if Nadal wins [the US Open].” _________ see column page 11

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Volleyball has a strong Invitational showing by matt lawder

mlawder@butler.edu | staff writer

The Butler women’s volleyball team will begin Horizon League play this week after hosting a four-team inviational last weekend.

The pre-conference invitational was Butler’s first in four years. The team finished second in their tournament after two 3-0 wins over UNC-Wilmington and Army and a 3-2 loss to tournament champion Xavier.

“It was great after all the travel to just be able to go to class and then walk over to Hinkle for our game,” freshman outside hitter Maggie Harbison said.

The Bulldogs (4-6) didn’t disappoint the volleyball crowds in Hinkle throughout the day.

Beginning the tournament with a match against UNC-Wilmington (3-7) on friday afternoon.

Butler won the first set 25-14.

Butler finished the second set, winning 18 of the final 20 points to take it 25-6.

The Bulldogs finished off the match with a 25-17 win in the third set as senior Jalesa Lee capped off the match with two kills.

The Bulldogs racked up 19 kills during the final set against UNC-Wilmington.

“Its so nice to get a big win,” Harbison said. “I think we’re starting to feel

more confident on the court.”

Butler continued their winning ways against Army (4-7) that evening.

In front of over 1,000 fans packed into Hinkle for the Butler Invitational All-American Night, the Bulldogs completed a perfect day, defeating the Black Knights 3-0.

Butler jumped to a quick lead, going up 13-2 in the first game behind Lee’s strong serving.

Army was only able to trade points from that point on, and Butler won the set 25-14.

In the second game, after grabbing a 21-17 lead, Butler allowed the Black Knights to tie the match at 23-23. Neither team could break the deadlock until Butler finally strung together two points to win the game at 32-30.

The Bulldogs took the third set 25-17 to clinch the match.

In the final match of the tournament, the Bulldogs took on Xavier (5-4) for the tournament title. The Bulldogs won sets one and three 25-19, but dropped the second 25-16.

Butler couldn’t hang on to a lead or sustain things in the fourth set and, after being tied at 16, lost 25-19.

Xavier closed the match 15-6 in the final set and seal the tournament win.

Senior Jessie Wolfe and junior Maureen Bamiro were named to the all-tournament team. The pair combined for 62 kills during the weekend.

by Billy klimczak

Heading into Horizon League play a good showing in Kentucky was key.

Goal-scoring came naturally to the Butler men’s soccer team last weekend when they went 2-0 to win Kentucky’s Wildcat Invitational in Lexington, Ky. The three-day event placed the Bulldogs (4-0) against the Houston Baptist Huskies and the Loyola Marymount Lions.

Butler was able to roll through each game, holding each opponent to one goal.

Friday was a dogfight between the Huskies and Bulldogs, but Butler moved through the game with ease.

Houston Baptist allowed senior Bulldog captain Ben Sippola to become the ninth player in Butler men’s soccer history to record a hat trick, as the Bulldogs tamed the Huskies 5-1 in the first round.

However, even with his record offensive performance, Sippola wanted to remind people that scoring isn’t his primary focus.

“I’m not really a goal scorer,” he said. “I’m expected

to score goals, but being a senior, it was exciting just to step up into a leadership role.”

The offensive hurt continued when senior Jacob Capito scored from the far edge of the box after an assist from junior Matt Hedges.

Freshman Adekunle Oluyedun finished the scoring in the 88th minute with his first collegiate goal.

The five goals scored by the Bulldogs were the most by a Butler men’s soccer team in a game since 2007.

After Friday, Butler had outscored its three opponents this season 10-1.

Butler head coach Kelly Findley said the dominating performance made him feel confident heading into their second game because a big win not only boosts team morale, but also allows the team to rest many players and use their full rotation the next day.

Action against the Lions initially led to a 1-1 deadlock after goals by Oluyedun and Loyola Marymount’s Kyle Johanson.

Hedges broke the tie in the 58th minute, guiding a throw-in from freshman Jamie Vollmer to the far post.

by Matt Lawder

mlawder@butler.edu | staff writer

Reaching high: Junior middle Maureen Bamiro attacks from the right side. (Photo by Rachel Senn) Wolfe is ranked 35th in the nation in kills per set (4.14) and 52nd in points per set (4.53).

Butler’s first two league foes will be Loyola and Valparaiso.

“It all starts this weekend, this is serious,” said Harbison.

Soccer takes title with high scoring bklimcza@butler.edu | staff writer

Football slips at Youngstown

The win was solidified by Sippola on a free kick whose speedy strike from the corner of the box beat the opposing goalkeeper, Jack McCormack.

For his four-goal and oneassist performance, Sippola earned two awards: the Horizon League named him men’s soccer Player of the Week, and Goal.com named him their National Player of the Week.

Findley said the staff and players’ underlying goal this season is “to be a program, not just a team.”

Findley said the team’s desire to build a foundation of success to last many years instead of narrowing focus to an individual season of play.

He also said that the strong performance at Kentucky this weekend was a step in the right direction.

With strong performances from the incoming freshmen class so far this season, a record-setting amount of goals and four players named to the Wildcat Invitational AllTournament team, it has been a promising start to the young 2010 campaign.

Nevertheless, Findley said his focus is to effectively use the upcoming week for im-

provement.

“You can only try to get better at what you do,” he said. “We feel like if we can get on top of our strengths, we can get on top of games.”

Butler plays Saturday at Oakland (Calif.) at 7 p.m.

Horizon League play begins Sept. 24 at defending conference champion Green Bay.

After a tough road loss at Youngstown State bringing the team to 1-1, Butler looks forward to matching up against Taylor University in their first home game this Saturday, September 18th.

Playing under the lights in front of a crowd of 18,025, the Bulldog football team lost to Youngstown State 31-7 Saturday.

The Penguins offered the Bulldogs some of the toughest competition they will face all year.

“One of the first things we said when I took over the program was that we were going to upgrade our non-conference schedule,” head coach Jeff Voris said. “The tough competition gives us a much clearer barometer of where we are entering conference play.”

After forcing two early Youngstown punts the Butler offense struggled to make up much ground on the offensive end of the ball, netting only 44 total yards in their first three possessions with two punts and an interception.

The interception proved costly for the Bulldogs, as Youngstown State then marched down the field in seven plays and scored a touchdown on an eight yard run from Penguin freshman tailback Jordan Thompson.

Thompson was part of Youngstown’s three-pronged running attack which included freshman Adaris Bellamy and sophomore Jamaine Cook. The trio rushed for a combined 218 yards and three touchdowns.

Bellamy put the Penguins up 14-0 on the next drive.

The Bulldog offense answered right back with an eightplay, 81-yard drive capped off by a three-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Andrew Huck to junior Jeff Larsen.

The score cut the Penguin’s lead in half at 14-7.

“At that point [being down 14-7], we just tried to consistently move the ball,” Voris said. “They played us differently than they played Penn State the week before.

“The biggest thing, no matter who you play, is to keep the ball in front of you and make them earn it.”

The Bulldog’s touchdown would be their final points of the game as the explosive Penguin defense kept Butler off the board from halftime onward.

The second half was filled with missed opportunities for the Bulldogs, who drove into Youngstown territory four times but could not manage to put any points on the board.

After missing a 28-yard field goal, Butler had two turnovers on downs.

The Penguins took advantage of Butler’s mistakes.

Youngstown had an 86-yard punt return for a touchdown on their second possession of the half to build up their lead to 24-7.

Youngstown scored again on their next drive off of a 25yard run from Bellamy for his second score of the game.

The touchdown put the Penguins up 31-7 and sealed the win for Youngstown.

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OVERTIME: nadal captures career slam, must do more to join federer’s league continued from page 9 Johnny Mac, you cannot be serious!

The question is where Nadal ranks right now, not where he ranks 10 years down the road.

He has accomplished feats unmatched by some of tennis’ greatest players by collecting all four majors, and by winning more majors than anyone but Federer, Sampras, Laver, Borg and Roy Emerson.

But there are other greats who Nadal has not surpassed because he has yet to attain their consistent, sustained excellence.

First, there’s American Jimmy Connors.

Renowned for his return of serve, Connors seized five US Open titles on three different surfaces (grass, clay, hard) between 1974 and 1983, and added two Wimbledon titles and an Australian Open to boot.

And I would be remiss to exclude 39-year-old Connors’ improbable, crowdigniting run to the semifinals of the 1991 US Open.

Then, there’s Ivan Lendl, who captured eight major

titles between 1984 and 1990 and reached 19 Grand Slam finals in his career, including a record eight consecutive at the U.S. Open from 1982 and 1989.

To this point, Nadal has only qualified for 11 finals.

Lendl was also ranked No. 1 for 270 weeks, while Connors held the world’s top spot for 268. Nadal, on the other hand, has only been World No. 1 for 62 weeks—though he shows no signs of relinquishing it anytime soon.

It’s equally difficult to argue Nadal has surpassed Agassi, who also holds all four Grand Slams.

Like Connors, Agassi’s impeccable returning prowess earned him eight majors.

His excellence also spanned nearly two decades, due to the considerable emphasis he placed on fitness and conditioning during the second half of his career.

But I’m not saying Nadal will not one day surpass these greats.

In fact, it may only be a matter of time before he does.

Nadal’s most impressive

constant struggle: Novak Djokovic stretches for a ball in his semifinal match against Roger Federer on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of MCT)

Women’s tennis creates team dynamic in Greencastle by billy klimczak

billyklimcza@butler.edu | staff writer

ferocious forehand: Champion Rafael Nadal smashes a forehand as only he can in his quarterfinal match against compatriot Fernando Verdasco. Nadal cruised to a straight-set win. (Photo courtesy of MCT) quality has been his work ethic.

He refuses to remain stagnant, constantly seeking to evolve and improve his game.

And he has done just that.

When Nadal burst onto the scene in 2005, winning his first major title at the French Open, he was known as a clay-court specialist.

Experts and fans alike knew that Nadal would continue to be a force to be reckoned with at Roland Garros, but many wondered if he would ever legitimately contend at the other three majors: the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

Nadal, who hails from the small island of Mallorca just off the coast of Spain, silenced his critics the next year.

After defeating Federer

in the French Open final, he reached the final on the faster grass courts of Wimbledon.

Although he was beaten

by Federer, the reigning champion, Nadal was able to earn a set before losing the match 3-1.

Two years later, Nadal’s efforts came to fruition when he defeated Federer in the longest Wimbledon final in history, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (9), 9-7.

The primary reason for the Spaniard’s victory: amplified serving velocity and improved volleying at the net.

Nadal, who dropped serve six times in four sets in the 2006 final, was broken only once en route to winning what many consider the greatest match in tennis history.

After winning the Australian Open in January 2009 in another five-setter over Fe-

derer, the only major title that yet eluded Nadal was the US Open.

With its fast, hard courts, the US Open proved to be the most difficult for Nadal to conquer.

But even with doubters asserting he would never win the Open, Nadal overcame tennis’ toughest test by adjusting to the faster court conditions with flatter forehands and more aggressive court positioning.

I have no doubt that if Nadal remains healthy and continues to work to improve what hardly requires enhancement, he will continue to accumulate majors—and perhaps even challenge Federer (16) and Sampras (14) for all-time supremacy.

But right now, it is still premature to assert he is the fourth-greatest player of alltime.

Women’s tennis captured seven of eight singles flights and three of four doubles flights at DePauw’s Tiger Fall Invitational last weekend in Greencastle, Ind. Butler head coach Jason Suscha said he felt the Bulldog freshmen made his team the deepest and most talented at the invitational.

Suscha said he was focused primarily on what his new players would bring to the team dynamic.

“I’m not just looking for depth in talent, but that there’s depth in competitiveness,” he said. “I’m looking for a team dynamic where the kids just play hard.”

Throughout the tournament, the team dynamic Suscha was looking for was established by players at every level.

Senior Natali Jaimes, who went 3-0 at No. 1 singles, said she felt it was important to maintain a relaxed atmosphere, have fun and find a positive outcome in order to get off to a good start.

Sophomore Brittany Farmer finished 3-0 at No. 5 singles, including an impressive, 6-0, 6-0, victory over University of Indianapolis’ Rachel Barger.

Farmer said her play was “good practice and preparation for the fall and the rest of the season.”

Jaimes said the team cannot become complacent after its first victory.

“Everyone now knows what they need to do to play well in the next tournament,” she said.

Collegian photos by Erin Drennan and Rachel Senn