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Groped, violated and assailed: Scared victims suffer under silence and stigma COLIN LIKAS AND EMILY WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND

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Phrases like, “she dressed provocatively,” “she acted promiscuously,” and “she had it coming” are part of it.

So is not reporting what happened because of feelings of helplessness and fear.

These ideas all contribute to the stigma associated with sexual assault.

But various Butler University organizations are attempting to reverse this stigma, as well as the frequency of sexual assault at Butler.

STATISTICS AT BUTLER Sexual assault is an issue on many college campuses— including Butler University.

Sexual assault occurs “when someone touches any part of another person’s body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person’s consent,” according to the National Center for Victims of Crime, a nonprofit organization that advocates for rights of crime victims.

Butler University Police Department received reports of four sexual assault cases in 2012.

Six instances of sexual assault have been reported to BUPD in 2013.

Eight of these 10 reported sexual assaults are currently listed as “Assigned to Investigations – Open,” and one has been referred to the Office of Student Affairs, according to crime logs.

The most recent reported case in April 2013, was investigated and classified as “unfounded,” according to a crime log.

One of the sexual assault cases reported to BUPD in 2012 was listed as a “forcible rape” on a crime report. Another was the result of a female student being “rudely touched” by a male student, according to the crime report.

One instance of “forcible rape” and an instance of “forcible sodomy” are among the six sexual assault cases brought to BUPD in 2013, according to crime reports.

In only four of the 10 reported sexual assaults did reports specifically state that a female victim was assailed by a male individual.

Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, declined via email to comment on the details of individual sexual assault cases reported to BUPD. Bill Weber, assistant police chief, declined via email to discuss individual sexual assault cases due to “privacy issues.” While this view may give the impression BUPD does

not care about sexual assaults, it is not true, Weber said.

“Detective Bruce Allee takes, along with the rest of us, every report made to us very seriously,” Weber said in an email. “It is difficult (to hear) when the claim is that BUPD is not doing anything to investigate or assist a survivor of a sexual assault, or any assault for that matter.”

Detective Bruce Allee, formerly an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department sex crimes investigator, leads sexual assault investigations at Butler.

He said Butler community members can gain a complete picture of how sexual assault on and around campus is handled at a panel being held Wednesday, Sept. 25 at noon in Jordan Hall, room 141.

Other incidents reported to BUPD fall under the category of harassment—although they are not necessarily sexual in nature.

One of those cases was reported in March 2012, when a female student told BUPD she thought she may have been drugged at a Phi Kappa Psi party in December 2011, according to a crime log and The Collegian’s “Assault case reported” (Apr. 4, 2012).

That case has also been assigned to investigations and is still open. see sexual assault page 4

PARKING

TKE parking lot sits empty ALEXANDRA BODE ABODE@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

The 2013-2014 school year marks the second school year that Butler’s Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter is no longer active.

The former TKE house is located between Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Chi Omega.

Behind it is a lot with approximately 50 parking spots.

Lately, many students have noticed how empty this lot is on a daily basis.

“It seems to be a waste of space.

Why not use it if it is there?” sophomore Samantha Stang said.

The lot is a ‘C’ lot, which in this case does not mean “commuter.”

The lot behind the TKE house has been switched over to a “contractor” lot and is no longer a Greek and commuter lot as it was

We have more ‘G’ parking than we need.

BEN HUNTER CHIEF OF STAFF

last school year.

Contractors include any employees under contract with the university. The largest group of contracted employees includes Aramark workers.

However, the lot remains consistently bare during the majority of each day.

Chief of staff Ben Hunter and assistant police chief Bill Weber said the lot is being put to good use.

“We like the idea of a contractors lot,” Hunter said.

The contractors are required to purchase “contractor” parking

Photo by Maddie Koss

The parking lot behind the former TKE house is now a contractor parking lot. passes, which cost $35.

Affiliates of the university, which include contractors that are performing long term work-besides Aramark--must purchase “A” parking.

When asked how many of these permits had been purchased by contractors, Hunter was unable to provide a response.

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“One policy, one process” Administration hopes to combine harrassment, discrimination and Title IX policies MARAIS JACON-DUFFY MJACONDU@BUTLER.EDU

NEWS EDITOR

Butler University plans to implement a Title IX policy to cover students, faculty and staff.

This policy will follow the guidelines of the “one policy, one process” model many colleges and universities now practice.

This model was created by the Association of Title IX Administrators, an association made of K-12 and higher education administratiors, human resources personnel, general counselors and some advocacy groups.

The one policy model states that all gender discrimination-based complaints should be handled by “an institution-wide policy and one stand-alone resolution process, applied to all complaints involving students, faculty and staff,” according to the ATIXA website. Members of Butler’s administration attended ATIXA “one policy, one process” and Title IX compliance trainings over the summer to prepare for policy revision.

The revised policy will include components covering discrimination, harassment, gender equity, sexual misconduct and sexual violence. Policies do exist in the student handbook and on Butler’s website encompassing these elements, but the plan will combine these elements into one overarching policy.

Human resources director La Veda Howell said university administration is in the process of looking at the current Title IX policy and making sure the policy is fair, equitable and transparent for the community.

“This policy will encompass anything that has do deal with situations of inequitable processes between the genders,” Howell said.

Vice president of student life Levester Johnson said that policy, as it exists now, is close to a one-policy system.

“We are close to having one umbrella policy for the entire campus,” Johnson said. “The student policy shouldn’t see any changes.”

Howell and Johnson both said transparency should increase when all of campus is under one Title IX policy.

The same process for notification, the rights of the victim, advocacy roles and education about Title IX policies will be available for faculty, staff and students, according to Johnson.

Chief of staff Ben Hunter said changes have not yet been made to the policy and changes will not be made until those on the one policy committee receive adequate feedback from different campus groups.

“We are now just about legally ready to begin evaluating what changes we should make, so now we just need input,” Hunter said.

Hunter said changes made to the policy will be adapted to fit Butler’s culture. He said, as an example, if an investigation is supposed to take less than 60 days under national Title IX regulations, Butler’s policy

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Peace Corps recruits Butler students KATIE GOODRICH KMGOODRI@BUTLER.EDU

STAFF REPORTER

The Peace Corps will have a booth at the Big Dawg Fair this afternoon. The willingness of Butler students to volunteer regularly attracts Peace Corps recruiters and brings them to Butler’s campus.

“We’ve seen our applicants from Butler definitely have that spirit of volunteerism and that global perspective,” said Jessica Mayle, Peace Corps public affairs coordinator for the midwest region.

Kendrall Masten, regional recruiter for the Peace Corps, tries to come to Butler at least once or twice a semester, he said. He presented at an information session Monday night.

Students who go into the Peace Corps have typically studied abroad and look to go to graduate school, Masten said.

Since its establishment in 1961, the Peace Corps has served 139 countries with over 210,000 volunteers, according to its website.

Volunteers are placed to serve a country in need for two years.

Volunteers are trained to work toward three goals: to meet the needs of the women and men in the village, to share American culture and to bring one’s experience home to share with others, Masten said. He first

volunteered in Zambia and now shares his experience with others who hope to do the same.

“Working in the Peace Corps is an opportunity to make a difference,” he said.

“It forms our mission to promote world peace and friendship.”

The Peace Corps has approximately 8,000 volunteers serving around the world.

Butler University currently has three alumni volunteering. In the 52-year history of the Peace Corps, Butler sent an average of two volunteers from each graduating class.

“It’s a life-defining opportunity to live and work abroad,” Masten said. “[Volunteers] gain international work experience and service itself, which allows them to look more desirable to employers and graduate schools.”

The Peace Corps will pay for partial or full graduate school tuition for participants.

They also provide full medical and dental benefits as well as a stipend similar to what an official in the host village would make, Masten added.

After the Peace Corps, many students go into private sector or not-for-profit work. They also have the opportunity to be automatically considered for a position in the federal government if they meet the minimum job qualifications.

Steve Longo, a freshman majoring in

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Peace Corps recruiter Kendrall Masten presents to students on his experience working in Zambia. political science, said he is considering joining the Peace Corps upon graduating. He first heard of the Peace Corps and its mission in his high school history class.

“These people are volunteering. They want to be there, and they want to make a difference,” Longo said.

Longo said he feels an experience in the Peace Corps would be beneficial for his future career in international politics.

The Peace Corps accepts volunteers from all majors. The organization provides chances to volunteer in education, agriculture, business, health and other interest areas.

“It’s something that, in middle school, my teacher had done, and he had nothing but nice things to say about it,”freshman Nancy Henz said.

Henz had considered joining the Peace Corps to have “the ability to serve others, travel to other countries, really witness what other people are going through, and use [her] specific skill set to help them.”

The Peace Corps has a rolling application process which typically takes about eight months. Students usually apply the summer before their senior year, so they can go abroad the year after they graduate.

New options available for students seeking internships MIRANDA MARITATO MMARITAT@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Butler will host its first Big Dawg internship and career fair this afternoon.

The fair will feature up to 90 for-profit and notfor-profit organizations, graduate schools and gap year programs, according to the Butler Internship and Career Services’ website.

Internships are a graduation requirement for a number of majors around campus.

Along with networking, Butler offers resources to help students find and prepare for internships. Internship coordinators are available for departments ranging from anthropology to theatre.

The Internship and Career Services office offers help to Butler students of all colleges.

The Institute for Study Abroad is available for students who want to work outisde of Indianapolis.

ICS offers individualized career counseling as well as

networking, career fairs and mock interviews.

ICS also offers an eightweek course called LC 301: Career Planning Strategies.

The course is worth three credits and can help students begin a structured timeline for a plan of action regarding careers and internships. ICS works with students of every year as well as alumni.

The ICS mission is to provide and support learning opportunities to build and sustain relationships with employers, said Jennifer McConnell, one of Butler’s career advisors.

“Whether you are looking to study abroad, take a gap year or return as an alumni looking for a new career, ICS can assist you,” McConnell said.

As a senior, Hannah Riffe is working on her third internship. She is majoring in recording industries studies with a minor in public relations.

By taking advantage of personal networking, Riffe

got her first internship last year without services offered at Butler.

Riffe landed her second internship through the Institute for Study Abroad in London for Blurb PR, a public relations company specializing in music.

Riffe now interns for an independent record label in Indianapolis called Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Guided by her academic advisor, Riffe was led to her current internship two weeks before school began.

“My last two internships were both in the music industry, but they’re two different things, so they’re helping me expand my skill set,” Riffe said.

Riffe said she is glad she spent her first two years of college primarily focusing on her GPA and classes, not interning.

“If you’re a freshman hoping to start interning, just wait,” Riffe said. “I think the summer before junior year is probably the ideal time to

start interning.”

Sophomore Andrew Gelwicks said some students want an early start on internships.

Gelwicks is the vice president of Strategic Internship Consulting.

Gelwicks’ sister started the company last year at Indiana University, where it helped more than 200 students find internships.

SIC is geared to help freshmen and sophomores find internships.

The company’s mission is to give options to students. It promotes the use of one’s own contacts and network instead of going through recruiters who come to campus.

“You don’t have to be an upperclassman to have a very successful internship,” Gelwicks said. “You can be young and use that to your advantage to get these really amazing opportunities.”

SIC charges $10 for an initial consultation and $20 for each additional hour.

I wore only dresses when I was little because I wanted to be just like Cinderella.

I once got kicked out of a water polo game for getting in a fight with a girl on the other team.

BUTLER’S INTERNSHIP COORDINATORS

Anthropology/history: Bruce Bigelow Arts administration: Susan Zurbuchen Biological sciences: Shelley Etnier Center for Faith and Vocation: Judy Cebula Center for Urban Ecology: Marjorie Hennessy Chemistry: Shannon Lieb College of Business: Mary Ellen Wolfsie, Jill Novotny College of Communication: Allison Harthcock College of Education: Sue Stahl Computer science: Jon Sorenson Engineering: Jessica McCormick English: Anne Minnich-Beck International studies: Antonio Menendez Math and actuarial science: William Johnston Modern foreign languages: Larry Riggs Music education: Daniel Bolin Pharmacy and health sciences: Bonnie Brown Philosophy and religion: Harry Van Der Linden Physician assistant: Larry Lynn Physics and astronomy: Brian Murphy Political science: Terri Jett Sociology: Kate Novak Psychology: Joel Martin Theatre: William Fisher

The Collegian strives to recognize factual inaccuracies and omissions in previous issues. The following come from the Sept. 11 issue.

In “Waiting for answers” it was reported that Butler’s first tuition remission polcy was created in 1993. Another form of the policy was previously in place.

In “Waiting for answers” it was reported that all faculty and staff was sent an email about the Faculty Senate agenda. It was only sent to College of Communication faculty and staff.

In a photo on page 2, Phi Delta Theta and Pi Beta Phi were left out of the list of homecoming pairings.

The Collegian regrets these errors and omissions.

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Thefts and other crime on the rise NATALIE SMITH NMSMITH1@BUTLER.EDU

STAFF REPORTER

Butler University senior Alix McLaughlin was outside with her friends at her off-campus house, waiting for pizza to arrive at 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

She looked in her front window and was shocked to see a man she did not know wearing gloves and crouching in her house. The next moment, he ran out the back door with her belongings.

“You would think that it wouldn’t happen to you or your house,” McLaughlin said.

“I feel cheated because we didn’t do anything wrong. We could have done one thing differently: lock the back door. But we were at home, so why would we expect that?”

McLaughlin’s thief took an

iPod, wallet and keys from the house.

But because the incident was not a forced entry, Butler University Police Department was unable to find evidence to trace the man or the items.

In this year alone, 44 percent of reports taken by BUP are related to theft and property damage. This is a 23-percent increase from last year., according to BUPD’s crime logs.

Seventy-one percent of these thefts occurred in academic and campus buildings, the two most common buildings being Residential College and Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Since Aug. 1, more than 126 of Butler’s police reports have come from thefts and property damage on campus.

“I feel that we are a pretty safe

campus,” Andrew Ryan, assistant police chief, said. “Students just need to realize that Butler isn’t a sleepy little college town.”

McLaughlin said she changed her habits after this experience.

“As soon as I get inside, I lock all doors,” McLaughlin said. “I also never leave personal belongings in plain sight, even in my own house.”

This increase in crime has left some Butler students worrying about their safety on campus.

“I’m responsible enough to lock up my stuff, but I get worried about walking with valuable things at night when I’m alone,” freshman Megan Borries said.

Ryan encourages students to follow simple steps to keep themselves and their possessions safe.

“It’s all about risk reduction,”

Ryan said. “Think first: is this the right decision for me?”

BUPD urges students to lock their doors, never leave personal belongings out in the open and think of how vulnerable they may appear to a criminal.

“There’s a victim triangle,” Ryan said. “It’s you, the criminal and the opportunity. Take away the opportunity, and the crime won’t happen.

“Would you really leave $200 in cash sitting on the table when you go to the food line? Then why would you leave your $200 phone?” Ryan said.

BUPD said they want to call at the first sign of suspicious behavior or people.

“College is different than the safety of your hometown,” Ryan said. “We’re an open campus and can’t prohibit people from coming

here.”

BUPD has made some additions to help keep campus safer this year.

Dawg Ride is a service that picks up students wary about walking across campus alone. BUPD is also implementing a new identification program for students to register their items so they can be found faster when stolen. In light of an increase in crimes BUPD has also increased patrols and security on campus.

This year is also the first year BUPD allows students to exchange their cable locks for bike locks for free.

“The amount of man hours it took in investigations for bike theft cost more than giving out free locks,” Ryan said. “The prevention program was effective, and we will likely use it in years to come.”

THEFT BY THE NUMBERS HOLCOMB BUILDING: 1

PHARMACY BUILDING AND HEALTH SCIENCES: 1

HRC: 1

JORDAN HALL: 2 PHI KAPPA PSI: 2

LILLY HALL: 2

CENTER FOR FAITH AND VOCATION: 1

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA: 2

HINKLE: 4

ROSS HALL: 2 RESCO: 4 Total number of thefts since August 1, 2013 in campus buildings = 22 Statistics courtesy of BUPD crime log

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ONE POLICY: HARRASSMENT AND ASSAULT POLICY FOR ALL STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF

Desmond Tutu Center anounced by Butler, CTS COLIN LIKAS CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Butler University announced the planned creation of The Desmond Tutu Center in partnership with Christian Theological Seminary. They made the announcement prior to Archbishop Tutu’s speech at Clowes Memorial Hall last Thursday.

The academic center will be the only in North America to be named after Tutu.

“We’re interested in peace and justice and reconciliation,” CTS President Matthew Myer Boulton said. “(Tutu) is one of the most iconic figures when it comes to putting faith into action for the common good.”

Butler University President James Danko said the university must be able to support a budget of at least $300,000 when the center opens.

“It’s not credible to talk about a center unless you have a reasonable annual budget,” Danko said. “I would really expect, over time, this thing to move

from a couple hundred thousand a year to half a million a year in budget.”

It is not immediately clear when the center will begin operation.

The center will focus on research, teaching and learning around the themes of justice and reconciliation, according to a Butler press release.

Some of the center’s goals include improving communication about global issues, such as peace, justice and human dignity.

Another goal is to explore non-violent actions and reactions in situations of conflict and injustice, as well as working with local religious and academic institutions on projects helping those involved better understand peace and justice.

“You hope we gain international stature as a university that is on the leading edge of dialogue and thought leadership in this area,” Danko said.

Allan Boesak, who was named the Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global Justice and Reconciliation Studies in June, will head the center’s efforts.

SEXUAL ASSAULT: BUTLER RESPONDS FROM PAGE ONE

RELATING TO THE VICTIM Silence is the most common response of victims after sexual assaults, according to statistics compiled by the Rape, Incest and Abuse National Network.

According to the network, 54 percent of sexual assaults go unreported.

Additionally, in a study of 5,000 college students at more than 100 colleges by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 20 percent of women answered “yes” to the question, “In your lifetime, have you been forced to submit to sexual intercourse against your will?”

Sarah Barnes Diaz, health education and outreach programs coordinator, said she makes herself available to victims through Butler’s advocate hotline, which can be reached at 317-910-5572.

Diaz said she believes two of the most important things she can do for students is to listen to and believe them.

“These are two seemingly simple roles to take, but (they) are very important,” Diaz said.

In The Collegian’s “Spotlight on sexual assault” (Sept. 5, 2012), assistant police chief Andrew Ryan said he feels the number of sexual assaults on campus might be higher than the reported figure because of the stigma attached to sexual assault.

“The survivor of the assault can feel like he or she is at fault,” Ryan said. “As hard as we work to try to dispel that feeling, it doesn’t always work.”

Junior Elizabeth Davis, who is involved with Peers Advocating Wellness for Students, Greek Educators, Advocates and Resources and Butler’s sexual assault task force, said if a victim knows his or her assailant, it makes it very difficult for the victim to report sexual assault.

“It is hard for girls or men who

Boesak, a South African cleric and antiapartheid activist, was brought to Butler under a visiting appointment at the beginning of the last academic school year. He will teach two academic courses at CTS this fall and one on Butler’s campus in spring 2014.

Boesak did not respond to The Collegian’s request for comment.

Danko said Boesak expressed a desire to stay in Indianapolis after his visiting appointment expired. As a result, Boesak came up with the idea of a center—something he had also discussed with his close friend Tutu, who approved such a center bearing his name.

Boulton said he believes this center will be important for more than just Butler and CTS students.

“Any great education that happens here should engage the city in its global dimensions,” Boulton said.

Butler will begin fundraising for the center’s initial budget, Danko said.

The Dungy Family Foundation—a Floridabased organization

have been in a tricky situation, for them to know the person in the situation as well,” Davis said.

“Especially when you are bumping into them in class or in the Atherton line, (it makes) it difficult to submit the report.”

Butler faculty and staff members are not the only ones who believe these lines of thought to be true.

Sophomore Jenny DiVincenzo, a student currently enrolled in a self-defense class at Butler, said she thinks many victims do not report sexual assault due to feelings of embarrassment, regret or intimidation.

“Most girls who are sexually assaulted never report it because they feel guilty and most likely know the victim who assaulted them,” DiVincenzo said.

GROUPS TAKE ACTION Butler organizations are taking steps to cut down on the number of sexual crimes on and around campus, while also trying to change the feelings sexual assault victims encounter.

Along with BUPD, P.A.W.S., GEAR, Butler Strong, Butler’s sexual assault task force and Butler’s counseling and crisis services are at the forefront of the charge to help sexual assault victims and prevent more individuals from becoming victims.

P.A.W.S. sponsors Sexual Assault Awareness Week at Butler each year. GEAR is one group that works with P.A.W.S. on the event.

Events at last year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week included a video and speakers promoting safety and responsibility for students and a photo project titled “Take a Stand.”

“P.A.W.S. and GEAR are a unified force (which) approach(es) the issue of sexual assault from an educational and preventative approach,” Davis said.

Davis said Greek houses have served a very important role, getting messages about preventing and reporting sexual assault to large numbers of students in an educational manner.

Senior Josh Burton is leading Butler Strong, an organization that

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Desmond Tutu, who spoke at Clowes Hall on Thursday will have academic center named after him. founded by former Indianapolis Colts’ coach Tony Dungy—is a primary sponsor of the center.

The foundation “believes in strengthening, sustaining and empowering communities by providing opportunities to those in need,” according to its website.

Danko said a luncheon was held at Butler last Friday, and “a number of potential donors” were present.

The center’s creation will not necessarily mean

There is a stereotype that men are the problem, but I think we can also be the solution to the issue.

JOSH BURTON SENIOR meets to talk about sexual assault and how to keep women safe on campus.

Burton said he worked with assistant police chief Ryan since spring after Ryan brought up the idea during a discussion about sexual assault awareness at Butler’s Sigma Nu chapter house.

“I was intrigued because I have had friends and family affected by sexual assault,” Burton said. “I was tired of hearing men are the problem.”

Butler Strong is all about taking a different approach to masculinity.

The group wants to change the stereotype of what it means to be a Greek fraternity member, Burton said.

“We have to be able to take a stand and go against the grains of what society thinks is okay and what we think is okay,” he said.

“There is a stereotype that men are the problem, but I think we can also be the solution to the issue.

“It is harder for younger guys in a situation where older guys have seniority over them. In that case, find someone you respect that will handle the situation. Don’t be afraid to step up.”

For more information, students can attend the Butler Strong callout meeting today at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall, room 236.

There is also a self-defense class offered on campus each Tuesday before noon that currently has 20 Butler students enrolled. Select BUPD officers teach the course.

“I wouldn’t be able to defend myself as effectively, for sure, without learning the techniques

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the construction of a new building on either Butler’s or the CTS’s campus.

Danko said the center may start at the offices Butler has on CTS’ campus.

Boulton said breaking up who provides what resources is “not a mathematical equation,” but it’s a 50-50 project in spirit.

“This is a center we are committed to together,” Boulton said. “Both (Butler and CTS) will be working together and traveling side by side.”

they are teaching us,” sophomore Kate Webb said in a recent WISHTV report on the class.

“The class has definitely taught me to be more aware of my surroundings, and that if, God forbid, someone ever tried to attack me, I would be prepared to yell and do whatever I could to get out of the situation,” DiVincenzo said.

Even Butler’s newest students feel they have an important role to play in stopping sexual assault and helping its victims.

Freshman Kevin Rhinesmith said men should realize their responsibility to help prevent sexual assault against women.

“I think we, as men, can help prevent situations from happening by identifying danger and looking out for girls if they seem at risk,” Rhinesmith said. “(We should) always be willing to step in and take control of a situation if it means keeping someone safe.

“If someone sees a girl who could be in danger, then they should quickly take her away from the situation or tell the person bothering them to leave her alone.

Stay there until the conflict is resolved or until the girl is for sure safe.”

Sophomore Camille Cousins, a resident assistant, prepared information on sexual assault to share with the women in her unit.

She discussed how to prevent it, and what to do if you become a victim of it.

“Always walk in groups, and always watch your drink,” Cousins said. “If you ever feel that you are in a (dangerous) situation, call someone, whether that be your friends, RA or BUPD.” Cousins said victims should use Butler’s advocate line and speak to Diaz.

“She is very sweet and is trained to handle situations dealing with sexual assault,” Cousins said.

Cousins said she believes sexual assault can be prevented, but it will not always be easy.

“I think our world is not there for it to be prevented, because there are still people with the mindset that no means yes,” Cousins said.

“Only yes means yes.”

may adapt a 30-day waiting period due to a smaller campus and active police force.

Howell said while changes have not yet been made, once changes are implemented, Title IX and sexual misconduct education will be provided for student, faculty and staff.

Hunter said, while specific components of this policy are hard to pinpoint exactly, it will definitely encompass elements of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

“This policy is essentially social justice based,” Hunter said. “And what will be nice about it is that, in the end, all of campus will operate under this one set of rules and guidelines and that should, in itself, lessen confusion and create more transparency.”

Hunter said student, faculty and staff input will be solicited relatively soon. Anyone with additional input can contact him directly.

TKE LOT: NEW CONTRACTOR LOT UNDERUTILIZED FROM PAGE ONE

He did say university administration is looking to have contractors utilize this lot more then they have in the past.

The “contractors lot”, according to Hunter, is designed for the University’s short-term contractors, specifically contractors that do not have large equipment they need to bring to perform their work.

Atherton Marketplace workers Adair Antor and Erron Barbee said they haven’t parked in the former TKE parking lot because they didn’t know they could park there.

“I thought we were supposed to park over by Hinkle,” Barbee said.

“I don’t think they said anything about this lot at our parking meeting at the beginning of the year.”

“I’ve seen some guys park there and thought ‘they’re gonna get a ticket’,” Antor said.

When asked why the lot changed over from Greek parking, Hunter said, “We have more “G” parking then we need.”

Emma Salter, a sophomore living in the Alpha Chi Omega house, said she consistently struggles to find parking.

“It’s already too crowded down the back streets by the Greek houses,” Salter said. “When I’m coming down Beta, it has gotten to the point that it is like a one-way street because there are cars parked on both sides. If they eliminate any more “G” parking, where would we go?”

The university has a parking consultant that works to see where there is a heavy flow of parking and where additional parking is needed.

From this, they have determined that the only parking areas that are completely full are the “B” lots.

They said they believe this is because not every student who has a car here on campus has purchased a parking permit.

“History tells us that by December all the students who have cars will have bought permits,” Hunter said.

“The way the zones are now is the way they’ll be all semester.”

Butler University does not plan to make any changes to the parking boundaries until the start of second semester.

The parking lot behind TKE will continue to be used as a “contractor” lot.

A quick glance at what readers should expect next week.

Information on Butler’s accommodtion and funding policies for students with disabilities and individual education plans.

A look at religious culture and practices on Butler’s campus

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OVERTIME

Football needs fan support

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New Butler men’s basketball play-by-play announcer Mark Minner (center) sits alongside former broadcaster Brandon Gaudin (right) and color commentator Nick Gardner during Butler’s first round NCAA tournament game against Bucknell on March 21, 2013.

Butler graduate the new voice of athletics JOHN YELEY JYELEY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Mark Minner, a 2012 Butler graduate, will be the new man behind the microphone for the Butler men’s basketball team when the new season kicks off Nov. 9 at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

When veteran broadcaster Brandon Gaudin left unexpectedly in August to accept a broadcasting offer from Georgia Tech, more than 150 applicants applied for the play-by-play position.

Minner, at just 24 years old, was the man for the job.

He is also serving as the playby-play announcer for Butler football games webcasts on butlersports.com this fall.

A position of this magnitude is fairly uncommon in the broadcasting profession for an individual less than two years removed from academia.

Minner is a familiar voice for Butler fans that have listened to men’s basketball game radio broadcasts.

He served as the studio host for broadcasts on the Butler Basketball Radio Network, doing halftime and post-game shows.

Despite his youth, those who know the well-spoken Barrington, Ill., native see it as a perfect fit— including Gaudin.

“He is wise and talented beyond his years,” Gaudin said.

“In this profession, you have to do more than just decent radio or play-by-play. You are an ambassador for your school.

I can’t think of a better one for Butler than Mark.”

Minner said he realized in high school he would be unable to go the route of actually playing a sport.

“Every kid grows up watching sports as a release from everyday life, and at a point, you realize you’re not going to be a professional athlete,” Minner said.

Minner said he wished to still somehow work with sports.

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“I wanted to look for another way to stay involved, and broadcasting became that path,” Minner said.

While attending Barrington High School, he found the opportunity for that goal to become reality.

Having always dreamed of working in television, Minner signed up to be a part of an education-based station run by students.

The decision would have farther-reaching implications than he would realize at the time.

Through the high school station, Minner met FOX Chicago sports anchor Corey McPherrin, and soon began making videos for his prep sports website.

In addition to his duties in the newsroom, McPherrin was also a Board of Trustees’ member at his alma mater, a small liberal arts school in Indianapolis. Minner wasn’t familiar with it.

“I had never heard about Butler until then,” he said. “As Corey and I got to know each other, I mentioned my interest in broadcasting, and he suggested I give it a look. After I did, I thought it would be a great goal to call a game at Hinkle Fieldhouse.”

When Minner arrived at Butler in fall 2009, he loved his new school, but found the lack of student participation in broadcast to be troubling.

Not to be deterred, the freshman marketing and electronic media double major met some professors, including Scott Bridge, who proved invaluable to his career plan.

With their insight and support, Minner soon became involved with the athletics department as an undergrad, doing play-by-play webcasts for women’s basketball, soccer, and volleyball, as well as hosting the student-run Butler Blitz sports show.

He said the most valuable experience was the hands-on experience and knowledge he received from his colleagues,

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including Gaudin, as well as the trio of Athletics Director Barry Collier and assistant athletic directors Mike Freeman and Joe Gentry.

“Mark has been a key piece of our athletics department since he enrolled,” Freeman said. “He has great talent as a broadcaster and is an incredibly driven person.”

Despite all the praise, Minner remains humble, acknowledging those who helped him get to where he is now.

“Brandon (Gaudin) was as good of a mentor as I could have asked for,” he said. “He is as humble as he is talented, and I learned not just broadcasting and technical skills, how to treat people and carry myself. “(The athletic department staff) have all played a big part in helping me mature over the past several years.”

The new-look Bulldogs squad may appear to some a different animal entirely as it enters the Big East, ever growing in its reputation as one of the NCAA’s newest forces to be reckoned with.

Minner said he is confident Butler will not lose its smallschool charm in spite of the recent developments and looks forward to stepping into his new role at the school that helped him discover his passion.

“The thing that I can appreciate most is that, despite the levels of success that were being achieved each year, the coaching staff, the players—as well as those around the department—remained as humble and thankful and personable as if they’d had a winless season instead,” Minner said. “It was a great experience to be around a program like Butler, that you could seemingly always count on to win despite the odds.

“It makes me really proud,” Minner said. “I’m very excited.

As Butler enters this new era with coach Miller and the Big East, it brings tons of new excitement and opportunities, and I’m happy to be a part of that.”

Butler isn’t a football school.

But it could be.

Not many students seem to attend football games, or even seem to care about them. Those students, however, are missing out.

It seems like the majority of students on Butler’s campus have an attitude of, “Our team isn’t any good, why should I give up my time on a Saturday to go watch them?”

Those students need to take a look at the team, and learn a few things about them before they do any judging.

Last year the team was cochampion of the Pioneer Football League.

“So what, it’s the PFL,” is usually the response.

Well this year, for the first time, the PFL champion is going to be awarded an automatic bid to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, or Division I-AA), meaning that if Butler wins the league like they did last year, this school would have a playoff football team.

And the team they have this year is fully capable of doing that.

The team lost fewer than 10 seniors from last year’s team, and bring a lot of experience back to the table this year.

Redshirt senior quarterback Matt Lancaster, a transfer from Illinois State, is a great dual-threat quarterback with the explosiveness that many people look for when watching college football these days.

Senior running back Trae Heeter was named to the PFL first team in 2012, averaging 110.3 yards per game. This year he is averaging 71.6 yards per game with two touchdowns.

Butler has a lot of talent to offer fans and a handful of enticing games that should be drawing students. For some reason, students just aren’t showing up.

Last year’s average attendance was 2,960 in five home games, a slight rise from 2,619 in 2011, but a decrease from the 2010 PFL championship season when the average attendance was 3,205.

Perhaps students don’t go because they think the games are boring, but they were anything but that last season.

Last year’s home slate featured

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plenty of fun games, including a 42-13 win against Franklin College in front of more than 4,000 fans in the team’s first night game in seven decades.

The homecoming game also provided a lot of excitement, as Butler rallied from an 18-point deficit in the 4th quarter to score the last 22 points of the game and earn a 39-35 win against Morehead State under the lights.

This year’s schedule offers a few exciting games, including Saturday’s game against the Ivy League school Dartmouth, a rematch from last year’s loss in New Hampshire.

Following that game, the Bulldogs have four key home conference games that they need to secure if they want to reach the playoffs.

One of the most important factors in college football is home field advantage, and it’s especially hard to have a tough atmosphere when the students aren’t out in full force.

It’s time for Butler students to start checking out football games.

This university is known for its basketball success, but the football team is slowly making a name for itself.

If students could bring the same enthusiasm to football games that they bring to basketball games, the school could be looking at a home playoff game in November.

There aren’t many things compared to the feeling of school spirit, and if Butler students want to get that feeling this fall, it’s time to go out to football games and see what they have to offer.

This isn’t Notre Dame, Purdue or Indiana, where football is the only thing that matters on Saturday, but Butler once wasn’t a big name in college basketball.

With a good student fan base, students could help give the football team a good name in the FCS.

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The crowd at a Butler women’s soccer game at the Butler Bowl in August 2012. The Butler football team averaged 2,960 fans per game last season at the Butler Bowl.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Bulldogs upset No. 11 Wolverines, crack Top 25 STAFF REPORTER

The Butler women’s soccer team is No. 25 in the Soccer America poll after a 1-0 victory against previously No. 11 ranked Michigan.

The lone goal of the game came on a first-half strike from freshman midfielder McKenzie Muchow.

The Bulldogs will begin a four-game road trip Thursday against former Horizon League foe Wright State, at 7 p.m. The rest of the road trip features Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Villanova, and Seton Hall during the two weeks.

Wright State is 2-2-2 on

the season with wins against Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Nevada.

Wright State will be looking for its first win in its last three games. The Raiders have relied on the play of senior forward Emilie Fillion, who is leading the team in goals (three), points (seven), and shots (30).

The Raiders’ goaltending has come from senior goalkeeper Brooke McCurdy. McCurdy has played all six games for the Raiders, recording 37 saves with a 0.60 goals against average, and two shutouts.

In Sunday’s matchup with Michigan, some may have expected the undefeated Wolverines to come out quickly and score

CROSS COUNTRY The Butler men’s cross country team came away with a first place finish Saturday at the UWParkside Midwest Open.

The team placed first with 25 points, 15 points ahead of Edinboro University, ranked ninth in Division II. Butler boasted the top three finishers. Sophomore Erik Peterson finished first with a time of 24:44, senior Tom Anderson finished second with a time of 24:45, and junior Thomas Curr finished third with a time of 24:47.

Edinboro finished with four runners in the top 10, and their fifth runner placed 11th. Dustin Thomas finished fifth, Bryan Deibel finished sixth, Matt Link in eighth, and Michael Thielman finished in tenth.

Junior James Martin also represented the Bulldogs in the top ten, finishing seventh.

Sophomore Chris Kelsey rounded out the Bulldogs’ scoring, coming in 12th place with a time of 25:36.

Coach Matt Roe said team accomplished their mission.

“I felt like we had an objective, which was just to know the course really well and to get better, and I feel like we did that,” Roe said.

The team will race on the same course for the conference championship in November.

The men’s and women’s teams will be in action Friday at the Indiana Intercollegiate Meet in Bloomington.

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frequently, but that was not the case, as the Bulldogs shut them out.

Michigan came in ranked 11th in the nation, while Butler came in unranked.

The match started out slow, with both teams engaging in back and forth play.

Crisp passing led to the first—and only—goal, which came from Muchow in the 29th minute.

It was the result of an inside pass from sophomore midfielder Sophie Maccagnone that left Muchow right in position to put a shot by freshman goalkeeper Taylor Bucklin.

After the goal, the Bulldogs played stout defense to prevent the Wolverines from getting

anywhere close to the net.

The opening half ended with the Bulldogs leading 1-0.

The second half was a totally different story.

Michigan came out with an aggressive style, resulting in physical play. Two yellow cards were issued in the half—one to each team.

The match finished with two Michigan corner kicks with the game on the line and less than one minute remaining.

Georgetown (No. 10) is the only other Big East team in the Soccer America Top 25.

The Bulldogs take a sevengame undefeated streak into Photo by Rachel Opperman Thursday’s game, with five The Bulldogs celebrate McKenzie Muchow’s (right) game-winning goal wins and two ties. against No. 11 Michigan Sunday at the Butler Bowl.

MEN’S SOCCER With a hot start for the Butler men’s soccer team (30-1), the Bulldogs traveled to the NIU Adidas Invitational over the weekend.

The Bulldogs took on the Northen Illinois Huskies (1-40) Saturday in the first game of the four-team invitational.

Freshman forward Anthony Smith Jr. provided the only goal in the 1-0 victory for the Bulldogs. Smith gave Butler the game-winner in the 35th minute on a shot to the left side of the net.

Senior goalkeeper Jon Dawson had two saves in the match and recorded his first shutout of the season and the seventh of his career.

On Sunday the Bulldogs took on the No. 24 Northwestern Wildcats in the final round of the invitational.

The Wildcats jumped out first with a quick header goal by redshirt senior midfielder Chris Ritter in the 10th minute. Northwestern then pushed its lead to 2-0 with a goal off a free kick by junior defenseman Nikko Boxall.

Butler was unable to score in the match despite outshooting Northwestern 11-6.The Bulldogs had two shots on goal in the first half and three in the final 45 minutes.

With the win and loss, the Bulldogs moved to 4-1-1 on the season. The team returns to action at the Butler Bowl Sunday at 1 p.m. against Brown University.

The Bulldogs then host Indiana University Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. The Hoosiers are 2-3-1 on the season.

-Clayton Young

VOLLEYBALL The No. 15 ranked Michigan State Spartans (91) swept the Butler women’s volleyball team 3-0 (2523, 25-21, 25-18) Saturday for a victory in the Butler Invitational.

The Bulldogs fought three competitive sets, but senior Lauren Wicinski led the charge for the Spartans with 17 kills to send Butler to their second loss of the year.

“Tonight was a tough loss, because even though a lot of people didn’t think we could win, we certainly did,” coach Sharon Clark said.

“Overall though, I thought my kids did a great job and played really well.”

Belle Obert and Brooke Ruffolo, both juniors, were named to the invitational’s All-Tournament Team for outstanding play throughout

the weekend.

“It didn’t go exactly as we wanted it to, but we did a lot of good things and there is a lot we can take away from the weekend.” Obert said.

The loss ended Butler’s tournament-play win streak.

The team started off on Friday afternoon with a 3-2 win over Illinois State, before sweeping IPFW in the evening contest 3-0.

The team will be able to enjoy a few days off before hosting Green Bay in the first round of the Butler Classic on Friday. Other teams in the round robin format classic include Tennessee-Martin and Toledo.

The Bulldogs begin Big East Conference play on Sept. 27 at home against Xavier.

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Heeter a hometown hero “IU and Purdue sound good and everything, but it was a walk-on. I didn’t STAFF REPORTER want to be a hidden dummy The hour ride to Franklin for my four years. I wanted College is a quiet trip. Butler to actually go somewhere I football players want to could contribute early.” remain silent so they can Heeter and Butler had focus on the task ahead. mutual interest in each other The same goes for Butler after Heeter’s visit. Heeter senior running back Trae said he also chose Butler Heeter. With his headphones because of academics. on, listening to rapper Young “The number one thing Jeezy, Heeter tries to pump you notice about him is he himself up before the game is a true student athlete,” at Franklin. said Butler coach Jeff Voris.

Growing up as a child in “He was looking for an Texas, Heeter knew he loved academic institution to the sport of football. play football.

He is driven “Football was my first both academically and love,” Heeter said. “I started athletically.” playing around (age) four Heeter came to Butler or five and I always knew in the fall of 2010 to study I wanted to play football in physical education and precollege.” physical therapy and play Like many college football football. players today, Heeter played Later Heeter would go football growing up. He on to switch his major so played football from grade he could get a degree in school all the way through elementary education. high school.

He had other choices Although football is his to play where the schools passion, Heeter is athletic might have given him a and played other sports scholarship, but Heeter did while at Lawrence North not see non-scholoarship High School in Indianapolis. football as a discouragement.

“Basketball was my next “Coming to a school like favorite sport, then I did Butler, I feel like that is a track and field as well. In scholarship in itself.” high school I was a threeGame day for Heeter is now a natural experience after nearly a whole life of football, but he said he still gets butterflies before he takes the field.

Sitting in the away locker donning his white No. 32 jersey, Heeter gets taped up while looking at the Franklin scouting report.

While he prepares for the game Heeter still listens to his music, flipping back and forth between artist Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” and rapper 2 Chainz’s “Feds Watching.”

All Heeter tries to do is avoid thinking about the actual game. Instead, Heeter humbly reminds himself he plays for his family.

“I give a lot of credit to my brother,” Heeter said. “He was the one that introduced me to football. He’s been Collegian file photo there every step in the way.

Heeter is no stranger to the end zone. He has 20 career touchdowns.

He comes to every game and ADAM WINAY AWINAY@BUTLER.EDU

sport athlete all the way up to my junior year,” Heeter said.

Heeter said he decided to drop basketball after his junior year because he wanted to focus more on his football career at Lawrence North.

“I knew that I was the best at football. I knew that was the sport I was going to play in college,” Heeter said.

Heeter shined on the field his senior year of high school. He was named an allstate running back after he ran for 933 yards and scored nine touchdowns during the season.

After his senior year of high school, Heeter was recruited to play football at the University of Indianapolis and the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne. Heeter was also offered a walk-on spot at Indiana University and Purdue University.

Heeter never knew Butler football existed.

“I never heard of Butler football and I was never too big on that,” Heeter said.

“But I came here for a visit and I just fell in love with coach Voris and the coaching staff.”

Heeter has 215 yards rushing over the first three games, averaging five yards per carry. pushes me every week.”

Heeter said family and his faith in God are his motivations to play.

Last season, Heeter led the Pioneer Football League in rushing with 1,098 yards, averaging 110.3 yards per game. “[Heeter] sees the game better than any running back I’ve been around,” said Patrick Doherty, Butler running back coach. “He just sees holes better than anyone out there. He runs and plays very hard.”

The 2013 season was Heeter’s first full year as the Bulldog’s starting running back. “We were always playing running back by committee,” Voris said.

During his freshman and sophomore years, Heeter saw plenty of playing time but not necessarily at running back.

As a freshman Heeter was the Bulldogs’ top return specialist. He ranked fourth in the PFL in total kickoff return yards.

“He is just dynamic with the ball in his hand,” Voris said. “How many ways can you get him the ball if he’s not playing at running back?

“You’re trying to give him the ball as much as you can whether you hand it to him,

throw it to him or let the other team punt it to him.”

During his sophomore year, Heeter began to see more playing time as running back. As a sophomore, Heeter made the second team All-PFL running back while starting in nine games at running back.

Heeter finished his sophomore year with the most rushing yards on the team, averaging 79.2 yards per game.

The 2013-2014 Butler football season is still young but Heeter is looking forward to continuing his college success.

He said he expects to run for 1,500 yards with 250 yards receiving and 15 touchdowns.

He also said he wants to see the Bulldogs win the PFL championship for a second year in a row and receive an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs.

Off the field, Heeter also puts up impressive statistics in the classroom.

For three years in a row, Heeter has been named to the PFL Academic Honor Roll. Balancing football and academics can be tough, but Heeter manages to perform well in both environments.

“Trae’s got his head on

Mahoney makes most of opportunity AUSTIN MONTEITH AMONTEIT@BUTLER.EDU SPORTS EDITOR

Butler junior defender Kelly Mahoney received an offer from only one school to play Division I soccer. Other schools might regret letting Mahoney slip through the cracks.

Mahoney was named second-team All-Atlantic 10 in 2012. She started the majority of the squad’s matches in both her freshman and sophomore seasons and has started seven of the team’s eight matches this season, all despite the fact she is a non-scholarship player.

Photo by Jaclyn McConnell

Mahoney and the Bulldogs are off to a strong start, going 5-1-2 to start the season.

Assistant coach Ric Huffman first saw Mahoney play while recruiting junior forward Elise Kotsakis from the same Chicago area club team. Before long, the Butler coaching staff began to take notice of Mahoney’s talent as well.

“The more that Ric had seen that team play, Kelly Mahoney stood out just as a very consistent player,” co-head coach Tari St. John said. “If you go watch one of her games one time, you probably don’t notice her.

You watch her four or five times, and you’re like, ‘Hey, that kid’s pretty consistent. She’s pretty steady.’”

St. John said Mahoney fit the style of play the team likes to see from its recruits.

“She’s very technical, she’s very smooth,” St. John said. “But she could also tackle and win balls in the air. We thought she’d be a very good fit for how we saw the game should be played.”

Kotsakis said she estimates she has played alongside Mahoney since they were in sixth grade.

“I’ve known her for a really long time, and we’ve been really good friends ever since playing on club,” Kotsakis said.

“It’s really cool to have that transfer over to high school. That helps a lot.

You know that connection

between the two of you going into college, both on and off the field.

“In the last four years with her, she’s improved so much in confidence level, how she plays. She’s one of the best players on our team.”

Although Mahoney is a defender, she has a scoring touch. She was second on the team in goals last season with four, and is tied for the second most goals on the team this season with two.

Both of her goals this season have been gamewinners, including one in overtime at Bowling Green on Aug. 31.

“Basically, my only opportunity to score is off corners, so I’m expected to do that,” Mahoney said. “The team counts on me to go to hard areas to put the ball in the air. “(Junior forward/ midfielder) Stephanie Kaylor, she plays a perfect ball every time.”

The pharmacy major was named academic all-Atlantic 10 last season while also being selected to the A-10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the Butler Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

“You have to manage your time,” Mahoney said. “You have to do your homework on the road, on the plane. The coaches put school first.”

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straight,” Doherty said.

“He knows when it’s time to work on school work. He knows when he needs to be ready to be on the field.”

In less than nine months, Heeter will be walking across the stage to receive his degree in elementary education.

While Heeter would love to go pro in football, he said he wants to help out the children in the Indianapolis Public School system.

“I know how important my elementary teachers were to me and helping me become successful not only academically but athletically as well,” Heeter said. “I just want to give back to the community.”

Now fully dressed for the game, Heeter stops listening to rapper Lil Jon’s “Throw it Up” and takes his headphones off.

Heeter picks up his white helmet with the big blue “B” and puts it on.

He is ready to go to battle against Franklin. He exits the locker room with his teammates.

The Bulldogs enter on to field with plenty of boos from Franklin’s fans, but Heeter is not worried. Instead, he’s calm, cool, collected and ready to run wild.

FOOTBALL

Bulldogs sneak

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ADAM WINAY AWINAY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

The Butler football team will return home with a 2-1 record for its game against Dartmouth College Saturday after winning on the road against Franklin College, 31-28.

This will be Dartmouth’s first game of the season. It is Butler’s third. Butler’s game against Dartmouth will be the second time in two seasons the Bulldogs and Big Green have played each other.

The Bulldogs lost on the road last season, 35-7.

“It’s exciting for our guys to play against an Ivy League team,” coach Jeff Voris said. “There is a huge unknown. It’s their first game. We have some advantages because we are at home and we’ve got some games under our belt but we have the disadvantage because this is a new team with new players.”

The Bulldogs started the Franklin game off cold but were able to warm up in the second quarter. The Grizzlies prevented the Bulldogs from scoring and only gave up 58 yards in the first quarter.

Butler’s second possession of the second quarter lasted seven minutes, 36 seconds and ended with a one-yard rushing touchdown by Butler senior quarterback Matt Lancaster. Similarly, 10 out of the 17 plays called during this possession were running plays.

The Bulldogs went into halftime down by a touchdown, 14-7. Butler came out for the second half ready to play and outscored Franklin 2410.

Lancaster completed 24 of 33 passes, throwing for 221 yards and one touchdown. Lancaster also ran for 37 yards on nine attempts and two touchdowns.

Senior wide receiver Brendan Shannon finished the game with 119 receiving yards, averaging 10.8 yards per catch.

Senior running back Trae Heeter ran for 129 yards on 27 attempts and one touchdown.

Last Saturday’s game was the first time this season both Lancaster and Heeter played the full game.

The previous games, Lancaster and Heeter were taken out of the game to rest and prevent injury.

Lancaster has already thrown for 566 yards while running for 137 yards. Heeter has run for 215 yard three games into the season.

It has been a different story for the defense. Three games into the season, the Bulldogs’ defense has not been able to stop the air game of their opponents, giving up 843 yards over three games.

Franklin senior quarterback Jonny West went 36-for-58 through the air, accumulating 360 yards and three touchdowns.

Butler’s defense was able to stop Franklin’s running game, only allowing 29 total rushing yards.

The game against Dartmouth will be Butler’s final game before Pioneer Football League play begins. Voris said Dartmouth will be a good challenge before league play starts.

The Bulldogs will face Dartmouth at the Butler Bowl for another game under the lights Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Photos by Marcia Moore , courtesy of Rebecca Dolan Ray C. Freisner surrounded by some of the flowers featured in the Digital Collection of the Freisner Herbarium.

Pressed to preserve A

bit of history is STAFF REPORTER hidden at Butler’s Friesner Herbarium.

The herbarium contains more than 100,000 dried and pressed leaves, making up the third-largest collection of plants in the state. The herbarium is also the site where Dr. Ray C. Friesner—the man for whom the building is named—conducted most of his work.

The Friesner Herbarium recently joined forces with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library to make its collection digital. On their website, butler.edu/ herbarium, more than 18,000 images of the plants and all the information known to date about each individual sample are posted. The goal of the project is to eventually have all 43,000 different Indiana plants in the Butler University Friesner Herbarium posted on the site for easy and convenient access.

Friesner, born in 1894, served Butler as a professor of botany, later leading the botany department for 33 years. Throughout his lifetime, he collected more than 25,500 different plants from the Indianapolis area, all of which are still preserved in Butler’s herbarium.

His ultimate goal before his death in 1952 was to find and record every species of plant in Indiana. Rebecca Dolan, director of the Friesner Herbarium, said his goal continues to be carried out.

“Plants are still being discovered in the area,” Dolan said. “Usually, newfound plants are weeds spreading from neighboring states. Occasionally, a rare plant has always been here, but someone is BRITTANY GARRETT BGARRETT@BUTLER.EDU

just finding it now.”

Although the herbarium has a strong emphasis on plants from Indiana, the collection represents species from all 50 states as well as different countries from around the world. To obtain foreign plants, a system of international trade takes place.

“When a new species is collected, people gather 20 or so duplicates of that plant to trade with other places across the world,” Dolan said.

“In turn, those places would send things back from their country or region.”

According to Dolan, a good specimen is large and has enough material to look at much later and still be identified. Smaller plants should be collected with their roots, while species with flowers should contain those buds in the samples.

The preservation of the plants is what makes a herbarium different from a greenhouse.

“The term “herbarium” is not clear to people sometimes,” Dolan said. “It has pressed and dried plants, basically a giant leaf collection.”

This “leaf” collection is important for historical purposes. Every sample is recorded with where and when that sample was found.

Dolan is also working on a Ray C. Friesner inspired mission. “I am working with a researcher of the Missouri botanical garden to gather a comprehensive list of up-to-date records of all the plants in Indiana,” she said.

Dolan’s book is scheduled to be published later this year.

Until then, if one is curious about the plant specimens to be found from Indiana to India, the Friesner Herbarium is open to the public by appointment by calling 317-940-9413, or by emailing Dolan at rdolan@butler.edu.

Upendra Pandya has completed a feat not many people can boast about. He has perfect attendance at work—for 35 years and counting.

Perfect attendance entails going a whole fiscal year without calling in sick or missing a scheduled workday.

That means, for 12,784 days, Pandya has never missed a scheduled workday.

Pandya works on the building and custodial staff at Butler University. His daily activities include taking out the trash, housekeeping, mopping and waxing the floors, recycling and other various janitorial activities around Ross Hall and Residential College.

“You name it, he does it,” said Augusto Acosta, building services supervisor.

“He has all the knowledge of the daily operation.”

Pandya has been in his same job for the full time that he has been at Butler.

“It is amazing to me that, when we have a task to do, he is always in the mood to go get it, go do it,” said Gustavo Penaloza, team leader of Pandya’s group.

“He knows everything here, all about the job,” said Roberto Lazo, a coworker of Pandya’s. “He knows who’s missing and who is here. He even knows when a key is missing.”

But Pandya’s perfect attendance accomplishment is not the only thing that stands out about him.

“Not only is he not missing a day, it’s that every day he’s here, it’s so valued,” Acosta said.

Pandya is always ready to help out at any time during the day. He stays late and can meet his supervisor or team leader within minutes of when he is called, Penaloza said.

“There (are) so many little things that he takes care of that, when he finally takes a vacation, I receive calls that things aren’t done,” Acosta said. “I know he’s on vacation because somebody calls at the front desk of ResCo and says ‘Hey! We’ve run out of this or that.’”

A language barrier exsists between Pandya, who is from India, and the other staff members who work at Butler. Spanish is the preferred language between staff members, and English is seldom heard.

But this does not deter Pandya from getting to know his coworkers.

“We are coworkers—no—we are pretty good friends,” Penaloza said. “We need to pay attention because of our different languages. We have fun trying to understand each other.”

Pandya acknowledged that he loves working with all of the staff members, but he also loves playing tricks on them.

The staff at ResCo have an assignment area where people sign in and out to go to work or go home.

“He likes to turn the light off and close the door and leave everybody saying, ‘Hey!’” Acosta said. “Everybody knows it’s Upendra. He does that very often.”

Playing pranks on his coworkers and putting maximum effort into his job every day has endeared Pandya to his coworkers and supervisor. Acosta said he never worries about tasks Upendra is assigned to do. Penaloza guarantees that Pandya always finishes his job with energy.

“Almost everyone on staff says that he’s a kid stuck in an old person’s body,” Acosta said. “I don’t believe there’s one person that has anything negative to say about him.”

No matter how long coworkers have worked with Pandya, they can see what a diligent, enthusiastic and funny person he is.

“He’s happy all the time,” Lazo said.

“He’s like a baby, he never stops smiling.”

His accomplishment is not only perfect attendance but perfect attitude at work and life in general. His goal is to try to continue this streak in both areas for as long as possible.

“People describe him as a funny guy, but he is always serious about his job,” Penaloza said. “After all these years, he is always on it.”

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IMA EXHIBIT REVIEW

Majestic African Textiles traces history through garments GINNY SPELLMAN GSPELLMA@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents a comprehensive collection of African garments in its Majestic African Textiles exhibition.

This limited-time display includes an assortment of royal garments, ritual wear and intricately decorated items from North and sub-Saharan Africa.

Each garment in the collection is significant and showcases the beauty and detail of the piece.

Every piece, brightly colored and elaborately patterned, is organized geographically and represents a different African tribe.

Each piece possesses a specific purpose and meaning and creates a visual history of the culture represented.

One distinctive piece is a bride’s headdress for a wealthy African woman in the mid-1900s.

Made of silk, metallic threads

and metallic sequins, this red bridal headdress has meticulous patterns over every inch of fabric.

The gold, metallic sequins, sewn on the edges of the fabric, lay in a way that frames the brides face in an appealing way. The red and the gold color combination really makes an original wedding accessory. The amount of time and effort put into one headdress can be seen in every stitch.

Some of the most eclectic pieces were outfits used in rituals and ceremonies in the early to mid 1900s.

The costumes are unique and cannot be compared to any modern garments.

While the functionality is confusing at first, the outfits make more sense when the customs are explained.

No matter what culture or type of occasion the outfit was used for, the fabrics and natural fibers played a vital role in African mask traditions.

A masquerade costume, worn for ceremonies and rituals, stands

out as the most creative garment in the exhibit.

The costume had a colorful, feather-like top over a brown fabric.

An activity center at the end of the exhibit explains how some of these outfits were made and out of what they were made.

One station demonstrated how to weave the fabrics together to make the cloth.

Another station shows which fibers made which material and the process of making each individual fabric from those fibers.

This activity center really adds to the exhibit by showing how much work is necessary to create a piece of clothing so striking.

The Majestic Africa Textiles will be at the IMA until March 2, 2014. Admission is free.

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Photo by Ginny Spellman

African customary costumes are displayed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

The Butler Collegian’s Easy-reference fall arts calendar September / October THEATRE “The Crucible,” Sept. 17 - Oct. 13 Indiana Repertory Theatre 140 W. Washington St. Indianapolis (317) 635-5252 or visit www.irtlive.org “An Iliad,” Oct. 16 - Nov. 16 Indiana Repertory Theatre 2013 Tony-winning play “Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike” Phoenix Theatre, Sept. 19 - Oct. 20 749 N. Park Ave. Indianapolis (317) 635-7529 or visit www.phoenixtheatre.org “Rancho Mirage,” Oct. 24 - Nov. 24 Phoenix Theatre

FAMILY “Autumn Equinox,” Sept. 21 - 22 FREE Richard B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park Adjacent to the Indianapolis Museum of Art Tour the 100-acre nature park while interacting with characters like Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, played by NoExit Performance actors.

Buy tickets at www.noexitperformance.org “The Witches,” Oct. 11 - 20 Young Actors’ Theatre IndyFringe BasileTheatre, 719 E. St. Clair St. www.yatkids.org

MUSIC Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Opening Night Gala, Sept. 20 More concerts throughout the fall Hilbert Circle Theatre, 32 E. Washington St. www.indianapolissymphony.org Indy Jazz Fest, Sept. 12 - 21 Various programs and venues www.indyjazzfest.net

FILM Heartland Truly Moving Pictures Film Festival Oct. 17 - 26, various Indy venues Tickets on sale Sept. 23 www.trulymovingpictures.org

VISUAL ART Matisse, Life in Color, Oct. 13 - Jan. 12, 2014 Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Rd. www.imamuseum.org First Friday—galleries open to explore FREE Harrison Center for the Arts 1505 N. Delaware St. www.harrisoncenter.org

DANCE Indianapolis School of Ballet performance FREE ArtsGarden, Sept. 22 at 2:00 p.m.

110 W. Washington St. Dance Kaleidoscope’s “New Dimensions” Oct. 24-27 Indiana Repertory Theatre www.dancekal.org

Select Events at Butler University SEPTEMBER Faculty Artist Series (music) Most Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., Sept. - Nov. Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall Are There More of You? (theatre) Tomorrow, Saturday at 7:00 p.m.

Schrott Center Galileo (theatre) Friday, Saturday at 7:00 p.m.

Schrott Center Butler Symphony Orchestra Sept. 29, 3:00 p.m.

Schrott Center OCTOBER

November / December THEATRE “A Christmas Carol,” Nov. 16 - Dec. 24 Indiana Repertory Theatre “Angels we have heard while high,” Phoenix Theatre, Nov. 29 - Dec. 22 MUSIC ISO “Yuletide Celebration,” Nov. 6 - Dec. 23 Hilbert Circle Theatre Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Various dates and venues www.icomusic.org VISUAL ART Christmas at Lilly House 2013 FREE Nov. 16 - Jan. 5 Indianapolis Museum of Art—Lilly House

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m.

Schrott Center Composers’ Orchestra Oct. 10., 8:00 p.m.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

FREE

Butler Theatre: Trojan Women Oct. 22, 7:00 p.m.

Schrott Center Dance Student Choreography Showcase FREE Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.

Lilly Hall 110 NOVEMBER Butler Theatre: Romeo and Juliet Nov. 13-17 Schrott Center Chamber Choir Concert Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

FREE

DECEMBER Butler Theatre Presents (various plays) Dec. 2-5 Schrott Center

Scissor photo from sxc.hu. Illustration by Kevin Vogel

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 the butler

COLLEGIAN The Butler watchdog and voice for BU students

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OPINION Reorganization of spaces needed If parking policies were adjusted, more students could be better serviced Now that everyone is settled in, it is time to revise the schools parking policy in order to convenience the most people.

Many communications students can only save their classwork on computers in Fairbanks, so to work outside of class, students need access to this building at all hours of the night.

Students who work in academic buildings far away from student parking lots will have big issues in the coming months.

With the cold of winter fast approaching, it will be much more convenient to park outside of buildings where students will be working.

There are commuter lots by the library. But for those who work primarily in Fairbanks, that is a long trek especially in the wee hours of the night.

The lots in front of the academic buildings sit close to empty most nights.

At the beginning of the year, it was understandable to make the lots have the same policy 24/7 while we adjusted to the new policy.

Now that we can determine the parking patterns, it is safe to adjust these policies to where it can appease the most amount of people.

On the weekends the parking policy should be different Students may need to commute across campus and need their vehicle to do so.

It is only logical that the

administration allow anyone to park in any lot on the weekends, especially when many of the people who come to campus for business will not be working during these days. Most of the commuter or contractor lots will not be in use. Lots like TKE sit empty a lot of time. It would be more efficient if contractors had desginated spots in this lot, and the rest would go to students.

I am a fan of Dawg Ride and the services that BUPD offers, but sometimes it is just easier to do your own thing.

As more people begin to use Dawg Ride, it will become increasingly busier and take longer to respond to students because of demand.

After a long night of studying, many will not want to call someone to transport him or her to somewhere else on campus when they can easily drive themselves.

If one has to commute to multiple locations on campus or haul a large item, it is much easier if each student had his or her own individual form of transportation, as opposed to calling Dawg Ride or BUPD. On the weekends and after classes have ended, parking on all lots should be allowed.

Contact Opinion editor Rhyan Henson at rhenson@butler.edu.

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Faculty members stage a sit-in in part of the Fairbanks Building parking lot Monday morning to show displeasure with the parking situation on campus.

Common sense should replace ticketing Butler needs to realize some situations do not call for distribution of parking tickets It is no secret at this point that parking at Butler University changed quite a bit over the summer.

Students, faculty and staff trying to park on campus should have a good idea of where they can and cannot park at this point.

Butler University—through its police department—is making that task more difficult than it should be with rampant ticketing.

Ticketing is not fine if the Butler administration cannot appropriately communicate with students about where they can actually park.

One example: Before the I Lot was ready to be parked in, students with permits for the lot were asked to park in front of Hinkle Fieldhouse.

I know of an individual in this situation who decided to drive into Broad Ripple on the day of Butler’s football game on Sept. 7.

When that individual tried to return to the Hinkle lot—which was not full, by any means—she was denied access without payment because all parking in the area had been turned into football parking.

She decided to park in the also sparsely-populated Residential College lot.

And she received a parking ticket around 5 a.m. because she failed to move her vehicle back to the Hinkle lot after the game—one with a 6 p.m. start time—had ended.

What is the purpose of this? If the ResCo lot was absolutely full, a person parked in it with the wrong permit would be fair game.

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But in a mostly-empty lot on a Sunday morning, Butler is just attempting to grub money from its students by ticketing.

Last weekend, Lambda Chi Alpha held its annual Watermelon Bust.

As part of the event, a large tent was set up in the fraternity’s parking lot. After consulting BUPD, fraternity members believed they could park in the Clowes Memorial Hall lot as long as they weren’t there overnight.

Ticketing began around 10 p.m., so cars were moved to the Hinkle lot.

The following night, the same event took place. This time, however, cars moved to Hinkle were ticketed.

Although those tickets were eventually repealed, the attempt to ticket students—twice in one night, no less—when they are parked at Butler has asked them to be is alarming.

These are situations where cars are being parked overnight in closeto-empty lots.

So why is it necessary to ticket them?

Butler needs to sacrifice bringing in more money for common sense when it comes to parking tickets.

Contact editor in chief Colin Likas at clikas@butler.edu.

Butler’s advisers not achieving key goal Due to a lack of knowledge, communication or effort, too many Butler University advisers fail to help their students achieve success.

An adviser’s job is to guide his or her students to the right classes and opportunities to achieve the students’ goals.

Students are disadvantaged when their advisers don’t fulfill their academic needs.

Incompetence of advisers creates problems for students. Students may experience frustration when signing up for classes or even an inability to graduate in four years.

Some Collegian staff members have applied for graduation and found out they didn’t know about a certain requirement to graduate. At this point, they have had to stay extra semesters because their advisers didn’t catch the mistakes.

Advisers’ mistakes have cost students and their families extra time and money that some individuals may not have been able to afford.

In other cases, students who switch advisers have received conflicting information from their new advisers within the same department.

These problems shouldn’t happen. Students have advisers for the very purpose of navigating the often confusing world of curriculum requirements. Some advisers aren’t guiding their

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requirements, whether core curriculum or department curriculum, faculty receives an email about the change.

When faculty inboxes are overflowing on a daily basis, this isn’t an effective way to communicate changes that could impact students’ educational plans.

One way to help fix these issues is to increase communication between advisers and their students.

Professors need to foster relationships with the students they are advising. The university should require multiple meetings each semester so that advisers have the time and opportunity to have in-depth conversations with their students about future goals.

Students’ success is the most important aspect of a university. The best advisers are those that go the extra mile to help their students.

The university could also implement a independent review of advisers. Taking issues to higher officials would help highlight specific problems students encounter. Butler could save itself time and effort by monitoring advisors more closely during throughout the semester.

The advising system needs to improve.

Butler students deserve to receive accurate and relevant information about their education. Their graduation and career opportunities may depend on it.

STUDENTS WILL STRUGGLE TO GRADUATE IF ADVISERS DO NOT COMMUNICATE. 28-0-3 students well.

In the College of Communications (, all fulltime professors are also advisers. The college tries to appoint an equal number of students to each adviser. This practice makes the assumption that all professors are qualified to advise students.

CCOM professors receive an introduction to the my.butler system and the graduation requirements for the university when they arrive and become advisers. There is no real “training program” for novice advisers.

We are using CCOM as an example and as a microcosm of the university, but this is a small amount of preparation in relation to the important role advising plays in a student’s career.

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) offers additional workshops for professors who want to improve their advising. However, this training is not mandated for faculty with advisees. All advisers, in every college should be mandated to attend these courses for the sake of their advisees.

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Homesick Heartaches Independence is key to personal growth, but how often should students visit home?

Hi, my name is Abby Bien. I am an 18-year-old college student, living an hour away from home, and I have a confession.

I miss my parents. And you know what? I promise you I’m not alone.

Don’t get me wrong: Butler is great, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. But there’s something about snuggling up on the couch and watching “Downtown Abbey” with my family that I wish I hadn’t taken for granted.

It’s those little moments and privileges—like taking a 40-minute shower with The Jonas Brothers blaring—that I truly miss.

This feeling isn’t causing me to sit in my room and sob. I don’t even talk to my parents everyday.

I just have a few minutes every couple of days where I realize that the life I have been living for 18 years is no longer. And that’s

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weird.

Josh Klapow, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the University of Alabama’s School of Public Health, commented on the truth behind homesickness in a 2010 CNN article by Derrick Ho. “You’re not literally just missing your house,” he said, “you’re missing what’s normal, what is routine.”

The feeling may seem foreign, but it’s not a rare one on campus.

Many people can become homesick or feel unsure about their college transition.

“You feel a lot of emotions about missing home and loving Butler at the same time,” Miller said.

Dr. Keith Magnus, the director of the counseling and

consultation services at the Heath and Recreation Center, offered some advice for adjusting students.

“Try to stay on campus for six weeks,” Magnus said. “That will give you a better chance to get connected to Butler and the people around you.”

My first visit home is scheduled for five weeks after move-in. Through considered too short by Magnus, I feel that this will be the perfect stretch for me.

Everybody’s situation is different.

For some, waiting until Thanksgiving to give their parents a hug is just fine. For others, the first week of classes is hard. Both situations are perfectly all right.

If longing for a hug from mom, freshman Katy Robinson recommends sending a text to parents once a day with updates.

Just make sure to live the life of a Butler college student.

“The best way to distract yourself from missing home is to immerse yourself in your new life at Butler,” sophomore Sarah Burns said.

Getting the most out of a college experience will prove difficult if a student spends each weekend traveling home to watch Netflix with his or her dog.

Some students can easily head home when needed. Other students are a plane ride away, and can visit home just twice a year.

Senior Abby Miller admitted she felt homesick during her freshman year.

Miller is from Colorado, and is only able to travel home on breaks. When feeling that ache for home, finding trustworthy friends to talk to is essential, she said.

Homesickness will probably hit at some point.

“Stay busy, and you will miss home less,” said Miller.

Talk to friends and call parents, but don’t forget that we’re in college now, and this is home.

Contact columnist Abby Bien at abien@butler.edu.

Go for the money Students put forth too much effort to work at internships that do not pay Hundreds of tasks fill the list of things to do before graduation.

One task is to land an internship.

Unfortunately, classes, bills and other expenses do not disappear when students take on a new internship experience.

Nowadays, working an internship could give a student a pivotal advantage over candidates. The catch is, not all internships are paying and in the worst of situations, the student seems to be paying to work for them.

Most majors at Butler require student participation in an internship.

These internships range from a number of places and fields of study, and are considered essential to mastering one’s concentration. Some are paid, others are not, but most qualify for university credit.

College credit, however, does not pay school tuition or housing and rent.

The Fair Pay Campaign is growing in places like New York, Washington D.C. and California. Organized by 23-year-old Mikey Franklin, the campaign is against the use of unpaid interns, and discourages colleges from steering students toward academic credit-only internships, according to The Huffington Post.

“We don’t encourage or discourage a paid versus unpaid experience,”said Gary Beaulieu, director of internship and career services. “We encourage the student to do what’s right for their set of circumstances and for the experience they want.”

On average, about 50 to 60 percent of internship experiences associated with Butler are paid, Beaulieu said.

Even more employers should offer financial compensation for interns.

Many students have to help pay for all of their college expenses. If an internship does not pay, the student might have to work an additional parttime job in order to keep up with living expenses.

“Unpaid is definitely not for everyone, and I wish that all employers could pay students for their work,” Beaulieu said. “When we talk with employers about offering internships to students, we encourage them to pay

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students for the work that they do.”

Sophomore Grey Gordon is an album advocate intern at Asthmatic Kitty Records. Working with the local band Lily & Madeleine, Gordon is building a digital street team and fan base in exchange for three credit hours.

“Of course it would be nice if it was paid,” Gordon said, “but honestly the lessons I learn are priceless.”

If the lessons learned are worth no pay, then take an unpaid internship.

Just make sure it is worth it.

Gordon worked during the summer and currently works six hours a week on-campus in order to pay for any necessities.

Students that do a good job at an internship could possibly secure a position in the company for the future. However, the situation is not guaranteed.

Unpaid interns across the United States have taken action against employers who do not pay.

Some have attempted suing magazine publishers, modeling agencies and TV talk show hosts, according to The Huffington Post. In New York, a federal judge ruled that FOX Searchlight Pictures violated the federal minimum wage and overtime laws when it did not pay interns for working on the movie “Black Swan.”

Internships are important, but so are bills, food and the costs of life.

Perhaps one day, with the help of the Fair Pay Campaign, all internships will be paid.

“Anything that highlights the need for more paid opportunities and helps highlight the financial struggles of some students is a good thing,”Beaulieu said.

Students should utilize Butler ICS and other networking contacts to find paid internships, even when hard.

ICS is located in located in Atherton Union, room 315, for any students who need help with resumes, interviews and employment and networking opportunities.

Contact assistant Opinion section editor Taylor Powell at tjpowell@butler.edu.

Handicapped issues go unnoticed The handicapped community deserves more respect from society We often don’t realize the fight for equality stretches well past issues such as gay marriage and equal pay.

Yes, these are extremely important issues, and we have taken great strides to improve equality among people. On Jan. 29 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. In June, the Supreme Court overturned part of the Defense of Marriage Act. While these are great victories for women and the LGBT community, we often overlook those who don’t make the national news. The fight for equality still exists for people who are paralyzed, sick, blind or just want to feel no different than you or I. Recently at work, my coworkers and I were discussing a drop in our

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customer satisfaction score when someone pointed out a situation she had come across. We have a regular customer who uses a walker to get around. Out of politeness, my coworker went to open the door for him to let him out of the branch. He responded by saying, “If you ever do that again, I’m going to close my accounts and go to another bank.”

Surprising, right?

Yet while the rest of us were trying to figure out why he was such a jerk, my boss pointed out something very important. She asked if we open the door for every customer every time.

Of course, the answer was no. She then asked, “Do you think that he views it as singling him out because he is elderly and disabled?”

Then, a few days ago, I was watching one of my favorite shows, “The League.“ It’s a show about several friends in a fantasy football league together. This season, the writer’s introduced Ted, an outof-town player who is mentioned throughout the series, but has not appeared until now.

He has AIDS. As I watched the episodes, joke after joke about Ted’s condition was made, including one in which one of the other characters believe Ted’s medication is the secret to winning and takes a whole bag. I was shocked and could not understand why anyone would find this funny.

I decided to do some research on the writers.

June Thomas, a writer for Slate. com, spoke with the writers about why they chose to give Ted AIDS.

Their response really caught my attention.

“Ted’s still the same smug, intolerable, cocky bastard that he was in high school,” one show creator Jeff Schaffer said. “Just because he has AIDS doesn’t mean he’s all of a sudden become a saint.

He’s the same person he was. It didn’t affect his personality.”

In October 2004, BBC disability website Ouch! ran a poll about what were words considered the most offensive concerning disabilities.

Among the top ten were “special,” “brave,” and “handicapped.’

It was reported that these words differentiate those with disabilities from normal.

That’s what it is really about.

There are dozens of people all around us who may be secretly suffering humiliation at what we perceive as kindness. I believe any one of us would hate to be treated as if we were less than capable, so why shouldn’t they? I often find myself

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very annoyed when my fiancé tries to do things for me that I am very capable of handling myself. I’ve even gone as far as to say to her, “Listen, I appreciate the concern, but I am a grown man, not a child.

Please stop treating me like I can’t handle this.”

That’s just my fiancé who is trying to help me. Imagine if almost everyone we met treated us that way. Imagine if you had a terminal illness or disability and everyone treated you as if you were incapable of living a normal life.

This does not mean that we should stop being polite. Just remember, treat everyone the same.

Treat everyone as if they are just like you. And remember the great words of the founders of this nation: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Contact columnist Tony Espinal at tespinal@butler.edu.

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LET US KNOW.

What was your favorite part about Butlerpalooza?

“Getting sprayed with water from B.o.B’s water bottle when he threw it on the crowd.”

“The environment, everyone was all hyped up and excited.”

“Hearing ‘We Come Running’

by Youngblood Hawke and being with my friends.”

Taylor Gillenwater Freshman Exploratory business

Briana Lovell Freshman Biology

Austin Butikofer Sophomore Pre-pharmacy

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Youngblood Hawke (from left to right) drummer Nik Hughes, vocalist Alice Katz, and vocalist Sam Martin opening for B.o.B. at Butlerpalooza last Saturday.

Youngblood Hawke’s lead singer Sam Martin (left) sings with Omar Ahmed on bass.

Photos by Jaclyn McConnell

The Butlerpalooza crowd getting excited as B.o.B. asks for girls to come twerk to one of his songs with him on stage. Several girls rushed at the opportunity and joined him.

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The Butlerpalooza crowd at the end of the night, showing their love to B.o.B. as he raps on stage.

At the end of the concert, DJ Shawty Slim (right) says goodbye as B.o.B. (right) smiles at the crowd.

The Butlerpalooza crowd at the end of the night showing their love to B.o.B. as he raps on stage.