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A NEW ERA

BY ARIKA HERRON acherron@butler.edu | editor-in-chief

JAMES DANKO

James Danko will succeed Bobby Fong as Butler University’s 21st President.

Board of Trustees President Jim Hargrove made the announcement at 2 p.m. today in the Reilly Room, concluding a six-month nationwide search. “[Danko] has proven successes in areas important to the Butler community: recruitment and retention of excellent faculty, service to students, strategic planning, fundraising, consensus-building and curricular innovation,” Hargrove said.

Danko comes from Villanova University, where he has served as the dean of the School of Business since 2005.

Under his tenure, the Villanova’s business school has gone from unranked to a consistent top 20-ranked program in the

NSAC course dropped for fall

Officers arrest three in connection to Sigma Nu burglary

BY SARA PRUZIN spruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

BY AJA CACAN acacan@butler.edu | staff writer

At 10:30 p.m. Friday, Butler University Police Department dispatch received a call from a student and Sigma Nu fraternity member, who reported seeing an individual near the front porch and a window of the fraternity house.

Butler Chief of Police Ben Hunter said that the individuals were then seen carrying a television into a Chrysler PT Cruiser.

When chased by the police, four suspects jumped out of their cars and headed off in different directions into the neighborhood. At this point, BUPD requested assistance from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, who were immediately on the scene.

“BUPD officers caught two suspects,” Hunter said. “When [IMPD] showed up, they established a perimeter and called for a K-9 and were able to catch the third suspect.”

Hunter said the fourth suspect was able to escape the perimeter and is still at large. However, the officers were able to identify him thanks to the description provided by the original caller.

“He was not arrested, but we’re presenting the case to the prosecutor’s office and it will be up to them to issue a warrant.

He was not caught, so we have to prove or present evidence that that individual was there,” Hunter said.

After the case was presented on Tuesday, the deputy pros-

AFTER THE CRIME: (From left) Sophomores Scott Nemeth and Matt Doolin look at the damage after a burglary Friday night. (Photo by Ryan Love) ecutor signed off on the warrant for the fourth suspect, which he will present to a judge for signature.

The three detained suspects were placed on a 72-hour hold that night while BUPD detective Tony Rivera worked with prosecutor to put the case together.

Sophomore political science and international studies major Scott Nemeth was home for Easter when he received a call informing him his room had been broken into.

“They ended up kicking in the window and breaking all of the glass, as well as the screen,” Nemeth said. “It was completely torn apart, the desk chairs were knocked over, and they went through all of our drawers and closet.” _________________________________________________see burglary page 2

Butler bids farewell to Fong family

BY JILL MCCARTER jmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

A familiar face on campus that can be seen walking from his home on Blue Ridge Road to his office or sitting at his unofficially reserved table at Starbucks on Monday afternoons, Butler University President Bobby Fong has built a reputaBOBBY FONG tion.

It’s the type of reputation that got him to where he is today and it’s a reputation that landed him his next job—taking on the role of president at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Penn.

When Fong was offered the position by the search committee at Ursinus on Oct. 1 of last year, it was the first time in 10 years that he had considered leaving Butler.

“I feel comfortable in leaving,” Fong said. “The university is in good shape now.

“I look forward to handing over the reins and saying, ‘You’ve really got a nice base to build from.’”

country. He has quadrupled financial giving to the school and grown faculty. Application numbers to the school of business have doubled under Danko, allowing for more selectivity.

Prior to his work at Villanova, Danko has held leadership roles at the Tuck School at Dartmouth, the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Before working in academia, he spent nearly 20 years as an entrepreneur, starting his first company—Exercare Corporation—at the age of 19 in Cleveland, his hometown. What started as a surgical supply company in 1973 grew to include home and corporate fitness equipment, exercise rehabilitation and orthopedic products by the time Danko sold the company in 1990.

Danko and his wife Bethanie will move to campus this summer following Fong’s May 31 departure for Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa.

Fong received a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University in 1973. After graduation, he was accepted into Stanford with hopes to go onto law school. The school didn’t offer him the money he needed to attend and he instead took a fellowship to University California-Los Angeles to pursue his second option.

“He was dirt poor and terrified,” Fong’s wife, Suzanne said. “He just said, ‘Well, I guess this means that I’m going to be an English professor.’ It was that close of a decision.”

Fong graduated with a doctorate in English in 1978. He went on to take a teaching position at Berea College in Berea, Ky., 45 minutes south of Lexington, Ky. After nine years teaching, Fong began to get restless.

“He’s a big-picture thinker,” Suzanne said. “He wanted to make more of a difference and he just wasn’t satisfied as a professor anymore.”

He was nominated for a dean’s position at Hope College in Holland, Mich., a position that he accepted at the end of 1989.

He spent six years as dean of arts and humanities at Hope. He saw even more potential to help and plan as a provost, professor and dean of the faculty at __________________________see fong page 2

Bobby Fong’s Time at Butler University June 1, 2001 Bobby Fong becomes the 20th president of Butler Sep. 24, 2004 In what Fong described as the most difficult day of his presidency, BUPD officer James L. Davis was shot and killed in the line of duty.

May 31, 2009 Fong finished the successful Butler Rising campaign, which raised more than $154 million.

Oct. 29, 2010 Fong announces his intent to assume the presidency at Ursinus College at the start of the 201112 academic year.

May 27, 2011 Fong will be on campus for the last time as president. He will, however, hold the title of president until June 30.

Butler’s student advertising club, BUAdrenaline, placed first for the second consecutive year in the National Student Advertising Campaign, but losing their adviser may hinder their success next year.

Donna Gray, a strategic communications instructor and the group’s adviser, will be leaving Butler at the end of the semester. She said there is no apparent replacement for her role in Butler’s NSAC team.

The course will not be offered in the fall, but William Neher, dean of the College of Communication, said it will be offered in the spring.

This shortens what is usually a year-long process and class into a single semester.

Mark Rademacher, strategic communications program director in the College of Communication, said they dropped the course for the fall so faculty could attend the NSAC conference and learn more about the competition procedure. “[Gray] advised that we offer the course only in the spring next academic year, but in future years go back to a two-semester option,” Rademacher said. “We’ve committed to do this, as long as there is student interest.”

Junior Karissa Tepe, an integrated communication major said these time constraints will affect how the group functions.

“I definitely think one year is more beneficial for a team to complete such an intense campaign,” Tepe said. “It will definitely be a lot more stressful in one semester. A one year class is ideal for this campaign.”

Gray has worked as an advertising professional for many years, which she said allows her to guide students better.

“When you’re at the competition you see the difference,” she said. “You see the schools that don’t have advisers who get it or who just teach classes.”

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Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, the NSAC allows students to compete against 11 other schools in the region to design an advertising campaign. The group then presents their idea to a client.

This year’s client was retailer JCPenney.

The group meets as a class throughout the year and functions as an advertising agency with real-world roles and scenarios.

Gray said it helps students build professional skills they will need in the workplace.

“It can’t be just a good idea, it has to be researched and developed,” she said.

“Every component has to be at a professional level. It’s not just a homework assignment.

It’s a real thing. The client is probably going to use at least a part of it.”

Ryan Pylipow, a senior integrated communication major, was a part of the group’s design team. He agreed with Gray, and said the experience teaches very different skills than other classes.

“We can’t simply regurgitate what the textbook says,” he said. “This class forces us to use the knowledge we have accumulated through classes and put it into practice. “ Pylipow said Gray’s professional experience and her dedication to the team added greatly to the team’s success.

“She would stay up rehearsing with the presentation team until midnight or later, and then be up early again the next morning to start all over,” he said.

The amount of time and effort the team spends on preparing for the competition has brought them all closer together, Pylipow said.

“It’s a three credit hour class, but we spend so much time together that it feels like a family,” Pylipow said.

This was sophomore Katie Carlson’s first year competing in the NSAC. The public relations and advertising major was on the public relations and pitch team. She ______________see NSAC page 4

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Bassoonist named alternate in international contest

Student to teach in France on Fulbright Scholarship

BY KATE SIEGFRIED ksiegfri@butler.edu | staff writer

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEEN adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

Butler University senior Adam Weaver has received a Fulbright Foundation Teaching Assistantship in France.

The Fulbright Foundation, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, partners with the French Consulate to provide teaching opportunities for U.S. students in France.

Weaver, a double major in French and music, will teach English at the Académie de Rouon in Normandy, France.

He found out about receiving the award on the bus ride home after the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Game.

“Amidst everybody on the bus being kind of upset and still a little sad, I decided to keep it in [about the Fulbright scholarship],” Weaver said. “The first people I actually told were complete strangers that I bumped into at a restaurant in Houston.”

He said he was thrilled about receiving the opportunity to teach in France.

“I was really excited because it is this feeling of working so hard to get somewhere and you don’t know for so long,” he said. “When you find out that you get to do something that you really want to do, it’s that feeling of ‘I can’t believe I am actually able to do this.’”

As a junior, Weaver spent a semester abroad in France.

“I loved my time there,” he said. “I loved the people, I loved the program and I loved studying. I loved exploring and I wanted to go back.”

Weaver said one of his professors abroad inspired him to consider teaching in France post-graduation.

She told Weaver about her experience teaching French to English speakers, and it struck a cord in him.

“She taught me how to think in a different way about learning a language,” Weaver said. “She really

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011

Photo by Maria Porter ADAM WEAVER opened my eyes to how much you can learn from other people’s mistakes and how it can teach you and also help the people you teach. I thought about it and I decided that that was what I wanted to do.”

Associate professor of French Eloise Sureau has taught Weaver at Butler. She said this program is a perfect opportunity for him.

“This is really a foot in the door for him,” Sureau said.

“This is what he has always dreamed about, and now this has happened for him.”

Sureau said the program couldn’t have chosen a more deserving person.

“It couldn’t go to anybody better,” she said. “He has always been a hardworking person while at the same time knowing how to enjoy himself. I think he is one of those students who have really found the perfect middle ground.”

Professor of music Doug Spaniol echoed Sureau’s opinion of Weaver. Spaniol has taught Weaver as a music student and has also known him outside of class as a member of the music sorority Tau Beta Sigma.

“He is very likable and personable,” Spaniol said.

“He is very energetic and interesting.

“He just has a happy, upbeat personality. He is always smiling.”

Spaniol said those characteristics make Weaver deserving of the Fulbright scholarship.

“He is bright and ambitious and I think that he will make a good diplomat,” Spaniol said.

Weaver hopes to continue to teach in France after the Fulbright Scholarship ends.

A Chat with Adam Weaver Collegian: What do you plan to do?

Adam Weaver: I would really like to stay in France for at least five years. I feel like my best opportunity there is to teach English because they have a really big need for that there, but any chance that I get to work there, I probably will do it.

C: What is your favorite book?

AW: 1984 by George Orwell.

C: What is your favorite thing about Butler?

AW: That’s hard. I like Butler in general. There is just some sense of spirit here that has always kind of been here. When I came here for the first time there was just something in me that said this is where I should be and it’s always kind of been like that.

Stephen Duncan, a junior bassoon performance major, has been named the alternate in the International Double Reed Society’s Young Artist competition, the most prestigious bassoon competition for players ages 22 and younger.

Duncan has been playing the bassoon for eight years, and, as alternate, he will get to compete for first place if any of the top three competitors are unable to compete.

This is the second time that Duncan has entered this competition. The first was his

freshman year.

Duncan found out about his placement in the competition April 15, about three months after he submitted his recording.

“I was absolutely ecstatic when I received the news,” Duncan said. “I couldn’t believe it.”

The top three finalists are from the Julliard School, France and Venezuela.

“Stephen is incredibly ambitious and hard working, and this is the most impressive competition that any of my students has made it into,” said Douglas Spaniol, professor of music at Butler.

To prepare, Spaniol said that Duncan practiced for hours on his own to make the recording flawless. He also spent over 10 hours rehearsing with a pianist.

For this competition, the recording must remain unedited, meaning that Duncan had to play all the way through his piece each time until it was perfect.

Each contestant is given a list of repertoire to equalize the competition. Once you are chosen as a finalist or alternate, you are given another piece to prepare for the final competition.

The competition will take

STEPHEN DUNCAN place June 2 in Tempe, Ariz., at the annual Double Reed Society convention.

“It is an honor to be a part of such a highly recognized competition,” Duncan said.

Butler to participate in Walk to Save Lives

BY BROOKE DEADY bdeady@butler.edu | staff writer

On April 30, students will be participating in the Walk to Save Lives from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Walk to Save Lives, put on by the Butler chapter of To Write Love On Her Arms, is a walk that raises money for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention.

Amber Sapp, a sophomore psychology major and president of the Butler TWLOHA chapter, said that the money raised goes to programs for education and prevention.

Registration starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and the walk begins at 11.

“We hope a lot of people show up,” Sapp said. “There’s no need to register early. A lot of people usually end up coming to walk the day of.”

So far about 60 people are signed up to participate.

“Usually a couple hundred [people participate], but since we’re a smaller campus, we’re not expecting several hundred,” said Krista Miller, a sophomore electronic journalism major. “We

have 60 participants signed up already, and our goal was at least 50, so we’re happy with that.”

Some people participating in this walk have participated in other walks like this before.

Emma Rhoads, a freshman biology and pre-veterinary major, participated in the Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk in Chicago, Ill., with her family during the summer of 2009.

“The event started at 7 p.m., at Soldier field where families told their stories about how they’ve personally been affected by suicide,” Rhoads said. “The walk was 16.8 miles throughout downtown Chicago. There were rest breaks every couple of miles where they would give you snacks and make sure you were doing okay.

“Along the way there were many people walking there for support if you felt the need to talk.

“The walk concluded in Soldier Field where they had all the luminary bags that people made, lined up to make a pathway up to the final endpoint. My family made ours in honor of my mom.”

Rhoads said that more than 2,000 people participated in that walk.

The AFSP holds walks at campuses all over the United States, which lead up to the overnight walk in the summer.

The Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk is held every summer in different cities throughout the country. This summer’s is in New York.

Sapp and Miller participated in the Walk to Save Lives in Bloomington, Ind., last year, and then the walk in Indianapolis this past fall. “[The walk] was really meaningful and touching, so I thought that it would be great if we did this on the Butler campus,” Miller said.

Miller said these walks bring up a subject that isn’t always talked about.

“I’m a huge supporter of these walks because I don’t think many people are aware of how important this situation is,” Rhoads said. “Suicide is the No. 2 killer of college students.

“Many people do not realize what the AFSP does. What these walks do is raise awareness in the community about suicide prevention.”

burglary: BUPD ARRESTS THREE FOR BURGLARY AT SIGMA NU HOUSE continued from page 1 One of the witnesses at the scene was junior political science and international studies major Matthew Kasper.

“What was strange about the event was that our chapter house had people in it, and it was fairy early considering it was a Friday night,” Kasper said.

Hunter said the event was uncommon, given that most burglaries statistically don’t happen in the evening or nighttime.

“Our staff was out there patrolling, so it’s disheartening to me that these individuals did something so bold,” he said.

Hunter said with the exception of a few outstanding items, most of the stolen items have been recovered.

Nemeth said that he was able to claim his television upon returning to campus on Sunday.

“The Xbox was never recovered, and my roommate got his laptop back but we are still missing his backpack as well as some other small things,” he said.

Kasper said he was grateful that no one was injured, and that much credit is due to the response by BUPD and IMPD. “Our house dad Sgt. Banner was on the scene Friday night, so that was beneficial. It was also great to see [Hunter] on the scene and I heard even [Levester] Johnson visited the chapter house,” Kasper said.

Hunter said that a major part of the quick response was the fact that BUPD continued to receive updated information and descriptions from students. The first call was around 10:30 p.m. and the last suspect was apprehended at 11:00 p.m.

“There are a lot of things that worked well on this case.

We had 12 witness statements that were all consistent, and that is key for putting the case together,” Hunter said.

Hunter recommends always contacting BUPD directly to ensure an instant response.

SCENE OF THE CRIME: The men of Sigma Nu patched up the damage left behind at their house by burglars Friday night. (Photo by Ryan Love) “What was very important and assisted us in this case is that the student called BUPD dispatch right away. There wasn’t a delay,” he said.

The case is still being put together and outstanding issues are being resolved, after which it will be presented and moved through the criminal justice system.

“It’s a fluid case with a lot of moving parts,” said Hunter.

The latest update came on Tuesday, after the complete case was presented. According to Hunter, a deputy prosecutor for Marion County filed two counts of burglary, two counts of possession of stolen property/receiving on each suspect. Additionally, one count each of resisting law enforcement was filed on all four suspects.

fong: THINKING BACK ON HIS TIME AT BUTLER, LOOKING AHEAD TO TIME AT URSINUS continued from page 1 Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Five years later, Fong entered his name for consideration for the title of president of Butler, hoping to be able to get more involved with planning and curriculum.

During the second set of interviews at the Columbia Club downtown, he met now-Executive Assistant to the President Ellen Clark.

“I knew right off the bat that he was going to get the job,” Clark said. “He really impressed all of us.”

Clark’s impression of Fong was spot-on, and he was offered the job.

Making the decision to take the job was more difficult than the Fong family expected.

Taking the job in Indianapolis meant moving more than 11 hours from their upstate New York home.

The Fongs’s oldest son, Jonathan, was about to start his senior year of high school and wanted to stay to graduate with his classmates.

“It was the most agonizing decision we’ve ever had to make when Bobby got hired,” Suzanne said.

“We finally decided with great, great sadness to let him finish there and stay with family friends.”

With that decision made, the family packed up and headed to Indianapolis.

When Fong became the 20th university president on June 1, 2001, the university was struggling to

stay afloat. Increasing deficits and a lack of community and alumni support were working against keeping the doors open.

“We’re in a place now that not only are we able to balance budgets, but we’re actually making some money,” Fong said. “We kind of take that for granted sometimes.”

In an interview with the Indianapolis Star in 2001, Fong set out a list of goals—a list that included an increased endowment, improved alumni support and increase in donations and fundraising—all to be completed by the time his presidency ended.

Now, in 2011, all of those goals can be checked off.

Fong wrapped up a successful six-year capital campaign, “Butler Rising,” that raised $154 million at the end of the 2008-09 academic year.

“There’s a sense of satisfaction looking back at everything,” Fong said. “It’s a sense of gratitude that I’ve had an opportunity to be a part of this.”

Besides the accomplishments on paper, Fong said he prides himself in the accomplishments of the students, citing the Butler chapter of Ambassadors for Change as one example.

“I was proud because it was just a group of students doing something for other people,” Fong said.

“Seeing a group of students doing

for others is just something that I can look back on and think, ‘This is just outstanding.’”

Throughout his time here at Butler, Fong has turned down many offers at other colleges. The first offer he ever considered was an offer from Ursinus College, who was looking for a president.

On Sept. 28, Fong was one of 70 finalists to interview for the spot.

Three days later, he was offered the job.

When Fong leaves campus for the last time May 27, things may change a little, but there is a sense of optimism looking ahead.

“He’s going to be hard act to follow,” Clark said. “But we all are excited for what’s to come.”

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Butler alumnus inducted into National Teachers Hall of Fame

BY GRACE WALLACE gwallace@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Butler alumnus Mark Weaver was recently honored as one of only five educators in the nation to be inducted into the 2011 National Teachers Hall of Fame.

Weaver graduated from Butler in 1981 with a degree in botany and a certification in education. He also received his Master of Science in biology education from Butler in 1983.

Weaver is currently the science department chair at Clay Middle School in Carmel, Ind. He began teaching at the school in 1982 beginning a 29-year career with CMS. Weaver was honored with the award at a surprise ceremony held at CMS, according to a press release. He will travel to Emporia, Kan., in June to attend an official ceremony.

“Weaver brings immense intel-

lectual and personal energy to his classrooms,” said Jeff Swensson, superintendent of Carmel Clay Schools. “I am delighted to see his dedication, hard work and neverending enthusiasm recognized nationally.”

Weaver said his motto in the classroom is to provide opportunities for students to learn and ensure those opportunities are even better the next time they come into the classroom.

“Don’t be complacent,” he said.

“If you’re going to be complacent, you’d better find something else to do because education isn’t it.”

Weaver said he likes to think outside of the box rather than just being a “page-turner in a textbook.” He said he approaches the classroom believing that the true definition of science is the “discovery of anything and everything,” rather than just focusing on cover-

ing the state standards.

“It’s our job to teach the kids to the very best of our ability,” he said. “We do our best and wrestle with how to improve ourselves all the time.”

One of Weaver’s innovative ideas resulted in the renovated retention pond at CMS that he and his students worked to clear of trash and form into a habitat, complete with gravel pathways. It can be studied and has been used by the Department of Natural Resources as a workshop site.

He also has a “Survival Week” where the entire seventh grade traces survival techniques throughout history, from 1492 to 1816 when Indiana became a state.

“It’s great work,” he said. “It’s one of the best jobs you can have.

I feel like I’m selfish because I’m learning from them everyday.”

Weaver said he can never thank

Butler enough for the experiences and the quality of education he received.

“The No. 1 thing here is the passion for what they have and the passion for their students,” he said of his Butler professors. “That has never been something negotiable.

The care and knowledge base the faculty brings in is unparalleled.”

During his collegiate years, Weaver said he was the bulldog mascot, a photographer for The Butler Collegian and The Drift, a member of Sigma Nu and worked in the greenhouse for the botany department.

He is currently on the College of Education Board of Visitors and was honored at their meeting last Thursday.

Weaver said the awards he has been honored with are a reflection of his students, colleagues and experience at Butler.

MARK WEAVER “This is an opportunity to represent those who are all a part of me and to be a voice in good positive education. It would never happen if it weren’t for my students,” he said. “The key to success is to be surrounded by good people and successful people—Butler is the epitome of that.”

Sophomores receive scholarships for altruism encourage them to strive to make a positive impact on the community and world, ” KenSophomores Christy Tatara and Jessica neth Colburn, faculty adviser for the SSF, Strong are the 2011 recipients of the John said.

Weidner Awards for Altruism.

Tatara volunteers as a Spanish translator Strong, a science, technology and society at a free clinic in Carmel, Ind., and at a pharmajor, received the $1,250 Butler University macy in Fort Wayne, Ind. John Weidner Endowed Scholarship for AlShe also volunteers at the Boys and Girls truism. club and elementary schools with kids learnTatara, a biology and Spanish major, is the ing English as a second language, while recipient of the $1,500 maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Rotary Club of IndiaFor the last two years, Tatara has worked with napolis John Weidner the Timmy FoundaAward for Altruism. tion, which strives to Recipients of the improve medical condiawards are recognized tions in other countries. for their acts of altru“I think the people I ism and embodiment Christy Tatara meet and the relationof John Weidner, who SOPHOMORE, BUTLER UNIVERSITY ships that form are what saved the lives of about keep me volunteering,” 1,000 drowning airmen fleeing Nazi persecution during World War Tatara said. “I strive to put a smile on their faces, and they always put a smile on mine.”

II. The Butler chapter of the John Weidner Strong volunteers at the Indiana School Foundation, along with the Student Sociol- for the Blind and Visually Impaired and loogy Foundation, awards the scholarships. cal soup kitchens.

She was chosen as a leader for Butler’s Members of the foundation review scholarAmbassadors of Change, and spent a week ship applications and vote on recipients.

Scholarships have been awarded since in Mexico rebuilding a church.

Tatara and Strong were recognized at the 2006 and are open to all students and majors.

“The scholarships are meant to recognize annual sociology department banquet April students engaged in the community, and 6.

BY KATE SIEGFRIED

ksiegfri@butler.edu | staff writer

RACE ROYALTY: Brooke Shafer and Allison Wright show off their crowns. As part of their position, they do volunteer work in the community and act as ambassadors for the race. (Photo courtesy of Allison Wright)

Six students named 500 Festival princesses

BY HAYLEIGH COLOMBO

dy 500, a bite-sized version of Indianapolis’ real thing.

The Indianapolis 500 is equal parts racing, Flint will also be traveling to her homelove and family legacy for Jennifer Brinn, a town of Petersburg, Ind., to volunteer at Pesenior early childhood education major and tersburg Elementary School, where she went 500 Festival Princess. to grade school. Flint will work specifically “The need for speed is huge in my fam- with fourth-graders who are learning about ily,” said Brinn, whose grandfather has vol- Hoosier history. unteered with the track’s fire crew for the “For me, it’s really important to help past 33 years. “My grandpa has said to me kids learn about the Indy 500 so that they my entire life that I’m going to be out there can get excited and take pride in being a one day with him.”

Hoosier,” Flint said. “I Six of the 33 500 want to bring the exciteprincesses this year are ment that’s going on in Butler students, which Indy back to the kids in Brinn said is a source Southern Indiana and of pride for her and her teach them to be proud five Bulldog princess of where they’re from.” counterparts.

On top of emceeing “Indiana University Relay for Life, helponly has four [princessing out at the Boys and es],” Brinn said. “We’re Girls Club of Indianapproud that there’s six of olis and making Easus representing Butler ter baskets for kids at as ambassadors to the Jennifer Brinn the Ronald McDonald Motor Speedway.”

House with the group, SENIOR, BUTLER UNIVERSITY Brinn has also made The six Butler students chosen this year time to embark on a serraises the total number of Butler student vice project of her own. princesses since 1998 to 57, according to “My goal was to read to 500 children and numbers from a March 1, 2009 Butler Uni- I’ve already surpassed that goal,” Brinn versity release. said. “I remember being little and meeting This year, Brinn is joined by fellow Butler someone who was representing someone students Stephanie Flint, a junior marketing that they really cared about and how special major from Petersburg, Ind.; Brandi Jarrett, a those people made me feel. I want to make senior marketing major from Kokomo, Ind.; kids feel special now.”

Christina Nelson, a senior marketing major Another outreach highlight for one of the from Valparaiso, Ind.; Brooke Shafer, a se- Butler princesses was reading to and playnior marketing major from Fishers, Ind.; and ing with children at the Indianapolis-based Allison Wright, a junior elementary educa- Julian Center, an organization that supports tion major from Carmel, Ind. victims of domestic abuse.

Brinn said she is looking forward to the Wright, an elementary education major, outreach work that she’s going to be able to said she remembers her time at the Julian do as part of the program.

Center as being the most influential volun“Service has been a huge priority for me in teer work that she has done with the promy time at Butler and was really what made gram up until this point. me apply in the first place,” Brinn said.

“The most rewarding part of the day was Flint said every weekend in May, if not ev- to offer the kids some stress relief from their ery day, there’s an event for one or several of home lives,” Wright said. the princesses to take part in to reach out to While Wright and Brinn said they are exthe state of Indiana, the city of Indianapolis cited for the volunteering to continue long or any of the 24 cities and towns represented after the race is over, until the 2012 set of by the 33 princesses. princesses is named, Race Day is the culmiThe princesses are encouraged to not only nating experience for these reigning Butler help each other with outreach events, but princesses. also to do a few on their own, Flint said.

“There’s nothing like being at the race She plans to volunteer at an elementary and hearing those engines firing up,” Brinn school in Carmel, Ind., for the school’s Kin- said. “It gives me the chills.” hcolombo@butler.edu | managing editor

There’s nothing like being at the race and hearing those engines firing up.

I strive to put a smile on their faces.

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Colombo named new editor

BY ARIKA HERRON

acherron@butler.edu | editor-in-chief

The Butler Collegian is not just an award-winning college newspaper.

It a learning experience for student journalists at all levels, which junior Hayleigh Colombo wants to emphasize as editor-in-chief next year.

“In my experience, I have learned the most about journalism through student media,” Colombo said. “The Collegian is a huge learning experience for students, so if we can foster an environment where people learn from every story and work together on every design, then that will be the goal for the year.”

Colombo has been involved in Butler student media for the past three years. She started as a staff writer for Dawgnet—Butler’s online news site that merged with The Collegian last year—and moved up to assistant news editor by the spring of her freshman year. Colombo spent her sophomore year as a co-news editor for The Collegian.

This past year, Colombo served as online managing editor and was instrumental in the development of The Collegian’s new website. She helped plan online news coverage and uploaded all content to the site,

even while interning in Washington, D.C., throughout the fall semester.

Colombo participated in the Washington Learning Program, which matches students with fulltime, semester-long internships. Colombo spent hers with The Hill, a congressional daily newspaper.

She said it was here that she learned the importance of accuracy.

“On the first day, the editor said, ‘I’m putting our name in your hands and you can’t screw it up,’” Colombo remembers.

She also took a class on Tuesday evenings, the same night The Collegian goes to print and the website needs to be updated. The print deadline is 1 a.m., but stories are often not uploaded to the web until later.

“Tuesdays were really hard nights,” Colombo said, “but they always were anyway. In my entire college career, Tuesday just means you’re not sleeping.”

That is the kind of dedication that drove Colombo to apply for editorin-chief.

But she hasn’t always harbored such a passion for journalism.

“I took a journalism class my freshman year of high school on a whim,” Colombo said.

What started as a filler class for an aspiring teacher became a lifechanging experience.

“From that first class period of journalism, something just clicked,” she said. “I knew this was going to be it.”

When it came time to pick a college, it was again a spur-of-the-moment decision that led her to Butler.

“I had decided on Marquette, but Butler came to visit our high school and I heard the announcement over the intercom,” she said. “I went to the session on a whim, but after visiting the campus and meeting everyone in the journalism school I was pretty set on going here.”

Before taking her post in the fall, Colombo will work as a copy and design desk intern at the Wisconsin State Journal over the summer—a position she said will help her prepare for her job as Collegian editor.

“I feel like my strengths are in macro-editing,” she said. “I’m a good micro-editor but those skills could be refined.”

Perhaps awaiting another chance encounter, Colombo—a double major in journalism and political science—has not decided what exactly she wants to do after Butler.

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HAYLEIGH COLOMBO “Obviously I want to pursue a career in journalism,” Colombo said, “but when I’m older I’d love to come back and be the adviser for The Collegian. I can see myself loving that because student media has impacted my life so much and I’ve seen so many people blossom because of their involvement on The Collegian.”

nsac: MEMBERS OF STUDENT AD CLUB UNCERTAIN ABOUT NATIONAL COMPETITION’S FUTURE continued from page 1 said she would compete again and build on the skills she has developed.

Carlson said the experience has supplemented her other classes well and will help her get a job when she graduates.

“Most students can tell employers what they did, but this class allows you to show them what you’ve done,” she said.

Tepe, who served as the team’s creative director, said the competition also prepares students for future careers by allowing them to interact with network of advertising professionals.

She said the group is searching for a new adviser so they can continue to have these opportunities, but Gray’s departure will impact the team’s process in the future.

“We realize it will be very hard to fill her shoes,” she said. “We’re looking for a good fit but realizing we may not get another Donna Gray.”

While Carlson said there are other professors in the College of Communication who could take on Gray’s role, she said he or she would need to have the same high expectations.

“My fear for next year is that there won’t be anyone there to push us, and we won’t be able to push ourselves hard enough, because we don’t have that outside perspective,” she said.

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AD PROS: Students who worked with Gray for two semesters on a mock $100 million integrated marketing campaign won the 2011 regional NSAC. (Photo courtesy of Donna Gray)

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Softball grounded by loss

BY LANCE RINKER lrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Disappointing—that’s the word Butler softball head coach Scott Hall used to describe his team’s performance Saturday versus Youngstown State.

Both games of the doubleheader went into extra innings, with the Bulldogs winning the opener narrowly, 4-3, before dropping the second game, 3-0.

Butler’s offense in the second game was stifled by freshman pitcher Casey Crozier, who held the Bulldogs (26-18, 12-4 HL) to five hits and no runs.

It was the eighth game this season in which Butler has failed to score a run.

“We’ve been relying on our pitching a lot to carry us this season,” junior left fielder Lauren McNulty said. “Our pitchers got into a little bit of trouble and we should have been able to help them out, but we just didn’t hit well as a team. I think we needed to be a little more focused.”

Hall had similar thoughts about the game.

“I thought we should have been able to take both games,” Hall said. “We’ve got to get our bats going a little better if we want to go deep in the conference tournament.”

The Bulldogs’ bats did enough to win the day’s first game, and sophomore Jenny Esparza got the win by striking out 13 in nine innings of work.

Esparza worked a no-hitter through five-and-a-third

innings and Butler led, 2-0, heading into the sixth before Youngstown State (22-18, 5-10 HL) came alive.

Singles by junior second baseman Kristina Philen and freshman right fielder Sarah Ingalls led to a tied game, before a fielder’s choice scored Ingalls for a 3-2 Penguin lead.

But Butler responded in the bottom half of the inning.

Junior right fielder Jessica Huey’s sacrifice bunt scored the eventual game-winning run and the Bulldogs sealed a 4-3 victory.

“It’s exciting to know that they have my back,” Esparza said. “For them to put those runs together to win the game was definitely a relief.”

The doubleheader marked the last home regular season games for three Butler seniors—pitcher Jennifer Chasteen, center fielder Erin Jackson and third baseman Lauren Ott. “They’ve been great leaders,” Hall said. “I’m going to have a great coaching career, if I continue to have seniors like this—ones that are great representatives of Butler softball and the university as a whole.”

Junior first baseman Erin Falkenberry said the team will greatly miss the seniors once they’re gone.

“The seniors have all led in different ways and that is something we all look up to,” Falkenberry said. “They have taught us so much and we know that we can step up to fill their roles next year and be leaders.”

The Bulldogs will finish the season on the road at Wright

EYES ON THE PRIZE: Sophomore second baseman Meaghan Sullivan fields a groundball Sunday against Youngstown State. (Photo by Maria Porter) State and at Loyola Thursday through Sunday.

Butler is currently sitting atop the Horizon League standings, ahead of second place Loyola (22-18, 12-5 HL). A firstplace finish would give the Bulldogs the right to host the conference tournament, scheduled to begin May 11.

“If the Youngstown series taught us anything, it was that anybody can beat us on any given day,” Hall said. “We have to come out and give our best effort every day.”

BATTER UP Falkenberry hits ‘em out, drives ‘em in

BY LANCE RINKER lrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

SUPER SLUGGER: Junior Erin Falkenberry is leading Butler in home runs and RBIs this year. She has already clinched some school records. (Photo by Maria Porter)

Before stepping into the batter’s box, Erin Falkenberry draws an “E” in the dirt while standing in the on-deck circle.

The junior first baseman doesn’t classify herself as superstitious, but the ritual has paid big dividends for her.

Falkenberry recently set Butler’s career RBI record (109) and currently holds records for career slugging percentage (.556) and career home runs (30). The slugger is also tied for most home runs in a single season (11). “[Falkenberry] doesn’t look like she would be a big power hitter,” sophomore pitcher Jenny Esparza said.

“So it’s almost surprising how she hits with so much power. Her swing is so smooth and effortless.”

Falkenberry’s teammates and coach typically uses the word “power” to describe her game.

Earlier this season in a game at Detroit, Falkenberry blasted two home runs in her first two at bats. Her

teammates were stunned when Detroit pitched to her during her third time up.

Not surprisingly, Falkenberry smashed another homer, putting the finishing touches on an 11-1 win.

“As she was rounding third base, she was covering her mouth trying not to laugh,” Butler left fielder Lauren McNulty said. “I think she felt bad that we were beating them so badly and didn’t want to rub it in by celebrating.”

Falkenberry has had her fair share of home runs and big hits, but goes about her business in a humble manner.

“I feel like I can’t smile because I don’t’ want to come off as cocky or confident,” Falkenberry said.

McNulty recognizes Falkenberry’s sportsmanship and humilty.

“She doesn’t showboat, even though she has so much talent,” McNulty said. “She’s coachable and easy to get along with—a coach’s dream.”

McNulty is more than just a teammate to Falkenberry—she is also her room-

mate. The two have lived with or near one another since they were freshmen.

“It’s nice when we have 6:30 a.m. practices or 6 a.m. weights,” McNulty said as she laughed. “After a long night of studying, it helps to have someone else there to make sure you’re awake.”

The two roommates have helped lead the Bulldogs to a 26-18 record and first place in the Horizon League.

Entering his first season at Butler and his first as a college coach, Hall was unfamiliar with the Butler squad he had inherited— unfamiliar with nearly everyone but Falkenberry, who had played for Hall for four seasons at Pendleton (Ind.) Heights High School.

“I had always looked up to him in elementary and middle school and knew that I wanted to play for him,” Falkenberry said.

Upon Jeanne Rayman’s resignation as Butler head coach last season, Falkenberry immediately made a phone call to Hall, urging him to apply for the job.

Hall took her advice and in July 2010, he was hired as

Butler head softball coach.

“When I got word, I ran around the house screaming,” Falkenberry said. “He is by far the best coach I’ve ever played for.”

Falkenberry calls him one of the most important male figures in her life.

“I respect him as a coach first, but he’s gotten to be like a father figure as well,” she said.

At the conclusion of her softball career at Pendleton Heights, Hall presented Falkenberry with a special gift—the bat she used throughout high school, or at least what was left of it.

“She got a hit during one game and the bat snapped in half,” Hall said. “It was just a testament to how hard she hits the ball.”

Next season will be Falkenberry’s last as a Bulldog, and she already realizes how much she will miss it.

“These have been the three best years of my life,” Falkenberry said. “I can’t imagine not playing with these girls anymore.

They’re like my sisters, and I love them.”

Women’s golf clinches HL title, NCAA berth

BY MATT RHINESMITH mrhinesm@butler.edu | sports staff writer

Behind the play of junior Michele Nash, the Butler women’s golf team claimed its fifth Horizon League Championship in the last seven years.

A three-day event ending Sunday, the league tournament was played at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Florida.

Nash, who shot a 233 and was named the 2011 Horizon League Women’s Golfer of the Year, captured medalist honors, defeating Youngstown State junior and 2009 champion Samantha Formeck by two strokes.

“We made it our goal to win conference on the very first day of the season, and I just tried to do my part to help the team,” Nash said.

The team title was Butler’s first since 2008 and Nash’s individual title was Butler’s first since Paige McCracken won it in 2007.

While Nash’s performance was the most

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eye-catching, it wasn’t Butler’s only strong showing.

Senior Molly Fields finished her Horizon League career with a three-round score of 244, good for seventh place in the final standings.

Junior Clare Cornelius finished her weekend with a 246 and a ninth-place finish.

Senior Marcella Moreman shot a 252 over the three rounds and finished 15th.

Sophomore Julia Porter, Butler’s fifth player, shot a 272 over the three rounds and placed 30th in the final standings.

“It was frustrating to underperform in the biggest tournament of my college career, so I’m excited to get another shot,” Porter said.

Nash led the tournament in total pars with 38 and scoring on par-3 holes, where she averaged an even three shots.

“Michele played a great second round, and that’s really what carried her,” head coach and Horizon League Coach of the Year

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Bill Mattingly said. “We’re excited to get up to South Bend, [Ind.]” She also led the tournament in par-4 scoring, where she averaged 4.33 shots per hole.

Nash was also named to the All-League team and the All-Tournament team, both for the second consecutive season.

“All of Michele’s honors are well deserved,” Mattingly said. “As far as being Coach of the Year, I’m going to have to give that one to the girls, they’ve been great this season.”

Fields joined Nash on the All-Tournament team.

Porter’s count of five birdies was good enough to put her in a tie for fifth.

The women got off to a slow start, shooting a team score of 333 in the first round and trailing Detroit and Loyola.

“We were a little unhappy with where we were after the first round,” Nash said. “But, we also knew that we could play a lot better.”

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The Bulldogs came back in the second round, shooting 317 collectively. Their 325 in the third round was just enough to keep defending champion Detroit at bay.

Their three-round score was 975, compared to Detroit’s 983 and Loyola’s 1,000.

The women will begin their first ever NCAA tournament campaign in South Bend, Ind., at the Warren Golf Course, May 5 to 7.

Butler was selected by the Division I Women’s Golf Committee to play in the Central Regional with teams like UCLA, Duke, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan and 18 others.

“We’re definitely happy to be in the tournament, but we want to go and make a name for ourselves,” Nash said. “It’s time to get to work; we aren’t satisfied yet.”

From the Central Regional, eight teams and two individuals will advance to the championship finals at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas. The championship finals will take place May 18 to 21.

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Women’s tennis falls in HL semis

BY MATT SCHUMACKER mdschuma@butler.edu | sports staff writer

MAKING STRIDES: Freshman Caroline Hedrick went 7-1 in regular season Horizon League singles play this season. (Photo by Maria Porter)

The Butler women’s tennis team, coming off a loss versus UIC in the final match of the regular season, entered the first round of the Horizon League Championship Tournament as the No. 3 seed.

The Bulldogs (15-10, 7-4 HL) finished fourth in the tournament after falling to Detroit in their third match, 4-2.

After losing 2-1 in doubles play against the Titans (8-26, 8-6 HL), Butler bounced back in singles play.

The Bulldogs picked up wins from senior Natali Jaimes (6-3, 6-0) and sophomore Brittany Farmer (7-5. 6-2).

Butler was able to hang with Detroit until the No. 5 singles match, when Detroit freshman Raina Halabi sealed the victory for the Titans with a win over Butler freshman Angelina Qin, 7-5, 6-1.

In the Bulldogs’ second round match versus Cleveland State, the Vikings (1413, 8-2 HL) overcame a 2-1 loss in doubles play to topple Butler, 4-1.

At No. 1 doubles, freshmen Stephanie McLoughlin and Gabrielle Ruben-

stein picked up a 9-8 victory to move the Bulldogs in the right direction.

After Farmer and senior Gabriela Bobrowski won at No. 2 doubles, Cleveland State dominated play, winning at No. 3 doubles and sweeping singles play.

The No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches, however, were tightly contested.

In the No. 1 match, Jaimes fell in the first set against junior Catrine Bjerrehus, 6-2, but evened up the match in the second set by winning 6-4.

The tiebreaker ended with a loss for Jaimes, as Bjerrehus grabbed a 7-6 advantage to win the match.

At No. 2 singles, freshman Caroline Hedrick split the first two sets against freshman Alex Bush.

The match’s tiebreaker was stopped at 3-3, as Cleveland State had already done enough to defeat the Bulldogs.

In the opening round of the tournament, Butler recovered from its regular season-ending loss against UIC by dominating No. 6 Milwaukee.

The Bulldogs started off by sweeping doubles play against the Panthers (11-

11, 3-7 HL).

Momentum stayed in Butler’s corner throughout singles play. All-Horizon Leaguer Jaimes rolled over Milwaukee sophomore Kelly Fritz at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-0.

At No. 5 singles, Rubenstein made quick work of sophomore Beth Ganzer, 6-2, 6-2, to give the Bulldogs their second singles point.

Farmer closed out the match by coming out on top against freshman Mary Ellen Donovan, 6-0, 6-2, at No. 6 singles.

After Butler’s third victory in singles play, the remaining singles matches were called off and the Bulldogs won, 4-0.

Butler finished the season with 15 wins, five more than the team’s total from last season.

The Bulldogs’ regular season mark against Horizon League opponents also improved from last season, as Butler gained two more conference victories this year.

The Bulldogs will return a strong core next season, including Hedrick, McLoughlin, Rubenstein and Farmer.

Baseball swept by UIC at home

BY COLIN LIKAS clikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

It has been a season of streaks for the Butler baseball team and a weekend series against Horizon League opponent UIC confirmed that, as the Bulldogs (15-19, 4-8 HL) dropped three games to the Flames (19-16, 9-5 HL).

In the final game of the series, Butler kept it close until the eighth inning when the Bulldogs surrendered three runs and ultimately fell, 5-1.

Down 2-0 entering the seventh inning, sophomore pinch hitter Andrew Eckhardt brought home Butler’s only run of the game with a groundout.

Sophomore Jared Earle came in to pitch in the eighth inning for the Bulldogs, but he could not prevent UIC from adding on some insurance runs.

The first two batters of the inning reached base via a walk and a hit by pitch. Then, freshman third baseman Patrick Guinane did

not field a ground ball cleanly, allowing the Flames to go up, 3-1.

A run-scoring single and a sacrifice fly gave UIC two more runs and solidified the final score at 5-1.

Senior first baseman Grant Fillipitch had two of Butler’s five hits in the contest.

Senior Jared Wagoner suffered the tough luck loss for the Bulldogs. He went seven innings, allowing two runs on six hits and striking out six.

In the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader between the teams, the Flames executed a squeeze bunt in the ninth inning to pick up an 8-7 win.

Both squads tallied seven runs in the first five innings of the game. The final four innings were a battle of the bullpens, in which UIC came out on top.

The Bulldogs’ offense got off to a quick start, scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning after the Flames had scored a pair

of runs in the top half of the frame.

Senior catcher Michael Letzter and sophomore left fielder Pat Gelwicks had back-toback RBI singles to tie the game, 2-2. Guinane then drove in a run with a fielder’s choice before stealing home to score Butler’s fourth run of the inning.

UIC responded in the second inning with an RBI from sophomore center fielder Nick Addison and two RBIs from sophomore designated hitter Alex De LaRosa.

After Addison drove in two more runs in the fourth inning to put the Flames up 7-4, the Bulldogs went back to work offensively.

In the fifth inning, Letzter, Gelwicks and Guinane each drove in a run to knot the game at 7.

It looked like the game might go into extra innings until De LaRosa stepped up to the plate in the ninth inning. His squeeze bunt drove home the winning run and allowed UIC to sweep the doubleheader.

In the series opener, the Flames took advantage of several defensive mistakes by Butler to win the game, 8-4.

UIC tallied seven runs in the fourth inning, thanks in large part to three errors by Guinane.

Guinane led the way offensively, driving home two runs in a 3-for-4 day at the plate.

However, it wasn’t enough to overcome his defensive miscues.

Senior Dom Silvestri allowed three hits in his four innings of work. He was also tagged for eight runs—three earned—and surrendered six walks.

The Bulldogs will head to Notre Dame today for a non-conference showdown, followed by a trip to Valparaiso on Saturday for a doubleheader.

Butler will then have a quick turnaround when they head home to face another conference opponent, Wright State, the following day.

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OVERTIME: Top mascots a memorable group

BY STEVEN PEEK speek@butler.edu | sports editor

It’s almost summer, which means sunshine, relaxation and perhaps a job.

But mostly it means fun.

In the spirit of the approaching summer, I feel it’s time to address an equally-enjoyable topic—my top 10 best sports mascots.

They entertain, cheer on their teams, heckle the opponents and also represent things greater than themselves.

I’m not sure how that last one has come to be, but why fight something positive? Mascots attract kids to sporting events and humor the adults who would really rather watch the game.

10) The Stanford Tree: Truly, this mascot drops jaws. It’s not pretty and not impressive, but I suppose

Stanford did as well as it could for having a color as its nickname. The Tree made the list because it takes guts to have a costume this awful represent your school. Stanford has backed up their pinewood pal, though, with successful seasons on the volleyball court and football field.

9) Rocky the Mountain Lion: This Denver Nuggets representative is full of energy and style. He wears a Nuggets jump suit that looks like it was sewn in the 1990s,

THE BIGGEST PHAN: The Phillie Phanatic, who debuted as the mascot of MLB’s Philadelphia Phillies in 1978, is one of the most recognizable mascots in the sporting world and was named the best mascot in sports in 2008 by Forbes magazine. (Photo from MCT)

but he’s a great dancer. He even has a music video with background dancers and cheerleaders. He’s also an impressive acrobat—check out the video of him front-flipping over six fans. Rocky’s got a lot of moxy, and I dig it.

8) Boomer: Ever since color commentator Bobby “Slick” Leonard started saying “Boom Baby!” for Pacers’ 3-pointers, the phrase has become synonymous with the team, making the mascot appropriately named. He does back flips, dunks off trampolines with his “Power Pack” crew and he bangs an obnoxiously loud cowbell when opponents shoot free throws.

Taunting definitely gets you on this list; it’s what mascots are partially about.

7) Go the Gorilla: What does a gorilla have to do with the Phoenix Suns or the game of basketball? Absolutely nothing, but who says a team’s mascot has to make sense? That seems to be a theme of this list. But this gorilla occasionally jumps off a trampoline and through a ring of fire to dunk the ball, which is awesome. Plus, having a goofy gorilla in the building is just plain cool.

6) The Rally Monkey: Speaking of primates, the Anaheim Angels’ live capuchin takes the cake when it comes to sporty tree-climbers.

This monkey gained fame during the Angels’ run to the 2002 title, during which they had some comefrom-behind series wins, including a 4-3 win against the San Francisco Giants in the World Series. Ever since, rally monkeys have symbolized success for other sports teams.

5) The Rainbow Warrior: This Maori tribesman performs the intimidating Haka chant to inspire fear in the University of Hawaii’s

Butler to induct new Hall of Fame class

Men’s tennis finishes fifth

BY STEVEN PEEK speek@butler.edu | sports editor

BY MATT SCHUMACKER mdschuma@butler.edu | sports staff writer

The Butler men’s tennis team was never able to hit full stride last Thursday during its first-round matchup in the Horizon League Championship.

The No. 5-seed Bulldogs suffered a narrow 4-3 loss to No. 4-seed UIC in a match that saw senior Brandon Bayliss’ first conference singles loss of the season.

The Flames started red hot and swept doubles play to begin the match.

But the Bulldogs began to settle their postseason nerves, led by senior Chris Herron’s No. 2 singles victory over senior Luiz Gonzaga, 6-4, 6-0.

Junior Zach Ervin won the No. 3 singles match, 6-1, 6-1, and senior Lenz Theodor picked up the No. 5 singles victory, 7-5, 6-1, to tie the match at three.

In the end, the effort in singles play was not enough to make up for the poor doubles performance and the point lost at the beginning of the day.

The team was back on the courts the following day for the fifth-place consolation match. Butler faced No. 6

Youngstown State, who had lost to No. 3-seed and eventual champions Cleveland State the previous day.

Butler swept doubles play in convincing fashion to start the match. The Bulldogs won the No. 1 and No. 2 matches, making the third inconsequential.

Herron and senior David Dolins won the No. 1 match, 8-5. Bayliss and Theodor won the No. 2 match, 8-3.

Bayliss returned to his old form, picking up a win against junior Tariq Ismail, who had to withdraw from competition during the match.

Two other Butler seniors capped their collegiate careers with 2-0 records in the conference tournament— Herron won 6-2, 6-4, and Theodor won with similar ease, 6-2, 6-2.

Ervin also won in convincing fashion, winning the No. 3 singles match, 6-3, 6-1.

Throughout the season, Butler’s Achilles’ heel had been its inconsistent play during matches and its inability to stay healthy.

Ultimately, this caused their early departure from the conference tournament.

Despite a disappointing finish to the season, Bayliss

opponents. It does not always affect the outcome of sporting events, but it sure is fun to watch. This guy is the real deal, and if there was an NCAA sumo wrestling championship, he would make a run at the title every year.

4) The San Diego Chicken: Yes, the San Diego Padres use a chicken and not a military chaplin, but he is considered the first professional mascot and the first to taunt opposing teams and fans. His trendsetting vaulted him up this list, and being a good dancer does not hurt either.

3) The Racing Sausages: There’s hardly anything like the Milwaukee Brewers’ Racing Sausages.

They may be the only racing barbeque food in professional sports, and they entertain one and all.

Plus, they wear the masks of former U.S. presidents around the time of President’s Day and during Fourth of July weekend. That makes them patriotic, and I salute them.

2) Blue II: Some might argue that our lovable live mascot should be No. 1, but keep reading to see why he is my runner-up. Blue II is easily the cutest mascot in all of sports, and he represents Butler’s sports teams well. He is tough, has endurance and enjoys a good nap—just like most college students do.

1) The Phillie Phanatic: There’s no other mascot that comes close to this green monster. But unlike monsters of literature, the Phillie Phanatic is a friendly green giant.

He has a belly that he shakes, giant clown-sized shoes and a face that all love, whether they’re 8 or 80 years old. The Phanatic is baseball, and in my mind, he’s also sports. If I’m lucky, being the Phanatic will be my future career.

BRANDON BAYLISS ends his career as the 2011 Horizon League Player of the Year.

“It’s gratifying,” Bayliss said. “I wasn’t really recruited by any Division I schools except Butler so I wasn’t sure if I would even be able to compete at this level.”

Bayliss ended the season winning nine of his last 10 singles matches. He beat every conference opponent he faced during the regular season.

Looking ahead to next season, the team returns just three players from this year’s roster of nine—Ervin, junior Stephen McLoughlin and freshman Brad DiCarlo.

“They’ve been through a lot of adversity this year,” Bayliss said of the three who will be returning next season. “They’ll know how to lead the talented group of freshmen coming in. I’m excited to see what happens.”

Next fall, the Butler Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome four individuals and one team as its 20th class.

The 1983 football team will be joined by Paul Page (football, 1983-86), Stacia Mellinger (volleyball, 1987-90), Jermaine Guice (men’s basketball, 1991-94) and Jeremy Aldrich (men’s soccer, 1995-98).

Page, a wide receiver, was a member of two championship squads. He was also a twotime Butler Offensive Most Valuable Player and a two-time first team All-Heartland Collegiate Conference wide receiver.

Page currently ranks in Butler’s top five for single-season (998) and career (1,937) receiving yards records, both of which he ranked first in at the time of his graduation.

Mellinger, the 1990 Midwestern Collegiate Conference Volleyball Co-Player of the Year, is one of 14 players to be named first team All-League three times (1988-90). She finished second all-time in school assists (4,338)

and seventh in service aces (133).

Also, Mellinger was a part of four consecutive league regular season championships and one legaue tournament title.

During his freshman year, Guice led Butler men’s basketball to an 18-11 record—its first winning record in six years—before helping the team improve to 21-10 the following year.

A two-time Butler MVP and two-time AllMidwestern Collegiate Conference player, Guice currently stands eighth in career scoring (1,607) and is 10th on Butler’s all-time list for made 3-pointers (174).

Aldrich, a versatile defender and threetime first team All-Horizon League player, became the second person in Butler history to receive NSCAA/adidas All-American honors, doing so in 1998.

He was named the MVP of Butler’s 1998 squad, which went 19-5-1 and is the winningest team in program history.

The 1983 football team, ranked No. 8 nationally, finished 9-0-1 and became the first Heartland Collegiate Conference team to advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs.

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Summertime and the living’s easy It’s getting closer—despite all those papers and exams you’re stressing over right now, summer is just around the corner. While we highly encourage lazing about, we also recommend checking out the crazy good entertainment coming your way for the hottest days of the year. BY BRIAN WANBAUGH AND AJA CACAN

Music festivals

Movies

Bonnaroo Music Festival Another camping festival, Bonnaroo is held on the premises of a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn. In its lineup, Bonnaroo transcends musical genres. Additional attractions include an arcade, on-site cinema, silent disco and comedy club. It takes place June 9 to 12, featuring performances from Eminem, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, My Morning Jacket, Lil Wayne, Mumford & Sons, The Strokes, The Decemberists, Ray Lamontagne, Bassnectar, Iron & Wine, Girl Talk, Florence + the Machine, Beirut and many more.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The second full-length movie adaptation of the final Harry Potter novel finds Harry, Hermione and Ron back at Hogwarts in pursuit of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Their adventures expose them to numerous dangers, while the conflict between good and evil escalates into an all-out war. In these troubled times, Harry must try to rid the world of Voldemort’s evil once and for all. The film opens July 15.

Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival Taking place June 2 to 5 in Arkansas’ scenic Ozark Mountains, Wakarusa offers a diverse lineup of more than 40 acts.

The festival has grown each year since its inception, and offers a variety of outdoor activities besides music, including camping, swimming, hiking, yoga and golf. This year’s headliners include My Morning Jacket, Ben Harper, Bassnectar, Umphrey’s McGee, Mumford & Sons, Michael Franti & Spearhead and others.

Pitchfork Music Festival The Pitchfork Music Festival will return to Chicago’s Union Park from July 15 to 17. Three stages will feature indie favorites such as Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, TV On the Radio, Deerhunter, No Age, Twin Shadow, Toro y Moi, The Radio Dept. and many more. In other attractions, the festival will include over 50 different vendors to amuse festival-goers during downtime. A part of the proceeds from the festival go to support local businesses and the Chicago arts community.

Lollapalooza Lollapalooza, another festival that directly supports the local community, will be held in Chicago’s Grant Park August 5 to 7. Explore the activities in the park, participate in Lolla’s efforts to go green and rock out to Cee-Lo Green, the Foo Fighters, Muse, the Local Natives and Walk the Moon.

Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides The fourth installment of the Pirates saga centers on a quest to find the Fountain of Youth. It involves Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) meeting a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) whose intentions he cannot discern. She convinces him to join the Queen Anne’s Revenge, which belongs to the pirate Blackbeard(Ian McShane). Through a series of twists and turns, Sparrow must decide whom he can trust and whom he should fear in the pursuit of his ultimate goal. It will open in both regular and 3D formats May 20.

The Hangover Part II In the sequel to the hit comedy, Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug return, taking a trip to Thailand for Stu’s wedding. Considering their wild experience in Las Vegas, the crew plans to keep things low-key for Stu’s bachelor party. However, things don’t go according to plan and they find themselves in another unforgettable whirlwind adventure. “The Hangover Part II” premieres May 26.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon The final installment of the “Transformers” series has Shia LeBouf reprising his famous role as Sam Witwicky. The plot centers around a Cold-War style modern day space-race between the United States and Russia. Prompted by this conflict, the Autobots and Decepticons duke it out in a giant space debacle on the moon, with Sam coming to the rescue.

“Transformers 3” opens July 1.

Television

ALL PHOTOS FROM MCT Glee With a lot of drama already happening at McKinley High School, the rumored death of a student will add even more commotion in the upcoming episodes of “Glee.” The season finale, airing May 24, will take place in New York City, with the group competing at nationals.

The Office Michael Scott (Steve Carell) will already have left Scranton, but that is no reason to not tune into the season finale of “The Office,” set to air May 19. The show will feature big comedy stars, including Will Ferrell, Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett and Ray Romano.

True Blood Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) returns to HBO with all of her vampire and witch friends for the fourth season of “True Blood,” premiering on HBO June 26. Along with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), Stackhouse and company are in a battle against evil witches and vampires. The plot is loosely based off of the book “Dead to the World,” the fourth novel in the Southern Vampire Series.

Weeds Set to return to Showtime June 27, “Weeds” follows mom/ drug dealer Nancy (Mary Louise Parker) and her family as they wander the west coast. However, with Nancy being arrested at the end of the last season, season seven should prove to be very interesting.

Entourage The eighth and final season of “Entourage” will premiere July 24 on HBO, with only eight episodes set to air. Tune in to watch Vinny (Adrian Grenier) and company as they traverse through Hollywood and live the life of movie stars. Expect the series to end on a cliffhanger—creator Doug Ellin has talked of a movie in the near future.

Concert Appreciation Week There are concerts galore on campus this week, all of them just as exciting as the next. Best part? The most expensive one is $5. We think it is time for your study break.

Your guide to ‘Sleeping Beauty’

SLOTHPOP AND THE ACCORDIONS: Wednesday 7 p.m., Starbucks. Free. Presented by Coffeehouse & Podium Expressions.

BY CAITLIN O’ROURKE corourke@butler.edu | a&e editor

FRESHLY BREWED: Friday 7 p.m., Reilly Room. $5. West Coast Tacos available outside at 6 p.m. before the concert.

THE AUDITION AND THE ALUMNI CLUB: Saturday 3 p.m., Star Fountain. Free. Presented by Program Board/BRIC. Opening act is the winners of Java Jams.

OUT OF THE DAWG HOUSE: Saturday 6 p.m., Holcomb Gardens. $5. Food and drink provided; rain date is Sunday.

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We have a nationally-ranked dance school, so you will not want to miss its production of “Sleeping Beauty,” this weekend at Clowes Memorial Hall. We’ve created a handy guide to the plot and characters.

THE MAIN ACTORS: Princess Aurora (Lindsay Moncrieff, Erin Langston), Prince Desire (Garrett Glassman), Lilac Fairy (Jenny Martin), Carabosse (Kristen Francomano) ACT I : A lovely little girl named Aurora is born to a king and queen in a land where fairies legitimately fly around. A wicked fairy, Carabosse, curses the child after not being invited to the celebration of her birth, threatening to kill her on her 16th birthday by pricking her finger. The Lilac Fairy casts another spell that says Aurora will just fall

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asleep. Aurora’s 16th birthday comes, she pricks her finger due to Carabosse’s machinations and the Lilac Fairy puts the entire kingdom into a deep sleep.

ACT II: One hundred years later, a prince, who is hunting, encounters the Lilac Fairy.

She guides him to the castle so he can break the spell—after, of course, more mischief from Carabosse. Spoiler alert—he kisses Aurora, she wakes up and immediately agrees to marry him.

ACT III: A wedding, laughter and another kiss.

WATCH OUT FOR: Guest appearances from Puss in Boots, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf at the wedding ceremonies.

DETAILS: Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Clowes Memorial Hall.

Tickets: $17-$23 for students.

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‘Arthur’ lacks certain Brand of humor

BY CAITLIN O’ROURKE

corourke@butler.edu | a&e editor

ARTHUR | FILM REVIEW

f “Arthur” proves anything, it is that Helen Mirren can do no wrong, no matter how bad of a movie she is in.

To be fair, “Arthur” is not a complete travesty—anyone who likes Russell Brand will be amused and willing to take the 110-minute ride with him.

For the most part however, “Arthur” is a disappointing mess with mediocre acting and jokes that, more often than not, fall flat.

It’s the remake of the original 1981 movie, starring Dudley Moore in the title role, and Liza Minnelli. The 2011 Arthur (Brand) is a spoiled, alcoholic bachelor whose nanny, Hobson (Mirren), takes care of him as if he were still a child.

In an effort to make him more respectable after he publicly humiliates his family, his mother commands Arthur to marry an heiress, Susan Johnson (Jennifer Garner), or lose the family fortune. However, he ends up falling in love with working-class Naomi (Greta Gerwig) instead, and must decide whether money or love is more important.

The entire movie is more than predictable.

Just 30 minutes in, you know how the plot will play out and who Arthur is going to end up with.

The acting is mostly subpar. Garner looks confused in her role as the crazed heiress.

Gerwig can’t quite live up to her role’s expectations, and instead of rooting for her as the movie clearly wants you to, you end up not caring that much.

Brand gives his best, but he is essentially playing himself. Any time he has to feign any type of seriousness, it ends up a little funny

Russell Brand and Helen Mirren star in “Arthur,” a film about a wealthy socialite who lives a spoiled lifestyle. Arthur (Brand), is ultimately forced to decide between money and love.

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CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE: Lady Gaga’s new single, “Judas,” a love song to the man who betrayed Jesus, has created controversy within the religious community. Above she performs at the Grammys earlier this year. (Photo from MCT)

Gaga betrays Catholic roots with ‘Judas’ Pop singer upsets Christians with new single

BY BRIAN WANBAUGH bwanbaug@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

Nothing says “Happy Easter” better than a love song to the man who betrayed Jesus.

Just in time for the holiday, Lady Gaga’s new single, “Judas,” leaked on the Internet last week, and is already creating controversy.

With lyrics like “I wanna love you, but something is pulling me away from you.

Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the devil I cling to,” and “I’m just a holy fool. Oh baby he’s so cruel but I’m still in love with Judas baby,” it is obvious why Catholics and Protestants alike are upset.

Regularly dressing as a nun and using religious imagery in her live shows, for her to release an ode to Judas from the viewpoint of Mary Magdalene is not surprising.

In fact, it is almost expected for Gaga to do something

like this.

Some are extremely upset over the song, such as Catholic League President Bill Donahue, but Gaga defends the song and even claims to have received the lyrics and melody from the Almighty himself.

In an interview with NME Magazine, Gaga said she “feels honestly that God sent me those lyrics and that melody. When you feel a message to give to the world and people are shooting arrows through it, there’s no way for something that pure to be wrong.”

After hearing her say something like that, the question becomes her intent. Does she think she is a modern-day prophet? Or is she just purposely making controversial music that appears to be anti-Christian to get even more publicity?

I think the answer is the latter.

Appearing anti-Christian is familiar territory for Lady Gaga and female pop stars

from years past. From Madonna’s use of Catholic imagery in her “Like a Prayer” video and tours to Sinead O’Connor tearing a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, it would be easy to say that Lady Gaga is using this formula to get her music to a wider audience.

And in a way she is. But the fact that she says she believes she received the lyrics from God is the strange part.

This all seems like a part of a plan though.

The fact of the matter is, Lady Gaga knows how to sell records and fill stadiums for her wildly popular tour. Keep buzz around your name and your music and you will never be out of the spotlight—it is that simple.

So is “Judas” shocking or surprising at all? A little shocking but not so surprising. Will it get her more airtime and publicity to reach an even wider audience than she has in the past? Absolutely.

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instead. However, as a lead character, he is amusing and generally sympathetic.

Mirren is in a class all by herself. She makes the movie that much more entertaining, giving a truly warming performance that perfectly balances Brand’s manic behavior.

She is regal, as always, and delivers a clearly thought-out performance.

Scenes between her and Brand are the true highlight of the movie, as she draws out the best in him.

The music helps the movie a bit, with two gems from Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, adding just the right touches of atmosphere for key scenes.

It is a great premise, and the movie holds plenty of potential. However, as with most remakes of classic movies, it fails to hold the same charm and deliver the original message as brilliantly.

“Arthur” is good for a quick laugh or for any movie-goers who prefer the feel-good variety, but other than Mirren, the actors fail to deliver on what could have been a charming love story about a man who finally learns how to take care of himself.

THE QUEEN AND THE FOOL: Helen Mirren (left) and Russell Brand star in “Arthur,” a remake of a 1981 film by the same name. While Mirren gives an excellent performance, Brand lacks charisma and drama. (Photo from MCT)

Creepy past haunts Gas Light Inn

BY CHRIS GOFF contributing writer

P

ast midnight, only three people remained at the Gas Light Inn. Owner Joe DeMore prepared to close the bar. Debbie Miller waited for her husband Steve, the kitchen manager, to finish chores.

Steve descended down a steep flight of wooden stairs to grab a restock of alcohol from the basement on that dark October evening in 2010.

He stopped short of the storeroom.

“Help me,” Steve screamed. “I can’t move.”

DeMore rushed downstairs and felt a terrible resistance when he pulled Steve’s torso. “[It was] like a tug of war,” he said. “All of a sudden I felt pressure too, almost like two people standing over the top of you pushing your chest in.”

In an April 9 segment of “My Ghost Story” on A&E’s Biography Channel, the humble, mom-and-pop Gas Light Inn received national attention for its strange happenings. The publicity followed an October investigation by local volunteer organization Paranormal 911. Infrared cameras offered DeMore stunning visual proof—his tavern is haunted.

Located on South Meridian, the Gas Light sits in front of hundreds of yards of cemetery and nearly 50,000 graves.

“The show was on TV because of the ghosts,” DeMore said. “We’re just normal people doing our thing. What I’ve felt and seen is what I’ve told.”

DeMore said he never would have bought the place in 2008 had he known it was haunted.

John and Heather are the famous spirits shown on “My Ghost Story.”

Heather is a playful child of perhaps 4 or 5. She wears a pink dress, black shoes with white anklet socks and a pink bow in her hair.

Her attire suggests she died in the 1930s.

Her spirit travels all three floors and she

likes to touch the hands or wrists of visitors, often during regular dinner hours.

“We had a lady at the bar who had her earring pulled out, waved up and down, and then laid down on the bar,” DeMore said.

“Heather just wants to play with you.”

John, conversely, has a reputation for hostility. His ghost is believed to be that of former owner John Dransfield, who ran the building for more than 40 years in the early 1900s, operating a brothel and making bathtub gin during Prohibition.

“That’s his basement,” Paranormal 911 cofounder Mary Barrett said. “He doesn’t want anybody in it.”

During the team’s investigation, people were pushed and shoved and orbs of misty light started flying around the pitch-black cellar.

John was caught on camera in a suit and appears to be close to 6-foot-7.

“He’s so big, that’s what scares people about him,” intuitive investigator Jeff Poe said.

In 1902, The Indianapolis Star reported that four men were arrested for digging up corpses from Washington Park Cemetery and selling limbs to doctors. Paranormal 911 believes Dransfield was involved and had a makeshift mortuary in his basement where he cut up bodies.

“That’s why he’s stuck in a realm,” DeMore said. “There’s no doubt in my mind there is another side, and there’s an evil side and a good side. He desecrated death and doesn’t want to be judged and go to hell.”

According to Poe, seeing is more likely than feeling, but both are rare.

“Most spirits try to avoid people,” Poe said. “Some of them don’t even know they’re dead. A lot of times they’re as afraid of us as we are of them.”

The Gas Light Inn will start guided tours with a paranormal team in the next week or two.

The Best Of

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

Details: Indianapolis Indians Victory Field 501 West Maryland St. Distance from Butler: 18-minute drive Specials: Autograph Night/ZOOper Zaturday/PowerBall Ticket Giveaway on Saturday, April 30 Why We Love This Place: Spring time is here so that means it is baseball season.

Although Indianapolis does not have a major league baseball team, the Indians are the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the school year than relaxing at the most easy-going sport we know. Go ahead and give in to being a true American—eat some peanuts, sing the National Anthem and try to catch those foul balls.

Want us to feature your favorite Indy spot? Send submissions to corourke@butler.edu.

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: While private universities such as Butler maintain the right to infringe on student’s rights, we do not think they should. | VOTE: 23-0

Rights important at private universities La Salle University, a private Catholic school, came under fire after its student newspaper published a story on the front page of an April issue about a professor who had used exotic dancers at an off-campus event to demonstrate a point. Head university officials had protested the publication of the story. The newspaper staff placed the story beneath the fold—as requested by administrators— but the top of the front page simply read “See below the fold.”

We at The Butler Collegian are startled by La Salle administrators exercising their right to hinder free speech among their students.

We understand that private universities are privately funded and have the right to infringe on First Amendment rights of students when they see fit, but we do not support these universities doing so.

Actually, one of our biggest problems with private universities infringing on these rights is that students pay very expensive tuition to attend private schools and for that reason, should be given the respect of our administrators by not being censored through universities’ public forums.

Especially at Butler, we strongly disagree with this practice because we are here to gain a liberal arts education and learn how to effectively communicate our opinions. If we are silenced by administrative pressure, what kind of liberal arts education are we truly receiving?

As newspaper staffers ourselves, the idea of the administration being completely within its rights to shut us down is intimidating. However, we believe in college there should be a level of respect between the administration and the students. As student journalists, we are still learning and we should not be held back from doing our jobs and reporting thoroughly.

The university may be uncomfortable with some published topics, but they should communicate with students by writing letters to the editor instead of blatantly censoring articles.

The recent events at La Salle have reminded us that, because private universities such as Butler don’t receive government money, they are not bound to the same constraints as public universities. Because of this loophole, it is important that there remains a balance of power and respect. We do not want private universities censoring anything they find offensive. It would be counterproductive to teaching students to voice and support their opinions, no matter who the critics may be.

Universities in general, particularly small ones,

are very lucky to have student-run newspapers. In a tight-knit community like Butler, gossip tends to travel fast and facts can sometimes be forgotten. Studentrun newspapers can be a driving force in setting the record straight or reporting on a topic that may not be common knowledge on campus. A lot of times, stories that students are not aware of tend to relate to university faculty, staff or administration.

Most stories published on topics that universities find controversial are not accusatory in tone, but report on an unflattering event. They are stories that may be critical but must be seen by our readers. It concerns us greatly that there may be some event, similar to the one at La Salle, that must be reported on but because of stipulations like this, we wouldn’t be given the opportunity.

We at The Butler Collegian take great pride in what we do and are glad to be able to provide campus readers with information. We worry about what the consequences would be if our articles were censored and not properly published, but we appreciate the freedom we have enjoyed thus far.

Student-run newspapers can be a driving force in setting the record straight.

Air traffic controllers need more sleep, not longer shifts

BY LEXIE SMITH lhsmith@butler.edu | opinion editor

Last month, an air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport fell asleep as two planes landed on the runway.

Although no one was injured, the Federal Aviation Administration flew into a rage.

They released press statements saying that air traffic controllers falling asleep was “unacceptable behavior.”

While I understand the massive concern that people watching our skies could be abdicating their duties to catch up on sleep, I think we’re missing the bigger issue. These employees are working odd schedules and may not be able to gain an adequate amount of sleep.

The profession is considered one of the most stressful jobs on the planet, according to an article in Time magazine.

“My daily routine is dealing with aircrafts that have anywhere between 200 and 400 people on board, and that are traveling at about 600 miles an hour,” 22-year-old controller veteran Melvin S. Davis said in the article.

“They all have an objective to get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. And I have to be the traffic cop.”

Studies show that air traffic controllers die years younger than their counterparts who have chosen different careers. Under the immense amount of pressure these employees endure at work, it is hard to fathom that they can be completely relaxed ,even when off the clock.

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: Recently, air traffic controllers, like the ones pictured above, have been falling asleep while on duty.

The FAA thinks the solution is new employees, but the real solution is more concrete schedules and more sleep at home. (Photo from MCT) These employees remain stressed, which can interrupt the ability to sleep and even reduce the amount of R.E.M. sleep that they can experience in a given night, according to The Franklin Institute Center for Innovation and Science Learning says.

Also, the FAA fails to recognize that these employees also have other responsibilities outside of work.

Even if they work a night shift, they are still forced to wake up in the morning like people who work regular schedules to do things like grocery shopping, paying bills and picking up children from school.

They do not always get the luxury of sleeping for 10 hours after a highmaintenance shift that requires hours of unbroken focus.

So how do we solve this problem?

The answers are simple, but their implementation is more complicated. Employees need a more normal and regulated schedule. They need to have more certainty of routine in their lives so that they can reset their internal clock and adequately recover before returning to work.

If employees were able to rest before returning to work, they would be more alert and more able to handle the immense amount of stress that comes with ensuring that commercial airplanes filled with passengers are landing safely every time.

Another component that would help improve the alertness of these employees is to use the buddy-system. Although this method has been

implemented in the past, many airports recently returned to using only one person, which baffles me. Leaving one person to watch planes come in is simply asking for disaster. If there are two or more controllers together, they will greatly reduce the risk of something detrimental happening.

The Federal Aviation Administration should work more diligently to make sure that their employees are not being overworked because their jobs are so labor intensive. The FAA can certainly take more productive steps to secure the safety of our skies and air traffic controllers than just firing those who have made a mistake.

Let’s work to improve the system, rather than reinforce it with new employees.

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Obama budget filled with job killing taxes

BY SAM HYER shyer@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

In “The Obama Budget,” an article published in the February 23 issue of The Collegian, I talked about President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year.

Since then, the president has made some adjustments.

Unfortunately, I still feel that the president simply does not understand the flaws of his proposals and that major changes need to be made.

The president’s initial plan, announced in February, was met with groans from the Republican side of the aisle and failed to address our country’s spending issues, the most obvious of which are entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.

On April 5, House Republicans announced their own

plan, to which President Obama offered a response and an alternative plan.

In the speech he gave at George Washington University April 13, the president had a strong sound of partisanship and did not hesitate to lash out against Republicans and their proposed budget, which is being paraded

by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. At one point in the speech, Obama, referring to the Republican Party said, “their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact of America.”

As our president, I feel Obama failed to properly get his message across and instead took this opportunity for political gains. After all, Obama does have a tough election season coming up and could likely use all of the help he can get.

While the president made a point to hit on key aspects of his policy, he did an abys-

mal job of actually offering his solutions to the subject and explaining the kinds of policies that he would enact.

Though the entire budget is too large to fully dissect, one of Obama’s provisions is a major blow to the economy and will delay any major job creation.

This is his job–killing tax increases.

Higher tax revenue leads to larger government and increased bureaucratic waste.

The Republican plan seeks to keep taxes low, scale back government and promote American prosperity.

Perhaps the biggest killer of Obama’s tax plan is the burden that it places on small businesses.

Even though President Obama would love to increase taxes on the wealthy, his definition of “wealthy” is wrong and needs to be adjusted.

In Obama’s view, the wealthy are individuals who bring in an income of

THE REPUBLICANS PLAN: The Republicans have announced their own budget and it is being promoted by Rep. Paul Ryan. The budget seeks lower taxes and scaled back government. (Photo from MCT) $250,000 or more per year.

While that is a large sum of money, groups like the American Small Business League are concerned because small businesses fall into that tax bracket as well.

It is proven by U.S. Census data that small businesses are a huge driving force in American job creation.

Obama’s plan to raise federal taxes on them is a mistake.

As pointed out by the league’s President Lloyd Chapman, not only did Obama give small businesses a meager amount of stimulus funds, he now wants to raise taxes on them.

Not only can you not tax and spend your way out of

an economic crisis, putting the burden on small businesses only hinders progress.

I think the president really needs to take a step back and reconsider some of these budget provisions, particularly the ones that harm small businesses and those employed by them.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Changes within CCOM cripple college

THE OBAMA BUDGET: After announcing his budget, President Obama immediately was put on the defense when Republicans attacked his policies’. The House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, took full advantage of the opportunity and attacked the president. touting his own agenda and alternative budget. (Photo from MCT)

Ryan’s political stunt misses target

BY JEREMY ALGATE jalgate@butler.edu | opinion editor

The Republican majority in the House passed the “lean government” budget championed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI. The proposed legislation focuses on cutting spending with little to no tax hikes.

Ryan’s plan slashes the budgets for “sacred cows” like Medicare and Medicaid— what the Republicans are calling necessary sacrifices.

The way I see it is that this budget plan has no chance of passing and is nothing more than a political stunt.

In a recent survey conducted by The Washington Post, 39 percent of self-identified Republicans said they are in favor of tax hikes on the rich as long as the proceeds went to reducing the deficit.

This may not seem like a lot, but the national

average was reported as 59 percent. Independents clocked in at 60 percent, while 78 percent of Democrats favored the hikes.

The Clinton Administration enacted taxes on the top earners in the nation so radical that they do not even get mentioned in the current debate, even though that was the last time the government had a surplus.

The current president has advocated a much more moderate plan, one with almost no estate taxes.

I’m all for attacking corruption and waste in the federal government, but the large majority of Americans believe that Medicare shouldn’t undergo major changes.

Without vast changes to the way we run this nation, we are going to be burning cash at a dangerous rate. We are going to have to cut federal spending somewhere, and use the rest of it much more carefully than we are used to.

But estimates say that cutting our nuclear arsenal by around 40 percent, for example, could

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save the nation $40 billion by 2030. This ignores the fact that we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on the planet between two and 40 times.

This overkill is prevalent in a lot of areas. A bipartisan think tank, the Sustainable Defense Taskforce, claims that cutting the newest fighter and bomber lines would save the nation $18 billion.

The Taskforce also concluded that the current fighters and bombers are virtually identical to these newer models—except cheaper.

I’m not suggesting that we simply slash military spending in favor of Medicare or Medicaid.

My point is that instead of crippling current programs, we can eliminate waste across the board and save a comparable amount without alienating either side of the aisle.

Even then, of course, tax hikes are going to be necessary. The majority of voters call for it. Congress needs to honor their contract with their voters, regardless of partisan dogma.

As a recent graduate of the College of Communication, it has come to my attention that several changes are occurring that greatly concern me.

First, let me say that as a student I was worried about the changes that were taking place in the college, more specifically the strategic communication program. I was dissatisfied with the education that was being offered to me and that is a real issue.

What initiated sending this letter was learning that not only is Professor Donna Gray leaving the university, but the National Student Advertising Competition course is also not being offered next semester. This comes after a second consecutive regional win and national qualification.

These two occurrences completely cripple and de-value the “advertising” program offered at Butler University. As an alumnus, I want to feel like I am proud of the students graduating from the college and know that I can count on them to be adequate recruits.

With the direction the program is currently taking, I do not.

With the direction this program is heading, Butler has no right claiming that there is an advertising major. The NSAC course is one of the only classes I took at Butler that I felt truly contributed to my success with my internships and my job right out of school. Removing this course, no matter the reason, is a terrible decision.

It is disheartening to have this shameful behavior taking place in such a time of celebration with the success of the Butler men’s basketball team. I wish I could be as proud of my college as I am of our athletic department.

Jonathan Spear 2010 Alumnus, Butler University

What was your favorite moment you’ve had at Butler University?

BY: RYAN LOVE

“Particiapating in philanthropy events. At Butler, we will change the world. No questions asked.”

Aaron Harrison freshman

“Midnight Snack reveals the Butler community at its finest. Everyone has so much pride and comes together for one common goal.”

Claire Petersen senior

“Making it to the final four for the first time.

It was such an exciting time to be a student at Butler.”

David Martin senior

“Meeting my girlfriend, Lauren Reed.”

Robbie Foote senior

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COLLEGIAN Photo Contest LAST WEEK’S WINNER Name: Kassandra Adams Gnome location: Phonebooth in Atherton Union Major: International Studies and Political Science Minor Home town: Carmel, IN What do you love about Butler?: I love Butler because I have met my best friends here.

Photo by Erin Drennan