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VOTE DOWN TO TWO

“No matter who wins this election, we’ll see some changes in SGA.”

“You have to bring some new ideas in or the organization will go stagnate.”

KELSA REYNOLDS

MICHAEL KELLER

SGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

SGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Provost search committee starts work The committee has yet to decide if the process will be closed or open.

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help make up the difference.

A “gentleman’s handshake” between Clowes, BUPD and the fraternity allowed members to park there, Executive Director of Public Safety Ben Hunter said.

Difficulties arose, though, when Clowes hosted certain events and Lambda Chi members were asked to move their vehicles.

Those students had to resort to parking in the lot at Hinkle Fieldhouse or attempting to find a Greek parking spot on the south side of campus.

The informal arrangement between Lambda Chi Alpha and Clowes will end once the new zoning on Sunset is official, Hunter said.

A search committee comprised of faculty and staff has been assembled in order to find a new Butler University provost.

The committee includes representatives from each college, a member of the Board of Trustees and other faculty members, according to an email sent from President Jim Danko to university faculty.

Representatives were elected by faculty members of their respective colleges, and Danko appointed other faculty members to the committee, Professor Kenneth Creech, College of Communications representative, said.

Joseph Kirsch, a chemistry professor, was elected as the chair of the 17-member committee by the committee, according to the staff email.

Kirsch said he has had previous experience with these types of searches and his main responsibility as chair is to keep the process moving.

“I’m no more responsible than every other member of the committee,” Kirsch said. “This is a very collegial process.”

Kirsch said the first part of the process is to get an advertisement out to inform those looking for a provost position, and then they will apply for the job.

“It should be about a sixmonth process getting the ad out and receiving applicants,” Kirsch said. “This will allow us to begin interviews next academic year.”

With interviews beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, a new provost will probably not be hired until 2013-14, Kirsch said.

“It could arrive earlier, but it will probably be around this time frame,” Kirsch said.

The last search similar to this one was the presidential search, lasting from fall 2010 to spring 2011, which resulted in the hiring of Danko, but Kirsch said this search is different.

“This committee is composed of faculty and staff,” Kirsch said. “The other (presidential) committee was composed of the Board of Trustees.”

Creech said this seemingly long process is due to the academic calendar cycle.

“By the spring semester, most good applicants have already found jobs,” Creech said. “By waiting for next fall semester, we are hitting the cycle at the right time.”

The committee has yet to decide if the process will be open or closed, something that will be

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Runoff between Keller, Reynolds today JILL MCCARTER

JMCCARTE@BUTLER.EDU NEWS EDITOR

None of the four presidential candidates in this year’s Student Government Association election received a majority vote on Monday, prompting a runoff election this afternoon between Michael Keller and Kelsa Reynolds.

All Butler students can vote through a link distributed through campus email and on the log-in page for BUMail from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. today.

To win the president’s title, a candidate must receive 50 percent plus one vote in the election.

On Monday, 1,541 students cast their vote, roughly 38 percent of undergraduate students. Turnout increased by 11 percent from

last year.

Reynolds said that the increase can be attributed to efforts by SGA’s Public Relations board. “(Vice President of PR Board) Lauren Pedigo did an outstanding job of promoting the event,” Reynolds said. “There was definitely a lot more buzz this year than there was last year.”

Details on voter turnout by class and per candidate will not be released by the election oversight committee.

It is known, however, that the numbers took sophomore candidates Katie Palmer and Josh Grant out of the running for today’s run-off.

On her campaign Facebook page, Palmer thanked her supporters on Tuesday.

Vote details will not be released

“Unfortunately, I will not be your next SGA president for the upcoming school year,” Palmer wrote. “I encourage you all to vote on Wednesday in the run off between Mike Keller and Kelsa Reynolds. See you again next February.”

Grant posted a similar message on his campaign’s Facebook page.

“Unfortunately, we lost,” Grant wrote. “But I want to once again thank everyone for their effort. We put more time in than any other campaign. Unfortunately running as a relative unknown is hard to do. I promise a different result next year.”

Mike Keller received a phone call from Carroll around 11:30 on Monday night.

Both the Election Oversight Committee chair James Schubert and current Student Government Association president Al Carroll said that releasing presidential and class officer election numbers is not allowed.

Schubert said the information was not released because of a precedent and that it was not a written policy.

Carroll said that if a member of assembly would like to change the practice, it should be brought up as new business at the next meeting.

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PARKING

About 20 parking spaces allotted for Greek students Eight vehicles were towed last week, raising continued concerns from Lambda Chi Alpha.

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Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity expect to soon be better able to park their cars along the street in front of their house.

A city resolution, backed by the fraternity’s house corps, the Butler University Police Department, the university parking committee and the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, allows for a stretch on the east side

of Sunset Avenue to be designated as Greek parking.

Signs are expected to be placed within the next week. The area running from Lambda Chi’s property line north to the corner of 49th Street is currently open to anyone with a university permit and is frequently used by commuters.

Parties involved felt the change was necessary as the fraternity dealt with a shortage of reliable parking spaces and ran into conflicts with usage of the lot near Clowes Memorial Hall.

Chapter president Matt Presley said residents of Lambda Chi’s house require 40-45 parking spots. However, the fraternity only has 24 spots available in the lot on its property.

For years, some members have used a row of 15 spaces across the street in the Clowes lot to

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Mardi Gras ‘a learning experience’ KYLER NAYLOR KNAYLOR@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Diversity Center held its first student-organized Mardi Gras celebration on Feb. 21 in the Residential College dining room.

The event featured Butler University’s Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Pivec, assistant director of music, Cajun cuisine provided

by Yats, psychic readings and a Mardi Gras Faux Floats contest.

Bobbie Gibson, assistant director of the Diversity Center, said the budget could only accommodate 80 people initially, but that number was expanded to 200 when Residence Life made the event its annual “All Hall” Celebration.

“At the end of the evening, we served 310 meals,” Gibson said, “though I don’t think that is representative of how many people came through.”

The Diversity Center Council, or DC2, received a grant from REACH to help fund the event, UnoBlessed Coons, vice president of diversity programming for R.E.A.C.H., said.

In addition, Gibson said $200 was contributed to DC2 from the budgets of each Diversity Center organization.

Three organizations’ balances did not have a sufficient balance to donate the full $200, so a lesser amount was given instead.

In an email sent to those organizations, Gibson said she “would never put the organization in jeopardy of being inactive” and also did not want to prevent them from

Member involvement key to student organizations’ vitality, active status Having leaders graduate or study abroad contributes to many groups becoming inactive.

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The Diversity Center closed on Feb. 21 from 5 to 7:30 P.M. to hold its first Mardi Gras celebration in the Residential College Dining Room. participating.

“I think we got our money’s worth,” Colleen Quilty, sophomore gender, women and sexuality studies major and president of Demia, said.

“It was an overwhelming success.”

Though this is DC2’s first year celebrating Mardi Gras, Gibson said she hopes it will become an annual event.

“We are planning on making things more efficient and more organized so everything goes more smoothly next year,” Erika Ocampo, freshman pharmacy and Spanish major and DC2 member, said. “We could try to expand it to Greek life.”

Gibson said it was great to see what could be done with so many organizations collaborating and was happy to see people connecting and becoming friends.

“It was a learning experience for them, and it was a learning experience for me,” she said. “But I wanted it to be their project. I wanted it to be their success. It exceeded my wildest expectations.”

Ocampo said the group worked well together and made Mardi Gras happen.

“It was good because it taught everyone to take the initiative to be more involved on campus and to expand diversity,” she said.

With more than 140 student organizations on campus to choose from, Butler University students may find a club they are involved in declared inactive at some point during their Butler careers.

Julie Pakenham, associate director of the PuLSE Office, said the most common reason that clubs are declared inactive by the PuLSE Office is because of the group’s failure to fill out the paperwork.

“It’s really not very difficult to become recognized (by PuLSE as a club),” Pakenham said. “It’s a matter of students taking responsibility, which they should do if they care about their club anyway.”

Pakenham said that to be recognized as a student organization at Butler, a group of four members must present a constitution, obtain a faculty adviser and fill out the necessary paperwork with the PuLSE Office.

Pakenham said she recognized that having key members of a club study abroad and graduate are contributing factors to a club going inactive.

Adam Davis, vice president of the Lilly Scholars Network at Butler, said they became inactive for the fall 2011 semester because their leaders graduated and did not hold elections for the future.

“Last semester, none of us had any warning,” Davis said. “We just didn’t get emails, monthly emails, that were telling us what service events were coming up and that sort of thing.”

Davis said he contacted his organization’s alumni coordinator and learned of the group’s inactive status.

He then banded together with a group of fellow scholars, formed a leadership team and found a faculty adviser.

Davis said the group then had to fulfill the requirements dictated by the PuLSE Office to become active.

Pakenham said that PuLSE recognizes Davis’ problem of not being aware of his group’s inactivity but has yet to find a solution.

“Our requirements from the PuLSE Office (to maintain an active status) are pretty minimal,” Pakenham said. “It shouldn’t be unreasonable to expect graduating officers to pass the necessary information along.”

Pakenham said she contacts the four people listed, but does not go beyond those names that a club provides her as part of the recognition process.

Kelsa Reynolds, vice president of operations, said when a club fails to go to a Student Government Association assembly meeting three times, they are declared inactive by SGA. Mike Keller, SGA grants committee chairman, said that to be declared inactive

by SGA is to be declared ineligible for grants from SGA. Keller said even if a club is declared active by the PuLSE Office, they may still be regarded as ineligible by SGA. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, they’re gonna get the grant, unless there is something that is making them ineligible,” Keller said.

Reynolds said the status of ineligibility lasts for the remainder of the semester and automatically changes to the active and eligible status at the beginning of the next semester unless the PuLSE Office intervenes.

BU College Democrats, political organizations denied SGA grants LAUREN STARK LSTARK@BUTLER.EDU COPY EDITOR

Butler University’s College Democrats was denied a grant from the Student Government Association due to the organization’s political involvement.

This has caused some people to question a long-standing policy in the SGA grants requirements and has led to confusion within many organizations.

On Dec. 15, 2011, the SGA grants committee informed College Democrats that the committee would not be able to provide a grant due to the grant guidelines, which state that “organizations allotted grant money through SGA may not use those funds to provide: financial support for political programs, parties, individual political candidates or direct lobbying efforts.”

James Schubert, the SGA representative for College Democrats, wrote the application for the grant. He said he disagrees with the decision.

“When the budget proposal went in, it was supposed to be to educate people on what it meant to be democratic and to reshape the perception that a lot of students

have here,” Schubert said.

He said that the event was about “no candidate, just government in general.”

However, Lexi Gehring, the co-chair for the grants committee, said that the denial stemmed from the items College Democrats listed as requiring grant money.

“We looked at ‘political awareness movies’ [as one of the items listed], and it doesn’t sound [on paper] like it’s political partyoriented, but when they were talking, they described democratic or liberal-type movies,” Gehring said.

Gehring said the same method of judgment was applied for the other items: food for political awareness forums “where they would invite democratic candidates,” subsidized T-shirts that said, “What is a Democrat?” and money for advertising and information for “What is a Democrat?” events, which is “clearly a political party.”

SGA cannot support just one party, Gehring said.

“In the email we sent them, we said if they would cohost something with College Republicans and Students for Liberty and they had these forums or movies that they all put on as a series together, we could give

them money then,” she said.

This is what College Democrats planned to do, Schubert said.

“It [the event] would have been in conjunction with College Republicans,” he said, “a bipartisan effort with a couple different forum-type things to try to get students engaged in the larger political arena.

“It was designed to be bipartisan to educate people on what it means to be one party or the other and to get them to see the significance of being involved politically in their government.”

However, Gehring said that an offer to work with College Republicans would not be enough.

“It can’t just be inviting College Republicans,” she said. “It has to be co-sponsored.”

Chase Smith, the president of College Republicans, said that political organizations’ events do not directly support political candidates.

“Our policy, and I’m sure (College Democrats) have a similar policy, is not to endorse individual candidates,” he said. “When we do political events, we try to make them bipartisan; ‘Get out the Vote’ is a big thing for us.”

Dan Schramm, the SGA vice president of finance, said the

rule exists so that SGA is not sponsoring any political agenda and can remain neutral.

College Democrats is not the only organization to face problems with grants.

Smith said College Republicans has avoided problems by avoiding the grants process.

“To my knowledge, honestly, I can’t tell you the last time we applied for a grant,” he said.

“Political organizations are typically not favored when grants are given out.”

Schubert said his organization’s inability to receive grants is an obstacle.

“Even if we don’t back a candidate, which we weren’t planning on doing with any of the funds, to still be denied that kind of limits what we can do as a club,” he said. “[College Democrats] hasn’t been as active on campus as they would like to be, partly because of the funding restrictions.”

Students for Liberty struggles with financial needs as well. It has

never applied for a grant.

“We were aware of the fact that it would be hard to get a grant since we started,” current member Josh Ackermann said. “It’s been a struggle to raise money. It is hard to move forward without any sort of budget.”

Gehring said that the grants committee has approved grants for bipartisan events hosted by these political organizations in the past.

“One or two years ago, we did give one out for a debate between a Republican and a Democratic candidate,” she said.

Ackermann said that he would “definitely be open to talking to the other groups’ presidents or vice presidents” about encouraging SGA to reconsider its policy.

Even when political organizations cannot receive grants, Schramm said they still have a voice in SGA. “They can still vote at assembly and speak up at assembly,” he said.

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Raw sewage causes Lilly shutdown

FROM PAGE ONE

At least four inches of sewage pumped into the basement of Lilly Hall Monday evening.

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Administrators closed Lilly Hall on Monday night after more than four inches of raw sewage flooded the building’s basement, which administrators said created a potential biohazard.

By Tuesday morning, regularly scheduled classes went on as usual, although bathrooms and running water were unavailable.

The reason for the foul problem was that the sewage ejection pump system failed, said Gerald Carlson, director of maintenance services.

Students who were in the building’s practice rooms were evacuated after Ben Hunter, Butler University’s chief of staff and executive director of public safety,

Butler student Perry Hunt reacted to the sewage leak in Lilly Hall on Twitter. made the call that the building wasn’t safe to be in.

Sophomore Kelsey Nylin said she was supposed to work on a theater project with a friend in Lilly Monday night, but they had to move to Jordan Hall to practice because of the sewage.

Nylin said she could smell the sewage on Monday, but by the time classes resumed on Tuesday, she didn’t smell anything unusual.

A crew worked on Monday night to clean up the sewage. The incident caused damage that was limited to some damage to filters and supplies that were on the building’s mechanical room floor.

After the building was evacuated Monday night, the community reacted online.

The new Butler University memes page was updated twice about the Lilly sewage incident.

Junior Brian Skinner posted an image of an angry stick figure with the text “DAWG ALERT: Y U NO Alert?” and a caption that reads, “For all those that tried to get in Lilly tonight...”

Another meme, posted by senior Karl Watson, is a screen shot from the movie “Bridesmaids” that said, “What did Lilly Hall eat?”

Seventeen Facebook users

“liked” the meme.

Sophomore Maggie Carey tweeted about the sewage leak.

“The Lilly Hall poo fiasco,” she tweeted from her handle @MaggieCareyyy. “#pleasecancelclass.”

Butler junior Justin Rustle posted a Facebook status about attending classes on Tuesday.

“So apparently Lilly Hall will be open tomorrow, we just won’t be able to use the bathrooms or the water... boycott of classes in Lilly tomorrow?” he posted.

A new system will be installed when parts are located, Carlson said.

IT looks to increase information sharing This spring, Information Technology will link Google Apps and BUMail.

LUKE SHAW LESHAW@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Butler University students will soon be more acquainted with Google programs when BUmail is linked with Google Apps later this spring.

According to the Butler Information Technology website, Google Docs will be the first app fully supported through BUmail, but “most other apps (e.g. Sites, Blogger, YouTube, Google+, etc.) will be available for use at your discretion.” Gmail and Google calendars will not be available for use.

The driving force behind the Google Apps and BUmail merge is to increase information sharing among students.

“One of the big things about Google Apps is that it creates better collaboration,” junior Sandy Meers, a management information systems major who works in the IT office, said. “So with stuff like Google Docs, you are allowed to share documents and work with everyone in real time and get everything accomplished much easier and quicker.”

Although the new Google Apps will be used by professors

BUMail will soon link with Google Apps later this spring to increase information sharing between students. and students, they will not be a replacement to Blackboard.

“Google Apps are a great set of tools, but they’re not a learning management system like blackboard,” Tyler Johnston, systems support project coordinator, said. “There will always be a learning management system, at least in the near future.”

Although the apps will not be replacing Blackboard, Johnston is

excited for the potential he says the apps hold.

“I think the most exciting part of all this will be what students think up to use this for. It’s a different way to work,” Johnston said. “It’s like asking me what you can use Microsoft Word for. Well, I don’t know. It’s really however you apply it to your situation.”

Johnston said an exact date has not been projected for the

discussed soon, Kirsch said.

Professor Antonio MenendezAlarcon, the committee’s Social Science representative, said the university’s senate (of which he is a member also) tends to support an open search.

“The senate supports open searches because there tends to be more faculty input involved in the decision,” Menendez-Alarcon said.

Creech said the main benefit of a closed search is that more applicants will apply.

“In a closed search, more applicants are likely to apply because they are ensured that their current position is safe,” Creech said.

On the other hand, an open search gives more people more input in the decision-making process, Creech said.

Currently, Kathryn Morris is serving as interim provost of the university and has agreed to serve throughout the 2012-13 academic year, according to Danko’s email.

Creech said that due to Morris’ agreement to serve throughout next year, the committee is not in a “desperate” situation to find a new provost.

Menendez-Alarcon said the main qualities he is looking for in the new provost are innovation, ability to do new things and willingness to work with faculty.

“It’s important for the provost to lead by consulting with faculty,” Menendez-Alarcon said. “It is important for him or her to be in agreement with the deans.”

Creech said the position of provost is important, particularly to students.

“As the chief academic officer, the provost has the ability to dictate what faculty can provide to students,” Creech said.

The committee held its first meeting Feb. 9 and plans to meet again next month.

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availability of the BUmail and Google Docs partnership, but it should be available to students shortly after spring break.

The push for the new Google Apps originated in the Technology Master Plan of 2010–14. One of the plan’s main objectives is that “Butler continually evolves to meet the demands of our students, faculty, staff and other constituents,” according to the Butler IT website.

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The phone call, full of “unfortunatelys” and suspense, kept Keller on his toes.

“Unfortunately, you’re going to have to continue your campaign,” Carroll told Keller.

“I knew when Al’s name popped up that it was going to be something big,” Keller said.

Reynolds received a similar phone call around 11:45 p.m.

When her phone rang, Reynolds said her heart skipped a beat, and it only got faster when Carroll said she was in the top two.

Reynolds said that she was happy to receive support from friends, family and professors throughout the day on Monday.

“It all just made me fall in love in with Butler even more,” Reynolds said. “It was overwhelming.”

Going into Monday’s election, both candidates said that they were not exactly sure how confident to feel.

Keller said that he went through Monday’s events with a sort of “cautious optimism.”

“I wanted to really be in the run-off, but after the debates and the discussions and talking with students around campus, I felt like everyone had an equal

PROVOST: SEARCH PROCESS BEGINS

Photo by Josh Morris

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Both Schubert and Carroll said that not releasing detailed vote information is out of respect for the candidates.

Michael Keller said he was not told who the other candidate would be in the phone calls to the run-off candidate.

All four of the candidates said that they would want to know the exact numbers from Monday’s initial election.

“The students deserve to know,” Keller said.

Run-off candidate Kelsa Reynolds said she would have liked to know the results so that she can determine how close the competition is between she and Keller.

Sophomore candidate Katie Palmer said the results would give her a read on how many votes she did receive.

“It was really frustrating to me (that they didn’t release the numbers),” Palmer said. “It would have been nice to have tangible facts. I don’t know whether I got two percent or 30 percent.”

Sophomore candidate Josh Grant said that he would also support the release of the detailed votes.

“I didn’t really ask (if we would see the numbers), but I think it would be really cool (if we did),” Grant said.

Phone calls to Schubert were not returned as of press time.

(From left) Kelsa Reynolds, Katie Palmer, Mike Keller and Josh Grant participated in the presidential campaign last Thursday. opportunity,” Reynolds said.

Keller said that students that voted for Palmer or Grant should vote for him because of the similarities between the three platforms.

“There are some really big ideas that we all feel the same about,” Keller said. “Palmer and I both stressed the importance of class government reform and changes.”

Reynolds said that those voters should support her because she boasts more experience in the

organization.

“I’ve had an extra year to meet people and become familiar with what the organization is doing well and what needs to be changed,” Reynolds said. “There’s no better way to learn how to run an organization than by serving in a leadership position, something that I’ve done.”

Both Keller and Reynolds said that they will bring new ideas to the organization.

“You have to bring some new

ideas in or the organization will go stagnate,” Keller said.

Reynolds said both candidates’ platforms bring new ideas.

“No matter who wins this election, we’ll see some changes in SGA,” Reynolds said.

Final results will be released Thursday at the earliest, though there is talk that it will not be officially announced until next Wednesday’s SGA assembly meeting. The meeting will be at 4:30 in the Krannert Room.

CORRECTIONS The Collegian corrects errors of fact. Please contact editor in chief Hayleigh Colombo with any questions at hcolombo@butler.edu.

- Sigma Gamma Rho is the first black Greek sorority, not the first black Greek organization.

(Feb. 22) - Rocky Huynh is a sophomore, not a junior.

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Annual address covers college BROOKE DEADY BDEADY@BUTLER.EDU

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Butler University faculty members sit in Starbucks in this 2009 photo. Some administrators and faculty have suggested that a background check policy be re-evaluated.

Background check policy might deter potential candidates Interim provost says policy will be discussed at Board of Trustees meeting.

SARA PRUZIN

SPRUZIN@BUTLER.EDU PRINT MANAGING EDITOR

Administrators have begun reviewing Butler University’s background check policy to evaluate its effectiveness and respond to fears that it is causing the university to lose candidates.

Associate Provost Laura Behling said at the Feb. 21 Faculty Senate meeting that administrators have started to review both the cost and the time associated with background checks.

The background checks can take from a few days to two weeks or longer and must be completed before a candidate visits campus.

Stuart Glennan, an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that this lag can be detrimental, especially during the peak hiring season.

“We are competing very directly with other institutions, and speed matters,” he said.

Bill Templeton, an associate dean in the College of Business, said other schools are able to immediately invite a candidate to campus, while Butler committees have to wait for the background check to clear.

“I’d rather incur the occasional expense of bringing a candidate to campus [who eventually does not pass a background check] than incur the bureaucratic cost and lose

candidates,” Templeton said.

Interim Provost Kathryn Morris said at the Faculty Senate meeting that she is bringing “at least an introductory conversation” before the academic affairs committee and the board of trustees at their next meeting.

She said that while discussions concerning tenure and promotion might overshadow the background check policy, it will be a topic of conversation.

“I’m not sure it will get the attention it deserves, but it will sure be on their minds,” Morris said.

The background checks, which are conducted by an outside firm, were instated in August 2010 to “protect the safety and security” of the Butler community, according to the policy.

Primary background checks of the employment history, references, credentials, criminal background, names and previous addresses of candidates for employment are performed on all final job candidates who are invited to an on-campus interview.

Behling said the checks either come back with what she termed as a green light, yellow light or red light.

A red light includes “egregious convictions” such as violent crimes.

A yellow light may flag some more minor offenses, while a green light means that nothing was returned.

That information comes back to the provost, dean and director of human resources for review.

Behling said at the meeting that she did not have a list on-hand of what falls into each level of offense.

These checks can become complicated if a candidate has lived in multiple states and countries, Behling said, because it must go through all of them, and some countries are not responsive.

“If you have candidates that are very well-traveled, it’s a much more complicated endeavor, and it can really slow it down,” Behling said.

Templeton said one candidate had provided a photo identification card from a country the person had lived in more than eight years prior and then was asked to provide another when it was considered insufficient.

The candidate eventually withdrew from the search, he said.

Templeton said having checks before the person comes to campus is “clumsy,” and it would be more reasonable to do them at the time of an offer instead of before a visit.

He said he has not heard of a candidate being dismissed because of a background check, and they can become cumbersome.

“It’s not that you catch every third person,” Templeton said.

Michelle Jarvis, associate dean of the Jordan College of Fine Arts, said she believes the policy has caused the college to lose candidates.

She said background checks should begin once candidates have been identified, but the search should continue while the results are completed in order to streamline the process.

For now, she said search committee members in JCFA have tried their best to explain the process to prospective faculty hires.

“We can communicate and hope for the best,” she said.

The second annual State of the College of Education Address covered both internal unity and external partnerships Monday evening in the Reilly Room.

The address is meant to update COE members about what is going on in the college.

COE Dean Ena Shelley opened the address by discussing how all members of COE have a valuable role to play and that there should be no separation between faculty and students.

Shelley then went on to discuss yearly data for the college, which now houses 458 undergraduates and 123 graduates.

Shelley said she enjoys leading the college.

“I have the best job in the world,” Shelley said.

She went on explain how her faculty and staff are fantastic and the students are doing “remarkable and heroic work.”

She said that part of the COE vision states that the college “believes we must prepare our students for schools as they should be, not simply perpetuating schools as they currently exist.”

This segued into a presentation

by Ron Smith and Connie Sherman regarding the Butler University Lab School.

Smith is the principal of the lab school, and Sherman is the director at Saint Mary’s Child Center.

The lab school functions on four principles: diversity, collaboration, research and continuation of service.

These four aspects have molded the school and the child center, and Smith said that through this partnership, they are serving children from a different socio-economic background.

Katie Brooks, an assistant professor of education, then spoke about the English Language Learners program and its impact on the COE and students.

She discussed how there have been significant results from the interaction among faculty members and between faculty members and students.

She also said there have been significant positive results in test scores from the students under the ELL program.

SHELLEY: College of Education Dean Ena Shelley

The next aspect presented was the upcoming innovation of a smartphone app for educators.

The app is being developed

by Arthur Hochman, a professor of education, and Kelli Esteves, an assistant professor of education, with help from some students.

This app will be useful for all educators from preschools and high schools to the college-level environments.

Mindy Welch, professor of physical education, presented data about the physical education program here at Butler and talked about how program participants are required to go through a fitness test to make sure they are all within the healthy fitness zone.

One of the standards of the program states that the students must “achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of fitness throughout the program.”

All of the students in the program did exceptionally well, and Welch said it makes them role models for young children, especially when it comes to physical education.

Two students, Abby Soltis and Jessica Blackport, then talked about their experiences with the Butler Summer Institute.

In her research, Soltis looked closely at the use of technology in fieldwork involving environmental science.

She said that through her explorations she realized that teachers are researchers.

Blackport investigated dining programs in schools, where she looked at how schools were providing healthy options and how school dining programs could be improved.

Both of the girls explained that they had a wonderful learning experience by participating in the summer institute program.

The rest of the address was dedicated to further discussing all the different impacts COE has made on the community and the students it reaches.

SPORTS THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Athletics revenue continues to increase

The men’s basketball team is leading the way in earnings.

SPORT

MARISSA JOHNSON

MKHOHNSO@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

The Butler men’s basketball team recorded 117 victories in four seasons prior to the 2011-12 campaign.

But team has given more than just wins to Butler.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the men’s basketball team brought in more than $3.5 million in revenue last year.

The amount made up slightly more than 25 percent of the revenue the Butler athletics department received last year.

According to information submitted in accordance with the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), the department’s total revenue last year was $13.7 million.

“Football and men’s basketball are providing all the revenue in college athletics,” Tom Crowley, associate athletic director for internal operations, said.

“We’re not in a revenueproducing situation in football, so for us, men’s basketball provides the revenue.”

The athletics department’s 2010 filing with the EADA showed a revenue increase of more than $3 million from

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OPERATING EXPENSES PER INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT $41,801 $12,514 $7,258 $4,779 $3,482 $3,458 $2,902 $2,865 $2,681 $2,654 $2,621 $2,394 $2,289 $821 $756 Source: U.S. Dept. of Education

its 2007 filing.

Likewise, the total revenue brought in by men’s basketball increased by more than $1.7 million between the 2007 and 2010 EADA filings.

The team is one of two at Butler that drew more than $1 million in revenue last season.

Still, the other team, women’s basketball, drew close to $2.4 million less than men’s basketball in 2010.

Athletic Director Barry Collier said that this money does not all stay with the basketball team though.

“It is used to help run the entire department, all 19 sports, all 360 athletes

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and all facilities because we value each student-athlete and each team,” Collier said.

That fact could be true in part because the department also spent nearly $13.7 million during the 2010-11 school year.

“We’re not in the moneymaking making business,” Collier said, “but we do need funds to work.”

The department’s spending has increased at the same rate as its revenue between 2007 and 2010.

The athletics department’s budget includes financial aid, labor and factors considered to be non-labor such as travel, equipment, insurance and other miscellaneous team needs.

The budget is determined based on prior spending as well as the needs of each sport.

“We would desire to have a level playing field with the individual opponents for the individual sports,” Collier said. “It has nothing to do with the sport down the hall. [Athletes] don’t play the sport down the hall.

They play the sport they’re in against the other nine schools in our league, and that’s how we try to make our decisions.

“At the end of the day, you always have to come up with priorities.”

The budget includes

funds from three sources: athletic revenue, a university allocation and donations.

The three biggest areas of revenue for the athletics department are ticket sales, annual donations and corporate partnerships.

Tickets are sold for six Butler teams, and the majority of this revenue comes from men’s basketball.

In addition to ticket sales, Butler has been able to build more than 70 corporate partnerships that provide a wide range of funds.

Vice President for Finance Bruce Arick said the allocation put aside for the athletics department is about $4.3 million and is earmarked for general operating expenses.

The allocation fluctuates based on changes to the salaries and benefits given to all university employees.

The first major part of the athletic budget is financial aid.

There are 103 NCAA scholarships that total more than $4 million. This leaves 256 student-athletes—who are essentially providing revenue to the university— without athletic financial aid.

The university allocation drives the operating staff expenses including the salaries of two of the four highest-paid university employees in Collier and men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens.

Since it is given by the university, the allocation comes from a variety of sources including tuition and fees, net revenue, room and board fees, fundraisers, endowment draw and general interest income.

“We base the allocation on the needs of the department with the expectation that [the athletes] will be successful in the classroom, but we also want to be competitive in the sports themselves,” Arick said.

Collier said that of this $4.3 million, $45,000 comes from student activity fees.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Photo by Taylor Cox

Butler sophomore guard Chrishawn Hopkins (center) attempts to make a layup during Butler’s 70-52 win over Wright State yesterday.

Men drop Raiders MATT RHINESMITH MRHINESM@BUTLER.EDU

SPORTS MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

The Butler men’s basketball team started off the Horizon League tournament with a 70-52 victory over Wright State at Hinkle Fieldhouse Tuesday night.

It was a tale of two halves for the Bulldogs (19-13), who headed to the locker room with a one point lead.

“I thought in the first 10 minutes we were just timid,” coach Brad Stevens said. “That’s part of playing your first tournament game.”

Butler came out in the second half and went on a 13-0 run behind the play of sophomore forward Khyle Marshall.

Marshall scored all nine of his points in the second half, including six during the run.

Junior center Andrew Smith tallied a career-high 25 points and seven rebounds for the Bulldogs.

“Ever since the Valpo game, we’ve been focusing on people doing their jobs,” Smith said. “If we can do that, we’re a tough team to beat.”

Senior guard Ronald Nored recorded nine points on the night, along with three rebounds and six assists.

Nored is two assists shy of breaking Butler basketball’s alltime assist record, which is held by Mike Green.

Freshman forward Roosevelt Jones added 11 points, and sophomore guard Chrishawn Hopkins contributed 10.

The starters combined for 64 of the team’s 70 points.

For the Raiders (13-19), sophomore forward Cole Darling paced the offense with 12 points, while junior guard Julius Mays added 11.

From here, the Bulldogs will face the No. 4 seed, WisconsinMilwaukee, in the quarterfinals of the league tournament.

The contest will take place on Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Valparaiso’s Athletics-Recreation Center.

Because the Crusaders won the Horizon League regular season title, the remainder of the tournament’s games will take place in Valparaiso for as long as the Crusaders stay alive in the tournament The winner of that game will face Valparaiso on Mar. 3 in a game that will be televised on ESPNU.

Charity benefits local non-profits AUSTIN MONTEITH

AMONTEIT@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

With March Madness right around the corner another, a tournament influenced by the recent success of Butler’s men’s basketball is taking shape.

Brackets for Good, an Indianapolis-based charitable organization, is starting its first bracket tournament March 5 with local nonprofit educational organizations serving as the “teams.”

Butler graduate Matt McIntyre conceived the idea for the charity after witnessing the enthusiasm around Indianapolis surrounding Butler’s run to the national championship game last year.

“After the excitement during the tournament last year, we just wanted to give back that excitement to the non-profits in our state,” McIntyre said. “The timing was right with March Madness, and we wanted to turn the excitement of the tournament into something positive.”

McIntyre co-founded the organization along with Indiana University graduate Matt Duncan and Rose Hulman Institute of

For more on Brackets for Good and results from Butler sports, check out the briefs on page 6 or go to www.thebutlercollegian.com.

Technology graduate David Cornelius.

The contest involves eight Indianapolis non-profits matched up in a tournament-style bracket that takes place over three weeks.

Each week, the organization with the most points advances to the next round like in the NCAA tournament.

For each dollar donated to the organization, the organization earns one point.

The winner of the tournament will receive an additional $5,000 that serves as the grand prize.

McIntyre said that the goal of the tournament is to spread the word of these non-profits around the community.

“The biggest thing for me, coming just several years out of school, is you’re just unaware of what non-profits exist, so we wanted to help raise awareness for these organizations,” McIntyre said.

Nathan Hand, vice president of marketing and development at School on Wheels,

Photo courtesy of Brackets for Good

Brackets for Good, an Indianapolis-based charity co-founded by a Butler graduate, is running its first bracket tournament for local non-profit organizations from March 5 to March 25. an organization that helps tutor homeless children in Indianapolis, said that his organization’s involvement in the tournament could help bring new volunteers to the group.

“I think it brings some awareness and introduces new people to us who also might choose to volunteer,” Hand said.

Another organization that is taking part in the tournament is the Orr Fellowship, an organization that provides post-graduate opportunities for graduates of Indiana universities.

Brandon Russell, marketing coordinator at WebLink International and current Orr

Fellow, said that the contest is a good event for the Orr Fellowship to take part in.

“We like to give back to the community as much as possible, and we thought this would be a great opportunity to do so,” Russell said.

“We are really excited about winning this thing and taking what we win and giving it back to the community.”

McIntyre said the idea would have never gotten off the ground if not for Butler.

“Without Butler, I wouldn’t have my connection to the other directors,” McIntyre said. “We wouldn’t have had the idea to do this without Butler.”

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IN BRIEF

Men’s tennis grabs first victory

The Butler men’s tennis team captured its elusive first victory of the spring season on Friday.

The Bulldogs (1-11) put an end to a 10-match losing streak with a 4-3 win over Bradley.

Butler defeated the Braves (5-8) at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles to take the doubles point.

Freshmen Billy Weldon and Austin Woldmoe got the

ball rolling in doubles action for the Bulldogs by topping sophomores Ashton Kalhorn and Hamish Weerasinghe 8-4 at No. 1 doubles.

At No. 3 doubles, Butler freshmen Pulok Bhattacharya and Sam O’Neill walked away with an 8-3 win over junior Eric Nguyen and freshman Ahmed Albitar.

Singles victories from Woldmoe, Weldon and freshman Tommy Marx

BUTLER VS BRADLEY, FEB. 24 SINGLES No. 1: Woldmoe (BU) def. Townes (BRAD) 6-1, 6-2 No. 2: Marx (BU) def. Cuadrado (BRAD) 6-3, 6-4 DOUBLES No. 1: Weldon/Woldmoe (BU) def. Kalhorn/Weerasinghe (BRAD) 8-4

Baseball loses two of three in Tennessee The Butler baseball team dropped two out of three games at Tennessee-Martin this past weekend.

Home runs by three Butler players led the Bulldogs (2-5) to a 13-5 victory over the Skyhawks (3-5) Sunday afternoon.

Butler junior first baseman Jimmy Risi homered twice and drove in five runs.

The teams played the first two games of the three-game series in a doubleheader on

Saturday.

Tennessee-Martin won the second game of the doubleheader by a 5-4 margin.

Butler freshman shortstop Austin Miller recorded his first collegiate hit, a two-run double, in the loss.

Te n n e s s e e - M a r t i n won the first game of the doubleheader 5-0.

The Bulldogs will be back in Tennessee for a threegame series against Belmont in Nashville Saturday and Sunday.

-Austin Monteith

BUTLER AT TENNESSEE-MARTIN, FEB. 25-26 Game 1— Butler: 0, Tennessee-Martin: 5 Game 2— Butler: 4, Tennessee-Martin: 5 Game 3— Butler: 13, Tennessee-Martin: 5 Jimmy Risi: Two home runs, five RBI in Game 3 Butler: Four home runs in Game 3

sealed the deal for the Bulldogs.

Woldmoe downed Bradley sophomore Gabriel Townes at No. 1 singles 6-1, 6-2, while Marx topped junior Juan Diego Cuadrado 6-3, 6-4 in No. 2 singles action.

Weldon picked up a crucial win for the Bulldogs at No. 5 singles, defeating Weerasinghe 6-3, 0-6, 6-4.

The momentum from the win against Bradley could not propel Butler past No. 62 Drake the following day, though.

Butler will hit the road again this weekend to take on Dayton Friday and No. 26 Indiana Saturday.

-Colin Likas

Swimming tops many season-bests

The Butler swim team finished its season last weekend, placing eighth at the Horizon League Swimming and Diving Championships in Brown Deer, Wisc.

The Bulldogs were breaking personal and season-best times throughout the event.

The week began with both of Butler’s 200 relay teams setting season-bests.

On Thursday the

Photo by Marcy Thornsberry

Freshman Tommy Marx (left) and senior Zach Ervin congratulate each other during their doubles match against Bradley on Friday. Butler defeated Bradley 4-3 for its first victory of the spring season.

400 medley relay team highlighted the day by breaking its season-best by more than eight seconds.

Freshman Lauren Scotti had a season-best showing in the 50 freestyle with a time of 25.15.

On Friday, sophomore Lauren Lambrecht captured 14th place in the 100 butterfly with a time of 59.85.

Rounding out the night was a season-best performance from the 800 freestyle relay team.

-Kyle Beery

HORIZON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET, FEB. 22-25 200 FREESTYLE RELAY Lambrecht, Ring, Somerville, Scotti: 1:40.48—season-best 50 FREESTYLE Scotti: 25.15—season-best 800 FREESTYLE RELAY Scotti, Pua, Brannen, Weichelt: 8:06.40—season-best

Softball splits weekend trip The Butler softball team grabbed two wins in a fourgame series against three teams in Evansville last weekend.

The Bulldogs (2-4) took control early in their final game of the weekend, defeating host Evansville 3-2.

On Sunday Butler played its second game against Missouri-Kansas City but lost 1-0 in eight innings.

The Kangaroos (6-4)

scored the only run of the game after a throwing error by the Bulldogs in the bottom of the eighth inning.

In the first game between the teams, two Kangaroo pitchers combined to hold the Bulldogs scoreless on five hits in a 2-0 win for UMKC. The Bulldogs started the weekend strong with a decisive 8-0 win over Detroit.

The Bulldogs will travel to Arkansas to play in the Woo Pig Classic this weekend.

-Marissa Johnson

BUTLER AT EVANSVILLE, FEB. 25-26 Game 1—Butler: 8, Detroit: 0 Game 2—Butler: 0, Missouri-Kansas City: 2 Game 3—Butler: 0, Missouri-Kansas City: 1 Game 4—Butler: 3, Evansville: 2 Esparza: Pitched complete game for win in Game 4

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TRACK AND FIELD

Distance team leads way BETH WERGE BWERGE@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

School records, meet records and league records—the Butler track and field team has recorded them all this season.

The trend continued this past weekend at the Horizon League Indoor Championships in Youngstown, Ohio.

Although neither the men (fourth) nor the women (third) were able to capture a team title, individuals on both sides had strong performances.

Butler’s distance squad made a splash, breaking multiple records and setting personal ones.

Freshman Mara Olson finished runner-up in the 800-meter run, completing the race in 2:13.13.

Olson’s time was just seconds slower than the Horizon League record, which was set by Butler junior Kirsty Legg in 2009.

The Butler women also swept the mile with Legg winning, junior Katie Clark taking second place and Olson grabbing third.

“We were really pleased,” Clark said. “I think the girls really ran well, and it was really nice to be a part of it.”

Clark also won the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs in leaguerecord times.

“I made a deal with myself that this was the end of my season, and I was giving it what I had left,” Clark said.

The women’s distance medley relay team, composed of Legg, Olson, junior Kaitlyn Love and sophomore Maddie Cassidy, clocked a time of 11:35.83, winning the event and breaking the facility, Horizon League and Butler records.

“Overall, I thought we performed at a really high level on both sides,” coach Matt Roe said.

“If you look at the marks, there are lots of records.”

On the men’s side, freshman Tom Curr won the 800-meter run in a time of 1:50.67, topping the facility record by nearly three seconds and barely missing a league record.

The 800 was not the only event Curr performed well in, though.

In the one-mile run, Curr, sophomore Ross Clarke, sophomore Craig Jordan and redshirt freshman Harry Ellis crossed the line in first through fourth places, sweeping the event.

Clarke also won the men’s 3,000-meter run in a Horizon League record time of 8:16.50.

“We’d really been hit with a lot of injuries before the championships, which meant added pressure for the distance runners to compete in several events,” Clarke said. “If we’re fit and healthy for outdoor conference, we will definitely improve.”

Butler’s success continued in the men’s 5,000-meter run, where sophomore Callum Hawkins

Photo courtesy of Dustin Livesay

From left, junior Katie Clark, junior Kirsty Legg and freshman Mara Olson race in the women’s one-mile run at the Horizon League Indoor Championships last weekend. Legg won the race with a time of 4:48.59. recorded a time of 14:15.55 for another Horizon League record.

The men’s distance medley relay team of Ellis, Clarke, sophomore Andrew Wallace and freshman Connor Love later won their race, falling just short of both the facility and league records.

“The hard training we do every day enables us to maintain fitness post-season,” Clarke said. “It keeps us ready to embark on achieving next season’s goals as well.”

In the field events, freshman Nicole Hudec placed eighth in the

triple jump and ninth in the long jump.

Freshman Bria Booker took eighth place in the women’s pentathlon for the Bulldogs.

In the men’s field events, sophomore Nigel Spears took fifth in long jump and sophomore Mick Wang placed sixth in the heptathlon.

All of the Butler women’s 82 points and 80 of the men’s 89 were scored in distance events.

“One of our program’s goals is to have everyone perform best at

the championship event,” Roe said.

“As well as we performed at the indoor championships, we want to be even better at outdoors.”

While most of the Bulldogs have completed their indoor season, a handful of Butler athletes will head to Notre Dame this weekend for the Alex Wilson Invitational.

The meet is the last chance for runners to post national-qualifying times.

The meet will be run over two days with running events beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday.

GOLF

With high expectations, teams prepare for spring season JERREN FAIR JFAIR@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

It is that time of the year again.

No, not the wildly popular basketball spectacle that is March Madness. Rather, now is the return of a sport after a long hiatus—golf.

The golf season is split into two separate sections—one for the fall semester and one for the spring.

But in between those seasons is a long break.

During that break—since the sport is technically not considered in-season—the athletes are limited to eight hours of organized practice per week. That includes activities such as working out and hitting the driving range.

It is officially time for the Butler men’s and women’s golf teams to start playing again, though.

The squads have a variety of goals and expectations as their spring season gets underway.

MEN’S TEAM The Butler men’s golf team is looking to rebound in the upcoming spring season after a disappointing finish to the fall season.

While the team won its first tournament of the season at Green Bay and finished second in the Butler Fall Invitational, the Bulldogs placed ninth, 12th and 13th in their other three fall events.

According to coach Bill Mattingly, it all starts with trying to improve as a team.

“The conference is wide open this year,” Mattingly said. “With the guys we have, there is a good chance we could win.”

Players said they feel they have what it takes to make the ascension

Collegian file photos

Butler senior Michele Nash, seen during the Butler Fall Invitational, took first place in a pair of events during the Bulldogs’ fall season.

on deck Upcoming Bulldog home events

to champions of the Horizon League.

Junior Matt Vitale said that unity has been important for Butler.

“I think the biggest thing that it comes down to is that we all like each other and everyone enjoys the game of golf,” Vitale said.

Vitale was a walk-on to the team last year. Initially, he said he felt like he had to prove himself to show he belonged, but he does not feel the same way now.

The feeling of togetherness within the team does not stop there, though.

“The juniors and seniors have been really welcoming,” freshman Andrew Eiler said. “They have been a lot of help in transitioning from high school to college golf.”

Mattingly said Eiler is the youngest major contributor to the team.

“He came in, won his spot on the team and never gave it away,” Mattingly said.

Players say they revel in the chance to have workouts with their teammates—even if they come at 6 a.m.—as it is another opportunity to be pushed to work that much harder.

Senior Alex Walker has been on the team long enough to know the ins and outs of not only the sport but the balance of college life as well.

Walker said the preparation involved to get physically and mentally ready for the spring season should constantly be stressed, and he hopes to help players learn how to get better in order to win the conference tournament.

The Bulldogs open their spring season in Florida against Evansville and Cleveland State on March 10.

After that, the team has seven events between March 10 and April 29. Six of these are multi-day contests, three of which will take

place in Florida.

WOMEN’S TEAM The women had a successful fall season, winning three out of five invitationals.

Mattingly said he knows the transition from one season to the next can be difficult at first.

“The first few tournaments will be rough,” Mattingly said.

Players said they know this as well.

The time off is one major disadvantage of playing golf in the northern half of the country.

Thanks to weather, teams in the North are not able to practice and play on courses during their own free time like the teams in the South are.

This creates a huge disadvantage for teams like Butler, but shaking off the rust is essential if the Bulldogs plan to build on their success in the fall season.

“It’s definitely going to be difficult since [the USA Women’s Invitational] is our first tournament in a few months,” senior Michele Nash said. “Mentally, you have to prepare yourself for the spring season and expect to shoot your best scores.”

Nash is coming off a fall season in which she recorded two firstplace finishes, a runner-up showing and two fifth-place finishes.

In addition to the strong play from Nash, two freshmen also contributed to the success the team had in the fall.

Both Isabella Lambert and Jenna Peters had a top-three finish at one tournament in the fall.

Mattingly heaped praises upon them and said he expects them to be “stronger, smarter and a little more poised” after having one semester of experience under their belts.

According to Peters, the Bulldogs are not merely looking to

Butler freshman Andrew Eiler, seen during the Butler Fall Invitational, had a strong first semester with the Bulldogs. improve, though.

“I would really like to go to the NCAA tournament,” Peters said.

Mattingly said he believes an NCAA tournament appearance is possible and has gotten the players to buy into it, too.

Butler was tabbed to win the Horizon League in a preseason poll by Golfweek magazine, and the Bulldogs said they fully plan to come out firing with a strong showing in Mobile, Ala. That is where the USA Women’s Invitational was held yesterday and today.

Nash finished in a three-way tie for fifth place at the event, leading the Bulldogs to a runnerup showing.

Lambert had the second-best showing of all Butler players, finishing in eighth.

Butler finished two strokes behind host South Alabama in the 13-team event.

The women will now compete in the same seven events as their male counterparts between March 10 and April 29.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

TUESDAY

WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Ball State 3:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Detroit 7:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Wright State 2:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Illinois State 2:00 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Dayton 3:00 p.m.

ARTS ETC.

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Barista charm

Cheristdel Bonds, campus Starbucks barista, shares her life story and why she likes Butler students so much Photo by Reid Bruner

Cheristdel Bonds (right), campus barista, chats with members of student feminist organization Demia, Colleen Quilt (left) and Abby Robison (middle). Bonds is a recent addition to the Starbucks crew.

KEVIN VOGEL KJVOGEL@BUTLER.EDU

STAFF WRITER

Among the women making Butler University a unique and lively campus this semester is Cheristdel Bonds, a relatively recent addition to the campus Starbucks staff who serves the Butler community while developing her spirituality.

Bonds exudes warmth and spoke candidly of her life to The Collegian and members of the student feminist organization Demia in her College Avenue home.

“I was a bad girl,” she said of her young self, “but I guess I thought there was something better in me.”

Bonds, born in Jackson, Tenn., said she did not come from a religious family but discovered religion on her own. She said religion has since become a central part of who she is. “[My kids and I] really don’t do much,” she said. “We spend a lot of time together in the house, and we go to church on Sunday. I love to go to church.”

Bonds came to Indianapolis with her mother because her maternal family was located here. Before coming to Butler, she worked at

Caribou Coffee on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

“I really like working at coffee shops because you can get one on one,” she said. “I like people.”

Speaking about her first impressions of Butler, she described the community here as more friendly and outgoing than IUPUI. “When I’m having a bad day, someone always makes me smile,” she said. “I don’t come home angry or frustrated or mad.”

In addition to her positive interactions with the Butler community, she said that she has to deal with some negativity, including a corporate environment that she said is intolerant to new ideas.

She described a new national procedure that Starbucks is instating—more frequent coffee brewing, which she feels will end up generating a lot of waste.

She also said that some policies diminish the staff’s efficiency and lead to longer lines at the register.

Bonds said that despite these flaws, she is happy with her job, and she enjoys talking with the students and knowing customers’ usual beverages.

She nailed Collegian

photographer Reid Bruner’s beverage of choice without even the slightest hesitation.

As for her own preference in coffee, she said her favorite is white mocha with caramel.

While she enjoys the student interaction that her position at Butler affords her, she said that she does not plan to work here forever.

She is already working to achieve her dream: participating in televised worship services, teaching about faith and spirituality. She is training to become an usher in her congregation and has plans to join the choir.

As for the rest, she said, “I’m waiting for the higher spiritual person in me to move.”

Bonds’ powerful spirituality showed fully in her response to a question from Demia president Colleen Quilty: If you could tell women at Butler one thing, what would you tell them?

“No matter what road your life may take, always learn to forgive yourself and love yourself,” she said through light tears.

Quilty said that she has been buying coffee from Bonds for a long time but never knew anything about her family or her life outside

of Starbucks.

“That’s crazy,” Quilty said.

“There’s no reason [students] shouldn’t know that.”

Ed. note: This March is Women’s History Month and The Collegian

wishes to highlight the women on campus who bring their own complex personalities to bear on the atmosphere of this university and yet often go unnoticed by the majority of the community.

CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH - Know a female student, faculty or staff member who is a leader on campus and sets out to improve the Butler community? Nominate them for a Women of Distinction Award.

Visit www.butler.edu/whm. Nominations are due Friday to Irene Stevens (istevens@butler.edu).

- Dr. Wendy Nomathemba Luhabe, chancellor of the University of Johanneburg, will be the keynote speaker at “Empowerment for Change: Equipping This Generation to Save the Next,” an exhibit and dialogue to be held Monday at 5 p.m. in the Krannert Room.

- On Tuesday, at “Women, Economic Empowerment and Social Change,” Luhabe will speak again, along with notable Indiana women in business. It will be held at 5 p.m. in the Krannert Room.

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Student businesses bring condoms, soaps, music to campus CAITLIN O’ROURKE COROURKE@BUTLER.EDU ARTS ETC. EDITOR Expect your pockets to feel a little lighter, Butler. The Real Business Experience projects have firmly established themselves on campus.

RBE is a program for sophomore business students.

Students form teams, think up a business idea and then attempt to market it to the campus community or wider, depending on the product.

Businesses this year are many and varied, from managing a rock group to selling environmentally friendly laundry soap to setting up a hygiene product vending machine just outside C-Club.

Kegan Saajasto, a sophomore management information systems and finance major, is part of the group that implemented the vending machine.

“As a freshman, it was just an unmet need,” he said, referring to having easily accessible products such as condoms, toothpaste and shampoo. “The bookstore sells some stuff, but it’s super expensive, and the hours aren’t always convenient.

Also, many freshmen don’t have cars to go buy it elsewhere.”

The vending machine has a collection of condoms, mouthwash, toothpaste and brushes, chapstick, floss, shampoo, vaseline and hand lotion.

Saajasto said condoms are by far the most popular. The price range is 50 cents to $4.

He said the business has had a positive reaction, but his group is not as well known as it would like to be.

“We’re facing more setbacks than anticipated,” Saajasto said.

However, the group already has several new promotional ideas, including putting stickers on some of the items and giving the winners Starbucks gift cards.

Robert Beckett’s group took a different route— they’re selling EnviroNuts, an all-natural organic laundry soap.

The soap is made from

shells of nuts that grow in India, and four or five are placed in a small cotton bag, which is then put in the washing machine.

Beyond that, however, Beckett said the soap also helps to break down the buildup that chemical laundry detergent causes.

The product is USDA certified organic.

Beckett said he found the idea online when searching for business ideas and thought it was really creative.

Beyond just Butler’s campus, the group has sold its product to Good Earth, a natural food store located in Broad Ripple, although it was turned down at many other stores.

“We’ve learned how to hear no,” Beckett said. “The whole process has really made us think outside the box in how to market and sell the product.”

Beckett said his group has already gone past the breakeven point and is continuing to think of new ways to sell, including using Beckett’s fraternity, Phi Delta Theta.

Members of his fraternity will take order forms and make a slight profit on how much they manage to sell.

The group hopes to reach a larger audience this way.

“It’s essentially the same idea of selling Girl Scout cookies,” Beckett said.

While both groups said the program has been a lot of work, they said it was worth it for the experience they’re receiving.

“It taught us that business isn’t easy, however cheesy that sounds,” Saajasto said.

Photo by Taylor Cox RBE group brings personal hygiene products to vending machines.

Photo by Rachel Anderson

Butler English professor Dan Barden, flips through his newest book “The Next Right Thing,” which is available for purchase March 6. The story is about a man on his road to sobriety and the people he meets along the way.

‘The Next Right Thing’ Butler professor draws from personal experience to write a novel about addiction and what it takes to overcome it.

ANNE CARPENTER ACCARPEN@BUTLER.EDU ASST. ARTS ETC. EDITORW Speaking with Dan Barden is like speaking with an old friend, not the established writer and author that he is.

Barden, an English professor at Butler University, with his feet propped up on his dark wooden desk and white paper coffee cup in hand, discussed his new book, “The Next Right Thing,” as if it were a part of him, not just something he wrote.

In a way, it is.

Sober for nearly 26 years now, Barden’s journey of learning how to not drink serves as the inspiration for Randy, the book’s protagonist.

“I wanted to write a book about the friends who helped me get sober,” Barden said.

Through his group of friends, Barden met

someone who would come to mean a great deal to him.

In the book, his name is Terry.

“He meant as much to me as my father,” Barden said, “more than my father.”

This friend and mentor, who had meant so much to Barden, died suddenly of a heroin overdose. All of a sudden, Barden said he realized he did not know his friend as he thought he did.

“I was grief stricken,” Barden said.

So, he wrote.

He wrote all over the back the back page of The New York Times after being inspired by the “Portraits of Grief” series, which are stories of 9/11 victims.

Surrounded by drawings done by his son and a poster of John Wayne, Barden said that in recovery, people tell you that when you are in doubt, you should always do the next right thing, hence the title of the book, and that Randy does not

Spring Sing and fun in the sun SARVARY KOLLER SKOLLER@BUTLER.EDU STAFF WRITER

Butler students will raise their voices and whip out their swimsuits for this year’s beach-themed Spring Sing fundraiser.

The two music fraternities on campus, the women’s fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota and the men’s fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, organize this yearly event.

Junior French horn major and member of Sigma Alpha Iota Abbey Springer is the Chair of Spring Sing and has been organizing the fundraiser since November.

According to Springer, the teams are comprised of members from all of the housing units on campus, including Greek houses.

Each team will create their own dances and rewrite the lyrics of songs to fit the beach theme of the event.

They will perform in front of Irene Stevens, dean of student life, and associate professors Catherine Pangan and Frank Felice.

Springer said the criteria for judging is stage presence, relation to the theme, music selection, and originality.

While the fundraiser is a fun event that all students

and faculty can enjoy, it has a philanthropic cause. The proceeds from the event will be donated to VH1 Save the Music.

VH1 Save the Music is an organization that raises money for underprivileged schools to help them implement strong music education systems.

The organization reaches out to schools and help kids get involved and passionate about music.

In addition to the $5 ticket charge, there will also be a donation bin at the event to raise more money. Tickets will go on sale this week in Starbucks.

Springer said she is hopeful that this year’s attendance will be larger than last year.

Due to the men’s basketball team’s success and journey to the Final Four, many students didn’t attend the event last year, and the fundraiser actually lost money.

Springer said the goal is to sell as many of the 400 available tickets as possible and increase involvement among independent students.

“I think people see Spring Sing as a mainly Greek event, and I really wish I could change that,” Springer said.

While Greek members

Photo by Taylor Cox

A few members of Tau Kappa Epsilon practice in the basement for Spring Sing, a beach-themed fundraiser for charity. make up the majority of the audience and teams, Springer said that the event is something all Butler students and faculty can enjoy.

Brittany Hansen, a sophomore education major, is the captain for the Spring Sing team consisting of Alpha Phi, Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa Psi, and she said they are planning to practice every day this week.

“It was a little difficult getting started and getting everyone from each house to communicate,” Hansen said.

“But, I really think it’s coming together for Friday.”

Freshman psychology major and member of Delta Gamma Danielle Markowitz said she is excited about participating.

Delta Gamma is paired with Lambda Chi Alpha for the event and practices have given her the opportunity to meet people and make new friends.

“It’s so much easier getting to know someone when you have to sing and dance and just break out of your comfort zone,” Markowitz said.

Spring Sing is at 8:30 p.m. on Friday at Clowes Memorial Hall.

always do what is right.

“I love him,” Barden said.

“His heart is in the right place.”

The book follows Randy as he tries to discover what actually pushed Terry off the edge.

“All I had was grief,” Barden said. “But this guy [Randy] could figure out what happened.”

The idea of loving someone unconditionally is something Barden had to come to accept in his recovery.

“The miracle for me was how other people could love me in the moments in my life where it was factually evident that I was unlovable,” Barden said.

Along with friends, someone else has stood by his side for the past 13 years: his wife.

Liz Barden said that her husband is a “confident pro,” one who is solid and a builder of sorts, just like his father, who was a contractor.

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“Dan builds things,” Liz Barden said. “They just so happen to be stories.”

Liz Barden, owner of local bookstore Big Hat Books, knows a good book when she sees it and has no doubts about her husband’s latest venture.

“I’m proud of him every day,” Barden said.

Meg Cychosz, a senior English and foreign language major and also a former student of Barden’s, said that what Barden brings to the university is remarkable.

“It is really impressive that we have faculty that are both able to teach and contribute to real world applications,” Cychosz said.

Barden may build stories, but his words bring a human experience to addiction, self-worth and the value of friendship.

In the words of one reviewer, “Not only will this book change lives, it’ll save lives.”

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Yes, we have a parking problem

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ven in the midst of midtermexam season, mumbled curses and nervous breakdowns on Butler University’s campus are likely to occur when someone has a parking drama.

Despite a deficit of 1,412 parking spaces and growing concern in the community, Butler’s administration still has taken little visible major action to bridge this gap constructively.

The actions they have taken have only increased the tensions over this situation, such as the towing of Lambda Chi Alpha members’ cars and the debate over the parking spots near Phi Delta Theta.

Instead of these complicated schemes and punishments that don’t re-envision Butler’s parking situation, The Collegian calls on Butler’s administration to form a

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clear solution, and soon.

A parking garage could be constructed, and not in the long term when the situation only worsens as more students come to Butler with cars in tow.

Since other buildings such as the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Performing and Visual Arts are being built and other renovations are planned, a moderately sized parking garage built in the near future could make the situation more manageable.

The $12,000 per space price tag of structured parking will be expensive, but it will be the best option. It will keep the city off of Butler’s back when it looks to develop further, and it will make students, faculty and staff content.

Another drastic but effective move? Freshman parking could be prohibited, clearing many of these

1,412 non-existent parking spots.

Eliminating freshman resident parking permits, while controversial, would create some breathing room for faculty, staff, and students who have greater transit needs.

Student parking pass prices could be raised substantially, reducing the desire for parking passes. This proposal will keep people who only use their cars casually from wanting a pass.

Administrative funding could also bolster programs already set up, such as the Student Government Association-sponsored shuttle system.

By improving these programs, the administration will improve the parking situation while supporting community ideas, which would be good for public relations.

The community recognizes a parking issue and has solutions to

resolve the issue. Any of these ideas, if used by the administration, would alleviate the parking crisis. The problem here is not a lack of ideas or communication from the community but a lack of major action.

Butler simply needs the administration, with its power and funding, to take the reins and construct a solution like it is supposed to do.

While any administrative solution will be met with controversy, a substantial one will ultimately be a sigh of relief compared to the wellintentioned yet unhelpful resolutions the administration has started.

Yes, some of these solutions will be costly and understandably difficult to complete. But it is time for the administration to admit, yes, we have a parking problem, and it needs to be fixed soon.

Students should join feminist group’s celebration of women

Anne Carpenter Asst. A&E Editor

André Smith Asst. Sports Editor

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The women who make Starbucks and food services possible have stories to tell.

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’m Colleen Quilty, president of Demia, Butler University’s feminist and social justice organization. Tomorrow is the start of Women’s History Month, a whole 31 days dedicated to remembering and honoring women, their achievements and current issues they face.

Demia is planning an eventful March culminating in a student production of Eve Ensler’s worldfamous “Vagina Monologues” on March 30 in the Reilly Room.

Women make up 60 percent of our campus, and March gives us the opportunity to honor the women we see every day.

Building a Butler community has been a priority for administration and was on the platform of many Student Government Association presidential candidates.

Relationships between students, staff and faculty are key in building the community that we want here at Butler. We’ve decided to team up with the Collegian to give readers a peek into the lives of three female staff members in the Butler community.

After your daily two cups of coffee, a meal swipe and C-club meal exchange, how well do you know the women and men who are swiping your card or flipping your omelet?

Every day, I order my tall coffee from a smiling, patient woman who wishes me a good day. That is where the conversation ended, but after a while it wasn’t enough.

I started wondering about her story and her life outside of my morning ritual. I couldn’t get my mind off the woman behind the Starbucks counter.

So a few weeks ago, I approached Editor-in-Chief Hayleigh Colombo with an idea for a new feature: “The Worker Spotlight.” I knew the thoughtful woman in Starbucks would be the perfect start to a series in which The Collegian shines a light on the lives of female staff members in the Butler community.

Tune in to the next two issues of The Collegian for a new profile each week.

Contact guest columnist Colleen Quilty at collegian@butler.edu.

Letter to the Editor Being as that I am so far away from Butler’s campus this semester, The Butler Collegian and Connection are the only two ways that I receive any news whatsoever regarding the happenings within the university.

It is my great displeasure to share with you that I extremely disagree with the way you went about handling your Student Government Association presidential endorsements.

The editor in chief clearly made her point clear that she would be voting for Kelsa Reynolds, completely undermining her entire paper’s endorsement of Mike Keller.

Now I know that not everyone is going to agree on a single person on which to cast their vote, but when showing support as an entity, it almost looks as an abuse of power for the editor to write a contradictory article right below the staff’s endorsement.

It’s not fair for any of the candidates, especially the aforementioned two, to show such division, such lack-luster support, within your own organization. It’s about being professional. This really came as a shock to me, as I’m usually a huge supporter of everything The Collegian does.

Once again, it’s one of my only means of attaining relevant Butler information.

It also hit pretty close to home with me when the latter article in the paper brought gender into the mix. Maybe it’s just because I’m male and I don’t understand, but if this particular topic hasn’t surfaced in the past, why is the editor in chief bringing it up in her article to the masses?

It’s unbelievable that such a stab be taken towards the male candidates.

It’s not their fault that no female SGA president has been elected in quite some time.

How about basing your decisions on platforms? On values? On priorities? You know, things that will matter once the “chosen one” takes office. I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I read such things.

So please, I beg of you, continue reporting without such contradictory messages to your readers. There are more of us than you think, and not all of us are still at Butler to see these issues resolved.

I apologize for writing such a letter, but I felt these topics needed to be brought to light.

—Kyle Stuard Butler student

Dawg Pound represents Butler both in Hinkle and around the nation In Butler’s two NCAA tournament runs, the Dawg Pound has shown the good character of the school.

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he immature actions of the Dawg Pound deteriorates the value of the “Butler Way;” but the good they do off the court gives me hope that they can turn it around in time for the post season.

The Dawg Pound is one of the most underappreciated groups on campus. On a national stage they represent Butler University.

Everyone knows how good the basketball program is, but a lot of schools have good teams with contradictory student bodies.

A lot of the cheers are dumb and ironically offend other teams as well as our own. For example we insult a player from Australia when we have a native of Australia on our team. Although Xavier fans traveled well from my seat in the middle rows the game felt like it was at a neutral site.

I hope that the Dawg Pound stays passionate but does not stoop to the level to where not only do opposing players flip them the bird but the rest of society who interacts with the Dawg Pound doesn’t either.

This group does many things that go unnoticed and unappreciated.

The most impactful thing they have done was support “Coaches v.s. Cancer” by buying shirts with the proceeds supporting cancer research.

This hit home because the women’s basketball coach, Beth Couture underwent a previous battle with cancer.

The conscious effort to support the women’s basketball team, who has a much smaller fan base, is

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another good deed that shows a better side of the Dawg Pound.

The group that began 10 years ago as a way to boost attendance at games has blossomed into something much bigger.

Although the 950 members is a fraction of the student population, they represent Butler on a larger scale. The activities they do and the way they conduct themselves portrays the school in a positive or negative light.

This is just one example of how the Dawg Pound spreads the “Butler Way.” With the success of our basketball team the Dawg Pound is Butler’s best promotional tool. When the team travels Butler is judged on the way its fans conduct themselves.

Most tournament games are on national TV so the only thing the rest of the country knows about Butler students is what they see out of the Dawg Pound.

In Butler’s last two NCAA tournament appearances, Butler fans impressed opponents and host city residents with courtesy and respect.

With the postseason tournaments approaching, whether it is the NCAA tournament or one less prestigious, the Dawg Pound must mature up and realize they are the face of Butler and must show the country the “Butler Way.” Contact columnist Rhyan Henson at rhenson@butler.edu.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

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Danko should sign environmental initiative

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utler University’s Board of Trustees retreat will begin in Naples, Fla., tomorrow and last through Saturday.

At this retreat, it is expected that President Jim Danko will begin reaching out to the board in preparation for his signing of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

By signing the commitment, higher education institutions pledge to develop a plan to achieve climate neutrality as soon as possible.

It is a step he should take.

The commitment states, “We recognize the scientific consensus that global warming is real and is largely being caused by humans.

“We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of green house gases by 80 percent by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming.”

This commitment should not be interpreted as a political statement.

It is urgent and necessary for Butler to demonstrate that reversing climate disruption is central to education on campus.

Butler should not stand on the sidelines and fail to rise to the challenge.

Council on Presidential Affairs chair Mike Tirman and senior Ginnye Cubel, CPA green operations coordinator, began researching the commitment after Tirman brought up the ACUPCC at an October meeting with the administration.

“Mike and I then worked on a document that went step by step on what Butler would need to do if Danko were to sign the commitment,” Cubel said. “After reading the research, Danko decided he needed to go to the Board of Trustees.”

At the retreat this weekend, a main goal for the board must be getting on the same page with Danko.

Signing this pledge is a push toward bringing climate change and sustainability to the forefront of discussions at Butler.

I am anticipating the outcome from this retreat with excitement as it will determine the future for the ACUPCC and Butler.

The board should recognize that Danko is in favor of the commitment, as is the student population.

Student Government Association Assembly is voting today on

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Butler University should commit to being more environmentally friendly. a resolution “enthusiastically” endorsing the commitment and urging Danko to sign the commitment.

The resolution, if passed, will be presented to Danko before he leaves for Naples to share with the board.

“Personally, I think we should go for it,” Cubel said.

“When we were outlining the steps in this commitment, Butler actually has accomplished a lot of them already. I think it is a very important step. Indiana is one of the worst environmental states in the nation, and Butler’s green report card is pretty dismal as well.”

Currently, Butler has a C- grade in the College Sustainability report card.

The board should also understand that by signing the commitment, positive impacts on campus can occur in a short amount of time.

It was in the fall of 2007 when Rev. Peter M. Donohue, president of Villanova, signed the commitment.

The actual Climate Action Plan began in late 2008 at the university.

First Lady Bethanie Danko served on the President’s Climate Commitment Core Team at Villanova as senior communications associate as well.

Villanova now has an A- grade in the college sustainability report card and is ranked 32nd in the nation by the Sierra Club for being one of the greenest colleges in the nation.

This could happen here.

Danko could potentially sign the measure during Earth Week, when Butler also plans to unveil the bike share program and green roof.

Contact columnist Matt Kasper at mkasper@butler.edu.

by Hali Bickford

SGA policy vetoes enrichment, political organizations

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utler University’s Student Government Association is actively limiting the ability of political groups on campus to educate the student population.

The three main political groups—the Butler University College Democrats, the Butler University College Republicans and the Butler University Students for Liberty—should come together in an effort to change SGA’s policy so that SGA will fund political education events.

SGA’s policy toward studentrun political groups is that “organizations allotted grant money through SGA may not use those funds to provide: financial support for political programs, parties, individual political candidates or direct lobbying efforts,” according to the SGA website.

On this basis, College Democrats were recently denied an SGA grant to help fund the showing of a documentary.

SGA money, which is money from every student, should not go toward political campaigns or lobbying efforts.

However, I fail to see the logic in preventing funding that would go toward educational events.

“The reason we were told [we were denied the grant] was

Diversity groups need fewer fund restrictions

s part of the Butler University Student Government Association’s Mardi Gras festivities, at least ten diversity groups made appearances.

It may not have been entirely willing, however.

SGA mandated that Asian Students Intercultural Demia, along with several others, participated in Mardi Gras in return for their grants.

That participation carried a price tag: $200, if they could afford it.

If SGA wants to celebrate and encourage diversity, it should not dictate how diversity groups spend their grant money.

Some groups couldn’t afford it.

They found they still had a minimum amount to spend.

There are two problems with this.

First, by requiring any sort of money from these groups, SGA is essentially changing the grants it already awarded—the grants must be used at least in part to pay for an event they did not choose to be a part of.

Second: The groups were required to pony up $200 if they could.

This means that many diversity groups do not have that much in their budgets to begin with. That

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SGA should give grants and more freedom to diversity groups to let Butler thrive. should be startling.

Groups struggle to hold even one event with the meager budget of $200, much less participate in Mardi Gras.

Some people suggest that the low budgets are the fault of too much bureaucracy.

The process to receive grants is unclear, sophomore Mike Keller said at the SGA presidential debate hosted by the Collegian.

A lot of people do not know they qualify for special grants from R.E.A.C.H. So this process needs to be made clearer, certainly.

But if a group receives little funding, clearer rules are not much help.

Instead, SGA should not require attendance and money from these groups.

R.E.A.C.H. this year reportedly will have extra cash on hand.

That extra money could have been used to fund the entire event without draining the diversity groups.

The Mardi Gras celebration looks like a fantastic photo opportunity, with Butler’s awareness and diversity groups gathered to celebrate a festival about enjoying life.

Requiring the groups to attend, though, means the festival feels more than a little faked.

These groups, perhaps more than most other clubs on campus, are made up of passionate people who really care about their purpose.

They generally make themselves out to be experts on their topics and have clear goals about how to raise awareness and celebrate who they are.

So SGA should let them do what they set out to do, and let the groups use their budgets to do something crazy—like actually let people know they exist and throw a party that people show up for.

Contact opinion editor Jeremy Algate at jalgate@butler.edu.

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SGA does not fund political groups, which denies educational opportunities.

applied for an SGA grant, since political organizations are not favored when grants are given out.

“It couldn’t just be that the College Democrats wanted to have a movie event,” Smith said.

“There has to be something tied to it, otherwise that is a blatant disregard to the current policy that SGA has.”

After hearing testimonials of the two main political parties, it seems that perhaps the other political group on campus might have better luck getting grants.

However, Students for Liberty member Josh Ackermann said that the group does not apply for grants.

The members know all too well the troubles political groups have in getting SGA grants.

By maintaining its current policy toward political groups, SGA is keeping the student body from having a chance to learn about American politics.

This limitation on political education is especially detrimental since it is a presidential election year.

SGA is an entity that is supposed to serve the student body, not keep it in the dark.

because we would have used the money for political backing,” James Schubert, the College Democrats’ SGA representative, said. “I dispute that, mainly because when the budget proposal went in, [the event] was supposed to educate people on what it means to be democratic and to reshape the perception that a lot of students have here.”

According to Dan Schramm, the SGA vice president of finance, the College Democrats group was denied its grant because the movie event was a “political program.”

Chase Smith, president of the College Republicans, said that he could not remember the last Contact assistant opinion editor Donald time that the College Republicans Perin at dperin@butler.edu.

PawPrints

BY JOSH MORRIS

What are your feelings about Trip?

“I think he’s cute and cuddly and gives a good name to Butler. ” Abby Salvatore Freshman “Besides being my computer background, Trip is the cutest thing since sliced bread.”

Faith Lindsay Senior

“Another reason why Ross Hall needs a pet bulldog.”

Mit Patel Senior “The kid has a lot to learn, but he’ll be just fine. Reminds me of myself at his age.”

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PARKING: CHANGES FOR LAMBDAS FROM PAGE ONE

Hunter said the new Greek parking in front of the Lambda Chi Alpha house should amount to about 20 to 22 spots.

“As far as solving their problem, I’m confident it will go a long way,” Hunter said.

Presley said the resolution, approved by the Indianapolis Board of Public Works Jan. 11, will assure there is sufficient parking for Lambda Chi Alpha vehicles.

“It’ll be exactly what we need alongside the street,” he said.

Parking has been an issue for the fraternity recently.

Between eight to 10 members of the fraternity saw their vehicles towed last Wednesday morning when Clowes hosted hundreds of local schoolchildren for a presentation of “The Magic School Bus Live!”

All of the space in the lot was needed to park school buses.

Photo by Taylor Cox

Butler senior guard Ronald Nored (right) receives a hug from a young fan following the Bulldogs’ 70-52 victory over Wright State in the opening round of the Horizon League tournament last night. With the win, Butler will take on Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the quarterfinal round of the tournament at Valparaiso’s Athletics-Recreation Center on Friday.

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activity fee going to the allocation per semester.

As a result, students get free admittance to every home game of every sport.

“I would say we are the least supported in the Horizon League by allocation,” Collier said. “It’s not all a bad thing. The last thing we want to do is take away from any aspect of the university and be a negative or a burden.”

The department has to make up the remaining $9.4 million that the university allocation does not account for through their own athleticgenerated revenue.

“That budget [for operating needs] has never grown, and here we are 20 years later, and we’re still trying to operate on the same level,” Collier said. “The only way we can add more money to that is to create revenue.”

Presley said he was notified in early January of the dates this semester when Lambda Chi Alpha vehicles would need to be removed.

He forwarded the email to his members. On Feb. 20, Presley provided the men two days’ notice and asked them to drive their cars and trucks out before the Feb. 22 event.

“I gave fair warning,” Presley said. “They didn’t listen to what I said.”

Noticing Greek decals in the lot, BUPD called Presley at 7:40 a.m.

Since he was asleep and had his phone on vibrate, Presley missed the call.

Police three minutes later phoned house mother Sheila Patsiner, who woke up as many students as she could.

Presley said five or six men ran outside and moved their vehicles before they were towed.

A few others paid $40 to recover cars already lifted onto tow trucks.

Less fortunate members faced charges of $150 to retrieve their rides.

“Quite expensive,” Presley said.

The maximum allowable towing fee is $150, according to Sec. 995-

But one area of the department’s revenue that has seen growth is through donations.

The Bulldog Club had 2,800 members who gave unrestricted donations that can be used at the discretion of the athletic director during the last fiscal year.

“This is used to fill in the holes from the revenue side, and there are certain things you have to do to run an athletic department at this level,” said Bill Lynch, associate athletic director for development. “Each sport also has its own account that can do its own fundraising to supplement its own budget.”

Approximately 50 to 60 percent of the Bulldog Club’s members are alumni, 25 to 30 percent are basketball season ticket holders and some past student-athletes are also members.

The club’s growth has been attributed to several factors within the athletics department.

“The success of the basketball team is a big part of it,” said Mike Freeman, associate athletic director of external operations. “But we had things in place over the previous years. You

305a of the city code.

Per Sec. 995-305i, when an owner arrives to find a vehicle already on the tow truck, the towing company must return the vehicle “upon cash payment of a reasonable fee, not to exceed one half of the regular towing fee.”

The first vehicles were towed at roughly 7:50 a.m., about 10 minutes after BUPD contacted Lambda Chi Alpha. The show was scheduled for 10 a.m., with school buses arriving sooner.

Hunter said it wasn’t the first time BUPD has ordered cars to be towed.

“We had to get the lot cleared,” he said.

“Not only did the organization get warnings not to park there, but staff were proactive in getting ahold of people that morning. At some point, we can’t continue to wait, and I’m adamant we’re not going to mix vehicular traffic with school-aged children.”

Presley said he thought BUPD could have waited another 10 to 15 minutes to tow but said he wasn’t upset by the decision.

“They had the right to do it,” he said. “They needed that lot. I

The overriding thing is to provide an exceptional student-athlete experience.

BILL LYNCH ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR don’t give to a sinking ship, and we’re a safe investment because the kids do it the right way.”

Collier said the Bulldog Club is a lifesaver in terms of making up additional revenue, and Lynch said that the department is not set up to survive without donations.

“There aren’t intercollegiate athletics without student-athletes,” Lynch said. “The overriding thing is to provide an exceptional studentathlete experience for them, and every dollar goes back to the program.”

You’ve got to be accountable for your own car.

STEVE PAVLICK FRESHMAN

told our members, ‘You guys have to take responsibility.’ It’s more on our members.”

Steve Pavlick, a freshman finance and accounting major, agreed with his president.

“You’ve got to be accountable for your own car,” he said.

Kyle Graden, a sophomore international business and Spanish major, said he was among the students able to move his car before it got towed.

“It’s kind of our fault,” he said.

“They did give us a warning.”

Graden said he left his car in the lot despite the email because he didn’t expect it to actually get towed.

Days from now, Lambda Chi Alpha students no longer will be

allowed to park in Clowes and are set instead to take advantage of the 20 to 22 Greek parking spots in front of their house.

“Problem solved,” Graden said.

Some members said they are happy that commuters won’t be able to park there.

“Once we get them out of the way, it should get rid of the problem,” said Tyler Berggren, a sophomore recording industry studies major. “Parking on the street would be a lot better [for us].”

At the specific request of the BTNA, the Greek zoning on Sunset is not applicable during the summer months.

The home on the corner of Sunset and 49th is abandoned.

Butler owns the property, allowing cars to park on the street next to it.

Jeremy Stewart, president of the BTNA, and Christopher Cleveland, a sophomore College of Liberal Arts and Sciences student whose vehicle was towed last week, declined to comment.

David Sherman, chairman of the Board of Public Works, could not be reached for comment.