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The Butler men’s basketball team moved to within a half game of fi rst place in the Atlantic 10 Conference standings after beating Duquesne 68-49 Tuesday night.

Senior guard Rotnei Clarke fi nished with 16 points. Clarke has scored in double fi gures in each of the last eight games since his return from a neck injury suffered against Dayton on Jan. 12.

Junior forward Khyle Marshall added 14 points while freshman guard Kellen Dunham tallied 11 for the Bulldogs (22-5, 9-3).

“Khyle has always risen to the occasion as the season has progressed, and we are towards that latter part of the season,” coach Brad Stevens said. “And we’re going to need everybody to rise to that.”

Guard Derrick Colter was the only player in double digits, for Duquesne (8-18, 1-11) with 11 points. Jerry Jones and Jeremiah Jones each added nine.

The Dukes’ 49 points were the fewest allowed by Butler since it held Richmond to 47 on Jan. 18.

“I think collectively we’re guarding better,” Marshall said. “We held a great 3-point shooting team to only 49 points, so I think that’s a pretty big accomplishment on our part.”

Stevens said he was pleased with the team’s defensive effort.

“Our guys were locked in defensively,” Stevens said.

Sophomore Alex Barlow opened the game with a 3-pointer from the corner, and the Bulldogs never looked back. Butler never trailed in the game. Its biggest lead was 22 late in the second half.

Next Monday, the Butler University student body will vote for a new Student Government Association president.

Whoever it picks will be in charge of representing student interests and close to three quarters of a million dollars.

The members of SGA hope this year’s election has a better turnout than previous years, said Abigail Springer, a member of the Election Oversight Committee.

“Our goal is to keep as many people as informed as possible,” she said.

Less than 1,000 people voted in

last year’s election, Springer said. She said she hopes as many people as possible will research candidates and vote this year. The link will be delivered in an email Monday morning.

“The SGA president is very much your advocate, so you want to make sure it’s someone you agree with,” said SGA President Mike Keller.

The election kicked off on Friday with the Social Media Blitz, during which the candidates – (Craig Fisher, Josh Grant and Katie Palmer) -- were allowed to offi cially begin their campaigns. Each candidate received $150 in campaign funds.

On Tuesday, the candidates participated in an informal meet-and-greet at Starbucks. Tonight,

they will face off in a debate in the Reilly Room moderated by Levester Johnson, vice president of student affairs, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Candidates will answer questions from Johnson and students. Students can submit their questions by emailing [email protected].

Candidates will discuss big-picture ideas, Keller said. Most will be about the university as a whole and major changes the candidates wish to make.

SGA recently voted to shorten the time of campaigning from two weeks to 10 days, which will help keep students’ attention span, Springer said.

Three candidates vie for SGA presidencyMELISSA [email protected] REPORTER

Photos by Heather IwinskiAlex Barlow (right) broke a personal record during Tuesday’s game against Duquesne, scoring seven points. Butler came away with a victory over the Dukes, 68-59.

REMATCH SET

Bulldogs surpass Dukes, prepare for SLU

BUTLER 68 | DUQUESNE 49

KYLE [email protected] REPORTER

Photos by Heather IwinskiAndrew Smith (44) attempts to dunk against Duquesne.

COMING UPButler will take on Saint Louis on Friday at 7 p.m. The Bulldogs are looking for a win after a loss against SLU earlier this season.

FACULTY SENATE

Photo by Jeff StanichMichael Leardi speaks to Faculty Senate.

Butler University is undergoing a revenue and expenses review by an independently-hired consultant.

Michael Leardi is working alongside Bruce Arick, vice president of fi nance and administration, and Provost Kathryn Morris while collecting the university’s fi nancial data to create a cost of education model.

The work group conducting the review will also include Doug Spaniol, vice-chair of Faculty Senate; Brynnar Swenson, assistant English professor; and Anne Kelly, assistant accounting professor, along with other staff members throughout the university.

Leardi spoke with Faculty Senate at Tuesday’s meeting to share his model and hear some thoughts and answer any questions the faculty had.

“I really try to focus on the growth-contribution margin,” Leardi said, “things that the academic areas and other administrative areas really have some level of control over.”

Leardi said in his presentation that he will summarize revenues and expenses for each major and subject that students take.

Arick also answered questions on topics Leardi was not familiar with regarding the campus.

“We’re sitting at the foothills of a vision for growth,” Arick said. “We need to fi nd out where we want to grow.”

Vivian Deno, associate history professor, inquired whether his review would look into how much the university pays some of its professors and other members of staff.

“I want to make sure this doesn’t become some sort of unfortunate affair in regards to the surveillance

Dollars under review

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Photo by Heather IwinskiCraig Fisher, Katie Palmer and Josh Grant participated in a Collegian-sponsored question and answer session on Monday evening. There is a debate this evening at 6:30. see election page 4

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Stress is the status quo

According to Butler students, being busy is a status symbol.

Students are taking on multiple leadership positions and extracurricular activities.

Junior Katie Palmer is involved with conferences and special events, has an internship with Butler athletics, has a virtual internship with the state department, is the president of the class of 2014, serves as academic affairs committee coordinator for Council on Presidential Affairs and is in a sorority.

“I’m always either doing something or getting ready for something or, you know, planning out what is going to happen next,” Palmer said.

Palmer said she thinks being busy as a status symbol is something everyone is okay with. Those on campus know Butler students are busy.

“I defi nitely think as you get more and more involved, people kind of make judgments about you based on how many activities you’re involved in or what you do on campus,” Palmer said.

Sarah Diaz, health education and outreach programs coordinator, started thinking about the idea of busyness as a status symbol

when she read the Washington Post article “Exhaustion is not a status symbol.”

In this article, Brené Brown, a University of Houston professor, said, “The expectations of what we can get done and how well we can do it, are beyond human scale.”

Diaz said she sees many students overwhelmed by academic stress and campus involvement. Pressure to be doing more, along with the culture of immediacy, are causes of stress.

Diaz said student involvement is necessary, but students must also be able to pause and to refl ect on their college experiences.

Student Government Association President Mike Keller said he has a demanding job in that role. He has also been serving on his fraternity executive board for two years.

“Freshman year, you can just get away with being labeled as a freshman, ” Keller said.

Keller said as students get older, though, class rank is not enough. Students form identities through the activities in which they are involved.

“You hear people bragging about how busy they are,” Keller said.

“Without pausing and unplugging and just being still from time to time,” Diaz said, “some students may feel like they are not able to recharge their batteries.”

ALLISON [email protected] REPORTER

Online courses are becoming more of a staple in higher education and Butler University has decided to follow suit.

Recently, Butler added online course options to its curriculum, starting this summer.

Massive Open Online Courses—MOOCs for short—have made way in the online learning conversation.

MOOCs are online courses available to everyone, regardless of age, said Julianne Miranda, the senior director for the Center for Academic Technology.

“It’s about how one person’s knowledge, ideas and insights can empower another person’s,” Miranda said.

The term was coined back in 2008, but the courses took off in 2011.

At that time, 160,000 students from more than 190 countries enrolled in an Artifi cial Intelligence taught by Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor.

Most courses are free and college credits are rarely awarded upon completion.

“One of the ideas is that you can go take one of these MOOCs and get some skills that will help advance your understanding of a topic or maybe help you do something better at work,” Miranda said. “This is a low-risk way to explore topics. If you fail or pass, no one knows but you.”

The courses are hosted on a multitude of platforms, including websites like Udacity, Coursera and edX.

Heather Hazelwood, senior information systems specialist, said a platform is somewhat like an app store. Users can fi nd a variety of topics and courses available and can search by their interests.

Most courses are taught by professors. Lectures are recorded. The videos and assignments are posted on the MOOC, making the user responsible for the level of engagement.

The open nature of the course options will help higher education institutions gauge how students function in online learning environments, Miranda said.

“We could take the best practices out of them and bring those to teaching and learning here at Butler,” Miranda said.

There is no talk about a MOOC development at Butler yet.

“We’re dipping our toes in the e-learning by starting with our online summer classes,” Hazelwood said.

Hazelwood is studying for her master’s at Butler. She has enrolled in MOOCs through Georgia Tech and the University of Edinburgh through Coursera.

“Being in a MOOC or any fully online course requires consistent activity,” Miranda said. “It is very easy to prioritize other things over this experience, partly because I am only engaging in it from the standpoint of being curious, but also because I am not an ideal online learner.”

Miranda said that she would ideally prefer a blend of face-to-face instruction and online work.

Sophomore Rithvi Melanta works with technology and software at Information Technology and thinks online learning is helpful and convenient with today’s technology.

“You may not get collaborative learning, but you can do things on your own time,” Melanta said. “There’s so much software and programs coming out now, and you can fi nd anything online these days, like helpful tutorials. It’s just so much easier to take an online class.”

Miranda said online learning is not for everyone, both from the instructor and student standpoint.

“It’s really important to note that while tens of thousands of people may come into a MOOC, the completion rate is very low,” Miranda said. “That’s one of the downsides. Lots of people go into the MOOC, and very few people actually fi nish.”

Miranda said right now the MOOCs might be more hype than substance due to the newness of the idea. Only 2.6 percent of institutions actually have one.

“There’s no business plan for MOOCs right now that would make them appear as something sustainable and viable for higher education,” Miranda said. “I think we’ll see some progress in that area, and I would suspect that MOOCs will play an important role in a liberal arts education going forward.

“But right now, our conversations are more about teaching, learning and engaging and what we can learn from these disruptive technologies that are happening.”

KELLY [email protected] REPORTER

Photo by Rachel OppermanJunior Katie Palmer stays busy balancing her academics and many other on-campus activities.

become some sort of unfortunate affair in regards to the surveillance of the faculty,” Deno said.

Arick said the model

will be used to evaluate all possible aspects of the university, but some factors, such as the success of the basketball team, will not be able to be fully defi ned and assigned a dollar value.

“The model will fall short of a whole lot of things,” Arick said. “It will not be the only driver of every decision

that happens on this campus but will be a good tool to use.”

Leardi, Morris and Arick are still in the process of collecting data. They are looking to meet with the work group in the beginning of April to review that data and start putting the model together.

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We could take the best practices out of the MOOCs and bring those to teaching and learning here at Butler.JULIANNE MIRANDA CENTER FOR ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY

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Butler University boasts a rich history of racial acceptance.

However, some decades of Butler’s history are also tainted with infl uence from the Ku Klux Klan and segregation.

“Ovid Butler had a very high vision of racial equality, which was, unfortunately, not always upheld,” Sally Childs-Helton, Irwin Library’s rare books and special collections librarian, said.

Butler’s start was based off the Disciples of Christ church, as well as Butler’s own personal beliefs.

“Ovid Butler believed that all humans of every gender and race were created by God,” Childs-Helton said, “and, therefore, they should all be treated equally.”

Childs-Helton said Butler’s original admissions and student paperwork never included information about race or gender because “they simply didn’t matter.”

Gertrude Mahorney was the fi rst documented black student to graduate from Butler in 1887, but Childs-Helton said because of lacking racial documentation, other black students may have graduated before Mahorney.

Butler continued to operate as an inclusive university until the 1920s, when David Curtiss Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana KKK, bought a house half a block from Butler’s old campus in Irvington.

“This was defi nitely a very strong infl uence for the university at the time,” Childs-Helton said.

Changes could be noticed in aspects of campus, such as the newly segregated yearbook, which separated black students and white students.

The most infl uential change to Butler’s structure, however, occurred in the admissions offi ce.

In 1927, former university president Robert J. Aley established a new quota system, which would allow no more than 10 students of color to be admitted to Butler each school year.

Some areas of Butler continued to operate without a racial quota, such as the School of Religion.

Also, the Teachers College of Indianapolis operated under unique abolitionist-inspired guidelines.

Kindergarten teacher Eliza Blaker began teaching at the college in 1882 but only under the stipulation that children of all races and genders could attend her school.

In 1948 after World War II, Butler lifted the racial quota entirely.

However, numbers of black students at Butler didn’t increase much until the 1960s and the civil rights movement.

Childs-Helton said she believes

this could be attributed to lingering negative feelings about the racial quota system.

Valerie Davidson, diversity programs director, grew up in Indianapolis, attended North Central High School and said she remembers being discouraged from attending Butler in the late 1970s.

“We used to have college fairs at North Central, where many colleges were represented,” Davidson said. “I remember myself and the other students of color being encouraged to look at state schools and to defi nitely avoid Butler.”

Davidson said her fi rst impression was that Butler was exclusively for wealthy, out-of-state, white students. However, her son went on to attend Butler decades later and now teaches in Butler’s College of Business.

Davidson said in the last 23 years she has worked at Butler, she has seen great changes in the social atmosphere as far as race is concerned.

“When I fi rst came to Butler, it was a very polarized campus between white students and African-American students and also between Greeks and non-Greeks,” Davidson said. “I think the university has done an excellent job in recruiting more minority students, but the social changes are what are most infl uential.”

Davidson said minority students are becoming more involved and beginning to hold leadership positions both socially and academically.

“They became presidents of residence halls, and they began joining Greek organizations that were not historically black,” Davidson said. “This is what prompted the social change.”

However, for some Butler students, the invisible walls of prejudice still persist.

Junior Whitnie Goins said she has felt singled out or excluded at times on campus.

“Honestly, if we didn’t have the Diversity Center, I would be totally lost,” Goins said.

Goins said she has been the only African-American student in her classes many times.

Brittany Moore, Black Student Union president, said she has felt excluded as a minority student and a non-Greek.

Moore said, had she not participated in Welcome Week activities with the Diversity Center as a freshman, she would have had more diffi culty socially.

Moore and Goins both said the Diversity Center provides them their most comfortable social setting.

“I wish more students would

come in every so often,” Moore said. “There are glass walls and a glass door. People act like it’s a fi shbowl sometimes. Really, anyone is welcome.”

Davidson said the next major change she would like to see is more funding for diversity-related programming, such as the diversity lecture series. Davidson said scholarships and grants for minority students, among others, should be a greater priority as well.

Davidson said, however, many of the racial issues she witnessed in the past have disappeared.

“It’s very easy for me to see what has changed and evolved,” Davidson said. “There are types of socialization and interaction occurring between all kinds of students that never occurred in the past.”

Butler observing a history of racial diversity

MARAIS [email protected] REPORTER

Page from the 1924 “Drift” showing how black students were segregated from their white peers.

Photos courtesy of Sally Childs-Helton

Gertrude Amelia Mahorney, Butler’s fi rst documented black graduate.


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“The idea is to hit people with more information more quickly,” she said. “It doesn’t give people time to forget.”

For the past three years, candidates have been sophomores, but this year, all candidates are juniors. There are also a smaller number of candidates, and both Palmer and Grant ran last year.

“Things will go a bit more smoothly and predictably this time,” Keller said.

Amendments to the SGA constitution have resulted in a few other rule changes. For example, a candidate can no longer run for multiple offi ces anymore.

“We’ve been very clear with our expectations,” Springer said.

Candidates are not allowed to post links to their voting webpages or campaign within 15 to 20 feet of a computer lab, Springer said. They have to list all of their campaign workers and cannot be endorsed by a student-led club.

“A lot of the time, infractions come from people who think they’re helping candidates,” she said. “We’re relying on the integrity of the candidates to prevail.”

Throughout the week, candidates are introducing themselves and their ideas to the student body.

Craig Fisher, a pharmacy major, currently serves as the SGA parliamentarian. Fisher is from Indianapolis and the son of two Butler alumni.

“I’ve been going to Butler basketball games since before I could walk,” he said.

Fisher’s platform has fi ve main points. One of his points is enhancing the SGA Public Relations board. Fisher also wants to raise the budget for specifi c student organization grants without raising the student activity fee.

He said he also wants students represented when discussing tough issues such as alcohol with faculty.

Fisher plans to create live online budget updates and recordings of assemblies. Finally, Fisher said he hopes to engage more Butler students in conversations about growth and development.

“We have to make sure we’re not taking away from why people came to Butler,” Fisher said.

Josh Grant ran last year. He is a junior from Park Ridge, Ill. He serves as Sigma Chi’s representative in SGA.

Grant said he believes his inexperience will bring new ideas to the assembly.

One of his goals is to change the alcohol policy so people are not hesitant to call BUPD for help.

Grant also wants to combine the REACH and program boards and make Independent Council a separate board.

“The goal is to bring independents on the same level as Greeks and to foster discussion,” he said.

Grant said he wants to create a discussion-based student senate.

Long-term, Grant said he wants a sense of community that creates a network of alumni to help students.

Katie Palmer is an international studies and Spanish major from Munster, Ind.

In the last 22 years, Butler has had fi ve female SGA Presidents. Butler should have a leader that represents about 60 percent of the population, Palmer said.

“It would be an absolute honor to be president,” she said.

This is the second time Palmer has run for president as well.

“Butler could benefi t from an SGA president who’s knowledgeable about campus,” she said.

One of her goals is to create more transparency in SGA. She wants to utilize the website to create graphics for students to understand budgets and other happenings.

Palmer also wants to improve communication between SGA boards as well as SGA and students.

“I want to meet with as many student groups as possible,” she said.

Her good relationship with independent and Greek students will help her lead SGA, she said.

Keller advises the candidates to stay positive and avoid putting down other candidates.

“People want to hear what you can do differently,” he said. “Make sure it’s all about ideas.”

Soundbites | SGA presidential candidatesButler University Student

Government Association presidential candidates met with The Collegian staff on Monday to discuss platforms and what they want to see from Butler next year if they become president.

Candidates Josh Grant, Katie Palmer and Craig Fisher each had time to explain their platforms before answering questions from staff members.

Here are their summaries to our questions. The complete question and answer session will be available on www.thebutlercollegian.com Thursday.

—Jill McCarter and Jeff Stanich

CRAIG FISHER JOSH GRANT KATIE PALMER

You each have become involved in quite a few activities on campus. How will you balance your other commitments with the time it takes to be an effective SGA president?

“I have realized that I will have time because what I was doing will be substituted with what I will be doing with Student Government Association.”

“My time management will be much more simpler because I am an insomniac. I have plenty of time to make sure I get things done.”

“Time management is something I pride myself in. I am able to balance my activities and prioritize what I need to get done.”

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JuniorPharmacy majorIndianapolis, Ind.

JuniorChemistry majorPark Ridge, Ill.

JuniorInternational studies and Spanish majorMunster, Ind.

If elected, what will you do that the current executive board is not doing?

“Leadership is about facilitating ideas. Essentially, I’d like to improve upon everything that is being done by the current SGA president.”

“I am good at communicating things to other people. I will work towards accomplishing the goals in my platform.”

“I am at the point where I have seen a lot of different leaders...What I can do differently is focus on engaging all of campus and not focus on who is Greek or independent.”

How will you make yourselves available to the student body? Why do you think accessibility is important?

“The past presidents have said that offi ce hours are not utilized enough. Those hours need to be more fl exible...Our job isn’t to promote some kind of agenda but to facilitate the ideas of students, so we need to hear from them.”

“I would be in the SGA offi ce whenever possible and make my contact information available. If you aren’t making yourself accessible, then you aren’t doing your job.”

“A big thing is making your presence known on campus. Aside from holding assembly, I would have a regular forum where students can come talk to SGA and make sure voices are heard.”

What qualities make you the best person for the position?

“I understand my own skill sets. I can identify others’ skills and put them in the position where they can use those skills to the best of their ability.”

“I work well with others. I think outside of the box, and I am a very practical and driven person.”

“I believe in servant leadership...I can ignite the sparks in the leaders around me and enable them to achieve what they have as a set of goals.”

What is your biggest concern if you accept this position?

“The biggest issue is university growth and direction...We’ve all come to Butler with an idea of small classes, and that has led to success. It is important that it stays that way.”

“We don’t get that much money from alumni, and I think that’s pretty gross. I’d like to foster a sense of community where students would like to come back and donate money to the university.”

“We only have one academic year to accomplish our goals, and that limits what we can do. There isn’t always a sense of instant gratifi cation because some of our goals will be long-term.”

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that each student contributes to the SGA budget through student activity fees. How can you make students care?

“Motivation is always an interesting topic, and if we motivate students to accomplish something, then the sky is the limit. SGA is the umbrella that makes this possible for students, and that’s the missing link.”

“I think it’s important to keep up with advertising. We need more entertaining programming. It will foster ideas and interest in what we do as a whole.”

"Face-to-face communication is great. Social media does not do enough. Making sure there is a sense of transparency is the best way to get students involved.”

Sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between students and SGA as a whole. How would you address this if you were elected president?

“Identifying the problem is essentially 90 percent of the solution. Facebook and Twitter should be more effi cient, and the Butler Connection should be more effective.”

“I’d like to create a board of independent students to represent those who are not involved in Greek life.”

“It’s a complex problem. Streamlining what is going on with SGA to students in a simpler form is one way to approach the problem at hand.”

What would you like your legacy to be? “I would like for students to leave here feeling a sense of engagement and that their voices were heard and to make sure student government is about the students.”

“I would like for people to think I made a more unifi ed campus between independent students and Greek students. I think that is the biggest thing.”

“I’d like to see that I really made an impact. Whether it be attendance at different programs or using the budget effi ciently, I want my role to change campus.”

What is your biggest weakness? “My inability to say no to things. I want to help people and can be stretched too thin.”

“I’m overly competitive. It can be good because it helps me get things done.”

“My ability to take criticism. I can take it too personally sometimes.”

The Butler Collegian corrects errors of fact.

—In the Feb. 13 issue, Laura Beer was incorrectly identifi ed as a freshman in “Pink eye impacts BU.” Beer is a sophomore.

—In the Feb. 13 issue, Paige Freund was incorrectly identifi ed as Paige Fround in “Freshmen ease into second semester.”

—A graph appearing on page 1 as a supplement to “Accepted” did not clearly show the full-time undergraduate enrollment primary fi rst major.

The type of graph did not clearly show the number of students enrolled in each college at Butler.

The numbers, by year, are as follows:

Year LAS COB COPHS JCA CCOM COE2003 1345 651 910 517 -- 3102004 1371 671 947 524 -- 3072005 1314 637 993 540 -- 3092006 1358 639 1004 564 -- 2912007 1398 614 992 530 -- 2932008 1439 643 921 503 -- 2952009 1414 609 944 533 -- 3192010 1274 624 941 409 394 3332011 1190 702 939 388 409 3142012 1251 788 965 416 423 309

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Former Bulldog sets sights on NFL

Stuart Harvey, a Carmel native and a former wide receiver for the Butler University football team, is looking to become the second Butler player in two years to make it to the National Football League.

After Harvey graduated from Butler in 2011 with a degree in psychology, he decided not to go straight to the NFL but, instead, to take a year off to prepare himself.

Harvey contacted St. Vincent Sports Performance and signed with a sports agent to begin his path to the NFL.

History is against Harvey. Not many players from the Pioneer Football League go on to the NFL.

“It’s hard,” said Kenan Smith, Butler assistant coach and wide receiver coach. “It’s really hard coming from our level of football.

“It’s so hard to make it from non-scholarship FCS football to the next level, but there are rare occasions where it has been done.”

Harvey said he will not let history prevent his lifelong dream. He said he believes he has the characteristics of a successful NFL player.

“I’ve never been the biggest guy or the strongest guy in the weight room,” Harvey said, “but I was always fast, a hard worker, had good hand-eye coordination and was willing to out-work everyone to be the best.

“That’s how I became team captain in high school, and that’s why I was successful at Butler.”

Harvey said his work ethic is already at an NFL level.

“His work ethic will transfer to the NFL,” said Brandon Johnson, a performance specialist at St. Vincent. “He brings it every day and works hard.”

Butler football and the Butler Way polished Harvey’s dedication to the sport.

“On and off the fi eld, I’m a guy who is going to be committed to helping a team do their best and win games,” Harvey said. “I’m a guy that is focused and dedicated to being part of a team.”

Harvey said learning the Butler Way gives him an advantage over other NFL prospects.

“There are intangibles that go beyond my combine that (scouts) will see,” Harvey said. “My results at my combine and in my routes will speak for themselves, but there are ideologies and qualities off the fi eld that you can’t really change.

“All my coaches and mentors along the way have built me into the person I am.”

Harvey remains confi dent he can make it to the next level.

“I’ve always believed in the mantra, ‘Everything is possible for those that believe,’” Harvey said. “When I was at Butler, I worked as hard as I could.

“Once I graduated, I knew I wanted to go to the NFL at some point.

“I played and graduated with Grant Hunter, a defensive end who signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals last year, so I knew it was possible to make it to the NFL.”

Photo by Heather IwinskiSenior guard Rotnei Clarke (No. 15) led the Bulldogs to a win over Duquesne last night with 16 points. Senior center Andrew Smith (center) led the team in rebounding with 10.

The Butler men’s and women’s basketball teams will be wrapping up their seasons in the next couple weeks, which means conference championships are right around the corner.

The major difference for the Atlantic 10 Conference compared to the Horizon League is the tournament is—at least for the men—played entirely on a neutral court.

“(The Atlantic 10 Tournament) will have its set of challenges,” men’s coach Brad Stevens said. “The biggest difference for us is that’s a long way for our fan base to travel, and it’s an expensive trip to make.”

In the Horizon League, game locations are based on seeding, with the higher seeds claiming home-court advantage. The regular season champion receives a bye into the semifi nals and home-court advantage for all remaining games should it win out.

“I like the idea of anything that pertains to tournament play being on a neutral fl oor,” Stevens said. “I understand why, in the Horizon League, we didn’t do it that way, and I voted for that. But I do like the idea of playing a neutral court.”

The entire men’s A-10 Conference Championship will be played at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 14-17.

Mike Freeman, associate athletic director,

said each A-10 team is given 150 tickets for the conference tournament. Freeman said the tickets cover the women’s championship game and all men’s tournament games.

“We feel like we are going to sell that many,” Freeman said. “We’ve been working and talking about some other ways to get our hands on some more tickets so that we can help our fans get out there.”

Tickets are also available directly through the Atlantic 10 Conference and Ticketmaster.

“There’s a lot more options if we sell through our allotment, which we hope to do,” Freeman said.

For the women, the fi rst three rounds will be played at Hagan Arena on St. Joseph’s campus in Philadelphia, Penn. The women’s championship game will be held at the Barclays Center.

Freeman said he’s worked with the A-10 to make sure fans interested in traveling to Philadelphia for the women’s tournament are accomadated.

Of the 16 teams in the conference, only the top 12 make the tournament. The top four regular- season teams receive a fi rst-round bye. The fi rst round matches up the No. 8 seed versus No. 9 seed, No. 5 and No. 12, No. 7and No. 10, and No. 6 and No. 11.

The No. 1 seed plays the winner of the No. 8- No. 9 matchup, the second seed plays the No. 5-

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Goetz third director to departThe Butler athletics department

has seen three of its associate athletic directors leave for other universities this school year.

Beth Goetz, associate athletic director for administration, announced last week she would be taking a position with the University of Minnesota.

Tom Crowley, former associate athletic director for internal operations, was named athletic director at Niagara University in October.

Bill Lynch, former associate

athletic director for development, left in December to become DePauw’s new football coach.

The remaining athletics department employees have taken on additional duties this year.

“We have such a great team environment in the department that everybody has been more than willing to step up and take more responsibilities during that time just to make sure that we’re operating at the level we need to,” Goetz said.

Goetz said she has been handling the fi nancial area of the athletics department.

“I’ve been working a little bit

more on the fi nancial side,” she said. “So working with the department budget, overseeing fi nancial aid and those types of areas.”

Goetz will begin serving as an associate athletics director at Minnesota in March.

The athletic department hired a temporary staff member after Crowley left to help out with his former duties for the remainder of the academic year.

“The plan for that was to set up this interim plan that we’re currently operating under and to move toward a more permanent one as the spring rolled around, which,” Athletic Director Barry Collier said. “So, we’ll be solidifying that shortly,”

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“Coach gave us a couple things as a team we needed to improve from the past couple games, and I think we did a great job improving those today,” Barlow said.

Barlow fi nished with a career- high seven points.

Saint Louis beat VCU 76-62 last night, taking sole possession of fi rst place at 9-2 in conference play.

Butler has the opportunity to move itself into fi rst place with a win, when the Billikens visit Hinkle Fieldhouse Friday night.

Butler suffered its worst loss of the season on the road at Saint Louis on Jan. 31 in a 75-58 loss.

Marshall said that game is still fresh in his mind.

“Defi nitely I think I would say there’s some payback due,” Marshall said. “We just didn’t come in ready that game, but defi nitely we’re going to take the next two days to prepare.”

Friday’s game is sold out. It is the fourth Butler sellout of the season.

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Bulldogs face Billikens tonight on road after defeating Bonnies

The Butler women’s basketball team will be on the road for the third time in four games when it travels to take on Saint Louis Wednesday.

The Bulldogs (15-10, 6-4) are sixth in the Atlantic 10 Conference standings.

All but one of Butler’s conference losses has come on the road.

The Billikens will be competing against the Bulldogs during their annual Education Day game at Chaifetz Arena.

Junior forward Lorreal Jones is the only Saint Louis player that averages double digits in scoring, with 11.3 points per game.

The Bulldogs have three starters who all average more points than Jones.

Junior forward Daress McClung leads Butler in scoring, averaging 16.6 points per game.

Sophomore guard Taylor Schippers averages 13.3 points per game, and sophomore center Liz Stratman posts a 11.5-points-per- game average.

The Billikens are 15th out of 16 teams in the A-10 in scoring, averaging less than 54 points per contest.

The Bulldogs rank sixth in the conference in scoring, averaging a little more than 61 points a game.

Butler is coming off a 64-46 victory over St. Bonaventure at Hinkle Fieldhouse during its Bulldogs Fight Breast Cancer game Sunday.

The ladies wore pink from head to toe, with pink uniforms and new pink Nike shoes to support the fi ght against breast cancer.

Butler coach Beth Couture is a breast cancer survivor herself.

The festivities were held to support St. Vincent’s Women of Hope.

Couture and her team have previously volunteered for the organization.

McClung led the Bulldogs with 17 points and nine rebounds.

Junior guard Mandy McDivitt and McClung tied for the team lead in assists with fi ve each.

McDivitt and Stratman also added 12 points apiece.

The game also marked the return of the team’s only senior, forward Becca Bornhorst, who had not played since the Bulldogs’ fi nal game of the 2011-12 season against the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Bornhorst recorded six minutes and one offensive rebound in her

season debut.Butler out-rebounded the

Bonnies 36-29.The Bulldogs also shot 50

percent from behind the 3-point line, going 10-for-20.

McDivitt shot 4-for-7 from three-point range.

Teams earn weekend wins

The Butler men’s tennis team travels to take on conference foe Xavier today at 1 p.m.

The Bulldogs (4-6) split their weekend matches, losing to Illinois State before picking up a win against Bradley.

On Friday, Butler lost a 7-0 decision to the Illinois State Redbirds.

Three players had close matches, losing 7-6 and 7-5.

On Saturday, freshman Brandon Woods led the Bulldogs to a victory, picking up the deciding point at No. 5 singles.

Butler lost the doubles

point but picked up singles wins from sophomores Austin Woldmoe, Tommy Marx and Billy Weldon.

The women’s team is back in action Sunday against Abilene Christian at home, starting at 10 a.m.

The Bulldogs fi nished a long week with a 1-2 record.

Butler sandwiched their win over Evansville on Saturday with losses to Middle Tennessee State and Northern Illinois.

Singles winners against Evansville were juniors Stephanie McLoughlin and Caroline Hedrick and senior Brittany Farmer, all in straight sets.

-Marissa Johnson

Butler wins one, stays on road

The Butler baseball team will visit Appalachian State this weekend with a 1-2 record.

The Bulldogs dropped two games before winning 10-8 on the road against Georgia State Sunday.

Friday’s season opener resulted in a 12-7 loss, and Saturday the Bulldogs fell 17-9.

Senior second baseman Lucas Calderon led the way for the Bulldogs over the weekend, going 5-for-10 at the plate.

Calderon totaled three RBIs and one home run.

Senior fi rst baseman

Jimmy Risi added three RBIs and two home runs while sophomore shortstop Austin Miller collected four RBIs and a home run in just six plate appearances.

Butler travels to Boone, N.C., to face Appalachian State this weekend.

The Mountaineers beat North Carolina State in their season opener, but their next two games were canceled due to a winter storm.

Appalachian State defeated Canisius 13-6 Monday in its home opener.

The Mountaineers qualifi ed for last year’s NCAA tournament as a No. 3 seed in their regional.

-Kyle Beery

Butler competes at A-10 meet

Butler track and fi eld teams competed at the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships last weekend.

The men’s team fi nished in fourth place with 68 points.

The women fi nished ninth with 39 points.

Charlotte took both team titles with 190.5 points for the men and 142.5 for the women.

One Butler relay team and three individuals captured titles.

Junior Craig Jordan won the men’s 1,000 meter run in a time of 2:27.33.

Sophomores Tom Curr and Mara Olson also won

their races. Curr won the men’s mile, clocking 4:16.48, and Olson the 3,000 meter run in 9:46.95.

The men’s distance medley relay team of Curr, Jordan, junior Alex Berry and sophomore Kellan Strobel took the fourth Butler win.

Their relay covered 4,000 meters in a time of 10:00.87, just missing the A-10 record of 10:00.09.

The teams will next head to the Alex Wilson Invitational, the last chance for runners to qualify for NCAA Division I Indoor Nationals.

The meet, hosted by Notre Dame, will be held March 1 and 2 in South Bend.

-Beth Werge

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Photo by Jaclyn McConnellSophomore forward Amanda Raker looks for an open teammate during the Jan. 17 game against Xavier at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL


Team behind the team

Photo by Rachel OppermanSenior Jordan Crowe is one of seven members of the Gray Squad, which helps the Butler women’s basketball team prepare for games.

Working behind the scenes, a group of seven men practice hard.

Day in and day out, they manage academics, jobs, social commitments and countless other obligations.

These individuals, who tirelessly assist the Butler women’s basketball program on a strictly volunteer basis, are dubbed the Gray Squad.

They often scrimmage against the Bulldogs to keep them sharp.

The men on the Gray Squad are chosen in a number of ways.

Some are noticed draining shots at the Health and Recreation Complex, a couple by reputation and some from the skills observed in the basketball class that Butler women’s basketball assistant coach Ashley Hayes teaches.

Hayes, who is in charge of the Gray Squad, said she remains thoroughly impressed by the effort consistently put forth.

“I love these guys,” Hayes said. “I enjoy seeing them every day at practice. They bring a new dimension, and they’re as big a part of our success as anyone.”

The bonds formed between players on and off the court play a big role in the

team’s dynamic.“‘I’ve grown very close to the other

members,” junior Kevin Schwartz said. “We look at each other as teammates on the court, but the bond has developed into more than that.

“Not only do we work well together on the court, but we’ve got a relationship outside of basketball as well.”

For senior Jordan Crowe, his motivation to join stemmed from a passion for service and the love of the game.

“I love basketball, and I love to help people in all ways that I can,” Crowe said. “I fi gure that, since I love the game of basketball so much, I might as well play every day to try and help the women’s team be successful and improve from game to game.”

Schwartz said the preparation does not stop at a good scrimmage game.

Before game day, the squad prepares with a scouting report and mimics the playing style and tendencies of the Bulldogs’ upcoming opponent to ensure the women are as ready to play as possible.

With four games left in the women’s basketball team’s regular season, the Gray Squad is determined to help the Bulldogs fi nish the year strong.

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For the fi rst time in the 2012-13 women’s basketball season, senior Becca Bornhorst stepped on the court, suited up and ready to play last Sunday against St. Bonaventure.

“I had freshman nerves,” Bornhorst said. “It was kind of funny. I talked to coach. I was super nervous. I hadn’t played in so long.”

Bornhorst battled through injuries in the 2011-12 season and started 17 games for the Bulldogs. She ranked second on the team in rebounding this season.

The only senior on the team, Bornhorst had originally opted to sit this season out and, if she was able to get the surgery done on her knee, possibly play a fi fth year.

She had planned to have her surgery in October until her doctors explained she needed more work and had to postpone the surgery.

“Not being able to be physically out there was basically heartbreaking to me, you know,” Bornhorst said. “Basketball is my fi rst love, and it’s my passion.”

Bornhorst emailed her doctor’s physician assistant to try to fi nd out when a possible surgery could be set up.

She said she was frustrated

because she would not be able to play a fi fth year due to the expected recovery time of at least one year.

She asked her doctor if there was any possible way to play just a little bit, the rest of her senior year.

“I’m not going to be a starter like I was last year, but, you know, I would be a role player if they need me for a few minutes here and there and just be able to play and practice a little bit,” Bornhorst said.

Every time she steps on the court, she does risk re-injuring one or both knees again.

“To me, if I don’t do it, I’ll regret it honestly,” Bornhorst said.

Bornhorst tallied one offensive rebound in her senior year debut while playing six minutes total.

“Combining her being vocal all year and (her) high skill level makes her a key asset to our team,” junior Daress McClung said. “I honestly couldn’t be more thrilled to have her back on the fl oor.”

There are only two home games left for Bornhorst and the women’s team, and one will be senior night.

“Senior night will be really special for me to just go out there for a few minutes with the Butler uniform on,” Bornhorst said. “I am just embracing every moment I have left.”

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which,” Athletic Director Barry Collier said. “So, we’ll be solidifying that shortly.”

Mike Freeman, associate athletic director for external operations, has inherited Lynch’s responsibilities in the development area until someone is hired to the position full time.

“That was part of my position before we added an associate AD of development about two years ago,” Freeman said. “We’ve been able to pick it up here and there, but there’s no doubt there’s a lot of work to be done, and we’re still pitching in to get it all done.”

Collier said a new full-time associate athletic director for development would be hired within the next several weeks.

Freeman said having Goetz leave would not be any different for the athletics department to handle since two other associate athletic directors have already departed this school year.

“Since that’s so recent, Barry (Collier) is still trying to fi gure out exactly what direction we’re going to go in terms of getting everything done,” Freeman said. “We were already working under a situation where it’s all hands on deck to get the work done and make sure that student-athletes have a great experience and that we accomplish our goals.

“So I’m sure that it will just be more of the same in the interim before we can fi ll those positions.”

Collegian fi le photoSenior forward Becca Bornhorst made her fi rst appearance for the Bulldogs this season after originally deciding to sit out the season due to injury.

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No. 12 winner, the third seed faces 7-10 winner; and the fourth seed plays the 6-11 winner. The winner of the entire tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The Bulldogs will face a very different tournament environment than ever before. Last year in the Horizon League tournament, the Bulldogs played in the 5,000-seat Athletics-Recreation Center in Valparaiso, Ind.

The Barclays Center seats 17,732 spectators and resides in the largest city in the United States.

Stevens said experience will help the team handle the big stage.

“Some of these guys have played in Final Fours, which is the biggest stage,” Stevens said.

Despite this and demand for tickets, Freeman said fans still interested in purchasing tickets should contact the Butler ticket offi ce.

“We still have some available, and we’re going to do what we can to fi nd additional tickets to help people that are looking to sit in or around other Butler people,” Freeman said.

Lindsay Martin, sports marketing and promotions manager, said Dawg Pound is also willing to assist students who are interested in going to the A-10 tournament.

“It would likely not be tied into the points program because there would be so few students that would be looking to take advantage of that opportunity,” Martin said.

Martin said only one student has asked her about A-10 tournament tickets.

Martin likens the low numbers to traditionally low numbers during events over school breaks.

The deadline for purchasing tickets is today, but Freeman urged fans to still contact the ticket offi ce if they are interested.

“Technically, our deadline is on Wednesday,” Freeman said. “But at the same time, if somebody calls us late next week, we are going to try to fi nd additional tickets for them.

“If we sell more than 150, we are going to try to help those folks. For those people that are interested, it’s best to act now to try and get your hands on something Butler has.”

Of the tickets purchased so far, Freeman said most have been bought by season ticket holders and donors from the Indianapolis area, as well as people from the New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia alumni chapters.

For those who cannot make the trip to Brooklyn, the semifi nals will be televised on CBS Sports Network, and the championship game will be nationally televised on CBS.

Hunter attended training camp for the Bengals in August 2012 but was cut during training camp.

For six weeks, Harvey has dedicated his time to St. Vincent Sports Performance.

Harvey used the program to improve his skills and prove to NFL scouts that he is serious about playing football at the professional level.

Since joining the program on Jan. 7, Harvey has been at St. Vincent fi ve and half days per week.

During the week, Harvey works on his speed, positioning and strength work, said Greg Moore, a strength and conditioning specialist at St. Vincent.

Harvey worked on position work with current NFL players and former NFL players and coaches.

“Some days, I will be catching balls from Jim Sorgi, former Indianapolis Colts quarterback,” Harvey said.

Even with hard work and improvements gained out of St. Vincent, Harvey was not invited to the 2013 NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.

Although Harvey was not invited to the combine, he found ways to get his name out to NFL teams and scouts.

“My agent and I have been working together, and we sent my fi lm out to numerous teams,” Harvey said.

The agent scheduled Harvey for NFL scouting combines in Chicago on March 10 and another combine in Seattle on March 24.

Harvey will also demonstrate his skills at Ball State University’s football pro day on March 20.

For the weeks leading up to the 2013 NFL draft, Harvey needs his skills and work ethic to impress NFL scouts, managers and coaches.

“It takes only one team to give you a shot,” Johnson said.

When the NFL draft concludes April 27, Harvey may end up being a late-round draft pick or an undrafted free agent.

He said his expectations have to be realistic.

“I’m someone that, if I get the opportunity, I’m going to make the most of it,” Harvey said. “No matter what team I’m on or where I end up, I know that I’m going to give them everything I have.

“I’m going to stay dedicated and help the team win games.”

LYNCH: Current football coach at DePauw University

Photos courtesy of Butler Sports InformationCROWLEY: Current athletic director at Niagara University



Senior returns to the court for fi nale

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The lights will dim and the room will go black—pitch black. Audience members will squirm in their seats, surrounded by darkness they won’t be able to escape.

Then the music will begin. The Ensemble Music Society is

bringing in the JACK Quartet, one of the nation’s top contemporary string quartets.

The JACK Quartet will perform two concerts while in Indianapolis—one tonight at the Big Car Service Center and another tomorrow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

The ensemble’s four members met while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.. They began playing concerts together while at school.

The JACK Quartet’s members are world travelers and have performed in London, Germany, France and throughout the United States.

Their fi rst Indianapolis concert will feature Georg Friedrich Haas’ Quartet No. 3, “In iij. Noct.” The composer himself instructed the piece to be played in complete darkness.

The piece comes partly from Holy Week services, during which churches would extinguish all lights and go dark.

Still, the piece is based on life inside a monastery and is not specifi cally a religious work.

Ari Streisfeld, a violinist for JACK Quartet, said it is truly an experience to play when it is pitch black in the room.

“It’s diffi cult to completely black out a space because we live in a world of light,” Streisfeld said.

“The darkness eliminates all distractions like looking at your program, watching what someone else is doing or what they’re wearing,” said John Failey, Ensemble Music Society president. “It’s more of a meditative and contemplation work.”

The piece has 18 different sections, each including specifi c instructions from the composer about improvisation for that section.

Each musician will sit in a separate corner of the room to perform the piece. In essence, they will send signals to each other through music.

Streisfeld likened the concert to being in a bat cave. It’s so dark you can’t see your hand in front of you and you have to rely on sounds to commuincate with one another.

The second performance will be a full-length concert featuring the works of Ligeti, Lutoslawski and Xenakis, three postwar composers.

The group’s most-requested work is Iannis Xenakis’ “Tetras,” a modern string quartet piece that challenges the classic sound audiences expect to hear from a string quartet.

“Tetras” is a quartet that sounds different than you’ll ever hear,”

Streisfeld said. “It’s a 15 to 16 minute piece that is pure energy.”

“Tetras” will be the closing work for the JACK Quartet’s concert at the IMA.

“I would give it a musical comparison to Jimi Hendricks’ ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ without the feedback,” Failey said. “It’s unlike anything anyone has heard on a stringed instrument before.”

The JACK Quartet has been through Indianapolis a couple of times, but its members are excited to bring in modern pieces that aren’t played frequently.

“Both concerts are really exciting,” Streisfeld said. “Coming to Indy to play them is an amazing experience in itself.”

Centered around the themes of darkness and rebirth, the two concerts fl ow together very well.

The IMA concert marks the three-year collaboration between the IMA and the Ensemble Music Society to bring in concerts dealing with modern music.

“All of these works on the program are things that are radically different from any notion that anybody has on what classical music is about,” Failey said. “It’s challenging and exciting and intense.”

Tickets are on sale for both concerts at the Ensemble Music Society website, www.ensemblemusic.org.

Tickets are $20 for tonight’s concert, and student tickets are $5 at the IMA concert tomorrow.

Photo Courtesy of Stephan PoffThe JACK Quartet is a contemporary string quartet that has been playing together since the 2006-07 season. They will be performing two concerts in Indianapolis today and tomorrow.

In the dark, JACK Quartet

comes out to playMALLORY [email protected]. ARTS ETC. EDITOR

Big Car Service Center is the venue for the JACK Quartet’s fi rst Indianapolis-concert tonight.

Photo by Heather Iwinski

A Peek into the Program:Tonight

Big Car Service Center (3819 Lafayette Road)

7:30 p.m.

Quartet No. 3, In iij. Noct. (By Georg Friedrich Haas)

TomorrowIndianapolis Museum of Art

(4000 Michigan Road)7:30 p.m

Moribus et genere(By Guillaume Dufay)

String Quartet No. 2 (1968)(By Gyorgy Ligeti)

Quartet (1964)(By Witold Lutoslawski)

Tetras(By Iannis Wenakis)

Photo courtesy of Henrik OlundThe ensemble met while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y..


Stephen Nelson is a College of Business instructor. Fewer Butler University students probably know he is also a toy train collector.

Nelson opened Mr. Muffi n’s Trains, a toy train collection with an operating layout, in December.

His interest in toy trains began when he was 14 and started working at Ed Schock’s Toy & Hobby in Broad Ripple. He worked there through his time at Broad Ripple High School in the early 1970s.

“Before Toys ‘R’ Us and Walmart, it was the place to buy your little brother a birthday present,” he said.

Nelson is a businessman and full-time instructor in Butler’s College of Business, but he said he sees his hobby as the antithesis of business because he has no interest in making money from it.

While Nelson said he has been interested in model trains for a long time, he shares a unique experience on his website, www.mrmuffi nstrains.com.

Nelson underwent surgery for colon cancer in 2005. While under anesthesia, “I found myself fl oating down into the seat of an old Madison passenger car,” he said.

What Nelson calls a “Messenger” then

told him the train was meant to make him comfortable on his trip to heaven.

Nelson awoke in the hospital and later discovered that during surgery he had technically died after a cough dislodged his ventilator.

Nelson has been collecting these particular trains since 2000.

“We have a very large collection, one of the largest in the country,” he said.

Mr. Muffi n’s Trains is located in Carmel just feet from where the Monon Railroad used to run.

This is an appropriate location. The Monon Railroad, which ran from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River, was a hugely infl uential railway.

According to the history page of www.monon.org, the railroad carried soldiers south during the Civil War, carried the body of President Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated and carried limestone from Indiana used for the construction of the Washington Monument, the Empire State Building and the Pentagon.

There is no admission fee to the shop, and the storefront sees about 50 visitors per week.

The name Mr. Muffi n’s Trains comes from one of Nelson’s old nicknames, he said.

“I designed the logo in about 2000, when I also started to sell things I had collected on

eBay,” he said.The whole model train track in the store’s

layout is fi nished, but only about 10 percent of the trains are on display. The staff is also about halfway done with the scenery and hope to fi nish it within the year.

Nelson and his crew spent ample time on the scenery, he said, making it look very realistic.

Mr. Muffi n’s Trains is the biggest toy train layout in the state and is set in the 1950s. Nothing is modern, and the trains are mostly post-war passenger trains with 1950s-model cars.

The layout does not model any particular town but is meant to be very urban.

“There are city scenes,” Nelson said. “There’s a bad neighborhood with bars, a coal mine, a dog food factory and a Twinkies factory.

“There are also animals, people, an automobile accident and a skunk in a trashcan, which I always try to get younger children to fi nd.”

There is an open stairwell in Mr. Muffi n’s Trains, which Nelson said kids love to climb to get a bird’s-eye view of the layout.

“It’s really exciting to introduce this hobby to young people. We also have a lot of senior citizens that come from nursing homes that had trains as kids.”

Nelson, through Mr. Muffi ns Trains, plans to continue expanding his layout and sharing his passion for trains with children and adults alike.

Maya Angelou once said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

The Butler community never did quite forget Angelou’s legendary presence back in 1988. After being the inaugural speaker for Butler University’s Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series, Angelou is coming back to campus to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary.

Angelou is known as one the most prolifi c writers and renaissance women in the world. Angelou is a renowned poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, fi lmmaker and civil rights activist.

Valerie Davidson, director and creator of Butler’s diversity programs, said she is more than thrilled for Angelou’s return to campus.

“I think it’s only fi tting as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series that we bring back the distinctive voice that started it all,” Davidson said.

Last time Angelou was at Butler, she graced the audience with a reading of her works. While there is no general theme to Angelou’s lecture this time, Davidson said she knows the experience will be worthwhile.

“When you have someone with the achievements and the image and the lifetime accomplishments of Maya Angelou, whatever she wants to talk about, I think that people will gain something from that,” Davidson said.

The Butler community seems to agree. Davidson said all the tickets were sold out in a matter of a few days.

“Butler students should take advantage of this opportunity,” Davidson said. “They have the rare chance to learn from and gain new perspectives from such an infl uential speaker.”

Butler’s student government, partnering with the diversity center, is looking forward to welcoming Angelou to campus. Mike Keller, Student Government Association president, said he plans to search for a personalized message from her lecture.

“She’s such a notable fi gure across the country and has shown just an extreme amount

of depth to her thoughts and with what she has been able to do,” Keller said. “And I think everybody who gets a chance to listen to people such as her really comes away with a lot and learns a lot about themselves and their own personal mission.”

Along with SGA, the Black Student Union is also co-sponsoring the event. With the Black Student Union theme being “Become a better version of yourself,” Brittany Moore, union president, said she hopes Angelou’s lecture can touch on the subject.

“I want her to enlighten everyone and tell them they can be the best they can be,” Moore said. “I’m hoping for everyone to be inspired to have a great semester and great life after hearing her speak.”

Angelou will speak in Clowes Memorial Hall on Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. While not every student will remember every word Angelou says that day, students will likely remember how her words and works made them feel.

The world-famous operatic baritone Thomas Hampson will sing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Friday.

The orchestra will perform selections from Gustav Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” for the fi rst time in its 83-year history. The pieces will feature Hampson as soloist.

“Des Knaben Wunderhorn” is a collection of 12 songs set to the anonymous German folk poems of the same name. Zack French, ISO director of artistic planning, said they are similar to Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Hampson has graced the world’s biggest stages for the last several decades. He is regarded as one of the greatest interpreters of German lieder, or art songs.

Hampson’s ability to effectively sing lieder is partially due to his location and training.

Butler assistant voice professor Thomas Studebaker knows this fi rsthand. He performed with Hampson in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1997 and 1998.

“He’s able to show a lot of dynamic contrast, and that makes a huge difference in something like Mahler,” Studebaker said. “It also doesn’t hurt that he lives in Vienna and speaks German fl uently.”

The orchestra is grateful to have secured Hampson to sing.

“Thomas Hampson is kind of in a world of his own,” French said. “It’s an honor for us to have him here singing songs that he is known around the world for singing.”

“Des Knaben Wunderhorn” is rarely programmed at major American orchestras, French said, but the collection’s pieces are some of Mahler’s most famous works.

“It’s an odd phenomenon that these German lieder have never been performed here,” French said, “especially considering our fi rst music director was from Germany and probably knew the pieces very well.”

Hampson selected fi ve songs to sing from the collection that best represent his voice.

“His voice is big, and it blends well,” Studebaker said.

Hampson said on his website he heard Mahler for the fi rst time when he was a college student listening to the radio in his car.

“Mahler’s music is a refl ection of my own world, something that’s extraordinarily informative to me as a human being,” Hampson said on his website.

Hampson is an Indiana native, born in Elkhart. This Friday’s performance will be his ISO debut.

Audiences have only one chance to see Hampson sing. The performance will run Friday at 8 p.m.

“You will be hearing one of the great singers of our time,” French said, “singing the music that made him famous.”

Photo courtesy of Stephen NelsonInside Mr. Muffi n’s Trains in Carmel, visitors can see a large layout of toy trains on intricate tracks winding through a fi ctional urban environment.

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PROFESSORS OFF THE CLOCK

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Maya Angelou to return to campus after 25 years

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BREAKING THE BUTLER BUBBLE

Photo courtesy of Valerie DavidsonMaya Angelou will speak to a sold-out crowd in Clowes Memorial Hall at the end of March.

RYAN [email protected] REPORTER

Photo by Rachel Opperman

Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Hampson to sing Mahler with ISO this week

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OPINION PAGE 10WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013

And we choose

NO ONEThis year, The Butler Collegian is

breaking tradition.We are choosing not to endorse

a candidate for this year’s Student Government Association presidential election.

While former staffs have come together to back one individual come Election Day, this semesters’s staff has decided to take a different route.

We are challenging Butler University students to take time to learn about the candidates and what each has to offer the student body.

Each Butler student has a stake in this race, so we are leaving it to you to determine what you need from your SGA president.

The Collegian hosted a question-and- answer session with the three candidates on Monday.

The hour-long discussion was a good opportunity to fi nd out more about how the candidates picture Butler if they were in the most infl uential student position on campus.

Each offered his or her own perspectives, and we could see benefi ts and disadvantages to each candidate. They all would make fi ne presidents.

But it is not our position to determine who would make the best president.

It is our job to inform the student body about what the candidates want to do for our university.

We take this responsibility very seriously and hope the pieces in today’s issue support that.

And while we are not endorsing a candidate, we are quick to endorse the SGA presidential election as a whole.

Voter turnout rarely reaches 50 percent

on Butler’s campus. We think it should be much higher.

Every Butler student should take the time to learn about SGA and those running for offi ce.

This should not be seen as a popularity contest. It’s a decision that will impact Butler for years to come.

Take the time to learn about the candidates and for what they stand.

An informed voter is a responsible voter.

The Collegian staff members have a stake in this race, just like every single Butler student—present and future.

We all rely on the president to do a good job, so we must act responsibly.

Make Butler better by casting a ballot on Monday.

—Collegian Editorial Board

Why we are silent on our pick for SGA president

Next week, students will have the opportunity to sit down and talk with Butler University President Jim Danko.

Students should jump at this opportunity to provide the president with important feedback that could shape the university’s future.

Danko is hosting open offi ce hours next Thursday for students to sign up and chat with him for about 15 minutes on any subject they wish.

We appreciate the president making time to hear student concerns, complaints and praises.

Danko has done an excellent job in promoting the university across the nation. He has made countless appearances from coast to coast, which has helped spread the Butler University name and reputation.

Meanwhile, though, students here in Indianapolis need the chance to meet with their president.

Butler is heavily tuition-dependent. Students are paying Butler bills month after month, so student voices should be heard in every decision the university makes.

It is great that there are student leaders in Student Government Association and other on-campus programs who are here to act as

advocates for students, but we also need to feel like the president is accessible.

Having a personal connection to the president makes Butler feel more like home. For most students, this is home for about four years, so it would be nice to know the man who oversees it all.

On the same note, responsibility rests on students’ shoulders to make sure they take the opportunity to meet with Butler decision-makers.

Students should want to meet with Danko to keep him abreast of how students feel about their time at Butler.

In offi ce hours last semester, students attended approximately 75 percent of the meeting times. As long as there is demand, administrators said Danko will continue to host offi ce hours.

There should be a constant demand for access to the president.

The president should know—for better or worse—what students want from their university.

Positive feedback is just as important as negative feedback.

If students like a course or professor, they should speak up so it does not go away or change.

If students are not happy with the direction the university is moving, now is as good a time as ever to tell someone who can change it.

Don’t wait until you graduate to wish that it could have been different.

In general, faculty, administrators and staff members understand that students are key in running a university.

Without students, Butler would not exist.

Know that your voice matters and use it, especially when the president makes time to hear it.

Students can sign up for a time to talk with Danko on Feb. 28 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. through the Connection.

Students are bigger stakeholders in the university than any other demographic, so we all need to be aware of what an impact a little student input can make.

OUR POINT THIS WEEK:President Danko is moving

in the right direction by holding open offi ce hours, which students should use

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KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING, PRESIDENT DANKO

College is a time to explore interests, but balancing interests with school and social life is the key to success during this time.

College provides students time to fi nd and develop their passions and discover what careers they want to pursue after college.

More than 165 student groups exist at Butler University, so there are plenty of opportunities available for all students to get involved.

While trying a multitude of activities is good, students can over-involve themselves just to say they are active on campus.

As students get older, some feel they are expected to be involved in multiple clubs as resume boosters.

Meeting people one would have otherwise not known or getting to do things one would have never had the chance to do are some benefi ts of joining on-campus groups.

In spite of these benefi ts, being spread too thin could be detrimental to any student’s overall success.

The pressure and stress of doing too much could have negative mental, physical and academic impacts on any individual.

Butler is good at attracting students with a great deal of drive and initiative.

With all of the motivation and opportunities on campus, students need to fi nd a good balance of school, extracurricular activities and free time.

Students must fi nd balance

RHYANHENSON

Students must achieve balance between social life, school and extracurricular activities

Collegian File PhotoButler University President Jim Danko talks with students after a Butler Catholic Community mass last year.


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PAWPRINTS

by Heather Iwinski | Asst. Photography Editor | [email protected]

“P.F. Chang’s.”

Emma UlrichFreshman

Psychology and political science

If you could bring any restaurant onto Butler University’s campus, which restaurant would it be?“I have to go with Qdoba.”

David TiwariSophomoreEconomics

“Panera (Bread).”

Kristen HiddingFreshman

Exploratory

In the fall of 2010, Eric Day was diagnosed with a benign tumor.

A tumor is an abnormal growth of cells, but a benign tumor grows in a certain spot and typically does not spread throughout the body.

However it can be harmful if it presses against vital structures like blood vessels or nerves.

Day should be a junior at Butler, but he stands proud as a fi rst-semester sophomore.

Because of the tumor, he had to learn to walk and talk again.

But during radiation treatment, he met a six-year-old girl battling trachea cancer. She changed his life and would help him change the lives of others, just by signing a card with two simple words: “Stay positive.”

She helped Day fi nd himself as an elementary education major during the time they spent together through treatment, which included Day tutoring the girl.

Day decided to create wristbands engraved with “Stay positive” to remind himself that somebody else has it worse than him.

His motto is, “You can’t always control what happens in life, but you CAN control your attitude.”

A Facebook page was created to promote the motto and wristbands. Within three days, the page had 450 likes.

Proceeds from the wristband sales will go to cancer research, but Day said he needs big names to promote it.

In the past month, people from Texas, South Carolina and St. Louis have wanted to order the wristbands.

“I honestly didn’t think it was going to get this big, Day said. “I’ve been approached by Relay for Life, and every day I get on Facebook, it seems like I have a new message.”

“Like his motto, he never got down on himself,” sophomore Matt Scheetz said, “and staying positive always stuck with him.”

Scheetz went to high school with Day and remembers seeing him in the hospital. Scheetz said he never wanted to see it again.

He refused to look at the picture Day showed me in the interview.

“It brought everyone closer, but it’s just a reminder to be thankful because every day is a blessing,” Scheetz said.

Day said you can go from top to bottom in a split second.

Day’s motto is improving lives across the nation and is also improving lives on Butler’s campus.

Day was approached by junior men’s basketball player Erik Fromm for wristbands to give to his family as a reminder to “Stay positive” while grieving the loss of his father, Leonard Fromm.

Day said the motto represented Fromm’s father and his personality.

Jim Peal, head strength and conditioning coach for Butler

athletes, was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.

Peal was approached by junior volleyball player Maggie Harbison with a “Stay positive” wristband to help him through the diffi cult times.

A Facebook page was also created for Peal, on which students posted encouraging stories that were brought to the coach by former players.

Peal dedicated most of his time to athletes from 5 a.m. until late in the evening prior to his diagnosis.

Butler athletes took it upon themselves to start selling wristbands engraved with “Peal Strong” to raise money for cancer research.

“It feels great to help out,” senior football player Sean Grady said. “(Peal) helped me become a better player, athlete and the person that I am today. He always tried to help everyone, so it’s great to help him out and show him what he truly means to us.”

The stories of these men are true inspirations. Day and Peal have touched many lives with their attitude and character. They should inspire all of us to “Stay positive” and be “Peal Strong.”

Stories remind us to “stay positive”

Online courses worth considering

More and more online classes have popped up in the last few years across college campuses.

Butler University has not avoided the trend.

The school should follow these new developments in higher education.

But college administrations should keep in mind the details that make the university experience what it is.

Online courses offer opportunities that are not always available otherwise.

They can open up classes to people who work during normal class times.

Students with disabilities may be able to take classes more easily.

These are the reasons we should pursue online education.

Higher education should not solely be the realm of those who can afford to take classes full-time or can get to and sit through classes.

But I also believe that the classroom experience is vital.

It is much more powerful and meaningful to interact with others than it is to just read and write papers.

I know that a huge part of my growth as a person has come from talking with classmates and teachers.

There is a feel about the physical classroom and group discussions that an online class cannot duplicate.

And I know I am not the only

student who fi nds it easy to just breeze through readings and assignments without absorbing much.

The classroom has the ability to demand our engagement as students.

Class discussion can directly demonstrate to teachers how their ideas are being received.

Professors see fi rsthand how well their points come across and can hear immediate feedback.

Online classes have their benefi ts.

But any major switch should preserve the best parts of real classrooms as well.

If being exposed to the real experience of working with others helps people grow, then it is a vital part of the classroom.

There does not seem to be an impending switch from real classrooms to virtual ones in Butler’s future.

The university has only just begun offering online courses.

Hopefully, these will be used to make the university more inclusive.

It would also be marvelous to see Butler incorporate all the benefi ts of the traditional classroom with online courses.

BREE STITT

JEREMY ALGATE

Protest sheds light on serious issue

Contact columnist Bree Stitt [email protected].

Contact columnist Jeremy Algate at [email protected].

Online education has its perks, but it cannot beat the classroom setting

Violence against women needs to end.

One in three women on this planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime, according to the One Billion Rising website.

This statistic is an atrocity. No woman deserves to be beaten. No woman deserves to be raped, no matter what she is wearing or how she is carrying herself.

One Billion Rising is a movement to raise awareness for the abuse that so many women will face in their lives.

On Valentine’s Day this year, the organization called for one billion men and women around the world to revolutionize the way we think about violence against women through a dance protest.

They danced to protest the rape culture in the world. They danced to protest the mentality that there is nothing society can do to prevent rape. They danced to show the women across the world that violence will not be tolerated anymore.

Demia is Butler University’s chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, and their aim is to promote gender equality on Butler’s campus. They organized Butler’s own dance protest at Star Fountain on Valentine’s Day.

I am so proud that Butler was a part of this movement. Watching the men and women of our campus dance to show solidarity with every abused woman around the

world made me happy to be a part of campus.

Our involvement in One Billion Rising should not stop now that Valentine’s Day has passed. Every student should ask themselves how they can help stop the rape culture that pervades our world today.

This could be as simple as not joking about rape, or as serious as supporting an abused woman to fi nd her voice and stand up for herself.

I encourage students to visit the “Over It” page of One Billion Rising’s website. This defi nition of the rape culture can help us understand how to stop violence against women around the world.

Violence against women needs to end. The only way this can happen is for every person to take notice and make their voice of protest known.

MAGGIEMONSON

Cancer survivors Eric Day and Jim Peal are now fi ghting for a new cause.

One Billion Rising provides an opportunity to protest violence against women.

...and the battle continues.

A LITTLE AUDby Audrey Meyer | Collegian Cartoonist | [email protected]

Contact columnist Maggie Monson at [email protected].

Photo by Rhyan Henson

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Members of the Butler University community took to the mall last Thursday to protest violence against women around the world.

Students and faculty members held signs to bring awareness to the shocking statistics about rape and violence against women globally. Such events were held around the world to spark a discussion.

Butler’s percussion ensemble performed during the 15-minute

peaceful protest

sponsored by Demia.

The protest included dancing

and, in some locations, a flash mob.

feb. 20, 2013

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