Record-breaking numbers in enrollment have forced Butler Uni-versity officials to make changes in housing options for juniors next year—changes that are making some students angry.

Next year’s juniors will have only one option for on-campus housing—the Apartment Village.

The decision concerned some current sophomores who say that the more than $2,000 difference in cost between AV and the Univer-sity Terrace apartments could im-pact their ability to attend Butler.

This year, students living in shared rooms in UT paid $5,770. Students living in singles at AV paid $7,860.

“The vast majority of [my friends] cannot afford to live in

Apartment Village and will prob-ably have to transfer schools be-cause we don’t live close enough to commute,” said sophomore Heath-er Iwinski, who first heard rumors about the policy change from a res-ident assistant last week.

The resident assistant requested not to be quoted or attributed.

The slim options are disconcert-ing, sophomore chemistry major Jeremy Algate said.

“I don’t like being told that I can room in AV, room with sopho-mores I don’t know, or go to anoth-er school,” he said. “I just don’t like those options.”

As of press time, the university has made no official announce-ment of the change to the student body.

In an e-mail to Iwinski, Asso-ciate Director of Residence Life

Doug Howell said more infor-mation would be made available about housing finance specifics next week.

Some students feel like they should have known by now that the option of UT would not be available.

Howell said he has answered questions that he has received from concerned students like Iwinski.

“We weren’t aware of this pol-icy when we agreed to come to Butler,” sophomore Karl Wiersum said. “We weren’t even told at the beginning of the year. In fact, we still haven’t officially been made aware of it.

“If I had known earlier, I would have tried to live off-campus. Now it’s basically too late to search for any other options.”

But Howell said that since AV

opened, it has always been the on-campus housing option for juniors and that in the past, only a limited number of spots in UT were made available to juniors each year.

This year, that number was around 40.

Howell said AV’s amenities, including an Aug. 1 to May 31 housing contract that includes all holiday break periods, explains the higher cost.

“You have to pay the rate for the place you live,” Howell said. “There is no way to change that. Considering the amenities and length of stay, the charge for the Village is in line with the other housing charges at Butler.”

Sophomore Taylor Meador con-sidered living off-campus next year since she is in commuting range, but the costs of utilities made her

decide to stay on campus.“I’m not opposed to living in

AV,” Meador said. “The apart-ments are nice and we get heating and air conditioning, electric and gas, water and cable and Internet included, which are things that I didn’t think about.”

Amenities are nice, Iwinski said, but when she worries about factors such as student loans and other costs, it’s not what is most impor-tant.

“I don’t care about the amenities I will have the Village,” she said. “I would much rather have the mon-ey.”

Howell also said in an e-mail sent to Wiersum that when the cost of food is factored into the equa-tion, the cost of living at AV is actu-ally similar to what

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Upon hearing of the coming ice storm last week, Butler University em-ployees worked to prepare the campus for whatever the winter storm might bring and to keep students informed of preparations.

Last Monday afternoon, a team of faculty from student affairs, informa-tion resources, food services, a repre-sentative from the office of the provost and the director of facilities manage-ment met to form a response plan for the approaching winter storm.

“Our biggest concern was the poten-tial loss of power, so the team devel-oped a plan for the worst-case scenar-io,” Assistant Chief of Police Andrew Ryan said.

It was decided that they would rent four generators to maintain power in Atherton Union, Jordan Hall and Resi-dential College.

Because the Greek houses and Sun-

set Avenue are on a different power grid than the rest of campus, the plan was to potentially house students in Jordan Hall if they lost power.

After keeping close tabs on weather reports and tracking how schools in Il-linois were reacting to the weather, it was decided around 4 p.m. Monday that Tuesday classes would be canceled.

Typically, the decision to cancel classes is left to the president’s office. However, because President Bobby Fong was out of town, the decision was left to the office of the provost.

To notify students of the closing, a notification was posted on the schools website, and the instant alert system also sent out e-mails and text messages to students.

University Relations handles the content of Butler’s emergency e-mails.

While some students received their emails later than others, overall the re-ception was positive.

“Butler sent me texts, blew up my

voicemail and sent me e-mails,” fresh-man Laura Shull said. “I enjoyed hav-ing the instant alert because it cut down on rumors about school being closed and also helped me plan accordingly.”

After ice continued to fall on Tues-day, public safety was a concern be-cause of trees falling and the potential loss of power, especially since there were power outages throughout Mari-on County.

Facilities management immediately started working around campus to clear the ice as best they could. Howev-er, they encountered problems with the chemicals used to melt the ice, which initially slowed them down.

Classes were again canceled on Wednesday, and many students no-ticed that much of campus had turned into the equivalent of an ice skating rink.

On Thursday, classes resumed and students were warned to “wear

For most Butler Univer-sity students, the issues in Egypt are far away. But for one student, the events in Egypt strike close to her heart.

On Jan. 25, Sarah Guir-guis said she entered her First Year Seminar classroom 30 minutes late with a petri-fied look on her face.

That was the day 20,000 protesters ran out into the streets of Cairo to show their rage against the govern-ment, CNN reported. Three were reported dead and 49 others wounded in the first day of the protests, accord-ing to the official Middle East News Agency.

Guirguis, a freshman double major in communi-cation science disorders and Spanish, has 32 relatives in

Egypt that are experiencing the protests and chaos first-hand.

“America is my country, but so is Egypt,” Guirguis said.

She last visited Egypt in June of 2010 and found it to be a very different place then it is now. She describes the people of Egypt as friendly, hospitable and safe.

“Egypt was very safe and there was no tension,” Guir-guis said

Egyptians began to pro-test in the wake of Presi-dent Hosni Mubarak’s harsh policies and grip on power alongside economic woes. The protests soon became violent.

“I’m worried all the time about my family,” Guirguis said. “There’s always some-thing dangerous going on

Events in Egypt hit close to home

BY KATE SIEGFRIEDksigfri@butler.edu | staff writer

BY JILL MCCARTERjmccarte@butler.edu | news editor

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BY ALLISON AMMERMULLERaammermu@butler.edu | staff writer

A FAMILY IN DANGER: Freshman Sarah Guirguis has relatives in Egypt in the middle of the recent political turmoil. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Guirguis)

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COLLEGIANFIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO

KNOW THIS WEEK

With the ice and snow and catching back up on homework, it’s easy to get lost in the headlines of newspapers and broadcast news. The Butler Colle-gian has everything you might, or might not, need

to know to strike up conversations this week.

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An iPhone app “aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith” has been given the blessing by the Catho-

lic Church in the United States. The app, which costs $1.99, is the fi rst of its kind to be sanctioned by the

church. Developers say the app is not a replacement for church, but instead is to act as a convenience.

SOURCE: REUTERS

1) NEED TO CONFESS? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT.

In an effort to get guns off the streets of Alabama, an adult romance store has decided to take those unwanted guns off the hands of customers. The store will take the guns and exchange them with store credit until Valen-tine’s Day. The used guns will be refurbished and sold,

with the proceeds going to victims of gun violence.SOURCE: THE MADISON COUNTY RECORD

2) GET YOUR RID OF YOUR GUNS JUST IN TIME FOR V-DAY

If a bill is passed in the state Senate of Washington, elec-tric car owners would be taxed a $100 fee annually when registering their vehicles. The bill was introduced to earn back some of the gas taxes that those owners don’t pay. The Washington Department of Transportation estimates

that the fee is less than half the cost of what gasoline-powered car owners pay in gas taxes every year.

SOURCE: THE SEATTLE TIMES

3) GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, BAD FOR THE WALLET

A 35-year-old California man was killed when a rooster stabbed him during an alleged cockfi ght. The rooster, which had razors attached to its legs, stabbed the man in an artery in his leg, causing him to bleed to death. California is an “attractive destination” for cockfi ght-

ing, since surrounding states consider fi ghting a felony. No other arrests have been made for this incident.

SOURCE: THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN

4) CHICKEN KILLS MAN IN COCKFIGHT

Richard Heene, the father behind 2009’s “Balloon Boy Hoax,” said in a recent interview that he only told of-fi cials it was a hoax to avoid mounting legal fees. The

family has since moved to Tampa Bay, Fla., where Heene says “no one cares about their past.” Heene is now looking for a lawyer so that he can sue Colorado

offi cials on unspecifi ed terms.SOURCE: ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

5) ‘BALLOON BOY’S’ FATHER BACK IN SPOTLIGHT

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What is college?It is defined by Merriam

Webster as “an independent institution of higher learning offering a course of general studies leading to a bach-elor’s degree.”

The online collaborative dictionary alternative de-fines college as “A magical place where it is rumored that learning takes place al-though, to those who enter it’s often described different-ly afterward—as a beautiful land in which beer flows in amber currents next to a golden pasture. It involves rampant consumption of al-coholic beverages, flagrant and promiscuous sexual behavior, and a general and fundamental disregard for any form of responsibility by its inhabitants.”

The Butler University ad-ministration has certainly seen the latter definition becoming more prominent within the student body these last few years.

In a freshman survey among Butler students, 50 percent reported having consumed alcohol prior to coming to college and hav-ing expectations for the party scene of college stereo-types to be a reality.

In addition, 67 percent of freshman students surveyed reported drinking at least one time per weekend.

A record-breaking num-ber of hospital visits in a semester, coupled with the startlingly high alcohol use statistics among Butler stu-dents than those of other In-diana universities has raised concerns of where these is-sues are originating.

Open Alcohol Forums, in which campus officials seek

student opinions, have been held for ResCo, Schwitzer Hall, Apartment Village, the Greek presidents and the Greek community.

Questions such as, “Why are students drinking more? When did the nightlife be-come about being black-out drunk? How can we as a university look to overcome these issues?” have been posed to students in order to determine the university’s plan of action.

Overall, students attend-ing the forums said the uni-versity could provide more freshman sober program-ming as well as extending alcohol education program-ming beyond the first few weeks of the semester.

Coordinator of Health Education and Outreach Programs Sarah Barnes said Butler is working to create an “alcohol task force” that would work to adjust uni-versity alcohol policies and increase high-risk drinking awareness.

She said members of the task force would most likely include Butler University Police Department officers, Office of Student Affairs of-ficials, university students and herself.

“We might try talking more with incoming stu-dents’ parents so that they can be the ones having that discussion before the stu-dents even get to Butler,” she said. “We are also going to work on more appropri-ately adapting high-risk pro-grams and make students more aware.”

Barnes said students need to understand the respon-sibilities and obligations to themselves that come along with living on their own.

“It’s a personal responsi-bility,” she said. “We have

to be holding ourselves as adults in the college commu-nity.”

Barnes said it was not only the statistics that caused concern for the administra-tion, but also the reaction of alumni after events such as homecoming.

“Our numbers drew some attention in that we’ve seen an increase, but also an-ecdotally a response from recent Butler alumni who have expressed concern on the amount of drinking they saw on homecoming,” Barnes said.

The response of alumni, in conjunction with the rise of alcohol-related deaths in colleges and universities across the country, has made the Butler administration question if this is a genera-tional problem, Barnes said.

Senior Joe Wadlington said drinking issues are af-fecting far more than just Butler.

“I feel this rise in drink-ing is occurring all over the country, not just on our cam-pus,” he said. “[It] is more a characteristic of our genera-tion than a problem on cam-pus.

“While a social campus can easily encourage drunk-en behavior, unsafe choices are the responsibility of the individual.”

Wadlington said part of the reason Butler might see higher statistics than other Indiana universities is the campus size and layout.

“Because we have a walk-ing campus, individuals can stumble from party to party knowing if they play it sober at the front door they can make it in and possibly find more alcohol. That is what is so unsafe,” he said. “These aren’t just anonymous peo-ple. Because Butler is a small

school, we are all very well aquatinted.

“Our close-knit commu-nity of care can keep people safe, but it can also foster dangerous behavior.

“Individuals may make riskier choices if they think their friends and acquain-tances will keep them safe.”

As a member of the Greek community, Wadlington said he appreciates the fact that Butler looks beyond the ‘Greek stereotype’ and rec-ognizes the issue cannot be blamed on a single group.

“I’ve been involved in several forums about alcohol with the administration and each time they have made it clear that Greek houses are far from the only culprits,” he said. “As a freshman I was invited to drink in most of the housing units on cam-pus.

“It’s clear that alcohol abuse doesn’t care where you live.”

Statistics from the fresh-man survey reflect this statement, as 77 percent of students reported drink-ing the same amount or less now that they had joined the Greek community and an additional 13 percent said they drink more frequently, but less per sitting.

With the implementation of the alcohol task force and the university looking to create more freshman pro-gramming, Wadlington said he thinks Butler is doing the best thing possible to protect its students.

“Any university’s ad-ministration should be con-cerned about their students’ drinking,” he said. “I appre-ciate Butler’s realization that they cannot put a stop to drinking and that their time is better spent on education than prevention.”

BY GRACE WALLACEgwallace@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Dawg Bucks to extend beyond the ‘Butler Bubble’

If current negotiations are successful, students may soon be able to use their Butler student IDs to pay at some local restaurants.

Qdoba Mexican Grill and Papa John’s Pizza have already signed on to the pro-gram, which will begin once technology is in place at the locations and contract negotiations are settled.

The IDs would function as a debit card, with parents or students being able to add money to the balance as Dawg Bucks. Restaurants would scan the cards or use the ID number to charge students. However, students would not be able to use general flex dollars or any part of their general meal plan at off-campus locations.

Student requests and the success of similar programs at other universi-ties led the Council on Presidential Af-fairs to look into off-campus options last spring. They began searching for a third-party vendor to work out the de-tails, until Aramark offered use of their existing system.

Stacey Puck, general manager of din-

ing services, said Aramark saw the pro-posal as a chance to expand late-night options, since the participating restau-rants have later hours than the dining halls and Papa John’s offers delivery.

“It can compliment what we offer in terms of the dining program,” Puck said, “for students to be able to get food later on the weekend. The delivery op-tion is a lot more flexible.”

Matt Kasper, chair of CPA, said rep-resentatives from Aramark and Vice President for Student Affairs Levester Johnson have been working closely to determine what would work best for the school.

“They’re trying to help Butler allure prospective students and improve cam-pus climate,” Kasper said.

The plan includes starting with three restaurants on a trial basis, with the pos-sibility of adding more. As an incentive for participating, restaurants would receive increased advertising presence during campus events like Welcome Week.

CPA member Kyle Frantz said that he looked into other schools with similar programs that incorporate gas stations

and drug stores along with restaurants. He said that he would like to see the program grow similarly in the future.

“The goal, long-term, would be to have most of the restaurants in Broad Ripple on-board with it,” Frantz said.

SGA already has ties with Broad Rip-ple through the weekend shuttle and Kasper said that the program would in-crease that connection. It would also be more attractive to parents who would be able to better control where their money is spent and to students who do not want to carry credit cards.

Kasper said one of the only issues he foresees is that if too many restau-rants are brought into the program, then people wouldn’t stay around campus as much. In the meantime, it will provide expanded dining options.

“It’s a nice idea to be able to get off-campus for an evening once in a while,” Kasper said.

The options were slated to begin in January, but have been postponed. Puck said that Papa John’s service may start in the next few weeks, and Kasper said he hopes a full trial period will begin sometime after spring break.

BY SARA PRUZINspruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE: Surveys show many Butler University freshmen choose to drink alcohol at least once every week. The administration has plans for more alcohol education programs to help students make safe choices. (Photo from stock.xchng)

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Butler University will open a chapter of the French National Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi, Fri-day at the University Club at Atherton Union.

Founded in 1906, Pi Delta Phi has over 330 un-dergraduate and graduate chapters in the United States and France.

According to the Pi Delta Phi website, pidelta-phi.org, the purpose of the society is to recognize outstanding scholarship in the French language and its literatures, to increase the knowledge and appreciation of Americans for the cultural con-tributions of the French-speaking world and to stimulate and encourage French and francophone cultural activities.

Associate professor of French Eloise Sureau-Hale, who helped bring the organization to cam-pus, said it was important for French students to actually have a French honor society on campus.

Butler’s French Department is the second larg-est language department with 35-40 students ma-joring in French along with just as many minors.

The organization has a lot to offer students, se-nior French and music double major Adam Weav-er said.

“It’s a well established organization,” he said. “It has a lot of resources available.”

Sureau-Hale, a member of Pi Delta Phi since graduate school, is confident in the benefits the honor society provides students.

“It looks good on a résumé, and it’s wonderful for summer scholarships,” she said.

To join, students must pay a $30 lifetime mem-bership fee and follow requirements set forth by

the organization. The requirements include a sophomore class standing, a 3.0 GPA in French, a 2.8 overall GPA and at least one French course at the 300-level.

Sureau-Hale said one of the most important things Pi Delta Phi is known for is their generous summer study abroad scholarships.

“Most Butler French majors and minors study abroad,” Sureau-Hale said. “The society gives pretty good summer scholarships you can apply for, in addition to study abroad.”

Some are already thinking about taking advan-

tage of those opportunities.“I’ll definitely be applying for scholarships

through Pi Delta Phi,” sophomore French and or-ganizational communications major Katie Youn-gen said. “I’d also like to apply for some of the summer study abroad sessions they offer.”

Another benefit of membership is networking, something of interest to students like Weaver, who are about to graduate and start job searching.

After graduation, he said he plans to look for jobs in France as a teaching assistant and said membership in Pi Delta Phi will be a great help.

“I would go into a school and help students learn English,” Weaver said. “It helps me under-stand their confusion with my language and im-prove my French as well.”

Sureau-Hale said she agrees with the network-ing aspect of the organization.

“If you’re looking for a job, you can tap into their members and contact them to help,” she said. “It’s a great networking system.”

She said membership makes students more at-tractive to potential employers.

“It shows them that not only have you studied the language, but you’re good enough to be in an honor society,” Sureau-Hale said.

There are currently 11 students signed up to be initiated at the ceremony, along with four profes-sors set to become honorary members.

Sureau-Hale said there has been a great level of interest in the program, especially considering that it’s been relatively short notice and that many students are currently abroad. She said she antici-pates an even higher level of interest in the coming years.

Pi Delta Phi French society initiation FridayButler brings new honor society to campus

BY AJA CACANacacan@butler.edu | staff writer

New rules for SGA campaign trail SGA and class officer candidates

will face stricter campaign rules if new guidelines are passed in SGA assembly today.

The new rules evolved out of problems the Election Oversight Committee faced last year while in-vestigating alleged rule violations.

“We wanted to clear them up and make the language solid,” Seth Wil-liams, EOC chair, said.

In the past, the term “campaign worker” was used but not explicitly defined, so the EOC had difficulty issuing violations, especially when it came to online posting and pro-motion by unregistered campaign workers. The new rules would make it clearer who must be registered as a campaign worker.

Under the new rules, anyone who does campaign work would be con-sidered a campaign worker and is subject to the same enforcement and rules violation policies. Campaign work, according to the election

guidelines, includes, but is not lim-ited to, posting, distributing, design-ing, managing or creating campaign materials or online accounts.

SGA President Chris Ring said the new regulations will clear up this distinction and other terms that were ambiguous.

“They bump up the accountabil-ity that people working under the candidate have,” Ring said.

SGA Parliamentarian Al Car-roll said the proposed rule changes would force candidates to make sure that they are not violating any rules and more strictly monitor their workers.

“It will be a good test of how [can-didates] manage people and how they manage their time,” he said.

Carroll said he is interested to see how the new guidelines will func-tion this year and how they will af-fect the violations process.

He said while the new rules are necessary, they might discourage some people from participating with campaigns for fear that they

will cause the candidate to receive a violation. He said he hopes there is some leniency this year while people are learning the rules.

“We don’t want to send a message that if you don’t know the rules, you can’t participate,” Carroll said.

These violation policies would also change under the new guide-lines. Two minor violations would constitute a major violation. More than two major violations or one severe violation would result in dis-qualification.

Minor violations include organi-zations endorsing a candidate and violating posting rules. Major viola-tions include working with unreg-istered campaign workers and vio-lating university solicitation rules. Severe violations include posting the voting link on external sites and breaking campus rules other than the solicitation policy.

Under the old rules, a candidate could be disqualified for having more than two major or minor viola-tions or one severe violation.

Campaign financing would also be more clearly defined to include only the money given to a candidate by SGA. No personal finances can be used, but presidential candidates will be given $150 instead of $100.

The SGA presidential debate will be held Feb. 24 and the election will be held on Feb. 28. Online polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

BY SARA PRUZINspruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

The lights dim and the curtains draw back to reveal...Black History Month.

Butler University and the Black Stu-dent Union are putting on a series of events highlighting black history and the arts throughout the month of Feb-ruary.

Sophomore Aisha Townsend, BSU vice president of campus events, said she hopes highlighting the arts will en-hance Black History Month.

“I hope that they get an experience that they’ve never had with Black His-tory Month,” she said. “Usually we want to focus on history, but we want to show a different kind of history.”

BSU is focusing on this week, calling it “Black Curtain Week.”

Everyday this week, BSU is putting on a different event promoting black history.

Monday featured a speaker from the African American Genealogy Group that taught how to trace family histo-ries.

Townsend said this event allows stu-dents to get back to their roots.

“It is important because a lot of people actually forget what we went through, what we came from and how

we are doing what we do today,” she said.

Tuesday’s event was a trip to the In-dianapolis Symphony Orchestra to at-tend a celebration of black history. It featured traditional music and an all-African-American orchestra.

Katie Carlson, a sophomore pub-lic relations and marketing major and Coffee House co-chair, said in the col-legiate bubble, students tend to forget about the world outside of campus.

“We need these reminders of the world outside of our academic walls to keep us grounded,” she said.

Tonight BSU is sponsoring a trip to an Indianapolis theatre: dowtown’s Repertory Theatre. The theater is put-ting on a production of “Neat,” the sto-ry of a woman and her struggles dur-ing the Civil Rights movement.

Townsend said she wanted to high-light the great events happening off-campus in the Indianapolis community.

“We just tried to think of different things going on in the Indianapolis area to give them immersion into India-napolis, as well as do some things here for our students,” she said.

Thursday will kick off the African-American Cinema Series, which will feature a different movie each week

with opportunities to discuss them af-terwards.

Friday night’s poetry jam, called Love and Roots, on at Starbucks will finish out the week.

Carlson said Butler provides a lot of programming for students, but this event is going to be something no one will want to miss because she guaran-tees that most students have never at-tended anything like a poetry jam/un-derground hip-hop concert before.

“I want them to walk away with a sense of discovery finding themselves more curious about the world we live in,” Carlson said.

Townsend said she hopes everyone realizes how exciting these arts events are for Black History Month.

“We forget that people fought to do those kinds of things back then and had to go step-by-step or take what they could get until they got to the top,” she said.

She said she hopes the Butler com-munity will end the month feeling a renewed appreciation for black history, especially in the arts.

“Hopefully they get to see a different side of things,” she said. “I hope they see the things that great African-Amer-icans did.”

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEENadobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

The ‘Black Curtain’ reveals black history in new way

Campus focuses on art

LOOKING BACK: The BSU chose to focus performances like this one to remind students where they came from. (Photo courtesy of Katie Carlson)

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CAMPUSBRIEFWhy is my Blackboard in Spanish?

Some Butler University students may have needed to brush up on their language skills when their “What’s New” section on Blackboard recently changed to Spanish.

In a “Blackboard News” statement re-leased on the site, Information Technology said the problem arose from fixing a sepa-rate issue.

“It resulted last weekend when we fixed the issue of students not being able to ac-cess course content within courses that had content copied or imported from previous courses,” the statement said.

The statement assured students that

only the sub-header sections of Blackboard are affected and the issue would not alter any of the content, course material or stu-dent-learning areas.

The release said students do not need to report the issue to IT “as there isn’t any-thing they or instructors can do to resolve the issue.”

Instructors, however, are being asked to alter the entry point for the course if the problem is too distracting for students.

“Instructors can change the default En-try Point for courses by doing the follow-ing: Under the Control Panel, click on Cus-tomization -> Style -> Select Course Entry Point -> Submit,” the release said.

BY GRACE WALLACEgwallace@butler.edu | asst news editor

The College of Communication is on the hunt for three new faculty members. Candi-dates are vying for positions in creative stud-ies, journalism and strategic communication.

Interim Dean of CCOM, William Neher, said the college is placing a high priority on the candidate’s ability to teach undergradu-ates.

He said that is not always the case. “Sometimes you are looking for someone

who can teach graduate school or has a re-search emphasis, but our first concern now is someone who can go into that freshman writing class and do very well with those stu-dents,” he said.

Neher said that a teaching emphasis is something unique to Butler.

“We emphasis undergraduate teaching more than a larger institution might,” he said.

Sophomore Becca Smith said she hopes the new professors also bring professional expe-rience.

“I would hope that they were active in to-day’s field and up-to-date with all the things that have been changing within commu-nications,” she said. “So many things have changed that anyone that has not worked in the field within the last few years would lose important insight.”

The newly-hired professors would teach mostly introductory courses.

Smith said because the professors will be

teaching introductory classes, they should stress certain aspects of the field.

“Introductory classes should also show how exciting our field is and all the great things that can be done with a communica-tions degree,” she said.

The search process began over a year ago, when the university administration approved it.

In the fall, a search committee of relevant faculty was assembled. The committee pre-pared a job description for each position. The positions were advertised nationally.

Neher said each application that comes in is carefully reviewed by the search commit-tee.

“The committee holds meetings to sort through the piles of applications that stack up and pick out the ones that look the best and meet the criteria and standards for the job de-scription,” he said.

The committee picks the top three candi-dates for each position, and each candidate is invited for a two-day campus visit.

“They do a teaching demo with a real class,” Neher said. “They also have time to make a lecture to faculty and interested staff based on their research.”

Candidates for the strategic communi-cations position visited campus last week. Their names were not released because the search is ongoing.

The college is holding interviews to fill the positions back-to-back-to-back.

CCOM searches for new facultyBY ALLYSON DOBBERTEEN

adobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

ice storm: ICE AND SNOW CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR STUDENTS

continued from page 1appropriate shoes and drive slowly” on their way to class.

“I wanted to go to class, but at the same time, I felt that it was unsafe,” Shull said. “I understand that you can’t just shovel ice, but I feel that Butler could have provided better clearing of the sidewalks.”

“We were mindful of the conditions, but it was not so dangerous that people could not get to campus,” Ryan said.

Even after the snow and ice stopped fall-ing, facilities management continued to work around campus to clear all sidewalks.

While much of campus was still covered

in ice, Ryan said he had heard rumors of in-juries caused from falling on the ice, but no report come directly from public safety offi-cials.

Shull said that her management science class was canceled on Friday afternoon be-cause her professor fell on ice and had to go see a doctor.

“It kind of freaked me out that people were getting hurt,” Shull said. “It could po-tentially take a big toll on your body.”

The possibility of rising temperatures later this week should melt the ice and students and faculty will no longer have to worry about tip-toeing their way through campus.

SNOWED IN: More than an inch of ice coated the hoods and windshields of cars on campus. University employees worked to clear paths and make the campus navigable after the ice storm. (Photo by Maria Porter)

housing: CHANGES IN HOUSING RAISES CONCERNScontinued from page 1

underclassmen pay.“If a Village resident spent all of that on

food in the 10 months living in the Village, he or she would end up paying the same as for the year in ResCo while getting more ameni-ties in the Village,” Howell said.

Students living in AV or UT are not re-quired to pay for a meal plan, which costs $2,585 per semester this year.

Students argue that while they will save money by not having to purchase a meal plan, they would have to spend even less if they lived in UT.

“[We have] those same amenities at UT at a cheaper price,” Algate said.

Students who believe they will not be able to afford the contract at AV can apply for a housing exception form, which will be con-sidered by Dean of Student Life Irene Ste-vens, Howell said.

“You need to document how paying the

extra money for next year would prevent you from attending Butler,” Howell said. “You will need to provide financial docu-ments about your own situation as well as documentation of what about your family situations that may have changed that would prevent you from returning.”

If a student is approved, they will be placed in an apartment in an open space in UT. Assignments are based on the spaces available at the time and are done on an indi-vidual basis, Howell said.

The Board of Trustees will decide on next year’s housing charges and fees sometime next month. Howell said he expects those prices to increase by about 5 percent.

Other students are optimistic about next year’s living arrangements.

“I will choose to look at the bright side,” sophomore Doug Johnson said. “AV will probably be one of the nicest places I’ll ever live in my life.”

egypt: STUDENT’S FAMILY AMID POLITICAL DISCOURSEcontinued from page 1

near them when I talk to them.”

The Egyptian police insti-tuted a 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. cur-few. She said it makes get-ting food difficult because of the time constraints.

“From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. people are going crazy in the streets trying to get food,” Guirguis said. “On top of all this, there always has to be someone guarding the house and cars from looters.”

When the protests in Cai-ro escalated, Mubarak called on police forces from other areas in Egypt to come to Cairo.

“When that happened, my relatives had to start guarding their homes with guns, swords and knives in hopes of protecting their family and property from thieves and rapists.”

Protesters have now start-ed burning cars and build-ings, but Guirguis said they

weren’t always that way.“The protests were actu-

ally peaceful until the po-lice and armed forces got involved,” Guirguis said. “They used bombs, tear gas and guns, forcing my family to stay inside their homes for safety.”

The Egyptian govern-ment also temporarily shut-ting down Internet and cell phones.

Guirguis said these re-strictions only intensified anger towards the govern-ment.

While Guirguis said that Mubarak is being rightly critcized, his time as presi-dent had some positive outcomes. She said that he brought a sense of stability to the country, and economic investment.

Guirguis said that Ameri-can media has done a poor job of portraying the situa-tion and his presidency ojec-tively.

“The news is one-sided, and they are only showing the people who want him out immediately,” she said. “There are many people who want him to finish out his term through September.”

Like the people of Egypt, Guirguis said her family members do not all agree ei-ther.

She said her father be-lieves Mubarak’s immedi-ate resignation would cause the protests to cease, but her mother believes he should finish out his term to main-tain the stability of the coun-try.

“My family is divided as to what they think should happen, and I can see it both ways,” Guirguis said.

For Guirguis, the distance from her family and country has caused her stress.

“I’m worried all the time about my family,” she said. “I just want what is best for them.”

Several Bulldogs got banged up in the process, but the Butler men’s basketball team came away with a 72-65 win against UIC (6-19, 1-12 HL) Monday.

Butler (16-9, 8-5 HL) continues its current homestand Thursday when the Raiders of Wright State (17-9, 10-4 HL) visit Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Howard is questionable for the game after taking an elbow to the face while Butler was trying to in-bound the ball. He suffered a bloody cut above his right eye that required stitches. He did not return in the sec-ond half.

“I’ve never really seen anything like that before,” head coach Brad Stevens said. “He’s such a tough kid, and I know he doesn’t want to spend any time on the bench this late in his career.”

Sophomore Chase Stigall also left the game during the first half with what Stevens described as a “lower leg tweak.”

The first 20 minutes of the con-test were back and forth with nei-ther team leading by more than five points.

Each team had its star in the open-ing act.

Junior Shelvin Mack started fast for the Bulldogs, tallying seven points in the first 10 minutes.

Flames’ senior Robo Kreps put up 14 points in the opening half, which he said was due to opportunities to drive into the lane.

After Howard left the game, But-ler’s offense lulled until a 3-pointer from senior Zach Hahn six and a half minutes later spurned a run. With help from junior Ronald Nored and senior Shawn Vanzant, the Bulldogs’ pushed the lead to a game-high 13 points.

A late push by UIC wasn’t enough and Butler held on for a 7-point win.

“If you would’ve told me that we had Matt play 17 minutes and that we lost Chase early and still won by seven, I would’ve been plenty hap-

py,” Stevens said.Mack’s 17 points led the Bulldogs.

Freshman Khyle Marshall finished with 11 points.

Nored made up for Howard’s ab-sence by grabbing a team-high eight rebounds.

Kreps led UIC with 22 points, ex-actly the number he needed to be-come the ninth player in UIC history to score 1,500 or more career points.

Two days before, Butler com-pleted a regular season sweep of the Cleveland State Vikings (21-5, 10-4 HL) to end a three-game losing streak.

Howard led the Bulldogs to a 73-61 victory with 14 points, supported by the double-digit scoring of soph-omore Andrew Smith, Marshall, Mack and Vanzant.

“When you lose three straight, two in overtime and one by two points, you can feel like you’re a long way away, and I think these guys did a great job of staying focused and staying together,” Stevens said. “It’s hard to do that when things aren’t going your way.”

Despite a slow start, Butler found itself up four at halftime, thanks to Vanzant, Hahn, Marshall and Smith each scoring six points in the first half.

Cleveland State pushed back throughout the second half, tying the game several times.

Howard put the game away with a 3-pointer that gave Butler a 10-point lead with just less than five minutes remaining.

Butler’s victory snapped a 13-game home winning streak and a six-game overall winning streak for the Vikings, and broke its own three-game losing streak in the process.

Butler’s contest against the Raid-ers, who are currently tied for second in the conference with Cleveland State, begins tomorrow at 7 p.m. and will be aired on ESPNU.

“We’ve got a banged up team, but so does Wright State,” Stevens said. “We’ll play who’s healthy and be ready to go.”

THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN

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NFL handed great Super

Bowl pairing

OVERTIME

E v e n with the impending l o c k o u t , doesn’t it seem as if the Na-

tional Football League is headed back into its prime?

That prime was a hard-hitting, well-balanced style of play with a mix of muscle in the middle and speed on the edges.

Sunday night’s Super Bowl proved that this style is starting to make a comeback, if only because of the two teams playing.

Never mind that the referees were aver-age, Christina Aguilera messed up the lyrics to the national anthem, the stadium had sound issues during the halftime show and some fans with legiti-mate tickets got denied access. The 60 minutes of play was all that was needed.

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25, in a game that returned two his-torically-successful and tough teams to football’s brightest stage.

Maybe it’s easy to say that all is right with the world because the two teams used to have dy-nasties and used to be suc-cessful in the NFL’s earlier days, but I think that it’s how the teams play and what they stand for that makes me feel good about the league today._________ see column page 7

BY STEVEN PEEKspeek@butler.edu | sports editor

A bang-up win

BLOODY HOWARD: Senior Matt Howard stands after a UIC elbow drew blood above his right eye just before halftime. Howard did not return for the second half. (Photo by Maria Porter)

BY COLIN LIKASclikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Women’s tennis learns from shutoutButler women’s tennis will enter a meet with

city rival IUPUI this Saturday after another 7-0 defeat, this time while facing the No. 44 Indiana Hoosiers.

The 7-0 loss, which came one day after a home match versus Dayton was canceled due to adverse weather conditions, was not as bad as the score shows.

In fact, senior Gabriella Bobrowski said the team showed improvement.

“The final 7-0 score looks pretty rough, but it didn’t feel that way considering how many close matches we had in both singles and doubles,” she said. “IU took the win probably because they could hit solid shots more consistently and were able to keep their heads cool and stay consistent without backing off.”

One of those close matches went to Butler, though, when freshmen Stephanie McLoughlin and Gabrielle Rubenstein defeated Indiana’s No.1 doubles team, 8-6.

“We really stuck to the basics—making sure we stayed aggressive while not trying to out-hit such a powerful team,” McLoughlin said. “We knew we were a good team and we believed we could win, no matter who was on the other side of the

net.”McLoughlin was one of two Bulldogs to win a

set in singles, taking the first set of her No. 3 sin-gles match, 4-6, before losing the second and the deciding tie-breaker.

“My doubles match allowed me to have the confidence to come in behind good ground strokes and finish the point at the net,” she said.

Bobrowski was the other Bulldog to win a set in singles, doing so in the No. 4 singles match.

Bobrowski said that the freshmen looked much more comfortable in the season’s third match.

“The beginning was a little shaky for them, which is normal,” Bobrowski said. “But having them play at a high level is crucial for the rest of the season, considering they are a big chunk of the line up.”

Bobrowski also said besides strong freshman play, Butler will need to improve its strength late in matches to get more wins.

“Last week, we struggled to finish points,” she said. “We would set up the entire point well and struggle in putting it away. This week’s prepara-tion will probably be a continuation of what we did last week—working on finishing our shots.

“We have the perfect opportunity to practice winning clutch points at IUPUI.”

Saturday’s meet at IUPUI begins at 6 p.m.

Butler mourns loss of former coachDuring a time when social injustice ran rampant,

coach George Theofanis challenged the norms and established a new, diverse face for Butler basket-ball.

Theofanis, a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and Butler basketball coach from 1970-77, passed away Jan. 30 at the age of 79.

Don Benbow served as a Butler basketball and football coach in 1969 and recalls Theofanis’ tenure.

“He was the coach that brought the minority and diversity to the basketball program,” Benbow said.

Throughout his seven years at Butler, Theofanis assembled competitive squads while paying no mind to his players’ skin color.

“He recruited good athletes and good students

just like you have at Butler today,” Benbow said.Theofanis, who coached Shortridge High School

to the Indiana State Championship game in 1968, was faced with the difficult task of succeeding the highly popular and successful Tony Hinkle as coach of the Butler Bulldogs in the 1970-71 season.

Amid the pressures of following Hinkle and the constraints of a nonexistent recruiting budget, Theofanis recorded a 79-105 record while at Butler. Despite the lackluster win-loss record, his always-competitive teams included some notable figures.

In addition to blazing the trail of unbiased and fair recruiting, Theofanis offered a scholarship to current Butler athletic director Barry Collier.

Collier came to Butler in 1974 as a junior college transfer and played under Theofanis for two sea-sons, earning the team’s co-MVP award in 1976.

Collier later went on to coach the Bulldogs to

three NCAA tournament appearances and helped re-introduce the “Butler Way” philosophy into But-ler athletics.

“Ultimately, all of his teachings to our teams and to me had an effect on my coaching,” Collier said.

Theofanis also coached former NBA first-round draft pick Oscar Evans, a two-sport athlete, at both Shortridge and Butler.

Benbow was the football coach at Shortridge in the 1960s, the same time Theofanis was the school’s basketball coach.

“I remember during one football game, Evans got knocked down and was pretty shaken up,” Benbow said. “[Theofanis] ran out of the stands and beat me onto the field to see if Oscar was okay.”

“He really cared about his players,” Benbow added. “He was a very intense coach and a very good coach.”

BY LANCE RINKERlrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

BY STEVEN PEEKspeek@butler.edu | sports editor

THE SETUP: Senior Gabriella Bobrowski was one of two Bull-dogs to win a set in singles Sunday. (Photo by Maria Porter)

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Unfriendly confines The Butler women’s basketball team en-

tered the weekend two games behind No. 18 Green Bay for the lead in the Horizon League.

With a chance to take control of the league, the Bulldogs (14-9, 8-3 HL) faltered twice at home, losing to Detroit and Wright State.

Saturday, the Bulldogs hosted the Wright State Raiders (14-8, 7-4 HL) in a battle for sec-ond place in the conference.

After being down by as many as 15 in the first half, the Bulldogs made a surge in the second half.

Butler found itself down by two points, 68-66, with less than 30 seconds to play.

Senior forward Chloe Hamilton sank a pair of free throws with 12 seconds remaining to tie the game at 68.

Wright State head coach Mike Bradbury then called a 30-second timeout to draw up one final play.

Raider senior point guard LaShawna Thomas broke through the Butler press, which had been effective throughout the game, and attempted a layup that bounced off the rim with six seconds to play.

Wright State senior Ta-myra Davis was able to haul down two offensive rebounds in the final five seconds and netted the winning layup with less than a second left.

The Bulldogs only had a few tenths of a sec-ond to work with, which was almost enough.

Freshman guard Mandy McDivitt took a shot from beyond the arc that hit the back of the rim before bouncing out, giving Wright State the 70-68 win.

“We didn’t play 40 minutes, we only played about eight,” head coach Beth Cou-ture said. “That won’t win you any basketball games.”

Despite the loss, the Bulldogs had four players score in double figures. Hamilton led Butler with 15 points and eight rebounds.

“When we have our backs against the wall, we can perform,” Hamilton said. “I just wish we didn’t have our backs against the wall all the time.”

The loss to Wright State closed out a four game homestand for the Bulldogs, during which they won only one game.

Just two days earlier, Butler welcomed De-troit to Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Butler led by as many as six points in the first half, but halftime saw the two teams deadlocked at 25.

The Titans (10-12, 4-7 HL) pulled away in the second half, leading 46-35 with 9:30 re-maining. However, Butler refused to go down without a fight.

Back-to-back layups by Bowen and Hamil-ton cut Detroit’s lead to just two, 47-45. Ham-ilton scored again with 36 seconds remaining to make it 53-51.

Detroit struggled at the free throw line all night making—four of 10 attempts—howev-

er, sophomore Dominique Dixon converted a pair of free throws to seal the victory for the Titans.

Detroit was led by sophomores Cherridy Thornton and Yar Shayok. Thornton led all scorers with 14 points. Shayok was just short of a double-double, finishing with 12 points and nine rebounds.

Starters Hamilton and Bowen led the Bull-dogs with 11 points each, but another poor night from behind the 3-point line hurt the Bulldogs.

In last week’s game against nationally-ranked Green Bay, the Bulldogs struggled from deep, making only two of 15 attempts from 3-point range.

Those woes continued Thursday night against Detroit where Butler shot 2-for-11 from beyond the arc.

Against Detroit, the Bulldogs were out-rebounded 32 to 25 and managed only two offensive rebounds the entire game.

Saturday was Pink Zone Day at Hinkle Fieldhouse, an event promoted by the Wom-en’s Basketball Coaches Association. During the game, Butler donned pink uniforms in or-der to raise awareness for breast cancer.

The Bulldogs will travel to Youngstown, Ohio on Thursday to take on Youngstown State. The Penguins (3-19, 1-10 HL) are at the bottom of the Horizon League, but Couture and Hamilton said they expect a close game.

Track makes successful strides in South Bend

SOFT TOUCH: Senior Brittany Bowen takes a shot over Detroit sophomore Yar Shayok. (Photo by Erin Drennan)

In her second collegiate season, sophomore Kirsty Legg is showing that she has a lot to offer the Butler track program in the future.

She continued her dominance this season by finishing third in the women’s mile at the Meyo Invitational in South Bend, Ind., this weekend. Her time of 4:43.08 was only three seconds behind the winner, sophomore Rebecca Addison of the University of Michigan.

“I was hoping for a fast race this weekend so I could get the automatic qualifying time for the NCAA Indoor Cham-pionships,” Legg said. “However, the race did not go as planned. I still ran my second fastest mile ever—two sec-

onds slower than the school record.”While her third place finish was the highest the Butler

program had this weekend, a few other runners finished strong.

Sophomore Katie Clark finished fifth in the women’s 3000-meter with a time of 9:33.48.

On the men’s side of things, senior Justin Roeder finished fifth in the 5000-meter, the highest men’s finish from the weekend. His time was 14:24.96.

Junior Craig Gundersen finished 14th in the same race, with a time of 14:37.11.

Freshman Ross Clarke finished eighth in the men’s mile with a time of 4:05.38.

Sophomore Craig Jordan finished eighth in the 800-meter,

with a time of 1:53.69.“Overall I thought the team ran very well,” head coach

Matt Roe said. “We had several outstanding performances.”The Bulldogs have a busy weekend coming up, as some of

the team travels to Bloomington, Ind., for the Hoosier Hills meet, while another part of the team travels to Seattle for the Husky Classic, hosted by the University of Washington.

“The meet in Seattle is one of the top indoor meets in the country,” Legg said. “Hopefully we can put together a good showing and get ready for our conference championships two weeks after Seattle.”

The Husky Classic is a two-day meet, taking place on Fri-day and Saturday.

The Hoosier Hills event will be held on Friday.

BY MATT RHINESMITHmrhinessm@butler.edu | sports staff writer

BY MATT RHINESMITHmrhinesm@butler.edu | sports staff writer

Bulldogs drop two conference games at home

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overtime: PACKERS-STEELERS SUPER BOWL WHAT NFL NEEDEDcontinued from page 9

The Super Bowl matchup certainly made me feel better than if I had been preparing to watch the San Diego Char-gers play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Packers were the team of the 1960s, when they won the first two Super Bowls ever and were coached by the awe-inspiring Vince Lombardi.

The Steelers were the team of the 1970s. Their “Steel Cur-tain” defense led them to four Super Bowls during the de-cade.

The game itself held true to form, too. The Packers forced three turnovers in the game, making them the 31st of 35 teams to have three or more turnovers and win the game.

To this day, these teams are each about hitting hard on defense, making tough catches across the middle and run-

ning the ball with physicality. Both starting quarterbacks do that too.

Neither team is about being flashy or having style. Aaron Rodgers throws to a bunch of unknown or veteran receivers and hands the ball off to an unproven running back.

Ben Roethlisberger doesn’t put up Hall of Fame numbers, but he does throw to a Hall of Fame receiver in Hines Ward.

The Packers couldn’t even keep their starting lineup on the field for one game this season. They lost starters in the first and last games of the season.

The Steelers didn’t have Roethlisberger for the first four games of the season due to a suspension.

Granted, each team’s top defensive playmaker—Troy Polamalu and Clay Matthews, respectively—has an adver-tisement for shampoo, but they each make people feel pain, so I’ll overlook the glamorous endorsements.

The reason for the way these teams are viewed is also due to the culture of the two home cities.

The Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay—literally. They are a community-owned, non-profit franchise owned by approximately 112,000 Green Bay residents. The Steelers are owned by the accessible and genuine Rooney family.

Now that it’s all said and done, here’s how these two teams and their styles brought American football fans back from the brink of completely forgetting the roots and origins of the league: the franchise with the most Lombardi trophies in NFL history lost to the team who won the first two and whose iconic former head coach had the trophy named after him.

The American people needed this type of game. They needed young quarterbacks, gang-tackling defenses, physi-cal running backs and proud tradition.

America did not need another Brady or Manning appear-ance, and it did not need the Dallas Cowboys playing a Su-per Bowl on their home field trying to reclaim their “Amer-ica’s Team” label.

America needed good football, and we got it.

A young Butler women’s swimming and diving team will head into the Horizon League Championship meet coming off of a second-place finish at the Rose Hulman Tri-angular meet Feb. 5.

The Bulldogs showed promise early in the contest when they recorded a victory in the 200-meter medley relay.

Freshmen Lauren Need, Lauren Lam-brecht and Kathleen Brannen and sopho-more Kyle Johannsen were able to claim the win with a time of 1:54.48.

Butler’s strong start continued in the 1000-yard freestyle. Johannsen, a freestyle specialist, collected the team’s first runner-up finish, posting a time of 11:28.22.

As the meet went on, more solid perfor-mances were turned in by the Bulldogs.

In the 200-yard free, Need’s time of 2:07.00 was good enough for second place. She fin-ished just seventh-tenths of a second ahead of her closest competitor, IUPUI freshman Amanda Janda.

Minutes later, Lambrecht recorded a time of 26.84 in the 50-meter free to pick up anoth-er second place finish for Butler. She finished behind another IUPUI freshman, Lindsey Hurst, who swam the race in 24.84.

In the 100-meter backstroke, Brannen gave the Bulldogs their fourth second-place finish, completing the race in 1:06.60,

One of the closest races of the meet was the 100-meter breaststroke. When all was said and done, freshman Rosalie Fidanze took third in the event for Butler, finishing with a time of 1:11.28.

The meet concluded with the 200 free re-lay. The relay team, consisting of Lambrecht, Fidanze, Brannen and freshman Katie Ring,

delivered the Bulldogs’ fifth and final second-place finish with a final time of 1:46.95.

“I feel like I enjoyed this meet more than most simply because it seemed like everyone went out and exceeded expectations,” Brannen said. “In almost all ar-eas of competition, as a team, we were doing something great.”

Head coach Maurice Stewart expressed a similar outlook on the

entire season.“It’s amazing to look back on how well the

girls have adjusted,” Stewart said. “It’s clear, now, that they’ve begun to understand that it’s up to them to take this team where they want to go.”

After a long season that has included sev-eral meets and a training trip in Florida, the Bulldogs are looking ahead to the Horizon League Championships. The meet, which will span four days, will be held in Cleveland, Feb. 23-26.

“I feel ready,” Stewart said. “It has been a great environment to work in this past year and I feel that everyone, including myself, has grown and learned from one another.”

BY BILLY KLIMCZAKbklimcza@butler.edu | sports staff writer

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews cel-ebrate following the Packers’ Super Bowl victory. (Photo from MCT)

Softball third in league poll

The Butler softball team’s 2010 campaign helped the Bulldogs to a strong ranking in this year’s Horizon League preseason poll.

The program-best 36-19 record, posted by the Bulldogs last season, earned them a third- place tie with Wright State.

According to a press release from Butler Athletics, the Bulldogs and the Raiders both received 43 points. Preseason favorite Cleve-land State and UIC finished ahead of Butler in the poll.

The Bulldogs will be led by new head coach Scott Hall this season, while returning six starting position players and three top pitchers.

Sophomore pitcher Jenny Esparza is one

of those. The right-hander was named First Team All-Horizon League and given a spot on the All-Newcomer Team last season.

Esparza set two school records during her freshman season, recording a single-season record 17 wins and striking out 272 batters.

Junior first baseman Erin Falkenberry, who was named Second Team All-Horizon League, will also be returning this season. Her .342 batting average was a team-best last season.

Seniors Erin Jackson and Jennifer Chas-teen, juniors Lauren McNulty, Jessica Huey, Mallory Winters and Breanna Fisher and sophomore Meaghan Sullivan are the other returning starters this season.

Butler will open its season Feb. 18 in Starkville, Miss. against Southern Illinois.

BY COLIN LIKASclikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Women’s swimmingsecond at Rose Hulman

EXPRESS YOURSELF: Packers’ players celebrate as time expires dur-ing the team’s Super Bowl victory over Pittsburgh. (Photo from MCT)

“In almost allareas of

competition, as a team, were were doing something

great.”Kathleen Brannen

FRESHMAN SWIMMER

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A&EPAGE 8

Mark Alexander would like to act all in-die and hip—really, he would—but the truth is that his largest influence is the Dave Mat-thews Band.

“I wish I could be cool and say someone that no one knows,” Alexander, a senior re-cording industry studies major, said.

He doesn’t need a cool influence: Alexan-der has real talent. His jam band influenced music features compelling choices, such as violin and sometimes banjo and harmonica, similar to both Dave Matthews and O.A.R. His vocals, on the other hand, more closely match the intimacy of Ray LaMontagne, per-haps without such a gravelly sound.

Alexander just released his second album, “Closer,” which his manager Sara Bell, a But-ler alum, describes as “a lot heavier” than his 2009 debut, “Better Days.” Both albums are currently available on iTunes. His EP is available on his website, www.malexandermu-sic.com.

Bell promised that this album had a “more grown-up sound” this time around.

Patrick Hurley, the multimedia coordina-tor of the College of Communication, said Alexander’s music compares favorably with John Mayer, and, of course, Dave Matthews.

“His music isn’t narrowly focused in terms of audience,” Hurley said. “It really has a broad appeal to almost all age groups.”

Alexander cites Hurley as someone who has been absolutely essential to his success thus far as a musician. Far from emphasiz-ing how much of his own time and efforts he spent creating two albums from scratch, he instead talks about the dedication of his band and the Butler faculty—most notably Hurley.

“[Hurley] always says how he doesn’t want to be that dad who’s always hanging

around, and he’s not,” Alexander said. “He’s really more like that cool dad who hangs out with us. This album would have absolutely not happened without his passion and sup-port.”

When talking to Alexander, it really does come across that this is all about the music for him, rather than seeking fame and riches and a crazy Mick Jagger rock ‘n roll lifestyle.

He was open about the ups and downs of the music industry, made quips about Ke$ha and “the Beebs,” jokingly said that knitting is one of his other passions and discussed his musical theater acting career in high school. It isn’t hard to picture him appealing to a broad audience, not just his current fan base that is heavily centered at Butler and the In-dianapolis area.

Lucas Anderson, a freshman recording in-dustry studies major and Alexander’s new-est drummer, has nothing but praise for the singer, who has “set the precedent” for being successful with their degree.

Alexander’s former drummer, Emillio Bu-onanni, also a Butler alum, is currently teach-ing music in Japan.

“I’ve really liked working with Mark,” Anderson said. “He’s enthusiastic, and ba-sically told me to do my own thing on the album. He’s all about going with the flow.”

As with all in the arts business, however, there’s always the uncomfortable question of whether or not success can actually be achieved, especially for a soon-to-be college graduate.

Hurley is confident. “He came in with a fair amount of talent,

but there are plenty of people with talent,” Hurley said. “His determination and will-ingness to work hard and improve himself will set him apart.”

Alexander is surprisingly laid back about whether he’ll ever achieve fame. As of right

now, his plans for after college include work-ing full time at a studio owned by Live Na-tion.

“I’m not really concerned about making

it,” he said. “It’s really just about reaching out to people with music.

“If I make money along the way, then I guess that’d be fine too.”

Butler senior produces second studio albumMark Alexander discusses new music, Butler, future plans, Bieber

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

For the love birds:1. The romantic dinner out on the townAlthough Valentine’s Day falls on a Monday this year, Sat-

urday and Sunday are perfect opportunities for couples to en-joy a nice, romantic dinner. Junior Brad Delaney thinks down-town would be best.

“Valentine’s Day is more of a special occasion, so I’d go to a classier restaurant downtown probably,” Delaney said. “I feel that the girl likes it when their guy dresses up, so just a nicer restaurant.”

2. The romantic night inTo escape crowds this Valentine’s Day weekend, couples

can always stay in and enjoy a nice dinner in the privacy of their own place.

We dare you to go all out—candlelight, Billie Holiday mu-sic and cooking your own homemade dinner.

3. Be artsyInstead of long nights looking into each other’s eyes, how

about a meaningful conversation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art or seeing a show at the Indiana Repertory Theatre? It’s bound to start an engaging dialogue, while still probably gaz-ing lovingly into each other’s eyes.

Hitting the town for the day of love

JAMMIN’ OUT: Mark Alexander plays a gig with his band, The Good Shame. From left, Allie Summers on violin, Alex-ander on vocals and guitar, Lucas Anderson on drums and Eric Henry playing bass (Photo courtesy of Sarah Murrell)

The ButlerArts andEntertainment Calendar9 10 11 12 13 14

JCFA Percussion EnsembleClowes Memorial Hall

7:30 p.m.

Leadership Through the Arts Forum: Cameo Carlson

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall7:30 p.m.

JCFA Piano SymposiumEidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

8 a.m.

JCFA Piano Symposium Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

8 a.m.Junie B. Jones

Clowes Memorial Hall12 p.m.

No events scheduled No events scheduled JCFA Faculty Artist SeriesEidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

7:30 p.m.

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Find the album:iTunes or

www.malexandermusic.com

QUICK FACTS

See him live:Saturday, Feb. 12 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

The Ram Restaurant &Brewery, Fishers

See him live again:Friday, March 25

8 p.m.White Rabbit Cabaret,

Indianapolis

So long, dear friends.We wanted to send a “seven nation army” after we

heard the news that you were indeed leaving us for good, but instead we’re putting a “blue orchid” on your

grave in remembrance. We “icky thumped” through our life with you, but

now the world has become “dead leaves and dirty ground.”

You told us your music now belonged to us, and we know Jack will continue making music in his 500 other bands, but “the hardest button to button” is realizing

lovely Meg, one of the most hardcore female musicians we know, will not be a part of that.

We would have “fought piranhas” for you. We “didn’t know what love was” until you came along.

R I PThe White

Stripes

Roses are red and violets are blue. Valentine’s Day is approaching, so what should you do? If you are without plans for Valentine’s Day, there is still time to decide what to do, but that time is running out. Whether you have someone special in your life, are just going alone or are hanging out with friends this year, we have great suggestions for everyone. BY BRIAN WANBAUGH

For those riding solo:1. Enjoy a night out with your crazy single friends A night with friends on this Valentine’s Day is always a

great choice for those who don’t have a current flame. A fine meal and good time can be had either out or staying in, but go-ing out offers more choices.

Places like Bazbeaux Pizza and Buca di Beppo offer huge dishes that are relatively cheap when big parties are enjoying them together.

2. Delude yourself with stories of past romanceAnother option is to go see one of the most famous teen

movies to come out of the ‘80s, “Sixteen Candles.” AMC Castleton Square 14 is showing the teen rom/com

Sunday and Monday at 7 p.m. for all of us too young to have seen it in theaters the first time around. We can still appreciate the genius of Molly Ringwald, though, and that Jake Ryan was the original teenage heartthrob.

3. Distract yourself in good ol’ B-RipSeriously, there’s so much to do you’ll forget you’re alone

and sad. Go make a teapot at Half Baked Pottery, browse through Broad Ripple Vintage or stuff yourself with the best ice cream we’ve ever tasted at BRICS.

Half Baked Pottery (photo by Caitlin O’Rourke)Mama Carolla’s (photo by Caitlin O’Rourke)

Photo from MCT

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TV shows return from winter break with new heat

When the icy days and frigid nights leave you stuck inside, be relieved to know TV’s most popular shows are coming back after their mid-winter break and are better than ever.

The Offi ce: The hit sitcom returned

last Thursday to finish Steve Carell’s final season as Dunder Mifflin’s dim-witted, but well-meaning regional manager Michael Scott. For the remainder of this season, expect more appearances from Holly (Amy Ryan), Jan (Melora Hardin), Karen (Rashida Jones) and Roy (David Denman)—all recur-ring characters from seasons passed.

Carell is set to leave the series four episodes prior to the season finale, so the focus will shift to Michael’s replacement. Top candidates for the job are Andy (Ed

Helms), Dwight (Rainn Wil-son), Daryll (Craig Robinson) or a newcomer.

Parks and Recreation: Season three premiered Jan. 20. The third season focuses on Leslie Knope (Amy Poe-hler) struggling to keep her optimism for public service in the face of disparagement about government and eco-nomic cutbacks.

In an upcoming episode, Leslie and Ron (Nick Offer-man) drive to Indianapolis to receive commendation for the Pawnee Harvest Fes-tival, while Tom (Aziz An-sari) holds a launch party for his new fragrance, “Tommy Fresh.” Future guest stars include Megan Mullally and Jim O’Heir.

Glee: The teen music phenom-

enon returned last Sunday, following the Super Bowl. Coming up this season Ra-chel’s (Lea Michele) love life will come back on the radar,

but it is unknown whether it will involve Puck (Mark Salling) or Finn (Cory Mon-teith). Lauren Zizes (Ashley Fink) is expected to have a big solo this season and there are rumors that Quinn (Di-anna Agron) and Sam (Chord Overstreet) will break up. However, both will find com-fort in the arms of other Glee cast members.

Future guest stars may in-clude Anne Hathaway and Javier Bardem.

Modern Family:The comedy series “Mod-

ern Family” is scheduled to premiere its latest season tonight. Last year’s Emmy winner for best comedy, up-coming episodes feature par-ents Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) role playing on Valentine’s Day again and Fizbo the clown is not invited to his own daughter’s birth-day.

Future guest stars include Shelley Long, Nathan Lane

and Jonathan Banks.Kourtney and Kim Take

New York: The show premiered Jan.

23 with Kardashian sisters Kourtney and Kim moving to New York to open their new-est Dash store. In the coming weeks, expect to follow Kim’s friendship with singer Ciara. The show seems to be lack-ing the personality of sister Khloe, who is never afraid to tell her big sisters her opinion on anything and everything.

Look for an appearance from Kanye West as well.

Parenthood:Season two came back on

Feb. 1. There are huge story lines coming up for the fan endeared Amber (Mae Whit-man), involving a possible new relationship. The rest of the season will show plenty of family drama with all of the characters. Some guest stars coming in the future in-clude John Corbett and Jason Ritter.

BY ALLISON AMMERMULLERaammermu@butler.edu | staff writer

Bright Eyes’ upcoming release, “The Peo-ple’s Key,” marks Conor Oberst’s return to the name that first brought him indie fame. Rumored to be his last album with Bright Eyes, the album is a journey through a variety of musical techniques and styles.

Although Oberst’s thematic material has evolved over the course of several albums, this one does not fail to deliver the character-istic lyrical quality of its front man.

Several songs incorporate voice clips and monologues, adding a dramatic element. Oberst also experiments with more upbeat rhythms and instruments.

The album dramatically opens with “Fire-wall,” rolling off one of these long mono-logues—most of which seem to be read by the same person and in similar styles.

The speech invokes stories of creation, his-tory and human progress, suggesting the ne-cessity of always moving forward.

“You have to believe in the future, it’s what we have to do,”Oberst sings.

It then evolves into a raw, even melody, over which Oberst’s shaky voice layers his-torical and biblical imagery, ending in an ethereal chant.

This song could be said to be the most true to Bright Eyes’ general style of acoustic folk rock.

The next track, “Shell Games,” contradicts this entirely, with its somewhat surprising and unconventional use of the synthesizer.

It is followed by “Jejune Stars,” a track with an almost dance-like quality. As usu-al, through its upbeat melody and rhythm, Oberst raises questions of a higher order.

“Is it true what we’re made of? Why do I hide from the rain?” he asks.

Towards the end, “Ladder Song,” is the

record’s representative piano ballad, slightly, but never wholly reminiscent of the band’s very early recordings. Arguably one of the most lyrically rich tracks on the album, it is simple, yet deep. It juxtaposes questions about existence and death with lines like, “See now a star is born / Looks just like a blood orange.”

One of the markings of this album is its re-flective, spiritual and instructive take on life. Oberst makes great use of historical and bib-lical imagery, not only describing, but inter-preting and recommending.

The title track “A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)” is perhaps the best example. “The people’s key/Ringing filling every-thing/The theme repeats/Thinner than the galaxy,” Oberst sings.

In a seemingly endless search for truth, he seems to acknowledge that the things we see or hear can offer only limited clues to the fu-ture, but that we must rely on each other to discover this truth.

He could also just be cynical. A few songs later, in the closer, “One for You, One for Me,” he seems to mock this supposed idea of unity by stating “You and me, you and me, that is an awful lie / It’s I and I.”

The album is bordered by another mono-logue at the end of this track, spoken in the same manner as before, but this time accom-panied by an almost-heavenly backdrop of sound.

Although continuing to instruct, the speaker appears to shows more uncertainty than before, in the end not being able to recall the word ‘mercy.’

Bright Eyes has created a piece of art dedi-cated to exploring human strength and weak-ness—a monumental ending to a diverse ca-reer.

The album will be released Feb. 15th on Saddle Creek records.

BY AJA CACANacacan@butler.edu | staff writer

It’s Hannibal Lector meets Satan. That should tell you how disturbing “The Rite” is, from its sinister beginning to its horrific climax.

Starring Anthony Hop-kins, the newest movie about exorcisms, Catholicism and the people who are affected by them is perhaps one of the most insightful—and truthful—looks into the sub-ject. It will definitely have those educated by the Catho-lic Church crying into their hands as Satan manifests himself in various ways on screen.

Depending on what you believe, the movie could ei-ther be terrifying or just a slightly eerie drama. The movie lacks the almost req-uisite cheap thrills on which most horror films today seem to gorge themselves. Instead, it provides a dark, menacing tone throughout.

If you really believe in the devil, exorcisms and the like, even the more basic scenes of exorcizing in the movie will have you frightened. Hopefully even those who

don’t believe may find some scenes—or at least Hop-kins—just a bit creepy.

The story relies heavily on the Catholic Church. Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), raised all his life in a funeral home by only his widowed father decides to join semi-nary school—with every in-tention of leaving before he takes his vows. He refuses to inherit his father’s business, but doesn’t believe his father will give him money for col-lege.

Four years later, the father superior of the seminary re-fuses to let Kovak go because of his potential, and instead sends him to an exorcism class in Rome because the Catholic Church has decided they want an exorcist in each diocese.

Kovak, an admitted athe-ist, gets sent to Father Lucas Trevant (Hopkins) after the priest in charge of the classes realizes more unorthodox views may suit Kovak better. He assists Lucas with spe-cific, horrifying exorcisms until it’s clear that the devil is closer and more present than either would like to believe.

Deep, personal perfor-mances are given by both O’Donoghue and Hop-kins, as both go through major changes throughout the movie. The struggle is clear within O’Donoghue throughout the entire film and Hopkins can translate ten different emotions with one simple look into the camera.

The movie isn’t as smart as it could be, however. There are many plot points that could have been extend-ed, and the tone could be more sinister to truly convey the deadliness of the plot. As the movie progresses, there is definitely lost potential for a smart, well-put together thriller, even though it is much more intelligent than many in its genre.

It’s not the best movie, but it presents a mostly honest look at a phenomenon that is highly debated in religion. It manages to get inside of your head and make you think twice before turning off the lights when you get home. In the end, that’s the key to making a good scary movie.

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

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

‘THE RITE’ | FILM REVIEW

‘The Rite,’ starring Anthony Hopkins as Father Lucas Trevant, is a thriller about the supernatural happenings surrounding exorcisms. ‘The Rite’ does not rely on typical horror fi lm sequences involving blood and

gore, but instead employs psychological elements that will make you question your beliefs.

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‘The Rite’ brings Satan to life

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO ITALY: Anthony Hopkins stars as a highly experienced exorcist in ‘The Rite,’ the newest fi lm to explore the supernatural, Catholicism and the role of the devil in the world. (Photo from MCT)

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

‘THE PEOPLE’S KEY’| ALBUM REVIEWConor Oberst’s rumored last album with Bright Eyes is ‘The People’s Key,’ an album equivalent to Bright Eyes’ previous lyrical genius. ‘People’s Key’ offers folk/rock style songs similar to previous Bright Eyes albums but also diverges

with dance-style, poppy songs.

Bright Eyes harkens back to roots

GLEEFUL LADIES : ‘Glee’ (top) and ‘Kourtney and Kim’ are two shows returning to television this month after a winter break. (Photos from MCT)

Audiences can expect guest stars and plot twists

Hopkins delivers in terrifying new role

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: New smoking policy on campus is a step in the right direction, but we wonder if it will be enforced by the university. | VOTE: 19-0

Previously allowed to smoke throughout cam-pus, Butler students will now be confined to 12 specific smoking “areas.” We at The Butler Collegian feel this is an improvement from our current smoking policy, but while we ap-plaud the efforts, we won-der how well-enforced this policy will be and if it will really be that effective.

The previous rules stated that students were not per-mitted to smoke within 30 feet of buildings. Students will now no longer be al-lowed to walk and smoke while traveling to and from classes.

Butler is not the first uni-versity to implement pro-grams such as this. IUPUI has a smoke-free campus. Indiana University also sup-ports the initiative to end smoking on campus and have done so since Jan. 1, 2008.

In this regard, it seems that Butler is behind when compared to other Indiana universities.

Indiana University “believes it has an obliga-tion to exercise leadership by promoting a healthy,

smoke-free environment for its students, employ-ees and visitors,” according to iub.edu.

We think that the new smoking policy is a positive step toward creating this en-vironment on our own cam-pus, but we are wary as to how effectively this policy will be enforced. Although the current policy dictates that students must remain 30 feet from all buildings while smoking, we’ve nev-er seen much enforcement when students are smoking five feet from the entrance of a building.

The ashtrays attached to trash cans across campus also encourage smoking. Even if a smoker were 30 feet from any building to be-gin with, they would have

to break that barrier simply to put their cigarette out without littering.

Perhaps a lack of accessible ashtrays, within the newly designated smoking zones, will dimin-ish the amount of students who smoke on their way to class.By having designated smoking areas around campus, this cuts out people smoking on

their way to class entirely. Additionally, this cuts down on second hand

smoke around campus and the negative effects that come with it. People who have asthmatic problems are affected by second hand smoke ev-ery day. If the plan is properly enforced, those in-dividuals will no longer have that problem on the way to class.

The amount of litter on campus will be cutback as well. Currently, since people are allowed to smoke while walking on campus, there are ciga-rette butts thrown carelessly on sidewalks and in the landscape. By containing smokers to one of the designated areas, the trash created from smoking will be left in that spot and not strewn about campus.

We at The Butler Collegian are very supportive of the University’s new smoking policy. We feel that it is time for Butler to properly address this problem and catch up with other area universi-ties. However, the new policy will mean nothing unless it is properly enforced. We would like to see actual penalties for those who break the policy, such as a fine, as opposed to a slap on the wrist.

Once this occurs, Butler will be taking proper action on this issue. At that point, we will finally be making real progress towards a healthier, more enjoyable, smoke-free campus. We feel that the benefits that come from a smoke-free campus fa-vor everyone.

Smoking restriction begs questions

Indiana needs better drivers, not more salt

Indiana winters have never been some-thing too much to com-plain about. They pale in comparison to win-ters in Chicago, Wis-consin and Ohio.

However, every year, we all whine about the pathetic amounts of snow we accumulate.

Early last week, Indianapolis was hit with an ice storm that cov-ered every inch of Butler’s campus with more than an inch of ice. It shut down not only campus, but most of Indianapolis.

When I was finally was able to venture off campus, I realized what Indiana needs isn’t more salt or a bigger budget to combat winter weather, we need specialized driv-ing courses for adverse weather con-ditions.

I expected the roads to be a bit dicey. I also expected that my speed-ometer wouldn’t see above 30 miles an hour until I hit Meridian Street.

I was right about that. Side roads were as slick as an ice

skating rink, but once I hit Meridian, the street was completely clear, as expected.

What I didn’t expect was the level of driving on the completely clear roads to be as bad as it had been on unplowed ones.

Drivers around me chugged along slowly, slamming on their

brakes for no reason while others accelerated aggressively. Amidst all of this chaos, solid sheets of ice were detaching from the roofs of cars and flying haphazardly through the air.

At this point, I felt like Frogger. Instead of dodging semi trucks, I was dodging three inch sheets of ice that were hurdling toward my car.

I know regularly that we don’t get ice storms. This is the first one I’ve experienced in almost 20 years. But it’s an issue when driving with other cars on the road is more dangerous than the ice storm itself.

Although our winters are gener-ally not this severe, I’m beginning to think it’s necessary that the state adds a section into the driving exam covering winter driving techniques.

Maybe if people knew to counter-steer when sliding perilously on a sheet of ice, they would be less likely to slam into telephone poles, caus-ing power outages. Maybe if people knew not to slam on the brakes or gas, it would dramatically reduce the risk of a fender bender and the roads would be safer.

I know the state can’t do all the work for Indiana drivers. A big por-tion of driving in adverse weather conditions is common sense. There comes a time when drivers have to realistically look at their cars and de-termine if it is even worth it to try to get out, and if their cars are even properly equipped to deal with the snow and ice on the roads.

Being house-bound in a snow

storm is exceedingly aggravating. All I ever think about is how many more exciting things I could be do-ing outside the house, even if it means risking crashing my car into a ditch.

The difference is that I don’t leave in the midst of a snow storm. People who do have always baffled me. As tempting as the outside world may seem during a snowstorm, it has never been tempting enough to in-spire me to risk my car, my life or the life of another just to quell boredom.

While I love the snow storms that cancel classes and shut down the city, I loathe the thought of driving in these conditions with hundreds of other people who seemingly have no idea what to do.

SLIPPING AND SLIDING: Adverse weather conditions will happen, but when it occurs, drivers need to be more aware of the way in which they drive. After driving in Monday’s ice storm, I am convinced that Indiana needs to retrain drivers for perilous winter ice. (Photo from MCT)

BY LEXIE SMITHlhsmith@butler.edu | opinion editor

Students will now no lon-

ger be allowed to walk and smoke while traveling to

and from class

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PawPrintsWhat would be the best surprise on Valentine’s Day?

“Something low key like spend-ing the day downtown and then going to a nice dinner.”

Alex Davissophomore

“For him to spend the day with me and have din-ner. For him to do something thoughtful.”

Maggie Harbisonfreshman

“A scavenger hunt that leads to the location of our date.”

Maggie Smithfreshman

“Getting roses and a homemade surprise.”

Nikki McSherryfreshman

BY: ERIN DRENNAN

Turmoil in EgyptFor the past few weeks, it has been difficult to

turn on the television or go on the Internet with-out seeing a headline about the unrest in Egypt.

The graphic videos of the protests in the streets of Cairo are stirring and clearly show the amount of contempt the Egyptian people have toward their government.

At a pivotal time in Egypt’s history, the United States needs to stand by those protesting the regime of President Hosni Mubarak and do anything possible to ensure that the outcome of this situation is peaceful and democratic.

Uprising in Egypt has been a long time coming, considering Mubarak has been in power since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Inspired by the fall of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, supporters of democracy in Egypt took to the streets to show their contempt for the Mubarak regime.

Mubarak, being placed in a situation he has never been in before, has repeatedly refused to step down and has instead replaced his cabinet and those who surround him.

So far, his actions have only infuriated protesters more and are fueling the movement. When it was announced that Mubarak would step down and not run for re-election this coming September, an estimated 4,000 people began a demon-stration in the Suez region. Thousands more prepared similar marches across the country, demanding him to instead step down immediately.

The U.S. cannot stand by and watch any longer. The coun-try needs to take a stronger attitude with the Mubarak regime. We also need to show the protesters that we are on their side and support the “pro-democracy” wave that has taken over the country.

Presently, the U.S. and President Obama are in a difficult situation with Egypt and how to handle the problem.

For years, the U.S. has been pro-Mubarak and has had a strong relationship with Egypt. Dating all the way back to the Camp David Accords of the 1970s, Egypt has upheld their end of the treaty and has been a pro-Israel ally in the region for the U.S.

For years, the U.S. has provided the Egyptian government with tanks, weapons and aid.

Many of the weapons being used to stop the protesters reportedly have “Made in the USA” printed on the side of them.

For the most part, the president and his administration have handled the situation fairly well. As I mentioned before, this is an extremely sensitive diplomatic situation for the U.S., considering that the Mubarak regime maintains a healthy re-lationship with Israel, something the U.S. needs.

If the successor to Mubarak were anti-Israel, such as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or a similar organiza-tion, the repercussions could be devastating.

Right now, the U.S. needs to take a strong stance on the subject and ensure that the successor to Mubarak is someone we can work with as a country.

One thing the U.S. must avoid is strong-arming Mubarak

from his position. This would send the wrong message to those demonstrating, as well as a negative message to the en-tire region.

In his column published this week, former Ohio secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell men-tioned Ronald Reagan and his undying support for the Soli-darity movement inside Poland in the 1980s.

The U.S. needs to take a similar stance in Egypt. By letting the protesters and pro-democratic demonstrators know that we are on their side, the chances of democracy succeeding are much higher than if we were to stand by and take a neutral stance.

BY SAM HYERshyer@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

PROTEST IN EGYPT: Protesters marched through out he streets of Cairo and other parts of the Middle Eastern country Jan. 25 in “the day of rage.” The protesters feel that it is time for President Hosni Mubarak to step down from the offi ce that he has controlled for nearly 30 years. (Photo from MCT)

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Where in the world is the Butler gnome?

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The fi rst person to correctly guess the location of the Butler gnome and e-mail the answer to collegian@butler.edu will be featured in next week’s Collegian!

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Name: Abigail RobisonName: Abigail RobisonGnome location: In the U of the Gnome location: In the U of the BU sign on Hampton Rd.BU sign on Hampton Rd.Major: Biology & Anthropology Major: Biology & Anthropology Home town:Westfi eld, Ind.Home town:Westfi eld, Ind.Why you love Butler: For the fun Why you love Butler: For the fun and the academics!and the academics!

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