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Class of 2013 ENewsletter

BUKristen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:30:22 GMT

What's Happening in Indy?

This week, explore the Komodo Dragons exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo, watch “Field of Dreams” on the lawn at the Art Museum, see the new dinosaurs at The Children’s Museum or watch a baseball game at Victory Field with the Indianapolis Indians. Like concerts? Head to White River State Park to see O.A.R. or The Fray perform live! Check out these Indy happenings and more at www.indy.org.

Get Involved

With over 135 different organizations and clubs on campus, you are sure to find one (or several) that is right for you! Choose from student government, academic clubs, diversity and religious organizations, greek life and so much more. If you're a bulldog sports fan, don't forget to join the Dawg Pound, a group of students who cheer on Butler at athletic events. Remember, as a Butler student you get into all Butler sporting events for free! Visit us to see all the ways you can get involved!

We can't wait until you get to campus!

You are probably beginning to pack, so here are some helpful hints on what to bring: Of course you need the essentials: personal items, bed linens, towels and an alarm clock. Other items you might want to bring include a shower caddy, laundry supplies, a fan, a tv, desk lamps, posters, storage crates and anything else that will make you feel more at home. For more ideas, visit our site at go.butler.edu/cs/forums.

Snail Mail, coming to a mailbox near you!

Hey Bulldogs, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for a special mailing the admission office will send in the next few weeks. It will have a ton of great information in it, including some service and leadership opportunities, the order form for your 2013 class t-shirt AND your welcome week schedule!

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Re: What all can we do on/off campus during our freetime?

ChristinaL — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:45:40 GMT

Hey! I just wanted to add my two cents because I am from the Chicago area and it is one of my all-time favorite cities… and yet I ADORE Indy and don’t think I would want to be anywhere else for college. I think of Indy as the cheaper, more homey, friendly, accessible, up-and-coming trendy city that I love to come home to every time school starts up.Let me expand a bit on these ideas:CHEAPER: Let’s face it, Chicago is EXPENSIVE, and that is no good for the college student budget L Almost everything is cheaper in Indy… you can actually find free parking on the street downtown or you can park in the mall lot for like $3 (try finding that price ANYwhere in Chicago). Museums here are cheaper, or like the fantastic Indy Art Museum (right down the street from BU), FREE J. Concert tickets are cheaper. Food tends to be cheaper. Gas is cheaper. Need I go on?MORE HOMEY: Indy has the urban feel, but the people are not rude or impersonal like you can sometimes get in a big city. People are very friendly and share a camaraderie just for being part of our community. For example, I went out to dinner at a restaurant downtown for my 18^th, and when they found out it was my birthday, the staff not only sang to me, but assembled me a birthday gift wrapped in their flyers. People are just kind and welcoming like that. People in Indy are also very familiar with Butler and think very highly of it, so they will immediately love you if they find out you are a BU student. Seriously, when I go to the grocery store wearing a Butler t-shirt, I always have random people stop to talk to me about how great our academics are or how much they love watching the basketball team. Oh, and the city is FULL of our alumni and friends of Butler who come together to support our university… it’s cool to have that family atmosphere and feel like this is OUR city and they’ve got our back JACCESSIBLE: They are not 2 million people living in Indianapolis, so things are not so competitive and hectic as they are in a big city. Like I mentioned above, BU students already have the advantage in this city, and I think the ratio of college students to businesses, non-profits and government officials headquartered in this town is definitely in our favor. Internship and job opportunities are always abundant around here, and employers know and love to work with BU students and grads. Indy is also accessible in terms of entertainment and free time… it’s not super-crowded so you can usually find a place to park downtown (as long as it’s not a Colts game day!) and tickets to events like rock concerts are easier to get then they would be in a massive city like Chicago. (We are also really close to Bloomington, where IU’s campus draws a lot of cheap concerts if you’re interested in that.) TRENDY: Indy’s cultural scene is already lots of fun and developing more and more each year. Like Joe mentioned above, Broad Ripple is very trendy, tons of fun, and very close to our campus. There are also several other cultural districts in Indy including Mass Ave, which is another very trendy area East of downtown with restaurants, shopping, art galleries and theatre, and Fountain Square which is similar but with fun additions like a swing dancing club and duck-pin bowling. The city is also investing a ton of money right now into the new Cultural Trail which will be a bike and pedestrian trail that connects all these cultural districts to the Monon Trail and has new public art along the way. (I am WAY excited about this!) Indy is also developing it’s “indy-pendent” art scene… meaning you will find Indy bands, art, and original theatre here (I recommend the Phoenix theatre!). Indy is home to more than one film festival (and a really cool independent film theatre), the Penrod Arts fair, and lots of neat cultural festivals like Fiesta, the Irish Festival, the French market, etc. Expanding the cultural scene and tourist attractions is a big priority for the city right now, so you know that there is definitely even more excitement to come in the next few years.(I added another one…)BEAUTIFUL: Okay, the actual city is no more pretty than Chicago, but the neighborhood that Butler is situated in on the North side is GORGEOUS! Meridian Street, which is blocks away from our campus, is lined with historic mansions and the whole neighborhood is full of gigantic trees that make it green and beautiful. It is a residential neighborhood, and a very short distance away from the urban environment. I love that we can be so close to downtown and yet still have the feel of our own college campus. Not many urban schools can offer that!!So… that’s what makes Indy special. In many ways we are just like Chicago… we have very popular professional sports teams, a symphony, multiple theatre companies, concert tours, museums, historical monuments and all the shopping and restaurants you could think of. Tons of conventions and national sporting events come to use our great facilities like the new Lucas Oil Stadium. We think it’s a pretty great place to be.BUT, after all this, if you really are craving some authentic Lou Malnati’s pizza, Michigan Avenue, or a Cubs game… you can catch a MegaBus from downtown Indy and be at Union Station in Chicago in about three hours for as cheap as $1. I should also note, my response is only focused on what there is to do OFF-campus. On-campus life is so busy and fun that you could easily stay in “the Butler Bubble” for the entire semester without leaving… but I don’t recommend this because, hey! You’ve got all the resources of a fantastic city (as Joe said, the 12^th biggest in the nation) right here at your doorstep JIf you have any questions, let me know! I always enjoy chatting about my lovely city and school.

Re: heyy

ChristinaL — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:10:05 GMT

I write about weekends a lot in my blog, but they could include any number of things... there is usually a ton going on campus, so our weekends are usually a mix of activities at Butler and around Indy. When we do go off-campus, my friends and I usually like to go out to eat. There are lots of great restaurants really close to Butler where we are regulars. (Yats Cajun food, Cafe Patachou, Bazbeaux's Pizza and Broad Ripple Bagel & Deli are my local favorites, but we usually do late night snacks at Steak n Shake or Qdoba. There's also almost always fun stuff going on around the community - Indy has a pretty sweet arts scene, so there are plays at several theatre companies, symphony performances, rock concerts, improv comedy, musicals, art shows, film festivals, etc. If you're into theatre, you would probably love to check out IndyFringe, which is a huge independent arts festival held here every fall.

But like, I said, more often than not I would probably spend the early part of my evening here at Butler, because we have so much to do here. Clowes Hall right on campus is one of the biggest performance venues in Indy, so we get travelling Broadway shows, dance company's and other sweet stuff right here and with student discounts!! So far this year I've seen The Magic Flute (Indy Opera), Cirque Dreams, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Our student government also shows movies every Friday and Saturday night, and once a semester they host a big concert... last fall we had OKGo. The Jordan College of Fine Arts is also very strong, so it's great to check out ballet performances like Nutcracker, and there are student theatre productions going on all the time... we have a black box theatre that is in use almost every weekend. (So to answer your question about theatre, we have all these professional shows coming thorugh but we also have lots of small experimental shows that are student produced, which I actually tend to like the best!) So, yeah... all that pretty much keeps me busy, plus basketball is really popular here so we usually have a game on the weekends, which I am always at!

So to get back to the typical weekend, after the big activity of the evening at Butler, I would probably go out for some late night food, and then come back and watch a movie or hang out with friends.

Hopefully this helps!! (man, now you have me thinking about the weekend! I can't wait. I'm going out to dinner and a movie with my friends on Friday night, and Saturday is a basketball game and a world-renowned folk dance company at Clowes. is it really only Wednesday??)

Weekend Plans

ChristinaL — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:43:31 GMT

So I'm procrastinating from reading poetry for my lit classes, and was thinking about my weekend plans and wondered what everyone else is up to!

On my agenda for this weekend: teaching winterguard (flags) to high school students with one of my sorority sisters, Kappa Kappa Psi leadership conference here at Butler!, birthday dinner for one of my friends, house-sitting for one of my professors, working on yearbook, hopefully hanging out with some of my freshmen friends who just went Greek, service day for KKPsi, and of course... homework! the essential part of every weekend haha.

I'm sure I'll be writing about it in my blog over at http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/ChristinaL/ but this was your preview! : )

What are your plans??

Re: Social Life

ChristinaL — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:17:15 GMT

A friend and I were talking about this earlier this fall, and he said to me, "You know what Butler's problem is? We're the most over-programmed campus in America!!" What he means by that is that there is ALWAYS something going on at Butler, and our biggest problem is usually deciding what NOT to do.

I think the reason that we have so much going on at Butler is that almost everybody is involved in clubs and other extracurricular activities (usually more than one!) and these groups sponsor lots of events - some just for members, but lots that are open to the whole campus. We also have a really fantastic Student Government Association that puts on tons of free events like movies every Friday and Saturday night and Java Jams concerts in Starbucks every Wednesday.

One thing that I like about Butler's social life is that because we're a smaller school, we have lots of all-campus events that a huge percentage of the student body comes to. For example, during Welcome Week we have the Drive-in movie, where there is a massive blow-up screen on the mall and everyone brings blankets and watches a movie outside together. Some other big events are Dance Marathon (an all night dance party that raises money for Riley Children's Hospital), Spring Sports Spectacular (campus-wide all night party where you can compete in all sorts of events from basketball to ping pong to Catchphrase - and there's tons of free food!), Relay for Life (American Cancer Society fundraiser where teams take turns walking around the track in Hinkle all night.) Homecoming is also very popular and has lots of fun games and contests and our favorite event - Midnight Snack, aka as much free fast food as you can carry! haha now that I'm talking about all these events, it seems that we really like to stay up late and eat at Butler! I think that's true for most college kids. We also have two major concerts on campus each year. Past performers have included Ben Folds, The Fray, Jason Mraz, Better than Ezra, and Ok Go. There are also lots of dances/parties that different clubs will sponsor in our student union building like Swing Night, Salsa Night, Back to School Party and the Residence Halls host All Hall Fall Ball off-campus.

The party scene is different for everybody - some people prefer to go to the official events that I talked about above, others like to just hang out in dorm rooms or apartments. As far as big parties go, there are six fraternities with houses on campus, so they tend to host a lot of parties. Every Friday and Saturday night there will be a party at least at a few of these houses and these are pretty popular. There are usually one or two theme parties per weekend that draw the really big crowds - examples are the Voodoo Halloween party (which both Seitu and I wrote about in our blogs), Black & White, Red Light/Green Light, Ugly Christmas Sweaters and Highlighter Night. Basically, college students love an excuse to dress up! These parties are pretty much all open to the whole campus, but if you join a fraternity or sorority they will also have their own private parties sometimes. Of course, there are plenty of parties that don't involve Greek life at all - some of my friends who live in the Apartment Village or have their own off-campus houses host parties all the time. Some are themed, some aren't, but some recent favorites have been a Toga Party (with a cover charge that raised money for the American Cancer Society! party for a cause...) and a 1920's theme - gangsters, flappers and private eye detectives.

A typical weekend for me (minus the boring parts of homework, laundry and cleaning!) might include a basketball game, game night or a movie with my roomates or in somebody's dorm room, hanging out on the front porch of the frat house across the street from my house just chatting with friends and meeting new people, attending a concert or a play on campus (these are happening all the time and they're always amazing!),and always a Steak n Shake run. Actually, the late night food is the only thing that's really constant... other than that, every weekend at Butler is different.

I hope that helps to give you a better idea about our campus life - I wrote so much and yet I still feel like I'm leaving so much out of what goes on, because there are tons of other events or random things that we do for fun, like explore Indianapolis, or wander around campus talking to random people, or jump in the Star Fountain on the Mall! There is definitely a huge variety of things to do, no matter what your style is. Whether you like parties or not, I have no doubt that you'd have a fun time at Butler.

I think Brad is right - the best way to learn more about what really goes on is to read our blogs!