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Search results matching tag 'Basketball'http://go.butler.edu/cs/search/SearchResults.aspx?a=1&o=DateDescending&tag=Basketball&orTags=0Search results matching tag 'Basketball'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)Digging ithttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/kevin/archive/2009/11/06/digging-it.aspxSat, 07 Nov 2009 01:46:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:6763BUKevin<p>   Tonight I finally made it to Hinkle to watch our Butler ladies play some volleyball.  I had never been to a volleyball game, so it was fun and interesting to go cheer on the Bulldogs to another win over Loyola.  Freshman Gina Vera is a friend of mine and in one of my classes, so I had been wanting to go watch her in action.  You can keep up with Gina and the volleyball team through her <a target="_blank" href="http://butlersports.com/sports/w-volley/2009-10/releases/Ginas-vball-blog">blog for the team.</a>  The volleyball team is 19-11, is third in the Horizon League standings, and having a great season!  </p> <p>   As a student I get into all home games for free, football has been great, and the the team is still undefeated! Everyone is looking forward to Basketball season, the Dawgs are ranked 10th in the preseason coaches' poll, and have a lot of hype surrounding this season! I'm sure as the basketball season gets started I'll keep you up to date!</p> <p>Until next time.</p> <p><img height="400" width="600" style="vertical-align:top;margin:3px;" src="http://www.butlersports.com/sports/w-volley/2009-10/photos/buvballteam09-web.JPG?max_height=400&max_width=600" alt="" /></p>The past few weeks in pictureshttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/liz/archive/2009/03/23/the-past-few-weeks-in-pictures.aspxMon, 23 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5391LizM<p>This week was pretty amazing for having to go back to school right after break.  I was dreading having to get back into a schedule coming back to Butler but a few fun events this week have brightened the dreaded week.</p> <p>Here are a few disney pictures!  We took so many I had a hard time deciding which ones to put up.  I had to put in links because they were too big to put in the actual blog.  sorry :(</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>Mickey Mouse! This was at a parade we watched in Animal Kingdom.</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>This is my little brother, Will, and I at Magic Kingdom on the first day.  We were so excited to finally be there!</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>This is my little brother, mom, and I with Eeyore.  I think we brightened his day a little bit.</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>Here is a pretty funny picture of my little brother and I riding the spinning teacups :)  Classic</p> <p> </p> <p>Thursday of this week Christian Siriano, winner of season four of the show Project Runway came to speak at Butler in the Reilly Room.  He was absolutely adorable and hilarious.  He gave us all the dirt on diva celebrities and told us what it is really like being in the fashion world.  He went to design school and was once a poor college kid just like we are...and look where he is today!  Christian talked about how Tyra Banks is obnoxious and full of herself, and also how Victoria Beckham and Anne Hathaway are fabulous.  In short:  He was a doll.  Then several Butler students put on a fashion show for Christian to judge.  They had to build an outfit off of a pair of jeans and white tee shirt.  One of the freshman guys won, but everyone's designs were FIERCE</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>Here is a pic of me and two thetas with Christian.  I am like twice his size haha.</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p> <p>We kited Christian! I love this picture.  Its going up on my wall at some point this year</p> <p> </p> <p>Lastly, our beloved dogs fought the good fight against LSU in the game this past Thursday.  Unfortunately we didn't win, but we all watched intently and cheered them on as we watched Howard and friends ballin it up on the big screen in the Reilly Room.  We even prayed beforehand, with the bulldog statue as our inspiration</p> <p>(Please visit the site to view this media)</p>On the scene - N(orth)C(arolina)AA!http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2009/03/20/behind-the-scenens-n-orth-c-arolina-aa.aspxFri, 20 Mar 2009 04:30:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5355ChristinaL<p>Good evening ya'll! I'm reporting tonight from Greensboro, North Carolina, site of the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.  </p> <p>Whenever the team travels for the NCAA, they get to bring along 12 cheerleaders and 30 band members to support them, and I got to be part of the band again this year! Last year I followed the team to Birmingham, Alabama (see <a href="http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2008/03/20/sweet-ncaa-alabama.aspx" title="Sweet NCAA">Sweet NCAA, Alabama!</a> and <a href="http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2008/03/21/we-beat-the-usa.aspx" title="We beat the USA">We beat the USA!</a>)  for the Class of 08's final games in the first and second rounds, including an EPIC game against Tennessee (definitely Sweet 16 quality!) This year we were sent to Greensboro to beat up on the LSU Tigers. The band got an early start the night before:</p> <p><img src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs014.snc1/2634_1062416278189_1159410115_30238231_1825196_n.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Not only is it totally amazing to get to be right here and witness MARCH MADNESS live... but it is also a pretty nice spring break, part II, courtesy of Butler.  Yes, that's right... to come on the fan bus and stay at our hotel costs around $600... but for the band, Uncle Ovid (he's like Uncle Sam, but for BU) pays for our bus, hotel and food.  This is what we call a sweet deal.  (This is also the third time Butler has paid for me to travel in one semester... Panhel sent me to a conference in St. Louis, and the Student Foundation put me up in Cincicinnati for another conference. Thanks, Ovid!)</p> <p>So how was the game? </p> <p>Well, I pretty much never stopped yelling.  </p> <p>I like to talk to our players, whether they can hear me or not.  I address them by first name: "THANK YOU, Willie!" or "Nice shot, Gordan! I love you!" (He's my new favorite now that Pete and Drew have graduated.)  Other standard Christina phrases include "Let's play like we're from Butler!" "Cmon, Bulldogs, we can do this!" "Let's play some D!" (picked up from my father) or, my personal favorite, "Calm it down!" accompanied by a downward patting motion (This is what I use when they try to get all crazy and not play slow and smart.)</p> <p>The first half was kind of devastating to watch. Two many turnovers for my taste, and the refs were a little foul happy (they called more on us, but they were foul happy in general.  let the men play!)</p> <p>We were sad. </p> <p> <img src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs014.snc1/2634_1062417038208_1159410115_30238248_8011337_n.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>The second half was much more encouraging and exciting,</p> <p>We were even winning or tied for some parts:</p> <p><img src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs014.snc1/2634_1062416998207_1159410115_30238247_5370201_n.jpg" alt="" /> </p> <p> ...but I wish we could have played the whole half with the urgency we showed in the last minute when we were down to the wire.  Maybe today is what we needed to learn that the NCAA first round means bringing your A++ game.   I forgive them... our team is almost entirely freshmen and sophomores - they are learning (although along their learning journey, they do tend to kick butt and take names). And LSU played <strong>very</strong> well yesterday. </p> <p>Sadly, we did lose by just a few points (5, I think) in the final seconds.  But, we put up a pretty darn good fight! We might lose the game, I might lose my voice, but we will never lose our Butler pride.  We are already excited for next year.</p> <p>Let's go BU! Congratulations on an outstanding season.</p> <p>Meanwhile, I am off to bed.  It's been a long, emotional day and we've got a 10 hour bus ride back to Indy tomorrow.</p>Hiding out in an undisclosed locationhttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2009/03/14/hiding-out-in-an-undisclosed-location.aspxSat, 14 Mar 2009 04:47:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5336ChristinaL<p>So, I hate to admit it, but I have been extremely lame this spring break!</p> <p>With the exception of some fun NUVO internship activity and putting the final touches on my story which will run next week (YAY!), my spring break life quickly disintegrated into a lot of studying and hanging out with small children.</p> <p>Last Friday, I babysat for my thesis advisor's 10 year old.  He is absolutely hysterical.  I love learning the hip 5th grade slang from him (he legitimately says "bff" and "fo sho") and hearing about all the social drama of stealing friends and crushes and bullies and whatnot. It's crazy (and takes you back to the olden days of elementary school). On top of that, many of the professors' kids hang out together, so he was giving me the lowdown on all the offspring of my favorite profs.  Hilarious. </p> <p>We also got to watch Ratatouille, which was cute but made me extremely nostalgic for Paris.  You know your post-study-abroad life is sad when Disney movies make you depressed about not being in Europe.</p> <p>I also spent a lot of time this week learning about babies.  My cousin Melissa is 28 and lives on the near Eastside of Indy, and she just had a baby in December.  His name is Patrick and to give you my unbiased evaluation, he is probably the cutest kid in the world.  I stayed with Melissa for most of this week because campus pretty much shuts down over break, which meant I got to spend lots of quality time with Patrick.  He is going through a phase right now where he is only happy when you hold him over your shoulder while standing up.  Holding him over your shoulder while sitting is simply unacceptable.  So, Patrick and I spent a lot of time walking around the house together to give his mom a break.  At three months, he's already 19 lbs... the kid gets heavy! I love him dearly, but I must say that hanging with Melissa and Patrick has given me new insight into how much work babies take.  I definitely don't want one of my own for a long long time!</p> <p>Other than that I have been trying to get as much homework done as possible.  I find this to be incredibly difficult when a) immediate deadlines are not looming (I'm a last minute kind of student) and b) Facebook keeps telling me how all my friends are in Florida or Spain or other sweet spring break locations.  Ok, not all of them, but enough to make me feel justified in being unproductive.</p> <p>I have mostly been working on a rather complicated Scarlet Letter/Uncle Tom's Cabin comparative essay which I should have written about a month ago (but my teacher is really nice, and as I mentioned before, lets us set our own due dates.)  I also have a lot of Honors Thesis prep work to be doing, since spring of junior year is when you get your project all lined up for approval from the Honors Board.  Needless to say, these are both very busy projects, and between those and catching up on emails and some organizational matters for my leadership position, I am quite busy.</p> <p>On Wednesday, I finally decided I needed to leave Indy and hide out in an undisclosed location where I would be forced to get more work done as I near the end of my catch-up week.  So far I'm doing a pretty good job - I haven't left said location since I got here on Wednesday night.  I'll give you a hint: it involves home-cooked meals and my dog... but don't tell anyone because I don't have time to do anything fun around here and I wouldn't want to be tempted!  Ahhh the life of an over-committed junior.  Some day I'll learn not to take on so much in one semester.  Maybe.</p> <p> EDIT: I almost forgot the one "fun" part of my break: The Horizon League men's basketball tournament which we hosted at Butler - you may have seen me on ESPN rockin out on the clarinet in the Basketball Band : )  The game on Saturday vs. Wright State was lots of fun since they are our conference rivals (our fan sections more than our teams).  However, the championship was really depressing.  We lost by three points in the final seconds after having a (small) lead for most of the game.  I think I neglected to mention this part of my spring break because I have already tried to block the loss out of my memory.  We're moving on and looking forward! Keep your fingers crossed and thinking happy thoughts this weekend for NCAA tournament Selection Sunday.</p>warm and musical, and michiganhttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/jerry/archive/2009/03/06/warm-and-musical-and-michigan.aspxFri, 06 Mar 2009 19:53:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5311BUJerry<p>warm because it's like 70 degrees out! the grass is starting to turn a little greener.  there are way more people jogging outside my robertson hall window.  up the hill from the gardens, down the hill to the gardens, up the hill from the gardens, down the hill........i really need to start running.  i was joking today that i'm starting to look like the pillsbury doughboy.</p> <p>i am nervously confident in our butler bulldogs hoops team.  i am perhaps reading a little too much online about seeding and brackets and projections.  i feel like they are getting underseeded, and hope we can come through this weekend in the horizon league tourney and get a nice 5 seed. this basketball year has been awesome and totally unexpected.  and the women's team too--great year!</p> <p>i've started a somewhat obsessive project of listening to all my cd's, a to z.  my wife and i have about 2,600 cd's, and i intend to listen to them all, one by one.  i'm blogging about it at <a href="http://crossroadsduewekes.blogspot.com/">http://crossroadsduewekes.blogspot.com/</a>.  there, you can read my semi-daily comments about the things i've listened to.  should be fun...</p> <p>congrats again to all my admits out there, especially michigan.  things have been....a little rough.....in the old mitten state--my home state.  but, please let me know if there's anything i can do for you as you decide where to attend college.  i know a lot of you were able to visit campus and attend scholar's forum in february, but if you haven't yet, please give us a call or register online to come down and see campus.  also pay attention: <strong>we have a series of online chats coming up!  </strong>you should be getting lots of contacts about these.  i would <strong>really </strong>encourage you to log on because not only will there be admission folks, but faculty from all the different colleges, all there to answer your questions!!  stay tuned, or email me at <a href="mailto:jdueweke@butler.edu">jdueweke@butler.edu</a> for more info.</p>A Day in the Crazy Lifehttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2009/02/28/a-day-in-the-crazy-life.aspxSat, 28 Feb 2009 20:08:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5285ChristinaL<p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">Hello all! Like I told you recently, my schedule has been pretty hectic... but of course, my busy schedule is voluntary, and typically pretty fun.  Sometimes it amazes me when I look at the variety of things I do all in one day.  Take Wednesday, for example:</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">6 or 7 am (don't remember) - <strong>Wake up, shower, eat some cereal, finish the homework</strong> I didn't get done last night (this is why I get up so early! I'd rather go to sleep when I'm tired and finish it in the morning than continue to fall asleep on my books! ha)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">9 am - <strong>Work in the Writer's Studio.</strong>  This is one of my on campus jobs, helping other Butler students with their writing.  Wednesday, I had a really great meeting with a freshman named Sean working on his paper for CC102, one of the core courses that all freshmen take.  Many freshmen use the Studio as a resource to get help adapting to college style writing, and a lot of the first year profs actually require you to go once or twice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">10 am - <strong>Comparative Lit.</strong> I was only taking this class because it's a requirement for my English major, but now it's probably my favorite class.  We read some really interesting books about India, and I learned so many things about the culture that are totally new to me.  Now we're reading Kafka.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">11 am - <strong>American Novels. </strong>The classics: we already read the Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom's Cabin, and now we're doing Moby , which is actually not as bad as you'd probably expect.  After spring break we're moving from the 1850s to the 1950s.  I've read two of the books before, but it's worth it because Dr. Levy is one of my favorite profs.  He always brings a new perspective to the reading, and he's very flexible - we made up our own due dates for our papers this semester.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">12 pm - Lunch at Pi Phi</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size:small;">1 pm - <strong>Office Hour for Panhel</strong>, the council which oversees all the sororities. I am VP of Education so for Woman's History Month, I am planning an open discussion about gender issues in Greek life.  It should be really interesting! I spent my office hour making posters for the event, which is called <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>"Sisterhood or Segregation?"</strong></span> For my Butler readers, it's on <span style="color:#0000ff;">Monday at 6 pm in JH141 and open to everyone - Greeks, independents, women, men, students, faculty.  You should come!</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">2:15 - 4:00 pm: <strong>Reading with kids at a local public school.</strong>  The cause that Pi Beta Phi supports with our philanthropy is literacy, so we volunteer at local schools with our program called Champions Are Readers.  The kids are so cute! This was the first time I was able to go this semester, and even though the kids didn't know me, one of the little girls ran up and gave me a huge hug, and grabbed my hand to take me to her reading spot.  As an English major now, reading was obviously a huge part of my childhood so I love sharing that with kids that might not have people who read with them at home.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size:small;">4:00 - 6 pm: <strong>Studying & dinner</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">6-7:30 pm: <strong>Listening to a famous artist speak downtown!</strong> Indianapolis is currently working on the Cultural Trail, which is a bike/pedestrian trail that connects all the cultural districts in town (including Broad Ripple near our campus) and it will feature public art.  I got really interested in contemporary art last spring when a took a Postmodernism class for my core curriculum, and I actually ended up writing a 15 page paper about public art for my honors class that semester.  So, when I heard that Fred Wilson was speaking at the Madame Walker theatre downtown about the project he is planning for our cultural trail, I knew I had to go! He is such an interesting artist: check out </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wilson/index.html" title="Fred Wilson"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">his page for the fabulous PBS show Art21</span></a><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">! Hearing his talk also served as background for a project I am working on at my internship.  It's always good to get out of the Butler Bubble and experience the cool (FREE) things to do in Indy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">8:00 - 9:00 pm: <strong>Junior Panhel.</strong>  For my position as VP of Education, I also advise our Junior group, which is made up of two new members from every sorority.  Right now, we are working on planning a really cool week of service for the whole Greek community.  The great thing is that they do almost all the planning themselves - it's a great leadership opportunity to get into right away as a freshman.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size:small;">9:00 - 10:00 pm: <strong>Studying</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">10:00 - 10:30 pm: <strong>Pizza with Butler Basketball Coach, Brad Stevens! </strong>Dawg Pound sponsored a free pizza party with our coach so he could talk to us about the importance of the last few home games and answer questions.  Just another example of how accessible even most the important people at Butler are...</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">10:30 - midnight: <strong>Studying</strong>... should have studied more, but I fell asleep! haha.  Good thing I don't have anything until 1:30 PM on Thursday : )</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">So that's just a day in the life of my busy schedule... as you can tell,  I have a pretty wide variety of things going on.  Every day is different, and that's what keeps me going, even when things get crazy.  Today I am not as productive... we had to be awake for our initiation at 6:45 am, so my roommate and I have been napping this afternoon, cleaning our room and after this I need to hit my homework HARD CORE! All of my junior friends are actually studying this afternoon - I'm glad it's not just me! </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">I hope you all have more exciting plans! : ) Have a great weekend.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;">I have another post in mind for you guys, so I'll put that up soon!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,palatino;"> </span></p>Happy Valentineless Day!!http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/liz/archive/2009/02/13/happy-valentineless-day.aspxFri, 13 Feb 2009 05:02:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5239LizM<p>Oh yes the dreaded day is coming:  Where everyone is lovey dovey and holding hands and there are pink and red hearts everywhere and chocolate of all kinds has replaced the abundance of ramen once stashed in girls' rooms.  Don't get me wrong, I don't <em>hate</em> valentines day, I just think its one of those weird unnecessary holidays to celebrate (like new year's eve:  what is the point of new year's eve).  And it kinda stinks when you don't have a "valentine," even if it is by choice.  As a matter of fact one of the charachters on Grey's Anatomy once said, " Look. Alone people don't like to hear about the together people. Okay. Even if the alone people are alone by choice. It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting."  I'm sure some of you share my sentiments.  BUT luckily I have amazing friends to share the day with so all of them are my valentines!  Haha, we actually had a dinner party over at the Theta house this week.  It was our crush party, so everyone could bring their crush, significant other, or just a friend.  So I brought the love of my life, my roomie!  It was a really fun time to meet new people and enjoy some delicious food.  We ordered really cute shirts too!</p> <p><img src="http://go.butler.edu/cs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.25.12/Blogvday.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><img src="http://go.butler.edu/cs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.25.12/BlogVday2.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>That was a nice little fun activity for the week!  Last Saturday I travelled with about 50 other students to the Dayton, Ohio for the much anticipated Wright State v. Butler game.  We won (of course) and the game was SO exciting.  Even though it was pretty much a beatdown and we won by a lot there were still some great plays and I got to see all my favorite boys in action.  </p> <p><img src="http://go.butler.edu/cs/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.25.12/Blogbball.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>We were pretty far up in the Nutter Center (yes it is actually called that haha) so it was hard to get any good pictures, but here is one of them warming up.  I LOVE Butler Basketball!!!</p> <p>Other than that, the week has been filled with studying, dance team practice, practice for our freshman skits, and cheesey acts of love by the girls in our unit with boyfriends.  I'm really excited because my family is coming to visit me on Sunday!  We are going to go to church, get some lunch, and then they are going to watch me perform at the Men's Basketball game at 2.  I can't wait for them to get here but I still have so much stuff to get done. No matter what your status, have a great V-Day, a fun weekend, and be productive (I say that more for myself...I have a lot to do this weekend)...</p>We won by THIRTY! twice. http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinal/archive/2009/01/24/we-won-by-thirty-twice.aspxSun, 25 Jan 2009 02:32:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:5164ChristinaL<p>Hey everyone! It has been a basketball-filled weekend here at BU, and today was even better because I got to share the excitement with some of you - live!</p> <p>Today we had an event at Butler for admitted students and their families - a huge pizza party with Bazbeaux's (Indy's best, in my opinion!) and then a Butler men's basketball game... classic BU. I am in a group called the Butler University Student Foundation (BUSF) that works with connecting current, prospective and alumni students so that everyone feels like part of the BU family.  Today, the BUSF crew got to join in on the fun and hang out with everyone at the pizza party.  </p> <p>It was so much fun to meet potential new Butler students of the Class of 2013 - you guys are way cool. (Come to BU next year and we'll hang out.)  However, perhaps my favorite part was when Kristina came up to introduce herself to me because she reads this blog! (Hey girl!) It was so great to chat with you, and very interesting to witness that real people actually read this blog.  Sometimes I feel like I'm just writing for an invisible cyberspace audience, so it makes it a lot more fun to know who's reading. (Anyone want to comment and introduce yourself?) I actually had this experience one other time since I got back from Spain.  When I introduced myself to one of the girls I talked to during sorority recruitment, she told me that she recognized me from reading my blog last year when she was a senior. She obviously came to Butler, so that makes me happy : )</p> <p>Anyway, the second part of the event was also AMAZING - our men's bball team (currently ranked first in the Horizon League) took on UW Milwaukee (#2 in the HL)... all signs point to a close game, right? Maybe for a team less divine than our Butler Bulldogs! We finished the game with a THIRTY POINT LEAD! GO DAWGS!</p> <p>The best part is that this wasn't the first time that had happened at Butler... in the last 24 hours.  On Friday night, our women (also ranked #1 in the league) took on Valporaiso (another great team) and came out on top 77-44 (MORE THAN THIRTY POINTS!)  It was such a great game to watch and I was so proud of the women...although I really really wish more of my Butler peers could have shared the experience with me.  For such a talented team, the women really do not get the support they deserve.  I mean, really people? We can't even fill half of the Dawg Pound cheering section to watch our women <strong>demolish</strong> Valpo?! The problem is not just at Butler... women's sports all around the country do NOT get even a quarter of the support men's teams do.  This is something very important to me, and an issue I hope to address during my term as VP of Educational Programming for the Panhellenic (sorority) community at Butler. Stay tuned for more about that.</p> <p>Anyway, add those two victories on top of a win for the men over UW Green Bay on Thursday, and it has been a basketball weekend - how we like it here in Indiana. Sometimes I spend more time in Hinkle Fieldhouse than I do at my house...  and I wouldn't want it any other way.  It isn't a winter weekend without some Hinkle happiness in my life.  Watch for us on ESPNU this Friday at 7 pm as we take on Valporaiso. I will be in the front row of the band, dancing like a fool and playing the clarinet.  </p> <p>As for now, I am having a chill night with my roommate... we ate some of the leftover pizza from the party earlier (thanks, Admissions Office!) and watched the Miss America pageant.  We were mostly critiquing it because we both consider ourselves to be pretty smart and self-respecting women who wouldn't want to be degraded by parading around in swim suits.  But, we did notice that Miss Indiana stood out as the one who had some legitimate brains and integrity... and then she won! She is a student at U Indy, another private school on the other side of Indianapolis... so we're kind of neighbors. I have to say though, I would much prefer it if we could just give a $50,000 scholarship to the young woman who contributes the most to America in the field of community service or academic achievement.  That's more important to me than who can tap dance or spend 4 hours on a treadmill everyday. Just sayin'.</p> <p>Now, my roommate is back to her applications for physics summer research programs (she's applying to places like MIT and Harvard and I know she's going to get into an AMAZING program) and I am back to the rather large amounts of reading I still have for English and maybe some laundry (at 10:30 pm on a Saturday). [update: while writing this post, my Spanish prof facebook chatted me to ask me if one of the other Spanish profs has a facebook profile. hahaha!] Oh the life of college students.  </p>The Day I've Been Waiting For is Finally Here!!!!http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/steph/archive/2008/11/04/the-day-i-ve-been-waiting-for-is-finally-here.aspxTue, 04 Nov 2008 05:56:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:4644StephF<ul><li> So the day that I have been waiting for for at least the past 8 years is finally here! The first election day that I get to vote.....whoohoo! The polls will open in about 5 hours or so on the east coast....and hopefully in 24 hours we will know who our next president will be. :) For some of us, this is our first election, and some of you can't even vote yet. Regardless of your age, please please please try to pay attention to what happens on election day and for the four years following it. Soon you will have the right to vote if you don't already, and when you do, don't be apathetic and think that you just don't understand politics, so you shouldn't even try. Educate yourself on the issues, or ask someone who you trust to explain everything to you. It does take some effort, but once you are 18, there is no reason for you to not care about the issues that are important to our country anymore. Your vote counts as much as your grandmother's, your town mayor's, or any random person on the street. I have been really excited this year to see how many young people are coming out to vote and who are voicing their opinions, that is exactly what we should be doing! I haven't been hearing the regular, "Oh I'm voting for whatshisface because my parents are" line nearly as much this year, which is great because it means that we are starting to take charge of our own decisions. Don't think that just because we are young it we don't need to worry about it yet. Before we know it, we will be out on our own and we will be facing the same struggles as many Americans are right now. So if you're curious, go online and find websites that talk about the issues. dividedwefail.org is a great place to learn about a few issues....and there are tons of other sites that make some of these complicated topics easy for us to understand. So I hope that you have voted or will vote if you can, and if you can't....take this time to just sit back and watch what happens, and start learning about our country's political process in advance! :)</li></ul><ul><li> So last week we had our first Blogger Chat....which was so much fun! We had a live video feed, and we got to answer everyone's questions right then. I found out then that I love talking about stuff that I love.....aka Butler. :) So make sure you come back for the next one....we pretty much have a blast anyway. :)</li></ul><ul><li>Now I'm going to backtrack a bit and go back to Homecoming....which was awhile ago....But I have two videos from Yell Like Hell for you to check out....one of the dance team and one of Schwitzer, Tri Delt, and TKE..... :) This is part of our Batman Themed routine for Schwitzer, Tri Delt, and TKE <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U_RxvRLN65E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U_RxvRLN65E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></object> And here is the dance team... :) <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XrGbOayIeM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XrGbOayIeM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></object></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>This past weekend was Halloween, which is one of my favorite holidays....but sadly, it wasn't as exciting this year. Basically because for the first time in my life possibly, I didn't get to go trick-or-treating. That is seriously always my favorite night/nights because my friends and I always piled into a car and drove around to our other friend's houses or our teacher's houses and got tons of candy. :) It was always so much fun.....especially when you got a huge group of people to all go together. This halloween was pretty fun too though, I went to VooDoo at Snu, and waited in line for about 45 minutes, and inside it was like wall to wall people.....but on the plus side my boyfriend Scott got to come too, and he was Michael Phelps. So that was fun hearing everyone's reactions to his costume. haha :) And on actual Halloween, I played Monopoly. Yeah, I'm cool. I know. I hadn't played that in ages....and now I remember why. I have the shortest attention span ever.....so Monopoly and I don't really get along well. Saturday Night was also our first basketball game.... :) It was great getting to dance again like that, even though I have to admit I didn't know everything as well as I should have.....which I'm sure I will take care of before the next game. This winter is going to be so much fun with all the games... :) </li></ul><ul><li>Well.....I'm off to study more so I can go to bed eventually...and then be excited for the election!!! :) </li></ul>Defeat in Birminghamhttp://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/alex/archive/2008/03/24/defeat-in-birmingham.aspxMon, 24 Mar 2008 15:33:00 GMTa64a6fc7-157b-4b91-ae71-dec110d97560:1988AlexS<p>I finally got back from Birmingham, Alabama last night.</p><p>It was an amazing trip that I didn't even think I'd get to go on. When the list was made for the trip, I had played too few games to be able to have a spot.</p><p>However, someone slept in on the morning the bus left, and they called me, and I was ready to go! I jumped on the bus and we left for Alabama.</p><p>Birmingham was nice, and the best part about the south was the weather! It was beautiful; the flowers on the trees were blooming and the sun was shining.</p><p>We stayed at a hotel called the Wynfrey, which was attached to the Riverchase Galleria Mall. It had some great shopping places and was very entertaining.</p><p>The basketball team stayed at the hotel, too, so it was pretty crazy to see them at times. I mean, we cheer SO hard for these guys to do well, and they're so talented, it feels odd to be near them. It feels like we're near celebrities. So when I was going down the elevator with two friends on Friday morning, and Drew Streicher, Pete Campbell, and Nick Rodgers got on the elevator it was crazy. They are so tall!!!</p><p>We beat USA (University of Southern Alabama) who played a good first half. Therefore, we got a free day on Saturday. A lot of people took a bus to the Birmingham Zoo, which was an amazing zoo where I had a ton of fun. It had been a while since I had been to a zoo, and this trip really rebirthed my love for animals.</p><p>I ended up getting a cute stuffed animal at the zoo, here's a picture!</p><p><a href="http://go.butler.edu/cs/photos/alex/images/1989/original.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://go.butler.edu/cs/photos/alex/images/1989/358x480.aspx" border="0" height="299" width="223" alt="" /></a><br /> </p><p>We haven't named him yet, but he's a cheetah. If you have any suggestions for names, please leave me a comment!</p><p>Anyways, we played the game versus Tennessee yesterday. It was very exciting and we even went into overtime. The refs were whack and didn't call about 5 fouls against Butler. If they had, we probably would have won.</p><p>Oh well, we lost and that was that. It was a long bus ride back, and we finally got back at 2am last night. It was an amazing experience and I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to go.</p><p>Catch songs from the trip: "With You" by Chris Brown and "Please Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna. Check them out! They were on my mind pretty music the whole time. </p><p>Now I have to catch up on homework. :\<br /><br /> </p>