
Butler University Announces New Sports Wagering Policy
PUBLISHED ON Jan 31 2020
Butler University announced the adoption of a new Sports Wagering Policy, effective immediately, in response to the legalization of betting on National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports in Indiana.
The policy prohibits all Butler trustees, faculty, staff, students, and independent contractors from placing wagers on Butler sporting events since they may be afforded greater access to information that could impact the outcome of competitions. The goal of the policy is to foster a culture of honesty, integrity, and fair play in keeping with The Butler Way and to help protect Butler teams, student-athletes, and coaches from undue influence and improper conduct. Butler’s student-athletes and those providing support to the athletic program are already prohibited from engaging in sports wagering by NCAA rules.
“We pride ourselves on providing our student-athletes an exceptional educational and athletic experience,” says Butler President James Danko. “Our Sports Wagering Policy, which is supported by our Board of Trustees, is a proactive measure rooted in our commitment to and support of our student-athletes and our athletic programs.”
Vice President and Director of Athletics Barry Collier commented, “I am pleased that our University’s leadership has taken this important step to live our shared values and protect the integrity of our campus community.”
For more information, please visit http://www.butler.edu/sportswagering to access Butler’s Sports Wagering policy.
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Butler University Announces New Sports Wagering Policy
The policy prohibits all Butler faculty, staff, and students from placing wagers on Butler sporting events
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CUE Farm Manager Earns River Friendly Farmer Award
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PUBLISHED ON Jul 31 2017
Tim Dorsey, Manager of the CUE Farm at Butler, has won the 2017 River Friendly Farmer Award, a statewide initiative that recognizes farmers who do an outstanding job of protecting rivers, lakes, and streams through their everyday conservation management practices.
The award is given by the Marion County Soil & Water Conservation District. Dorsey will be recognized by Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch and leaders of the Indiana Conservation Partnership at this year’s Indiana State Fair.
“Tim works tirelessly each year to refine and improve conservation practices on the CUE Farm, and it shows in the quality of produce we are able to offer to our customers,” said Julia Angstmann, Director of Butler’s Center for Urban Ecology. “When an ecosystem is in balance, there is no need for artificial fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides that are so harmful to our water resources. The farm’s native and cultivated organisms—pollinators, predatory insects, and carefully selected and placed plants—create checks and balances in the system that benefit all life on the farm."
Nestled between the White River and the Central Canal, the Butler Center for Urban Ecology Farm produces mixed vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms. In recognizing Dorsey, the Soil & Water Conservation District noted that his goals are soil regeneration and holistic farm management, and that he uses a variety of techniques for conserve water and improve soil.
Under his watch, water infiltration has improved visibly, which has made denser plantings possible. That not only improves revenue opportunities but combats weeds.
The CUE Farm has also recently begun to see the presence of reptile life on the farm, which could be attributed to the layered perennial cover available as habitat. Butler University also maintains a managed prairie and riparian buffer adjacent to the farm.
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CUE Farm Manager Earns River Friendly Farmer Award
Tim Dorsey to be honored at this year's Indiana State Fair.
Tim Dorsey to be honored at this year's Indiana State Fair.

Owen Schaub: After 37 Years at Butler, the Curtain Closes
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PUBLISHED ON Apr 03 2017
Owen Schaub accumulated a raft of memories during his 37 years as a Butler professor, but this one, from around 1990, stands out: After speaking at a luncheon for new students and their parents, a father plunked himself down next to Schaub and said, “You said you like being at Butler. What do you like about it?”
“I said,” Schaub recalled, “and I still think this is true, that at Butler, you’re allowed to try new things, to explore things for yourself, and people won’t make judgments about you because you’re going to do something that seems different from your discipline or your orientation. And that’s welcome.”
Schaub, 75, said that’s one of the many things he’ll miss about Butler when he retires at the end of this academic year.
He will also miss the students (“We’ve always attracted very nice young people who come from good family backgrounds and are sensible 18- to 22-year-olds”), his colleagues (“Everyone is very talented and qualified in the areas they work in, so we have a coherent and, I think, successful approach to theatre”), and the classes he’s taught in both theatre and the core curriculum.
He’s seen a lot of changes in personnel—five presidents, five deans in the College of Fine Arts, and five department chairs in the Theatre Department—and to the campus, and he’s especially thankful for the addition of the Schrott Center for the Arts. “We have needed a middle-sized, well-equipped theatre for a very long time. It is a joy that that’s here.”
In the Theatre Department, the soft-spoken Schaub is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of theatre history.
“One of us on faculty or a visiting guest artist will hear about some intricate detail from theatre history and share it with the group,” Theatre Chair Diane Timmerman said. “Invariably, Owen will launch into a richly nuanced description of the topic because he knows all about this time in theatre history. Whenever a guest lecturer says, ‘You probably will not have heard of this...,’ I always respond, ‘Well, one of us has.’ And I am always right about that.”
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Schaub grew up in Massapequa, New York, son of a construction-equipment operator and licensed practical nurse, in a house where he could hear the Atlantic Ocean and was in proximity to New York City. He “stumbled” into theatre almost literally, when he saw a high school friend moving a lighting rig through the halls. Schaub helped him carry the lights and soon was involved in a production.
He went to Hofstra College (now Hofstra University) for his bachelor’s degree in theatre, graduating in 1963, and spent 2½ years in active duty in the Army, mostly in Germany. There, he met Heidi, the woman who would become his first wife. They had their first daughter there, then moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where Schaub earned his M.A. in Theatre.
He started his teaching career at the University of Hawaii (and Heidi gave birth to their second daughter in Honolulu), then moved on to Dalhousie University, Kent State—where he earned his doctorate in theatre—and Newberry College in South Carolina.
In 1980, he answered an ad seeking a Theatre Department Chair at Butler University.
Schaub said that when he started, he wanted to be a good technical director and then a good scene designer—“and that’s what I did for a long time.” Timmerman said students from the past 15 years probably don’t know that Schaub worked in the design and tech part of Butler Theatre productions during his early years here. He designed lights for many productions and also designed and built sets.
Soon, he added academic courses—dramatic literature, text analysis, five different History of Theatre courses he rotates.
“Given my graduate education, I’m doing exactly what I was prepared to do by getting an M.A. and then a Ph.D., even though there were times when I was still designing and being a technical director,” he said.
Schaub is proud of the students he’s taught, some of whom have gone on to be professors, lawyers, founders of theatre companies, and drama therapists.
Jim Senti ’05, who went on to earn his MFA at Harvard University and now is an actor in Los Angeles and professor at California State University, Northridge, calls Schaub “one of the most admirable characters in my life so far.” Senti remembers when Schaub cast him in a role in the Caryl Churchill play Vinegar Tom that featured a lengthy monologue. In rehearsal, Senti stumbled over the words. He went to the side afterwards, clearly frustrated.
“He came up to me,” Senti remembered, “and said, ‘This is what rehearsal is for. In a few weeks, this will be just a memory. You’re going to be great.’ And I remember him saying, ‘The stumbling now is necessary so we can stumble less later. So do the work now.’ That has stayed with me, not only as a professional actor, but just as a person.”
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In 2006, Schaub wife, Heidi, died of breast cancer. A couple of years later, he met a woman named Donna McCleerey at a group bereavement session. They found out they had something in common—they both worked at Butler. (She is the administrative specialist for the men’s basketball team.) This year, they will have been married nine years.
When the school year ends, Schaub will have spent 47 years teaching in college and 60 years in the theatre. Both teaching and theatre will play a part in his retirement: He’s planning to continue writing an analysis of Hamlet that he started during a sabbatical in 2015.
Although he’s spent half his life in Indiana, Schaub said he’s “always sort of been a permanent New Yorker. I remain a New Yorker in my head.”
And a Bulldog at heart.
“What I like about Butler is that the people you come in contact with are genuine human beings who are working to do the best that they can in whatever job or assignment that they have,” he said. “There’s little in the way of selfishness or ego or self-importance. Having been at Butler has been a very warm, rewarding and humane experience.”
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“Having been at Butler has been a very warm, rewarding and humane experience,” he says.
“Having been at Butler has been a very warm, rewarding and humane experience,” he says.

Professor Esteves Named Guyer Chair in Education
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PUBLISHED ON Dec 21 2016
Associate Professor Kelli Esteves, who has taught in the College of Education since 2010, has been named the Richard W. Guyer Chair in Education.
“It is a true honor to be awarded the Richard W. Guyer Chair, especially when considering how much admiration I have for previous recipients such as Arthur Hochman, Catherine Pangan, Shelly Furuness, Debbie Corpus, and Tom Keller,” she said. “Dean Ena Shelley and so many of my College of Education colleagues have been instrumental in helping me reach my professional goals. I am grateful to work with people across the University who are incredibly kind, intelligent, passionate, and hard working.”
Before joining the Butler faculty, Esteves taught as an Assistant Professor of Education at Aquinas College. She also has taught in the Rockford (Michigan) public schools as a special education teacher.
Esteves earned her bachelor’s degree from Hope College and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Education from Western Michigan University. Her areas of expertise are inclusive practices, response to intervention, children’s literature, and developmental theory.
The chair is named for Richard W. Guyer, a native of Indiana, who received his B.S. in education from Butler in 1948, an M.S. in 1950, and an Ed.S. in 1967 from the University. He received his Ed.D. from Ball State University in 1969. A World War II veteran, Guyer began his career in education as a teacher and head football coach at Crawfordsville, Indianapolis Howe, and Franklin Central high schools. He later served as athletic director, vice principal and principal at Franklin Central.
Guyer served as an adjunct faculty member at Butler for several years before becoming a full-time faculty member in 1968. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in administration and also served as the director of student teaching and field experiences, director of educational placement and director of undergraduate studies for the College of Education. He retired from Butler in 1986 and enjoyed professor emeritus status until his death in 2000.
The Richard W. Guyer Professorship in Education was established in 1997 by D. Michael Hockett, a 1964 graduate of Butler University and an Indianapolis businessman who was deeply influenced by Guyer’s teaching and guidance.
Faculty members hold the Guyer Chair for three years.
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The Richard W. Guyer Professorship in Education was established in 1997 by D. Michael Hockett, a 1964 graduate of Butler University and an Indianapolis businessman who was deeply influenced by Guyer’s teaching and guidance.
The Richard W. Guyer Professorship in Education was established in 1997 by D. Michael Hockett, a 1964 graduate of Butler University and an Indianapolis businessman who was deeply influenced by Guyer’s teaching and guidance.