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In this issue of Butler Magazine, we explore how Butler University blends innovation with tradition through initiatives like the transformative Gateway Project, supported by a recent $9 million gift from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation. These efforts underscore Butler’s commitment to academic excellence, athletics, arts, and access, ensuring a vibrant community that enriches both current students and alumni alike.

In this edition of Butler Magazine, we explore the themes of honoring our rich past, celebrating our vibrant present, and envisioning an exciting future.

Each autumn, as I see the leaves on our campus change into beautiful shades of red, orange, and yellow, Robert Frost’s celebrated poem The Road Not Taken often comes to mind. Perhaps the imagery of the yellow wood or the fallen leaves is what ties the work to autumn for me, but more notably, the poem invokes the theme of change and new beginnings and opportunities—a motif that is very much apparent on campus this time of year.

A letter from President James M. Danko