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Ellen DeGeneres surprised her friends at Butler University’s Delta Gamma sorority—again. Barely a month after making a Skype phone call to the sorority, DeGeneres flew 10 DGs to Los Angeles to appear on the Thursday, February 12, episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Watch their segment here.) But the fun didn’t end with a free […]

By Sarvary Koller ’15 Andres Pena ’15 sat in his Intro to Marketing class at Butler University last year mulling over a prompt: change the world through a mobile device. Pena considered how the smartphone, with its seemingly endless capability, could be used as a tool to help those in need. He came up with […]

On the heels of winning the U.S. National Junior Pair title on January 20, Butler University student Ernie Utah Stevens ’16 and his partner, Arizona skater Caitlin Fields, will represent the United States at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, March 2–8. “Only two U.S. Junior Pair teams are chosen for that […]

The girls of Butler’s Delta Gamma sorority wrote to TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres to tell her how they get together at 3:00 p.m. weekdays to watch her show. On Thursday, January 8, DeGeneres answered their email, surprising them with a Skype phone call and a multitude of prizes. The show aired Monday, January 12. […]

Luke Bunting ’14 didn’t have enough time to study abroad during his years at Butler, but he’s making up for that in a big way: Beginning in July, he’ll spend 12½ months in South Korea as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. Bunting was notified in late May that he received the award, which will […]

Colin Likas and Joellen Gentry The Butler Collegian and Butler’s IndianapolisNewsBeat.com picked up four awards at the Society of Professional Journalists’ “Best of Indiana” awards, presented by SPJ’s Indiana Pro chapter. The Collegian won two first places: Sports writing (Colin Likas ’14, Jill McCarter ’13 and  Marissa Johnson ’13 for “Packing Up and Moving On?”) […]