• May 3rd @ 6:00pm (IMPD North District Headquarters — 3120 E. 30th Street)
• July 5th @ 3:00pm (Lawrence Branch Library — 7898 N. Hague Road)
• September 6th @ 3:00pm (College Branch Library — 4180 N. College Avenue)
• October 4th @ 6:00pm (IMPD North District Headquarters — 3120 E. 30th Street)
• November 1st @ 3:00pm (E. 38th Street Branch Library — 5420 E. 38th Street)

For information on BTNA crime reports or public safety visit Butler University Police or IMPD.

When in doubt, please call 911!

The signing will take place at 3:30 p.m. at the Star Fountain between Jordan Hall and the Irwin Library, and will be the first of many events on campus that week related to sustainability, water, energy, recycling and other issues. The full schedule is below.

The pledge, which has been signed by 674 presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities to date, expresses concern about “the unprecedented scale and speed of global warming and its potential for large-scale, adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects.”

“We recognize the scientific consensus that global warming is real and is largely being caused by humans,” the Climate Commitment states. “We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.”

The full accord can be read here: http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/

By signing the Climate Commitment, which became a nationwide initiative in 2007, Butler will, within two months, create institutional structures to guide the development and implementation of the plan. By next Jan. 31, Butler plans to complete a comprehensive inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions (including emissions from electricity, heating, commuting, and air travel). And by 2014, the University expects to have a target date for achieving climate neutrality as soon as possible.

Climate neutrality means that the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from the University’s activities are either eliminated directly by reducing fossil fuel energy use or offset by new activities that retain those gases, such as tree planting.

“This commitment is an important step for Butler to indicate our commitment to sustainability and emerge as a national leader in this area,” said Tim Carter, director of Butler’s Center for Urban Ecology. “We’re excited about being part of this initiative.”

Butler already has in place a number of groups addressing environmental concerns, including the Center for Urban Ecology; Green Operations, an initiative of the Council on Presidential Affairs; Student ECO (Environmental Concerns Organization); ECO Dawgs, a group of faculty, staff and students; and B.U.R.N. (Butler University Resale Network), a student product-recycling organization.

Ginnye Cubel, green operations coordinator for the Council on Presidential Affairs, applauded Danko’s decision to sign the Climate Commitment. “It not only symbolizes Butler’s eagerness and enthusiasm for pursuing sustainable initiatives, but it also pushes us to bring significant and lasting changes to campus,” the senior English writing major from Milford, Mich., said. “Indiana is one of the worst environmental states in the nation and by signing the commitment Butler is about to become a leader in the Indianapolis area for sustainable efforts. Butler is on the verge of something great and it’s exciting to be here to witness it.”

Here is the schedule of events planned for Earth Week.
Monday, April 16
Tree Day
·Seed paper giveaway (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·Information on tree inventory (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·President Danko signs ACUPCC (3:30 p.m./Star Fountain)
Tuesday, April 17
Sustainable Foods Day
·Reusable bag giveaways (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·Information on best ways to eat sustainably (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks/cafeterias)
Wednesday, April 18
Water Day
·Brita hydration station promotion (Irwin Library lobby, Jordan Hall first Floor, Gallahue Hall second floor, Lilly Hall main floor)
·Water facts (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·Water bottle giveaway (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
Thursday, April 19
Energy Day
·Green roof information (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·Green roof tours by Sarah Strobl (11 a.m.-1 p.m./meet at Starbucks to head over to Pharmacy Building)
·Wind Turbine demonstration (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
Friday, April 20
Recycling Day
·Recycling video (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·Information on what to recycle (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·“Real Dawgs Recycle” button giveaway (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Starbucks)
·RecycleMania updates. (noon, Starbucks patio. The winner of the RecycleMania competition will be announced and they will be awarded their prize — a hand-shaped chair made out of recycled materials.)
Saturday, April 21
Center for Urban Ecology Day
·CUE interns will present their own projects and projects CUE is working on (11 a.m.-1 p.m./Center for Urban Ecology)
·Keep Indy Beautiful service project (9 a.m-12 p.m. at Fountain Square. Project is The Great Indy Clean-Up. Volunteers will be helping with various clean-up projects around the Fountain Square neighborhoods.)
Sunday, April 22 (Earth Day)
Earth Day Celebration
·Celebration of the culmination of Earth Week events with food, giveaways, and music! (2-4 p.m./Reilly Room)
·Announce new sustainability council (2-4 p.m./Reilly Room)
·Showcase achievements and promote Environmental Concerns Organization (ECO), Butler University Resale Network (BURN), Council on Presidential Affairs Green Operations (CPA Green Ops), Center for Urban Ecology (CUE), campus farm and facilities (2-4 p.m./Reilly Room)

If you are interested in volunteering your time on JUNE 21st at Broad Ripple Park from 11:00 am to 2:00pm please contact Sergeant Alan T. Leinberger at  for more information!

Classes will take place from 6:30-8:45 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays in the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 530 W. Hampton Drive. Cost is $250.
To register, or for more information, email .

Whether you are a novice or an experienced poet, the poetry workshop will give you the opportunity to share your passion for language. Participants will explore a poem’s possibilities and pitfalls and discuss the particular delights and challenges of the art and craft of poetry. The group will help poets make and shape their own poems through rigorous and compassionate critiquing.
In addition to weekly discussion of each student’s poems, participants will also peruse (primarily) contemporary poetry and muse over poetical devices and techniques. They will respond to a variety of writing prompts and exercises that will help fine-tune their diction, imagery, music, figurative language, syntax and line breaks.

Lynch is the author of two books of poetry, Sails the Wind Left Behind and It was a terrible cloud at twilight. Her work is frequently nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony of the Arts and the Corporation of Yaddo. She has taught poetry writing for more than 12 years.

The Booty Loop in Indianapolis is at Butler University. At the center of it all is Bootyville, our own little city, which also serves as the event headquarters over the 24 hours.  

2012 Course map

Riders set up campsites and canopies that they can sleep, or more importantly, rest and relax with friends off of the bike. The food tent is probably the most popular place outside of the course itself. Along with the three squares riders will receive they will have access to snacks, energy bars, water and sports drinks. Bootyville also is the site of our expo area where our corporate sponsors set up shop and offer a range of services including 24-hour bike support, raffles for special items and information about their services. Because of the Booty Loop’s Butler University location, you will find students, family and friends out supporting the riders at all hours. 

Along with our national beneficiary, LIVESTRONG™, 24 Hours of Booty will support a local cancer charity to be announced soon! The organizations are having a tremendous impact on our neighbors battling cancer, and we are proud to be able to support their efforts.

Whether you ride, volunteer, donate or come out to cheer, we hope to see you at 24 Hours of Booty Indianapolis!

Click HERE for more information or to join a team!

Blue II, Butler University’s live mascot, is in the process of training a puppy protégé.  Blue III, or “Trip,” as he will be called is making his Butler debut Feb. 18 at the men’s basketball ESPN BracketBuster game against Indiana State University at 2 p.m. in Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Media covering the game can see “Trip” up close at 2:05 p.m. in Hinkle’s Media Room. Media are also invited to campus for additional photos and interview opportunities with Michael Kaltenmark ’02, Butler’s director of Web Marketing and Communication, and caretaker to Blue II and Trip, on Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the University’s Reilly Room.

Joining big brother Blue II at Hinkle to welcome Trip into the Butler family will be Butler’s original mascot, Butler Blue. Now, 11 years old, Blue is enjoying her retirement in Illinois with her owner Kelli Walker ’91, former Butler Assistant Director of Alumni and Parent Programs.

Trip was born on Dec. 23, 2011 and weighed 13.5 oz. He comes from Frank and Jeane King of Kong King Kennel, the same breeders that gave Butler, Blue II, almost eight years ago.

“Butler was not looking for its third mascot before Trip was born,” said Kaltenmark. Blue II is still in great health and has and will continue to be an active member of the Butler community. “Trip was essentially ‘a great opportunity’ for Butler. He was the only male in his litter and is a descendant of championship Bulldog, Ch. Cherokee Legend Rock.” Having Trip at Butler now means he will learn from the best (Blue II) and be fully prepared for the day when he officially takes the reins as the University’s “Top Dawg.”  Until then, Blue II will continue to tweet, eat and nap around campus as usual.

Like Blue II, Trip will receive the best in care and support from partners such as City Dogs Grocery, Don Hinds Ford, Good Dog Hotel & Spa, Holistic Select, Nike, Butler Bookstore, WellPet and Woodland Animal Hospital. He will join Blue II in the Kaltenmark household which includes Michael, his wife Tiffany, and their son Everett.

You can learn more about Blue III by visiting his website <http://www.butler.edu/blue3/>

Admission is free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call (317) 940-5974.
Mitchell is an investigative reporter with the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger whose courageous efforts have ensured that unpunished murders from the Civil Rights era are finally prosecuted.

In 1989, Mitchell began his immersion in decades-old stories of thwarted justice and undertook a meticulous review of the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith had been tried twice for this crime in 1964, and each trial ended in hung juries. By analyzing hundreds of documents and interviewing scores of witnesses, Mitchell laid the groundwork for a new trial. The case was reopened and culminated in the conviction and life sentence of Beckwith in 1994.

Mitchell has since uncovered largely unknown details about many other long-dormant murder cases. His reporting has played a key role in the convictions of Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966, of Bobby Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls, and of Edgar Ray Killen for helping to orchestrate the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss.

His investment of time and painstakingly detailed research has also produced a broad range of reports on such subjects as racial reconciliation in the South and judicial bribes and chicanery in Mississippi, as well as a series on his own family’s battle against a rare genetic ailment. In an era when long-term investigative reporting is more the exception than the rule, Mitchell’s life and work serve as an example of how a journalist willing to take risks and unsettle waters can make a difference in the pursuit of justice.

Jerry Mitchell received a B.A. (1982) from Harding University and an M.A. (1997) from Ohio State University. He joined the Clarion-Ledger in 1986 as a bureau reporter before turning to investigative reporting in 1989.

Registration is $20 for the general public and $15 for Butler students until March 12. Late registration (March 13 and thereafter) is $25. Details and registration forms are available at http://www.butler.edu/bulldog-jog/. More information is available by calling (317) 940-4472.

Registration is open to the community. Proceeds from the event benefit the Butler University Health and Recreation Complex Student Scholarship Fund. The course for the run/walk begins on Lake Road and proceeds through the Butler University campus and canal path. Runners begin at 9 a.m., walkers at 9:05 a.m. Late registration will be held in the lobby of the Health & Recreation Complex, immediately west of Hinkle Fieldhouse, from 8-8:45 a.m.  The 5k race will begin at 9 a.m. for runners and 9:05 a.m. for walkers. Participants in the dog walk will get started at 9:15 a.m. Official Butler University mascot Butler Blue II will serve as grand marshal for the inaugural Bulldog Jog Dog Walk. Participants are encouraged to bring items and supplies for Indiana Bulldog Rescue and Humane Society of Indianapolis to assist in the care of dogs much less fortunate.

This year’s Bulldog Jog is sponsored by Butler University, the Butler University Student Foundation, Holistic Select, Fresh Market, Courtyard by Marriott Indianapolis-Carmel, City Dogs Grocery, WellPet, Aramark, Athletic Annex, Brinkman Press and the Health and Recreation Complex.

The schedule of concerts will be:

8 p.m. Feb. 29: The Purdue University Wind Ensemble and the Ball State University Wind Ensemble.
8 p.m. March 1: Indiana University Wind Ensemble and Michigan State University Wind Symphony.
8 p.m. March 2: The United States Army Field Band, Washington, D.C.
2 p.m. March 3: Butler University Wind Ensemble.

The concerts are free and open to the public, but tickets are required for the Army Field Band performance. The tickets are available at the Clowes Memorial Hall box office and through Ticketmaster (some fees apply). For more information, call (317) 940-6444.

The American Bandmasters Association, founded in 1929 with John Philip Sousa as honorary life president, is the most prestigious organization in the world for band directors. The current membership (invitational) comprises approximately 300 band conductors and composers in the United States and Canada, and 70 associate members (music businesses and corporations that provide significant services to bands and to the publication of band music). Its convention rotates locations throughout the United States. This is the first time it’s being held in Indianapolis since 1982.

Donations of used books and media for our new retail outlet will support Indy Reads adult literacy programs! Start boxing up your gently used books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks and video games, and help others learn to read.
 
Indy Reads, central Indiana’s only accredited adult literacy organization, is preparing to open a community bookstore. The store, to be called Indy Reads Books, will be located in downtown Indianapolis along The Cultural Trail. It will be the only bookstore in downtown Indianapolis and is scheduled for completion later this spring. Indy Reads Books will sell donated used books with proceeds benefitting Indy Reads’ literacy tutoring programs.

All types of books and media items, except for textbooks and magazines, are welcome at this time. Some items may be sold through a third-party service prior to the store opening. Book and media collection boxes are located at the following locations.

• Indy Reads Office – 2450 N. Meridian St. (12 to 5 p.m. weekdays)
• WFYI – 1630 N. Meridian St. (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays)
• The Best Chocolate in Town – 880 Mass. Ave. (11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday)
• Global Gifts – 446 Mass. Ave. (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday)
• The Athenaeum – YMCA – 401 E. Michigan St. (5 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 5. p.m. weekends)- this box will be available by 2/7/12

Book-drives will also take place on the Butler Campus (Feb. 24) and IUPUI (March 1). The local organization Giving Sum will also be conducting book-drives. Contributions are tax-deductible as provided by state and federal law. Indy Reads can not give receipts for books donated through the collection boxes. If donors wish to claim a deduction they will need to keep a record of the number of books and type (hardcover or paperback) donated at this time. Receipts will be available at the store after it opens.

Indy Reads Books will further support the mission of Indy Reads by providing private space for tutors and students to meet, training opportunities, and more. Initial funding for Indy Reads Books has been secured through generous grants from Margot Lacy Eccles, the Efroymson Fund, the Glick Fund, and Giving Sum.

Additional collection locations will be announced soon. For more information, or to inquire about maintaining a collection box at a business or other organization, please contact Travis DiNicola, Executive Director of Indy Reads, at 317-275-4035 or .

Indy Reads is unwavering in our mission to improve the literacy skills of adults in central Indiana who read or write at or below the sixth grade level. Our goal is to make Indianapolis 100 percent literate. First established more than 30 years ago, Indy Reads is the only organization in Indianapolis, accredited by ProLiteracy Worldwide, which uses volunteers to provide free, basic literacy tutoring to illiterate and semi-literate adults. Indy Reads programming includes one-on-one tutoring, small group sessions, English as a Second Language instruction, and “Literacy Labs” at neighborhood centers. Learn more at www.IndyReads.org.