Butler Campus Tour Guide

Hi. My name is Kristin, and I'll be your tour guide for today's visit of Butler University. My assistant tour guide is Miles Joseph Kahl.

Let's start our tour today at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. Its most notable feature is the original urinals...straight outta 1928.



Moving inside, Miles will demonstrate how to inbound a pass onto the original court. I guess Gene Hackman was born right here, in the middle of the basketball court.



Next, we'll move along Lake road, past the carillon and fountains. No need for a picture stop - nothin' to see here.

Here, we see Butler Observatory, home to Indiana's largest telescope and a multitude of nerds from across the Midwest.



Straight ahead, you'll see Robertson Hall. This building houses the Alumni, Admissions, and Financial Aid offices. They take cash, charge, or credit...payable over the next 20 years, in my case.



In the distance, you can see Lilly Hall, home to Butler's college of fine arts, and the Pharmacy building. Butler's doctor of pharmacy program requires most students to spend 6 years in that building. Not surprisingly, the music students also average a 6-year stint at Lilly before graduation as well.



We move throughout campus, past Atherton Union, and Indiana's first Starbucks. A $3 cup of coffee seems like a small price to pay - that's only 0.01% of the cost of annual tuition. [Lecture I've given 928 times for anyone who tells me Butler is too expensive - maybe I only had poor and talented friends, but I never knew of anyone who paid full price to attend.]

In front of Atherton, we have a collection of student-painted bulldogs, representing each of Butler's colleges. Miles' personal favorite is "Amadogus Mozart".



Miles demonstrates Butler's fourth most popular sport, soccer, which ranks behind basketball, water polo, and cricket. You'll also see Irwin Library behind him. Its architecture is known to represent a bookshelf, lined with books. Today's students have never cracked open a hard copy book, now that we have iPhones and the internet, so we've been instructed now to say that it was designed to look like the opening credits of the Muppet Show. Oh, wait, Butler students were not yet born when the Muppet Show aired. Let's just say it looks like Miley Cyrus' house.



Here we have Clowes Hall, home to arts and other public events serving the city of Indianapolis. Former U.S. Presidents have spoken on its stage, and famous performers have demonstrated their craft here. Its most famous performance happened in August 1996, when a then little-known Kristin Woodling first graced its stage as a Tina Turner impersonator in front of an audience of hundreds.



Finally, the crown jewel of Butler's campus, Jordan Hall. It was one of the first buildings built when Butler moved to Fairview in the 1920's. It was named after Jordan Sparks of American Idol fame.



Thanks for visiting Butler with us today. And remember, GO DAWGS!