By Megan Parker, Editor-in-Chief

September 13, 2019 • No Comments

Interim President John Green announced The University of Akron is looking to hire 17 new faculty members and begin national searches for five administrative positions in order to continue its focus on superior academic programs.   All of the searches are planned to start this academic year in hopes of the faculty hires being completed by the Fall 2020 semester.   Green initially announced these hires during a Faculty Senate meeting on Sept. 6 as one of the University’s plans toward addressing the decreasing enrollment of students and decrease in returning students.   Ten of the planned faculty hires will...

By Megan Parker, Editor-in-Chief

September 9, 2019 • No Comments

Editors Note: The Buchtelite will provide an additional article on students’ response to these topics.   Leaders from two key constituency groups on campus, Faculty Senate and the Akron-AAUP, share their responses to the recent changes at The University of Akron.   According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, constituency groups are the bodies of people with the ability to elect a representative.   At UA, Faculty Senate and the Akron Chapter of the American Association of University Professors were two of the groups that had representation on the presidential search committee.   Prior to...

By Kaitee Horstmann, Copy Editor

September 8, 2019 • No Comments

Parking and Transportation Services at The University of Akron has changed the route of the Roo Express, a free shuttle for students on campus, from several routes to one circulatory route for the Fall 2019 semester.   In past semesters, the Roo Express had three routes: the Polsky Express, East Route, and South Route. Each was set to run between its predetermined destinations, reaching each location about every ten minutes.    The new route will stop at most of the same locations, but combine all three routes into one single circulatory route called the Campus Circulator.   One goal of combining the routes...

By Katie Shuber, News Contributor

September 8, 2019 • No Comments

With two weeks of the Fall 2019 semester complete, students at UA are sharing their advice for new students based on a variety of different experiences during these first weeks of classes.   Jaquie McAninch, a junior business administration major, said while her first week did not go as planned, the second was better as she settled into a routine. McAninch also said talking with her grandmother over the phone helped her to adjust.    Along with working toward her undergraduate degree, McAninch works at a salon outside of school and even hopes of opening her own one day.   Through handling all her classes...

By Megan Parker, Editor-in-Chief

September 8, 2019 • No Comments

Think twice before sharing those selfies on social media, as companies are now starting to use those self-portraits for marketing efforts.   As defined by the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, a selfie is “an image that includes oneself (often with another person or as part of a group) and is taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks.”   According to a UA press release, different companies and brands are now using selfie culture as a way to encourage consumers to post their self-portraits in relation to a specific product or service.   But how exactly do these...

By Veronica Janosek, News & Sports Editor

September 8, 2019 • No Comments

The University of Akron School of Law will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment by bringing together national experts to discuss how the effects of women’s suffrage have changed America’s present and future.   These experts will be at this year’s annual Center for Constitutional Law conference titled “The 19th Amendment at 100: From the Vote to Gender Equality,” in the Brennan Moot Court Room Sept. 20, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.    According to a UA press release, the conference will begin in the morning after a continental breakfast with Nancy Abudu, the voting rights director of the...

By Kaitee Horstmann, Copy Editor

September 3, 2019 • No Comments

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently counting down the days until another trip to Mars in 2020 with plans to send a new and improved rover to collect soil samples.  Space travel is often related back to astronauts and spaceships, but people often forget all of the little things that make space exploration possible; such as the tires on a rover.  Heather Oravec, Ph.D., a mechanical engineering research associate professor at UA, is now researching terrain requirements of Mars with the Surface Mobility Team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland for the 2020 mission.   Research...

By Jessica Ricks, Arts & Entertainment Editor

September 3, 2019 • No Comments

Sponsored by the City of Akron, Akron’s first ever Pizza Fest showcased eight local pizza vendors, cornhole, inflatables and live music performances at Lock 3 throughout Labor Day weekend.   According to the Pizza Fest website, the three-day food and music festival featured several different pizza parlors from the Akron area that sold both individual slices and whole pizzas as a way for the community to try different local pizza options.   Guests had the opportunity to participate in pizza eating contests on Saturday and Sunday, with an entry fee of $12. Proceeds from each contest were given to the Akron Children’s...