By Emily Sesto, Opinion Editor

June 28, 2023 • 1 Comment

I write about my experiences as a sexual assault survivor. I wrote my first poem in May of 2012, and I now have thousands of poems in my head and hundreds written down. Until recently, had only shared my poetry online, anonymously. This year, I began sharing the poems on my public social media platforms. This was a big step for me. You must understand that these are poems I never thought I would share with the world. Who would want to see such dark, sad words? I figured it was too ugly to share; I have never...

By Alyssa Alexsonshk, Correspondent, Photographer

May 8, 2023 • No Comments

Dis/connect The showcase opened with an outdoor dance performance that took the audience on a tour around Kolbe Hall. That dance that occurred prior to the event was reprised as a video played on a large screen in Paul Daum Theatre as the start of the formal recital. The videography gave a different perspective and focus on the dance that theatre-goers had witnessed outdoors, where they could choose to focus where they wanted. The piece seemed to convey the stressful aspects of the student experience such as extracurricular...

April 30, 2023 • No Comments

The new editorial staff for 23-24 is hoping to kick off the school year with a magazine edition featuring you. That’s right, you. All of you. As many of you as are willing to send us your stuff. What stuff? Well, that depends - on you. The End-of-Summer "Students Speak" Edition is meant to feature contributions from outside the editorial and reporting staff of The Buchtelite. We want to put a spotlight on the ideas, perspectives, opinions and creative work of our student body. The edition is meant to hit...

By Alyssa Alexsonshk, News Contributor

May 16, 2022 • No Comments

On Feb. 24, 2022, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine began. Hanna Bezuhla, a business-to-business sales consultant and content creator at lemlist, an outreach platform, shared her firsthand stories of the war.   Bezuhla recalled the exact moments that she realized the war started.   “I faced the war in Kyiv – woke up from a phone call followed by the sound of air raid sirens and distant explosions,” Bezuhla said. “I had exactly 1 minute of panic and then we started packing.”   Bezuhla lived...

By Julie Cajigas, Buchtelite advisor

May 1, 2023 • 2 Comments

As Buchtelite advisor, you will rarely hear my voice in the paper. The paper is here to amplify student voices. On Sunday, April 30, I set out to meet a student editor at “Unfinished,” The University of Akron Choral program’s last concert of the school year. I had offered to capture video so they could focus on the concert. Click here to see the edited video, highlighting moments of the performance. Unfortunately, the editor was unable to attend at the last minute. I stayed focused, because the student voices...

By Julie Cajigas, Faculty Advisor

April 22, 2020 • No Comments

To the editor: As the Advisor of The Buchtelite, my voice is not published in the paper, but instead supports the voices of the students by helping them grow in their understanding and application of professional and ethical journalistic principles. Today, I’d like to break with that in submitting this letter to the editor. I am doing so to congratulate the staff of The Buchtelite on winning the Rupert Latture Memorial New Student Organization Award as part of the 2020 LIFE Awards at The University of Akron. This...