Kaitlin Parks Lantern Staff Butler Community College is one of the many colleges in the United States taking efforts to make recycling more of a priority. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), over the past few decades, institutes have started to take action for the ever rising, controversial climate change issues. These efforts were… Continue reading Campus stresses the three R’s reduce, reuse, recycle

Olivia Vest Managing Editor  With winter weather and low temperatures on the way, one El Dorado-based organization is working quickly to ensure that Butler County’s increasing numbers of homeless individuals will have a warm place to stay in upcoming months. The Butler Homeless Initiative (BHI), located at El Dorado’s First Church of the Nazarene on 1st and… Continue reading Kindness Column: Organization houses homeless

Hayley Smith Editor-in-Chief A career in the psychology field may interest students who are interested in people and the things that they do. Whether a student wants to be a social worker, psychologist, counselor, or many other careers, a psychology major may be the major to pursue. At Butler, students can pursue an associate’s of… Continue reading Potential careers in… Psychology

Caleb Thornton Advertising & Distribution Editor On July 1, 2017, those at least 21 years of age meeting the requirements to lawfully conceal carry a handgun by Kansas state law will have the right to conceal carry on campuses and in campus buildings during class. According to Chief Tim Bryan, in order to legally possess… Continue reading Questions raised regarding legislation

Matt Cooper Lantern Staff Last spring the Butler Lantern reported on an obvious discrepancy that exists among the Butler Community College faculty. It was noted that the overwhelming majority of instructors are white. In fact, less than three percent of faculty are of an ethnicity other than caucasian; this is an incongruity for one overlying… Continue reading On staff diversity, Grizzlies aware of what to expect