INDIANAPOLIS — The star-in-waiting could not exactly hustle to class at the strip mall. “Is he asleep?” Evan Krauss, a mascot handler, asked his wife just before he answered his own question. “Of course he is.”And so someone carried Butler’s next ambassador inside for his lessons under the bright lights of the Bark Tutor School for Dogs. Now, the final stages of the transition are unfolding with Butler, like other universities confronting the coronavirus pandemic, in flux. The university has closed its dorms until at least April 4, athletics facilities have been shuttered and competitions canceled.

Source: New York Times March 16, 2020 06:56 UTC