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Nate Fowler glad Butler emphasizes student aspect of student-athlete

Butler center’s career winding down David Woods, david.woods@indystar.com

INDIANAPOLIS – Road trips for Nate Fowler are not confined to charter flights to cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Tires on his car are worn in driving from Butler University to IUPUI’s campus.

That’s because Fowler is majoring in mechanical engineering, in which Butler does not offer classes and IUPUI does. Over the fall semester, he went across town for labs in engineering design and fluid mechanics.

“I can definitely tell, just looking back, when the classes were tougher ones, my basketball kind of dipped a little bit,” the 6-10 senior said.