A collaboration with Bradley and NBC has opened a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to all communications majors – a chance to intern with NBC at the 2012 Summer Olympics. An informational meeting hosted Sunday night in the Global Communications Center explained the application process to students who…
Posts published in February 2011
In conjunction with a decision to combine Homecoming and Parents’ Weekend, the university has asked the Activities Council of Bradley University to host the fall concert on the same weekend, making the job of ACBU members a little more difficult. “The administration asked ACBU to…
It’s a team you know very little about, but it could be the best on Bradley’s campus. The Bradley club hockey team concluded its season in dramatic fashion, winning the Mid-America Collegiate Hockey Association Silver Division championship for the first time in the program’s 44-year…
When you think of the Bradley and Illinois State rivalry, what names come to mind? Hatfields and the McCoys? Duke and UNC? Red Sox and Yankees? Probably not (at least to the student body). Even though it might not feel like it on Bradley’s campus…
A quick start and sustained excellence at the free throw line was all the Braves needed to separate themselves from the Southern Illinois Salukis on Saturday, 76-60. The Salukis entered the game looking for their first MVC victory in 13 tries but fell short. After…
Not long ago, the NBA’s Western Conference was king. The Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs teamed up to dominate whatever Eastern Conference foe stood in their way, winning nine championships in 12 years. Most of the league’s best players and best teams resided…
Knicks If there’s one widely held belief in the NBA, it’s that you need a superstar or two to win a championship. What the New York Knicks did was land a surefire superstar who can score as effortlessly as anyone else in the league in…
In entertainment, there is one quality everything from celebrity pregnancies to drug arrests (minus those involving Charlie Sheen) have in common. Surprise. Sometimes, though, in entertainment, the surprise is a much more welcome one – an actor that turns out to be better than expected,…
Bright Eyes isn’t my favorite band. Bright Eyes isn’t even really a great band. Even so, I couldn’t tell you a more influential group in my development as a person. Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst began recording his first album, “A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded…
You know the story: detective meets partner. Partners meet criminal. More attractive partner meets pretty female supporting character and engages in harmless flirtation. The whole crime scene drama has been done so many times for one reason and one reason only – it works. Audiences…