It’s that time of the year where teams look to hit their strides right before their conference tournament. However, the Bradley women’s basketball team is running in the wrong direction with two home losses last weekend. Sunday, on Senior Day, the Braves fell 68-59 to…
Posts published in March 2012
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
No time has been wasted searching for a candidate to fill the position of assistant director of student activities. The national search for applicants was closed Thursday, receiving more than 75 applications just shy of three weeks since the former assistant director Dain Gotto began…
There are three things in this life that are all but certain: death, taxes, and Hollywood pandering to itself at the Academy Awards. Hollywood once again proved its vanity by awarding the art-house films with the big prizes while ignoring the blockbusters that delighted audiences…
It can be hard out there in the post-grad world. It can be even harder when booking Daytrotter sessions, getting married, releasing singles, writing an album, having a baby, touring the east and west coasts and preparing a brand new tour with accompanied by a…
A single voice can raise concerns, question administration and support initiatives. And with a single voice, a problem can be transformed into a solution. Some may not believe it, but a single voice on Bradley’s campus can achieve a lot. As a small university with…
I find it to be amazing that in our day and age a column for a collegiate publication can be written remotely, digitally dropped into an email, and sent hundreds of miles back to our campus. All of this from a device no different in…
I desperately want to remake “Gone.” It’s been out for a week, but I think America is ready for a good version of “Gone.” Movie theaters could have posters up that said something like “See the original version of ‘Gone’” and right next to it,…
The mid-year retention rate indicates that a little more than 96 percent of this year’s freshman class returned for their second semester. “These numbers correspond with a very objective picture and result of the education and environment that we provide for our students,” said Vice…
People have been reading and performing Shakespeare for centuries. No writer has been studied more in schools or adapted into more films. Every English major at Bradley (including myself) has to take one Shakespeare course to graduate, sometimes leading to either love or hatred of…