As an English major, I would be careless if I did not use a poem to describe my experience in college: “If things had happened differently Maine or upper Michigan might have given me a sense of place… But as it is, the only…
Posts published in April 2012
I went into Girl Talk with very high hopes, and I think I was in the minority there. Unfortunately, nothing quite lived up to my expectations, from the minimal turnout to the mediocre openers and lack of crowd etiquette, things were not what I was…
What we’ve known for months finally became reality Thursday night. Quarterbacks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were drafted No. 1 and No. 2 overall by the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Redskins, respectively. The NFL draft is an imperfect science. For every Peyton Manning, John…
As part of the Bradley University Black Alumni Alliance reunion, former Bradley history professor Arwin Smallwood returned to campus April 20 to speak to students and alumni about the accomplishments of black students at Bradley. The event, called “Blacks at Bradley,” was hosted by Students…
Perfect game Saturday, Chicago White Sox’s Philip Humber threw the 21st perfect game in MLB history against the Seattle Mariners. Yes, striking out 20 batters in a game is more rare, but that’s an individual performance. As baseball is more of a team sport, a…
My first article for the Scout came out in September of 2008, at a time when most people at this university were still in high school. It feels like ages ago. I was a freshman, in my first few weeks in college and I was…
Brace yourselves, avid moviegoers. The summer blockbuster season is coming. Hollywood has prepared a large slate of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots for our rapid consumption in the upcoming months. But which offerings are truly worth seeing? Marvel Comics’ “The Avengers” will be the first…
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:…
Shortly after midnight on April 20, students received a safety alert email about an armed robbery at Jimmy John’s on Main Street about an hour before. There were two male suspects, one who was armed with a revolver and fired a shot inside the restaurant.…
If there was one thing I learned from “Think Like a Man” it was that a Steve Harvey book can and will change my life. Joining the newer genre of rom-coms based on self-help books, “Think Like a Man” delivers laughs, love scenes set to…