History professor John Williams may have been born in the western mountains of North Carolina, but his lifelong passion has always been cemented in German culture and history. According to Williams, the relative comparability between the dark past of the southern United States and Germany…
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If you’re like me, you went home after your freshman year, looked at your dad, and proceeded to think there wasn’t a chance he raged as hard as you did. How could he have? He works 45 to 50 hours a week, spends Saturdays doing…
Don’t let its beauty shop storefront fool you; Soo Kim Taekwondo, located at 1207 W. Main St, is home to one of the world’s most respected practitioners of taekwondo: Grandmaster Soo Kim. Elected to the U.S. Taekwondo Grandmasters Society Hall of Fame in 2014, Kim…
Economics professor Janet Highfill replaced Amit Sinha as chairperson of the Finance Department following an intradepartmental meeting March 22. The action to replace Sinha came less than a year into his second term as department chair. Peculiarity of action Sinha was not present at…
Late Night BU will be held off-campus today, marking the first time the event has been held in a location other than the Hilltop since its inception in 2008. The Warehouse on State in downtown Peoria will serve as the venue for the event, which…
A childhood dream came true for 58-year-old Mark Mannen in November 2014 when he opened Fat Jacks, a Quad Cities style pizzeria. Mannen said he spent much of his childhood in local pizzerias, learning centuries-old lessons about pizza preparation from an Italian pizzeria owner. “The…
Chicago native Gdadebo Adebiyi plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud Feb. 6 for his role in a March 2015 breach of the Bradley data warehouse that stored the personal information of staff and faculty, resulting in theft of over $770,000.…
Bradley graduates won’t be the only ones leaving the Hilltop in May, as Baker Hall will be demolished following graduation to make way for construction of the long-planned Business and Engineering Complex, which was previously referred to as the Convergence Center. The Board of Trustees…
With shelves stocked with mugs sporting a variety of crests and racks lined with lettered sweaters, University Shop has served the needs of Bradley greeks for the last 45 years. University Shop, located at 1829 West Main Street, sells an array of greek-affiliated items ranging…
While many Bradley students were preparing to head back to the Hilltop for the spring semester, nine students, intent on making a difference in an impoverished community, traveled to Macon, Georgia, as part of the Bradley U Gives Back Alternative Winter Break program. While in…