Bradley students and guests gathered for a benefit concert Saturday evening in Lydia’s Lounge hosted by the Bradley chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms. The concert featured nine community and Bradley musicians including Shoebox Stories, the BU Jazz Combo, Gretchen Wolking and the Manchurian Incident. “I think it [was] a really great event,” said sophomore psychology major and Vice President of the Bradley TWLOHA chapter Ashley Ellerson. “We’re helping raise awareness about the organization for suicide, depression, anxiety and all that. And I [...]

Bradley pitcher Joe Bircher may be the best athlete on campus, but you would never know it from talking to him. The 6-foot-4-inch senior from Omaha, Neb. has a quiet confidence and, despite individual success, always puts the team and program first. Bircher has been a well-known commodity in the Missouri Valley Conference, posting a sub four earned run average in his first three years on the Hilltop. He is the Bradley active leader in almost every pitching category including wins, ERA, starts, innings pitched [...]

Junior psychology major Melissa Matheys spent last Friday night watching TV in her St. James Apartment as Cambridge Property employees sloshed through the sewage-soaked carpeting in her home. “Listening to the maintenance people walk around our apartment sounded like people walking through puddles outside,” she said. “All weekend our apartment smelled like toilet water.” Last Friday evening around 7 p.m., all the first-floor apartments in St. James unit 824 began to flood with sewage, some worse than others. “We knew something was wrong when my [...]

The Bradley men’s basketball team hasn’t shot the ball well all season and the theme continued Wednesday night in a 62-55 loss to Drake at Carver Arena. The Braves shot a dreadful 0-for-20 from the perimeter, connecting on no threes for the second time this year. “We’ve been offensively challenged a lot of the year,” coach Geno Ford said. “It’s hard to play good offense when we shoot as poorly as that. We just couldn’t buy one. I thought we battled. It’s hard thing to [...]

On Oct. 30, 1999, a McDonald’s employee was robbed and fatally shot in the Main Street restaurant’s parking lot shortly after closing. The incident triggered fear throughout the Bradley community. Within three months, emergency blue light phones were installed on campus. Since its introduction in 2000, the emergency phones have provided students with a sense of security. “Emergency preparedness is always a good thing to have,” said senior physics major Ryan Crawford. “It’s better to have it and not need it, than to need it [...]

If the Bradley women’s basketball team took a step forward with back-to-back home wins two weeks ago, then it took a step backwards with two road losses last weekend. The Braves are on a six-game losing streak on the road, and have lost 14 consecutive times to Illinois State after dropping an 82-63 contest Sunday. “The final score was not indicative of what the game was,” coach Paula Buscher said.  “There were several times late in the second half when it was a four-point ballgame [...]

Bradley is continuing its efforts to “go green” by installing electric charging stations for cars around campus. Senior Director of Public Relations Kath Conver said adding charging stations is part of the university’s sustainability initiative. “Bradley has installed three auto charging stations in the campus parking decks to serve students, faculty and staff with electric and hybrid cars,” she said. “Two are located just inside the main entrance to the Main Street parking deck. One is located on the first level of the Duryea Avenue [...]

The activity fee increase from $130 to $170 set for next fall could give the Activities Council at Bradley University the buying power to bring in artists currently topping the charts, Assistant Director of Student Activities Dain Gotto said. Performers such as Nicki Minaj or Kid Cudi, previously out of the question for the concert budget, could be fair game. “We have about $60,000 to spend each semester, but with this increase we will have about $100,000,” Gotto said. “That gets us a much higher [...]

It was great to see that so many students attended the Spring Job and Internship Fair last week. Some students said they didn’t attend with a specific employer in mind to talk to; they really just wanted to get experience talking to employers and learn about the different opportunities available to them. And that’s great too. However, I noticed something bizarre at this job fair. Maybe it’s happened in the past and I didn’t see it, but I definitely saw it last week. There were [...]

The Cullom-Davis Library. Seriously, Bradley…WTF?!  Since my freshman year, the Bradley library has been a sore subject on our campus. In 2009 the Scout reported that the Princeton Review named the library as the worst in the nation. In response the student body erupted with mockery for the building, the infrastructure, and lack of usable literature. The library’s woes are not a new phenomena. In fact, a half century ago, campus was buzzing with animosity over the collections at the library. Times back then were [...]