A Letter to All Bradley Students: On behalf of each of our student-athletes and my coaching staff, thank you for your support, energy and passion at Throwback Night in Renaissance Coliseum.  Our 66-65 win against Southeast Missouri State was a memorable and magical night for our team, our community, the members of the 1982 NIT Championship team, and for everyone who attended. Your energy and support was crucial throughout the game. You created a home court advantage that was the difference in helping us win [...]

There seems to be a common misconception by The Scout editorial board that the progress of Student Senate can only be measured in the number of resolutions passed. This is not the case. Three years ago, senate did not pass any resolutions, so passing any now is an accomplishment, but not a measure of progress. In fact, there are many issues that do not require a resolution because they can be worked out with the administration ahead of time. This so-called indicator of progress has [...]

I would like to express my thanks to the eight Bradley University sports communications students who participated as interns in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Chicago.  I owe a very special thank you to student Zachary Keesee.  My fifteen year son Chad, who suffers from autism, is a huge NASCAR fan.  We were able to get a few pictures of Chad next to the car when it was on display at Olin Quad. I asked Zachary if it were possible to get an autograph [...]

I am the Critical Issues Coordinator of Bradley’s Activities Council and I want to express my disappointment that the advertisement for my event, “N*GGER W*TBACK, CH*NK,” was withheld from being published in The Scout. I understand that there were concerns with The Scout’s readers taking offense to the words, but the choice of words is a way to engage and encourage students to attend the performance—a performance that addresses and educates students on the seriousness, effects and the existence of these words that are still [...]

I agree with The Scout’s editorial of Friday, Sept. 23, that there is no good reason for The Scout to receive only “sanitized” and “filtered” police reports of police activities on or near Bradley’s campus. I understand that the University administration wants to protect the names of minors and of alleged victims. I do not, however, recall seeing any names in that portion of the paper in the past. Moreover, I am unaware of any problems that the former practice of access to photocopies of [...]

The Greek night BU was an event structured to allow the Bradley community to see what Greek life is all about. Some take a biased approach to the event; however, the event was open to all and permitted non-Greek members to socialize with Greek members. Another event for non-Greeks to catch up with the Greek community is the block party, but this is not the topic being discussed. The event presented the chance for students who had not rushed, to get a sense of what [...]

I’ll admit it. I never saw any official word that the GCC labs would be making the change this year and only knew about the modifications through various faculty members. And I also didn’t know the desktop machines wouldn’t be replaced. But you can’t tell me freshmen were totally blindsided. During my senior year of high school, IM department chair Jim Ferolo (who’s on sabbatical, by the way; a friend of mine assumed he left Bradley after reading the article) included with a congratulatory letter [...]

It is clear that the Scout is extremely against Bradley University aiding the Greeks for fire safety, but it seems that there are some inaccurate preconceived notions.  Greek organizations are not giant parties.  They have membership fees, committee structures, budgets, fundraising, and service hours, just like other campus organizations. The tone of last week’s editorial was very pessimistic about the Greeks.  Saying that a third of the campus is Greek and that they “do a lot for the campus and community” does not mask the [...]

Dear Editors, I write to you today having just read the Feb. 25 editorial article concerning student senate.  My response is a personal one, as I am the briefly discussed “unqualified candidate” who was voted against for the position of Internal Affairs chairperson last week, but also an attempt to tell the other story of the student senate problem.  The article ends with a recurring plea for interested parties to join Student Senate.  Because of what I’ve experienced recently, I won’t be applying for another [...]

We would like to respond to the column in the Feb. 18 edition of The Scout, “Banning smoking in outdoor areas is absurd, unfair to smokers.”  We feel it is important to shed light on the opposite view – one that supports smoke-free areas. The editorial mentioned the rights of the smokers and how banning smoking from these areas would be an infringement of their individual rights.  We would like to draw a comparison between the activities of drinking and smoking. Both involve risks to [...]