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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bradley students and their siblings will be able to see a break dancing group with a unique spin tomorrow night as part of the Activities Council of Bradley University’s annual Siblings Weekend. Brakesk8, a break-dancing roller-skating group, will perform tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Markin Center. Brakesk8 has participated in MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” in 2008 and on “America’s Got Talent,” in addition to touring nationwide. “We are also really excited to have Brakesk8,” said Kyrsta Schauer, the ACBU Siblings Weekend Coordinator. “[This] [...]

The Muslim Student Association hosted Islam Awareness Week this past week to help students, faculty and members of the community better understand and appreciate the religion of Islam. This year’s theme was “Islamophobia in the Western Media.” Islamophobia is a phenomenon in which individuals harbor an irrational prejudice, hatred or fear of Islam and Muslims, believing that Islam is a violent political ideology rather than a religion. MSA hosted several speakers throughout the week with the purpose of addressing this misunderstanding. “[We are hosting these [...]

Results from the student housing survey have been compiled, and according to administrators involved with the survey, plans will be drawn up by a consultant company by the end of April. “We had focus groups with about 35 students who participated in it,” Executive Director for Residential Living Nathan Thomas said. “Then we had the big survey, where we had 2,200 responses. That’s nearly 40 percent of the student body, which was incredible.” Thomas said there are dorm updates that will continue throughout the semester, [...]

The Dean of the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts Jeffrey Huberman has a photo in his office of the man who was his predecessor; a man whom he calls a visionary, a mentor and a friend. That man was Phil Weinberg, and he passed away Feb. 2 at 86 years old. “I look to it every day to keep me motivated,” Huberman said. “He was ahead of the world, and the world has always been catching up to Phil Weinberg.” Weinberg had a [...]

The Spring Job and Internship Fair, held Wednesday in the arena, had record-breaking attendance, with 132 employers and 972 students – the most students in attendance at a spring job fair ever. “It was very much a success,” Executive Director of the Smith Career Center Jane Linnenburger said. “We haven’t had over 900 students at a spring fair in 10 years. I think students were excited because we had more employers than usual there.” Linnenburger said employers got good impressions from the students they talked [...]