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 [...]

Bradley doesn’t have the purest of sustainability records. According to greenreportcard.org, a C- overall. Granted, that’s up from the D we received in 2010. However, the university continues to make strides to improve it’s environmental reputation. The report card is a guideline, and while we are excelling in some areas, there are other areas where we have fallen flat simply because it’s not applicable to our campus. Some of our lowest grades fall under the categories of “green building” and “transportation.” According to Gary Anna, [...]

With spring quickly approaching, I think back to Oct. 5, when I got some big news. The love of my life was coming into town. Chipotle is heading to Peoria. The Peoria Journal Star confirmed the rumors flying around, and I finally have a place to eat besides McDonald’s, Subway or Jimmy John’s. Finally after eating it several times when I’m back in Minnesota, I can continue my sick obsession by eating Chipotle during the school year. Sure, it’ll be further away but at least [...]

If you were one of the 972 plus students who attended the Spring Job and Internship Fair Wednesday, you may have noticed the floor was busier than usual. That’s because for both student and employer turnout, there were more in attendance than ever before. The last time more than 900 students visited was in 2002. That’s a pretty impressive number, especially since the current senior class is considered small. And for the employers, there were 132 in attendance. The record prior to that was 147 [...]

Did you know there is an elite society on campus? This group may be small and exclusive but their impact is unimaginable. These men and women go to work when the rest of the Bradley community goes on break. Working tirelessly, they move about campus, changing its face as we know it. Who is this legion of exclusivity, you may ask? The few. The proud. The Bradley University Student Work Crew. ‘Work Crew,’ as those on the inside call it, is a group of up [...]

Being a fan of pop culture naturally gets you used to the reset button. There are so many examples of TV shows, movies, comics and books that have ended up writing themselves into a corner and needing to find a way out that dramatically changes the story. Whether it’s the infamous death and subsequent return of Superman, the semi-incestuous brother/sister love story in Brothers and Sisters or the exceedingly dumb mask twist in “Mission Impossible 3,” it’s a cheat and it takes people out of [...]

An employee at Foxconn, a Chinese technology manufacturer, used the above quote in an interview with CNN to describe why the company uses people instead of machines to make all sorts of gadgets, including iPods, iPhones, the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Amazon Kindle and probably the computer you use to write your papers. I wrote this column on an Apple MacBook, where it clearly says on the case it was “assembled in China.” Foxconn has been in the news recently after over 100 [...]

This past fall, the Activities Council of Bradley University brought the alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday and the pop punk band, the Maine, to campus. Both bands, which had only a few popular hits, drew in a disappointing crowd. The show sold 55 percent less tickets than the previous Jason Derulo and Mike Posner concert and the arena was half empty. Friday at Late Night BU, ACBU announced that a more popular artist will be making a visit to Bradley’s campus: DJ Redfoo from [...]

In this day and age, college students are doing all they can to line up a job post-graduation. While I would also like to be employed and put my degree to use after leaving the Hilltop, one decision I made over the summer may have screwed up my chances. I got a tattoo. Before you jump to conclusions, I’m not your everyday rebellious teenager hoping to prove a point and flip my middle finger to the world with a few drops of ink. I’m not [...]