This year’s graduating seniors will have to work harder in their searches for jobs than those in the past due to a faltering economy and a 22 percent drop in hiring. A recent report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has noted…
Posts published in April 2009
The a capella group InPulse is coming to Bradley on Saturday night as part of spring Parents’ Weekend. The group will perform at 8 p.m. in the Michel Student Center ballroom. The cost is $1 for students and $2 for parents and others wishing to…
The term “clean election” isn’t as prevalent as it should be these days. In fact, many students don’t know what it really means. This is where Democracy Matters comes in. Democracy Matters is a nationwide campus-based project that aims to teach students about the importance…
The Activities Council announced it won’t host a spring concert this year. “There were really no bands touring that ACBU wanted,” Director of Student Activities Michelle Whited said. “We wanted to save the money [students spent this semester] and put more money into next semester.”…
U.S. Rep Aaron Schock is adding another item to his resume as the youngest keynote speaker at a Bradley graduation in the past 30 years, and likely the youngest ever. “Hopefully I’ll add a different flavor to the … list of speakers in that obviously…
Next semester there will be a cafe added to the Cullom-Davis Library, as a part of a five-year plan to renovate the library. “We wanted to look at the things that we could implement first based on the cost and time it could be accomplished,”…
So we’re sitting here wondering “Whatever happened to Biz Markie?” Turns out, the one-hit-wonder contributes his talents to the Nick Jr. television block on a regular basis. Naturally we wanted to know more. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite one-hit-wonders, and where they are…
We live in a golden age of comedy, my friends. Where we once saw Ben Stiller, we now see Paul Rudd. (Yes, I miss seeing Owen Wilson in blockbuster comedies, too, but we all have to make sacrifices). “I Love You, Man” is yet another…
This month, the latest in the “Punk Goes” series was released and was well worth the wait. The compilation series features punk and indie-rock bands covering different songs from specific genres and/or time periods of music. The newest in the series, “Punk Goes Pop 2,”…
Of all the words you can use to describe Jack White, predictable is not one of them. He’s an actor and one-time upholsterer, but he’s mostly revered for his involvement in several genre-crossing musical endeavors since the early 1990s. There was the Grammy-winning rock duo,…