In almost three weeks to the day this paper is published, my entire life will be up in the air. I don’t have a job secured. I know where I want to be, New York City, but I am unsure if or how I will…
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Kicking and screaming like a mandrake ripped from its flower pot in some wizard greenhouse, I am being pulled out into the big bad world in a matter of weeks. No longer will it be viewed as impressive or acceptable to never sleep, encourage my…
Three years ago almost to the day, I was sitting in the admissions office at Roosevelt University. I was speaking with an admissions counselor, trying to figure out which of my classes from my first year at Bradley would transfer to the downtown Chicago school.…
Student Senate last week passed a resolution calling for the university to dole out interest-free loans a number of fraternity and sorority chapters that don’t have the funds to pay for mandatory sprinkler systems by Jan. 1, 2013. Fifteen of Bradley’s chapters must meet that…
Student Senate passed a resolution last week in hopes of encouraging the university to step up and help greek chapters find funding for state-mandated sprinkler systems. The resolution passed last week, though the university administration has not seen it yet. It calls for interest-free loans…
Next fall a select number of incoming freshmen will be given the opportunity to live in what some consider luxury. As part of a student developmental study, Bradley has extended the opportunity to incoming freshmen to live at Main Street Commons. Vice President of Student…
A fundraising event last weekend proved that forty years later, the WCBU National Public Radio station still has thousands of loyal listeners keeping the operation afloat. “We fundraise twice a year, and we had one last week that brought in about $126,000, which is a…
Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson and professor at University of Illinois, spoke to students, faculty, staff and community members about the growth and change in India last Thursday night. “In 1946, my grandfather said, ‘In [my idealistic] India, the last person would be equal to…
A new study program that may be available next spring will allow students of any major to spend a semester in Hollywood. Though approved by the University Senate, the Hollywood semester still needs to be signed off by Bradley University and the University of Texas,…
Professor Laura Bruns’s COM 103 class is organizing the drive as a class project to help the Peoria school district 150. Their goal is to collect unused or brand new school supplies such as binders, pencils, pens, markers, crayons, notebooks and folders for Peoria students…