Thunder When looking for the best team in the NBA, the search starts and stops in Tornado Alley. The Oklahoma City Thunder, who have sat atop the western conference standings for the majority of the season, are clearly the team to beat as we approach…
Posts published in April 2012
Bradley will host the American Society of Civil Engineers National Conference of the Great Lakes 2012, an engineering competition for civil engineering majors throughout the Midwest. The yearly conference will feature various competitions on April 20, in Eureka at Eureka Lake, and April 21 at…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
At the beginning of every baseball season, there are two guarantees. Chicago Cubs’ fans will think “it’s our year” and it will end in disappointment like it has for the last 104 years. Picking the division winners is a bit trickier, but I channeled my…
A new organization has recently been granted membership in the Interfraternity Council with the goal of enhancing Greek unity across campus. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was unanimously voted as a preliminary member of IFC on April 2. At a national level, Kappa Alpha Psi…
While Main Street Commons will not be home to freshmen next school year, the apartment complex was successful in pleasing most of the underclassmen who called it home. “Almost all of the freshmen that were part of the Main Street program are staying in Main…
Bradley’s current food provider, Eurest, provides every food item sold on campus. That covers everything from food served in the dining halls to chicken sandwiches served in the Student Center to the pizza sold at Center Court. But this year was the last year of…
The times are changing over at the ABC Network. In the wake of a down housing market, Wisteria Lane has become oddly quiet. The Desperate Housewives friends are packing up their moving vans after eight seasons of mysteries and very attractive husbands. For some, this…
Dear Scout writers, I’d like to write about the Activities Council Bradley University show – Girl Talk. A lot of students have been quoted in the paper saying they’re not going because they don’t know the artist. Another opinion that I think is happening…
If you see a poster for Lifetime’s new series The Client List, you’ll probably expect it to be the erotic adventures of a high-class escort, similar to Showtime’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The advertisements for the show almost exclusively feature its star, Jennifer…