Bradley’s campus suffered significant Internet outages that put a halt on checking email, Sakai and other Web services Monday. Executive Director of Computing Services Sandra Bury said the cause of the outage was a fiber cut between Bloomington and Urbana. “It was an AT&T fiber…
Posts published in October 2013
As the school year lulls from first exams into fall break, we have the opportunity to reflect on the first complete month of the year. With a break from academics, we can relax and compare our personal and professional performances of this year’s beginning to…
Freshman Christian Okeke snuck a ball past the keeper for his second goal of the game to give Bradley the 3-2 overtime road victory over No. 3 Northwestern. The game-winning goal came with 2:17 left in overtime and gave the Braves its second victory over…
Justin Timberlake has just about reached god-like status in the last decade, but not even this kind of reputation can support the disappointing release of the second half of his latest album, “The 20/20 Experience.” After the first release of the album, it was clear…
For the first time, people of the Hilltop will finally have the opportunity to attend a football game on campus. However, this particular game will have a twist. Among the homecoming festivities this year, Bradley will host its first flag football game on Alumni Quad…
“I told the girls: ‘not today, this isn’t happening and we can’t let down’.” Those were the words echoed Friday night by coach Jenny Maurer to her team, as they were down two sets to none going into the third set and trying for a…
There are many TV finales that disappoint. “Lost,” “Battlestar Galactica” and most recently “Dexter” all come to mind. But the reaction to last Sunday’s finale of “Breaking Bad” was quite the opposite. Rather, it seemed overwhelmingly positive. The five-year journey of cancer-stricken high school chemistry…
An event occurred last weekend on campus that really hit home for me and the 52 brothers of my fraternity when insensitive comments were directed toward one of my fraternity brothers as he walked past another fraternity house. These comments directly insulted my house, my…
They might walk backwards, but the Student Admission Representatives (STARs) program keeps moving forward by expanding to meet the needs of the admissions office and Bradley in general. The STARs program has expanded from 68 STARs in 2011 to 78 STARs in 2012 to 94…
Los Angeles Dodgers The old saying goes “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” The Dodgers didn’t start very well, but they sure finished well, and that’s why they’ll win the World Series. In early June, they were under .500 and had just…