Two Fridays ago, I picked up the Scout’s Valentine’s Day issue. Immediately, I felt it was inappropriate and very tasteless material. Although it did not offend me personally, I understood how the paper was offensive as it was heteronomative, slut shaming, and promoting a rape…
Posts published in February 2016
This week’s wonder and blunder doesn’t pertain to A-list celebrities, but this week they were in the eyes of the Internet. Flossie Dickey is a 110-year-old legend, and she is something else. Her favorite things include naps and whiskey straight up. She’s charming in an…
This past weekend, the famous author Harper Lee passed away. She was best known for her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a coming-of-age story of following a lawyer, Atticus Finch, and his daughter, Scout, who struggle against the racism of their small town. It’s a…
Our staff competed at the annual Illinois College Press Association competition in Chicago last weekend, and we were honored with second place in General Excellence, competing against non-daily newspapers with an enrollment of 4,000 or more. Our team received eight other awards: – 1st place…
The Bradley women’s basketball team put on a tremendous defensive effort on Senior Day to beat I-74 rival Illinois State 52-38 at home this afternoon. The Braves were lead by sophomore Anneke Schlueter’s career-high 22 points, but it was the defense which was key in…
Sophomore foward Donte Thomas swished a three-pointer with 23 seconds left to cap a comeback 73-70 win over Drake in the 1,000th Missouri Valley Conference game in Bradley men’s basketball history. “They took away what we wanted [to run] at first,” head coach Brian Wardle…
The Bradley women’s basketball team was unable score when it mattered the most, nd fell victim to 23 turnovers in its 68-59 loss to Indiana State tonight. The Braves shot well from the field but were unable to get enough shots off against the Sycamore…
Just like U.S. history and poetry, most of us were brought up on a watered-down idea of gender and sex that leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Luckily, a few Bradley students who prefer to remain anonymous and don’t identify with the gender they were…
Sharon Flake, an award-winning author of young adult literature, came to the Peplow Pavilion Wednesday night, where she discussed the importance of diversity in literature and reading in general. “When I first started writing, I thought about African American kids because I feel their voices…