Until recently, the area near campus seemed to be immune to the recent rash of armed robberies the city of Peoria has experienced. But last Friday about noon, senior accounting major Lauren Peterson was walking home from class when she was robbed at gun point.…
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This past weekend 14 women’s golf teams traveled across the Midwest to compete in Peoria for the Grand Prairie Classic golf tournament. “It was a tough weekend to play, the first day was only about 55,” freshman Keegan Ryan said. The three-day tournament was shortened…
Runoffs will take place next week for president and VP Two of the four positions in the Student Body Officer elections have yet to be decided. When the results were announced Tuesday, no candidate for president or vice president received a majority of the votes.…
Yes Jay Cutler, Matt Forte and Devin Hester. For the first time since I’ve been alive, the Chicago Bears seem like they have put together a formidable offense. Pair that with a defense that has most of its key components back from a Super Bowl…
Despite efforts to replace Blackboard with a new program by fall, students will have to wait another year before all classes are switched to Sakai. Although the goal early last fall was to complete the switch this spring, the move is taking longer than expected,…
After a two-year hiatus from the postseason, the Chicago Bulls are a half game ahead of the Detroit Pistons for the seventh playoff seed. At the middle of the NBA season, the Bulls were looking like they were again headed for the NBA Lottery with…
An author and professor will visit Bradley to discuss the ways the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 have changed the way our society is policed. Professor of criminal justice and police studies from Eastern Kentucky University Vic Kappeler will present the speech “Policing in the…
The men’s tennis team struggled last weekend against I-74 rival Illinois State and a strong Wichita State team, dropping every match played. On Friday the Braves matched up against the Redbirds and could not produce a victory. Bradley dropped the first doubles point when the…
Student Senate approved the Student Activities Budget Review Committee’s budget for 2009-10 on Monday with only one senator voting against it. Wassim Elhouar, the senator who voted against the $207,199 budget, said it spent too much on certain events. “There were a couple places where…
Senior softball player Alycia Bachkora comes from a family of ballplayers. After playing baseball at Fort Hayes State in Kansas, her father Charles raised Bachkora and her siblings to love the game. “He taught my brother to play baseball, then he started a summer team…