Thirty years ago, nearly every college in the country had more male students than female students – but that trend has reversed itself. According to pbs.com, women now make up 56 percent of the college going population. In addition to outnumbering men at college, women…
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As the economy continues to decline, students and administration are looking for ways to cut costs in everyday life. To combat the waning economy, Student Senate is creating an efficiency committee to help lower some of the miscellaneous costs to the university, Student Body President…
A truly dreadful day is approaching. Singles Awareness Day aka Valentine’s Day, or as I like to refer to it, VD makes its annual round. If you’ve read my columns or know me, I’m sure you’ll be able to guess this little tidbit about me…
As prom approaches, many high school girls busy themselves with getting their nails painted, doing their makeup, finding the right dress and locating the perfect arm candy to tie everything together. But there is one thing Ashlie Schlatweiler didn’t have to worry about on the…
Gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com shut down for good last Thursday, and founder and CEO Matt Ivester cited the hard economic times as the reason for the site’s termination “Unfortunately, even with great traffic and strong user loyalty, a business can’t survive and grow without a…
All over the world, and especially in the Middle East, America is strongly disliked, even hated. Insurgents in Iraq and radicals elsewhere are never short of recruits to carry out violence against America. But why? What did we ever do to them? The average Middle…
From Feb. 22 to 28, Bradley will be recognizing National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, celebrating the theme “… until eating disorders are history.” “National Eating Disorder Awareness Week is the largest outreach effort in the nation to raise awareness about eating disorders,” Lisa Fix-Griffin, a…
The Markin Family Student Recreation Center has experienced a huge boom in student participation with the newly added group fitness classes. Since the start of the semester, students have been flocking to the new facility to take advantage of these workouts, which are offered many…
Student-atlhete That word is commonly thrown around for people who play sports in college. Notice the first word, student, comes before the second word, athlete. This is a fact many fans don’t consider. Stories are written day-in and day-out about how athletes perform on…
About midnight Feb. 6, officers were dispatched to Methodist Medical Center to meet with a student who had been involved in a fight earlier in the night. The student and his friends were walking to a party in the 1500 block of Main Street when…