The Scout won 15 awards at the annual Illinois College Press Association awards ceremony held Feb. 20-21. Competing with Illinois schools having non-daily newspapers and 4,000 students or more, The Scout earned the following awards: The Scout Staff: General Excellence, 3rd place Samantha Pallini: Editorial,…
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• Officers and Peoria Firefighters were dispatched to the 1500 block of W. Callender at 10:19 p.m. Feb. 18 due to a suspicious smell. The female student smelled something burning in her residence. Upon arrival, officers discovered the smell was coming from a rubber glove…
Lambda Chi Alpha is hosting their first talent show, Bradley’s Got Talent, on March 5 in order to help raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Illinois. Tickets to the event will be $3 and the show starts at 7 p.m. in Neumiller Auditorium. Audience…
Leadership hopefuls have the chance to rub shoulders with CEOs in Renaissance Coliseum Saturday as Leaders Instilling Knowledge through Cooperative Service hosts their annual leadership conference. A senior capstone program, LINCS is comprised of ten members that work to foster leadership among students. “Our goal…
Magician Norman Ng opened his show “The Norman Magic Experience” by turning a doodle of a bowling ball into an actual bowling ball and dropping it onto the stage with a loud thud. What followed was a plethora of illusions that ranged from mind reading…
In an effort to educate students about keeping a positive body image, Body Project interns are hosting campus events for Eating Disorder Awareness Week Feb. 23 to 27. According to senior Body Project intern Emma Walser, the awareness week is important because the topic of…
The Office of Multicultural Student Services is accepting applications for the fall 2015 Peer Mentor program. The program is open to all racially diverse upperclassmen that want to help mentor and forge an incoming freshman’s college experience. Applicants must be well rounded in both academics…
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech in Memphis, Tennessee. Upon returning to his motel room, King found himself in conversation with a room service delivery woman. Played by senior theater arts major Aris-Allen Roberson, King…
With the retirement of President Joanne Glasser arrives the end of her monthly office hours, where she invited students to have one-on-one chats on any subject matter they wanted to discuss. However, a resolution to make these office hours mandatory for future presidents was passed…
From Meinen to Markin, student organizations are constantly in search of on-campus venues to host events. Though seemingly simple, this task can present problems of policy incertitude regarding when and where to reserve rooms. Amidst the chaos of event planning, however, there is one simple…