1. Death of BU baseball player The campus community was shocked when junior baseball player Phil Kaiser died of an undiagnosed heart condition in October. While watching a DVD, Kaiser’s girlfriend noticed he appeared to be sweating, gagging and bloated. He was pronounced dead in…
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Both textbook rentals and e-textbooks at the Bradley Bookstore gained popularity this past year and more titles will be offered next semester. For the first time this fall, the bookstore began renting textbooks and Store Manager Paul Kroenke said it was a great success. “Rentals…
After 43 years on the Hilltop, Family and Consumer Sciences professor and department chair Nina Collins is retiring at the end of the semester. “It’s really hard to summarize 43 years up into just a few memories,” she said. “The best part of my job,…
Even with the new option of Main Street Commons, more underclassmen will live on campus next fall. “Nine hundred and fifty students are currently registered to live in residence halls, which is slightly up from last year,” said Vice President of Student Affairs Alan Galsky.…
Dave Pelzer, award winning author of the novel “A Child Called ‘It,’” gave Bradley students uplifting and motivational advice Wednesday night in the Student Center Ballroom. “If you walked in with your tissues thinking, ‘Oh my God, he’s going to make me cry,’ you walked…
Haussler Hall is expected to be demolished next week to make way for a new quad. “It should be any day now for demolition, we have been through the permit routine and have the demolition fence up and ready,” said Vice President for Business Affairs…
The Springboard competition concluded this week with one student earning more than $100,000 in cash and prizes. Senior entrepreneurship major Cassie Meyer’s business, Knotty Outdoors, won this year’s Springboard Business Plan competition. “I learned so much from this experience like presentation skills. It paid off,…
Residence hall staff has been selected for the incoming freshmen floor of Main Street Commons. After two weeks of deliberation, junior Spanish major and Student Body President Tricia Anklan has been selected as the floor’s first resident advisor, said Executive Director for Residential Living and…
Starting today, interested students, faculty and staff will be able to participate in a special opportunity to sign one of Westlake Hall’s steel beams before construction is completed. The beam will be available to sign today from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 8 a.m.…
Two contenders for the vacant police chief position will be on campus next week to interview and speak with students and faculty at open forums. The possible candidates are Eric Plummer, chief of police at Southern Arkansas University, and Brian Joschko, lieutenant at Marquette University.…