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Sports bar opens in CampusTown

College students, faculty members, business professionals and neighborhood families have a new watering hole. The space in Campustown previously occupied by Gorman’s Pub is now the Fieldhouse Bar & Grill, a joint venture between three Peoria natives. In a nod to the fallen Robertson Memorial…

Car chase tests ForeWarn system

ForeWarn was used for a police matter early Tuesday morning for the first time since its inception in 2007. The text went out to the campus community after a police chase ended with a suspect on foot in the area. But not everyone on campus…

Butler files online speech suit: Indiana school sues student for blog

One of Bradley’s neighbors recently became the first university to file a lawsuit against online speech. When Butler University junior Jess Zimmerman began his blog, TrueBU Blog, in October 2008, he posted that it “is not a forum of attack, it is a forum for…

Police chase ends with campus in lock down

A police chase that began near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie in northwest Peoria ended on campus early Tuesday morning. Peoria police were first called about 12:30 a.m. to the Buffalo Wild Wings near that mall. An employee of the restaurant went behind the business…

Education department to move classes, offices

With the $22 million expansion of Westlake Hall beginning next summer, new classroom and office locations during construction are in question. Joan Sattler, dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences, said classes will have to be relocated during the approximately two-year long renovation.…

Bradley featured as a “Best Buy” in guidebook

Bradley will once again be mentioned in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, a college guidebook owned by The Wall Street Journal that is published every other year. The book contains a profile of each selected college that are not ranked, but simply listed in alphabetical…

Campaign seeks to beautify Main Street

Imagine Main Street, but different – restaurants and shops intermixed with greenery and flowers, beckoning passersby to stroll, eat and window-shop. That Main Street is what the Walkable West Bluff Campaign hopes to achieve, said Lisa Ferolo, a campaign volunteer. Ferolo and the WWB committee…

Provost search progresses, applications received

The committee to find the university’s chief academic advisor has actively begun its search. Dean of Education and Health Sciences Joan Sattler was named the chairperson of the committee to find the provost and vice president of Academic Affairs. Although there are five vice presidents…

Phi Tau celebrates holiday with Carn-evil

Members of Phi Kappa Tau helped raise money for terminally ill children in their own backyard last weekend. They raised it through Carn-evil, their new event that benefits the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for terminally ill children. This is the…

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