As Bradley University makes significant changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is also postponing sabbaticals, a period of time where professors take paid time off from teaching to focus on projects such as writing books or research that helps with their field of study. “Under…
The Bradley Scout
Just about four years ago, I dragged two large-sized luggage bags and a backpack and arrived at Peoria airport after a 24-hour delay in China. Little did I know that I was about to encounter many amazing opportunities and meet so many fantastic friends and…
The ability to have in-person counseling sessions through Bradley University’s Student Support Services may have stopped, but the need certainly has not. Student Support Services has adapted to offer students alternative options to cope with the changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Counseling services are…
Double thumbs down: COVID-19
“I’m dropping out,” is what I would say to my friends, family and classmates probably once (or maybe 16 times) a week during the last two years of my college career. School has never been something I’ve been interested in doing. But yet, I’m here,…
As I write this senior column from my bedroom of my permanent residence, I am provided with a unique perspective of my last semester at Bradley. Due to COVID-19, I wasn’t able to finish my last semester in the way I had imagined. Although it…
For the Bradley softball team, and every other team competing in the NCAA spring season, a question lingers: What could have been? Make no mistake, the scenarios that could have played out on a diamond, field or track are trivial when compared to the COVID-19…
It’s a bittersweet time for former Bradley baseball player and current Pittsburgh Pirates minor leaguer Luke Mangieri. Under normal circumstances, Mangieri would be settled into the routine of playing baseball every day for the Single-A Greensboro Grasshoppers. Instead, he’s back home in Peoria. “It’s always…
Imagine if you discovered that the “bookstore” your heterosexual parents owned was the biggest gay porno shop in the U.S. at one point in time. For Rachel Mason, this unlikely truth was her reality. The shop named “Circus of Books,” which is also the title…
A cat’s tail BY SALEM HEX; DICTATED BY JADE SEWELL Who the hiss are you? Do you have any food? No? I’m not sure why you’re in my presence, then. Since you’re here, though, I might as well tell you about the feline hell my…