Although gladiator fights were common in the Coliseum of Ancient Rome, Bradley’s Renaissance Coliseum saw a different kind of fight during a high school basketball shootout last week. On Jan. 19, an incident broke out among attendees of the River City Shootout, an annual competition…
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If the definition of insanity truly is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results, it may be time to have Bradley’s athletic department institutionalized. For the most part, 2014 was not a banner year in Bradley athletics. Sure, the softball…
Since 1990, SkyMall has given bored airplane passengers a catalog full of wacky products to look through. Weird things like glow in the dark toilet seats, Bigfoot garden yeti statues and squirrel tree climber sculptures have all been sold by the catalog. SkyMall dared to…
A new phone application called 7-Cups of Tea is offering therapy in the form of chat forums with trained students, graduates and professionals. The application offers chat forums covering topics such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder where users can speak freely. “At any given time,…
The Hartmann Center Gallery will display the work of Bradley’s art faculty. Art Department Chair Paul Krainak, associate professor Randy Carlson and professor Oscar J. Gillespie, among others, will present their work at the gallery. Work from all disciplines will be on display. The reception…
Although University President Joanne Glasser’s Jan. 23 retirement announcement prompted the Board of Trustees to begin searching for new leadership, another high-ranking official appears to be on his way out as well. The vice president for academic affairs and provost, David Glassman, has been seeking…
College students across the nation have united with a mission of putting a hat on every child battling cancer through the Love Your Melon Foundation. The campaign has spread onto Bradley’s campus, and an official campus crew was created over winter break by junior sports…
A group of students and administrators has been working behind-the-scenes to make campus more environmentally-friendly, so the sustainability committee was established in 2010 to structure environmental policies and encourage students to recycle. The committee meets biweekly to discuss sustainability issues such as waste reduction, using…
The Garrett Cultural Center hosted the Academic Reboot seminar, led by Turning Point Retention Program Coordinator Pam Miller Jan. 22. Tables for attendees were equipped with a weekly planner worksheet, a semester long planner and five day study day tip-guide. The study guide taught the…
The Bradley men and women’s track and field teams kicked off the 2015 indoor season with success in their first two meets; first at the Illini Classic Jan. 17 and then at the John Craft Invitational Jan. 24. The Illini Classic marked Bradley’s first men’s…