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Facebook and Twitter creates job opportunities

Facebook and Twitter users can put their social media addictions to job-friendly use with the social media marketing minor. “We’re trying to give students a strong marketing and promotions background, and the tools they’ll need to provide social media context to a job,” marketing professor…

Students should be involved in politics

After college students played a vital role in the 2008 presidential election. Does anyone else get the feeling that Bradley is going to have virtually no role in the 2012 election? Judging by the political activism on campus, the 2012 election is going to be…

Direct to Instant View Purgatory: Wedding Daze

Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…

There is nothing wrong with a reality TV guilty pleasure

Real life is hard. College is expensive, the economy is awful and cable news is constantly preaching the end of the world as we know it. With that said, who can really blame anyone for wanting to escape all of that for a half an…

Star Trek: Boldly going for 45 years

45 years ago this month, a new television show debuted “The Man Trap” aired on NBC. Star Trek premiered with this episode, beginning one of the most successful franchises in television history, including five different series, along with 11 movies. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of…

Security analyst speaks on Middle East, Al Qaeda

CNN’s Peter Bergen spoke to a full house last Thursday about  the reshaping of the Muslim community addressing events like the Arab Spring, and how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the general direction of the United States. Bergen is CNN’s National Security Analyst, an…

Bradley ID updates for convenience, security

Bradley student identification cards have under gone a major facelift, providing new features and tools for the convenience of students. The new ID cards serve the same functionality as the older ones, but now they have several added bonus features such as access to dormitory…

Louie redefines the sitcom in a glorious second season

Ten years ago, FX was one of the most useless and rightly forgotten networks on basic cable, showing non-stop reruns of some of the worst sitcoms of the late ’90s, namely Just Shoot Me, the later, Charlie Sheen-dominated seasons of Spin City, Dharma and Greg…

A goodbye to Peoria Theatre

Peoria has always been a city that was in desperate need of realizing that it had become a college town. Barring a few friendly establishments downtown and the rote businesses that catered solely to college students around campus, there’s not much to let residents know…

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