The Bradley Scout

Originally published September 10, 2010 What comes to mind when you hear the words Main Street? Not any particular Main Street, but Hollywood’s version. Small shops, pedestrian activity and maybe even a park probably come to mind. Not in Peoria, though. There’s little question that…

Originally published September 3, 2010 Everywhere you look these days, labels and commercials shout the absence of trans fats in our favorite foods. You ask yourself, “What are trans fats?” Trans fats are made by a chemical process called partial hydrogenation where liquid vegetable oil…

Originally published September 3, 2010 If you would have asked me six years ago if Christopher Nolan was going to be the most talked about director of the day, I would have laughed in your face. I mean, this was a cult British director who…

Originally published September 3, 2010 Everyone has a summer job story. Some of you may have had a mindless internship, making phone call after boring phone call all day, all summer. Or maybe you were a nanny, or worked in retail, or actually spent your…

Originally published September 3, 2010 Sometimes it’s hard for me to be the occasionally practicing Catholic that I am. And it’s not because I find it hard to make my way to Mass, though I do. It’s because after roughly 2,010 years, the church still…

Originally published September 3, 2010 “The library is awful” – it’s a complaint heard emanating across campus, in nearly every class, nearly every day of the week. But what is the library’s actual problem? Is it the lack of materials? The building itself? What? It’s…