Break? BU Scores President Announces Retirement As Provost Interviews Elsewhere New Sports Comm
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30 January 2015 [email protected] Athletes arrested Super Bowl Ads DU downs BU Vol. 119| No. 13 www.bradleyscout.com News A3 Voice B3 Sports A12 When will the ‘Glass’ break? BU scores President announces retirement as Provost interviews elsewhere new sports comm. school Search BY TORI MOSES AND GARTH SHANKLIN begins for Copy Editor, Sports Editor New opportunities are on the horizon for sports communication students, as Bradley announced president the naming of the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communication BY KRISTIN KREHER after the Bradley alumnus. Managing Editor Steiner, a four-time Emmy Award winner, National Radio In a Jan. 22 email to the campus Hall of Fame inductee and Los community, University President Angeles Dodgers play-by-play Joanne Glasser announced she will announcer, said he hopes to aid in end her eight year stay on the Bradley students’ education. Hilltop when she retires May 31, “I would like to come out there leaving the Board of Trustees to for a week and spend time with the find a new leader. majors, with an eye toward hav- Chairman of the Board Doug ing symposiums where friends of Stewart said he hopes to have mine, who have done reasonably the next president in place by the well in our business, will come start of the fall 2015 semester. To out and share their experience,” achieve this goal, a search commit- Steiner said. tee will be formed to find candi- According to junior sports dates and eventually bring them to communication major Josh campus for interviews. McGehee, students are unsure The search committee that photo by Maggie Cipriano about the scope of the new pro- hired Glasser in 2007 was com- University President Joanne Glasser (left) and Provost David Glassman (right) are shown speaking at the gram. However, McGehee said posed of 12 people, which Stewart annual Speak Up event in Nov. 2014. Glasser announced her retirement Jan. 22, the same day Glass- there is a lot of excitement about said seemed to “function very man was off campus to interview for the Eastern Illinois University presidency. See A5 for more details. the potential opportunities the well.” Specific details for forming school could provide. the new search committee will be prised of members appointed by Typically, those appointments The nationwide search will be “No one has talked about the decided at next week’s Board of the Board of Trustees and at least include at least one student and assisted by an outside firm expe- details of the school, but we are Trustees meetings Feb. 5 and 6. 25 percent faculty, as required by one alumnus who will join a group excited to work with Charley The committee will be com- the University Senate handbook. of trustees on the committee. see GLASSER Page A5 Steiner who is so famous in our field and is an idol of ours,” BUPD continues conversation over coffee see STEINER Page A7 BY TESSA ARMICH According to Joschko, the meet- said. who are solution-oriented,” Chase Copy Editor ing will give everyone on campus Coffee with BUPD will be the said. “That process does not come FOLLOW US! an opportunity to chat with regu- first in a four part semester-long without first having a dialogue The Bradley University Police lar duty officers in a casual envi- programming theme, “The about the issues first.” Department will host a “Coffee ronment. He said it will hopefully Conversation Continues.” This The second part of the series @bradley_scout with BUPD” event 2 p.m. Jan. 30 in work to build stronger relation- series is intended to host conversa- will be “Teaching Ferguson,” fea- the Garrett Cultural Center. ships between the officers and the tion about the diversity and inclu- turing guest speaker Bryant K. TheBradleyScout This is the first event of its Bradley community. sion of all students on campus, Smith Thursday, Feb. 5. The third kind at Bradley. BUPD Chief Brian “It is a nationwide series of according to Norris Chase, Office event is still to be announced @bradleyscout Joschko was first introduced to the events and programming, but spe- of Multicultural Student Services but will take place in the Garrett idea of coffee with a police officer cifically [Coffee with BUPD] came Interim Director. Cultural Center March 2. during a conference last summer. out of conversation with individu- “Our main goal with this pro- The fourth event is a diversi- “It’s our first event, and while als from Student Affairs that were gramming theme is to encourage ty conference April 11, with time there has been talk of doing other looking for a continuation of their students to not only listen, share and location yet to be announced. ones in the future, we really are series talking about social injustice and learn about critical issues, but More information about “The focused in on the first event and and other issues that are arising we want to empower students to Conversation Continues…” can on making sure that it’s produc- across the country and, specifical- think critically about issues and, be found on the Multicultural tive before we schedule another ly, on college campuses,” Joschko ultimately, be problem solvers Student Services webpage. one,” Joschko said. A2 THE SCOUT 30 January 2015 NEWS BRIEFS Snow route procedure Art professors present POLICE Poor weather conditions during the winter months often leads the REPORTS city of Peoria to place a parking ban around campus. original work The Hartmann Center Gallery will display the work of Bradley’s • Peoria Police officers When a parking ban is in effect, it is prohibited to park on Bradley art faculty. observed a non-student female Avenue, Main Street and University Street on campus. Parking on these and a male student stealing a streets may result in a ticket or towing. Art Department Chair Paul Krainak, associate professor Randy traffic sign on NE Washington Carlson and professor Oscar J. Gillespie, among others, will present Street at 11:10 p.m. Jan. 23. It is also encouraged not to park on Elmwood Avenue and St. James their work at the gallery. Work from all disciplines will be on display. Street. Students and faculty should move cars to the parking decks until When officers asked the two the ban is lifted. The reception is Friday, Jan. 30 from 5 to 6 p.m. Visitors can view what they were doing, they the installations Jan. 26 through April 9. responded with “doing stupid The Inclement Weather Guidelines can be found on the Bradley things.” Human Resource website. Contact the Human Resource Department with any questions regarding procedures at ext. 3223. Both were taken to Peoria County Jail. • Officers observed two female students walking down time, was also a member of the because of the balance between the 1400 block of Barker Ave. at OF greek system and quickly became the fun of the activity and the 12:20 a.m. Jan. 19 with alcohol in THE friends with Coy. When Coy educational components. their hands. HUMANS HILLTOP moved from Pennsylvania back “Seeing students as freshmen to GVSU in Michgan to take a come to Bradley and develop into As officers approached, the position as assistant director, Koch an adult by senior year, leading first female hid a beer can under followed him to the graduate pro- the charge and making decisions, her coat. The alcohol was open gram. that’s what’s so great,” he said. and half empty when officers “[Koch’s] first job out [of Coy’s work at Bradley, so far, confiscated it. graduate school] was greek life ranges from the restructuring of [at Bradley],” Coy said. “When the awards process and digitali- Both females admitted to the director of activities position zation, to working on philosoph- underage drinking. The first opened up, he told me to apply ical changes such as questioning female registered a .113 BAC so I could get back to that smaller the “why” of certain activities and the second registered a .058. school experience.” and making sure a certain value Coy said, while he learned is added. He said newest to the The first female was issued a immensely from the big school SAO this year, per request of ticket for possession of alcohol environment, it often lacked the the students, will be a week-long in public. Both were released. student engagement that encour- Homecoming Week as opposed aged him, not too many years to the five-day weekend. • Officers were dispatched before, to go into the field. Just as was done for the chang- to the 1300 block of W. Fredonia Now, after just over two years es in Homecoming, Coy said it is Ave. at 1:31 a.m. Jan. 25 when on the Hilltop, Coy said he’s found vital that students be advocates a female student had vomited TOM COY more than just a job he loves, but a for themselves and ‘wave ban- and passed out. greater passion for inspiring stu- ners’ for their causes. photo provided by Tom Coy dents. “I went to college in 1994, and The female’s roommate said This semester, The Scout is introducing a weekly spotlight article “My big focus has been to tell I had to choose whether or not I she had been drinking “jungle featuring a student, faculty or staff member. Submissions will be any student organization that they was going to be openly gay on juice.” She was transported to accepted at www.bradleyscout.com. can do it,” Coy said. “If you have my floor,” he said. “It’s some- Methodist Hospital for evalu- a dream or idea or concept, we’re thing I did know would cause ation.