Tennis falls to Western Michigan The Big Scoop: April Fools’ edition Page A11 Page B1- B5 Vol. 122 | No. 20 | March 30, 2018 The Scout @bradley_scout Student Body Competition inspires big ideas Officer elections to be held next week BY SAMMANTHA DELLARIA AND KYLEE HIGGINS Managing Editor and News Editor The 2018 Student Body Officer debate and voting dates were announced yesterday morning via Hilltop Happenings by Student Senate. Candidates running for Student Body Officer positions will present their platforms in front of Student Senate at 5 p.m. April 2 in the Garrett Center during the Student Senate General Assembly meeting. The debate is open to all students and Bradley community members. Directly following the debate, photo by Austin Shone voting for SBO candidates will Students present their business plans to Bradley community members Wednesday in the Peplow Pavillion during the second round of the Big Ideas Competion. open at 6:30 p.m. via a Qualtrics online form, which will be emailed ideas consisted of the 25 teams who expressing [an idea] visually at the most of the women’s STEM apparel BY SARA FESSLER to the student body and can be had moved on from the first round trade show and verbally expressing it focused on being a “coder’s girlfriend Copy Editor found in Hilltop Happenings. Short of the event, but after this week, only at the elevator pitch.” or engineer girlfriend instead of being introduction videos of the candidates Bradley students continued four teams will continue on to the Anyone on the Hilltop who spent a coder yourself.” will be available on the ballot as to demonstrate entrepreneurial final round. even just a few minutes visiting the “Women want to feel part of the well as their pictures and purpose enthusiasm during the second Ken Klotz, the managing event were more than spectators; they inside jokes [at STEM companies] statements. SBO voting will close at round of the Big Ideas Competition, director for the Turner School of were given a judging form and asked too … this helps them feel accepted,” 11:59 p.m. April 3. hosted by the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is to vote for the top-five teams and Roney said. This year’s candidates include Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in charge of coordinating Bradley’s special awards. Selected community Other businesses have already one full ticket and three independent this Wednesday. first-ever Big Ideas Competition. members, faculty and staff at Bradley been operating in the Peoria candidates. The ticket includes Student competitors gathered in “It’s a learning opportunity for were also judges for the event. community and are hoping to expand junior health science major Mikki the Peplow Pavilion to demonstrate [competitors], to take an idea that just Audrey Roney, a sophomore as a non-profit. Tran (President), junior Spanish, their business ideas and inventions, rattles around in their head at first, marketing and music business major, biochemistry and philosophy triple ranging from a self-playing guitar to and express it in a couple of different is leading Fabricode, a company that see BIG IDEAS major Malini Wijesinghe (Speaker of a yoga studio. formats,” Klotz said. “That’s where sells apparel geared towards women Page A3 the Assembly), sophomore sociology These students and their business the learning occurs; in physically in STEM fields. According to Roney, major Camille Sanders (Chief of Staff) and junior music education major Nolan Ruthe (Director of BUPBA finds Vote of No Confidence in police chief Administration). Running independently are junior BY SAMMANTHA DELLARIA Joschko. years, the first of which was taken the lack of trust in the officers and legal studies major Andrew Yohanan AND MADDIE GEHLING The letter stated the union has when Joanne Glasser was president his [administration]. A lot of us are (President), freshman business law Managing Editor “lost all trust, faith and confidence in of Bradley. Joschko was hired at veteran officers, and we do not need major Belal “B” Kherallah (Chief of and Editor-in-Chief Chief Brian Joschko’s ability to lead Bradley in 2011. to be micromanaged. He does not let Staff) and sophomore graphic design the department.” “Chief Joschko is a micromanager his command be command and lead major Dylan Pashke (Director of The Bradley University Police BUPBA President and BUPD and does not allow his staff – captain, their shifts, and it is frustrating, to Administration). Benevolent Association, Inc. released third shift patrol officer Theresa lieutenants and sergeants [to] do say the least.” a statement to the media on March McConnell-Hill said this is the third their [jobs],” McConnell-Hill said in see ELECTION 7 outlining a vote of no confidence vote of no confidence in Joschko the an email to The Scout. “With the see BUPBA Page A4 in Bradley University Police union has passed in the last three hostility, I think to summarize, [it is] Department’s Police Chief Brian Page A3 A2 THE SCOUT March 30, 2018 NEWS BRIEFS POLICE REPORTS • Officers were dispatched due to a male nonstudent trying to enter an Upcoming Hollywood Semester informational meeting apartment at 2:30 p.m. March 24 at the 1500 block of N. Underhill Street. open to interested students Officers were told the male’s description and found the male nearby. When confronting the nonstudent, the male said he lived in an apartment Bradley University Hollywood Semester will hold a campus-wide information meeting from 5 to 6:30 with a female student, but she had thrown out his items and locked him p.m. April 3 in the Caterpillar Global Communication Center Horowitz Auditorium. outside. Officers then spoke with the female, who said she locked the male out Jacob Huberman, Executive Director of the Bradley University Hollywood Semester, will guest speak due to an argument earlier in the day. She said they argued over car keys at the meeting. Additionally, Hollywood Semester alums will be available to share their Hollywood when he pushed the female into a corner and yelled at her. experiences with interested students. She then said the male left and the female locked the door. Once the male returned, he tried to kick the door in. Officers arrested the man for domestic battery. The Hollywood Semester is open to all Bradley students in all majors. Contact [email protected] for additional information. • Officers were dispatched due to a male nonstudent entering his girlfriend’s residence at 10 p.m. March 20 at the 1000 block of N. Professor to share book with campus reading University Street. When officers arrived, they noticed the male had blood on his shirt. On April 3, the Visiting Writers Series will hold a fiction reading by Devin Murphy. Murphy is an associate When they asked what happened, the male said two males in an alley professor of creative writing at Bradley, whose fiction work has appeared in over 60 literary journals. His behind a gas station had jumped him on N. University Street. debut novel, “The Boat Runner,” is a national best seller. Officers reviewed the surveillance footage from the gas station and were not able to confirm the male’s story. After confronting the male, he The reading will take place in the Wyckoff Room of the Cullom-Davis Library from 7 to 9 p.m. ACBU to admitted to fabricating the story. The male then explained that he had host comedian on campus. gotten into a fight with a family friend behind his residence in Pekin. During the investigation, officers found a fake ID in the male’s wallet Activities Council of Bradley University has invited comedian and actress Jen Kober to perform on and confiscated it. The male’s girlfriend, a female nonstudent, then returned to the campus April 5. Kober has appeared on multiple hit TV shows and has performed her comedy nationally. residence, and the male was allowed to stay with her. No charges were filed. Kober will perform in the Michel Student Center Ballroom from 7 to 8 p.m. The event is free to attend and popcorn will be served to attendees. • A female professor reported an unknown male sitting in a classroom in the Global Communications Center, disoriented at 11 a.m. March 23. The professor said she arrived to class and saw the male but did not LGBTQ+ community to hold second Pride Prom recognize him. She then asked the male if he was supposed to be in the class, and he said he was supposed to be in a math class. He then asked Common Ground, Bradley’s LGBTQ+ alliance, will host its second annual Pride Prom at 7 p.m. April 7. where Bradley Hall was located and left the classroom. Doors will open to the public in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center’s Peplow Pavilion at 6:30 p.m. • Officers were dispatched to 1400 W. Saint James St. due to an All people are welcome to attend and admission is free for Bradley students, $10 for non-Bradley underage male student under the influence at 9:20 p.m. March 22. students and $15 for non-student couples. All proceeds will be donated to the Center for Prevention of The officers saw the male walking down the sidewalk and noticed that Abuse. he was disoriented, seeing the student drop his ID and fall over when trying to pick it up. The officers then confronted the male and he said he was trying to Anyone interested in attending must register at prideprom.org. get back to Geisert Hall, where his dorm was located. Officers called an ambulance to evaluate the student, and they allowed officers to transport the student back to his dorm.