Muslim Students to Fast During Finals; The Ultimate Spiritual Test

Syeda Saberi Staff Writer Finals week is known to be a stressful time for most students. However, this year Muslim students have a new challenge to conquer: final exams while fasting during the upcoming month of Ramadan. Muslim students will fast from sunrise to sunset (about 14 hours) without food or water. Ramadan is expected …

How to Not Worry About Life After Graduation

Claire Boyle Staff Writer The month of May is an exciting time because it’s graduation season for seniors. It can also be bittersweet and stressful since we, as students, are leaving our familiar settings of attending school daily, writing term papers, and studying for exams; only to jump into the great unknown of job searches, …

Eagles Split in Doubleheader Against Conference Rival Aurora

Joey Spahn Sports writer Carol Stream, IL – The Benedictine University men’s baseball team tallied 23 hits during the first of two games in a doubleheader against conference rival, Aurora University. Benedictine won the first game handily with a score of 17-4 through seven innings on Monday afternoon. The team had a season-high eight-game win streak ended …

BenTalk on Code-Switching; President Gregory speaks on personal experience

Brady McCall Staff Writer   BenU held this semester’s final BenTalk- an event for promoting social dialogue, on April 7th in Kindlon Hall. The event was titled Code-Switching, Accents and Linguistic Stereotypes; code-switching is an attempt to pass for someone who belongs by speaking in a different way. This talk was composed of four panelist speakers: …

Sisters on Tour

Sophia Mattimiro Scene Editor Get ready Sisters, James Charles announced on Tuesday, April 23, that he will be going on a tour this summer. Charles tweeted out to his followers to be prepared because he would be making an announcement he had been waiting to make for two years in his newest YouTube video. Charles …

Beyoncé Dropping Music, Dancing, and More

Sophia Mattimiro Scene Editor Beyoncé has stirred up the internet once again with the release of her documentary Homecoming on Netflix that was released on April 17th, the #BeforeILetGo dance challenge, and her album Lemonade was finally released to streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify. On April 17th, Homecoming, a documentary about Beyoncé’s …

Students vs Faculty: College of Science Hosts First Game Night

Sajina Jacob Staff writer Benedictine’s College of Science hosted its first “Game Night” on Wednesday, April 17th, in Krasa’s Presentation room. This was planned to help encourage friendly relations between the students and faculty. This event was planned by the College of Science Student Senate, which provided the games and some refreshments that night. Party …

Fire At The Notre Dame Cathedral

Andrew Tran Staff Writer   On April 15, 2019, a fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris at approximately 2:30 PM. Many reports have cited that the fire started at the bottom of the cathedral's giant spire and may have been caused by an electrical problem in an elevator. The fire continued …