Unlike Trump, Sanders’ Chicago rally gave peace a chance

By Caroline Kenny Despite four-hour lines and thousands of supporters being turned away, the Bernie Sanders rally on Monday night was a much more peaceful event than a Donald Trump rally that shook Chicago on Friday night. Speaking at the Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre in the Loop just eight hours before polls opened, Sanders invoked […]
He shoots, he scores: Roosevelt point guard wins ‘freshman of the year’

By Abbas Haleem The spotlight has been on Roosevelt point guard Jake Ludwig the entire season, and it likely will stay that way next year. Last week the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference named him Freshman of the Year. “Sometimes all that work gets recognized, but obviously the real award would’ve been winning the conference,” said Ludwig, […]
Sports History 101: How Roosevelt University transformed a parking lot into an athletic program

Q&A with Athletic Director Mike Cassidy By Abbas Haleem Seven years ago, Mike Cassidy walked the perimeter of a parking lot on the southeast corner of Congress and Wabash, wondering how an athletics center could fit there. Roosevelt University had just hired him to bring varsity athletics back after a 20-year hiatus. His charge: to […]