By WILL BREDENSTEINER With just over a year until the Iowa Caucuses, United States Senator from California, Kamala Harris, announced her candidacy and immediately planned to visit Iowa, with Drake be…
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Why 3,500 rallied behind Drake students and faculty of color
In response to racist threats disseminated across campus, thousands of Drake community constituents joined together last Wednesday to both support students of color and condemn rampant acts of racism…
Administration heralds plans to blacken Painted Street; discussions tensed by white-supremacist robocall
The #paintitblack movement emerges victorious, but only after a white-supremacist voice-message infiltrated dozens of student’s phones. The robocall preceded a forum dedicated precisely to the i…
Early-morning burglary leaves students questioning, highlights Drake support
BY KIM BATES Drake students fell victim to a silent burglary in the early morning of Sunday, Nov. 4 Paige Aspinwall and Chloe Janich, juniors in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, came …
Ambulance sent to Cowles Library in wake of medical emergency
BY LORIEN MACENULTY A medical emergency interrupted the studies of late-night Cowles Library frequenters around 9:30 pm yesterday. A Drake junior, sitting alone having just entered the library basemen…
Fire alarms wake GK residents for the second time this week
Photo by Lorien Macenulty BY RACHEL JAMES Last Sunday, on Sept. 9, Goodwin-Kirk residence hall had its fire alarm go off in the early morning hours. At about 6:15 a.m. Goodwin-Kirk residents were ushe…
No natural gas detected in Parent’s Hall, authorities said
by Lórien MacEnulty Administrators were alerted to a potential gas leak that transpired in the midst of the Activities Fair this afternoon. All students and booth representatives were evacuated from t…
The time-related dolphin on etymology relating to newspapers
BY: Lórien MacEnulty There’s a reason why the words text and textile are so similar. They both stem from sheep’s wool. Wool shows up in many places in the English language. The Latin word for tuft of …
Doran to lead receiving core to a PFL conference title this year
By JD Pelegrino In less than one week, on Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. (CST) the Bulldogs will kick off the regular season against the non-conference William Jewell. This will be the first of three straight non-…
Double-take on dorm-room costs; or single, or triple…
BY Lorien MacEnulty It may seem luxuriously expensive to live alone at Drake—single dorm rooms cost about 1.5 times the more populous accommodations. But the space you pay for is actually cheaper and,…
Doran to lead receiving core to a PFL conference title this year
By JD Pelegrino In less than one week, on Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. the Bulldogs will kick off the regular season against the non-conference William Jewell. This will be the first of three, straight non-confe…
‘High-curious’ marijuana users may no longer risk jobs, scholarships
BY LÓRIEN MACENULTY First-time marijuana offenders might get a second chance at a clean record. Iowa state senators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a judiciary reform bill that, if enacted, will mode…
Drake Public Safety and the student body
BY LÓRIEN MACENULTY Times-Delphic features editor Lórien MacEnulty sits down with Drake Director of Public Safety Scott Law to discuss Public Safety’s relationship with student journalists and h…
Define Griff: why Drake’s beloved bulldog mascot is such a marketing success
Photos by Lórien MacEnulty BY LÓRIEN MACENULTY Griff seemed euphoric that a member of the Times-Delphic was at his house for an interview. He pranced vivaciously around his house, a mutilated, stuffed…
Milk thistles, drones and livestock: a peek into Iowa’s bioscience industry
BY LÓRIEN MACENULTY The cell culture lab at Kemin Industries is the home turf of bioscientist Farrah Phillips. She spends several hours a day looking for naturally sourced products, like oregano and e…