Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. BY HALLIE O’NEILL Strategic political communications major Sarah Schroeder is a Drake ju…
Humans of Drake
Humans of Drake: Professor Dorothy Pisarski
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. BY HALLIE O’NEILL Within the first few minutes of meeting with associate professor of ad…
Humans of Drake: Emilyn Crabbe
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. BY HALLIE O’NEILL Emilyn Crabbe, a first-year strategic political communications (SPC) a…
Humans of Drake: Joel Afriyie
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. BY HALLIE O’NEILL For senior Joel Afriyie, the start of the semester signals the bitters…
Humans of Drake: Professor Chip Miller
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. BY HALLIE O’NEILL “I put three things on my resume: Gongfu, guns and reptiles.R…
Humans of Drake: Manasi Singh
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. Photo courtesy of Hallie O’Neill. BY HALLIE O’NEILL Manasi Singh, a Drake Universi…
Humans of Drake: Professor Beth Younger
Highlighting the stories of Drake students and faculty. Photo by Hallie O’Neill. BY HALLIE O’NEILL Beth Younger, an Associate Professor of…
Author, student shares background on her book and life
“I’ve known my whole life I’ve wanted to be a novelist,” Mondello said. “It’s been a lifelong dream. I was writing ever since I could hold a pencil an…
Haley Davis on joining a historically black sorority
“Sisterhood has been a driving force for me,” Davis said. “I both needed and wanted to be around powerful women of color.”…
First-year reflects on his Drake experience so far
He attributes his comfort at Drake to finding this community. “My work as a Latino advocate must continue here,” Garcia-Fuerte said. “That’s how I fou…
Amanda Muir: Animals and Anime
“Being at the zoo is one of my favorite activities. I could be at the zoo every single day and not get bored,” Muir said. “(It’s) to the point where I…
Humans of Drake Podcast
For this year’s Times-Delphic Relays Edition, we filled our special Speed section with the stories and experiences of Drake students from all wa…
First Latina student body president shares experience as a leader
“There are still people on this campus who don’t know I am student body president,” Anguiano said. “I have found it very difficult to deal with a lot …
Basketball player knows he’s tall, so you can stop asking him about it
“In preschool I was four feet tall. My growth happened when I was three.”
Being “the tall kid” has been always been a part of sophomore Nick McGlynn’s…
Student practices witchcraft, found communities within Des Moines, Drake, internet
“Practicing witchcraft is something that is very personal; everybody does something different that kind of fits their lifestyle and what they need,” s…