by MAX BROWN In light of the accelerated spread of COVID-19 across the country, Drake has elected not to resume in-person classes, changing from the p…
Student Senate refining RSO application process
by LIZZIE DEAL A Student Senate task force is currently investigating different ways to reinvent the process by which organizations apply to become RS…
NewsCraft workshop for students to celebrate SMJC centennial anniversary
by GRACE ALTENHOFEN As part of the centennial celebration for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Drake SJMC held a ‘NewsCraft: Reima…
Dog days are over
Drake live mascot Griff announces retirement by CAMERON BOLTON Griff, the mascot of Drake University, announced his retirement through a campus wide e…
COVID-19 declared a public health emergency
by SABINA IDRIZ An emergency committee assembled by the World Health Organization declared the novel COVID-19 outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency…
“Hard Won, Not Done”
Marking 100 years since the 19th Amendment by GRACE HILSCHER Drake University’s Law Library held a reception to kick off the Centennial Anniversary Ce…
Remembering the Holocaust
Drake offers Heritage and Holocaust study abroad opportunity BY CAMERON BOLTON Drake University will be starting a Heritage and Holocaust study abroad…
Remembering #PaintedItBlack one year later
by GRACE HILSCHER Trigger Warning: The following article may contain triggering and/or sensitive material. The goal of the article is not to retraumat…
New Boys & Girls Club building brings in after-school opportunities
by GRACE HILSCHER The Boys & Girls Club of America has been providing positive after-school activities since 1860. What started as the goal of thr…
New Wi-Fi connects students to other campuses
by ELIZABETH HENNESSEY On Aug. 5, Drake University changed the wireless network on campus from DUStudent and DUFacStaff to eduroam. Eduroam is a globa…
The Big Ideas Initiative is introduced to facilitate change on the Drake Campus
By MAX BROWN Drake University is introducing the Big Ideas Initiative this semester, encouraging students to become more involved with facilitating ch…
Associate Director of Student Financial Planning given leadership award
By, MAX BROWN Chris Ditter, the associate director of financial planning at Drake, was recently awarded the State Leadership Award for Iowa at the Mid…
Drake sees staffing changes, students and faculty impacted
BY STERLING MCTEE Drake has seen staffing changes consistently throughout the University’s history. According to Denise Ganpat, the university general…
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 robo…
Drake systems go down the day before midterm grades are due
By, SABINA IDRIZ Many students and faculty members found themselves unable to access the majority of Drake University’s online systems. Blackboard, Dr…