In 2015, the live mascot program was created with Erin Bell, who was named manager of the live mascot program. Drake Athletics approached Bell following her previous involvement with Drake University as the owner of Porterhouse, the winner of the 2009 Beautiful Bulldog Contest. Bell brought Porterhouse to various athletic events, and the Drake community […]
Editor’s Note: The first reference to Museum Curator Leo Landis was mistakenly cut from the article when it went live. It has been fixed. In February of 1881, in uncertain financial positions, a group of men interested in moving Oskaloosa College to Des Moines met. For months, they’d been discussing the move in secret, partly […]
Drake student Nawid Mohabati was 17 when the Taliban killed his father — a general in the Afghan National Army. Living in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, was unsafe for Mohabati’s family after the death of his father, and he moved to the United States with his mother, brothers and sister in 2021. “The Taliban […]