The Office of Student Inclusion, Involvement, and Leadership is hiring student coordinators for the 2017–2018 school year. Positions include graphic design, student organizations, and fraternity/sorority life. Position descriptions and applications can be found in the Student Life Center (SLC) or at www.drake.edu/studentinvolvement. Applications are due Friday, April 7th by noon.
Questions? Please contact Kodee at kodee.wright@drake.edu.
—Kodee Wright, STIIL
Alexander Maciejewski’s (PharmD candidate 2020) wrote about his service-learning experience in Anisa Fornoff’s FYS: Exploring the Portrayal of Mental Illness and Intellectual Disabilities in the Media. His article, “Leadership Development through Service-Learning: My Drake Experience” was accepted and is the first Drake student manuscript to published in the International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. Read Alex’s article at: http://opus.govst.edu/iujsl/vol6/iss2/6/
—Renee Sedlacek, Office of Community Engaged Learning & Service
Softball
Drake vs. Iowa
4/5/17 @ 6 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Men’s Tennis
Drake vs. Southern Illinois
4/8/17 @ 10 a.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Women’s Tennis
Drake vs. Wichita State
4/8/17 @ 12 p.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Softball
Drake vs. Evansville (DH)
4/8/17 @ 12 p.m.
Ron Buel Field
Men’s Tennis
Drake vs. Illinois State
4/8/17 @ 2 p.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Softball
Drake vs. Evansville
4/9/17 @ 11 a.m.
Ron Buel Field
Women’s Tennis
Drake vs. Missouri State
4/9/17 @ 11 a.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center
The third annual all-Drake shred event is happening on Thursday, April 20 from 12–3 p.m. in the north end of the Olmsted parking lot. Bring all your confidential documents and have Iron Mountain securely shred them for free!
Not sure what you should keep and what you can shred? Here are some general guidelines on how long you should hold onto those important documents.
Peter Lundstedt, Information Security Manager
ITS is launching a new service portal on May 23. This site will allow faculty, staff, and students to learn about technology services available, browse our knowledge base for how-to technology guides, or get assistance with an issue. We anticipate that using this portal will help resolve issues faster, and improve campus communication.
ITS is having several presentations to demonstrate this new system and answer any questions that you might have.
Join us in Cowles Library, Room 201 for one of the following sessions (snacks will be provided):
Wednesday, April 12 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Wednesday, April 12 from 2 to 3 p.m.
Thursday, April 13 from 12 to 1 p.m.
Can’t make one of these? We’ll have additional sessions on May 16 and 17. Watch OnCampus for more information.
-Carla Herling, IT Communications Manager
Professional and Career Development Services and Drake International are hosting a work permit and visa presentation for international students. Featured speakers are Lori Chesser, immigration attorney at the Davis Brown Law Firm in Des Moines and Carlyn Marron, assistant director, Drake International Programs. Our speakers will provide information on CPT, OPT, and H-1B Visa criteria and application procedures. An opportunity for questions and answers will follow the presentation. This event is open to all Drake students, faculty and staff. The presentation will take place on April 12, 5–6 p.m., Sussman Theater, lower level of the Olmsted Center. If you have any questions, please email Annette Watson at annette.watson@drake.edu.
—Carlyn Marron, Drake International
Drake Municipal Observatory
Friday, April 7, 8p.m.
What will we find THERE?
Are People on Proxima Centauri b blue? Dr. Stephen Hawking is urging man not to visit other planets, or welcome aliens on Earth. What does he know?
Read more: www.drake.edu/observatory
—Sharyn O’Connor-Beener, College of Arts & Sciences
Mendi and Keith Obadike are Igbo Nigerian Americans who work together to create music and art. Their 10-minute looping video—”Overcome”—is about the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the bridge that Martin Luther King Jr. marched across in Selma with other activists for civil rights, only to be met by violence on the other side. Their subtle and eloquent video brings the present and the past into conversation.
The Obadike lecture “Sound Structures” is on Monday April 3 from 7–8 p.m. at Performing Arts Hall and is
free and open to the public.
—Lenore Metrick-Chen, Department of Art
Drake Law School will host three powerful lectures this week featuring a senior VP at Sony Music; Ambassador Stephen Rapp, LW’74; and a distinguished panel.
“An Insider’s Legal Perspective on the Music Industry”
Wade Leak, Sony Music Entertainment
April 6, 2017
3 p.m.
Cartwright Hall, Room 206
Wade Leak is senior vice president, deputy general counsel, and chief compliance, ethics, and privacy officer at Sony Music. He manages all U.S. litigation and provides day-to-day legal advice to the label groups at Sony Music on a wide range of matters, including copyright, trademark, online marketing, and data privacy issues.
During the lecture, Leak will discuss his experience overseeing the compliance program at Sony Music and share his thoughts on the ever-changing legal landscape affecting the music industry, highlighting several recent key legal developments and impactful cases. The lecture is part of the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series.
For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18313.
“In Pursuit of International Criminal Justice”
Ambassador Stephen Rapp
April 6, 2017
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cartwright Hall, Room 201
Stephen Rapp, a 1974 Drake Law alumnus, served as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice from 2009 to 2015, during which time he coordinated U.S. government support to international criminal tribunals responsible for prosecuting persons charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He also served as a prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and as senior trial attorney and chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Rapp is currently a Distinguished Fellow at The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide.
For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18308.
2017 Constitutional Law Symposium: “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy”
April 8, 2017
8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. (Registration and breakfast begins at 8 a.m.)
Cartwright Hall, Room 213
The Drake Constitutional Law Center will welcome experts from across the country to discuss “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy” at the annual Constitutional Law Symposium.
During his term, President Obama faced opposition to many of his initiatives, which caused him to invoke executive power. Among the issues in which executive power played a role were the Affordable Care Act, the use of drones, recess appointments, immigration policy, signing statements, and more. Other constitutional issues also arose, such as same-sex marriage. The symposium will explore these issues and the constitutional law legacy that Obama left behind, as well as address President Donald Trump’s potential impact on this legacy.
The symposium will feature the following speakers:
The event is free for Drake affiliated individuals. For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18191.
All four of Drake’s choirs will collaborate with a faculty/student orchestra and student soloists to perform Haydn’s joyful “Heiligmesse” and “Te Deum” on Saturday, April 22 (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday, April 23 (3 p.m.) at St. Ambrose Cathedral, Sixth Avenue and High Street, in downtown Des Moines. Almost 300 performers will participate in this concert, which will showcase all of Drake’s student singers and many of its instrumental faculty and students. Tickets are available at www.drake.edu/choralperformances and are $17 for non-students and $7 for students.
—Aimee Beckmann-Collier