Andy Roat, owner of Fleet Feet Sports, will present “The ABC’s of Running” on Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Olmsted Center, Rooms 310 and 311. The presentation will discuss everything you need to know to be a successful runner–from training programs to shoes. Whether you are brand new to running or a seasoned road warrior, this presentation is for you. Not only will you walk away informed, but you could win a SMART ID tag. These small shoe tags are a great way to store important contact and medical information when you go for a walk or run.
Participants will earn BUILD (Bulldogs United in Learning Drake) credit and be entered into a drawing at the end of the semester.
This free instructor-led course will teach you how to respond to first aid, breathing, and cardiac emergencies. It includes hands-on practice of lifesaving skills and certification for those who successfully complete the course.
The four-hour course is taught over two days. You must attend both sessions. Chris Nickell, director of environmental health and safety, will present. A minimum of four and maximum of 10 participants is required to hold a class. Click both links below to register.
Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman, recipient of the Myron Marty Lectureship
The 2018 Myron Marty Lectureship in the Arts + Humanities is Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater; a reception will follow.
The Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman is the recipient of the Myron Marty Lectureship for 2018 and will present, “Uncomposed Artfulness: A Black Womanist Theological Aesthetic.”
This lecture will explore the similitude between the aesthetic resistances of black church women and black feminist contemporary protest forms, with the goal of disrupting the false binary of the sacred and the secular that dares to limit divine activity to an either/or hierarchy.
An examination of black women’s ecclesial performance of “descent and recovery” as resistance and cathartic response to afro-misogynistic regulative practices in the church will be placed in conversation with the protest posture of “dying-in” that responds to anti-black state sanctioned regulative practices. The lecture will conclude with preliminary remarks on the work of the spirit (pneuma/axé) in black movement [dance] and protest, and point to the ethico-pneumatological implications of uncomposed artfulness in black church and society.
Dr. Turman is assistant professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. A first-career concert dancer and ordained National Baptist preacher, Dr. Turman holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and Christian ethics from Fordham University-Lincoln Center and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She is the author of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon.
The Myron Marty Lectureship in the Arts + Humanities honors Myron “Mike” Marty, Drake’s dean of liberal arts from 1984 to 1986 who oversaw the integration of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Fine Arts, continuing to serve as dean of the newly formed College of Arts and Sciences until 1994. The lectureship is made possible by a gift from the Ralph and Sylvia G. Green Charitable Foundation in honor of Marty’s dedication to arts and humanities scholarship and programming at the University.
Nominations are open for All Staff Council. Please take a few minutes to nominate yourself or others to serve on All Staff Council. Remember—All Staff Council positions are open to both bargaining unit and non-bargaining unit staff members. The nomination process will close on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 12 p.m.
The following committees and number of positions are open for election:
Governance: 3
Recognition: 2
Special Events/Community Service: 3
Special Interest: 2
Chair Elect: 1
More details on each position are available on the nomination form.
All nominated individuals will be contacted for confirmation that they wish to run and asked to provide a brief statement about why they wish to serve on the committee.
Submit nominations (Link may be used multiple times for multiple nominations)
GroupX offers Tread N’ Shred in the Underground Fitness gym on Tuesdays from 7 to 7:45 p.m. Tread N’ Shred is designed to increase cardiovascular fitness through treadmill interval training and improve overall strength with super circuits. The class will both challenge you and improve your athletic performance. Sign up on the free IMLeagues app or online at imleagues.com.
On Thursday, March 1, Tom Myers, adjunct instructor of management, will lead a meeting on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. A 2015 Goldman Sachs report estimates that $4.7 trillion of financial services revenues is at risk of displacement from new financial technologies. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are the new finance. Stop by the Innovation Studio, Room 124C in Meredith Hall, at 7 p.m. to find out how bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies work and how this new technology is going to change the world. For questions, email innovation@drake.edu.
— Stephanie Cardwell, College of Business & Public Administration
Steakdinner: Join Hubbell Dining for Stone Steakhouse tomorrow, Feb. 21, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Students can enjoy an amazing cooked-to-order steak dinner for a meal swipe plus flex, cash, or credit/debit card.
Convert meals to flex dollars: All students who have the 195 or 335 Block Meal Plan can complete meal plan conversions online. Students may convert a maximum of 100 meals per semester. One board meal equals $4 flex dollars.
There are two designated sessions per semester in which students can convert meals to flex dollars. This semester, meal plan conversion sessions are Feb. 19 through March 2 and March 26 through March 30.
Drake’s Teach in China program offers recent graduates from any academic background the opportunity to live and work in China teaching English for a year. Since 2004, Teach in China has placed over 220 graduates in teaching positions in China. The program is designed to respond to each participant’s interests by offering unique placements. Whether you are interested in gaining teaching, international, or Chinese cultural experience, the Teach in China program will work to find the best setting to help you meet your goals.
Teachers are considered full-time employees and compensated accordingly. No teaching experience or Chinese language skills are required.
Upcoming information sessions:
Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 4 p.m. in the Pomerantz Conference Room
Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pomerantz Conference Room
Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m. in Pomerantz Conference Room
Drake University Theatre’s upcoming repertory showcase features two full-length, mainstage productions that vary significantly in style and message. The showcase begins Thursday, Feb. 22, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 25, in the William S.E. Coleman Studio Theatre in the Harmon Fine Arts Center.
