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Featured Events Archive

Annual Baby Bowl Dec. 3

Drake Women’s Basketball will host the fourth annual Baby Bowl on Sunday, Dec. 3, during halftime of its game against Creighton. Children 18 months and younger are eligible to compete. This is a crawling-only competition. We invite you to register your baby or encourage friends and family to do so. Be sure to sign up early as space is limited. Registration is open now until all slots are filled. Racers will receive two complimentary tickets to the game for parents/guardians. All contestants will receive a Drake Bulldogs baby bib for their efforts. Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers.

Register by clicking here or by visiting DrakeTix.com/BabyBowl.

Questions? Please contact Tom Florian, assistant director of ticket sales, at 515-271-4949 or thomas.florian@drake.edu.

—Tom Florian, Drake Athletics

HR Information Archive

Holiday Trimmings weight challenge

Holiday Trimmings is a six-week program designed to encourage you to maintain or lose weight over the holiday season. If you have trouble dodging festive yet fattening foods, like pecan pie, sausage stuffing, and egg nog, this challenge is for you.

Beginning and ending weights will be recorded, and throughout the challenge you will receive healthy holiday tips. Everyone who maintains or loses weight will be placed in a drawing for a chance to win prizes.

For more information, or to register to participate, please send an email to Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu with the subject line “Holiday Trimmings.”  Deadline to register is Thursday, Nov. 16.

A packet of information will be sent to those who register. Read through the packet carefully and start the challenge on Monday, Nov. 20.

Let’s make this a happy and healthy holiday season!

—Linda Feiden, Human Resources

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Interactive procurement card training

Drake Program Administrators will provide an interactive face-to-face training on the new procurement card program on Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Olmsted Center, Parent’s Hall South. The training will include an outline of the program guidelines and a demo of the program’s online portal, Intellilink. There will also be an opportunity for users to ask questions they may have about the program. All users of the program are invited to attend.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend the training.

Other training resources, such as cardholder and approver guides, are also available through the Finance and Administration website at any time.

Please continue to submit any feedback or questions you might have to pcard@drake.edu.

Meghan Settje, Controller

 

Campus Announcements Archive

Campus printing update

ITS would like to thank everyone for their patience as we continue working with our vendors to find a permanent solution for the issues we’ve been having with printing to Lexmark printers. We understand this issue is causing significant frustration, and we are doing all we can to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Our vendor is still trying to identify the cause of the issue and is working diligently to develop a fix. Unfortunately, there is still no firm estimate for when a permanent fix will be delivered.

In the meantime, ITS has developed a short-term solution that allows faculty and staff to print directly to any printer using FollowMe print queues for each type of device. This solution also works for any students who have downloaded printer drivers to their computers to print specialized document types.

  • In order to release print jobs to Konica-Minolta multi-function devices, please use the standard BW_FollowMe or Color_FollowMe print queues that are installed on all Drake-owned computers by default.
  • For releasing print jobs to Lexmark devices, use the NEW BW_Lexmark_FollowMe or Color_Lexmark_FollowMe print queues. The Lexmark print queues must be manually downloaded and installed on Drake-owned computers by following one of the sets of instructions below.

Please note that print jobs sent to the Lexmark print queues will only be able to be released at Lexmark printers. You should not install the Lexmark-specific drivers unless you regularly print to Lexmark printers. You can also still print to Lexmark printers via web printing.

Step by step instructions on downloading the Lexmark print drivers:

For assistance with determining the type of printer in your area and the correct printer driver to use, please see Printer Locations (FAQ).

For information on using Web Printing, please see Using Web Printing (How-to).

—Carla Herling, ITS

For Students Archive

Free basketball tickets for students

Drake undergraduate, graduate, and law students are admitted free to all home Drake basketball games. Tickets will be automatically added to students’ valid Drake Card. All students must present their Drake Card to receive admission. Below is the necessary information for attending basketball games at the The Knapp Center.

  • Enter The Knapp Center Southwest Student Entrance.
  • Present your Drake Card to the Drake Athletics staff person. Your ticket will be printed at the gate.
  • Student seating is available in sections J–K and S–T for men’s basketball games and sections J–K for women’s basketball games.

Students will receive their tickets directly to their valid Drake Card via Flash Seats. Your personal information remains confidential as Drake Athletics has partnered with Flash Seats to help give you the most convenient method to attend Bulldog athletic events.

You should have received a confirmation email from Flash Seats that your tickets arrived on Wednesday, Nov. 1. Now, all you need to do is head to the game and cheer on the Bulldogs! If you did not receive an email from Flash Seats, please visit or contact the Drake Athletics ticket office at 515-271-3647 or tickets@drake.edu. Additional student ticket information is available at DrakeTix.com/student.

—Tom Florian, Drake Athletics