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:

• Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
• Eric Berger, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law
• John Eastman, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
• Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University
• Stephen Rapp, Distinguished Fellow, The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide

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

Come out and cheer on your Bulldogs!

Softball
Drake vs. Indiana State (Doubleheader)
April 1 at 12 p.m.
Ron Buel Field

Softball
Drake vs. Indiana State
April 2 at 11 a.m.
Ron Buel Field

Big IDEA Speaker Series: “Strategy & Tactics in Patent Litigation – What You Didn’t Learn in Law School or From a Book”
March 30
3 p.m.
Cartwright Hall, Room 201

Charles Monterio Jr., LW’04, intellectual property partner at Blank Rome LLP in Washington, D.C., will discuss patent litigation strategy as part of the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series.

Before a patent litigation begins, both potential plaintiffs and defendants must make decisions. In this lecture, Monterio will discuss his views on many of the judgment calls that should be made when there are no answers in the books. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18202.

—Kayla Choate, Drake Law School

What: Immigration regulations presentation
When: April 4, 6–7 p.m.
Where: Cowles Library, Room 201

Speakers will provide information on immigration regulations and travel in relation to the recent executive orders and court cases from the Trump Administration with an opportunity for questions and answers. Featured speakers are Lori Chesser, immigration attorney at the Davis Brown Law Firm in Des Moines; Jerry Foxhoven, executive director of the Drake Legal Clinic; and Carlyn Marron, assistant director, Drake international programs. This event is open to all Drake students, faculty and staff.

Drake faculty, staff, or students who wish to consult briefly with an immigration attorney at no charge can also contact Jerry Foxhoven for assistance at jerry.foxhoven@drake.edu. International students at Drake with an F or J visa can also make individual appointments with Carlyn Marron at carlyn.marron@drake.edu.

—Carlyn Marron, Drake International