Drexel senior Leonard Borriello will search for romance on the second season of NBC’s reality dating show “Love in the Wild,” which premieres June 5. Borriello, a double major in marketing and legal studies with a minor in paralegal, took the winter term off to film the adventure dating show in the southwestern Dominican Republic. [...]
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FISDU dances for the Phillies
Fans of the Phillies got a treat May 8 at the ninth annual Asian-Pacific Celebration at Citizens Bank Park when the Filipino Intercultural Society of Drexel University performed tinikling, a traditional Filipino dance. Tinikling, honored as the Philippine national dance, is a favorite of the Visayan Islands. The dance imitates the movement of tikling birds [...]
Alum welcomed home
Drexel alumnus Joel Gerstman recently returned to his hometown of Maple Glen, Pa., after spending two years working for the Peace Corps in Surat Thani, Thailand. After graduating with a degree in finance in 2009 and feeling unfulfilled after three co-ops and a year working in the field, Gerstman decided to join the Peace Corps. [...]
Temple Grandin lectures on animals and autism
Temple Grandin gave a lecture May 15 at the Academy of Natural Sciences about the thought processes of people and animals at an event co-sponsored by the Academy and the Goodwin College of Professional Studies. Grandin is a doctor of animal science, a professional consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and a professor [...]
Retired professor and political activist dies at 94
Harriet Fleisher Berger, a retired Drexel political science professor and an avid political supporter, died May 4 at the age of 94 from Parkinson’s disease. Berger began teaching at Drexel in 1967 as an assistant political science professor and became an associate professor in 1971. She earned full tenure in 1972, becoming the first full-time [...]
CAB prepares for Spring Jam 2012
Drexel’s Campus Activities Board held a weeklong set of activities that will culminate May 19 with the organization’s annual Spring Jam concert series, featuring Super Mash Bros. as the headliner. As with last year’s Spring Jam, the winners of the Drexel Voice and Drexel Battle of the Bands competitions, Marcus Franklin and Flint, respectively, will [...]
Public Safety releases ‘Drexel Guardian’
Drexel’s Department of Public Safety launched Drexel Guardian May 9 to supplement its existing services with a mobile resource available to students, faculty and staff. Drexel Guardian allows users to build a profile on DrexelOne with key personal information that can help Public Safety to respond quickly in the event of an emergency. The profile, [...]
Espionage reporter and author infiltrates CoAS event
Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick spoke to Drexel University students May 9 about the CIA’s misplaced trust in a rogue Jordanian spy turned al-Qaida operative. Warrick’s lecture, which was co-sponsored by Drexel’s Office of International Area Studies and the Drexel Arabic Language Association, told the story of the spy, Humam al-Balawi. [...]
Drag queens host FUSE’s bingo night
Drag Bingo brought Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj and Robyn dancing to the James E. Marks Intercultural Center May 9 at an event hosted by the Foundation of Undergraduates for Sexual Equality and the Office of Multicultural Programs. The hosts for the night included freshman Ian Crumm as J-Lo, pre-junior Ajay Raghavan as Nicki Minaj, and [...]
Publisher and activist speaks at FUSE mixer
Mark Segal, a gay rights activist and president of the Philadelphia Gay News, was the keynote speaker May 8 at the annual student-faculty mixer hosted by Drexel’s Foundation of Undergraduates for Sexual Equality and sponsored by Drexel Event Services. Segal heralded the importance of creating and maintaining a gay community and explained the progress of [...]
Authorities detain four-time robber
Drexel Police Captain Fred Carbonara arrested Torin Myer, 23, a confirmed University City robber, May 8. Myer confessed to four robberies occurring in University City over the past two weeks and was arraigned May 9. He was charged with four counts of robbery, theft, reckless endangerment of another person, aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats, [...]
Indian Holi celebration brings color to Drexel Park
Students brought a little color into their lives May 5 when Urban Playground and the Drexel Indian Undergraduate Association co-hosted a celebration of Holi, an Indian holiday also known as the Festival of Colors, in Drexel Park. Holi is a cultural celebration of the coming of spring, and even though it is celebrated in India [...]
Dragons for Israel honored for activism
Drexel University’s Dragons for Israel organization was awarded the national Bar-Ilan Award for “Outstanding Campus Activism” April 22 by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America in the first year CAMERA gave out awards to students. Drexel was chosen out of a pool of 34 schools for best activism on campus. Shoshana [...]
Dorm damages shift freshmen
Ninety Millennium Hall residents have been displaced from their housing due to a small lighting fixture fire that occurred May 1 in one of the bathrooms on the ninth floor of the building. The resulting sprinkler activation damaged three floors of the freshman residence hall, making them unfit to inhabit. A Drexel advisory text message [...]
ROTC alumnus killed overseas
Drexel Navy ROTC graduate Lt. Christopher Mosko was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star Medal for valor and a Purple Heart after he was killed April 26 while serving in Afghanistan. Mosko, 28, was conducting combat operations in the Nawa District of Ghazni Province when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb during patrol. According to NATO, [...]
Expert Reveals Secrets of the brain
Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author David Eagleman spoke May 2 at Drexel University’s second annual College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecture, likening neuroscience to ‘a computer studying its own hardware’ “…It would be as though your computer started controlling its own peripheral devices and pulled off its cover and pointed its webcam [...]
Team Wins U.S. Imagine Cup and advances to Worlds
Three Drexel computer science undergraduates claimed the U.S. title at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Competition, which was held April 20-23 in Seattle, for their design of a mathematics teaching smartphone application. Team Drexel Dragons, composed of seniors Matt Lesnak, Keith Ayers and Nicolas Taylor Mullen, competed against teams from across the country and were selected as [...]
CoMAD hosts Burberry CEO
The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design welcomed Angela Ahrendts, the CEO of British luxury brand Burberry, to campus for a question-and-answer forum May 2. Earlier in the day, CoMAD representatives awarded her the inaugural Westphal Award. The discussion appealed to design and business students alike. Ahrendts, who became the CEO of Burberry [...]
Charity event benefits HIV/AIDS victims
Brothers from Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity volunteered April 26 for Dining Out for Life, a fundraiser started by the ActionAIDS organization, which raises money to help support people living with HIV or AIDS. Serving as “ambassadors,” 10 brothers from the fraternity were spread throughout the city at various participating restaurants to answer questions about ActionAIDS, [...]
‘Tough Love’ host advises on modern relationships
Steve Ward, a Drexel alumnus (’03) and host of VH1’s “Tough Love,” spoke to students in Behrakis Grand Hall May 2 to answer their questions about relationships and dating. Ward’s advice was based around the importance of technology in today’s society, especially for college students and young adults. “Dating is evolving because technology is evolving, [...]
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