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New housing policies ineffective

I, like many other freshmen, have been bombarded with housing-related emails for the past few weeks. Each email expressed that my housing deposit and options were due soon and that I should deal with this quickly. Had I not avoided this task for so long, I suppose I would not have received so many emails. [...]

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LeBow mourns loss of Peterson

Drexel pre-junior Christopher Peterson was found dead Nov. 15 in his off-campus apartment. No foul play is suspected, but an official cause of death has not yet been released. Peterson, 20, of Reading, Pa., was a business administration major with a marketing concentration in the LeBow College of Business. LeBow interim Dean Frank Linnehan broke [...]

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Involvio team releases newest update

Senior Ari Winkleman led a team of students that created and developed Involvio, a website and mobile application that allows college students to find events on and around campus using social media. Drexel was among a handful of schools that first had access to the Involvio app and has seen it expand over the last [...]

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New images highlight future of campus

The latest images of the Drexel University Campus Master Plan were released via the University’s master planning WordPress website Dec. 22, including diagrams and sketches of the proposed changes to the University City campus up to and beyond the year 2027. The plans forecast Drexel’s future beyond the more immediate Strategic Plan: 2012-2017, for which [...]

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Treasurer grants energy funding

State Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5 that Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program. Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the government-sponsored Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program, Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5. during a visit to Drexel’s campus. The initiative, which was developed [...]

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New Building Plans Need Student Input

Last week, The Philadelphia City Planning Commission was presented with the plans for new additions to campus on the 3200 block of Chestnut Street in the small grass area in front of MacAlister Hall and the Creese Student Center, which include three new residence halls, retail and office space, and a parking garage located behind [...]

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Campus construction: overshadowing students of today

Summertime scholastics at Drexel are shaping up to be more frustrating than normal. We’re not talking about the usual jealously we feel as our non-quarter system friends hit the beach or the sweltering heat that almost makes wearing a suit to co-op a violation of the Geneva convention. No, this summer students are being forced [...]

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