The Drexel Players successfully closed the curtain on yet another top-notch season. The musical satire “Urinetown, The Musical” has been a much-appreciated escape for students overwhelmed with midterms. The highly entertaining and hilarious musical was directed by Peter Reynolds and featured original music and lyrics by Mark Hollman. The show opened May 4 and played [...]
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Men’s lacrosse beats Penn State late, gets CAA title shot
Drexel junior attackman Robert Church shoots one bye Villanova University goalkeeper Dan Gutierrez. Church scored one goal and two assists in the 9-14 loss to the Wildcats at Villanova Feb. 28. Church on the season leads the Dragons with 24 goals and 42 points. Coming off clinching a spot in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament [...]
Drexel’s D & M releases third EP ‘Wait For Me’
After some discussion while sitting backstage before their April 15 CD release show at World Cafe Live, members of the Drexel-based band D & M agreed that they would settle for being the third-biggest band in the world. “We don’t want to be the biggest. I don’t want to have to spend too much time [...]
Letter to the Editor – High Tuition
Dear Editor, We, the student body of Drexel University, have suffered too long under the weight of massive tuition on our shoulders. Something needs to be done. The amount of debt we incur at Drexel over our four plus years here is estimated to be three times that of students at other schools. Is [...]
Ugandan writer discusses national issues
Ugandan journalist and fiction writer Jackee Budesta Batanda spoke March 5 about the role of journalism in her war-torn native country during a discussion held in the basement of the James E. Marks Intercultural Center. Batanda first started as an art and fashion journalist in Uganda, but the conflict in the northern section of the [...]
‘Making Moves’ artists to play in Texas
The artists featured in Making Moves, a series of singles produced by MAD Dragon Records and members of the band Motion City Soundtrack, will appear together for the first time March 14 at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. The project, which was sponsored by the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute, began [...]
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon
Donna Downes-Matreale and Lara Geragi As many of you know, 2012 marks the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Dragon, and as one of few universities in the U.S. to have a dragon as its mascot, it is fitting for the Drexel University Alumni Association to mark the occasion with something pretty special, [...]
FUSE petitions for LGBTQ center
Representatives from the student-run Foundation of Undergraduates for Sexual Equality are honing in on a goal they began working toward last summer — to establish a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students on Drexel’s University City campus. FUSE has been represented in the LGBTQ Advisory Board, a broader alliance of undergraduate and [...]
iSchool Center to tackle Big Data
The National Science Foundation has awarded the iSchool at Drexel funding to start and run a center to tackle big data challenges that are facing companies in various industries as part of a joint venture with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The Center for Visual and Decision Informatics is funded by the Industry/University Cooperative [...]
Construction on Chestnut Street begins
A joint force of Texas-based campus housing developer American Campus Communities and Drexel University are turning the 3200 block of Chestnut Street into a mixed-use student housing and retail development, as announced Feb. 2 in a University press release. Construction has already begun on the 361,200-square-foot project, which will add approximately 863 beds to the [...]
University hosts event celebrating engineering
Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day was held Feb. 4 in the Bossone Research Center with over 1,300 people in attendance and demonstrations and lectures aiming to get the local community interested in materials science. Drexel, the University of Pennsylvania and The Franklin Institute put on the free event. “It’s just a really great day [...]
Drexel awarded $1 million grant for plasma research
Drexel University received a $1-million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to expand research on the effect of plasma on the biochemical process in living systems, according to a Drexel-issued press release published Jan. 30. The two-year research project will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team of Drexel faculty at the University’s Anthony J. Drexel Plasma Institute [...]
Academy to celebrate fossils
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will host Paleopalooza, its annual dinosaur-themed festival, Feb. 18 and 19, featuring a live show and separate seminar with paleontologist Scott Sampson of the popular PBS children’s show “Dinosaur Train.” Sampson will be available for an all-ages presentation of “Dinosaur Train” on both days of the two-day [...]
Cops bust LSD ring involving two students
Local authorities arrested two Drexel students last month for their involvement in a local million-dollar LSD operation. Following their arrest, the students became police informants, leading to the Jan. 31 bust of three ringleaders at the 4800 Block of Florence Street. The bust was made Tuesday night by a combined force including the district attorney’s Dangerous Drug [...]
Student barber cuts in UCross
Being in college means, to many of us, living on campus and missing the comforts of home. In a true-life example of not needing something until it’s gone, nothing seems better than a home-cooked meal or the family dog after just a few weeks on campus. Even something as simple as picking up a package [...]
Senior earns chance to display work
One Drexel graphic design senior was named a winner of the 2011 Best of Art in the Air award in December, and as a result, his motion video, “Color Philadelphia,” will be displayed on the PECO Crown Lights at 23rd and Market streets until early March. Peter Eyrich of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media [...]
Snoop Dogg to perform at the Armory
Members of various event-planning groups at Drexel announced that Snoop Dogg would be headlining this year’s Homecoming Dance Party in a private meeting of student representatives held in the Pearlstein Business Learning Center Jan. 23. During the announcement it was revealed that Snoop’s performance will consist of “a full band with drums, bass, a keyboard, [...]
Universities participate in recycling competition
Drexel University will be participating in the nationwide RecycleMania competition from Jan. 22 to March 31, an effort that encourages more than 500 participating colleges and universities across the country to promote recycling and waste reduction activities for the school’s recycling programs. For every week during the event, the schools must report recycling and trash [...]
‘Today’ panel discusses show’s history
“Today” show experts spoke to Drexel students Jan. 23 at the Bossone Research Center about their memorable experiences at the morning show, in order to celebrate the program’s 60th anniversary. The event consisted of a panel discussion followed by a reception where attendees could purchase signed copies of a book celebrating the show’s success. The [...]
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Senior featured on reality show
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Dragons flex muscles in Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta
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Drexel softball waves goodbye to it’s all-time home run leader
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Motion City Soundtrack joins forces with MAD Dragon Records for series
- Philly’s hip-hop summer lineup looks promising
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