Music-loving students came together May 16 in Mandell Theater to jam to indie rock band Motion City Soundtrack for the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s sixth annual MAD Dragon concert. MAD Dragon Records teamed up with Motion City Soundtrack to produce a seven-inch vinyl series titled “Making Moves,” featuring new songs by [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
Let’s eliminate Blackboard Vista
Iden Kurtaliaj Like many American universities, Drexel uses a Blackboard system for online learning management. However, it is questioned how effectively the tools provided by Blackboard are used by Drexel students. Drexel faculty and students often express frustration about their daily use of Bb Vista. The most common problems they are faced with every [...]
DU’s acceptance rate is too high
Roshni Patel Coming to Drexel, I have experienced a number of things: amazing opportunities, friendly people and helpful instructors. But with all these good things comes a disadvantage — overcrowding. One of the prime reasons for this problem is Drexel University’s high acceptance rate. Lowering the acceptance rate will not only stabilize this problem [...]
Bill Cosby visits Drexel health clinic
He wasn’t wearing a sweater, but Bill Cosby did wear a Drexel T-shirt when he toured Drexel University’s 11th Street Family Health Services Center April 24. The entertainer will also work with the Center Oct. 5 when he will hold a benefit fundraiser event, titled “An Evening with Bill Cosby,” to raise money and awareness [...]
Put your money where your mouth is
Bloomberg.com, which describes itself as “a premier site for business and financial market news,” published a story April 24 with the ominous title “Colleges Confuse Students with Letters Offering Aid That’s Debt.” And as soon as you read the first paragraph, you realize it’s partially about Drexel. Zach Romano, a high school senior, is mentioned [...]
Letter to the Editor – Construction
Dear Editor, Everyone among the student body has noticed the recent rash of construction and incoming students. Not to mention everyone has been complaining about it. Would you guess that the two are related more closely than one might think? The construction projects going on right now are capital intensive, like any other project, [...]
Junior wins Miss Philadelphia pageant
At first, Lauren Bilski, a junior at Drexel University and 2012 Miss Philadelphia, thought it was her number that the announcer identified as the runner-up at the 2012 Miss Philadelphia scholarship competition March 31. “It came down to me, contestant No. 19, and Caitlin Mahon, contestant No. 9. They announced the first runner-up was contestant [...]
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 [...]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Over the past year that I have been at Drexel, it has become evident to me and other freshmen that Drexel does not provide good quality food options for its students and faculty. Looking into the food options, I realized that there are not a lot of options to choose from. As [...]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Drexel, “Look to your left and look to your right,” I was told during my freshman orientation at Drexel’s engineering school. “Only one of you will graduate,” Dominic Di Bucci, an alumnus here at Drexel University, said. Drexel has always had a low graduation rate, but is it fair to students? In more [...]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, The University has grown exponentially in recent years with the “Drexel Renaissance.” There are many concerns surrounding the rapid increase in student enrollment and physical infrastructure keeping up with demand. The influx of new students has put constraints on many aspects of student housing. Dorms are frequently beyond capacity, yet there have [...]
IRT updates DrexelOne app for Android
A new version of the DrexelOne mobile application for Android, along with push notification updates to the Apple iOS and Windows Phone applications, will be released sometime next week, according to Ken Blackney, associate vice president for core technology infrastructure and co-producer of the app. “[The new version] will bring the Android app up to [...]
Westphal begins work on ‘smart’ fabrics
The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design signed a $1 million agreement with knitting machine producer Shima Seiki USA in February in order to build a lab emphasizing the research and development of smart textiles, as announced Feb. 27 in a Drexel press release.Genevieve Dion, CoMAD’s fashion design program director, headed the agreement [...]
Grad earns residency in fashion incubator
After being selected from among numerous local fashion designers, Autumn Kietponglert, a Drexel University graduate, was welcomed by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter March 1 as one of five designers to enter Macy’s Philadelphia Fashion Incubator. The Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, based on a similar program launched in Chicago that also partnered with Macy’s, is an initiative [...]
Can Drexel Basketball rebound for the CAA Tourney
“Year of the Dragon” was the mantra for the Drexel men’s basketball team this year. In a Colonial Athletic Association poll taken in October, the Dragons were favored to win the conference tournament with six of their returning top players. Unfortunately, Derrick Thomas was one of these top six, and he won’t be playing this [...]
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, [...]
Engineers develop eco-friendly cement
Drexel engineers have developed a cement that is more energy efficient and cost effective to produce than the more common Portland cement, according to a Feb. 20 Drexel press release. The research, which was published in “Cement and Concrete Composites,” was produced by a group of Drexel professors and alumni that founded Greenstone Technologies Inc. [...]
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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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