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This Month@Drake

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9



  • Workshop: Know Your Work Style, Part II, 9 a.m. to noon, rooms 310-311, Olmsted Center. Register by calling x3133.
  • Question-and-Answer Session with the O’Neill Brothers, 2 p.m., Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.
  • Joint Drake Law School-American Judicature Society program: “The Jury and the American Litigation Process,” 3 to 5:15 p.m., room 213, Cartwright Hall.
  • Black History Month: “Matrix of Mediocracy” talk by Rasheed-Ali Cromwell an associate at a large intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C., and a speaker for The Harbor Institute, 7 p.m., Cowles Library Reading Room.


  • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
  • Last day to turn in RSVP cards to Human Resources for Drake’s 125th Birthday Celebration for faculty and staff on Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Science Center of Iowa.
  • Last day to order a Singing Valentine from the Drake Choir. Call (515) 271-3024 or visit
  • www.drake.edu/valentines
  • Drake University Science Colloquium Series featuring Jerry Honts, noon, Bulldog Theater, Olmsted Center.
  • Black History Month: Stepper’s Night, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11



  • Drake men’s basketball vs. Evansville, 7:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center.
  • Drake Choir Benefit Cabaret, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, $5 for students and $25 for others.


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12
o Black History Month: Movie Marathon, 2 p.m. to midnight, Black Cultural Center, 1149 28th St.


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
o Guest/Faculty Recital – The Euclid Quartet and Nicholas Roth, piano, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15


  • Drake Jazz Combo, 8 p.m., MainStay stage.


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17



  • Drake women’s basketball vs. Evansville, 7:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center
  • Guest artist: Pavel Wlosok, jazz pianist, with Drake Faculty Combo, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19



  • Drake women’s basketball vs. Southern Illinois, 2:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center
  • Guest artist: Sandip Burman and Friends, Indian classical music, noon, Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21



  • Drake Symphony Orchestra, John Canarina conductor, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main. Marisa Kelegian, winner of the Drake Soloist Competition performs Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto. The Orchestra plays Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Kodaly’s “Hary Janos” Suite.


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22



  • Drake men’s basketball vs. Wichita State, time to be announced, Drake Knapp Center


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25



  • Drake Concert Band, Sean Flanigan, conductor, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.


THURSDAY, MARCH 2



  • Drake women’s basketball vs. Northern Iowa, 7:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center


FRIDAY, MARCH 3



  • Guest Artist: Eva Amsler, flute and Deloise Lima, piano, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.


SATURDAY, MARCH 4



  • Drake women’s basketball vs. Bradley, 2:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center
  • SAI Women’s Recital: 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.


SUNDAY, MARCH 5



  • A Mozart Celebration, 8 p.m., Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main, Leanne Freeman-Miller, soprano, Michelle Havlik-Jergens, piano, Timothy Robinson, baritone-lecturer, voice faculty and students. A lecture-concert featuring duets, trios and ensembles from Mozart’s great operas, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birthday.


TUESDAY, MARCH 7



  • SAI Recital, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.


SATURDAY, MARCH 11



  • Drake Wind Symphony, Robert Meunier, conductor, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main.