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Old School Photo: The Kissing Rock

  The temperatures are falling, and couples around campus are snuggling up. But instead of staying in, the Student Alumni Association has encouraged students to come outside and celebrate a 114-year-old, 40-ton campus tradition. Placed under the Chancellor’s Elm as a class gift in 1898, a boulder that eventually came to be known as the...

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The Shawd Family

Building a Drake connection

Families welcomed, honored over the weekend Jeff Shawd, JO’81, GR’83, was the first member of his family to attend Drake, but it quickly became a family affair. Both of his siblings followed, and now his son, Andrew, is a junior at the University. Since his graduation, Jeff has remained a passionate and involved Bulldog, maintaining...