Category: DU in the News

Seth Hedman is spending spring break preparing to play in the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl - the first official American football game played on the continent of Africa. To help cover expenses, Hedman is conducting sports clinics for youth in his hometown.

Drake Law School professors Jerry L. Anderson and Jonathan Rosenbloom address proposals in the Iowa Legislature that they say would chill depictions of livestock abuse.

David Walker, a Drake University law professor and former law school dean, said he endorses the idea of the Iowa Supreme Court hosting the radio program, adding that it won't violate the court's decorum. The Iowa Supreme Court will hear its first cases since refilling its seven-justice roster at Drake University Law School next week.

On May 21, 2011 in Arusha's Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium, college football teams from the USA and Mexico will compete in front of 15,000 curious fans, for the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl, the very first game of American football on the African continent. The game will involve college student athletes from Drake Universit and the CONADEIP Mexico League.

Drake alumnus and Chicago artist Alvin Hawkins is quoted in a profile of Calvin Jones, one of the midwest's premier Afrocentric painters. Jones took Hawkins under his wing, helping him build a portfolio shortly after graduation.

Drake trustee Suku Radia, president and CEO, Bankers Trust, Marsha K. Ternus, LW'77, former chief justice, Iowa Supreme Court, and Emily Westergaard Hamilton, GR'09, executive director, Des Moines "I Have a Dream" Foundation were named to the 10-person selection committee for The Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize.

Drake alumna Gale Brubaker is featured for her work as senior program manager of finance, grants and marketing for the Iowa Council for International Understanding. The goal of ICIU is to build cultural respect at home and around the world, one person at a time.

More Iowa families will struggle to sell their homes and refinance their mortgages as a growing number of Des Moines area homes are worth less than their owners' mortgages, said Tom Root, Drake University finance professor.

Kim Knott, a recent Drake graduate living in Malaga, Spain, blogs about her five favorite pastimes in Madrid. She teaches English in an elementary school in Malaga.

Andrea Charlow, associate dean and Drake Law professor, is quoted regarding a legal battle over gay rights in that could come from a same-sex couple determined to have both of their names listed on their child's birth certificate.