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As a Regional Champion, the Drake Students In Free Enterprise team will compete in the 2011 SIFE USA National Exposition in Minneapolis on May 10-12.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, features The Noteables, an Air Force squadron of professional musicians who hold advanced degrees in music performance.

The May 21 game will be broadcast to East and Central Africa as well as much of Europe, Asia and Australia

Tommy Sands, a native of Northern Ireland and traveling musical artist, will deliver a program about the turbulent political environment of his homeland with a story-through-song performance

Presenter Tim Riley addresses free speech issues and the conflicts and consequences of war. Riley is a rock critic for National Public Radio, author, and journalist-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston.

Drake seniors Ben Raanan and Moira Nash are directing "Standing On My Knees" and "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You."

Emily Sapa earned her bachelor's degree from Drake in 2002. She will perform a program of contemporary works, including a piece composed by William Dougherty, Drake's Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of Music.

The Drake University Center for the Humanities will host the Spring 2011 Humanities Symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, in the Cowles Library Reading Room, 2725 University Ave. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, 98 percent of Drake students receive at least some financial aid.

Titled "Happy Birthday, James T. Kirk," the discussion will focus on whether or not there is a place for science fiction in the realms of astronomy and physics.