Category: Official News Releases

Drake will parade a new litter of its beloved mascot, the Bulldog, around campus this year for the 98th running of the Drake Relays. The first annual Bulldog Parade will be unveiled at 1 p.m. today.

Trash in the commons, exotic animals and fair trade coffee are some of the features that the Drake Environmental Action League (DEAL) will use during Earth Week, April 16-20, to promote environmental awareness at Drake University.

More than 1,000 students from colleges and high schools across central Iowa have logged thousands of volunteer hours for various Iowa organizations for this year's 10,000 Hours Show. Australian band Jet will perform the concert on Wednesday, April 11, at the Drake Knapp Center.

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will speak at the next Drake-IowaPolitics.com Luncheon Friday.

Stephen Rapp, a 1974 graduate of Drake Law School and The Prosecutor of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone, will return to Drake Law School today.

StageWest is holding a Drake night today for "I Am My Own Wife," a play starring Broadway actor Philip Lehl, a 1986 Drake graduate.

More than 300 Drake University musicians will join forces to perform Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) by Johannes Brahms at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at the Civic Center of Greater Moines, 221 Walnut St.

Five top legal scholars from across the nation will debate whether the U.S. Constitution thwarts democracy at the annual Drake University Law School Constitutional Law Symposium Saturday, April 7.

President David Maxwell has been appointed to the inaugural Educational Leadership Advisory Group for Noel-Levitz, one of the nation's leading higher education consulting firms.

Craig Armstrong, vice president and general manager of Iowa Speedway, will conclude Drake's spring 2007 "Let's DU Lunch" lecture series with a talk beginning at noon Wednesday, April 4, at the Polk County Convention Complex, 501 Grand Ave.