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| Senators Charles Grassley and Tom Harkin join hands after Harkin declares there are no Democrats and no Republicans, just Amerians. |
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Aimee Beckmann-Collier directs the Drake Choir in singing "Peace" from "The Fruit of the Spirit." |
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President David Maxwell speaks at the "Stand Up For America" rally. |
In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., Drake University and President David Maxwell hosted "Stand Up for America," an event organized by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack at the Drake Knapp Center Sunday.
More than 1,500 people joined together to remember the lost, salute those who have saved lives, and stand in unity behind the United States.
The Drake Choir, under the direction of Aimee Beckmann-Collier, performed as did the Corinthian Baptist Choir and the East High School Band.
Drake announced this week that all Des Moines police and firefighters and their families will be admitted free to Drake's home football game this Saturday against Quincy College. The game starts at 1 p.m. in Drake Stadium. Area Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, Explorers and Scout leaders also will be admitted to the game free.
Des Moines police chief William Moulder and Des Moines Fire Chief Ron Wakeham will participate in the coin toss prior to the opening kickoff. Drake student-athletes will take up collections in between the first and second quarter to aid the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
"Too many times our civil servants are taken for granted and as America discovered last week, the police and firefighters are unsung heroes," said Drake athletic director Dave Blank.Chip Kidd, who has been described as "the closest thing there is to a rock star in the rarefied world of high-end graphic design," will speak at Drake University Friday, Sept. 28, in conjunction with the "AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers" exhibit at the Anderson Gallery.
Kidd's speech, which is free and open to the public, will start 6:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. The gallery in the Harmon Fine Arts Center will be open one hour prior to the speech, which is titled " Who are the Cheese Monkeys, and What Do They Want?" The title refers to Kidd's first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, which will be released by Scribner on Tuesday.
Kidd is associate art director of jackets and special projects at Alfred A. Knopf, the venerable New York publishing house. Since joining Knopf in 1986, he has created more than 1,500 book jacket designs for authors such as Anne Rice, Cormac McCarthy, John Updike and Howard Stern. His design for Michael Crichton' s Jurassic Park became one of the most recognizable images of the 1990s.
He also does innumerable freelance design projects each year, and has been a design consultant for The Paris Review since 1995. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Eye, Print, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time, The New York Times, Graphic, New York and ID magazines. ID chose him as part of its first ID 40 group of the nation's top designers.
"AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers" will be on display through Sept. 30. It features the 100 best-designed books and covers of 1999 as selected by a jury of nationally renowned and influential book designers in a competition sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The Anderson Gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.|
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Drake volleyball players display their patriotism as they head for a game at Southwest Missouri State. |
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From left: Brett Hanson, Tommy Rinkoski and Emeric Dwyer star in Drake's production of "Equus." Hanson plays Dysart, the psychiatrist who tries to help Alan, the disturbed young man played by Rinkoski. Dwyer plays Nugget, one of the horses blinded by Alan. |
Drake Theatre will present "Equus," the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Shaffer, Oct. 4-7 in Studio 55 of the Harmon Fine Arts Center.
This riveting drama, directed by professor John Holman, depicts Alan, a highly disturbed young man, who is sent to Dysart, a psychiatrist, after he brutally blinds six horses. Dysart battles his own demons as he tries to help his patient, Alan. "Equus" is suitable for mature audiences only.
All performances start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $4 for general admission, $2 for students and senior citizens, and free with a Drake ID. Reservations are required due to limited seating. For reservations, call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841.Alan Lightman, a novelist and physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the first speaker in Drake's First Year Seminar Lecture Series.
Lightman will discuss "The Physicist as Novelist: At the Crossroads of Science and the Arts" at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, and again at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Students enrolled in First Year Seminars are expected to attend one of the talks. Both talks are free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in Levitt Hall.
Lightman has written four well-received novels, including Einstein's Dreams. His latest book, The Diagnosis, was a finalist for the National Book Award in the fiction category. He also is affiliated with the MIT Program on Writing and Humanistic Studies.Sue Cox, executive director of the Texas Council on Problem and Compulsive Gambling, will speak at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in room 344 of Olin Hall.
She will discuss "The Impact of Sports Wagering, Internet Gambling and Credit Card Abuse on College Students." Her speech is sponsored by the psychology department.Drake will host Iowa's first annual "Book Week", an event sponsored by the School of Education, Cowles Library, Des Moines Public Schools and Heartland Area Education Agency.
"Book Week" will be held Tuesday, Oct. 2, through Thursday, Oct. 4. A large selection of titles published in 2001 for children and young adults will be displayed in the new Reading Room at Cowles Library.
The Des Moines community may visit the display from noon to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday.
A book review session will take place in the reading room at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. DeDe Small, assistant professor of education, Dall Vande Haar, coordinator of libraries and information services for Des Moines Public Schools, and a Drake student will present several of the recent titles. Several guests will also speak, including Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack.
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