RECITAL
OF WOMEN'S MUSIC MOVES TO SHESLOW AUDITORIUM
A Recital of Women's Music at Drake University on Saturday, Nov. 4, has been moved
from Parents Hall in Olmsted Center to the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in
Old Main. Drake Jazz Ensemble I and Maria Schneider, a jazz composer and band leader
from New York City, will be featured in the recital, which will start at 8 p.m. Admission
is free. DRAKE TO CELEBRATE
SERVICE WEEK, NOV. 6-12
Drake President David Maxwell has proclaimed the week of Nov. 6-12 as Service Week
2000 at Drake University at the request of the Drake chapter of Alpha Phi Omega,
the nation's largest service fraternity.
"During Service Week we want to encourage people to do community service,"
April Barkley, service vice presdient of the Drake chapter of Alpha Phi Omega.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a campuswide food drive
and clean-up during Service Week.
Nonperishable food items can be dropped off in the residence halls from Monday, Nov.
6, through Sunday, Nov. 12. All of the donated food will be contributed to the Combat
Hunger drive, which will be conducted Nov. 16-17 by the Iowa National Guard in cooperation
with KCCI-TV and the Des Moines Radio Group.
The campuswide clean-up will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at Olmsted Center.
"We want to spruce up the campus and raise awareness of the problems caused
by littering," Barkley said.
Approximately 100 Drake students belong to the Drake chapter of Alpha Phi Omega,
which plans to provide 150 hours of community service during Service Week. Service
projects are scheduled for each day of the week. The projects include taking Ruby
Van Meter students to a Drake men's basketball game, volunteering at Animal Lifeline
of Iowa, serving breakfast to the homeless on the Salvation Army canteen, babysitting
for low-income families at the OSACS Women's Center, and setting up for the Jolly
Holiday Lights display that benefits the Make a Wish Foundation. WORKSHOP
TO EXPLORE ACCESSING E-MAIL FROM OFF-CAMPUS
Faculty and staff members who missed today's workshop on accessing e-mail from off-campus
can attend a second workshop on this subject. The next workshop, conducted by Microcomputer
Services, will start at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center.
The workshop is designed for people who accesses their e-mail from home or while
away from the campus regardless of what internet service provider or e-mail client
they use. Topics to be covered include the use of WebIMap (a web-based e-mail client
available to Drake faculty, staff and students), and the use of personalities in
Eudora. The workshop will address Macintosh and Windows-PC platforms. DRAKE
TO HOST TWO GUEST RECITALS
David Thompson, a faculty member at Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wis., will give
a guest piano recital featuring works by Copland, Gershwin and Joplin at 8 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 5, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Admission is free.
Dean Somerville, tuba, will perform a variety of works ranging from classical to
folk to popular music when he gives a guest recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8,
on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. A former tubist with the U.
S. Army Band, Somerville is now a performer, recitalist, composer and clinician for
Dillon Music, a New Jersey company specializing in low brass. Admission is free. TWO EVENTS SLATED
IN DRAKE WRITERS AND CRITICS SERIES
Sandra G. Shannon, professor of African-American literature at Howard University,
will give a lecture titled "Critical Movements in African-American Drama"
at Drake University on Monday, Nov. 6. The lecture, which is free and open to the
public as part of the Drake Writers and Critics Series, will start at 8 p.m. in the
Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall.
Shannon will trace the evolution of this movement in American drama from the minstrel
tradition to the opposing schools of thought promoted by Alain Locke and W.E.B. DuBois
to the more contemporary Afrocentric thrust advocated by Amiri Baraka and Ntozake
Shange. Shannon is a leading authority of the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
August Wilson. Among her extensive publications on Wilson is her critically acclaimed
book, "The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson."
The Drake Writers and Critics Series will continue on Thursday, Nov. 9, when fiction
writer and O. Henry Award-winner Thomas Glave will read from his new book, "Whose
Song? and Other Stories." The reading, which is free and open to the public,
will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall.
Glave's new book is scheduled for release this month from City Lights Books. His
short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them "Best
American Gay Fiction 3," "Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories
by Black Writers 1967 - Present," and "Prize Stories 1997: The O. Henry
Awards." Glave is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships
and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an assistant professor
of English at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
