More than 60 students, faculty and community members assembled in the Olin Library on Thursday, March 31, to hear Pulitzer Prize -winning poet W.D. Snodgrass read a variety of his acclaimed poems. Snodgrass is considered a legendary voice in American poetry and the inventor to the "confessional" style of writing.
The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) will host its annual Beaux Arts Ball Saturday, April 9 at 6 p.m. at the Tower Club in Hammons Tower, 901 E. St. Louis St. This will be the 11th annual Beaux Arts Ball and Charity Art Auction. The night's theme for this year is Crimes of Fashion.
Kyle Robinson, a senior at Drury, returned last week from a 4-month trip through Asia, 2 months of which he spent teaching Indian schoolchildren at Ham Sheela Model School in Durgapor. Twenty other Drury students also visited the school, and though their visit was abbreviated compared to Robinson's, all students had the experience of teaching in a foreign country.
Spring is finally here and has brought its sunny, warm weather with it. Last weekend proved to be ideal for Drury's first Salt March, a nonviolent movement to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi's historic march. Sunday, April 3 and Monday, April 4 were full of activities for the entire family as part of the Salt March, including documentaries, balloons and crafts for children, and guest speakers.
It may have taken 15 years of working toward an undergraduate diploma, but Dr. Teresa Hornsby finally found something that interested her. "Religion hooked me," she explained in her convocation presentation Thursday, March 31. She has published six works and is a respected Drury faculty member, teaching courses such as "The Life and Teachings of Jesus," "Women in the Early Christian World," and "Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Bible.
The ninth annual D'Addy Awards invites students to "Raise the Stakes." This competition allows students from all majors to enter original work in six divisions including journalism, broadcast, public relations, advertising, graphic design and speech communication.
Presidential and vice presidential elections for next year's Student Government Association were recently held on campus. Zachary Tusinger, a sophomore history and political science major, was elected president. Alicia Libla, a sophomore political science/criminology and psychology major, was elected vice president.
In the eye of the beholder everything is different. To any student studying abroad, the experience is amazing and often a once in lifetime opportunity. While to the students deciding to opt out on the experience, it's often due to beliefs of homesickness or the idea of missing out on social scene at home.
London, Paris, Venice, the French Alps. Each weekend is a new trip and with it comes a new experience, new memories and new friends. My first trip since my last article was to the so-called "romantic" Paris, France. Romance wasn't in the air that weekend, but that may have been because of the bitter cold weather also in the city.