It was supposed to be harder this time, but the Drury Panthers swim team made their fourth consecutive NCAA Division II national championship look like a practice meet. Drury became just the second school to ever win four straight NCAA-II swimming titles on the men's side.
If everything stays on schedule, Drury will be breaking ground on the new O'Reilly Family Event Center this May. "Not too terribly long ago the idea of an arena was a dream," said Pete Radecki, vice president for campus operations and sustainability, who is in charge of overseeing the construction plans for the center.
Recent acquisition of the former federal Social Security building near the Drury campus by Reverend Larry Rice has sparked debate within the Springfield community. Reverend Larry Rice, Founder and Director of New Life Evangelistic Center, has devoted 35 years to his ministry in helping homeless individuals get back on their feet through treatment, shelter, and support.
After a successful fundraiser last year, the Drury University chapter of Habitat for Humanity has decided to sponsor its 2nd annual Birdhouse Fundraiser. The theme for this year's fundraiser is, "Good housing is not just for the birds." Money raised from the auction will go towards the Habitat for Humanity Drury chapter to help fund the sustainable habitat house or towards future habitat houses.
Fido is getting a new name, several, in fact: "plaintiff," "trustee," "beneficiary" and even "defendant." Dogs, cats and creatures of all sorts are being redefined in an emerging area of legal practice known as animal law. Once considered mere property, animals are being invested with legal standing as they're increasingly being named as partial beneficiaries of estates, subjects of lawsuits and victims of abuse.
Drury's Kappa Delta sorority chapter will be hosting Shamrock Week next week, March 31 - April 4. Shamrock Week is a fundraiser for Kappa Delta's national philanthropy, Prevent Child Abuse America, which helps to raise awareness about child abuse in the United States and ways it can be prevented, and its local philanthropy, Isabel's House: Crisis Nursery.
Senior Barri Bulla, a political science major, has been named a Carl Albert Fellow at Oklahoma University. The Carl Albert Center at Oklahoma University offers this five-year competitive fellowship leading to a Ph. D. in political science. Bulla was one of just two students to be selected for the fellowship.
Students at Drury University have recently started a STAND chapter on campus and will hold the first meeting of the group on Wed., March 26 at 4 p.m. in the Findlay Student Center's Presidential Dining Room. STAND is a student anti-genocide coalition which aims at stopping genocide, primarily in Darfur.