It seems like just yesterday we had a big parade for Dr. Bob Barker to mark the renaming of Brower Street to Bob Barker Boulevard. This festive occasion marked the beginning of some unique changes to come to Drury. On one such occasion, Bob Barker donated $1 million to our university to fund the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights.
Each summer starts with a goal of achieving the perfect beach "bod", and, as a college student, usually ends with the realization that soon you will be returning to college life to deal with the fact that working out may soon just become an after-thought. Not anymore! With the dramatic improvements to the Barber Fitness Center, students will no longer be able to make excuses for skipping their daily work out needed to maintain those hard-earned beach bods! Matt Miller, Drury's Director of Wellness, has made significant improvements over the past year to the Barber Fitness Center for all students, faculty, and staff to enjoy.
In the spring semester of 2009, the Commons, Drury's cafeteria-style dining hall, started a trayless initiative to increase campus sustainability. According to Drury's Sustainability Web page, the plan for eliminating trays came from a collaborative effort between Aladdin Food Services and Think Green, an environmentalist group at Drury.
A new form of philanthropy is taking place on Drury's campus and it's starting from the ground up. Beginning this past July, Office Coordinator for Student Development Melissa Shull and a few Drury students have been harvesting produce to donate to The Kitchen Inc.
Beginning Friday, Sept. 4, Drury undergraduates in Tom Parker's Artifacts of Prehistoric Culture class began to solve the problem of how to move a five-ton stone without the help of modern machinery. The course is designed around the problem of moving the stone 40 feet and standing it up using only the technology available during the earliest phase of the Neolithic period.