Drury's most famous alumnus, Dr. Bob Barker, made a return visit to campus Tuesday to give $1 million for the establishment of the Dorothy Jo Barker Endowed Professorship of Animal Rights, named in honor of Barker's late wife. "What we're doing here today is something they will be talking about all over the country," Barker said.
Since 1988, October has been Disability Awareness Month. Disability Awareness Month is used to recognize and celebrate the small and large accomplishments of people with disabilities and disability rights. One of the most well-known accomplishments of the disability rights movement was the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Senior, Mallory Noelke, recently accepted the Rising Star award from the Association for Women in Communication. The Rising Star award is given out to one member from one of the 36 chapters of AWC nationwide. The Rising Star award is the highest honor a student member of the AWC can receive.
Editor's Note: This article features the writing of Fengliang Mu, one of Drury's exchange faculty members from China. How can China be similar to the West? Culturally, it is Oriental. Politically, it is socialist and Confucian. Economically, in contrast to the affluence of the West, China is still poorly developed with insufficient public resources given to its population.