Police arrested a teenager Nov. 9 and a homeless man Nov. 14 in two unrelated crime patterns targeting Drexel students since early November. The 17-year-old suspect was arrested in his home at 600 N. 35 St. when Philadelphia Police detectives served a search warrant in connection with seven gunpoint robberies of Drexel students.
Mayor-elect Michael Nutter addressed the ways in which Drexel's eLearning program relates to his policies and can be used improve Philadelphia at the Online Learning Award Ceremony Nov. 13. The ceremony, held in the Paul Peck Alumni Center, was a part of the first National Distance Learning Week.
The Office of Academic Advising, Retention and Diversity has developed a new way for freshmen to register for classes to reduce technical difficulties resulting from student overload on the system during the morning of registration. According to Antoinette Torres, director of the OAARD, freshmen will be divided into two groups, arranged alphabetically.
Two Drexel students die in separate incidents Michael Arizmendi, 21, a third-year student majoring in electrical engineering, died Oct. 27 of unknown causes. Arizmendi was born in Fontana, Calif., to Angel and Dianne Arizmendi, and was a resident of Warrington, Pa.
Drexel University television, or DUTV, is staging a number of new events to air this year, along with a daily digest broadcast five times per weekday.
Online fundraising contributor John Breen recently introduced FreeRice.com, a fundraising plan in conjunction with the United Nations World Food Programme and sister site poverty.com. Breen's newest creation proposes an innovative way to help end world hunger.
Four Drexel students and 5,500 others from colleges across the U.S. fought against global warming at Power Shift 2007, held at the University of Maryland at College Park, Nov. 2 through Nov. 4. Power Shift, a training conference for environmentally concerned students, held workshops and panels to teach the students how to get their campus communities involved.
According to a recent article on insidehighered.com, there has been some criticism of the recent College Board audits of advanced placement courses. A total of 134,000 syllabi were reviewed over the course of the year, according to a press release from collegeboard.
The Philadelphia Orchestra is coming to Drexel University Nov. 27 for the first of five performances, which will take place throughout the 2007-08 academic year. Admission to the concerts will be free of charge, because the Pennoni Honors College and Westphal College of Media Arts and Design will fund ticket money for students.
(U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Today's college students are more interested in politics than other young people, but they don't know how to become involved, according to a study released earlier this month. The study, "Millennials Talk Politics: A Study of College Student Political Engagement," was conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
(U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. - Hearty partying has well-documented dangers, but the perils don't end with liver problems and drunk driving accidents. Party atmospheres, through deliberate neglect or inebriated inattentiveness, are liable to host a playground of germs and other hygienic hazards.
NEW YORK - Cell phones aren't just getting smart. They're turning into bookworms. From their humble start as a simple phone that you could carry in your pocket, mobile phones have added a raft of features, such as the ability to take photos, shoot video, receive and send e-mail, and search the Internet.
PHILADELPHIA - Plato and Aristotle puzzled over lefthanders, as did Charles Darwin. What determines "handedness"? Why are only 10 percent of us lefthanded, and why did the ratio seem to change over the last century? Are lefties somehow different - less healthy, more creative? With brain scanning and the latest genetic technology, scientists are finally starting to crack the mysteries.
(U-WIRE) - Google released a new software package for wireless phones called Android on Monday, killing recent speculation for actual wireless phone hardware Google was thought to have in the works. The first phones are expected to make it to market in the later half of 2008.
