The Drew men’s basketball team’s record-breaking season came to a close following their NCAA Championship debut on Friday, March 7. The team lost 73-58 to the University of Mary Washington during the…
Moving away from home to a new town, state or country to a small plot of land hidden in the woods is quite the transition. Collectively, we all get caught up in…
World War II had an unintended consequence for those on the homefront—an uprooting of traditional gender roles. Drew was not left untouched by such dramatic change. In 1943, the first female students…
On December 8, 1941, in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the American public, famously declaring the day as “a date that will live in infamy.”…
With each passing day, the 53rd annual Earth Day grows closer. In order to celebrate, this week’s article is dedicated to the history of Earth Day in The Forest and the exciting…
To close out the last week of Black History Month, this article, despite being published in March, will be dedicated to exploring the Black experience at Drew. This article will examine what…
Last weekend Drew Night Life hosted the annual Winter Ball, colloquially known as the “Ho Ball,” short for Holiday Ball, to the present-day students of Drew. Nearly 700 students attended the event…
On Oct. 5, 2017, investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey changed the course of American history with their bombshell New York Times article “Harvey Weinstein Paid off Sexual Harassment Accusers for…
In 2012, Drew University was featured on a short list of “The Top Ten Worst Campus Dining Halls” published by Medical Daily. Unfortunately, the ten-year-old list still comes up in conversation among…
“The beginning of any enterprise is in the nature of an adventure.” These were the first words to grace the pages of “The Acorn” in a letter to the editor published in…