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Illustrations by Rebecca Chew

A fresh intellectualenergy and culture ofcamaraderie pushedus to try and bottle the current campuszeitgeist. Was it hubristo think we could?

That never stopped us before. > > >

Kimberly AmmianoColumbia | journalism

Tim BarnumMIT | chemistry

Sophia BlumShakespeare Theatre ofNew Jersey | actress

Brooke BodeNew York Life InvestmentManagement | analyst

Gillian BradleyBaylor College ofMedicine | neuroscience

Sarah CannavaleChristie’s Education |history of art and theart market

Sarah ColmerUPenn | veterinary medicine

Gregory HuntUniversity of Michigan | statistics

Christina KarasPrinceton | molecular biology

Nicole KuruszkoThe New School | international affairs

Ronak MistryUMDNJ | medicine

Maeve OlneyWilliam and Mary | law

Steve RosoneNew Jersey Devils | sales

Raymond SchmelzerMiddlebury | Italian

Brennan ShanksErnst & Young | forensics

Bright futures

What’s Next for the Class of ’13?

IT’S ALL GOOD > > > OUT: greenhouse emissions (down 16 percent) IN: smarter electricity use (down 12 percent) OUT: TV reruns IN: Drew International Film Festival OUT: Drew-supplied laptop IN: your own laptop OUT: bullies IN: hipsters > > >

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SIX MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION, 95 PERCENT OF DREW’SClass of ’12 were employed or in graduate school, accordingto data collected by Kim Crabbe, director of Drew’s Centerfor Career Services.

“Even in a recovering economy, 67 percent of last year’sclass are members of the workforce,” says Crabbe. “Another28 percent are enrolled in graduate school.”

Crabbe is expecting the trend to continue, given these enviablefutures for members of the Class of ’13 (list at right).

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After global consulting firm Teneo Holdings readTaylor Fichtman’s honors

thesis, it created a positionfor her (wearing ribbons).

Being behind the timesABRAHAM LINCOLN TWEETS.Nat Turner twees. So doesLouisa May Alcott. So it’snot surprising that the long-departed @DanielDrewU is a Twitterphile too. As is hissocial media–minded missus:“I think everyone should follow my lovely bride@RoxannaMeadDrew ’causeI’ll never hear the end of it ifyou don’t.”

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THE VOTES ARE IN: DOWNTOWNMadison is all about eating. A recentcampus poll showed that studentsflock to Drip for coffee and hittingthe books; Crowley Cupcakes for,well, you know; and McCool’s IceCream for frozen love.

Finding thesweet spot

SEVEN YEARS AFTER DREW MADE THE SAT OPTIONAL FOR HIGH school seniors applying for admission, the university has reinstatedthe standardized exam as a requirement in the application process.

During this past academic year, an eight-person task force studiedthe impact of the SAT-optional policy. Outgoing CLA Dean JonathanLevin says task force members expressed strong beliefs on bothsides of the debate.

“I think where the committee came together was the sense that wefelt the SAT could be a valuable component of the review process,”he says, referring to identifying strong candidates, particularly in thesciences. “But we wanted to maintain the flexibility and opportunityto identify students who are coming with different kinds of strengths.”

The task force also considered that roughly 80 percent of highschool seniors who applied to Drew since 2006, the year the SAT-optional policy took effect, included their SAT scores, even thoughthey were not mandatory.

The group recommended retiring the policy, which Drew PresidentVivian Bull signed off on this spring. The first class to enroll under thenew requirement will start in fall 2014. Students who feel their testscores don’t reflect their abilities will still be able to submit supple-mental material for consideration, such as a graded paper or a portfolio.

“One thing that won’t be changing is our commitment to studentsas individuals,” says Bull. “We will continue to evaluate each applicantbased on his or her entire record of achievement.”—CHRISTOPHER HANN

WHEN PICKING A NAME FOR HIS second child, Joshua Drew ’98 did what very few Drew graduatescould: He chose the moniker of theuniversity’s founder, the 19th-centurycattle drover and financier whosephilanthropy kickstarted the institution. He also handed his alma mater a sweet news story in about 16 years when Daniel submits his application.

> > > OUT: a summer flipping burgers IN: DIS to Paris & Morocco OUT: refusing to vote IN: support for same-sex marriage > > >

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> > > OUT: ennui-inducing apparel IN: 2013 Drew African Students Association fashion show OUT: Welch Hall group bathrooms IN: Welch single bathrooms OUT: paperback romances IN: Drew’s Willa Cather letters, part of new Random House anthology > > >

WALK AROUND CAMPUSand you’ll see a riot ofcolor on people’s heads.Going rainbow in 2013has all sorts of impetuses,but the most commonone? “Pretty soon we’ll be out in the real worldtrying to get jobs,” sayscover model TaylorGecsey ’14. “We need to get a little crazy withour appearance while we still can.”—KATHRYNMCMILLAN ’13

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> > > OUT: thumb-twiddling at the EC IN: new EC gaming tables, gift of the Class of ’13 OUT: dumbphone IN: iPhone > > >

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC JASON BISHOP DID NOT WASTE TIME making his mark as Drew’s new director of choral and vocal studies. Afterjust nine months, Bishop staged Drew’s first opera ever. And not just anyopera, but a monumental Baroque opera: Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Though some worried for Bishop’s sanity at such an undertaking, Bishop,who came to Drew from Penn State Erie, sees this as a first step toward hislong-term dream.

“We have great facilities, an excellent concert hall and great faculty,” says Bishop. “My goal is to make Drew a destination school for music.”—CHRISTOPHER HANN

Foundation coursesIntroduction to Film Analysis Introduction to Media Studies

Production course Digital Imaging, Photography Ior Digital Video

Three electives From any discipline

Film & Media Studies Minor

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Denying film itsacademic due

> > > OUT: gossip IN: Drew Compliments on Facebook OUT: cutting oneself off from nature IN: flagstone patio outside the Pub OUT: education sans social exigency IN: largest class of Civic Scholars arriving fall 2013 OUT: nail biting IN: bejeweled nails > > >

Opera on a grand scale

MCKENZIE CHAPMAN WAS ELATED. The Drew sophomore had just asked one of her professors

about changing her major from Chinese to film—no meantask. Because Drew had no official film program, Chapmanwould have to create the major herself. Hearing rumors abouta new minor in film and media studies, Chapman checked inregularly with Shakti Jaising, an assistant professor of Englishand one of the champions of the proposed minor.

Before long, the news was out: The minor, under thedirection of Associate Professor of English Martin Foys, had been approved and would be available this fall.

“I was thrilled,” Chapman says. “The classes I’ve taken infilm were some of the greatest I’ve taken at Drew andtaught me so much about film as an art form and how itoperates in culture and media.”

The average first-year student comes to Drew havingconsumed some 36,000 hours of electronic and visualmedia, the sort of immersive experience that makes itessential for today’s undergraduates to learn to think critically about media. That’s the philosophy that inspiredDrew’s newest minor.

“The way young people experience the world today ismediated through so many different technologies,” saysFoys, who, together with faculty members Lee Arnold,Audrey Evrard and Wendy Kolmar, was instrumental increating the new minor. “We wanted to provide a way ofmaking students aware of that, intellectually and culturally.”

Foys says another of his students has already decided touse the new program to form her own major. She may beprescient. “If this continues to grow and flourish as we hopeit will,” he says, “we’d like to see it become a full-scalemajor.”—LESLIE GARISTO PFAFF

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ONE HURRICANE LAUNCHED DREW DISASTER Relief (DDR). And another is keeping it going.

For seven consecutive years, starting thewinter after the smite of Hurricane Katrina,service-minded Drewids have traded downtimerevelry for hands-on recovery in Louisiana, helping residents and businesses with cleanup,demolition and reconstruction.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, that missionhas come home. Over winter and spring breaksthis year, plus numerous weekends, Drewidshave headed to devastated communities tobring sheer brawn and raw energy to the taskof rebuilding the Jersey Shore.

“It was humbling to see how people’s liveswere tossed around,” says Drew Civic ScholarAlyssa Petersen ’16, who worked over winterbreak in Union Beach, N.J. “We picked upeverything from dolls to family photographs tojars of food along the marshes. Hurricane Sandyindiscriminately tore many people’s lives apart.”

While these efforts have been herculean,what’s equally remarkable is how DDR hasbrought together disparate parts of campus.Since the storm, dozens of people have pitchedin, including—now get ready for a long list—undergraduates Nick Klein ’13 and VictoriaDayton ’13, library cataloger Lucy Marks, chem-istry professor Molly Crowther, staffers ShawnSpaventa and Rita Gregory, residence life staff,members of the lacrosse team, Drew alumni,and students from the Caspersen and Theoschools.

“It’s the first sustained cross-school, cross-sector activity I’ve seen take root here,” saysAmy Koritz, director of the Center for CivicEngagement and DDR co-chair. “It was great to see everyone working toward one goal.”—MICHAEL BRESSMAN ’06

Over spring break,Drew Disaster Reliefvolunteers helped residents reclaim theirhouses after Sandy.

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THERE ARE FEWpeople as woven intothe fabric of Drew asDean Criares ’85, whoexpects that rich history to inform hisnew role as chair ofDrew’s trustees.

Since graduating, Criares, a former part-ner in The Blackstone Group, a Manhattaninvestment firm, has served on the CollegeAlumni Association Board and the DrewAlumni Recruitment Team. “As an alumnus, I have a sense of the strengths we want toamplify, the traditions we want to upholdand the core values of the liberal arts educa-tion that we don’t want to lose,” he says. “As I sit at every board meeting, I constantlyremind myself of what my experience waslike at Drew and how I would react as a student to each development.”

Two significant goals—approving athree-year budget that balances program-matic priorities with available resourcesand hiring a new president—lie ahead in2014 for Criares and the board. “The twogoals are closely related,” says Criares.“The steps we’re taking to plan for ourfuture will make Drew a most appealingprospect for the highest caliber of presi-dential candidate.”

Criares’ predecessor as chair describesthe former Drew Rangers catcher as“uniquely qualified” to lead the board. “Heis a graduate, he loves the university andsince his election to the board in 2004, hehas been very active,” says John Crawford IIIT’65. “Dean’s challenge is to take a strongboard and make it even stronger.” —PATTI ZIELINSKI

Simple human kindnessWHEN HE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL senior, Joseph Lee narrowed downhis college choices to Rutgers andDrew. He talked it over with hisfather, and they agreed that a smallprivate school would be the betterchoice. “I was going to get moreattention from teachers,” says Lee ’13,a biochemistry and molecular biologymajor. “I was going to have moreopportunities to stand out and getmore personal with the community.”

As things turned out, the attentionLee received from his professors andthe personal connections he madewith classmates helped him over-come a series of hardships and mightwell have rescued his academiccareer at Drew.

Things started to sour shortlyafter Lee enrolled in the fall of 2009.With the economy reeling, his family’sbusiness ventures—his parentsowned two farmers markets and amineral spa—were hit hard. Moneygrew tight. As a sophomore, Lee, whoscored 800 on the math SAT,couldn’t afford to buy the textbookfor his physics class. Then, that fallsemester, his eyeglasses broke.Unable to replace them, he beganskipping classes for the first time inhis life. “There was absolutely nopoint of me going to class,” Lee says.“It hurt my head trying to see theboard and write down notes.”

When things looked their gloomi-est, in 2010, a trinity of GoodSamaritans buoyed him from thedepths.

On the day before Thanksgiving,Lee was sitting in his dorm roomwhen a Drew classmate, HeatherTynan ’13, and her father walked incarrying grocery bags bearing a

turkey, potatoes, cranberry sauce—acomplete holiday dinner. Enough, infact, for Lee, his parents and hisyounger brother and sister. And hisgrandparents. And cousins. The bags,he says, “filled up a good portion ofmy room.” But his day was not done.

Not long after Tynan’s familydelivered the holiday meal, Lee gotan email from his organic chemistryprofessor, Jane Liu, who now teachesat Pomona College. Earlier in thesemester, she had taken Lee aside.He confided about his family finances,about his broken glasses. Liu’s emailinformed Lee that professors in thechemistry department wanted to buyhim new glasses. That afternoon shedrove him to a nearby LensCrafters.An hour later, Lee could see again.

“I never in the world imagined thata teacher would go so far to do some-thing for me like that,” Lee says.“This was not just an act of kindness.It showed me that the teachers at theschool cared for me.”

The kindness kept coming. Amonth later, while “studying my buttoff” for a physics final, Lee noticedthat someone had slipped under hisdoor $500 worth of Stop & Shop giftcards. He thought it was a joke. Itwasn’t. He found out later that it wasthe benevolence of another Drewfriend, Julie Liss ’12.

Lee, who graduated this May andaspires to become a surgeon, says hisDrew experience has inspired him toreturn the humanity he’s received. “Iwant to give back, hopefully, in thefuture,” he says. “I was helped outwhen there was no need to help meout. I just want what their kindnessdid for me to multiply.”—CHRISTOPHERHANN

Keeping mumabout academicenergy WHAT SETS DREW APART? New undergraduate major webpagesnow make that plain. Through wryvisual distillations of pedagogy andculture within academic depart-ments—an innovative mind meldbetween Drew and the Chicago-baseddesign firm Thirst—the websitehands high school students and theirparents a memorable way to pickDrew out from the crowd. It’s alsothe top-rated university website inthe nation, says CASE, a Washington,DC-based education association.

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KILLER BROWNIESWe ask students to use their critical acumen to rate aptly namedfaculty creations during the annual Psychology Department Bake-

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