Drake University
Old Main remains prominent on campus, housing administration offices, Levitt Hall, and Sheslow Auditorium, and as the site of many United States presidential debates and other events.In 1920, due to a housing crisis, the university allowed social fraternities to use Greek letter emblems and affiliate with national offices.On September 17, 1969, the Drake student newspaper, The Times-Delphic,[18] published what appears to be the first documented account of the Paul is dead hoax.The School of Journalism & Mass Communication (SJMC) magazine program has achieved national prominence.The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) team that visited in 1999 termed Drake's Magazines program the strongest undergraduate sequence in the country.Drake student-athletes compete in NCAA Division I in the Missouri Valley Conference in all sports except football, men's tennis and women's rowing.Top-seeded UCLA Bruins men's basketball and its 7-foot megastar Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) barely escaped an upset in the national semifinals, 85–82.[citation needed] In 1981, senior Lewis Lloyd, the nation's second-leading scorer in Division I men's basketball, was named a first-team All-American.In 1935 Jesse Owens set an American broad jump record (26 feet 1-3/4 inches) at the Drake Relays.
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