Buzzing for Change Locks of Love Event
Buzzing for Change (B4C) will hold its Locks of Love event on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Quad (between Chestnut and Market Streets and 32nd and 33rd Streets).
During a B4C event, participants shave their heads or cut their hair to raise awareness of cancer and to show support for individuals and the families of those suffering from cancer. The hair is donated to Locks of Love, an organization that makes wigs for children who lose their hair due to disease.
B4C participants are asked to recruit monetary sponsorship for the Child Life Fund at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a fund that provides fun activities such as dance, music and art therapy and video games for children undergoing cancer treatment at the hospital. This year’s B4C goal is to raise more than $10,000 for CHOP.
The first 200 participants will receive a free B4C t-shirt. Food, giveaways and music will be available for all participants.
To volunteer time or to have their hair cut or buzzed, members of the Drexel community can register online at http://www.buzzing4change.org/drexel or in person at the event. For more information, email kgold@buzzing4change.org.

“A Love for Everything: Education Untied at Westphal College of Media Arts & Design”
The Drexel Archives is hosting the exhibition “A Love for Everything: Education Untied at Westphal College of Media Arts & Design”  now through Friday, May 14, 2010 at W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets). The exhibition, on display through May 14, 2010, highlights the developments that have shaped the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design and in turn Drexel University.
Anthony J. Drexel envisioned the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry as a place for rapid, intensive and practical business and industrial education. Initially, his idea was to establish an industrial college for women, but later decided that the Institute would be open to all, declaring, “I know that the world is going to change, and, therefore, the Institute must change with it, and I do not want to tie it up.” It would come as little surprise to him that what had begun in 1891 as the Department of Domestic Economy has evolved into the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design which now offers 14 majors, 12 minors and four graduate programs.
As a founding board member of Breastcancer.org, Antoinette Passo Westphal ‘59, Hon. ’02, the college’s namesake, felt that, “There is a love for everything.” As this exhibition demonstrates, her passion for life and Anthony Drexel’s educational vision are realized in the College.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday, April 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. in W.W. Hagerty Library. For more information about the University Archives, visit http://www.library.drexel.edu/archives.