Want to know what’s going on around cam­pus tonight? How about this weekend? Or next month? Or maybe next year?

Students, faculty, prospective students and anyone else can access the new online Cam­pus Events Calendar by clicking the “Today @ Drake” link on the right-hand side of Drake University’s homepage. The beginning of this new feature replaced the weekly campus calen­dar that appeared on the BlueView news feed.

“We have been wanting to do this for like 25 years,” Director of Student Leadership and Ser­vice Programs Jan Wise said.

The default view shows all campuswide events, but there are also seven categories view­ers can select to filter the listings, such as “Aca­demics,” “Athletics” and “Fine Arts And Perfor­mances.”

A committee of around 20 people has been working on the calendar, but Wise said that Di­rector of Web Communications Jeremy Sievers was responsible for putting it together.

Wise said its usefulness is evident.

“We’ve already seen it in the Student Life Center,” she said. “People will come in look­ing for a speaker and we’ll know where to show them instead of saying, ‘Well, let’s go out and look at the posters on the wall’ or something.”

Student organizations can also use it to avoid scheduling conflicting events, and it allows pro­spective students to get an idea of things hap­pening at Drake, Wise said.

People who want their event added to the calendar can e-mail Wise at student.life@drake. edu. And, unlike the BlueView calendar, she said, there are no deadlines. Events can be post­ed months in advance and updated as needed or put up the day they’re happening.

“Everybody has wanted a calendar that could put all the events together,” Wise said with a smile. “It’s great that we have it, finally. I feel like we’ve arrived.”