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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Entertainment
Heather Saul

Drake turned up at Drake University, but only one student was awake to see him

Students successfully campaigned to get Drake to Drake University. But when he got there, things did not go to plan.

Students at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa have been imploring Drake to visit their campus. Their pleas were finally heard on Wednesday when the Canadian rapper turned up at his namesake university after a gig at 2.30am. 

He also stopped by the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta sororities. 

But the success of their campaign was dampened by the fact that almost all of the students were asleep, and the only one who was awake was convinced it was a clown knocking at her door instead of a Grammy award-winning artist. 

A number of alleged sightings of ‘scary’ clowns across the US has sparked something of a clown panic that has seen a Connecticut school district banning clown costumes and students at  Pennsylvania State University holding a “clown hunt”. 

“Now we're in disbelief together that it actually happened,” Drake Student Body President Thalia Anguiano told KTLA

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