On Monday April 25, 2016, DMACC’s Ankeny campus hosted a British  Food Festival to promote their Spring Semester in England program. This program allows students the opportunity to spend eight weeks studying in England. The ten week semester is split; two weeks are spent at DMACC to begin classes andRead More

Ada Limon, a poet and freelance writer, began writing as a child when she would write songs and sing them to her giant Labrador. She always loved poetry and began to seriously study it in her junior year of undergraduate college. She received her M.F.A. from New York University in 2001. LimonRead More

On Monday April 4, winners of the district-wide creative writing contest were invited to Beaverdale Books to perform a public reading of their writing. In addition to reading their work for the packed bookstore, each winning student was awarded a scholarship or cash prize. They also all had the opportunityRead More

As spring appears the desire to go outside increases, and I find myself wanting to explore Ankeny.  One of the best ways to get to know a city is through its food. You can tell a lot about a place by the selection, variety, and offerings of restaurants in anRead More

Four nationally-acclaimed authors arrived in Iowa last week to take part in DMACC’s 2016 Celebration of the Literary Arts Festival. The three-day festival, which started Monday, April 4 and finished Wednesday April 6, allowed students to meet and speak with professional published authors. The festival was organized by Marc Dickinson,Read More

During the Fall 2015 semester there were 17 car accidents reported to school security officers that involved students in and around the DMACC Ankeny campus. In 2016, there have been three., one  of which was an accident involving Professor Lisa Ossian. On February 11, 2016 at 9:30 a.m., Ossian wasRead More

I saw “Deadpool” because I heard great things about it, however I left with mixed feelings. It was edgy and a break from normal super hero movies, but edgy meant it includes excessive violence. There were times when I hid my face so I could avoid what was on theRead More

There is not much better on a cold winter day than to walk into a warm house with the smell of chili wafting through the air. And at less than $15 for a huge pot of goodness that will fill your stomach and your soul, chili qualifies itself as notRead More