By: Anna Duran Bookworms and aspiring authors take note: the Literary Arts Festival is coming up the first week of April. It is set to take place April 1-3. The winners of the creative writing contest, several Iowa writers, and four national authors will be reading from personal works atRead More

By: Ryan Meier When Ankeny sophomore Sarah Pillman was notified that she had won first place in the short story category for the annual DMACC District-wide Creative Writing contest, she was stunned. “When they told me, I thought ‘Are you kidding me? Do you have the right person?’” Pillman said.Read More

By: Drew Brown Terry Luloff is a retiring math professor here at the Ankeny campus. Luloff got his bachelor’s degree for mathematics at Wartburg University, and his master’s degree in education at Drake University. “You never know what is going to happen in the classroom. It has been said varietyRead More

By: Drew Brown You see it at every convenience store you go to on Sundays, huge variety of newspapers on the shelves. These include the Sunday paper, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, local registers, and many other ads. All this paper usage equals to a lot of paper waste. HowRead More

By: Joe Provenzano We sit at a precipice, with technology ready to take us over the edge so we no longer need the conventions of the past.  Newspapers struggle to make ends meet as society moves online or to TV.  Publishers are moving more toward print-on-demand to eliminate surplus booksRead More

By: Ryan Meier For many who retire, it can mean moving to a warmer climate and relaxing. For professor Bradley Dyke, he will be returning to a slightly warmer climate: Kansas City. “I didn’t realize how much colder it was in the wintertime up here,” Dyke said. Dyke moved toRead More

Jarrett Quick Staff Writer When I first sat down for the performance of “Becoming America” at the DMACC Huff Theater, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had been to a few other plays put on at the Huff Theater, but this was the first I went to having noRead More

By Jarrett Quick Staff Writer Cheating has long been a problem in academics. From a recent cheating scandal at Harvard which involved over 200 students to a student copying a paper at DMACC, cheating has remained an issue for students and faculty alike. This issue has been especially common asRead More