You know what’s romantic? Being told to buy things to prove you love someone. As a single person, I may be a little jaded about the holidays, but that doesn’t mean Valentine’s day is worth the coerced pageantry. On the brightside, I can generally ignore it and dry my lonelyRead More

Drew Gocken will be retiring from DMACC after 22 years, “Finally” he says. He started in 1992 as an instructor and a consultant for DMACC Business Resources. No computers were on the desks, and there was no such thing as campus email. Back then, Dan Ivis called and left aRead More

Karen Heuer is retiring after 37 years as an instructor at DMACC. She is the Marketing/Management Program Chair. Included in the department are the Marketing, Management, Fashion/Design, Sales & Management, and Retail Management degrees and diplomas.  Many specialized certificates including Interior Design Consultant and Human Resource Management are also partRead More

An hour before the Native Pride Dancers performance starts, Larry Yazzie and Arlan Whitebreast sit backstage preparing themselves. Whitebreast begins to put on his traditional garb as Yazzie puts together his bustles, which is a colorful spread of feathers and beads. “(Dancing) was a calling for me,” Yazzie said. “Read More

The only certainties in life are death and taxes, and the accounting department has found a way to make the latter less painful.   Tax returns are being prepared for free by IRS certified students. These students are trained to be knowledgeable of the codes necessary for the returns beingRead More

Written by Drew Brown Once a year Valentine’s Day arrives, and for most of us it is a great time for bonding with our significant others. People think Valentine’s Day is just a day for companies like Hallmark and flower shops trying to make money. As a society, we haveRead More

Written by Drew Brown Have you ever been in the middle of taking a test and a cell phone went off? Where do we draw the line between having the need of being contacted in an emergency and the want to check Facebook every five minutes. “Using your cell phoneRead More

I’ll be honest; I am not a Lance Armstrong fan and never really have been. I will confess that when he beat cancer and then came back to win the Tour de France in 1999. I was amazed and thought it was a great story. But after that, I eventuallyRead More