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Interview with Lisa Kahookele Mary C Rowan Banner News Lisa Kahookele has been a part of the Boone DMACC campus for 20 years. She is an Adjunct instructor for several classes and she also works in the Academic Achievement Center. She was born in Maui but grew up in Nebraska. She is very proud of […]

How do we feel about our athletes taking a stance by not attending a annual Superbowl celebration located at President Trump’s White House. Martellius Bennett (pro-bowl Tight End for N.E Patriots) was straight forward when speaking to the media on the issues of not going stating “I’m not going to go.” also ending with “It […]

Rainette Jones I had the pleasure of interviewing Raenette Jones, a new student at the Boone DMACC campus. We talked about her life and why she came to DMACC for classes. Her sister, who was a student here, was taking a class and Raenette was helping her with her homework. Her sister told the instructor […]

First Women’s Rally By Mary C Rowan I attended my first Women’s March/ Rally on Saturday January 21st in Des Moines at the Capitol. I have always wanted to be a part of change. It was amazing to attend a peaceful Rally for Women’s Rights, Equal Rights, Human Rights and Civil Rights. These are things […]

Christine Whitney is a library Specialist for the Boone DMACC for the past 2 1/2 years. She was at the Ankeny Campus before that for 2 years.She lives in Des Moines Iowa. She is currently in school to finish her masters and hopefully be able to teach Library Science classes. The library Science class for […]

Tammie Foltz is a Professor of Sociology at the Boone DMACC campus. She teaches class like Social problems, Philosophy, Marriage and family. This interview is about one of Tammie’s passions outside of the academic setting. She talks about her past mission trip to Mexico. She is planning another one end of May 2017. Tammie speaks […]

Dr. Drew Nelson is the new Provost of the Boone DMACC. He Started in Aug 2016. He comes from Texas where he was a college Administrator. Nelson is originally from Minnesota. He chose to come to the Boone DMACC because he wanted to come back to the Midwest. Before arriving in Iowa he was Dean […]

On 2nd and goal from the 3 yard-line history was made by James White and the New England Patriots for one of the “Greatest Superbowl Comebacks of All-Time” according to the “milehighreport”. However the play shouldn’t have counted for 3 reasons. Reason #1 would be the NFL passed a rule 2 years ago to review […]

Students’ Predictions By: “French” Millbrooks   As of January 20, 2017 Chris Brown and Soulja Boy make headlines everywhere as the first beef of the year. Everyone feels this was the cause of the beef, but Chris says otherwise. Soulja felt he didn’t do anything wrong, so he posted; Soulja Boy @souljaboy “Chris brown just called […]

Our DMACC Bears held their own against Highland. DMACC came out with an solid effort in the first half starting off with a 4 point lead at half. DMACC’s savvy defense held a good shooting Highland team to a 36% shooting percentage from the field in the first half; While shooting DMACC shot 52% from […]