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Difficult times requiring a new direction is Karen Marks’ specialty. Marks is the new biology instructor at DMACC’s Boone campus.  “As a student, I had a lot on my plate — I was working, a student-athlete, and serving part-time in the military. You can imagine that there were times that were really stressful or where […]

Tampa Bay won convincingly 31-9. It was a fairly disappointing game if you’re a football fan in general but not if you’re a Buccaneer fan. Tom Brady got his seventh Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes got bombarded by defenders, and the Chiefs receiving core had some sore facemasks.  Anticipation was through the roof for a high-scoring […]

Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching in what is primed to be a shootout. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs. Both teams have high powered offenses, the Chiefs being led by the best QB in the league Patrick Mahomes and the Bucs by Tom Brady.  Tampa Bay or […]

This past year, some faculty and staff at the Boone DMACC Campus have come and gone. In June of last year, DMACC hired Jodi Abshire as the new Administrative Assistant to campus Provost, Drew Nelson. “As the Administrative Assistant I am here to support the Provost, faculty, staff and students in any way that I […]

Editor and Chief: Hello again! It’s me, Layk. Your Editor and Chief for the Banner News! What’s new with me? Well, this is my second year at DMACC, and now I have shorter hair. Genealogy is still my biggest passion, and this cold winter hasn’t stopped me from walking through cemeteries. I also just turned […]

DMACC student DeNae Nash, 21, of Ames, formerly of Waterloo, died on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Services were held on December 2, 2020 in Waterloo. DeNae enrolled at DMACC in January 2019 to play basketball for the Bears. She was not eligible to play, but she could practice […]

Last month, a photo contest allowed students to submit photos that reflected their experience during COVID-19. The winners were chosen and announced during a virtual ceremony over zoom last week on Dec. 3.  Coming in first place was Tyesha Jones, a student at the DMACC Ankeny Campus, who said, “Front step visitation with my Granny […]

To say this has been a tough year is an understatement. However, people are still holding on with newfound (or old) hobbies, friends, and family. A survey was sent out last week to see what the bright spots and experiences of 2020 were for the staff, faculty and students of DMACC.  Forty-three people responded in […]

With so much time on our hands, many people have been cleaning out that old closet, garage, and storage shed. Two questions usually arise when doing this, how did I get all of this stuff and what do I do with all of it? I have asked this question myself many times before, and let […]

Making books into visual films has been popular for quite some time, but there are some books that just don’t work out in the film industry. This is of no fault to the book itself or the author, or to the filmmakers doing their best. Some books just don’t translate. A prime example of this […]