...: The New York Times & IOWA!

Current H!GhL!Ght @ the S.C....

SiMPSON DiD iT!

...we UPSET our BiGGEST RiVAL, the Central Dutch in a nervewracking, but AMAZiNG football game last Saturday!

It was a COLD, COLD day, but the STORM was HOT...we went ahead 17-7; Central fought back to tie it (thankfully we held 'em to only a field goal) & the game went in to OT. We scored on a 2nd down 25 yard pass. Then on Central's 2nd down, STORM senior Tim Stover INTERCEPTED it to WiN 24-17! The fact that it was AT CENTRAL made the win even better.

I wish I could see the replay! :D

This was the PERFECT end to a 7-3 season & PERFECT beginning to a new SiMPSON STORM DOMiNATiON..it was very special for the seniors, the NEW coaching staff, the 8 SPiRiTED shirtless guys cheering on a freezing day, & the entire SiMPSON community.

READ The Des Moines Register article here.
READ the SiMPSON press release here.
CHECK OUT photos from the game here.
APPLY to SiMPSON for FREE here.
Be a STORM athlete here.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The New York Times & IOWA!

Des Moines, Iowa is cOoL - even to The New York Times!

What does this have to do with SIMPSON COLLEGE?!

Campus is only 12 miles from this perfect-sized city!

Above is the East Village area looking towards the Iowa State Capitol

Fireworks @ the Iowa Cubs' Principal Park (AAA Team for the Chicago Cubs)

Simon Estes Amphitheatre

The Amphitheatre at night

I was born and raised in a suburb of Des Moines; however, even after all my travels throughout the country, I do still consider the city to be a cOoL and a wonderful place to live! Des Moines is very convenient for Simpson students to go shopping, obtain internships, job shadow during May Term, attend Iowa Energy basketball, Iowa Cubs baseball, Des Moines Menace soccer, Des Moines Buccaneers or Iowa Stars hockey games, go to a concert or broadway production, attend a presidential debate, and chill at a local coffeehouse while a fellow Simpsonite performs...

For those of you who live far away, the Des Moines International Airport is only a short 15 miles from campus! If you'd like to visit campus, we can provide transportation to & from the airport, too.

The Des Moines Metro area is approximately 500,000 - large enough for opportunities, small enough to easily get around!

So, you may think I'm kind of bias after growing up in the area, but this week The New York Times just featured an article titled In the Spotlight, Ready for Its Close-up after covering the several presidential campaigns coming through Iowa before Des Moines hosts the caucuses on January 3rd. If you follow politics, or even just watch the nightly news, you'll see that Iowa is definitely a political center & plays a significant role in who will be competing for the Oval Office. Not a week goes by where a candidate doesn't visit! Already this fall semester, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama have spoke on Simpson's campus! I will have more details about Simpson's political scene in a later blog.

Anyway, supporting the pOsHnEsS of Iowa's capital city, reporter Adam Nagourney wrote:

"The restaurant had more panache and better food than many places I’ve eaten in Washington, D.C. The East Village streets, spread out under the State Capitol, were aglow with lights — lavender, icy blue and, of course, red and green — strung out for Christmas. They were bustling with boutiques, bookstores, coffee shops, culinary stores and Smash, an edgy T-shirt shop where the proprietors were listening to Band of Horses while making slightly off-color T-shirts celebrating the Iowa caucuses."

Read Nagourney's New York Times entire article here.

Check out the Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitor's Bureau here.

Visit several links of local attractions on the SIMPSON website here.

See Des Moines for yourself when you visit campus - Schedule one today!