M_a_x wrote:I'd rather live in Lincoln than any Iowa collegiate center.
Iowa City IA, the home of the University of Iowa, is a very nice college town, although
there was one very bad day.
Ames IA, the home of Iowa State University, never appealed to me.
To answer the specific question posed by this thread, Des Moines is a generic American city.
Speaking of Kum-N-Go, which I am generally happy to do, we used to be able to use university vouchers to buy kegs at the Kum-N-Go (on S. Riverside!). Our perception in using such vouchers was that we were getting kegs for free. As we would use these kegs to throw big parties to be attended by pretty young coeds, you can imagine that this voucher system was a very exciting thing to college students.