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A DEL MAR COLLEGE STUDENT PUBLICATION
Del Mar College has recently decided to increase tuition rates by $62 for the upcoming fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters. The increase comes just after planned cuts from both federal and state legislatures have been announced. Other schools across the state and nation are encountering similar issues as funding declines almost universally. Currently, the Texas State Legislature is proposing a 2 percent funding decrease for the upcoming 2014 year. This comes only after the more significant six percent decrease over 2012-13. Not to mention the Federal Sequester plans, which will cut federal funding once again as well. With all…
The “Just Say No” initiative was installed by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs. The idea behind it was that the schools would now “teach” kids not to use drugs by simply saying no. The only problem is once you tell a teenager not to do something, they want to do it. Since the 1960s drugs have held a “cool” stigma around teenagers and were used as a way for them to rebel against authority figures. This is becoming even worse now with teachers and parents alike telling their kids just to say no.…
Rick Perry is at it again Life on the campaign trail must be tough. Traveling from city to city, meeting new people constantly, glad-handing every potential political contributor, it can drive a person crazy. Is that what has happened to Rick Perry? Although he has had a colorful past as the Governor of this great state, his ambitions for the highest office sound like they are leading him to talk out of the opposite end. Author Webmaster
