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DMC professor’s second book comes out on May 8 History Professor Dawson Barrett will be publishing his second book about protests in America. “The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America” will be coming out May 8 and will cover the history of major protests and how America has changed with them. Barrett has been an associate professor of history at Del Mar for five years. He earned undergrad degree at Portland State University in Oregon and got his master’s and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His time in Wisconsin coincided with the a large labor protest in…

Registration lines backed up even more than usual on Jan. 12 after a system outage that left students frustrated and employees scrambling to restore service. The system continued to have problems, mostly recurring slowdowns, during the week of Express Registration, Jan. 12-15. Samantha Douty/Foghorn Students fill the lines in front of the financial aid services office after the system slows down during the week of express registration. According to Augusto Alfonso, the chief information technology officer at Del Mar College, the problem involved the large amount of information needed during registration, which could not have been foreseen. Every course and…

Students to learn ins and outs of the process for applying Registration for spring classes is underway, and many students find themselves worrying about how to pay for their classes. Many are not aware they qualify for financial aid, or how to apply. “It was very easy,” said student Angel Abrego. “I thought it was going to be hard. I put off applying because I didn’t think I would get accepted. I was surprised at how easy it was.” The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, can be found at fafsa.ed.gov. The first step to applying for financial…