A DEL MAR COLLEGE STUDENT PUBLICATION
All students in their last semester of classes are encouraged to apply for graduation, whether they plan to participate in the commencement ceremony or not. Feb. 29 is the deadline to apply for graduation. The application for graduation can be downloaded at http://www.delmar. edu/WorkArea/DownloadAs- set.aspx?id=5599.
The Student Success Center and Career Development hosted Viking Quest Day on Aug. 28, a series of seminars and luncheons where new students met with faculty in the Venters Business Building. The event was designed to assist students with deciding on a major. “It’s targeted to students who are coming to college and undeclared with their major,” Student Success Center director Omar Villarreal said. While the day was pitched for students with an undeclared major, they were not the only target audience. “Maybe they signed up for a major and they’re not sure that they want to remain in that…
On June 7 the Del Mar Lighthouse was demolished by Camacho Demolition, after having been donated by the late Dusty Durrill in 2007. Dusty Durrill started a foundation in the name of his daughter Devary, who was killed in October 1978 when her Ford Mustang II burst into flames when rear-ended. Durill filed a lawsuit against Ford, won, and started a trust in his daughter’s name with the settlement. It was through the Devary Durrill Foundation that he donated many of the sculptures and artwork that Corpus Christi is known for, including the Mirador de la Flor and Selena statue…
Del Mar College’s Center for Mexican-American Studies has a new coordinator: Assistant Professor and Doctor of Sociology, Isabel Araiza. With a long career as a teacher and public sociologist, Isabel Araiza has been equal parts educator, researcher, and activist. Her office is decorated with posters and memorabilia that echo Hispanic heritage and the social movements that have shaped it, both in the United States and across Latin America. From that office, she brings her experience and enthusiasm to the college and community as its new coordinator for the Center of Mexican-American Studies. Araiza was born in Corpus Christi to a…