Local organization helps kids with football
La Vockea “Red” Wallace awards raffle winner Alonzo Torres with a tablet, raising money for the organization.
Author: Annalisa Perales
Emotions run high in premiere of ‘Good Girls’
Christina Hendricks (from left) as Beth Boland, Mae Whitman as Annie Marks and Retta as Ruby Hill star in NBC’s “Good Girls.”
Clubs seek members at Rush Week
About 40 clubs set up booths in the Harvin Center to recruit new members during Rush Week. Rush Week, which was Feb. 4-8, is when Registered Student Organizations, or RSOs, promote themselves and highlight planned activities. Sonia Carreon, with Student Leadership and Campus Life, said there are many benefits to joining a club. “As far as why to join a club, it has a lot to do with leadership, so they know about being a part of a group, making decisions, making friends and being more engaged,” Carreon said. One group included the Del Mar Viking Fellas, whose aim is…
New novel tackles love and incurable diseases
How does one love another that they can never touch? This is the heartbreaking question at the root of Rachael Lippincott’s YA novel “Five Feet Apart,” based on the screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Laconis. Lippincott was born in Philadelphia and graduated with a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. One of the producers for the upcoming film, set to debut March 15, asked Lippincott to write a young adult novel based on the script. “Five Feet Apart” circles around two teenagers, Will and Stella, who both have cystic fibrosis. The two meet while in the…
Many families begin to feel the effects of lasting closure
While the Trump administration calls it a homeland security crisis and Democrats calls it a humanitarian crisis, the reality is, it’s our crisis. The government shutdown is now in its fifth week, making it the longest since 1995. While it hinges on $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall, the real cost is just beginning to be felt. The shutdown began Dec. 22 after Congress was unable to pass a budget with the funds President Donald Trump has requested for the border wall. Any attempts at compromise have been futile, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Congress won’t…