Author: Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt is a reporter for the Del Mar College Foghorn. She joined the staff in Spring 2016 as a first year college student. Brittany majors in Radio and Television and hopes to one day become an aspiring television news anchor. You can contact Brittany via e-mail at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @BrittClaramunt.
Opinions

If Uber has nothing to hide, what’s the big deal?

Brittany Claramunt

Taxi services have been around for quite a while and they do come in handy, like when getting to the airport or even if you have had too much to drink. They are reliable but can be expensive. That is when Uber steps in as an alternate to a taxi service that can come to your location with a tap of an app. Uber started in Paris in 2008 and is an app that allows the user to contact an Uber driver to come pick them up at their location. The app includes an estimate of how much it may…

Opinions

Candidates’ antics affect registered voters’ decisions

Brittany Claramunt

Ronald Reagan lived by a philosophy that many Republicans live by, “Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” Though if you were to tune into a national news station like Fox News, CNN or ABC that are covering the election, on the Republican side it does not seem that they follow Reagan’s philosophy, even though they claim to follow his ideology on how to run the country like the way he dealt with the economy. Many people look at their TVs and think that this election season is a political circus with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio…

Community

Vocal Vikings team captain heads to national contest

Brittany Claramunt

To bring home trophies from competition feels great, but knowing that those trophies count on going toward nationals is an even greater feeling. Miguel Porfirio, team captain of the Vocal Vikings, will compete in Costa Mesa, California, from April 1-10 in a national competition known as Phi Rho Pi. Porfirio will be competing in POI, prose, impromptu and poetry. “After all this hard work, I can’t believe it’s finally paying off,” Porfirio said. For Porfirio this is a milestone after working hard at each tournament to bring back points that got him a position for nationals. At nationals, Porfirio will have the…

Community

Uber, taxi, towing services all available for beachgoers

Brittany Claramunt

If sun and sand are on your list of Spring Break activities, you need to keep several things in mind, especially when it comes to simply getting there and back safely. Before heading to the beach you want to make sure you have a Beach Parking Permit. Though not all beaches in Corpus Christi require a permit, most do. Parking permits cost $12 and can be purchased at any Stripes store, H-E-B, CVS Pharmacy (for students who live on the island), Dick’s Sporting Goods and Academy. But there are other methods of getting to the beach, such as using Uber. To…

Campus

KEDT studio now located on DMC campus

Brittany Claramunt

The new KEDT studio at Del Mar College’s Center for Economic Development will offer students many new resources when it opens in April. The facility is brand new with state-of-the-art equipment. The new studio for radio and television will be used for KEDT’s shows but also used by DMC students who are studying the field of media. This will allow more visual along with hands-on training with the equipment that is used in many television and radio studios. Brittany Claramunt/Foghorn Liz Laubach poses at her station during her Classic Music on-air at the new KEDT studio. Del Mar students who…