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 bclaramunt@foghornnews.com or follow her on Twitter @BrittClaramunt.
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Experts talk suicide prevention

Brittany Claramunt

@BrittClaramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com Randy Paige wants to make sure nobody else has to go through the pain he endured. Paige, with the Corpus Christi Fire Department, spoke at the Suicide Prevention Symposium of the Coastal Bend, telling of his son’s battle with depression. “Our son was depressed for a year. He went to counseling and they said he wasn’t suicidal, then nine months later he committed suicide,” Paige said. Paige was joined at the third annual event, held Sept. 15 in Del Mar College’s Retama Room, by other guest speakers that included medical professionals and first responders. The theme for this…

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Fund helps students affected by Harvey

Brittany Claramunt

With a recent donation of $100,000 into the Hurricane Harvey Student Emergency Assistance Fund, more students will be able to get back to life as normal. The Coastal Bend Community Foundation contributed the funds so students can use them to pay for temporary housing, medication, replacement of personal belongings or books and other academic expenses. According to Karen Silva, development officer with the Del Mar College Foundation, the donation will allow the foundation to help more students and increase the awards that the foundation planned to give out. The more people who can donate, the more the foundation can help…

Campus, Community

Trump visits with first responders

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt bclaramunt@foghorn.com @BrittClaramunt President Donald Trump, along with several other high-ranking officials and first lady Melania Trump, visited Corpus Christi to talk with some of the first responders at the Annaville Fire Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Gov. Greg Abbott, senators, representatives and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson discussed what else can the government do to help the people who were affected by the storm at the Aug. 29 gathering. “Governor Abbott and President Trump authorized a lot of government assistance for the people affected like the Texas National Guard, U.S. military, FEMA, temporary housing…

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Relief services are made available

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com While many faculty and students start to rebuild what they lost in Hurricane Harvey, Del Mar College has stepped up to help in any way it can. Students who may not be able to return for the fall semester can receive 100 percent of their tuition refunded. Del Mar College will also be offering eight-week sessions that will start later in the semester. Faculty and staff will work with the students on a case-by-case bases to ensure they can continue or return back to their education. Receiving your disbursement would be a big help for students;…

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Parking gets worse

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt Students may want to add comfortable shoes to their back-to-school list this year, as construction has resulted in several lost parking spaces and a fence stretching around the heart of East Campus. Over the summer, the English Building was torn down to make way for the General Academic and Music Phase II building. The work resulted in more than 100 parking spaces being removed or blocked off in front of the Harvin Center and by the St. Clair Building. While the project will make getting to class less convenient for some, the college plans to help by…

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Speech and debate team tackle D.C.

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt Del Mar’s speech and debate team recently competed in the weeklong Phi Rho Pi National competition in Washington, D.C. For Michaela Engel, Allison Rackley and Mariah Massengill it was an experience they will never forget. The first two days before the competition the team visited various locations in D.C. such as the Holocaust Museum, several Smithsonian museums and many important monuments. When the first day of competition arrived, it was time to get serious. Competing in the national level with other community colleges is different than competing around the state against universities, but that does not mean…

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Veterans share stories of their time in Vietnam

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com @BritClaramunt The Vietnam War was the first war televised, with Americans able to watch battle footage daily. From then on we often see one side of war on our TVs. However, four Vietnam Veterans shared what it was really like to serve during a recent War and Remembrance panel discussion at Del Mar College. Being drafted into the war was hard, especially just graduating from high school. Many didn’t know what to expect during their training and entering the fields of Vietnam. However, after the war, many saw opportunity within the military as a career, which led…

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Conjunto music producer inducted into the Hall of Fame

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt After producing and recording Conjunto music for the better part of the past four decades, Del Mar College student Rick Garcia is set to be inducted into the Conjunto Music Hall of Fame. Garcia’s work has appeared on thousands of albums on many labels around the world. Recently, he got a letter along with a phone call from the president of the Conjunto Music Hall of Fame telling him he will be inducted to the hall in June for his work in the Conjunto music genre. The Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum, founded in…

Entertainment, Movies

Disney invites you to be their guest

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt Cast: A+ Script: A+ Cinematography: A+ Soundtrack: A+ Overall: A+ I knew I was going to be in a theater full of little kids, but I didn’t care. Plus, I did see people my age in the theater as well because this film was definitely going to bring in people of all ages. The live action “Beauty and the Beast” has been the most anticipated film since it was first announced in 2015. The original 1991 animated version becomes a reality with Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston and Josh…

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Multiple speakers planned for Comm Week

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com @BrittClaramunt Communication covers a multitude of majors, not just speech; it also includes languages, reading and journalism. For a week on campus, the Communications Department will host Comm Week to show students you can use your major in your career, regardless if you are not a communications major. Each day will be a different speaker between 12:30-1:45 p.m. On March 27 will be Sara Flores, who works for KEDT morning edition and is on NPR, in Room 514 in the White Library. Also in the library, on March 28, is Jessica Savage, investigative reporter for KRIS 6…