Author: Meagan Falcon

Meagan Falcon is currently a double major in Digital Media and Journalism at Del Mar College. She has been a writer for the paper since Fall 2014. In Spring 2015, she then became the Foghorn’s Web editor only to rise up in Fall of 2015 as the Associate editor as well as being the Web editor. Her job as Web editor is to manage all of the Foghorn’s social media. She maintains and keeps active the paper’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and website. You can reach Meagan at mfalcon@foghornnews.com and follow her on Twitter @meaganfalcon.
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Sound Engineering students apply their skills at Día de los Muertos Festival

Meagan Falcon

Del Mar College’s Sound Engineering Program got a chance to let students practice their skills at the annual Día de los Muertos festival Oct. 29. The students ran the sound for the Funky Rockin’ Soul stage on Mesquite Street next to La Retama Park. “There’s nothing like hands-on experience,” said Josh de Leon, one of the many sound engineering students who participated in the event. “A festival is a perfect way for all of us to run sound and trade out different jobs. Without this opportunity we wouldn’t be able to practice our skills that we learned in class.” Andrew…

Campus, Entertainment

Can you escape in time to save the world?

Meagan Falcon

Escape Room scenario involves zombie apocalypse Imagine being locked in a room with a group of strangers and you only have 45 minutes to stop the mad scientist who has plotted to start the zombie apocalypse. You are mankind’s only hope, but the question is, can you save us all? Students got a chance to experience the Escape Room on Oct. 20 inside the Harvin Center in the Retama Room to get into the spirit of Halloween. “The Escape Room was awesome,” said Jennifer Aguirre. “It gets your adrenaline running to get things done and work as a team to…

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Going Purple to make a difference

Meagan Falcon

Community gathers in support of domestic violence awareness “It takes everybody in the community to end the violence,” said Frances Wilson, president/CEO of the Women’s Shelter of South Texas, on the importance of combating domestic violence. The shelter hosted its third annual Safe Families Festival at Del Mar College’s East Campus on Oct.1 to kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  One in three women and one in four men have experienced rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. A Women’s Shelter of South Texas 2015 report also showed that the facility provided domestic violence services to 2,830 adults…

Campus, Community

Public takes stand to end the violence

Meagan Falcon

200 support to move legislation process by Jan.10 The room was silent and all eyes were on Danna Damore as she held back tears listening to an audience member recount her court case, which happened early Oct. 4, to a large audience at the town hall meeting at Del Mar College’s Center for Economic Development. Her assailant asked for the judge to remove his GPS bracelet because of his positive progress in a Batterers Intervention and Prevention Program, but Damore pleaded with the judge, “If you take off his bracelet, I will be dead.” The judge acted in Damore’s favor…

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Richardson still under renovation

Meagan Falcon

It’s been more that three months since the Richardson Performance Hall suffered severe damage from heavy rains back in May, and on Aug. 30 Del Mar College opened its doors to the media to show the current condition of the building’s renovation. “When we first saw the damage the following Monday we were able to watch on the security cameras exactly what happened in that overnight timeframe,” said Bill Wilson, vice president/principal of WKMC architects as well as the coordinating architect for Del Mar College. The hall has withstood numerous hurricanes and tropical storms in its 65-year history, but this…