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 [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @meaganfalcon.
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Collegiate students talk politics

Meagan Falcon

Collegiate High School’s Junior Politicians Club held their first multi-party public forum in the Retama Room in the Harvin Center on Oct. 22. Three members of the Democratic, Republican and Green parties gave a basic understanding of each ideology to help the public understand what each party is about. Audience members were able to interact with the party members and give their opinions on the issues that were discussed in the forum. Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Collegiate High School’s Junior Politicians Club hosted their first multi-party forum in the Harvin Center to help better inform students. The club’s intentions for this forum…

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History professor discusses discrimination and rebellion

Meagan Falcon

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Dawson Barrett, Del Mar College assistant professor of history and author of “Teenage Rebels,” discussed the proud tradition of Mexican-American high school activism during a presentation titled “Stand Up, Sit-In, WALK OUT!.” Teenage rebels have confronted discrimination and demanded better schools and changed the very content of U.S. history books through picket lines, marches and many other forms of protest. From the Chicano teens of the Civil Rights Movement to teens of today, Barrett displayed in his lecture that the kids are all right. Foghorn file Dawson Barrett, a history professor and author of…

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Roker shares wisdom with Del Mar students

Meagan Falcon

Del Mar College’s chapter of the National Society of Leadership on Oct. 6 hosted a live broadcast in the White Library featuring the co-host and weather anchor of NBC’s “Today” show, Al Roker. Throughout the years, Roker has reported live from some of history’s worst storms and natural disasters. In the broadcast, Roker spoke about his new book, “The Storm of the Century,” which tells the inspiring true story of leadership, heroism and survival as well as the resolve of the local community to recover from immense devastation, and the overwhelming national response to the crisis by groups across the…

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55th Annual Texas Jazz Festival kicks-off to a jazzy start

Meagan Falcon

Photos by Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Del Mar College Jazz Band member, Garrett Williams, has fun on his guitar solo as he performs at the 55th annual Texas Jazz Band Festival.     The 55th annual Texas Jazz Festival kicked off at Heritage Park in downtown Corpus Christi on Oct. 16. The largest free jazz festival in the country did not disappoint on its first night of the three-day festival. The Del Mar College Jazz Band kicked off the event at 5:30pm at the CITGO stage showing the crowd that Del Mar still has that “jazzy spunk” that started the event fifty-five…

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False alarm brings 30 police units to East Campus

Meagan Falcon

About 30 Corpus Christi police units surrounded Del Mar College’s East Campus after a 911 call of shots being fired at about 6:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5. While armed officers searched the Memorial Classroom building for a shooter, witnesses outside told officers there were no shots fired. Instead, a truck had repeatedly backfired on Ayers Street near Wienerschnitzel, witnesses said. Photos by Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Police officers arrive on Del Mar College’s East Campus in response to a 911 call of shots being fired on site. “Basically, we had a truck that backfired four or five times on Ayers and everybody freaked out,” said…