Author: Gabbi Williams

Campus

SSC welcomes new students

Gabbi Williams

The Student Success Center is usually a place one goes to get serious. But at its second annual open house on Sept. 29, it had more of a party atmosphere. The center, on the first floor of the St. Clair Building, held an “Open House, Open Hearts” event that offered gaming with a tutor, snacks and meet-and-greets with a success coach. “The event was … something where students could de-stress in a positive way,” said Jennifer Gracia, a student who works in the Student Success Center. “The Success Center is open to all students. If you are shy and don’t…

Art, Campus

Heritage and heart inspire art

Gabbi Williams

‘My Casa is Your Casa’ features work from students Located in the center of the Cain Art Gallery you will come upon a sculpture of two busts. One is looking up and one is looking down. Each bust is overlaid with an antique print with a solemn expression. The face itself is painted in a style reminiscent of Dia de los Muertos, implementing the Mexican-American heritage of its creator, art professor Amorette Garza. “I like the idea of finding objects somebody may have had before, and I try to bring a different life to it,” Garza said. Garza said she…