Author: Jakob Salinas

Dr. Emily Shearer Stewart, Library Committee Chair, and Outreach and Programming Librarian Kathy Westergren have collaborated to present students with a thematic banned books display. The Banned Books installation began late last year with the January theme being books widely considered to be literary classics. Those titles included Brave New World, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men, Huckleberry Finn, Lolita, Origin of Species, Satanic Verses, and The Handmaid’s Tale among others. The exhibition is available to view in the GEN D building, second floor in a glass display case beside an aesthetic seating area. In front of the…

Tax season is underway, and anyone whose income was lower than $60k last year can access free assistance filing their tax return by IRS-certified volunteers from now until April 15th. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program has 4 locations throughout Corpus Christi and one of them is in at the Del Mar College Heritage Campus. Adelfino Palacios, a Professor of Accounting who has been employed by Del Mar since 1981, brought the VITA program here after seeing it on other college campuses. This will be the 21st year that the IRS-sponsored program will be available on the Heritage Campus. Palacios…