Author: Priscilla Barba

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Early voting totals up from 2012

Priscilla Barba

Irritated by Donald Trump’s indirect answers to questions and Hillary Clinton’s tendency to fluctuate on her interests and standards, James Hinojosa decided to not vote this year. “The candidates don’t really appeal to me,” Hinojosa said. Despite what many Americans see as a tough decision this year, many others have indeed cast ballots. Some 50,369 Nueces County residents had voted early as of Nov. 2, the 10th day of early voting. Just 48,172 had voted by the same time in 2012. Del Mar College’s Heldenfels Administration Building, an early voting location, saw 2,710 cast ballots through the first 10 days…

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Sex educator hits DMC for Title IX talk

Priscilla Barba

Del Mar College held a Title IX Awareness event Oct. 10 in the Retama Room on East Campus. The session, hosted by sexologist Justine Shuey, addressed the importance of communication in relationships, sexual pleasures with a significant other, and how to help a victim of rape. “Intimacy is all about the experience of emotional closeness to another human being and having that feeling returned,” said Shuey, a sexuality educator certified with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Shuey also gives advice to couples who seem to lack communication. She uses the “SHARE” method — Safety, Honesty, Acceptance,…