Category: Campus

The People’s Poetry Festival will now become the People’s Literary Festival in its 9th year as the newly appointed chair, Assistant Professor of English, Sarah Lenz revealed. The three day long interactive festival will begin on February 22 at Del Mar College’s Reading Lab on Heritage campus. The 23 will be hosted at A&M Corpus Christi, and the 24, the All Saints Episcopal Church. “We have 19 readings and those are panels of three to four people reading on the same theme,” said Lenz. “We also have eight different writing classes where people will learn aspects of writing craft and…

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…

Del Mar College faculty recently joined Coastal Bend Blood Center staff and representatives to launch a new program that lets DMC students help save lives while receiving a medal of merit.  Sofia Jimenez, DMC SGA president, welcomed students back for the spring semester and for the launch of the Collegiate Hero Program on Jan. 24 in the Harvin Center. “Being active in your college allows you to build connections to students, staff, faculty, administration and others in your community.” Jimenez said, “You learn leadership.”  She told students what a difference they can make by being active with both the school…

Laughter rang out throughout the theater as they watched Del Mar students perform improv to their show, “Whadja Call Me??”  The performance was hosted by Del Mar alumnus Nathan “Nate” Ray Clark, who worked with the students for a week in developing their improv skills. The students demonstrated their newly learned skills on Jan. 27 at the Sue Sellors Finley Theatre.  “I grew up in Corpus, raised in Portland, the arts to me is so important down here, and to be honest there are not many places to learn improv,” Clark said of why he decided to offer the class. “From what…

The application deadline is Feb. 21 for the graduation ceremony for spring 2024, which is scheduled for May 17. Del Mar College students expecting to graduate this spring must fill out a graduation application packet that’s available via https://delmar.edu/current-students/graduation-information.html, where requirements for graduation are also listed. Students can also visit the Registrar’s Office to receive more information. It is the student’s responsibility to both speak with the program adviser to see if they’re eligible for graduation and by filling out the application packet.  The packet should include your academic evaluation with a signature from your adviser.  Participation in commencement and…

As of Jan. 27, 2024, I, Paul Farias, am a professionally funny person. If you want to see my resume, refer to the recording of the Drama Department’s improv comedy show we don’t have. It’ll tell you a whole bunch of nothing, seeing as how it doesn’t exist (to my knowledge). Let me give you a low-down on my experience in Nathan Ray Clark’s improv comedy workshop and show. MONDAY The first day I showed up, I was a little late because I didn’t figure out where to go yet. Turns out we were going to the same theater that…