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Check out this short slideshow made by our Web editor Meagan Falcon on La Competencia Folklórica de Tejas 2015. The competition was hosted at the Richardson Performance Hall on April 10-11 over on Del Mar College’s East Campus. Nearly 600 dancers were at the event and 27 groups total. The event started on April 10 with competitions for large and small groups, ensembles and duets, and included workshops for the dancers.
Cynthia Hagerman Reporter Nearly 600 dancers, wearing their brightest cultural outfits, gathered at Del Mar College’s Richardson Performance Hall on April 10-11 for the annual La Competencia Folklorico De Tejas competition. Now in its third year, the event started on April 10 with competitions for large and small groups, ensembles and duets, and included workshops for the dancers. The competition featured 27 groups from middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities and private companies. The judges for the competition were all distinguished “Investigadores Y Maestros De La Danza Folklorica Mexicana” from Mexico. They evaluated each performance for costumes, presentation and execution,…
Rolling Stone magazine opened up a can of worms when it decided to release an article titled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” in November. As the campus and community began to question the authenticity of the story, it became clear that this story was false. Rolling Stone, five months after the article’s release, decided to retrace its steps and check the facts behind the story, which should have been done originally. Critics of the sloppy journalism say the falsified statements have done their damage and ruined people’s lives after the world placed…
Kira Hays Co-editor-in-chief When Rolling Stone magazine published an article in November about a rape at the University of Virginia, students, faculty and staff were outraged by the alarming accusations. The article was written by Sabrina Erdely and told the story of a UVA student, known by the pseudonym Jackie, and her experience when she was, allegedly, raped by members of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. It turns out the article was not only inaccurate, but some of the members of the fraternity Jackie stated raped her weren’t students, or even real people. As more people became aware of the article,…
Joshua Johnson-White Reporter The Del Mar College Regional Fire Academy held a recruiting event April 16 on West Campus, and things got a bit heated. A car was set ablaze and extinguished by DMC faculty members in the academy. Participants, including several area high school students and their parents, also had a chance to tour the Public Safety Education facilities and learn how the program uses the two-story burn tower on West Campus for fire and rescue simulations. Students in the DMC Regional Fire Academy learn skills including how to save a life using CPR, the basics of…
