Category: Campus

Campus

Drop date draws near

Meagan Falcon

Maria A. Garza / Reporter It’s that time of the year again — time to decide whether to drop a class or stick with it and give it your all. There are several factors to consider, including whether you need the class to graduate, especially if you are graduating soon and the class will not be offered in the next semester or two. If so, this might interfere with your graduation plans and present more challenges than benefits. Another important thing is to know where you stand when it comes to financial aid and dropping a class. Know the consequences of…

Campus, Community

Remembering loved ones

Meagan Falcon

        Del Mar College’s 1412 Spanish students displayed a traditional “Día de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) Altar and Presentation. The altar followed Mexican culture, in which “ofrendas,” or offerings, are placed for deceased love ones, including candles, photos of the dead and some of their favorite foods, drinks or other items. The event took place Oct. 30 at Wolf Recital Hall on East Campus. This free event also included a dance celebrating the dead and performed by a DMC student dressed for the occasion.

Campus, Community

Women engineers – making the impossible possible

Meagan Falcon

Meagan Falcon / Reporter It has always been difficult being a woman in a male-dominated society, but times are definitely changing as women are becoming the new faces of engineering, and engineering industries in both private and military sectors are looking for women in particular. Del Mar College hosted the event Women in Engineering on Nov. 5 in the Venters Building. Everyone was welcome to the event to listen to the guest speakers — Naval Commander Amanda Brooks, a mechanical engineer for the Navy, and Amanda Marie Estrada, a former National Science Foundation scholar and civil/architectural engineer for Kiewit Industries. Engineering…

Campus, Community, Health, Opinions

Local eatery unique to Corpus Christi

Meagan Falcon

Hester’s Cafe offers fresh and flavorful entrees A hop, skip and a jump away from the Del Mar College East Campus is Hester’s Cafe, a locally owned restaurant. Located at 1714 S. Alameda St. in Six Points, this quaint, family-run cafe specializes in soups, salads and hot and cold sandwiches. The lunchtime staple also offers a wide variety of beverages and desserts. The 15-minute breezy walk from campus was a simple and safe stroll with little traffic.   PRINCESS OF PESTO As we walked up to Hester’s, I felt a little worried about how long our wait was going to…

Campus, Entertainment

‘Ladies Man’ hits the main stage

Meagan Falcon

Anastasia Talarantas / Reporter Carl Yowell has been a theater director at Del Mar College for over 20 years. Yowell and the theater students are working on a farce French humor play called “The Ladies Man” and the production work has been going on for over two months. According to Yowell, a farce humor play hasn’t been done at Del Mar for over 17 years. “The play is about a doctor who almost had an affair but chickens out, and has to cover up the fact that he almost has an affair with his wife,” Yowell said. “The man is true…