Category: Community

Community, Entertainment

‘Shrek” brings quest to Playhouse

Meagan Falcon

  By Kira Hays / reporter This April, fairy tales come to life as the Harbor Playhouse brings “Shrek the Musical” to the stage. Much like the film, the audience follows Shrek as he goes on a quest to rescue a princess. Things get ugly when the unseemly ogre, also not a handsome prince, shows up to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona.  With his adorably annoying sidekick, Donkey, in tow, the mission is accomplished, but the princess turns out to have a secret that turns the fairy tale ending upside down.  Throw in a villain with a very short temper, a…

Campus, Community

Rediscovering our region’s history

Meagan Falcon

By Raul Alonzo / Reporter Unless one has delved into the local history archives of the La Retama Central Library or scoured the headstones of the Old Bayview Cemetery, the story of the Maltby brothers might be considered a lost chapter in Corpus Christi history. For Norman C. Delaney, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Del Mar College — where he spent 40 years teaching history — the story was one that carried the unique angle he had been looking for and would spend years researching before releasing ”The Maltby Brothers’ Civil War” on Texas A&M University Press.

Campus, Community, Opinions, Staff

Coffee shop could soon come to campus

Meagan Falcon

Student project may lead to more beverage options Ramiro Lopez / Reporter What began as a typical group project in speech class has evolved into a campus-wide “call to action” that if it comes to fruition will bring a full-service coffee shop to Del Mar College. Nursing majors Gerard Bustillo and Eliza DeDow, dental hygiene major Marissa Wright, drama major Samantha Noemi Leitzelar and geology major Sergio De Los Santos teamed up to come up with an idea that would improve, beautify or change Del Mar College. After an initial brainstorming session, the consensus within the team was that an on-campus…

Campus, Community, Sports, Staff

Viking Voyagers group to help cancer society

Meagan Falcon

Tera Elwell / Web editor The Del Mar College Viking Voyagers Charity Group is a campus-wide initiative to raise awareness and money for causes such as the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. “What the ACS does for these patients is really remarkable,” said Catherine Munoz-Myers, Relay For Life team captain. “That’s when I decided that Del Mar College, being a community college, needed to give back. Especially, since so many of us, employees and students alike, are affected by cancer and its repercussions.”