Category: Texas

Campus, Community, Texas

Professor: ‘I meant no harm’

Catherine Herndon

Clark, criticized by governor, denies trying to influence students An online political comment by an associate professor of political science at Del Mar College has gone viral, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying he doesn’t belong on the state payroll. But the professor, Adrian Clark, said he didn’t know he was violating policy and denies claims he was trying to influence his students. “I’m surprised people are so upset and the way it’s being presented,” Clark told the Foghorn News on Oct. 25. “People don’t have the facts. There’s a false narrative that I am giving credit for voting a certain…

Campus, Community, Education, Texas

Putting the ‘I’ in America

Catherine Herndon

First-time voters become part of the power force in upcoming elections Turning 18 comes with a lot of milestones, but voting is especially important this year because it’s the midterm election after the controversial election of President Donald Trump. Collegiate High School senior Sam Muilenburg grew up hearing about the day of her birth because it fell on the unusual election of George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000. The vote in Florida was too close to call, which left the nation without knowing which candidate would become president. The United States Supreme Court eventually ruled to stop the…

Community, Texas

Texas continues to push abstinence-only education, regardless of results

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Mia Estrada Collegiate High School “When I first told my parents I was pregnant, they were upset about it and some stuff happened so I cried for three days straight and didn’t go to school,” said Miranda Nava, 17, a junior at Collegiate High School. As Nava would walk down the hall, she always noticed familiar faces staring at her. She felt shamed. “When I started showing, everybody just stared and people would literally call me fat,” Nava said. Along with schoolwork, Nava could hardly keep up with her courses. “It’s hard to focus knowing my baby isn’t with me…

Community, Series, Texas

Undocumented: Surviving the trail between liberty and freedom

C. Robert Gonzalez

It would appear now more than ever Americans cannot change a channel on their televisions, turn a page in the newspaper or listen to the radio during their daily commute without hearing a story about undocumented immigrants and refugees. The stories told are horrific, and presidential candidate Donald Trump has even commented, calling migrants from the southern border “rapists.” But what if we step aside from all that and look at the situation piece by piece through the eyes of everyone involved in this “pandemic”? Would that close the gap on the vast starkness of desert between “them” and “us”?…

Campus, Community, Texas

Law cracks down on human sex trafficking

Meagan Falcon

When the words “human trafficking” are mentioned in any way, people cringe at the very sound of it, and when the movie “Taken” came out in 2009 with Liam Neeson, it highlighted a serious issue for law enforcement. South Texas law enforcement agencies came together at Del Mar College’s East Campus in the Harvin Center on Sept. 16 to discuss and share strategies to combat the issue of human sex trafficking. State Rep. Todd Hunter came by the campus to speak at the “Human Trafficking Intel” event. “I got involved in 2009 after seeing ‘Taken,’ but more importantly after listening…