More Than A Feeling

Halloween is fast approaching, but for the Legal Professions Association Club, it’s not the only special day this month. According to LPA Vice President Rebecca Farias, the club is celebrating Texas Paralegal Day by hosting a haunted courtroom fundraiser Oct. 23rd. “We’re going to be doing a haunted courtroom and a cotton candy fundraiser in the Harvin Center,” Farias said. First known as Texas Legal Assistants Day in 1993, as declared by the 73rd Legislature, it was later declared as Paralegal Day in 2005 by the Texas House of Representatives. However, Paralegal Day was set in stone on Jan. 22,…

There was little to no fanfare when the learning lab the Collaboratory opened last semester, almost a year after the idea was proposed. The lab was set up to be a functional and comfortable place for students to work and receive help with their harder subjects, particularly those in the STEM field. Now after about half a year of operating, the lab has accumulated a plethora of useful tools and equipment for students and is finally ready for a grand opening. Any student with a Del Mar College ID can enter the modern-looking lab, located on the third floor of…

Every time students reach the end of the semester they are asked to complete teacher evaluations, and every time there is a question on the evaluation that asks if students were given group work. However, this question always sparks so many other questions. For example, why is it so important for professors to assign group projects and do students even like them let alone learn from them? For English major Alexis Brown, group projects have done nothing but make it that much harder to keep her grades up. “A couple of group members didn’t do their parts in spite of…