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“Don’t put yourself in a situation you wouldn’t want your friend to be in.” That’s the message author Aspen Matis gave to over 50 Del Mar College students and faculty at the college’s Girls Night Out event. The bestselling author of “Girl in the Woods” shared her experiences during the second annual event, held Sept. 8 in Wolfe Recital Hall. Matis was raped the second day of college by a man she had just met. As part of her recovery, Matis embarked on a 2,650-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, on a soul-searching journey. The memoir chronicles her experience. “My…

Mark Young myoung@foghornnews.com @foghornmark Students who took the summer off will notice there is one less building on East Campus. Five decades after it was built, the English Building was torn down in preparation for the new General Academic and Music Phase II building. The project was funded by a $157 million bond passed by voters in 2014 and is estimated to cost around $46 million. The building, a project of Richter Architects and BRW Architects, is expected to be completed by August 2019. The 127,500-square-foot project will house the Division of Arts and Sciences and the Departments of English…

Del Mar College’s West Campus celebrated the unveiling of the new DMC Process Technology and Instrumentation Pilot Plant on March 10 for the official opening of the new training facility. The college’s Process Technology Program and new Instrumentation Program are addressing the region’s growing need for skilled technicians in process, instrumentation, industrial automation, process control, safety and related fields by upgrading and adding state-of-the art instruction equipment such as the pilot plant. The pilot plant includes a large-scale industrial process system that facilitates training in operations in field activities regularly undertaken by process operators/technicians within the refining, petrochemical and oil…