Eat, sleep, hoop, repeat

Each semester for the past 29 years, the speech department has been putting on the Speech Showcase. Over 900 students are taking some sort of speech class this semester whether it’s public speaking, intro to communication, business and professional, or oral interpretation. At the showcase, the top few were spotlighted. In class the students get to do an informative speech and a persuasive speech. They are recorded during class and then uploaded to the server in the speech lab. From those speeches the nine professors, including adjuncts, select one student from their classes and submit them to a facilitator who…

Del Mar College’s White Library will host its second monthly “Game On” night Oct. 18, where you can play as Mario and jump on as many turtles or go down as many green pipes as your heart desires. “It would be a good time to meet other people, socialize at school and take a break from class,” said Jennifer Jimenez, reference librarian. Jimenez said the first Game On night, in September, drew close to 60 students. She said she’s excited for Round 2. “Students can choose to bring their controllers and they can bring their own games, also,” Jimenez said.…