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DMC is looking to hire a new mascot!
Natalie Murphy Nmurphy@foghornnews.com @Foghorn_Murphy Got school spirit? If so, Del Mar College wants you to help spread it. The college is looking to hire a Viking mascot and mascot coach. According to Beverly Cage, director of Student Leadership & Campus Life, the process has been underway for almost a year. “I know it’s something that (President Mark) Escamilla has wanted for a really long time,” Cage said. The process for creating a character mascot, which would be the college’s first in its 82-year history, involved multiple focus groups with students, faculty and staff. From there four sketches were created and…
SGA gets creative with outreach
When Del Mar went virtual in spring 2020, the closures impacted the way students were able to interact with one another and altered the college community experience. The Office of Student Leadership and Campus Life and the Student Government Association got together to brainstorm a way to keep students engaged through the pandemic. “When the pandemic hit, we all sat down together to see how we can make this virtual,” said SGA President Sofia Jimenez. “We did a lot of work with the IT department to set it all up and everybody in the whole office pitched in.” Once set…
Speech, debate team gets awards
The Vocal Vikings grew in size and confidence after winning Top Novices in Poetry at their most recent tournament. Del Mar College’s speech and debate team competed at the Fall TIFA (Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association) competition against Texas universities and other schools throughout the country that was held virtually Nov. 5-6. Vocal Vikings Emily Rivas, a freshman majoring in paramedic and speech, and sophomore Gabrielle Vela, a speech major, tied as Top Novices in Poetry. “I felt more comfortable and confident when going into this competition compared to the first one and I felt the growth I had since the…
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