Author: Meagan Falcon

Meagan Falcon is currently a double major in Digital Media and Journalism at Del Mar College. She has been a writer for the paper since Fall 2014. In Spring 2015, she then became the Foghorn’s Web editor only to rise up in Fall of 2015 as the Associate editor as well as being the Web editor. Her job as Web editor is to manage all of the Foghorn’s social media. She maintains and keeps active the paper’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and website. You can reach Meagan at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @meaganfalcon.
Campus

French program celebrates Francophonie Day

Meagan Falcon

There are more than 220 million French speakers worldwide and the select few at Del Mar College honored the gastronomy of the French-speaking countries by celebrating Fête de la francophonie on March 23 in the Foreign Languages Lab inside the Coles Building on East Campus. Fête de la francophonie, also known as the International Francophonie Day, is the holiday of the French Speaking World. International Francophonie Day is celebrated on March 20 every year throughout the world to commemorate the signing on March 20, 1970, of the Niamey Convention, which resulted in the grouping together of French-speaking states. The day…

Art, Campus

Student Art Association set to kick-off 27th annual exhibition April 1

Meagan Falcon

More than 250 works of art will be featured in this year’s 27th annual Juried Student Exhibition, which opens on April 1 in the Fine Arts Building on East Campus. “The focus of the program is to bring young artists along and help them develop their artwork and instill in them a sense of competition,” said Ken Rosier, ceramics professor and chairman of Art and Drama Department. Rosier helped start the first exhibition in 1989 and is more than ecstatic as the Student Art Association celebrates its 27th anniversary. Photos by Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Victoria Gibbons admires some of the work…

Campus, Community

Class of clowns graduate in style

Meagan Falcon

As Denise Underwood walks up on stage and receives her certificate of completion, she raises it up above her head saying proudly, “Look Mom! I’ve finally graduated college” as the audience stands and cheers in the foreground. After five-long weeks, Del Mar College’s clown students were finally able to put on their favorite clown shoes and step up on stage to show off their skills and transform into the clown they’ve worked so hard to become. Students performed skits in costume in front of an audience and showed off the skills they learned during the clown courses on March 22.…

Health

Physical therapy class raises money through Zumba

Meagan Falcon

The Del Mar College physical therapy class pulled out all of their funky moves at their zumbathon fundraiser March 9 in the Retama Room inside the Harvin Center to raise money to attend a state conference in October. Kim Whitley, a Zumba certified instructor and physical therapy student, discussed what Zumba really is. Meagan Falcon/Foghorn Kim Whitley, a Zumba instructor, dances with others to raise money. “Zumba is a total workout that combines all elements of fitness: cardio, muscle conditioning, balance, and flexibility. It works by mixing low-intensity and high- intensity moves that make it a calorie burning, interval style workout,” Whitley said. For Whitley,…

Campus

DMC West unveils new hands-on laboratory

Meagan Falcon

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…