Author: Mia Ganceres

Campus, Community

Student housing has several amenities

Mia Ganceres

Campus Quarters, Aspen Heights offer affordable prices Finding an apartment as a college student can be tricky. In college, you think about how much studying you will be doing and of course the occasional get together with friends. You want to find a location that will best for your college lifestyle. Campus Quarters and Aspen Heights are among the many student apartment complexes working to make apartment hunting less stressful with affordable prices and amenities that most complexes don’t provide. Both complexes are just 15 minutes from Del Mar. Campus Quarters is a fully furnished student apartment complex with all…

Campus

DMC hosts language fair on campus

Mia Ganceres

Del Mar College’s Spanish program presented a World Languages Tour that gave students the opportunity to talk with native speakers of several countries. Participants at the April 11 event started by learning how to pronounce words and short sentences in Korean, French, Japanese, Spanish and many other languages. There were multiple booths set up with lists of common words and phrases and other items that were significant to the country that they were speaking about. In doing this students not only learned about the language but also about the country. “I am not allowed to carry my Bible or talk…

Campus, Education

Pell Grants extended

Mia Ganceres

The funds were not previously available for summer classes After six years, Pell Grants are once again available for summer classes. Year round Pell Grants have not been available since 2012 for summer if students were full-time during both fall and spring. Students who were full-time and receiving Pell Grants during the regular school year would have to pay out of pocket if they wanted to continue their education in the summer. This is the first year in six years that regular semester students will still be eligible for the financial help. Physical therapist assistant major Emilee Torres spent the…