Author: Priscilla Barba

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The Apex Boxing Gym: Where Pride Meets Discipline

Priscilla Barba

The APEX Boxing Club is a locally owned boxing gym inspired to not only teach self-defense, but confidence and mental strength. APEX celebrated its grand opening on Dec. 21 and is encouraging both experienced and inexperienced fighters with a starting age at 4. According to owner Royal Liedecke, the business mindset and boxing mindset both rely on integrity, discipline, and the trust in yourself to keep going. Royal knew what kind of community he wanted to offer to the city—an audience that doesn’t give up, that works harder when knocked down.   When the Corpus Christi native was 13, he was…

Community

A farmer’s passion: reconnecting the body to the land

Priscilla Barba

Aislynn Jamison Campbell, a Del Mar alumni and owner of It’s Just Aislynn and Freedom Harvest Farms brings a knowledgeable perspective to the people of the Coastal Bend when it comes to food. Campell stepped into public leaderships in food systems and food security in 2012 with the founding of Grow Local South Texas and helping launch the Corpus Christi Downtown Farmers’ Market. “Growing food became my way of stepping back into relationship with the body and the land,” Campbell said. “Growing medicine followed naturally, because when food is grown well, it is medicine.” With an extensive background spent of…

Campus, Column

Student journalism conference reveals new truths to supposed introvert

Priscilla Barba

A month prior to the annual conference for the oldest state collegiate press association across the country, the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association, Professor Robert Muilenburg approached me with the unexpected opportunity to attend and compete in contests to challenge my writing skills.  Obstacles arose due to my full-time student and full-time work schedules but were luckily accommodated so I could accompany the Foghorn News staff on a six-and-a-half-hour road trip to Denton.  This was my first year at TIPA, and I went in with the impression that my personality is introverted. Writing is a dedicated passion of mine, but after…

Art, Campus

60th CAIN National Art Show on display through April 17

Priscilla Barba

Students and staff mingled in a promising crowd at the 60th annual CAIN National Art Show opening on Feb. 13. Photography, painting, and sculptures were displayed at the show juried by Tabitha Whitley.  “Everybody shows up and we all participate,” said Art Professor Kerstin Dale. “It’s a fun event— it’s good for everybody. Everybody feels comfortable.” The show takes place in the Fine Arts Center on Del Mar’s Heritage Campus. Each year there is a different juror.    The CAIN National Art Show is a celebration of growth and expression for artists across the country. This year Del Mar received…

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Early voting totals up from 2012

Priscilla Barba

Irritated by Donald Trump’s indirect answers to questions and Hillary Clinton’s tendency to fluctuate on her interests and standards, James Hinojosa decided to not vote this year. “The candidates don’t really appeal to me,” Hinojosa said. Despite what many Americans see as a tough decision this year, many others have indeed cast ballots. Some 50,369 Nueces County residents had voted early as of Nov. 2, the 10th day of early voting. Just 48,172 had voted by the same time in 2012. Del Mar College’s Heldenfels Administration Building, an early voting location, saw 2,710 cast ballots through the first 10 days…

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Sex educator hits DMC for Title IX talk

Priscilla Barba

Del Mar College held a Title IX Awareness event Oct. 10 in the Retama Room on East Campus. The session, hosted by sexologist Justine Shuey, addressed the importance of communication in relationships, sexual pleasures with a significant other, and how to help a victim of rape. “Intimacy is all about the experience of emotional closeness to another human being and having that feeling returned,” said Shuey, a sexuality educator certified with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Shuey also gives advice to couples who seem to lack communication. She uses the “SHARE” method — Safety, Honesty, Acceptance,…