Category: Column

Column

The unnoticed mental health crisis post-COVID

Brianne Dubose

2020. We all remember where we were and what we were doing. I lived in one of the first cities on lockdown. I lived in Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York, and was just a few days shy of my 21st birthday. At one point, I lived in the most affected neighborhood in the United States. I remember summertime, ambulance sirens wailed outside my apartment all week. I received news of people who I grew up around passing. The friends I made when we all moved to New York to chase our dreams were suddenly packing up and heading home. We…

Column, Entertainment, Theater

How community theater works around Corpus Christi

Paul Farias

Over the past two years, I’ve been a part of Corpus Christi’s theater scene. In that same time, I’ve been through a few shows here at Del Mar College as well. There are plenty of differences between the two, and since I’m involved in another community show, I figured now’s the time to look back on it. The first thing you have to do for any theater show is audition. Between community and college theater, these feel the same: you fill out a form and maybe provide a resume. Typically, community theaters will take your headshot, though college theater does…

Column, Community

Not just for the aesthetics: Small changes for Earth Day can have lasting impact

Danielle Dews

Another Earth Day has passed, with special events and celebrations. But Earth Day shouldn’t just be a social media post we  make every year. The day was created in 1970 as a response to pollution and environmental damage humans have contributed to. It was the beginning of the modern environmental movement.  Earth Day is meant to be an opportunity for us, as humans, to show how we can help Mother Earth by doing significant environmental acts such as community cleanups, planting trees, and recycling. “We are protecting the Earth now for our future generations,” Del Mar student Madi Harlow said…

Column

Column: Social media quietly moved boundaries of infidelity

Lola Ponce Gamboa

Here’s a question worth sitting with: how easy it is, really, to cheat on your spouse or significant other on social media? Not “cheat” in the old obvious sense. No motel keys. Receipts of purchases. No lipstick on collars. Just a phone, a screen, and a few taps of the thumb. A like here. A DM there. An old flame popping up under the innocent banner of “People You May Know.” Social media didn’t invent infidelity, but quietly redesigned it. Platforms promise connection, nostalgia, and community. What they also offer is access: instant, private, low-risk access to people outside your…

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…

Campus, Column, Drama

Diving full speed into Del Mar Drama’s ‘Forbidden Planet’

Paul Farias

After two years of theater, I’ve come back to the place that started it all: Del Mar College. This time, I’m taking on “Return to the Forbidden Planet,” a campy take on science fiction. I wasn’t expecting to audition at first, as I had originally signed on to help with music before auditions were underway. As the show began to take hold, I threw my hat in the ring instead. A little bit of singing and acting later, and I got the role of Cookie. For those unfamiliar with the show, Cookie is the lowly cook aboard the spaceship the…

Column, Sports

Venezuela’s road to victory at Worlds Baseball Classic

Isabella Skinner

The World Baseball Classic opened  March 6 and ended March 17 in Miami, Florida, with Team Venezuela taking the win 3-2 against Team USA. The win marked Venezuela’s first win at the Classic and held symbolic meaning for the players who celebrated the win by singing their national anthem, “Gloria al Bravo Pueblo.” The WBC began in 2006 and has been held roughly every three to four years since then (2006, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2023 and 2026). It has often been compared to the World Cup in soccer, and is used to celebrate national pride and global unity. The players…

Column, Opinions

Resilience is at heart of selling print advertising

Amber Davis

Working in advertising for a news organization is a peculiar position to hold. You are part of something people say they don’t trust, don’t like, or don’t need anymore, while simultaneously consuming it, quoting it, screen-shotting it, arguing about it, and trying to replicate it on their own platforms. The news is one of the most loved and most criticized institutions in any community. It always has been. And advertising within it carries the same contradiction. I hear it often: “Print is expensive.” “Print is outdated.” “Print doesn’t work anymore.” And yet, here we are. Print advertising has survived radio,…

Column, Community

Covering President Trump as a student journalist

Arwen Scafidi

After a stunned moment, I realized I had been struck by a full water bottle thrown from a group of protesters shouting behind a line of Texas state troopers.  The bottle hit the outer corner of my eye as I exited the Port of Corpus Christi following President Donald J. Trump’s visit, bringing an abrupt and unexpected end to an afternoon marked by heightened security, political tension and one of the most surreal reporting experiences I have had so far as a student journalist. The chants had been growing louder as attendees began leaving the venue. Protesters gathered along the…

Column, Opinions

Staying aligned when the room is political

Amber Davis

There’s a quiet lesson you learn when you commit yourself to meaningful work: not everyone who says they’re “here to help” actually is. Some are here for the title. Some for proximity to power. Some for optics, influence, or control. And some, fewer than we’d like, are here because the work itself matters. Community spaces are often idealized as collaborative, altruistic, and heart-led. But beneath the surface, they can mirror the same dynamics we remember from school hallways: unspoken hierarchies, gatekeeping, alliances, and the subtle art of exclusion. The “mean girl” never really disappears—she just learns new language. Words like…