Category: Health

Campus, Community, Health

How to train your mind

Ashlee Burns

Counseling Center helping with Mental Health First-Aid Following previous campaigns to increase suicide prevention and mental health awareness on campus and in the community, Del Mar’s Counseling Center plans to provide mental health awareness training to student groups, faculty and staff. Counselor Johanna Torres hopes the training will help decrease the stigma surrounding mental health. “We want to inform the community about mental health and how common it is,” Torres said. “The more you know about it the less stigmatized it is.” The sessions will take place on the first Friday of every month beginning in September. Sessions will be…

Column, Health

Useful tips for safe but fun sex

Mark Young

It’s a crisp Monday afternoon, you have barely passed your math test and you are looking for a way to celebrate. You and your partner have a nice frozen dinner, some gas station wine and have found yourselves in bed. You reach over to grab a dry condom and start going for it. Your partner says it hurts and you take off the condom and continue sex. Your partner is now pregnant and you have chlamydia. Sex is fun; chlamydia is not. With the joys of sex often come risks for things that people would rather avoid. Staying safe during…

Food, Health

This year, make it a vegan wonderland

Julieta Hernandez

Julieta Hernandez jhernandez@foghornnews.com Herbivore Holiday Recipes Ah, the holidays. No matter which ones you celebrate, there’s only one thing on everyone’s mind: the homemade, traditional meals. One thing that’s not — the herbivores. With a vegan or vegetarian at the dinner table, the turducken or beef tamales may be a pass. “My aunt will be like, ‘What’s that? That’s not food! Where’s the meat?’” said Del Mar student Cody Benavides, who is entering a third holiday season as a vegan. With veganism and vegetarianism growing specifically among the younger generation, more questions are being raised along the lines of: What…

Campus, Health

Counseling Center to expand at West Campus

Ashlee Burns

Department also plans group sessions for fall semester After helping more than 4,000 students in the past year, the Counseling Center hopes to do even more to address students’ growing needs this year. The department has seen a 40 percent increase in use by students and will be expanding the West Campus counseling office into a full functioning Counseling Center. The center will be located in Health Science Building 1, Room 262, and is expected to be completed by the first day of the fall semester. “The purpose of all of our programs is prevention and to meet the needs…

Health

It rubs the lotion on its skin (or it gets the aloe again)

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Adriana King aking@foghornnews.com When some think of spring break, they may think of road trips, sleeping in and hitting the beach. Corpus Christi and Padre Island are optimal places for students to let loose, have fun and maybe try to get a killer tan, but not many will realize the risk they’re taking and the damage that can do to their skin. Sun exposure can lead to sunburns, and while the pain is felt and the redness can be seen, damage from the sun goes further than just blisters and peeling. A sunburn can occur in as little as 20…

Food, Health

How small changes can help you achieve a healthier lifestyle

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Nomaan Khan nkhan@foghornnews.com While college students aren’t typically nutrition gurus, they can still implement simple changes into their diets and routines that will enhance their energy, focus and overall well-being. For many, the health boost may be just what they need after the week of excess known as spring break. Israel Villanueva, head culinary instructor at Del Mar College, said diet can affect grades. “You’ve got to eat fresh and healthy if you want to succeed in school,” Villanueva said. “It’s vital you do all you can to improve and educate yourself as a student. Your education is what will…

Campus, Health

Students march against cancer to honor teacher

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It was an emotional moment when Lisa Gunn, a teacher at Del Mar’s Center for Early Learning, took her pink-clad students by the hand and led them in a march for breast cancer awareness, something Gunn has fought and won. The center held a “Pink Out” walk in front of its building at the corner of Baldwin and Staples at 10 a.m. Oct. 13. About 40 preschool students dressed in pink and carried with noisemakers, pompoms and signs to honor Gunn, a breast cancer survivor who has been with the center for almost 12 years. “I’m humbled that they’d honor…

Campus, Health

Event focuses on Title IV awareness

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Board certified sexologist Justine Shuey will be on campus Oct. 10 to discuss Title IX awareness. According to the Department of Education Title IX protects from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Students can catch Shuey from 11 a.m. to noon in the Retama Room of the Harvin Center on East Campus or from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Coleman Center on West Campus. For more information contact the office of Student Leadership & Campus Life at 361-698-1279.

Campus, Community, Health

Symposium targets synthetic marijuana

Bill Eaves

  Officers see increase in use of the deadly drug Del Mar College hosted dozens of first responders, counselors and law enforcement officials at a regional stakeholder symposium on synthetic drugs on June 10. Those in attendance were there to gather intelligence and educate themselves on the dangers and impact that synthetic marijuana is having on the community. “The Corpus Christi Fire Department was the first notice the epidemic,” said Michael Alanis, chief of investigations for the Corpus Christi Police Department. “They came to CCPD with it.” “It” is synthetic marijuana, which has become a big problem for residents of…

Health, Sports

Students fuel competitive side with volleyball

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Photos by Colby Farr/Foghorn Teammates celebrate after winning the match. Students got together to create their own teams and face off against in a volleyball tournament starting March 22. The tournament bracket was created by Kristy Urbick, intramural director. The first match of the tournament had Set it and Forget it! facing off against Thunder and defeating them with the match score, 25-9, 25-10. Dat Ace Doe defeated Carolyn in the second match of the tournament with a score of 25-11, 25-17. Rainer Pasahol jumps to spike the ball. The tournament continued on the following Thursday and started with Set it…