Category: Opinions

Cody Bahn / Editor-in-chief When I started this paper, I had almost nothing. I was sleeping in my car and crashing on different couches. This office quickly became my home and the paper, my family. I have been around this paper for far too long and I have had the honor of being editor-in-chief for half of that time. I’ve seen a lot of faces come and go. The people I have worked with are family. I care about them and this paper. I’ve tried to make this as respectable of a paper as I could. So here goes the really…

Eddie Puente / Associate editor This paper is on its last legs — at the end of this semester it will cease to exist. Or will it? It has been said many times that print news is soon to go the way of the dinosaur, eight-tracks and the payphone. So why would anyone intentionally choose to sit through a news-writing class? The instructor is argumentative, demanding, and, believe it or not, very passionate about journalism. Del Mar is fortunate to have such a man leading future journalists through the steps necessary to share with the world the news of the day.…

Raul Alonzo / Web editor I often find it difficult to make the appropriate changes in my life, and I can be pretty awkward and terrible at “goodbyes.” That being said, as a matter of reflection, there are a few things I can say about my time at Del Mar that I feel have made lasting impacts on my life. The time spent here at this school I can ultimately chalk up to as being beneficial. So long as one approaches their classes with an open mind, and rejects the notion that one knows everything worth knowing, then one can always…

Eddie Puente / Associate editor Zombies, zombies, zombies — everywhere you turn there are zombies. And that’s not counting the ones on television or at the theaters. All around you, you can see “creatures” shuffling around, heads down, mumbling to themselves. It’s that 3-inch by 6-inch electronic device that is surely sent from the depths of Hades that controls the masses like a brain-control machine. Having witnessed students walk into cars, into other students and into closed doors is a prime example of the power that these machines command. You can be sitting in class and hear that telltale sound…

Raul Alonzo / Web editor As 2013 comes to a close, the country once again finds itself in the throngs of Election Season, with numerous positions up for grabs, including the governor’s seat in Texas. For many outside the political mainstream, in the immortal words of Ned Stark, “Winter is coming.” All political will, at this point, seems oriented toward the ballot box — that sacred altar that has become the heraldic standard of all aspirations toward fulfilling the promises of a people’s democracy. “Winter,” at this point, denotes the general apathy toward any more direct objectives outside of this…