Category: Opinions

Katie Babbitt When summer comes around a lot of students don’t think of school but that idea needs to be questioned. While traditionally students see summer as a time to take a break and do their own thing this time could also be more utilized. A study from 2004 by John Hopkins University shows how exacerbated achievements in the learning environment become because of summer break. That’s not to say a break isn’t a good thing but when you take a long one it has repercussions. Imagine a machine that only goes faster the more it’s used: that’s the mind…

Syria – Adding Fuel to the Fire Beckons War Cari Casas It hasn’t been a 100 days into Trumps presidency and the question fostered in to every American’s minds lately is, are we prepared to go to war? In the last few days, the Syrian government used chemical weapons on the Syrian citizens  which the white house reported took 70 lives, many of them children. It was the gruesome and horrific photos from the attack that influenced Trump to take action against the Syrian government by launching 59 missiles to the regimes airbase. It was the same air base that…

Azrael Montoya amontoya@foghornnews.com One of the significant issues parents face is sexual education for their child. Parents entrust their children to the teachers of sexual public education. Sexual education and charity should start and end in the home. Teaching children about sex at an early age before their personalities are fully formed is an important part of family life. The Corpus Christi Independent School District has taught a public sexual education curriculum for 18 years. In accordance with Texas Education Code Chapter 115, which changes from year to year, they provide an abstinence curriculum. They cover things such as risky…

Nomaan Khan In the pursuit of a college degree, people forget to actually learn. Ultimately, it’s a student’s responsibility to learn in college as much as it is a professor’s to teach them, but it seems too many students are relying on the institution to pass them and “teach” them, so they stop being proactive in the process. A college professor’s main job and concern is to give students the resources and methods so they can learn on their own; instructors are supposed to teach you to fish instead of giving you the fish, so to speak. The majority of…

Brittany Claramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com @BrittClaramunt President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that he will build a wall between the United States and Mexico and that Mexico will pay for it. After visiting with the president of Mexico and a recent phone call during his first week in office, President Enrique Peña Nieto refuses to pay for the wall. So Trump is going to put a 20 percent tariff on anything that comes from Mexico to pay for the wall. In the end, Americans are going to pay for the wall. If the 20 percent tariff is enacted then whatever we…

Helena Kobylarz To Whom It May Concern,   Hello fellow Del Mar students. I wanted to write an editorial on my experience at Del Mar College. I have a different background than the majority of Del Mar students. You see, I am almost 60 years old. My husband is a disabled veteran who is no longer able to work, so I decided to return to college almost 40 years after my first college experience. I know, most of you weren’t even born then, which is probably more shocking for me than for you.   The most important thing I have…