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Know the full meaning of Valentine’s Day

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E.J. Fulton Babbitt ejbabbitt@foghornnews.com   Nowadays many people in the 21st century do not know the true beautiful origins of Valentine’s Day — and that needs to change. The first semblance of Valentine’s Day was a Roman holiday on Feb. 16 known as Lupercalia, a fertility celebration. A few hundred years later, in 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius who changed it to St. Valentine’s Day, a Christian Day feast. Despite the name and all these stories it was not until the 14th century this became a holiday about love. Geoffrey Chaucer, a British poet, wrote a poem dedicated to the engagement…

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Water crisis shows the need to be prepared

Brittany Claramunt

Brittany Claramunt blaramunt@foghornnews.com @BrittClaramunt   After the city’s fourth water problem of 2016 in December, the thought of having a plan in case it happens again was on many residents’ minds. It appeared we were having yet another water advisory on Jan. 19 when another chemical managed to get into the system. However, it did not get into the city’s system; it was only found in the Flint Hills water system, which is separate from the city’s supply. The brief misunderstanding sent people scrambling to H-E-B and Wal-Mart to buy bottled water before it sold out. The December advisory, which…

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Society leads women away from science, tech fields

Catarina Murphy

Technology continues to dominate much of our daily lives, and the job growth for the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — is predicted to rise. But where do the women fit in all this? Men have always dominated the STEM fields, and unfortunately, the numbers aren’t growing for women. Women received 29.6 percent of computer science B.A.’s in 1991, compared with just18.2 percent in 2010. Why aren’t more girls choosing to pursue careers in math and science? According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, the problems start as early as grade school, when teachers and parents do…

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Election proves America is tired of lesser of two evil

Bill Eaves

I didn’t vote this year.  It was the first time in my life that I’ve been eligible and didn’t go to the polls.  Instead I spent time with my children and took a night gig at the Caller-Times, covering the election. I can’t explain exactly why I didn’t vote. I was so discouraged with the nominations this year that I shut myself down earlier than normal. When Barack Obama ran the first time, I believed in him. No president can ever do everything perfectly, but the surveillance state that we’ve become was a slap in the face of those who…

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Southside campus isn’t what Del Mar needs now

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Does one year of decent growth really warrant a $139 million bond? The simple answer is no. Del Mar College on Oct. 11 held a news conference with multiple media outlets to tout this fall’s enrollment of more than 12,000 students. When you compare 2014 (10,493) and 2015 (10,852) to the pre-certified 2016 enrollment number of 12,034, the growth looks like a huge jump. However, when you go back to 2010’s figure of 12,236, the numbers are actually still down. The $139 million bond would only cover three buildings in Phase 1 of the college’s plans for expansion. The college…

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Domestic violence is a very complicated matter

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Media portrayal of domestic violence victims only furthers harmful stereotypes and stigmas. Victims are often portrayed as weak and submissive or as vengeful and even unstable, and this can carry over into society’s perception of them. All too often in television and film we see variations of two basic scenarios. It usually goes something like this: Woman meets man, they fall in love and get married but then suddenly he changes. From here the story will take one of two turns. Variation one is that she befriends (usually) a man that her husband has no relationship with. He is kind…

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Media fumbles coverage of Kaepernick’s protest

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Odrina Bazan obazan@ foghornnews.com To a degree, all comedy is social commentary and often hits the mark because it allows us to digest uncomfortable truths in a forgiving way. For instance, who doesn’t remember Dave Chappelle’s adventures with his buddy “Chip”? You can find the entire hourlong HBO special “Killing Them Softly” chopped up into bits on YouTube. Dave and Chip are lost in New York discussing current events, when they notice the cops within earshot. “DAVE! It’s the God damn cops…” long, uncomfortable pause,” I’m gonna ask ’em for directions.” If the joke doesn’t read so funny, it’s because…

Ask the Viking, Opinions

What local issues are most important to you this election?

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As election day rolls around the corner, we asked a few of our fellow Vikings whether or not what local issues are most important to them this upcoming election? “The upkeep downtown; there’s a lot of trash. They should have people from the city pick it up.” — Brianna Garcia, early child development     “Right now, transportation [and lack thereof]. The bus system is great but they have to reroute because of road construction.” — Mike Martinez, nursing     “Potholes make me so mad when I drive. I think they should have decided to fix it a long…

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Upcoming election shaping up to be vital to citizens

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Natalie Murphy nmurphy@foghornnews.com The smaller the election, the more impactful each individual vote becomes. Election Day is right around the corner (Nov. 8, for those who have somehow managed to avoid the madness), and there is a lot more at stake than just the next president. We, at Del Mar College, exist within a microcosm of South Texas and there are some big choices at hand. Both the $139 million South Side Bond Initiative, which would fund Phase 1 of campus construction, and two of the nine members of the Del Mar Board of Regents are facing a vote by…

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Training key as we near state’s new college gun law

Brittany Claramunt

The topic of gun control has been a hot issue in the media and in presidential debates. However, in August a law took effect in Texas allowing students at public universities the right to carry their guns on campus if they are concealed carry permit holders. While the University of Texas and other four-year schools have already seen the change, to much criticism from faculty members and others, the law will not affect community colleges, such as Del Mar, until August 2017. Del Mar officials will likely be looking at what other colleges are doing in regards to declaring parts…

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