By: Paul Lyman

Living your college life at home can be an interesting experience; you have your parents to help you in any they can. They help provide you with guidance, monetary aid, and an occasional criticism of your living conditions in your room....

By: Jose Enriquez

Every year, holidays come and go. With each holiday, we tend to make promises to do better, and to create a lifestyle that befits the holiday. Although Earth Day is not a religious or political holiday, it falls under the days that we make a promise t...

By: Philip J. Perez

As the saying goes, “All great things must come to an end.” I call bull**** on that saying. Great things don’t ever have to come to an end, so long as you know when to turn the page. As the semester comes to an end, so does this chapt...

By: Harley Doerfler

It is time DMC honored former students who have lost their lives while serving in the Armed Forces with a memorial that would make a great addition to our campus. Because this year is the college’s 75th anniversary, it only seems fitting to do it...

By: Andrea Dupper

At the age of 36, I decided to finish the college degree I started 15 years ago. My first class of my first semester was News Gathering and Writing, a class that I was interested in only because I wanted to get back into writing....

By: Editorial Staff

Recently, Del Mar College came up with a new system to allow students to easily access registration on the DMC website and allow students to register online more quickly than before by accessing just one page rather than multiple pages, as in the past....

By: Betty Alvarado

The three universal classifications of population social status (low, middle, high) have been fundamental to interpreting the underlying hierarchal aspect of our own American modified caste system....

By: Gina Garza

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an opinion about how bad service doesn’t deserve a tip. Being a former server and a veteran in the restaurant business, I was intrigued to see what somebody had to say. I respect the opinions of others since t...

By: Amanda Howeth

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free,” according to Catherine Ponder minister of...

By: Harley Doerfler

The student government has a very good idea about having the DMC Library open until midnight, but as with anything that is expanded, there is a cost. The cost to air condition a five-story building, turn on the all the lights, and pay the salaries wou...

By: Adriana Infante

Growing up I never thought twice about the date April 15 – until I got my first job. I filled out a mandatory W-2 form thinking it was just useless information, because what’s the big deal about working at a crappy restaurant? Little did ...

By: Editorial Staff

Last Tuesday in a 4-3 vote (with one abstention and one member not present), the DMC Board of Regents (BOR) approved a $27.6 million property tax abatement over the course of the next five years for Las Brisas Energy LLC to enable the company to fund c...

By: Jose Enriquez

Many of us are approaching the final days at Del Mar College. Some of us will graduate with certificates, others with an associate’s degree; some of us will be content, and some of us will want to go on to a four-year university, in which case, t...

By: Amanda Howeth

We all have that friend – you know, the friend who forgets that all his friends exist whenever he has a girlfriend? One minute you’re best buds, the next you’re completely erased from his memory....

By: Blake Charlton

According to the title of this little story, something crazy has happened on our campus or involving faculty/students and now you want to know what went down. Nothing has happened; I merely wanted to prove a point that by just reading the title of an ...

By: Claire Cavazos

Today’s women can definitely not be compared to the women of past eras. We are more focused on our careers, we have more rights, we have more sexual freedom and we have proven that women can do anything that a man can....

By: Editorial Staff

Just last week, the City Council decided once again to delay demolition of the Memorial Coliseum after a chapter of the American GI forum and the Friends of the Coliseum petitioned for a hearing with County Judge James Klager who ruled that demolition ...

By: Paul Lyman

Every time a special event goes on or is being planned, whether it’s a sporting event or convention, people who say they will be committed end up being flakes. Nobody really controls these people’s lives; they don’t have to be there ...

By: Philip J. Perez

“Hurry, hurry, hurry and step right up to the alter for your chance to spin the ‘Big Wheel of Salvation’. That’s right folks; YOU can be our next big winner. Will it be a flat screen TV? How about a new IPod? Maybe, a new bike? ...