30 Oct 2017
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By ALE PENA @AlePenaETC The human body is always in motion — whether the movements are as simple as an absentminded twitch of a finger or as complex as a ballet twirl. What if we are forced to recognize the innumerous simple movements over the complex ones? These are the questions raised by Brandon...
Read more → 28 Oct 2017
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By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC Home fans in the bleachers and the Eastfield bench stood with fingers pointed in the air, waiting for the final rally to end. Brookhaven was returning a serve and the initial kill attempt was blocked, but the Bears quickly recovered and set up again. As the hitter went...
Read more → 27 Oct 2017
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By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC After not having dropped a single set in regular conference play, Eastfield women’s volleyball team was challenged in their 3-2 playoff semifinal win versus Cedar Valley to advance to the conference final versus Brookhaven. However, Keishla Reyes, the nation's current...
Read more → 27 Oct 2017
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By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC RICHLAND COLLEGE— The 1-0 loss to Richland in the National Junior College Athletic Association Region V tournament semifinal took a moment to sink in for the Eastfield soccer team. As the final whistle signified the end of the game — and their season — the players...
Read more → 25 Oct 2017
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By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC RICHLAND COLLEGE— The Eastfield women’s soccer team overcame a slow first half to defeat North Lake 2-1 in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Regional tournament. Both teams had many chances to score early on. An Eastfield goal...
Read more → 19 Oct 2017
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By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC Summer is over and last time I checked the world is still garbage. As you read this Donald Trump is probably tossing paper-towels to hurricane-stricken citizens like he’s MJ shooting a fade-away jumper. One out of every seven people on this planet still suffers from...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC October 16-22 is Free Speech Week, an annual non-partisan celebration of the freedoms of speech and the press. In recognition, The Et Cetera staff examined the five freedoms, including speech and press, guaranteed by the First Amendment. “Congress shall make...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By SYDNEY ABBAS and MACKS PREWITT @TheEtCetera The Biloxi, Mississippi, school district has pulled “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its eighth grade curriculum. It’s not the first book to be challenged or banned in American school districts, and “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been challenged...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC When students have the number for campus police saved in their phones and know safety procedures, police say they can do their job more efficiently. Sgt. Kevin Levingston, an officer with the Dallas County Community College District police, said people are accustomed...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By ALE PENA @alepenaETC The same stars that have existed for billions of years are diminishing visually due to light pollution, said night sky advocate Gary Carter. Light pollution, which is the excessive and inappropriate use of light, is a phenomenon that affects every living organism on the planet...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By KATHRYN HIGGINS @KatyHigginsETC With a variety of electrical tools in-hand, Mitchell Walker moves into a dimly lit room in search of a breaker box. The room is filled with several massive, softly whirring machines that line the wall. “Well, the problem’s not in here,” Walker announces...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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Julio Vega @JulioVegaETC The Eastfield women’s volleyball team clinched the Metro Athletic Conference regular season title for a second consecutive year after sweeping Cedar Valley College on Monday. With the win, they earned hosting rights for the conference tournament Oct. 25-28. The first...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By SAMUEL FARLEY @TheEtcetera Sex trafficking is a serious problem in Texas, said Nathaly Hernandez, a bilingual case manager for Mosaic Family Services. Research indicates that the targeting of individuals with mental health problems seems to be a contributing factor. Hernandez said students could...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By Caroline Ceolin @TheEtCetera If you’re anything like me and believe we should take an insipid and soporific holiday such as Valentine’s Day for example and replace it with a second Halloween, then October is probably your favorite time of the year. But, with so many “boo!” loving, pumpkin-carving...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By MACKS PREWITT @MacksPrewittETC Coffee, Books, Culture. This is the slogan of one of the best independent bookstores in Dallas. Deep Vellum Books, located in Deep Ellum, makes you feel like you are just picking a book off of your bookshelf at home. Sitting on the corner of South Walton and Commerce...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By ALDAHIR SEGOVIA @TheEtCetera “1998” is a personification of a near 20-year lifespan expressed through rhythm and melody. Joel Puente, who goes by Rocktee, is an Eastfield student who in his free time produces beats. Most staff and pupils may not know Puente, but people should check out Rocktee. “1998”...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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The growing efforts to limit or ban disagreeable speech on college campuses is a dangerous path that, if successful, could spell the end of the First Amendment as it is written in the Constitution. The Et Cetera stands by the rights of all people, no matter how controversial their views, to speak...
Read more → 18 Oct 2017
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By Karol Kilgore Plaid for Women is a digital media platform that utilizes tools such as educational, informational, and inspirational blogs, podcasts, and videos submitted by member contributors to encourage and empower women to be kind to and love themselves and to implement a healthy regimen of daily...
Read more → 17 Oct 2017
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By Julio Vega @JulioVegaETC As an opposing serve arches over the net toward Kalli Caddell’s side, the freshman setter moves into position. The squeaking of shoes echoes throughout the Eastfield gym as the volleyball team practices against one another. Caddell anxiously taps her fingers on her thighs,...
Read more → 17 Oct 2017
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By Colin Taylor There is a very good chance this is Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki’s final campaign. When the Dallas Mavericks begin their 37th season Oct. 18, Nowitzki will begin his 20th season as a Maverick. He told reporters this past March that “Twenty is a great number. I think 20 seasons...
Read more → 16 Oct 2017
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By DAVID SILVA and CAROLINE CEOLIN @TheEtCetera Local artist Dyemond Obryan doesn’t recall a time in which he wasn’t creating drawings. As a child, Obryan moved around from school to school and said drawing was something he could always do by himself. He also remembers that his drawings would...
Read more → 14 Oct 2017
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By Julio Vega @JulioVegaETC The No. 8 ranked women’s soccer team looks to finish conference going into the final games of the regular season. The top three spots of the Metro Athletic Conference are still up for grabs, with first-placed Richland (7-1), second-placed Brookhaven (6-1-1) and third-placed...
Read more → 14 Oct 2017
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My psychiatrist smiled while giving me a diagnosis. “Major depressive disorder,” Dr. Shipe said. But I did not smile. All I could think about were the CNN headlines branding Adam Lanza the same. That same year, the Connecticut State Attorney’s Office concluded that Lanza, the Sandy...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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Eastfield police hosted their third annual National Night Out event Oct. 3 in an effort to connect police officers and community members. The event, which sees over 400 communities and college campuses gather. This year the campus held their event inside due to weather.
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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By ALE PENA @TheEtCetera Club Dada, the venue in Deep Ellum where headlining band Pinegrove played a sold out show on September 30th, was filled with disappointment the entire night. Hordes of fans excitedly lined outside the small venue an hour before the show started in hopes of getting a barricade...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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More than 3 million American citizens have been living without food, clean drinking water, shelter, medical assistance and communication with the outside world in the wake of a disastrous hurricane that leveled the majority of Puerto Rico. An island just over 1,000 miles from Florida, Puerto Rico waited...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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By Karol Kilgore “Visions that can change the world trapped inside an ordinary girl. She looks just like me, too afraid to dream out loud.” These are the opening lines to one of my favorite songs, “Don’t Give Up,” by Gospel artist, Yolanda Adams. I relate to the song so much because I often...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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By Aldahir Segovia What do we millennials care about? Do we care about children not having a childhood anymore? Kids learn to read, write and do basic math problems at the age of 4 for a standardized test they don’t have to take for another couple of years. Do we care about exams like STAAR being...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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By Dan Luna Robert Jeffress, President Trump’s Evangelical adviser and pastor of First Baptist Dallas, used the Bible to justify ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects from deportation young adults who entered the country illegally as children and allows them to work. He...
Read more → 03 Oct 2017
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhbCHdklfg By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC As thousands of bees buzz around her, Dana See pumps pine needle smoke out of a canister. The bees, sensing the smoke and thinking there is a fire that threatens their hive, don’t pay much attention to their white-suited...
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