By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC Government professor Stacey Jurhree and history professor Mike Noble have unexpectedly stepped down from their positions as Faculty Association president and vice president following a dispute at a Nov. 16 association meeting. Noble, who is in his ninth year at Eastfield,...

By ARIA JONES @AriaJonesETC Tuition could be raised by $20 per credit hour to cover the cost of textbooks and class materials under a plan proposed by the Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees. Students would receive the materials on the first day of class as part of a deal...

By ANDREW WALTER @AndyWalterETC   The Student Government Association is seeking to fill its executive board after not receiving any applications for their planned officer elections during their last general meeting Nov. 30. SGA President Jasmin Larez said because of the new eight-week...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley Students danced to foreign music, snacked on foods from across the world and discussed their heritage and favorite culture Nov. 15 during Eastfield’s International Celebration. The event took place during International Week. The week included information about...

By YESENIA ALVARADO @YeseniaA_ETC Lee Berg left a tape before he died, where he describes what he saw the day his division liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.    As a first lieutenant in the 102 Infantry Division of the Army, Berg earned a bronze star following...

The man convicted of the 1993 rape and homicide on Eastfield’s track is set to be put to death Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. Alvin Braziel Jr. was found guilty of the Sept. 21 murder of Doug White, 27, and the rape of White’s wife of 11 days, Lora White. Braziel was not linked to the crimes until 2001,...

Staff reports @theetcetera Updated Nov. 29 Eastfield professor Joanna Cattanach loses her bid for Texas House Representative for District 108 following a voter recount. Cattanach was running against incumbent Republican Morgan Meyer to represent the district, which includes Park Cities and Old East...

By CAMERON R. COOK @Cameron_ETC The Dallas County Sheriff’s election results with 93 percent of the votes counted last night had come out to 64 percent in favor of Marian Brown against opponent Aaron Meek’s nearly 36 percent. Meek graduated from Eastfield’s Law Enforcement Academy in 2005...

By DAVID SILVA Senior Videographer @DavidSilvaETC Long lines, and often hours in wait times, were seen at early voting locations around the country. Nearly 39 million Americans had already voted before Tuesday’s election, surpassing the total number of votes from the 2014 midterm election, which...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley Faculty concerns about rating professors to determine teaching schedules are unfounded, Dallas County Community College District Chancellor Joe May said after a forum Nov. 5. May said that while the details of a multi-year master schedule are still being worked out,...

  Graphic by Esther Moreno/The Et Cetera By YESENIA ALVARADO Managing Editor @YeseniaA_ETC When Gulf War veteran Adam Gaona started this semester, he struggled with navigating Blackboard for his English 1302 class. The professor assumed everyone in class took English 1301 the past semester,...

By ANDREW WALTER @AndyWalterETC Eastfield’s Honors Program is changing the requirements for admission to improve accessibility and inclusivity, the program’s co-director said. “There’s no purpose in having an honors program if no one is graduating,” government professor Cindy Castañeda...

By YESENIA ALVARADO and ARIA JONES @YeseniaA_ETC @AriaJonesETC Students and faculty are petitioning against the new class schedules to administration and demanding more suitable class options after Eastfield College shifted to a primarily eight-week schedule. A petition calls for Eastfield to offer...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley Ted Cruz will serve another six years in the U.S. Senate after fending off a blue wave-propelled campaign by Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke in a showdown between new and older grassroots movements. The junior senator walked on stage to “My Texas”...

By CAMERON R. COOK @TheEtCetera Eastfield Law Enforcement Academy graduate Aaron Meek wants to bring more focus to mental health and family violence if he is elected Dallas County sheriff in November. Meek, the Republican nominee, has been a resident of Dallas County for 35 years and a member of Dallas...

By ANDREW WALTER  @AndyWalterETC Eastfield held its first celebration of LGBTQ History Month by providing activities and resources designed to educate and bring the student body together around the LGBTQ community. Chris Schlarb, adviser to PRISM, a new student organization meant to spread LGBTQ...

By ANDREW WALTER @AndyWalterETC College dropout and Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman said in a lecture at Eastfield on Thursday that he learned everything he’s ever known from comics and comic books. “I started learning about sex contemplating ‘Betty and Veronica,’ ” Spiegelman said...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley Jean Conway, exiting president of Eastfield, remembers the first night the college began recruitment for the early college high school. It’s one of her fondest memories. Talking about it causes her eyes to well up with tears. Parents rushed into a high school auditorium,...

Staff reports @TheEtCetera Emergency personnel have resolved an electrical hazard that triggered a campus evacuation Friday night. Campus police said an electrical problem underground caused a small fire. Police initially believed the problem, noticed because of smoke rising from the ground, was a gas leak,...

By CAROLINE CEOLIN and JAMES HARTLEY Adjunct professors in the Dallas County Community College District do not have their own offices, benefits or guarantee that they will have a class to teach until the first day of class. Some said all of these factors can make it difficult to provide their students...

By ANDREW WALTER @AndyWalterETC Eastfield recently submitted its five-year report to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the results of the evaluation, available in December, will determine if the school remains an accredited institution. If the SACS Commission on Colleges...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley Eddie Tealer, current vice president of business services at North Lake College, has been selected as the next Eastfield College president. The Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Oct. 3 to appoint Tealer's after Chancellor...

By CAMERON R. COOK @TheEtCetera Students could soon be brewing beer on-site at Eastfield as part of the Journeyman Brewery Program, which organizers are hoping to expand in 2019. A new online beer-marketing course for product packaging will begin this January. “The idea will be on logo creation...

By JAMES HARTLEY @ByJamesHartley The ways students share their voices are facing changes, and in some cases attacks, across the nation, according to Mike Hiestand, Student Press Law Center senior legal counsel. While Arts and Communications Dean Courtney Carter Harbour said student media at Eastfield...

By ARIA JONES @AriaJonesETC Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke and Republican incumbent Senator Ted Cruz duked it out Sept. 21 in Dallas at the first of three U.S. Senate debates, touching on issues of immigration, gun control and kneeling during the national anthem. Two more debates are scheduled,...

By JAMES EYRE @TheEtCetera Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a previous error. Terrance Wickman, math professor and sustainability coordinator at Eastfield, said the U.S. and world as a whole have a lot of work to do with its green programs. He describes the overall success of recycling...

By ARIA JONES @AriaJonesETC Four candidates to replace college President Jean Conway visited the campus over the past week. Each spent a day visiting with the selection committee, touring the campus and answering questions at two forums. Attendees of the forums were able to give feedback to Chancellor...