By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC The Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees approved campus carry restrictions yesterday in the last meeting before the law goes into effect on two year college campuses in Texas. Starting August 1, concealed handgun license holders will be allowed...

By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC  One woman and a shooter are dead in a murder-suicide that sent North Lake College into intruder lockdown Wednesday. Janeera Nickol Gonzalez, 20, was shot at North Lake by Adrian Victor Torres, 21, who Gonzalez’s family said was stalking her before the incident. Torres...

By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC A plan for campus renovations, more space, equipment and a possible new building is in the works as a part of Eastfield’s master plan. Repairs are also needed to address flooding in aging buildings, and the art department needs a new ventilation system for safety...

By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC The Texas House of Representatives voted on April 27 to ban sanctuary cities and compel local authorities to comply with immigration laws. After a 93-54 vote along party lines, the bill is now headed to the governor’s desk and is expected to be signed into law. Texas...

Kimberly Fernanda Lopez will be the first female student to graduate from the Honda Professional Automotive Career Training, a two-year program toward an Associate of Applied Science in automotive technology for future Honda and Acura service technicians. Having tinkered with cars since she was young,...

By MACKS PREWITT @TheEtCetera Zach DeCamp, a member of numerous clubs and a student leader on campus, is the 2017 recipient of the Student Leader of the Year Award, an honor commending outstanding academics, leadership and community involvement. An accounting major, he is president of the Accounting...

By JON-MARK TAMEZ @TheEtCetera A bill to end in-state tuition for undocumented students has been rejected by the Texas Legislature while another seeking to lessen veterans’ education benefits in Texas is still up for consideration. The Noriega law, named after the former state representative...

More than 3,000 people marched through downtown Dallas in support of immigrant rights April 9. The Mega March was far smaller gathering than the original Mega March 11 years ago, which drew more than 350,000. The Mega March had a more diverse gathering than the previous with advocates for international...

With National Security Agency spying scandals and the threat of internet desperados trying to get into phones and computers, anything with a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection makes privacy a big concern. Reporters, human rights activists and government whistleblowers rely on security and encryption to remain...

By Katrina Bond @KatBondETC Editor’s note: All interviews for this story were conducted in American Sign Language. The story won first place at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association live feature writing competition in Dallas. Promptly at 11:30 a.m., the lights in the lobby of the Deaf Action...

By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC The Dallas County Community College District plans to expand its Rising Star scholarship program to help more students and provide more benefits. The expansion is DCCCD’s answer to America’s College Promise, a free college program proposed in 2015 by President Barack...

Legislation pending in Austin, including tuition freezes, sanctuary city policies and sexual assault transparency, could potentially impact students on a day-to-day basis. With the 85th Legislature of Texas currently underway, here’s a quick rundown of the most noteworthy bills to keep an eye on. —...

By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC The Dallas County Community College District is not adhering to the spirit of Texas open records laws, which give citizens the right to access a broad spectrum of government documents, according to experts. Kelly Shannon, executive director of the Freedom of Information...

The Et Cetera examined the partisan culture on campus. We talked to people about their beliefs, the current ideological walls and the role that media plays. By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC Nicholas Singleton walks into his Texas government class, taking his seat at the long table that early-arriving...

The Et Cetera examined the partisan culture on campus. We talked to people about their beliefs, the current ideological walls and the role that media plays. By KATRINA BOND @KatBondETC Matt Hinckley is so far left that he doesn’t consider himself a Democrat but an anarcho-syndicalist, as well...

By JOSUE HERNANDEZ @TheEtCetera In response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order expanding the authority of immigration officers, Eastfield hosted a forum on immigrant rights, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Texas legislature updates...

By JULIO VEGA @JulioVegaETC Paint and auto body professor Ramiro Gutierrez, known for his tinkering skills and passion for students’ education, died March 20, four months after being diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer. He was 47. Executive Dean of Career Technologies Johnnie Bellamy said...

By KATRINA BOND @KatBondETC Feminists strive for the common goal of equality, but women should embrace their own individuality as well as the differences of others, a panel of self-proclaimed “nasty women” said on March 23. “I think we all have mixed ideas or different ideas of what feminism...

By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC President Donald Trump’s recently proposed budget for 2018 would have a direct impact on Eastfield’s TRIO program and is a cause for concern among art and science professors. The budget proposal includes major cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and Education...

By KATRINA BOND @KatBondETC When Grant Halliburton was released from a 30-day hospitalization after being diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, his family  thought he was better. A few weeks later, on Nov. 2, 2015, he jumped off a 10-story building, ending his life at 19. His mother,...

By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC It’s hard to review a website that doesn’t exist. Days after the Dallas County Community College District “renovated” its websites, Eastfield’s links were all broken. You had a pretty little glass house of a homepage that didn’t have any usable links whatsoever. It’s...

March is one of the busiest months for Free Application for Financial Student Aid filings. It would make sense that the government to make the process easier for students and parents, but recent changes have done just the opposite. And that’s just one piece of bad news surrounding financial aid right...

By JESSICA LUTHER @TheEtCetera In the past four months, there have been five arrests by Eastfield police related to drugs and alcohol, but the college has zero substance abuse prevention or recovery programs available to students on campus. Social work and substance abuse counseling professor Daniel...

By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC A bill in the Texas Legislature could allow Eastfield to begin offering classes for four-year degrees in early childhood education, reclassifying the school as a four-year institution. The bill would allow all Dallas County Community College District campuses to host...

By KATRINA BOND @KatBondETC Eastfield’s Puente Project, which began this semester, is a new program designed to help students in developmental courses facing barriers to continuing and completing their education. Every Eastfield applicant is required to take the Texas Standard Initiative test,...

By Matthew Weseman @TheEtCetera Without family and friends for support, mental illnesses such as depression can make life seem impossible. This is what the Providing Hope and Suicide Education project is designed to address. PHASE coordinator Courtney Pickens thinks depression is a daily battle...