03 Dec 2019
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By MANUEL CRUZ @TheEtCetera After an extended hiatus, the League of United Latin American Citizens has returned to Eastfield to promote the needs of the Hispanic community. With the help of Professors Kat Reguero-Vandeventer and Tiffany Nacoste and president Blanca Alvarado, LULAC was restored. The...
Read more → 03 Dec 2019
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By LINDSEY CRAFT @TheEtCetera In an effort to inform the Eastfield community on homelessness, student Mayra Fierro led an interactive discussion at the Day of Action: Housing Insecurity event on Nov. 15. Fierro leads the Cereal and Civil Rights group in Deep Ellum. Cereal was initially intended...
Read more → 03 Dec 2019
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By HARRIET RAMOS @TheEtCetera Pedro Navagonzalez thought he was an all-American kid. He grew up in Anaheim, California, during the 1970s and ’80s, was a Boy Scout and loved to play baseball and football. At 18 years old, his illusion came to an end. Navagonzalez was looking forward to a trip with...
Read more → 03 Dec 2019
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By Juan Quevedo Hernandez @TheEtcetera Construction projects across campus are inching to their completion dates, while the proposed coffee shop in the library has yet to secure a vendor. The projects include new labs for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math division, the coffee shop...
Read more → 03 Dec 2019
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By HARRIET RAMOS @TheEtCetera The Dallas County Community College District will make digital readers available for students next fall as the district prepares to include textbooks with the price of tuition. Executive Vice Chancellor Justin Lonon said in an email that the district is still negotiating...
Read more → 03 Dec 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc An election lawsuit by an Eastfield criminal justice student has impeded the Dallas County Community College District from cashing in on the $1.1 billion bond election it won by a 71 percent margin on May 4. Kirk Launius, the former Dallas County sheriff GOP candidate...
Read more → 12 Nov 2019
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For the first time in its history, The Et Cetera received a Pacemaker award for general excellence in online content at the National Media Convention in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2. This marks the fourth Pacemaker, given by the Associated Collegiate Press, The Et Cetera has won in the past eight years....
Read more → 12 Nov 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Employees of the Children’s Laboratory School at Eastfield have been guaranteed jobs with matching pay when an outside company takes over the child care program, according to President Eddie Tealer. Parents currently using the service, who would not qualify for federal...
Read more → 12 Nov 2019
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By HARRIET RAMOS and HUNTER GARZA @TheEtCetera The Hive reflected a rainbow of colors recently as Eastfield students of different sexual orientations, gender identities, religions and nationalities came together to express their identities through the art of tie-dye. The “Express Yourself”...
Read more → 12 Nov 2019
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By JORDAN LACKEY @TheEtCetera According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 1,479 vaping related cases of lung-injury and 33 deaths in the United States as of Oct. 15. According to the CDC, the symptoms for vaping related lung disease can most closely be associated...
Read more → 12 Nov 2019
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By ESON FELLERS @EsonFellersETC If global carbon emissions are not reduced by at least 40 percent by 2030, the effects will lead to global catastrophe, climate experts predict. At The Dallas County Community College District’s ninth annual sustainability summit, held at Eastfield Nov. 8, participants...
Read more → 24 Oct 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Victory Plaza and the surrounding streets turned into a red sea on Oct. 17 for President Donald Trump’s Keep America Great rally at the American Airlines Center. Supporters wearing Trump paraphernalia such as Keep America Great hats, which have replaced the popular Make...
Read more → 24 Oct 2019
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By ESON FELLERS @EsonFellersETC Ten tornados tore across North Texas after dark Sunday night, leaving severe damage in their wake but causing no deaths, according to the National Weather Service. An EF-3 tornado touched down near Love Field and streaked east on a path south of Interstate 635 before...
Read more → 24 Oct 2019
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By Harriet Ramos @TheEtCetera The mood was upbeat inside the Theatre at Grand Prairie on Oct. 17 where 5,500 supporters of presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke gathered to hear him talk about building bridges instead of walls. O’Rourke’s Rally Against Fear was a counter-event to Donald Trump’s...
Read more → 24 Oct 2019
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By ESON FELLERS @EsonFellersETC Whether it’s waxing appointments, eyelash extensions or hair and makeup products, women pay more annually for services in which men don’t often partake. However, necessary everyday products cost women more as well due to the pink tax. The pink tax refers to the price...
Read more → 23 Oct 2019
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By Harriet Ramos @TheEtCetera When Joanna Cattanach arrived at Love Field on the morning of Jan. 20, 2017, she didn’t know she was about to help make history. She only knew she was frustrated with the direction the country was taking. A staunch Democrat, she was opposed to newly elected...
Read more → 23 Oct 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Comments from faculty and staff members began pouring in after Dean of Student Success and Wellness Katy Launius proclaimed that LGBTQ members and other marginalized groups don’t feel safe on campus at the president’s forum on Oct. 11. Launius gave multiple...
Read more → 11 Oct 2019
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The president's forum on Oct. 11 in G-101 brought light to issues on campus regarding diversity and acceptance of marginalized groups after the dean of student success and wellness addressed President Eddie Tealer at the end of the forum. Originally, the forum was set to discuss single accreditation,...
Read more → 10 Oct 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc A failed intruder lockdown drill on Sept. 26 revealed problems with the alarm system in A, F, P, G, L and N buildings according to an email from police Commander Gabriel Galvez. The drill took place around 10 a.m. and lasted 11 minutes. There was supposed to be another drill...
Read more → 09 Oct 2019
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On Nov. 5, Texans will have their say on a list of proposed changes to the state constitution. Since the constitution took effect in 1876, voters have amended it a whopping 498 times out of 680 proposals. Here’s a brief summary of the proposed amendments. —Erik Krouskop Prop 1 (House Joint...
Read more → 09 Oct 2019
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More than half of millennial voters went to the polls during the 2016 election, and the number of college students voting in midterms doubled from 2014 to 2018. Move Texas, a nonprofit organization whose main goal is to register young voters, hopes to see those numbers climb even higher in the 2020 election....
Read more → 08 Oct 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Crystal Zamora, a sophomore at Colony High School got the call from her sister at around 10 a.m. on Sept. 28 telling her there was a college fair in Mesquite and she should try to go. Zamora, along with her mom and sisters, fought past traffic and made it with 30 minutes...
Read more → 08 Oct 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Tuition will increase in fall 2020 after the Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees approved an agreement with the Follett bookstore on Oct. 1 to include textbooks with the overall price of classes. The increase will be $20 per credit hour for Dallas County...
Read more → 08 Oct 2019
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By HARRIET RAMOS @TheEtCetera Sabrena Wynn didn’t feel safe with her boyfriend. When she wanted to go somewhere, he insisted on driving so he could control where they went. He hit her. He asked her for money, even when he knew she was struggling financially. Wynn finally ended the relationship. “I...
Read more → 01 Oct 2019
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Hundreds of protestors from students to adults marched on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Friday, Sept. 20 to demand action be taken by governments in regards to climate change. Climate Strike Dallas was a part the Global Climate Strike movement that mobilized 7.6 million people for the week...
Read more → 26 Sep 2019
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Ordering food to-go or shopping fast fashion may be more convenient, but it creates a huge amount of unnecessary waste. There’s so much more we can do to help the world feel some eco-friendly love! Here are some easy replacements for a waste-free lifestyle. —Eson Fellers Plastic Plastic...
Read more → 26 Sep 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc During the lunch rush on Sept. 9, a raccoon fell through the ceiling in the corner of the Mama DeLuca’s and Subway. A photo of the clumsy critter went viral on the Instagram page “TexasLatinoMedia-uncensored.” “We didn’t know anything about the raccoons” on campus,...
Read more → 25 Sep 2019
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HARRIET RAMOS @TheEtCetera Community college students can keep the majority of their credits when they transfer to four-year universities now, thanks to a new piece of legislation signed June 14 by Gov. Greg Abbott. Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), the author of Senate Bill 25, said in a telephone interview that...
Read more → 25 Sep 2019
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By SKYE SEIPP @seippetc Caffeine addicts of Eastfield should have the chance to get their fix on campus by spring 2020 following the completion of a coffee shop at the intersection of the Learning Commons, G Building and F Building. Administrators said last spring that the shop may be open by this...
Read more → 25 Sep 2019
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By ESON FELLERS @EsonFellersETC Lacking access to basic sanitation while menstruating is something 2.3 million women and girls must deal with daily worldwide, but Eastfield has been working with Days for Girls since 2015 to change that. As a nonprofit, Days for Girls gathers necessary supplies for women...
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