The Associated Students (AS) logo is everywhere, and AS hosts plenty of events each year for our students, but who are they really, and what do they do for our campus?
Today, San Diego Mesa College announced the renaming of their Humanities Institute to the Dr. Constance M. Carroll Humanities Institute. The Institute, which was originally established in 1990, was generously supported by Dr. Carroll upon her appointment as President of Mesa College in 1993, and has continued to be in the forefront of her work during her tenure with the San Diego Community College District.
Troy Cristobal is the winner of this year’s 2020 Mesa Scholarship President’s Award, given annually to a deserving Mesa College student who demonstrates leadership and academic excellence in their undergraduate career. Troy is a worthy recipient on both counts, having served as team captain for Mesa’s track and field team since the spring of 2019, and set to graduate this May as an Engineering major with a cumulative 4.0 GPA.
The Olympian Speech and Debate team is living up to its reputation as a competitive, award-winning force. After competing in four tournaments during the fall, and a fifth this semester, the Mesa Speech and Debate Team has racked up numerous titles and awards. They have been working hard and achieving success at competitions across the nation, including in New York, where Mesa students Franklin McKenzie and Katya Azzam garnered a well-earned parliamentary debate win against Ivy League Cornell University’s team (see below for a full list of achievements).
November 23, 2016
San Diego Mesa College’s Associated Students held a Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 22 as a way to provide a festive meal to 85 students on campus who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday.
Students enjoyed a variety of traditional Thanksgiving foods, had chances to win opportunity drawings for gift cards and bonded as a campus community at the feast.
Performances by local bands Three Chamber Heart and Allen Vega Acoustic, as well as musician Scott Merciere, provided musical entertainment during the event, and attendees were able to play board games with one another.
One of the event’s organizers was Angela Arreaga, a Mesa student majoring in American Sign Language Interpretation and is the current Mesa College Inter-Club Council President. She said that in the few years that she has attended or helped to organize the event, she has seen it grow and she hopes that each year “it brings the students closer together with their peers and the faculty.”
“I hope that it reaches the students that’ll be most impacted by it, that it gives people a memory of Mesa that they can remember well after they leave our school,” Arreaga said. “I just want people to know that this is home when they need it.”
Connal McLean, a psychology major who is in both the ICC and Psi Beta National Honor Society in Psychology, was one of the many volunteers who helped to serve food to attendees. He said that he hopes that students get to feel a “sense of community and love” through the event.
“It really shows that we have a diverse and loving community, especially during the holiday times when it can get very stressful, but I think it’s good to show how much of a family we really are,” McLean said.
Tags: ASG, ASG Thanksgiving, Hunger
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
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Victoria Miller
Dean of Student Affairs
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The Associated Students (AS) logo is everywhere, and AS hosts plenty of events each year for our students, but who are they really, and what do they do for our campus?
Associated Students at San Diego Mesa College held their AS Carnival on Thursday, April 20 between the Mesa Commons and Exercise Science buildings.
San Diego Mesa College’s Associated Students held a Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 22 as a way to provide a festive meal to 85 students on campus who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday.
Students enjoyed a variety of traditional Thanksgiving foods, had chances to win opportunity drawings for gift cards and bonded as a campus community at the feast.
