Academic senate votes to support smoke ban

Michael Nijmeh, Staff reporter

December 5, 2018

De Anza College’s academic senate approved a proposal to support a 100 percent smoke-free campus policy, voting 14-0 with two abstentions on Monday, Nov 26. Currently De Anza College’s smoking policy allows for smoking in a few designated areas, but completely prohibits it elsewhere. Smoke, whether it comes out of a vape or a lit cigarette is a Class A carcinogen...

Students engage in outreach campaign for midterm elections

Damon Ong, Staff reporter

December 5, 2018

To increase political involvement in school for the recent midterm elections, outreach campaigns by the political science department and the VIDA office engaged students’ involvement to spread voter awareness. Ultimately, they were a success, with over 800 new registrations based off of a single “voter registration” campaign done by political science students. “While...