Letters to the Editor Archives

Letter to the editor: Abortion bans violate human rights

Priscilla Yee, Guest Contributor | November 24, 2024

People are violating the UN Declaration of Human Rights as a result of the overturn of Roe v. Wade; many women have suffered and lost their rights due to this disaster two years ago, questioning why the...

We will not wait for the next school shooting

Andrew Sun and Alexander Denza | January 24, 2024

Editor’s Note: The following is a student-written op-ed, signed by over 110 student leaders and meant to be published simultaneously across over 50 student newspapers. The breadth of this op-ed is national...

Letter to the editor: ‘Work to contract’ issue, De Anza needs stronger leadership

Meredith Heiser-Duron, Guest Contributor | June 4, 2018

Dear Board, Chancellor, and College Presidents, I am here in my office on Tuesday grading the last 20 papers in Poli 1, which I could not finish over the holiday weekend. However, I find my...

Letter to the editor: Vote no on Measure A

Lawrence Su and Alexander Mabanta, Guest Contributors | May 21, 2018

Editor: Measure A is a proposal to amend the Santa Clara City charter to allow a two multi-member district election system with rank-choice voting by single-transferable vote. The plan is to split the...

Letters to the Editor, Feb. 5

February 9, 2018

Need for parking lot safety persists Editor: Hi! I just read your article about installing video cameras in the parking lots, and I thought why hasn’t it been done yet. I just got into a major accident...

Letter to the Editor: Response to anti-camera surveillance opinion

Chief of Police Ronald Levine | June 25, 2017

The editorial opinion article posted on-line on June 22, 2017, written by News Editor, Kunal Mehta, again contains a number inaccuracies and misconceptions. On the same day the opinion piece was posted,...

June letters to the editor

June 22, 2017

De Anza's poor quality of food Umer Sheikh, [email protected] Dear La Voz, I am writing to inform you about the bad quality of food in De Anza College. Many students spend most of their...

Letter to Editor: FHDA Chief of Police responds to editorial opinion

Ronald Levine, Chief of Police | June 19, 2017

This letter is a response to the following: http://wp.me/p4eLNV-4gwx The editorial opinion article in the June 19, 2017 edition of La Voz, contains a number inaccuracies and misconceptions. I will address...

Letter to the editor: Proud of De Anza’s divestment

Rich Wood | April 9, 2017

La Voz, I am writing as a former Instructor of Sociology at De Anza from 1993 through 2009 and a faculty adviser to Students for Justice and the Muslim Students Association. I have just learned of...

Letter to Editor: Apalled at DASB Senate

Lida Kurth, English Professor | March 20, 2017

Editor’s note: The DASB senate later renewed the $180,000 portion of the budget for classified staff after learning that the administration would not pick up the funds. Dear Editor: I was disheartened...