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Dylan Kim and Kalani Hettige win the DASB Senate election

Trisha Reyes, Staff Reporter | March 23, 2017

After an overly extended and controversial election process, Dylan Kim stands as De Anza College’s newly elected DASB president, with vice president Kalani Hettige. Kim won 290 votes, with a margin...

Bag of urine shows need for plumbers

Nick Girard, Staff Reporter | March 21, 2017

On March 8, 2017 De Anza students who walked into the A quad men’s bathroom saw a plastic bag filled with pee affixed around a urinal. The bag was dubbed the “De Anza Piss Bag” on social media. De...

San Jose flood destroys professor’s house

Karan Abrol, Staff Reporter | March 21, 2017

Severe flooding in Coyote Creek three weeks ago displaced 14,000 San Jose residents within hours, devastating and dismantling the life of De Anza nursing professor, Peter Miskin. De Anza students and...

Despite rumors, De Anza Foundation divestment from fossil fuels confirmed

Yane An and Shaun Chatrath | March 21, 2017

The issue of whether or not the De Anza Foundation has followed through with its 2013 commitment has been in question since the March 8 DASB Senate meeting, where Student Trustee Elias Kamal said there...

DASB Senate passes resolution to divest from Israeli occupations

Kunal Mehta, Staff Reporter | March 21, 2017

The DASB Senate passed a resolution advocating the Foothill-De Anza Foundation’s divestment from companies profiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Wednesday, March 15. The proposal,...

Students protest CSU tuition increases with ‘Walking Debt’ zombie lie-in

Emily Lew, Staff Reporter | March 16, 2017

Students lay down in the main quad as part of the “Walking Debt” lie-in protesting the 5 percent CSU tuition increase on Thursday, March 16. Around fifteen students participated in the flashmob,...

After election fiasco, new DASB presidential election to be held

Kunal Mehta, Staff Reporter | March 8, 2017

The original election will be scrapped and a new DASB presidential election will be held from March 13 to 17, after unanimous approval from the DASB Election Committee and the full DASB Senate. Students...

DASB Senate takes final vote on budget and endorses .edu emails

Kunal Mehta, Staff Reporter | March 6, 2017

The DASB Senate took a final vote on its 2017-2018 budget and endorsed a proposal to give students universal access to .edu email addresses March 1. There was one dissenter in the final budget vote: vice...

DASB Senate votes to cover deficit with reserve fund

Kunal Mehta, Staff Reporter | March 6, 2017

The DASB Senate voted Feb. 22 to use $55,000 from its reserve fund to cover the the 2017-18 budget deficit. The reserve fund has $400,000 left. The budget allocates nearly $1.3 million for DASB programs...