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Second Lady arrives: Jill Biden visits De Anza

April 21, 2015

Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a community college professor, discusses leadership and community engagement with De Anza College students April 9. Community college students are...

Baylands festival halted

Fernanda Pineda, Staff Writer | April 21, 2015

The DASB Senate voted April 15 to freeze all Baylands Festival account and funds to define details regarding a proposed alternative plan. The controversial funding of the Baylands Festival, approved...

Banning books threatens First Amendment rights

Steven Hall, Staff Writer | April 21, 2015

“To Kill a Mocking Bird,” “The Call of the Wild” and “The Lord of the Rings” may seem like very different books, but all three have something in common. They have been banned at one point or...

Cop killer, retired De Anza groundskeeper: violent past

Naomi Fuhrmann, Staff Writer | April 21, 2015

A retired Foothill-De Anza district groundskeeper who shot and killed a San Jose police officer March 24 had a violent past before he was hired by the district in 1998. The shooter, Scott Dunham,...

Sex assault suspect surrenders

Neda Sarrami, Staff Writer | April 14, 2015

After a three week long search by the FHDA police department, former De Anza student Alexander Sargsyan, who allegedly sexually assaulted a De Anza College student in late January, turned himself in to...

Arrest made in sexual battery case

Jacob Sisneros, Editor in chief | March 19, 2015

A former De Anza College student was arrested Tuesday March 17 and charged with one count of battery and one count of sexual battery in connection with a sexual assault at De Anza Jan. 28, according to...

FHDA District considers on-campus housing

Lan Nguyen, Staff Writer | March 17, 2015

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District is in the early stages of considering building a housing development structure in place of the Flint Center and Flint garage at De Anza College. A poll...

Emergency phones down

Steven Hall, Staff Writer | March 17, 2015

Only nine of the 20 blue emergency phones on the De Anza College campus are working and fewer than half are displayed in their proper locations on the De Anza map. “A lot of students don’t know that...

De Anza students lead workshops to raise awareness of racial profiling

Alejandra Cabrera, Staff Writer | March 17, 2015

De Anza College students lead a series of workshops, a project of Civil Liberties Education Initiative by the California History Center at De Anza on March 5. Nine workshops discussing racial profiling,...

Approved $25,500 budget for LEAD mentor program less than needed

Naomi Fuhrmann, Staff Writer | March 10, 2015

The LEAD mentor program at De Anza College requires long hours from mentors, students, and faculty members to be successful, but mentors in the program do not get course credits and don’t get paid for...