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Equal pay, fair opportunities for women in Silicon Valley

Yane An, Staff Reporter | June 9, 2016

Collaboration of all women, regardless of social status, will help defeat gender inequality and build a better future for women, said an activist of women’s rights. Advocates for women’s...

Students call for environmental justice

Elias Kamal, Staff Reporter | June 9, 2016

More than a hundred student leaders from across California gathered Friday, May 20t at De Anza College, the host site of a two-day Convergence with the California Student Sustainability Coalition. “Because...

A call for open source textbooks

Benedict Chua, Staff Reporter | May 17, 2016

Ninety dollars, sometimes over a hundred, even. Walking away from the bookstore with a full set of math textbooks for a calculus course can easily set a student back by over two hundred. Add...

Slactivism: Not just lazy activism

Slactivism: Not just lazy activism

Laura Shkouratoff, Staff Reporter | May 17, 2016

We’ve all seen it online – the purple-tinted profile pictures aimed at promoting cancer awareness, the graphic YouTube videos that document extreme poverty in developing nations before asking...

In the driver’s seat with Uber

Harold Banks, Staff Reporter | May 17, 2016

The rise of ridesharing companies, such as Uber and Lyft, represents an opportunity for students to balance school and work in ways never before possible. Whether you’ve procrastinated signing...

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Beware the Cult of the Vegan

Taylor Bicht, Co-Sports Editor | May 17, 2016

The world of food and dieting is a confusing place filled with gobs of options waiting for you to make the wrong decision. To limit confusion and avoid sharing the eating habits of a rabbit, refrain...

Food justice: De Anza needs accessible food services

Food justice: De Anza needs accessible food services

Elias Kamal, Staff Reporter | May 3, 2016

Students sit in the back of their classroom munching on apples and granola bars. A young girl’s hand is red from snacking on hot cheetos on the way to class. Some friends furtively attempt to hide their...

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UC Davis: The need for institutional transparancy

Laura Shkouratoff, Staff Reporter | May 3, 2016

In 2011, students assembled at UC Davis for a peaceful protest. Frustrated with the demonstration, the school’s administration brought police officers clad in riot gear, who used pepper spray to disperse...

Legal rape and the lack of action: A call for basic reason in Oklahoma courts

Gregory Nicholas Schrader, Opinions Editor | May 3, 2016

An Oklahoma court recently ruled that oral sexual assault of an unconscious victim is not rape. As advocates of victims go up in arms over the ruling, a potentially greater issue becomes apparent: How...

Defying the stigma of community college

Defying the stigma of community college

Elias Kamal, Staff Reporter | May 3, 2016

  When 18-year-old political science major Dara Streit first told her high school classmates that she would be attending a community college, she was met with looks of pity. “Most of my...

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