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Transgender student finding coping skills

Anthony Montes, Editor-in-Chief | February 28, 2016

It was like any other night out for Ruby: Drinks with friends, a little blow and a cute boy who said, “Let’s go,” so she did. But as she turned onto a side street in downtown Santa Cruz, a siren’s...

More international students from China at De Anza

More international students from China at De Anza

Evan Garcia, La Voz Staff | February 28, 2016

Like many U.S. colleges and universities, De Anza College has seen a sharp increase in the number of international students from China in the past 10 years. From 2005 to 2015, the number of students from...

Is California’s drought over?

Is California’s drought over?

Paul Ledesma, Staff Writer | February 28, 2016

From farmers trying to stay afloat in the Central Valley to your neighbor trying to keep his lawn green, people all over the state are asking themselves, is the drought over? After an unusually rainy...

Leap year: Hard to calculate, easy to marry

Leap year: Hard to calculate, easy to marry

Kassie Amper, Staff Writer | February 28, 2016

The solar year is longer than the calendar year by about six hours. The extra quarter of a day is accounted for by adding leap day to the calendar once every four years. Our calendar, however, is still...

Missing class doesn’t always mean missing out

Missing class doesn’t always mean missing out

Kassie Amper, Staff Writer | February 16, 2016

“Students’ success is directly linked to attendance." Please, spare me the lecture.   A few years ago, one of my math professors pulled me aside to discuss the exam I just aced. To my surprise,...

Second baseman values family, culture, grades

Second baseman values family, culture, grades

Ruben Mendoza, Staff Writer | February 16, 2016

Bang! That’s the sound of a bat hitting a baseball over the heads of the helpless outfielders. To De Anza College student Joey Shimono, 20, psychology major, baseball is his life. “I have played...

Mental Health Care: De Anza listens to your problems

Mental Health Care: De Anza listens to your problems

Isabel Malcolmson | February 16, 2016

A social stigma surrounds the idea of mental health care. Outdated Freudian images of laying down and talking about an Oedipus complex in horrific detail frequently come to mind.  Students fear the label...

A visitor watches images of birds represented by LEDs suspended from the ceiling.

Poetry in light: The art of Jim Campbell

Paul Ledesma, Staff Writer | February 16, 2016

  The images captured inside Plexiglas were projected on walls and suspended from the ceiling. Made up of hundreds of individual LEDs, each image had an ethereal quality that was familiar and otherworldly...

Valentines Day in numbers

Valentine’s Day in numbers

Laura Shkouratoff, Staff Writer | February 1, 2016

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De Anza College leads green trend: Solar panels, computerized weather station make education life based, inspirational

Paul Ledesma, Staff Writer | February 1, 2016

De Anza's "green" buildings:     Shaylynn Graydon stands in the lobby in front of a flat panel screen. She’s looking at real-time data, charted like someone’s heartbeat....

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