How can people of De Anza — students, faculty and staff — use La Voz? Let us count the ways:

Our newspaper is very practical in home economics. A physics instructor at De Anza pointed out one of the manifold uses of La Voz.

He said he used it regularly to cover his parakeet’s cage and to absorb the results of the bird’s healthy digestion procedure.

This use is not limited to birds alone. Guinea pigs, rabbits, cats and house mice may have similar cages or litter boxes that require quality maintenance.

For student parents, La Voz is the ultimate babysitting accessory. Since it’s easily folded into paper hats or ships, our newspaper double-functions as a cheap toy.

In addition, it’s the perfect item to cover any playground areas in the house where kids eat, play or paint, although this feature is not much different from the one mentioned previously.

La Voz also comes in handy in challenging weather situations. The innovative user folds the newspaper out and holds it over one’s head at the right angle.

If done correctly, our newspaper provides a cool shade on hot summer days and serves as an impromptu umbrella on rainy days.

Aside from the less conventional and admittedly silly reasons given above, La Voz is also a great source of information.

If people read more than just the front page, it’s a great tool for education and entertainment. And we do hope that people read more than just the front or back page.

La Voz is a source for campus issues that — in almost all cases — won’t appear in local newspapers.

It is our goal to provide our readership with relevant information.

We believe only an informed mind is a truly educated mind.

For example, the faculty decision to initiate a work-to-contract policy and the postponed but imminent vote on the general education realignment proposal might affect the De Anza student body and campus drastically.

How these changes will affect us, we cannot say. But we can inform our readership and clarify issues that otherwise may go unspoken or only be marginally discussed.

That’s why we, although not opposed to innovative utilization of our newspaper, advocate the traditional usage of La Voz as a provider of information.

It is our hope that those who already read this newspaper will point out our prime purpose to those who use La Voz as a cage liner, children’s toy or umbrella, and encourage them to give us a try the way we intend.