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De Anza College student Natasha Sahu maintains a busy lifestyle juggling full-time school and being an active member of the track team. Sahu joined the De Anza track team during the fall quarter of 2007, aiming to keep in shape and participate in college level competition.… Post the First Comment

In an early celebration of May Day, campus activist club Students for Justice held a rally on De Anza College's main quad on April 29. The rally consisted of a number of speakers presenting their perspectives on issues ranging from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender discrimination to the Middle Eastern conflict.… Post the First Comment

Earth Week kicked off with a bang at the Kirsch Center, where California Congress representatives stopped by to talk about environmental sustainability. Their visit marked the beginning of a week-long green festival. On recess from Washington, D.C., California representatives Mike Honda and Zoe Lofgren spoke and answered questions from the audience.… Post the First Comment

De Anza College formally introduced its new Sustainability Management Plan on April 21. The implementation of the plan initiates a formal green process for De Anza. The plan is currently being examined as a sample model for the city of Cupertino. "This is a fundamental commitment to the environment on the part of faculty, students, administrators, the whole community," said De Anza president Brian Murphy.… Post the First Comment

Pass by S-11 on a Friday afternoon and you'll hear a steady stream of laughter. At around 2:30 p.m., a group of students appear at physics instructor David Newton's office, signaling the beginning of the weekly Chess & Go Club meeting. "[It's] learning how to play strategic games that are old like me," said Newton, club adviser.… Post the First Comment

I phoned my mom in Sweden. She was at a family party. Everyone was there - everyone except for me of course. Before I knew it my mom passed around the phone and I got to talk to about eight people (I lost track of exactly how many). My grandma said she missed me and grandpa thought it was time for me to come home.… Post the First Comment

Since I had no concert to go to last week, I would like to talk about one of my favorite indie bands. The Virgins is an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2005. The members are Donald Cumming, Wade Oates and Nick Ackerman, and I love these three New Yorkers (they were formerly a four-piece band, but the drummer ran away).… Post the First Comment

Hollywood writer/producer Tim Albaugh flew straight from Laguna Beach to De Anza College to explain the qualities of a good script to 80 film students. Albaugh wrote the 1988 hit "Trading Favors," and now teaches screenwriting at UCLA. He also is the co-owner of the film production company Popular Films.… Post the First Comment

When a movie is released with an established movie star (Terrence Howard) and a rising actor (Channing Tatum), moviegoers like to believe that the experience is worth their time and money. But for this film, the only real "fighting" will be for a refund. In the action-drama "Fighting," Tatum plays Shawn MacArthur, a young, small-town hustler new to the streets of New York City.… Post the First Comment

De Anza College is full of the tech-savvy. Individuals on campus keep up with the latest and greatest means of communication - namely, blogging. Lately everyone's been talking about Twitter, blogging in micro form. Before that, however, there was Livejournal, Blogger and Wordpress, amongst a vast amount of other sites designed to allow users to post their daily rantings and ravings.… Post the First Comment

Comiket, quite possibly the world's largest comics convention, has hit Japan again. Describing it as "crowded" doesn't begin to cover it - tacking on adjectives like "stifling hot," "overwhelming" and so on merely scratches at the surface. It is often considered the Geek's Mecca, and not just half-seriously at that.… 1 Comment

In the struggle for equality, California has been embarrassed twice now when it comes to its contribution in supporting civil rights. First, 7,001,084 morons voted yes on Proposition 8. Next, Miss California Carrie Prejean regales us with her sadly ill-informed opinion on same-sex marriage, based entirely on what her mommy and daddy told her.… 30 Comments

In these pages and in the classroom, I have taken the media to task for their insistence of focusing on all that is negative about the economy to the point of irresponsibility. Granted, I understand that part of the job is to sell the publication, and everybody knows that bad news sells.… 1 Comment