La Voz

Over 15,000 De Anza College students may never see this editorial.

They will never see their First Amendment student newspaper tackle issues such as the United States' multibillion dollar budget cut to student loans, free legal aid on campus and the paper's own freedom to publish the controversial cartoons depicting Muhammad. And yet thousands of students on campus do read the paper. You see them reading it in the Campus Center, you see them pick up issues from the racks outside their classrooms.

However, La Voz receives few online comments and even fewer letters to the editor from De Anza students. We know that, while we may never reach many of those thousands of students who come on campus solely to earn their credits to transfer, we do reach students who read us weekly to know the fate of the Campus Center, plus/minus grading and the DASB budget.

Every week that goes by without a written response from the student body signals another week that not a single person who may have read and been moved by our paper was so moved as to write a letter.

These letters don't need to be groundbreaking dissertations; more often than not, a letter to the editor is an impassioned rant or brief congratulations.

When you read the contents of La Voz, whether you are satisfied, dissatisfied or aren't moved at all, take the time to let us know what we can do to better serve as the voice of this campus.

The DASB approved a 2006-2007 budget of $20,000 dollars for La Voz. Part of that money is yours. Help us to ensure that it is money well-spent. Write a letter on a piece of scratch paper and drop it in our mailbox on the door of room L-41. Or e-mail it to lavoz@fhda.edu. Or leave a comment on www.lavozdeanza.com. Or call us at 408-864-5626.

All that we need is a way of contacting you to verify your identity before we publish.

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