NEW BOND OFFERING ‘QUANTUM’ DAZZLES
SPORTS
TRIUMPHANT! DONS TAKE VIKINGS TO TASK ON MUD-DRENCHED GROUND
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La Voz Weekly
Sex VOLUME 42, ISSUE 8
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
The Voice of De Anza College Students Since 1967
OFFENDERS
Maryann Sparelic LA VOZ NEWS
Seven registered sex offenders are enrolled in classes this quarter in the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and three are in attendance at De Anza College. “There are no restrictions placed on these individuals by the district or the police department,” said District Chief of Police Ron Levine. According to Levine, unless an offender has
at De Anza College
See CRIMES, Page 3
Obama-cadabra! Time for a lil’ of that Obama magic Editor’s note: the ending to last week’s Economics for Everyone was accidentally omitted from that issue of La Voz Weekly. What follows is the ending to that column, followed by this week’s installment. Ending to last week’s Economics for Everyone: Allow me to end this week’s column with a comment that is a bit (but not entirely) off topic. Compared to the magnitude of what occurred on Nov. 4, all of the above seems a bit trite. And as I and many others have said before, presidents are given too much credit in good times and too much blame in bad. Nevertheless, the president-elect
my vehicle without is sure to have his running into one of plate full when he hits my neighbors. Washington D.C. in Alas, I was not January – so you can sneaky enough, and be sure a column in of course right away the very near future I was trapped in a will concern the new discussion about the president, his ecoelection results, the nomic policies and the economy, the new economy. president-elect and his This week’s installplan for the economy. ment: After addressing A couple of days the issue of what I after the conclusion Stephen Zill of our historic presi- Economics for Everyone thought about the election of Barack dential election, I was sneaking out of my apartment in an Obama, then came the “have we seen attempt to get to the carport and into the worst and when will things start
NEWS
SPORTS
JIF club hosts party to honor past leaders
Women’s soccer score at home
Assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and others were remembered as students gathered at De Anza’s Sunken Garden on Nov. 11.
The Lady Dons ended a long tour on the road and came home to their own turf Nov. 7, where they defeated rival Skyline College.
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to improve?” and “how long will it take for Obama’s policies to fix the economy?” typical queries. To the former of these two, I responded that no, the worst is still to come. According to the most recent report, the economy shrunk a bit in the third quarter of this year, but since then, things have gotten generally worse. The stock market has continued its mostly downward wild ride, unemployment has risen, home prices keep falling, the support from exports will be dampened by the rising dollar, and so on. As for how long and how bad, basically I gave her my most optimistic outlook – with many qualifiers – and
suggested that, at this point, anyone making those types of predictions is simply guessing (is there really a difference?). And as for the latter – in my mind, anyway – my response was, “Uh-oh.” Several years ago (it seems like it, anyway), when the campaign for the 2008 Presidential election began, the next President was thought to have a relatively simple task at his/her hands concerning the economy. Given that the business cycle had once again been defeated (hmm, where and when have I heard that before), that main task was to develop
INDEX
CORRECTIONS
Campus Events...................................2 Alert Log...........................................3 Campus Snapshot...............................4 Sports...............................................5 Student Athlete of the Week................5 Opinion.............................................6
Nov. 11, Issue 7
See ZILL, Page 4
In the article “Beloved English professor ... ” (p. 3), Christina Espinosa-Pieb, interim vice-president of instruction at De Anza College, is misidentified and her name is misspelled. Lina Kwon’s opinion “Some thrifty ideas ... ” (p. 7) incorrectly states that a person who spends on average four dollars per day on coffee spends $15,000 per year. It should have read $1,500.