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LA VOZ WEEKLY JANUARY 7, 2013
Vol. 46
No. 11
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Bird’s eye view - Southbound Highway 85 near De Anza is closed following a shooting incident Dec. 19, 2012. The MLC building and Flint Center are pictured in the top right corner.
Highway 85 shooter yet to be identified
Eyewitnesses nowhere to be found Lydia Tuan STAFF WRITER
On Dec. 19, 2012, De Anza child development center and a district Cupertino preschool went into lock down in reaction to a shooting at Highway 85 of a Marine Corp officer’s vehicle, according to an e-mail from Marisa Spatafore, De Anza marketing and communication director, on approximately 12:25 p.m. The victim exited Highway 85 at De Anza Boulevard and pulled into the parking lot of a nearby nursery. It is unlikely that the shooter or shooters were aware that their target was with the Marines, said Santa Clara County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Jose Cardoza. “Three bullet holes in the left rear passenger side of the government issued Pontiac, along with two shattered windows,” reported to ABC TV. “The recruiter was driving an unmarked car and was wearing a jacket over his uniform,” reported CBS San Francisco. No one was injured, said California Highway Patrol Officer D.J. Sarabia reported by NBC Bay Area. The southbound lanes of Highway 85 were temporarily shut down from 2:15 to 2:57 p.m. according to news reports.
Nearby Cupertino schools Lincoln Elementary School and Kennedy Middle School enforced a controlled release when school ended. Parents were called to pick up their children and no students were allowed to walk home said Cupertino Union School District Spokesman Jeremy Nishihara. But, no other schools around the area enforced a controlled release. Many parents expressed their concern for the safety of Cupertino because a 16-year-old Monta Vista High School student was recently arrested for a bomb threat against a teacher. Some workers and customers of The Oaks Shopping center near Highway 85 also raised concern for safety. Store workers stated they did not go into lockdown. While some customers and workers were not even aware that a shooting had taken place. Investigators face the challenges of finding eyewitnesses who were driving along Highway 85 during the time of the shooting, as police still do not have a description of the suspect or the suspect’s vehicle. Officials reported that driving along Highway 85 is safe, though the shooter of the incident is still at large, according to several news reports.
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Commemoration - Jason Damjanovic, right, and the men’s basketball team present Tom Giebler, left, with a framed jersey to honor his 34 years of service.
Longtime De Anza equipment manager says farewell to college
Tom Giebler concludes 34 years of service in Athletics Rajvir Kaur
SPORTS CO-EDITOR
After serving as Athletics Department equipment manager for 34 years, Tom Giebler retired from De Anza College on Dec. 28, 2012. Giebler, 58, first came to De Anza as a student and went on to obtain a degree in Physical Education from CSU Bakersfield. He returned to De Anza when the job opportunity for equipment manager presented itself and became a permanent “fixture of this institution,” as men’s basketball head coach Jason Damjanovic described.
Debi Schafer-Braun, a full time physical education instructor who has been at De Anza for 39 years, has known Giebler since he started in 1979. She described him as the “backbone” of the Athletics Department. “[Tom] lives and breathes De Anza,” said Schafer-Braun. Giebler did everything from pulling out and putting in the bleachers before and after games in the gym to washing players’ uniforms and just “fixing whatever needed to be fixed,” said Jeff Forman, P.E. instructor and coordinator of the Massage Therapy Program.
“He did a bit of everything,” he said. From championships to budget cuts, to whatever else that has transpired at De Anza over the past 34 years, Giebler has, as Damjanovic said, “done it all and seen it all,” both the good and the bad. Giebler said the high points during his tenure at De Anza included championships, watching people fill the bleachers for a game and just the overall energy and vibe that came from the crowd. One of the lowest points, he said, was the budget cuts that De
see GIEBLER p. 6
Report of gunman leads to SJCC lockdown Nathan Mitchell STAFF WRITER
San Jose City College was on lockdown Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, due to an armed man on campus. But, the police did not find the gunman after searching the campus, said Sgt. Jason Dwyer of the San Jose Police Department, and no one was hurt during the incident. The campus police department received a report at
about 4 p.m. A man had a gun at the college’s Technology Center, said Chief Ray Aguirre of the San Jose Evergreen District Police Department. The campus police immediately called in SJPD without delay, who responded with about 40 personnel, Dwyer said. The college initiated a lockdown at around 4:15 p.m. and notified the students of the lockdown at 5:04 p.m., according to emails sent by the San Jose Evergreen Community College
District and its emergency alert system. Minutes before SJCC student, Jessica Gaudé’s cosmetology class ended someone rushed into the room to tell the teacher “something bad was happening,” Gaudé said. Her teacher ordered the class to hide, locked the door and turned off the lights. An administration official later led an evacuation, Gaudé said. “They didn’t give us much
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see LOCKDOWN p. 3