Vol. 49 No. 12
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Campus center for LGBT, women resources relocates
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April 18, 2016
A dancers From Tehran to De Anza:
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odyssey Photos and story by
Paul Ledesma
Ruben Mendoza
STAFF WRITER
STAFF WRITER
The audience fell silent as the dancer stepped into the light. Dressed in a traditional Persian costume, she stood tall and graceful in a frozen tableau, extending her arms out from her sides, tilting her palms and long fingers upwards. She waited for the music to begin. For Mansoureh Sabetzadeh, music major, dancing in front of an audience is an opportunity that isn’t taken for granted. The Islamic law in Iran, her home country, has forbidden it. But on this evening, of the Winter Dance concert at De Anza, she will perform a dance from Azerbaijan, a province in northern Iran.
Hate crimes and sexual harassment have affected students on campus. The Jean Miller Resource Room for Women, Gender, and Sexuality provides a safe place for students. The resource room, which has been on campus for two years, challenges social norms of sexuality and gender. It has found a new home in the Office of Equity, located in room 254 at the MLC building The resource room is dedicated to LGBT rights and intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class and disability at De Anza College. “The resource center will allow faculty and students [to receive] gender training and education,” said Director of the Jean Miller Resource Room Apryl Berney.
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Above: Mansoureh Sabetzadeh, music major, preforms a classical Persian dance from Iran at the De Anza Dancers Winter Concert on March 12.
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DA Voices: Which is your favorite 420 experience?
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Joseph Prendergast,
DANCE CULTURE AT DE ANZA CLUBS, CLASSES FOR PRACTICE AND PLAY
OPINION: SHOULD VAPING BE BANNED ON CAMPUS?
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Dereke Holden,
19, business major
We were playing a slap game, and I had whipped cream hidden in my hand. My friend loos at me, and I smacked him. His whole face turned sideways and he started tearing up. Everyone started laughing, but I felt bad in the end, so I smoked him out.”
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25, audio-engineer major
Went up to Hippie Hill to smoke some weed, and a girl passed me a blunt that was laced, then she started dancing on me. [She] asked me if ‘I’m feeling it yet.’ I didn’t know what I was supposed to be feeling.”
Faleu Fatu,
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22, kinesiology major
We were all having a camping thing and it was my first time smoking. I was tripping, man. The freaking firelog looked like a beating heart, man. Then my dad came outside and I had to sober up hella fast and play it off. So I lay down on the grass and pretended to fall asleep.”
PLAYOFF HOPES SLIPPING AWAY?
Chasity Lulio,
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22, liberal arts major
...watching my sister get hella high off of one hit of a bong, and she was out of it.”
DASB FALLOUT:
DONS’ BASEBALL IN FUNK AS POSTSEASON NEARS
ADMINISTRATION ORDERS REINSTATEMENT OF DISQUALIFIED SENATORS
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