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A night at the circus

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Hemorrhoids: a common irritation HOW YOU GET THEM, HOW TO AVOID THEM, HOW TO TREAT THEM

COLLEGE PROPOSAL: GOOGLE E-MAIL FOR ALL STUDENTS Robert Balicki LA VOZ

A proposal to automatically create Google Gmail electronic mail accounts for all students sparked heated debate that led to postponement in the De Anza Associated Student Body Senate Wednesday.

The proposal would route all De Anza College e-mail communication, including “Pay to Stay” reminders, enrollment confirmations and important dates, to a new set of accounts provided by Google after a one-year transitional period, according to Bradley Creamer, De Anza’s webmaster.

Some senators were concerned that students who do not use the Internet would be forced to use the system.

“Maybe they just don’t want one,” said senator Zahra Noor. “I don’t see how Google will help them.”

Executive Vice President Bernardo de Seabra said he shared Noor’s concerns. De Anza will be able to say it’s the student’s fault if the student does not use the assigned e-mail account, said de Seabra. “With the school mandating, this brings a serious problem.”

Creamer said students could use the accounts to forward emails to another account to consolidate e-mails, and that it could

see GMAIL, page 2

Your chance to study abroad in Europe, China Sarah Bogen LA VOZ

Opportunities to study in Europe or China are available to De Anza and Foothill College students through the Campus Abroad Program. This spring quarter, students will study in Florence.

During the summer, students can travel to Beijing and Shanghai, or to Prague. In the fall, students will visit London.

De Anza and Foothill faculty will teach in the programs, which last nine weeks during the fall winter and spring quarters, and five weeks in the summer. Students enroll in 12 units, except in the summer when they take six units. All courses are transferable to UC and CSU.

see STUDY ABROAD, page 2

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I know, I know. Nobody wants to read about hemorrhoids. But considering how common they are. Nearly 90 percent of people develop them at some time in their lives. I am figuring that somebody wants to know about this very irritating problem.

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Chris Marks / LA VOZ An angel in Cirque du Soleil’s “Corteo” spins in exaltation as a clown uses his imagination to see his funeral procession and death. Cirque du Soleil is performing in downtown San Jose. SEE SPECIAL SECTION, PAGES 6-7.

More students using math and science center Robert Balicki LA VOZ

Math and science tutoring has moved to a new, quieter location: S-43.

The new center, which opened on Jan. 20, offers help in all math and science classes — anything from Elementary Statistics to Advanced Physics.

The old location was “crowded and dense” and “right next to a bathroom with a freon machine,” which would randomly go off, said Evan Sarina, a math tutor.

The program is currently serving 450 students, up 40 percent from last quarter, he said.

“We don’t have enough tutors, so we can’t meet demand,” said Sarina.

The challenge is attracting tutors, he said. Many well-qualified students are taking internships or working elsewhere.

The center offers individual, group, and online tutoring.

Drop-in tutors are usually also available.

Tutors volunteer for one quarter, then get paid. Individual tutors are paid $8 per hour, and group tutors are paid $10.

Tutoring program coordina-

What are they?

The hemorrhoidal veins are a cluster of blood vessels located just inside the opening of the anus. A hemorrhoid occurs when one or more of these veins gets swollen and pops out of place and can hurt, itch or bleed.

Who can get them?

Anyone can get hemorrhoids, but some people are more likely to get them than others are. Anything that puts excessive pressure on the anal muscles will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids.

Chronic constipation, straining during a bowel movement, and sitting on the toilet for a long period of time all can lead to hemorrhoids. Pregnant women often get hemorrhoids during the last 3 or 4 months of pregnancy because the fetus places great pressure on the rectal muscles.

What can you do to avoid them?

Basically, what goes in your mouth will eventually come out the other end, so making changes to both your eating and bowel

see LOMAX, page 10

your guide to la voz Chris Marks / LA VOZ Linh Tran utilizes the new math and science center to meet with tutor Minh-Tri Pham. Students can sign up for tutoring any time in the quarter.

tor Diana Alves de Lima called it a fun, educational place to work which “looks great on transfer applications.”

The center also has had no stable source of funding in recent years because of the recent budget cuts, according to de Lima.

The De Anza Student Senate,

which approved $7,428 in new funding on Wednesday, “has been incredibly supportive and has allowed us to keep our door open,” she said.

However, the Student Senate approves funding on a yearly basis, and can’t be counted on for long-term support.

see TUTORING, page 2

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Cross-Cultural Partners suffers lack of applicants CAMPUS ABROAD: Europe and China trip Robert Balicki LA VOZ

FROM PAGE ONE Students will live in shared apartments, hotels, university residences or with host families. They will study in and out of the classroom, sightsee and visit galleries, museums and theatres. They have an opportunity to witness famous sights including Stonehenge in London and the Great Wall in China. Students are encouraged to travel both their host country and to other countries during their free time using inexpensive flights or Euro passes.

Students who have completed 12 units and have a GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to join Campus Abroad. More information and photographs are available at the Campus Abroad website at http:// www.foothill.edu/programs/ campusabroad.html. Informational programs will be held on campus.

For information about costs and to apply for one of these programs, contact Turmelle at turmelleart@fhda.edu or 650-9497614. Financial aid is available.

TUTORING: Resources available FROM PAGE ONE The center also recently received $2,000 from a presidential grant for student retention.

The grant money is for “anything extra we are doing to expand,” said tutor supervisor Laura Bell.

To be a tutor, students must submit an application, a teacher recommendation, and have received a B or above in the subject they plan to tutor in. They must then enroll in a one-unit tutoring course.

Sarina joined in fall 2004, and won tutor of the month during winter 2005. Tutoring for language arts, foreign languages, accounting and social sciences is located in L-47.

More information can be found online at www.deanza.edu/tutorial/.

The Cross-Cultural Partners program needs more fluent English speakers to pair with English as a Second Language students, said the program’s co-coordinator, Gloria Heistein.

Though applications were officially due Jan. 30, CCP is still accepting applications from nonESL students.

All students, regardless of first language, are encouraged to apply.

This quarter the program

needs at least 50 more non-ESL students to have a partner for every ESL student, said Heistein.

The program pairs students based on age, gender, and availability. The two then agree to meet at least five times during the quarter.

In the past, partners have gone shopping, played pool, watched movies, and gone out to eat.

“We encourage them to do fun things,” said Heistein.

The program hosts two get-togethers each quarter, for students to become acquainted and to have a good time.

Anne Ngo, a partner in the program, said the best part was that she has been paired with students from four or five different countries.

Heistein said many AsianAmerican students are very impressed with the independence of American students, who often live on their own and pay for their own education, she said.

Since being founded in 2000, Cross-Cultural Partners has grown over 600 percent to 450 students last quarter.

There are more ESL students who have applied than non-ESL

students this quarter, as is typical of most quarters.

To advertise the program, Heistein is visiting classrooms to encourage students to join.

Oftentimes, she visits twice because students forget to submit their applications.

However, she spends “so many hours running the program and developing it” that she is unable to maintain a broad outreach program.

Nonetheless, she hopes her efforts will help break down stereotypes and contribute to a more tolerant society.

Budget meeting scheduled De Anza student senate briefs Lilya Mitelman LA VOZ

De Anza College will hold a town hall meeting tomorrow to discuss next year’s proposed state budget.

The meeting will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Conference Room B in the Hinson Campus Center.

According to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Web site, the governor’s proposal would increase current community college funding by 11.6 percent.

In addition, according to a report in last week’s

Cupertino Courier, the proposal would add $1.3 million to the district in equalization funding.

Proposition 13, which limited property taxes, left California community college districts with unequal funding.

Currently, the discrepancy among districts ranges from $3,500 to $8,100 per full-time student. FoothillDe Anza is currently allotted $3,717 per student.

The equalization funding would bring the district’s funding up to the statewide average of $4,100, according to the Cupertino Courier.

De Anza Senator Resigns, Two Join Last Wednesday, one senator resigned from the student senate and two senators joined.

Thai-Ry Chang Urena resigned due to schedule conflicts, according to Glenn Ho, the vice president of student rights on the student senate.

Andy Lau and Shrey Prasad were approved to become senators.

There are still three openings on the student senate.

Senate Approves $11,428 for Programs The student senate approved $4,000 for the installation of a new putting green and $7,428 for the new Math and Science Tutoring Center (see front page article.)

The new putting green will replace

one that was “crinkled and permanently damaged” due to construction, said Debi Schafer-Braun, a PE instructor. “The carpet is all buckled, making it very difficult to practice or to learn.”

The money for the Math and Science Center will cover the cost of unexpected budget cuts and group tutors.

The senate also approved, on first vote, $4,100 for counseling, $3,000 for three speakers for the administration of justice classes, and $2,800 for a server for the student senate.

All first-vote budget items must pass a second vote before going into effect. The second vote will be held at Wednesday’s meeting, which will take place at 3:30 p.m. downstairs in the Hinson Campus Center.

GMAIL: College wants to e-mail all students FROM PAGE ONE be set up to retain a record of official correspondence.

However, he said there would be a steep learning curve, especially for students who do not use the Internet already.

About 10 percent of De Anza students — approximately 3,000 people — do not receive e-mails from the college, said Creamer, due to invalid e-mail addresses and because some students fail to provide e-mail addresses when applying to the college.

Google was chosen over Yahoo and Microsoft because of

cost, implementation and “in the current political environment, Google is the only company fighting for privacy,” said Creamer.

Google is willing to provide the service, including an “@deanza.edu” suffix, for free.

Thursday, Google’s Senior Policy Counsel Andrew McLaughlin, defended the company’s decision to create a Chinese counterpart in a statement to the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus.

Google’s Chinese Web site, google.cn, is subject to forms of censorship consistent with Chi-

nese law.

The statement was posted on Google’s blog, googleblog. blogspot.com.

According to McLaughlin, Google has vowed not to offer services like Gmail and Blogger until it is satisfied it can protect its users’ privacy.

On Jan. 19, the U.S. Justice Department sought a way to force the search engine giant to hand over records of millions of search queries and a random selection of one million indexed sites, according to a Jan. 20 New York Times news article.

Google has refused to com-

ply with an Aug. 2005 subpoena, issued by the government in an attempt to support its defense of the Child Online Protection Act, a law passed in 1998 that imposes criminal penalties on Web site owners with pornography and offensive material that children can easily access.

Google said the request was “unnecessary, overly broad, would be onerous to comply with, would jeopardize its trade secrets and could expose identifying information about its users,” according to the article, entitled “Google Resists Subpoena Of Search Data.”

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what’s happening on campus Develop Your Reporting Skills The workshop “Reading and Writing about Issues and Events in our Local Communities,” by reading professor Ulysses Pichon, will be held in the Writing and Reading Center in SC3 on Monday, Feb. 6 at 12:30 p.m. For information, call 408-864-5840.

Free Flu Shots Flu shots are available at no charge for students in the Health Services Office. Shots are available for staff for $10. Hours are Mondays-Thursdays 8 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. and Fridays 8 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m. Call 408-864-8732 for availability before stopping by.

Editing Strategies This workshop, taught by Tutorial Center Coordinator Diana Alves de Lima, will be held in the Writing and Reading Center in SC3 on Wed., Feb 8 at 11:30 a.m. For information, call 408-864-5840.

The Johnny Depp Surprise Workshop English Professor Bob Dickerson will lead this surprise workshop in the Writing and Reading Center in SC3 on Wed., Feb. 8 at 12:30 p.m. For information, call 408-864-5840.

Interested in Poetry?

“Fun with Poetry,” by poet Ken Weisner, will be offered in the Writing and

Reading Center in SC3 on Thu., Feb. 9. For information, call 408-864-5840.

12th Annual Lunar New Year Scholarship Luncheon The Asian Pacific American Staff Association Lunar New Year Scholarship Luncheon will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23 in Conference Rooms A & B in the Campus Center. The luncheon will feature Asian cuisine, entertainment, scholarship awards and prizes. General admission is $17 and student admssion is $12. RSVP to Tracy ChungTabangcura at the Transfer Center or Duc Nguyen at the Mailroom by Wed., Feb. 15. For more information, call 408-864-8234 or 408-864-8920.

UC Berkeley Transfer Advising Prospective transfer students can speak on a one-to-one basis with a representative from the UC Berkeley Community College Transfer Project about admissions, housing, financial aid and more on Wed., Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Drop-ins only.

For more information, contact Keith Schoon at 510-643-7159.

UC Davis Transfer Opportunity Program TOP Advisor Coleman Billingslea will be available to help students interested in transferring to UC Davis on Mondays through March 20 at the Transfer Center on the 2nd floor of the Student

& Community Services Building on Monday. Drop-ins are available from 9 – 9:30 a.m. and appointments are available from 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. For information, e-mail cbillingslea@ucdavis. edu or call 510-893-4126.

UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering Transfer Program The UCSC Developing Effective Engineering Pathways program is open to De Anza students who want to explore engineering, computer science or high-tech fields, and/or want a guaranteed transfer to the UCSC Baskin School of Engineering. An information table will be available in S43g in the Math/Science Tutorial Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through March 23. For information, contact Ismael Moreno at imoreno@ucsc.edu or 831-460-3038.

Summer in China Informational Meetings Students will travel with the Campus Abroad Program to Beijing, Xian, Shanghai and Hangzhou from June 30 until Aug. 4. Courses offered include EWRT 1A, EWRT 1B, EWRT 1C, EWRT 2 and Survival Mandarin. Financial aid is available. For more information, attend the meeting on Mon., Feb. 6 from 1:302:30 p.m. in the Santa Cruz Room in the Campus Center and on Wed., March 8 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in the Margarita Room in the Campus Center.

For information, contact Charles Lee at leecharles@fhda.edu or 408-864-8929.

Child Care Available on Campus The De Anza Child Development Center Lab School has child care openings in the toddler and preschool program for children 18 months to 5 years old.

The center is open Monday-Friday from 7:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meals are provided. For enrollment inquiries, call 408-864-8991; to sign up for a tour, call 408-864-5794. For information, visit www.deanza.edu/child/.

Employment Services Available The Occupational Training Institute provides employment services including counseling and advising, career education, job placement, financial assistance (books and college fees) while concurrently providing employers with qualified employees. Students who have been laid off, are economically disadvantaged or are seeking better employment may qualify. For information, see www.deanza.edu/oti, or call 408864-8869.

Student Success and Retention Services Center The SS&RSC is a support program for students with historically low retention and transfer rates, firstgeneration students and re-entry students. It provides a supportive

community of peer mentors, tutors, faculty and staff to help students achieve their educational goals. For eligibility and application, see www. deana.edu/ssrsc/services.html, call 408-864-8470 or visit the office on the second floor of the Student and Community Services Building.

Want to Quit Smoking?

De Anza Health Services’ Quit Smoking Program gives out free nicotine replacement patches, gum and tips. Health Services is located in the lower level of the Campus Center. For information, call 408-864-8732 or visit www.deanza.edu/healthservices.

Family Planning and Well Woman Clinic If you are interested in getting birth control, having an annual well woman exam or think you have a sexually transmitted infection, medical services are available at the Student Health Services on Mondays from 9 a.m.

– 3:30 p.m. All appointments must be made in person, and a non-refundable $10 administrative fee, by cash or check, will be charged at the time you make your appointment. Condoms are available for free. Pregnancy tests, birth control refills and the morning after pill are available by appointment Monday – Friday. For information, call 408-864-8732.

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Save the Bay Dates: 2/15/06 Time: 1-3p.m.

Commitment: 2 hours/ day Location: Palo Alto Baylands, Palo Alto Description: Propagate, transplant, maintain and water native wetland plants Requirements: None Web site: www.savesfbay.org/bayevents Contact: Jocelyn Gretz 510-452-9261 x109 or jgretz@savesfbay.org

Dates: Until 9/30/06 Time: 8:00 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Commitment: 4 hours/week Location: 37175 Hickory Street, Newark Description: Volunteers will assist in the care of orphaned and injured wildlife, fund raising, and more.

Web site: http://wildlife.ohlonehumanesociety.org/ Contact: Angela Hartman at (510) 797-9449 or ohswildlife@yahoo.com

Montalvo Arts Center

Poetry Center San Jose

Dates: Until 3/19/06 Time: Sat. 10a.m.-1p.m., Sun. 1-4p.m.

Commitment: 3 hours/ month Location: 15400 Montalvo Rd, Saratoga Description: Open and close the gallery, greet and record guests, answer questions and monitor security Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old, speak English, be able to follow written instructions Web site: www.montalvoarts.org/volunteering.html Contact: Volunteer Resources Office 408-961-5828

Commitment: 2 hours per month Location: 1650 Senter Road, San Jose Description: Volunteer as a member of the Program Committee, where you will assist with coordinating center events.

Requirements: Good communication and organizational skills Web site: www.pcsj.org Contact: Roger Abe at rakio@aol.com

Unity Care Group, Inc.

Child Advocates of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties

Dates: N/A Time: N/A Location: Del Rio Drive, San Jose Description: Tutor students ages 12 through 18 in the subjects of math, science, social studies and English.

Requirements: TB screening and fingerprinting prior to being hired Web site: www.unitycare.org Contact: Mansi Bhatia 408-971-9822

Commitment: One meeting/week Location: 509 Valley Way, Bldg. 2, Milpitas Description: Volunteer to be a mentor and a role model to an abused or neglected child. You may also represent them in court if needed.

Requirements: Must be 21. CASCSM will train you.

Web site: www.cadvocates.org Contact: Gisela Bushey at (408) 416-0400

Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary

Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

ANIMALS

Dates: Until 9/22/06 Time: Flexible, preferably Mon-Thurs after 4p.m.

Commitment: 2 hours/ week Location: 21265 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino niversity ad for Description: You will care for dogs and cats of College (Cupertino) various ages until a home can be found for them Requirements: Must be 18 and able to provide a safe environment for animal in your own home Web site: www.safehavenanimalsanctuary.org Contact: Ginny Nichols 408-420-7233

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LET’S MAKE IT PERSONAL ON VALENTINE’S DAY 3.

Sarah Bogen LA VOZ

With Valentines Day just about around the corner, there are bound to be some of you who are unprepared when it comes to that Perfect Gift for your significant other.

For those of you who need a bit of help, here’s a one-of-a-kind gift guide chocked full of affordable ideas that would make Hallmark jealous.

Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about spending a lot money, but it should have to do with effort and loving thoughts. Enjoy your valentine and you Valentine’s Day!

1. Fill a basket with massage oil, lotion, candles, incense, tea bags and a CD of soothing songs.

Give it to your valentine along with a handmade coupon offering a romantic free massage from you.

3. Make a beautiful, crafty collage or scrapbook featuring your inside jokes, pictures and memories.

Attach a cheap and chic disposable camera or cool and slick digital camera to the gift so you can make more pictures and memories of that night for next time.

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4. Buy poster board and fold it in half. Write in it with a huge marker as if it were an enormous Valentine’s Day card.

Accompany it with a gigantic stuffed animal, or at least a gigantic hug, and you’ve got yourself a gift.

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5. If you’d rather make beautiful art with your loved one, visit a public art studio such as Petroglyph, Color me Mine and create a memorable masterpiece for one another.

You can also personalize it for your sweetie with their large assortments of paints, glitter and glue.

2. Take a favorite picture of you and your sweetie and blow it up. Make it black and white or add another type of effect to it to give it an artsy feel.

After that, frame it, and you’ve got a work of art to reflect the originality of your love.

Start on the left and pick one option from each column to build the perfect* Valentine’s Day date. You can thank us later. *by perfect, we mean . . . not.

Afterparty?

Who?

What to wear?

• That girl from Statistics.

• Tuxedo and a flamethrower.

• To the movies

• A fine, fancy restaraunt.

• Back to their bedroom.

• That guy from English.

• Spandex, mask and cape.

• Miniature golf – show off your mad adding skills.

• Home to your parents’ house; Mom cooks a mean meatloaf.

• A busy intersection. They can find their way home.

• Blue furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

• Suit of armor. Best for blind dates and saving hot damsels

• Baseball game. If someone’s striking out, it might as well be entertaining.

• Denny’s midnight special – you won’t look cheap if buy dessert, too.

• The morgue. One more body won’t matter.

• The president of the Star Trek: Enterprise Fanclub.

Like they have V-day plans.

• Your McDonald’s uniform.

• Your job. Get paid for the date, and use your employee discount. Whoo!

• Benihana. But if the date goes bad, there are knives.

• Back to their doorstep.

• School Cafeteria Lady.

• Slinky Black Dress (Guys: buy matching heels.)

• The back of a Volkswagon.

• McDonalds - Now accepting Visa and Mastercard!

• Vegas; if your’re gonna get lucky, go all-in.

Where to go?

Where to eat?

NANNY SWEET, NOT SACCHARINE Moumita Chakraborty LA VOZ

In a cute Kincaid-esque little village in Britain, there are seven motherless children out to prove that they are not lovable darlings.

After scaring off their seventeenth nanny by eating chicken masquerading as the littlest of the Browns, their father, actor Colin Firth, the town mortician, is denied any further assistance from the nanny agency.

If being a mortician were not depressing enough, wealthy Aunt Adelaide refuses to support the family any longer unless Mr. Brown marries within the month.

Enter Nanny McPhee, actor Emma Thompson, of twin hairy warts, snaggle-tooth, and bilious black crepe to become another fixture in the huge, hideously decorated Victorian house the family Brown lives in.

Be warned: this is not a remake of the saccharine “Mary Poppins,” complete with musical numbers – Nanny McPhee means business, complete with the occasional spell and medicine that moves.

Colin Firth, still totally yummy, carries off his role. And he plays a devoted, distracted widower stuck in a moldy overstuffed house or cold room with old dead people paying the price of not caring about overpopulation.

However, Mr. Brown, in his flustered state, utters the phrase “good heavens” about 279 times in the 98 minutes of the movie, and detracts from the audience’s pleasure of listening to his melodic British accent by muttering everything. And looking at him standing next to dead people’s blemished feet isn’t all that great either.

Nanny herself proves to be an imaginative disciplinarian,

teacher and friend, helping the family to assume some normality and happiness.

The capers of the Brown children, despite their snobbery and disregard of sanity,

Nanny McPhee means business, complete with the occasional spell and medicine that moves. are amusing and creative even as the Nanny shapes them up.

Thomas Sangster (Hugh Grant’s nephew) and Emma Roberts (Julia Roberts’ niece) highlight the children’s hijinks.

The movie would not be complete without a romance. This

is provided by the subtle, truly sweet crush between Mr. Brown and his scullery maid Evangeline.

This unexpected heroine wins over the audience Nanny McPhee, despite all appearances, is a charming but realistic blend of “Mary Poppins” and Maria of “The Sound of Music.” She has very plausible problems and worries, solved by family effort and some magic of the non-hocus pocus kind. Sorry, but this movie lacks the cavorting with chimney sweeps, running madly in meadows, and hiking cross-continent.

Perhaps one of the more clever aspects of the whole movie is that Photo courtsey of www.rottentomatoes.com the audience’s perception subtly changes as the children’s does Movie: Nanny McPhee over the course of the film.

Though clearly a children’s Plot: movie, Nanny McPhee’s dry Motherless children rebel against humor and mildly sappy sweet- a magical nanny. ness will warm even the coldest Spoonfuls of sugar: heart cockles.

Four with a dash of lemon.

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REVIEW: SPECTACULAR ‘CORTEO’

DREAMING BIG

UNCONVENTIONAL ACT AMAZES WITH ACROBATICS, TELLS UNIQUE STORY Story by David Gunderson Photos by Chris Marks LA VOZ

Emerging from a giant yellow-and blue tent next to Highway 87, a crowd of several hundred tries to understand what it just saw.

“What did that mean?,” and “Did you see …?” float from one side to another. Unlike a classroom full of students at the end of a bad lecture, this crowd is delightedly confused.

What they’ve just witnessed is “Corteo,” the newest traveling show from Cirque du Soleil, or Cirque to its friends. And their confusion is not unjustified; “Corteo” is a rare thing. A circus with a story, it uses rigid discipline to create the chaos of a dream trapped in a bottle, handing it to the audience for a chance to examine it while we’re awake.

And a dream is exactly the effect it wants to give. “Corteo” is a daydream from a clown, wondering what will happen when he dies.

Funeral processions, visiting angels, and memories from his childhood could all easily become somber moments, if the people within them weren’t ultimately the clown himself. The procession can’t stop itself from dancing. Angels take a break from their heavenly duties to flirt with other characters. A life-size puppet walks with the clown as a child.

“I’ve asked acrobats to think like actors,” said creator Daniele Finzi Paseu, “to be as beautiful and honest as true love.”

But “Corteo” isn’t all about a story, or even mostly. The show draws on that plot as an excuse to bring in performing talents from around the globe. Acrobats, trapeze artists and gymnasts all perform at the height of skill, augmented by a dazzling array of technology made all the more impressive by how infrequently it’s visible. In a perfect display of this interaction, one performer can be seen simply walking across a tightrope. Simply, that is, until the audience realizes that performer is walking on the rope upwards from underneath, defying every tenet of the laws of gravity. At other times, huge banks of lights will move in electronic unison and pieces of scenery will rotate themselves in and out of frame.

Even the stage itself contributes more than expected through strategic openings and mechanizations.

Learning from its past performances, such as 1996’s “Quidam,” Cirque has included substantially more English dialogue. And college-age audiences will likely enjoy Cirque’s decision to set a faster pace than we’ve seen from previous shows. Action appears and disappears before anything has the chance to look commonplace, leaving only an impression of humor and awe. Of course, the show features live music performed by a band and vocalist who are visible the entire duration of the performance. This is a detail that provides unquestionable value in personalizing any show.

Between work, new “Lost” episodes and school, it can be easy to let unique experiences slip through the cracks in our schedules. It can be even easier to walk away when confronted with the price of a ticket to the circus. But work doesn’t make us happy, television won’t look back at you to see your reaction after doing something amazing, and college doesn’t have a clown flying around the ceiling. Crack open your wallet, take advantage of the student discount, and remember to thank La Voz later.

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De Anza College should look into more visible and effective means of marketing.

While the school’s marketing department is spending a comparable amount of money to what it did last year, its glory days are over. Its message fails to reach us.

We’re concerned. Where have all the advertisements gone?

The marketing department advertises in theaters during the blockbuster season, De Anza Marketing Coordinator Lois Jenkins told La Voz. “We stick to big movies coming out to target the best audience.”

But we, the editors of La Voz, haven’t seen ads anywhere, though some of us came here because we once did.

“It’s difficult to say exactly how effective our advertising is because there aren’t very accurate ways to track how many people see our ads in print, at the movies, or hear them on the

radio and then apply and register for classes,” Jenkins wrote in a Feb. 1 e-mail to La Voz. “However, it’s essential to keep the college’s name out there in the public eye if we want to compete for students with other colleges.”

We agree. But we still haven’t seen the ads, though we read newspapers regularly. And magazines. And watch movies.

And listen to the radio. Most of our information sources are those likely to contain a “Come to De Anza College” message.

For someone who sees as many off-campus ads as we do, Measure E and last year’s Board of Trustees candidates could easily be all they know of campus-related issues, along with last year’s news blurbs about Colin Powell’s visits to the campus. And not all prospective students vote or pay attention to news sources.

Of course, this curious invisibility might have something to

do with the marketing department losing two-and-a-half positions to the latest budget cut.

Prospective students might not know that the planetarium has wacky night shows, or that De Anza provides free housing for its birds and squirrels.

They might not know about De Anza’s superior transfer rate, its impressive array of courses or acclaimed programs.

The Nursing Department is among the best of its kind.

Auto Tech’s amazing, handson approach prepares students to enter the work force.

They would not know the thoughtfulness and wisdom of our faculty and staff, so many of whom go out of their way to enlighten students.

We come because we’re drawn by pictures of well-targeted ads featuring smiling students and a beautiful location, and by words from our teachers, parents, coworkers, employers and friends.

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We smell transfer possibilities and personal enrichment, Our internal Cardinal Directions point us to education.

We stay so we can continue to stand on the shoulders of wiser people than ourselves.

Enrollment is 1.5 percent higher than last winter, according to the student contact hours released by Admissions and Records. What it doesn’t say is how many students are involved in off-campus programs, or that on-campus enrollment is even lower than it was during last year’s slump.

We’ll be transferring soon, to schools and sectors of the work force, and making our mark on society. In a few years, we’ll give way to a new crop of De Anza students.

They, like us, will take guidance from instructors and other faculty members and go on to lead rich, wholesome lives as they follow our example.

If more come.

James vs. James PRESIDENT BUSH: STATE OF THE UNION 2006 EDITION

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jamesNEWBURG In the interest of public service, I have decided not to use this space for rhetorical bombthrowing. This week, in honor of George W. Bush’s State of the Union Address, I researched facts about some of his claims.

I report, you decide.

Bush: “[W]e are continuing reconstruction efforts, and helping the Iraqi government to fight corruption and build a modern economy, so all Iraqis can experience the benefits of freedom.”

Fact: “The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say. The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq’s criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.” – Washington Post, Jan. 2 Bush: “In the last two-anda-half years, America has created 4.6 million new jobs.”

Fact: Most economists claim that 125,000 to 140,000 jobs need to be created each month just to keep up with population growth. Bush’s figure averages out to just above 150,000 new jobs per month.

Bush: “Breakthroughs on [alternative energy] and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.”

Fact: According to a Jan. 31 story published in Knight Ridder newspapers, “Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait together accounted for 2.1 mil-

lion barrels per day […] that the United States imported during the first 11 months of 2005.” There is a simple way to achieve this goal: improving gas mileage on cars.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy claims that “[r]aising CAFE standards by 5 percent annually until 2012 […] could save 1.5 million barrels of oil per day by 2010.” At five percent, this is a yearly increase of about 1.5 miles per gallon.

Bush: “The Supreme Court now has two superb new members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito. I thank the Senate for confirming both of them. And I will continue to nominate men and women who understand that judges must be servants of the law, and not legislate from the bench.”

Fact: The New York Times published a study in their July 6, 2005 issue that conducted a survey to research judicial activism on the Supreme Court. The reporters researched the following question: How often has each justice voted to strike down a law passed by Congress? They found that conservative justices were more inclined to be judicial activists, with Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia voting to overturn Congress nearly twothirds of the time.

Bush: “I have authorized a terrorist surveillance program to aggressively pursue the international communications of suspected al-Qaida operatives and affiliates to and from America.”

Fact: According to an NBC News report, “A UC-Santa Cruz ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ protest, which included a gay kiss-in, was labeled as a ‘credible threat’ of terrorism [by the Pentagon].”

Last Tuesday, the President of the United States stood before the world and delivered his fifth State of the Union Address. Though it was one of his weaker speeches, he did not waver on important issues such as foreign policy and the fight against terrorism. The most valuable issues he addressed were those that the press refuses to.

His speech had to remind us all that Iraq and Afghanistan have moved steadily and rapidly toward democracy. Women and other minorities are now voting in both countries. Now, because of America’s intervention, these oppressed countries will join over 100 others in the messy arena of democratic government, but only if we stay the course.

With the trial of Saddam Hussein, we are witnessing the birth of the rule of law and its first tests in Iraq. Because of the United States’ intervention, many other nations in the Middle East have taken steps toward individual freedoms. A good example is the recent developments in Lebanon. Lebanon has thrown out their Syrian occupiers and is developing a self-governance.

Clearly America is playing a pivotal role in the developments of democracy and free markets in this region for future generations.

In the future, America will have a neighbor and partner in a democratic and market-driven economy in a free Iraq. Hopefully, the success of Iraq will act as a shining example for other

states in the region. As it said, every country that has a McDonald’s has never attacked America.

But we in America must be wary that there are still radicals that would want to put a stop to all that we are doing in the region and here at home. What they don’t understand is that the renewal of the Patriot Act will provide us with the tools to defend ourselves and apprehend and eliminate the enemies that want to attack us and stop the progress in the Middle East.

With the disruption of the terror networks, we not only defend our homeland, but also remove the threats to newly born democracies abroad. These terrorists are the same people who are trying to take away the freedoms that countries in the Middle East are beginning to foster.

This is why America must not fold in on itself.

As Bush said in his speech, “the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting, yet it ends in danger and decline.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership.” Before Sept. 11, 2001, the only democracy in the Middle East was Israel. Now, two democracies have emerged to join over 100 others in the rest of the world. I hope that America’s imprint will survive and flourish in the Middle East, even in the harsh conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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U.S. schools a world away from the top DECLINE OF AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM THREATENS LONG-TERM PROSPECTS Maya Chakraborty & Ruth Tepper LA VOZ

Once upon a time, two little American pigs went off to kindergarten, where they ate play-doh, drew on walls and fought over the purple crayon.

In other words, they learned just about everything worth knowing.

By high school, the pigs were dabbling in chemistry, nearly drowning in busywork and learning in a less constructive environment.

Those little pigs have become the college students of today.

America: land of the free, home of the brave, champion of the uneducated.

Thomas Jefferson, in 1816, praised a part of Spain’s constitution for being a superior means of enlightenment. The provision stated that all people born after a certain day would not be given the rights of a citizen until they knew how to read and write, Jefferson wrote. “It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision.”

But the U.S. constitution has no such provision, and today’s educational system is failing to meet the needs of today’s society.

The dictionary definition of ‘education’ is impressive, tracing back to the Latin educare, meaning to raise, train, or lead forth.

But as few American schools now offer Latin, as many are truly committed to raising, training or leading the students they are charged with serving.

Our education thus far has done little to develop our innate abilities, expand our horizons, and everything else that lovely dictionary definition brings to mind.

While our government continues to hem, haw, and hold elaborate and empty signing ceremonies, it will pay lip service to education.

Millions of young people will sit through coloring simulations in math — assuming schools can still afford copies, crayons, and chairs.

America’s youth is increasingly uneducated and unheard.

Even twenty years ago, America led the world in its education standards; today it is ninth among the industrialized nations.

Though we still lead in using information for economic benefits, our education’s contribution to the future is waning, and nothing is being done, which is both depressing and frightening. If we can only do cookie-cutter problems from obscure workbooks, and students in China know how to apply what they know to do more, where does that leave us?

There are a great many students struggling to stay on the surface of this quagmire, but we have

Bathrooms open now!

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watched in exasperation as brainless, babbling, annoyances pass off with higher grades than ourselves with much less effort simply because we strive for something more, yet somehow fail to meet everyone else’s expectations.

There are more important things than how quickly and accurately students are able to pick out the wrong sentence from a group; their determination, intelligence, and adaptability will see to their success.

The required STAR exam is a long-standing joke that only reinforces the sad state of California’s education, and the California High School Exit Exam, which is meant to guarantee high standards and accurate evaluations of teaching methods, is laughable.

We would like to think that we did learn something in the years since kindergarten, thank you.

Many critics of education cite problems in methods, resources, and personnel.

Though they do have crippling flaws, our education system lacks a vision and purpose.

Excessive legislation and bumbling administration, along with large amounts of money that vanishes before being put to visible use, has brought us here.

and communities, proven education methods, and more choices for parents.”

While too vague and broad to have a clear purpose, the actadvocates improvements in education.

Many of its proposed changes are based on research that shows complex things such as the fact that academic achievement is linked to parental involvement, especially in the early years.

In 2004, after unexpected opposition from teachers unions, the federal department turned to Ketchum Inc., a global public relations firm, to promote the law. The firm currently holds 100.5 million in federal contracts.

Among the several pages of fine print, the act requires high schools to allow military recruiters access to student contact and academic information unless parents specifically request it not be released.

As high school students ourselves, however, the military calls us anyway. Ulterior motives, anyone?

Closer to home, Governor Schwarzenegger (only nine years of schooling is mandatory in Austria) has repeatedly slashed California’s educational budget. Without education, tax dollars will instead provide young people with the best rooms

Though we still lead in using information for economic benefits, our education’s contribution to the future is waning, and nothing is being done, which is both depressing and frightening.

Students pass from grade to grade without any consistency, discipline, or aim, and flounder when thrown into the real world.

To be eradicated, problems must be solved from the root upwards, not dealt with haphazardly once it is too late.

Parents, many of whom are too wrapped up in their careers, are only too happy to place the blame on the inadequacies of school administrators, but it is they who protest against “too much” homework, “too hard” tests, “unfair” grades, and any attempts to create a lasting disciplinary and rigorous education system in which we can safely entrust our future.

Our government has kindly condescended to look into our education, of course, as it must if it insists on telling off other nations about their domestic issues.

The U.S. Department of Education, between its colorful pictures of smiling, racially diverse children, offers a short analysis of a recent act: “No Child Left Behind is based on stronger accountability for results, more freedom for states

The L-5 restrooms finally reopened last Monday. Sighs of relief were heard throughout the east side of campus. They and the S-6 restrooms have been closed for renovation since the end of last September.

The renovations of both restrooms wore a part of Measure E, a bond passed in 1999. Renovations included painting, fire system wiring and updated fixtures.

The S-6 will be completed by the second week of February, Donna Jones-Dulin, the director of College Services, told me.

The renovation in L-5 has been an in-

San Quentin has to offer.

The federal and state governments are eager to place the blame on the other, and the betterment of our schools has been put on hold because there is no funding to be had. Money is not the problem.

Our teachers have fought for some government recognition.

Every school day sees students more absorbed in last night’s television show than schoolwork, teachers desperately trying to make a difference, and administrators attending vague meetings in places like Jamaica to learn how to make students learn better butcher paper projects.

Schools elsewhere in the world focus on honing students’ skills, teaching new ones, and showing them how to find their place in the world.

Ironically, many of these schools are in countries termed “third world,” and recent college graduates can find no work in the U.S. and have inferior qualifications compared to foreign students.

Every day at 3 p.m., our brains sink into a stupor, while millions elsewhere plan for a brighter future.

convenience to instructors and students for four months, and all for automatic toilet flushing and new paint.

And as soon as the S-6 restrooms are reopened, S-2 will be closed for renovation. The restrooms in between the football field and golf range will be closed at the end of February as well, for another few months.

De Anza has 22 restrooms that were “built based on occupancy.” Jones-Dulin said that lengthy renovations are irritating in individual quads, but they don’t drastically affect overall bathroom accessibility

since 20 are open at any given time.

Bathroom locations are one of the most important things to know on this campus, especially following those Red Bull-infused cramming sessions. Students who are unfamiliar with the campus may want to print out a college map and mark the locations of the restrooms, especially the ones close to their classes.

So while you won’t be able to blame getting lost during your extended class break, you may still have to worry about wading through hacky-sack circles to get to the ATC restrooms.

10 sports & health LOMAX: Taking care of hemorrhoids

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ENERGY BAR TASTE TEST it may be good for you, but does it have to taste like chalk?

Katherine Nguyen LA VOZ

FROM PAGE ONE habits should help to improve things.

Suggestions for change include drinking more water and increasing fiber in your diet. Both will help soften your stool.

Fiber-rich foods include fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grain breads and cereals.

Your digestive system does its best to break down your food, but you need to do your part by chewing your food well.

Reading a magazine or newspaper while sitting on the toilet is not a good idea.

And finally, the bathroom may be the only place you can have uninterrupted quiet time, but reading a magazine or newspaper while sitting on the toilet is not a good idea.

What can you do to treat them?

Fortunately, hemorrhoids are not serious to your health, but they can be uncomfortable and even painful.

Once you have been diagnosed with hemorrhoids, there are many at-home remedies to help relieve the symptoms and reduce the swelling. Try soaking in a bathtub filled with a couple inches of warm, but not hot, water.

Or apply an over-the-counter hemorrhoid cream around the external anal area.

You can make your own solution more cheaply by soaking a cloth with equal parts glycerin and witch hazel and apply to the hemorrhoids for about an hour. The glycerin will help reduce swelling and the witch hazel will soothe the area.

Another remedy is to place an ice pack wrapped in a towel to the area for about 10 or 15 minutes. And finally, see a doctor if you are still experiencing symptoms after a week of home treatment.

Mary-Jo Lomax is a health educator at De Anza College. For more information, visit the Health Center in the Hinson Campus Center.

Clif Bar “Nutrition for Sustained Energy” Flavor Carrot Cake Impression Chunky; filled with nuts. Kind of crunchy.

Aftertaste Cinnamon on acid.

Organic Optimum Energy Bar “High Fiber-Low Fat-Low Sodium”

PowerBar Performance “The Original Energy Bar”

PowerBar Performance “High-Protein Energy That Lasts”

Flavor Cranberry, ginger and soy Impression Looks like a fruit cake. Tastes like a fruit cake from 1999.

Frosting on top.

Aftertaste Stale old-food aftertaste.

Cranberries resemble dry prunes. Leaves sawdust-like residue. By far the worst.

Flavor Peanut Butter Impression Solid baby food. Bits of peanuts. Semi sweet.

Aftertaste Dry cardboard-like aftertaste.

Flavor Cinnamon, oats and honey Impression Looks like a cereal bar. Consistency of a stale rice crispy bar with flaky frosting. Not too sweet. Has a tendency to get stuck in teeth.

Aftertaste Dry cardboard-like aftertaste.

Super foods Melissa Lewis LA VOZ

In the spirit of healthy vegetarianism, I bring you “super foods,” foods so rich in valuable nutrients that doctors recommend that they be a part of your daily diet to “prevent disease and extend our health span, and perhaps our life span, as well,” according to “SuperFoods Rx” author Steven Pratt, MD. This is the third part of a series designed to be attached to your hydrogenated oil-free refrigerator.

Beans: A low-fat, low-calorie source of protein and an easy way to help control weight and blood sugar. Diets including beans may reduce risk of heart disease and certain cancers. If we all ate a healthy, balanced diet of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and beans, as many as one-third of all cancer deaths could be prevented, according to the American Cancer Society. Foods containing soluble fiber, such as beans, were shown to be the most effective in maintaining blood sugar, which prevents diabetes.

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Blueberries: The best food on the planet to preserve a young brain as we mature is blueberries, according to Pratt’s book. Researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Center (HNRCA) found that blueberries have the highest antioxidant activity of about 40 fresh fruits and vegetables. Packed with antioxidants, blueberries neutralize free radical damage to cells and tissues that can lead to cataracts, glaucoma, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, peptic ulcers, heart disease and cancer.

Spinach: Spinach is best food on the planet to prevent cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, which leads to blindness in people over 60. According to research published in the Journal of Nutrition, carotenoids found in spinach and other green leafy vegetables may help fight human prostate cancer.

Spinach also has more protein than many other vegetables.

Fresh spinach has more than four times as much vitamin C and 12 times as much betacarotene as iceberg lettuce, so use spinach for salads instead!

SOURCES: www.americanbean.org, www.blueberry.org, www.beansforhealth.org, www.webmd.com, www.harvard.edu

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De Anza offense dominant in easy win over Hartnell MEN’S HOOPS AVERAGES 94 PPG IN TWO VICTORIES Nate Green LA VOZ

David Cenzer / LA VOZ De Anza nailed 22 three-pointers in their last two wins.

Aaron Buckner stepped on the court and he was trouble.

Last week, he messed around and got a triple-double.

Well, almost.

The De Anza guard fell one assist short of achieving the feat in the team’s 103-85 win over Hartnell last Friday.

Buckner finished the game with 26 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists and two steals.

“We just give him the ball and get out of the way!” said De Anza assistant coach Jason Billie.

De Anza (12-13 overall, 44 conference) had trouble dealing with Hartnell’s fast-break

offense in the early going.

Hartnell (9-15, 2-5) came out with lots of energy, keeping up the pace with constant running and quick passes. They electrified the crowd with an alley-oop from Brock Beck to E.J. Petty early on in the game.

The teams kept up the pace for the rest of the first half, but play looked sloppy at times. There were several bad turnovers and unnecessary fouls. Both teams were in the free-throw bonus early.

Hartnell controlled most of the first half, staying in the lead until Buckner took over the game. He scored seven straight points to end the first half, giving De Anza a 44-38 lead as they headed into the locker room.

The De Anza offense unleashed its full fury in the

second half. Buckner ran the offense to near-perfection, finding the open man and giving his teammates easy scoring opportunities.

De Anza opened up a 20point lead with 14 minutes to go. They never looked back.

Four other De Anza players scored in double figures.

Bryan Adams pitched in 21 points while Lynnard Barnes added 17 and Kurt Darrell had 13. Adrian Valderrama poured in 12 points, all on three-pointers. n De Anza reached .500 in Coast Conference play after an 85-81 victory over Monterey Peninsula (16-12, 3-5) on Wednesday. Long-range shooting made the difference, as De Anza made 10 three-pointers. Adams hit five of those baskets, leading the team with 28 points.

Buckner scored 18.

January 27 DE ANZA 103, HARTNELL 85 De Anza (11-13, 3-4) — Bushnell 2 2-2 8, Valderrama 4 0-0 12, Hayes 1 0-0 2, Buckner 10 5-6 26, Darrell 6 5-11 17, Adams 7 3-4 21, Barnes 5 3-7 13, Myles 2 0-0 4. TOTALS 37 18-32 103 Hartnell (9-15, 2-5) — Frise 5 0-0 14, Bower 3 3-4 9, Beck 2 2-3 7, Petty 8 0-0 16, McCarty 5 0-0 13, Holt 8 4-4 24, Parks 1 0-0 2. TOTALS 32 9-11 85 Halftime — De Anza 44, Hartnell 38.

Three-point goals — De Anza 11 (Valderrama 4, Adams 4, Bushnell 2, Buckner); Hartnell 12 (Frise 4, Holt 4, McCarty 3, Beck).

February 1 DE ANZA 85, MONTEREY PENINSULA 81 De Anza (12-13, 4-4) — Bushnell 2 0-0 6, Valderrama 3 0-0 8, Buckner 7 3-9 18, Darrell 4 3-4 11, Lee 1 0-0 2, Adams 8 7-8 28, Barnes 2 1-2 6, Myles 3 0-0 6. TOTALS 30 14-23 84 Monterey Peninsula (16-12, 3-5) — Phillips 7 2-2 17, Gard 1 0-0 2, Miller 4 2-2 10, Christensen 1 0-0 3, Eoff 3 0-0 6, Johnson 2 0-3 4, Ramos 12 0-3 24, Harrison 3 1-2 7, Veit 3 2-5 8. TOTALS 36 7-17 81.

Halftime — De Anza 39, Monterey Peninsula 38.

Three-point goals — De Anza 11 (Adams 5, Bushnell 2, Valderrama 2, Buckner, Barnes); Monterey Peninsula 2 (Phillips, Christensen)

‘Healthy’ fast-food a bunch of empty promises, empty calories

ruthTEPPER Ravenous, you sprint into McDonalds, eager to fill your stomach with substance. Bursting up to the counter you announce, “Cheeseburger!” Bored, the cashier replies monotonously, “Want fries with that?”

Rewind.

Ravenous, you sprint into McDonalds, eager to fill your stomach with substance. Bursting up to the counter you announce, “Fruit and walnut salad!” Bored, the cashier replies monotonously, “Want dressing with that?”

Eating the latter would satisfy your conscience, but you might be surprised to hear that the two meals actually have the same disheartening 310 calories. You might be even more shocked to hear that the cheeseburger has fewer calories from fat than the salad, 110 versus 120. Fast-food restaurants nationwide are selling the im-

age of “health foods” everywhere, trying to draw in consumers of all ages.

“I only ordered the fruit and walnut salad because I thought it was healthy,” student Michelle Chan said when approached in a McDonald’s restaurant. Described on their Web site as “It’s just what a girl wants,” McDonald’s newest health food, the fruit and walnut salad, may not be so healthy after all.

Other fast-food joints are joining in on the health fad. Restaurants such as Burger King and Jack In The Box are also serving “health” foods extremely high in fat; however, their salads tend to be among the healthier choices on the menu. Burger King’s Original Whopper sandwich contains a whopping 670 calories, 360 of those from fat, while their Tendercrisp Garden Salad is 410 calories, 190 from fat. In-and-Out Burger, however, seems to be sticking with its traditional menu: burgers, fries, and soda.

Fast-food restaurants seem to believe that by sticking the word “healthy” in front of a food name, it automatically deducts calories from its total. I’m sure you’ll keep this in mind the next time you take a bite from that burger.

McDonald’s Quarter Pounder 510 calories 18 grams of fat 70 mg cholesterol 730 mg sodium 40 grams carbohydrates

California Cobb salad with grilled chicken and dressing 400 calories 20 grams of fat 160 mg cholesterol 1,560 mg sodium 21 grams carbohydrates

Jack In The Box Jumbo Jack 597 calories 35 grams of fat 47 mg cholesterol 938 mg sodium 51 grams carbohydrates

Southwest Chicken salad without dressing 488 calories 13 grams of fat 60 mg cholesterol 910 mg sodium 0 grams carbohydrates

Whopper 670 calories 39 grams of fat 95 mg cholesterol 1,020 mg sodium 51 grams carbohydrates

Tendergrill Chicken salad 230 calories 8 grams of fat 60 mg cholesterol 720 mg sodium 11 grams carbohydrates

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