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Vol. 49 | No. 3
PAGE 2 Oct. 19, 2015
MENS SOCCER RANKED SECOND IN CALIFORNIA De Anza slump to 1-1 draw against Foothill, retain spot in standings Jessica Howell
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
ADRIAN DISCIPULO | LA VOZ STAFF
Forward Miguel Castillo (7) battles for possession against a Foothill College defender in their 1-1 draw on Tuesday Oct. 13.
De Anza’s defense stood tall, but missed shots, and unforced errors overshadowed their draw against the Foothill College Owls on Tuesday Oct. 13. The Dons still retained their ranking of second in the California Community College Soccer Association while Rio Hondo College remained in first. The Dons exchanged chances with Foothill all across the pitch. The Owls managed to break through the De Anza defense midway through the first half. After Foothill took the lead the Dons looked out of sync and unable to complete passes. Head coach Rusty Johnson said his team did not execute the game plan. “We struggled to connect passes,” said Johnson. “It wasn’t because there wasn’t space to play. It was just a lot of guys kind of veering from the plan.” De Anza went into the half down 1-0. The Dons came out flying in the second half, but lacked the finishing touch. The Foothill goalkeeper made a plethora of saves, with lady luck playing a part in one instance. At 76 minutes, forward Ahmed Mohammed shot the ball, which
bounced off the goalie and hit the post, denying him a game tying goal. The Dons unrelenting pressure led to a goal late in the game. Midfielder Roy Ortiz struck the ball into the back of the net off a corner kick. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, but De Anza coaches and players left the field dissatisfied with their effort. “Even though we were able to tie it, still not one of our best performances,” said Daniel Galvan, midfielder and co-captain. Rusty Johnson said he hopes his team learned not to underestimate a lower ranked team based on their record. “These guys need to learn how to get up for every single game, and not overlook a .500 team like this,” Johnson said, “Hopefully they learn something from it, but it was definitely not the result we were looking for, and they definitely came out flat today,” Johnson said. A rough game from beginning to end, Galvan said it came early in the season, which gives the team an opportunity to improve and get better. De Anza’s (9-1-2) next home game against the Ohlone College Renegades will be on Friday Oct. 23 at 4 p.m.
THE BAY AREA PARADOX: POVERTY IN THE VALLEY Anthony Montes SPORTS EDITOR
One in 10 people (or 11.3 percent) live in poverty in the Bay Area, an economic consultant told De Anza students in the Visual and Performing Arts Center on Wednesday Oct. 7. “That strikes me as a large proportion of people in a region that we all know is very very well,” said John Haveman, a principal consultant for Marin Econmic Consulting. He presented his report on income inequality in the Bay Area for the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies. Haveman said one in seven children between the ages of 0 and 5 live in poverty in the Bay Area and deemed the poverty level in children as the most crucial. “These are really important formative year for kids,” Haveman said. “They need to
get the proper nutrition, they need parents that are not totally stressed about how to pay bills, that will pay attention to them and will teach them.” “The poverty issue in the Bay Area is really much more severe than the federal poverty line will have you believe,” Haveman said. The Bay Area’s multibillion dollar technology companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, create an enormous amount of wealth, jobs and opportunities, and helped lower the unemployment rate in the Bay Area to 8.3 percent, he said. But high-tech job opportunities in the Bay Area have not translated to a healthy distribution of wealth. According to Haveman’s study, the top 5 percent of the wealthiest households earn 22.8 percent of the total income in the Bay Area.
Wednesday’s event included a panel and Q&A with prominent figures from various sectors in the community. Former San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales touched on the racial barriers, the lack of
“One in 10 people live in poverty in the Bay Area” – John Haveman, Marin Economic Consulting opportunities and low quality of life for those in the Latino community in the Bay Area. Gonzales said that in 2011, 45 percent of the Latino population in the Bay Area was below the federal poverty line. “So all those data point that he (Haveman) shared with you, you can probably multiply by two or three for the Latino community,” Gonzales said.
Scott Myers-Lipton, San Jose State instructor and minimum wage coalition co-founder, advocated for economic reform and the implementation of an economic bill of rights. First proposed by former president Franklin Roosevelt, the economic bill of rights provides the right to a job, right to a living wage, medical care, social security, education, food, unfair monopolies, and the right to decent housing. “The middle is stagnant and poor increasing,” Myers-Lipton said. “That’s the crisis that the country faces and this has been a trend over the past thirty years. So we need a solution that is as bold as the crisis that faces us and I would say that’s the economic bill of rights.” After the event, DASB senator and renters’ rights advocate, Thao Le, said changing equality on levels, for their generation and the coming
generations necessitates student involvement “It’s really our generation’s problem, “ Le said. “This is the biggest thing right now for our generation is to figure out how to deal with the issues of inequality and how that connects to race, gender, class.” Karla Navarro, student and activist, who has worked with San Jose’s minimum wage campaign and Foothill-De Anza Foundation fossil fuel divestment, said students need to make an effort to educate themselves on the issues of income and political inequality, and not doing so, is a choice. “We do have a say, we do have a choice,” Navarro said. “And we hope that people choose to also get involved in the smallest way, too, like attending something like this.”