La Voz News

11/15/2025

Fact Friday Fall 2025 Week 8

In this broadcast we cover:

- De Anza Football’s record-breaking 99–3 win and upcoming championship game
- Veterans Day campus closure and celebration
- Free weekly hot meals from the World Food Movement
- Winter quarter registration help sessions
- Last day to register De Anza Hacks 4.0
- CSU East Bay transfer info session
- Euphrat Museum’s new “Invoke-History” exhibition

Hosted by Gordon Yang and Tommy Ngo
Produced & Videography by Tommy Ngo
Edited by Ann Peñalosa

11/14/2025

Local, state and De Anza leaders honored veterans and their families at Cupertino Veterans Memorial Park on Nov. 11, also marking the 20-year anniversary of Operation Red Wings, in which two SEALs from Cupertino — Matthew Axelson and James Suh — died in 2005. There are about 400 veteran students at De Anza, some of whom were also in attendance.

🎥: Gavin Rust, Sango Levonian & Tommy Ngo

11/13/2025

De Anza Student Government’s finance committee signed off on $7,334 for a CalFresh workshop and the college’s upcoming hackathon at its Monday, Nov. 10 meeting in the Student Council Chambers.

If the senate approves both requests, that brings DASG’s total special allocations budget down to $145,107.

The Basic Needs Hub, De Anza College’s recently relocated resource center, originally asked for $2,200 for the event in total, mainly for box lunches and promotional items to promote the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called CalFresh at the state level.

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🖋️& 📸: Ann Peñalosa

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

De Anza tipped off its second home game on Nov. 4 against Cuesta, winning 102-78. The victory marked a 2-0 start for the first time since the 2019-20 season.

Both teams traded shots early on in the game, no team taking a bigger lead than 5 points until the 7:48 mark in the first half. Continuous full-court pressure by the Mountain Lions started to result in multiple turnovers by Cuesta.

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🖋️& 🎨: Hayden Rush

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11/11/2025

The De Anza Student Government environmental sustainability committee’s interns proposed three committee projects at its Nov. 6 meeting.

The committee plans on taking on one of these projects for the year; past projects include the DASG bike program, getting Foothill-De Anza students the VTA SmartPass and both its “Ban The Bottle” and “Save Paper Towel” campaigns.

Allissa Lo, 20, business major and committee intern, presented a proposal for interns to help clean up either a beach or San Jose waterways; Lo said the cleanups promote environmental sustainability and healthy marine life.

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🖋️& 🎨: Cindy Rodriguez

11/10/2025

Proposition 50, the controversial redistricting response to Texas’s redistricting decision, was passed in California. While specific voting demographic statistics have not been released, De Anza students gave insight into their choices in this special election. 

Although Voting polls closed the evening of Nov. 4, many voters had already cast their ballots via mail-in and early voting. 

“I mailed in my ballot, voting yes on both Prop 50 and Measure A,” Braden Orozco, 24, psychology major, said. Orozco described his voting experience as “really smooth.”

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🖋️& 🎨: Jamie Watt

11/10/2025

The De Anza College men’s soccer team fought back from a late deficit to secure a vital 1-1 tie against Hartnell College, the current second-place team in the Coast-North Division in a fierce Coast Conference clash on Oct. 31.

The Mountain Lions, with a 8-4-4 overall record, showed resilience after a turbulent start, battling their way to a draw against the South Conference’s top team.

Hartnell set the tone immediately, dominating duels and pressing De Anza’s defense. The visitors’ intensity paid off in the eighth minute when left winger, Jesus Arroyo,(Hartnell No. 7) found the back of the net to give Hartnell a 1-0 lead.

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🖋️& 📸: Ko Ko Lin Thant

11/09/2025

The Mountain Lions hosted the Homecoming football game against the Coalinga College Falcons on Saturday, Oct. 25.

The two teams met at 1 p.m. at De Anza College Stadium, with the Mountain Lions achieving an early 14-0 lead in the first quarter. As the game continued, the Falcons were able to adjust strategy and conclude the game with a 42-40 score, marking a close victory for De Anza.

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🖋️& 📸: Sango Levonian

11/09/2025

The Environmental Sustainability Committee is requesting a total of $650 to cover food and marketing materials cost for next year’s Earth Day event.

The committee voted to request the funds during its Oct. 30 meeting to cover a large order of boba, which its senators said proved successful at bringing students to its events. Last year’s committee ordered 100 drinks for its Earth Day event.

“Everyone came for the boba,” said DASG Chair of Environmental Sustainability Myles Vongnakhone, 22, biology major. “A lot of (those) people stuck around for the other activities.”

To read the full article, visit our website at lavozdeanza.com.

🖋️& 📸: Cindy Rodriguez