What Positive Psychology can offer you
December 3, 2019
Positive Psychology - the class that will teach you how to wake up on the right side of the bed, every morning for the rest of your life. Right? Wrong. "One of the biggest misunderstandings about Positive Psychology in pop culture is that it only focuses on positive emotions,” said Dr. Shani Robins, professor ...
An unforgettable interview with Foothill professor Sherri Harvey
December 3, 2019
Quotes provided by Sherri Harvey “In a world fraught with the pressure and responsibility to serve others, and to constantly plug into the world around us, being cut loose from purpose, even if only for a short time, felt sublime.” -Cut Loose from Purpose in Tahoe National Forest I’m sitting in a restaurant ...
Owls go undefeated
December 1, 2019
The Foothill College football team made history as they completed their first 10-0 season in the history of the program, which dates back to 1959. On Nov. 16, the Owls defeated the Los Medanos Mustangs by a final score of 34-3 for their final game of the regular season. The Owls had a rocky start for ...
Black Panther screening: a celebration of Black culture
Beto Macedo, Staff Writer
February 20, 2019
In commemoration of Black History Month, Associated Students of Foothill College Senator Hodan Farah and Heritage Month Coordinator Ashanti Miller hosted a screening of Marvel’s Black Panther at Foothill College to kick off this week’s theme: Afrofuturism. The aroma of popcorn permeated the Hearth...
Budget cuts cause relocation of longtime Foothill College employee, students protest
Devaki Dikshit, Managing Editor
January 10, 2019
Budget cuts that have been impacting the Foothill De - Anza district since the beginning of 2018 have halved the budgets of the Teaching and Learning Center and the STEM center for winter quarter, leading to significant hour reductions and position cuts. Al Guzman, who has worked at Foothill College...
Unhealthy air at Foothill College: The impact of exposure
Devaki Dikshit, Managing Editor
November 19, 2018
Smoke from the wildfire in Butte County has resulted in dangerous air quality throughout the Bay Area -- on Thursday evening, the Air Quality Index in Los Altos measured between 230 and 250 according to AirNow, a service of the EPA. Foothill College, along with universities and school districts statewide,...
Foothill College will open Tuesday and Wednesday
Sarah Hamidi, Staff Writer
November 19, 2018
After three days of campus closures, Foothill College will resume classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Due to improved conditions for the rest of the week (and need to resume the teaching and learning process for students), Foothill College will open its campuses tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday. Face ...
Foothill College campuses will remain closed Monday
Sarah Hamidi and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 19, 2018
A Foothill-De Anza District emergency notification sent to students at 4:27 p.m. stated that classes will be canceled on Monday, Nov. 19, due to poor air quality. Though air quality in the Bay Area has improved slightly, district leadership decided to close campus “in abundance of caution for heal...
Thousand Oaks vigil: Students and faculty stand in unity
Kathy Honcharuk and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 18, 2018
On Nov. 13, a vigil in memory of the victims of the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks was held at the Foothill College library quad. Foothill College President Thuy Nguyen gave a speech expressing compassion and grief for those affected by the 307th mass shooting this year according to The Gun Violence Archive. “[It] is un...
Where to find clean air, free masks in the South Bay Area
Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky, Editor-in-Chief
November 16, 2018
As air quality continues to worsen in the San Francisco Bay Area, cities have opened public spaces for anyone seeking refuge from wildfire smoke blanketing Northern California. Air pollutants from the Camp Fire have created very unhealthy or hazardous conditions in the region expected to continue thro...
Foothill College Cancels Classes Until Monday
Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky and Sarah Hamidi
November 15, 2018
At 7:54 a.m., Foothill-De Anza District faculty members were informed classes would be canceled today, Nov. 15, due to poor air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area related to the Camp Fire. Students were not notified until 8:02 a.m. Wildfires expose residents to high levels of air pollutants linke...
Twenty-one faculty positions to be eliminated, health insurance under threat
Carina Thanh-Ngoc DeLorenzo and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 12, 2018
A number of part-time faculty positions are slated to be eliminated at the end of this year. Insurance and other benefits hang in the balance.
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