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Tornado warnings prompt safety measures

Tornado warning sirens were sounded around the campus last Tuesday around 2 p.m. when severe weather swept through Dallas County. Students were instructed to go to the catacombs of the college where they would be protected from possible tornadoes or damaging weather. Full story

Last minute graduation prep

Once you’ve got your FAFSA all filled out and your transcripts ready to be sent to their respective universities before the deadline, you can get excited to walk that stage once again! Graduation takes place every year in May. This year, it will take place on May 10 at the Special Events Center at 4999 Naaman Forest Blvd. Full story

Everybody out of the pool

Richland pool closed permanently

Summer is coming soon and many students are getting ready for swim season. Unfortunately, the campus pool will remain closed and will be filled in the future. The campus pool is closed to students and faculty. A discussion is under way to identify other uses for the gated area in which it is located. Full story

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  • Tornado warnings prompt safety measures

    Tornado warning sirens were sounded around the campus last Tuesday around 2 p.m. when severe weather swept through Dallas County. Students were instructed to go to the catacombs of the college where they would be protected from possible tornadoes or damaging weather.

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  • Everybody out of the pool

    Summer is coming soon and many students are getting ready for swim season. Unfortunately, the campus pool will remain closed and will be filled in the future. The campus pool is closed to students and faculty. A discussion is under way to identify other uses for the gated area in which it is located.

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  • The Cabin in the Woods

    “The Cabin in the Woods” claims “You think you know the story,” and it’s 100 percent truthful. Coming from Joss Whedon,  creator of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series and director, co-writer of the upcoming “The Avengers” and Drew Goddard (“Cloverfield”), screenwriter, this is a horror movie unlike any you’ve ever seen.

  • Splatters The Splatters

    “The Splatters” is the cutest game ever! At least a girl will likely think so. A guy? Maybe not so much. But “The Splatters” presents itself with bright fun colors with retro arcade style music that is upbeat and entertaining. This isn’t just any ordinary skill game.

  • Prototype 2

    Radical Entertainment returns with “Prototype 2” bringing back shape-shifting and sandbox action world that all of us gamers have come to love and to know. In this second installment players take on the role of Sgt. James Heller. The ultimate goal is to annihilate the original and not-so-heroic Prototype, Alex Mercer, the man who infected Heller and turned him into a monster.

  • Wrath of the Titans

    Two years ago Legendary Pictures unleashed a pile of trash upon us that they tried to pass off as “Clash of the Titans.” Besides the last few minutes of the film where Zeus famously releases the ferocious Kraken, the film was an utter post-converted 3D mess.

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  • Students locked out of buildings

    Students are once again being locked out of some Richland College buildings on weekend evenings. Those students who arrive between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays usually find the campus building doors unlocked. Others arriving later usually find the doors locked.

  • Flash mob invades Earth Day fest

    Mother nature didn’t stop students from celebrating Earth Day last Friday. Despite the rain for the second year in a row, students came out to the Breezeway to enjoy food and entertainment. The Office of Student Life and representatives from the Student Government Association helped host the event, passing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and snacks for students.

  • 'Proof' explores intense family relationships

    Imagine what it would be like to be the one person who discovered something really important and world-changing. An experience like that would be mind-boggling. That is the focus of playwright David Auburn’s 2000 drama titled “Proof,” which won the 2001 Tony Award for best play, as well as the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

  • SGA supports Wounded Warrior Project

    The success of the Student Government Association’s fundraising project to support the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) has gone beyond the Richland campus as representatives from Richland and the rest of the Texas Junior College Student Government Association’s Region II presented the project at the organization’s state convention in Austin.

  • RCHS senior turns green thumb into passion

    Writing an extensive essay isn’t anything new for RCHS students working on their senior projects, but one student is pushing hers past the paper. Lauren Benefield is the founder of the Prosperity Gardens Club and isn’t just striving for an A. She’s hoping her knowledge and passion for horticulture will be something that Richland will benefit from even after she graduates.

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  • Campus biking initiatives need to be reformed

    Let’s get serious here for a moment.  If our school can afford to erect a national environmental showcase like the splendid new Sabine Hall and to construct more, and periodically resurface its existing parking lots, it can surely afford to make some other simple and much cheaper changes to actively promote bicycling.

  • If I had won that $640 million...

    In case you are wondering, and I know not a single one of you is, I do not hold, nor am I one of the three people who possess, that winning $640 Mega-Millions lottery ticket from March 30. Like I really had a chance! Quite frankly, the odds are more in my favor to fly, maybe even pilot, a starship through an asteroid field, as Han Solo (Harrison Ford) did, defying the odds spoken by protocol droid C3PO (3,720 to 1) in “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), than to win a lottery worth more than $600 million.