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Wednesday February 21, 2018
RIO HONDO COLLEGE NEWSPAPER est. 1964 Serving the Rio Hondo Community
Volume 56 Issue 2
TRIGGER HAPPY
AMERICA EDIT BY RAMON ALVARADO/EL PAISANO NEWS
The mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Feb. 14 is the 18th of 2018 already. With these incidents becoming more common by the year, is it time for gun control laws?
Rio’s Speech & Debate Tourney RODOLFO PINEDO Reporter
rodolpho.juarezpinedo2776@my.riohondo.edu
Rio Hondo had strength and numbers on their side at the Tabor-Venitsky Tournament hosted by Cerritos Community College on February 16-18. On Friday February 16th Gabriela Rodriguez and DYlan Logan were able to break into the elimination rounds representing Rio Hondo in winning bronze. On Sunday February 18, Rio Hondo showed up especially strong and ready for IPDA Debate with a team size reaching the 20’s. The experienced members of the team were joined by many new faces wanting to get a feel of the Speech and Debate
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FBI officials never received the tip. The FBI tip-line receives about 2,100 calls a day. ramon.alvarado7328@my.riohondo.edu With tips to the FBI now seeming useless, gun control is Nineteen-year-old Nikoagain the hot topic in America. las Cruz was charged with 17 Last week’s Florida incident is counts of premeditated muralready the 18th mass shooting der following his attack with of 2018. We’re only two-andan AR-15 on Majory Stoneman a-half months into the year. Douglas High School Feb. 14. Student survivors at Ma A hearing for Cruz was jory Stoneman Douglas High held on Monday, though it School are now speaking out, was over in just minutes. Exhoping to ignite the gun conecutive Chief Public Defendtrol moveer, Gordon ment. The Weekes said students the hearing went to sowas inadvercial media tently schedto lash out uled. Weekes against polwent on to say iticians and Cruz will likethe National ly be absent Rifle Associfrom upcomation. Moning hearings day, Presibecause he dent Donald has no reason Trump said to be there. JOEL AUERBACH/AP PHOTO he is open F e d e r al law enforce-Parents wait after reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. to improving backg round ment sources claim Cruz purchased sev- Cruz being treated badly. checks on those who buy The FBI apologized Friday firearms, a measure that en rifles over the last year, a warning sign no one took for mishandling a tip they re- is backed by the NRA. seriously. The 19-year-old ceived in Jan. from someone Five states –California, was investigated in 2016 who was concerned about Connecticut, Indiana, Oreby the Florida Department Cruz and the likelihood of him gon and Washington– have Continued on page 3 of Children and Families. carrying out a mass shooting. RAMON ALVARADO Editor-in-Chief
Police records show deputies went to Cruz’s home over 30 times in 2016. They then sent an investigator over to see if he was being mistreated in Sept. of the same year. The investigator found that Cruz had posted videos cutting his arms on Snapchat, suffered from ADHD, autism, and depression. The DCF closed the investigation six weeks later after finding no evidence of
Spring’s Club Rush at Rio CESAR GONZALEZ Reporter
cesar.gonzalez6118@my.riohondo.edu
Rio Hondo’s annual Valentine’s themed Club Rush was a two day event that took place in the campus’s midquad, on Feb. 13 and 14. The purpose of Club Rush is to pass out and provide information for each club. It also gives them a chance to raise some money by selling different foods and snacks. Clubs such as AGS (Alpha Gamma Sigma), the Photo League Club, JCPR, the Chinese Culture Club, Drama Club, DREAMERS and even the DSPS (Disabled Students Program & Services) were out selling all types of different foods; from churros for $1, to esquites, which is corn in a
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