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Vol. XL Issue 8 October 7, 2014

Fair, food and other fun: pg 5 Murder, suspense Pg. 7

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Health Center monitors Dallas Ebola threat DORIS BROGAN Editor-in-Chief

The Richland College Health Center has been informed of the recent case of the Ebola virus in Dallas. Reports from the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Dallas County Health and Human Services have been received and reviewed by the Health Center.

Martha Burgess, an RN in the Richland Health Center, stressed the importance of awareness and preparation. “We have international students, so we have to be prepared,” she said.

Burgess said questions concerning travel and association with persons who have recently traveled to any of the infected countries in West Africa should be the first questions asked of anyone with symptoms of the deadly virus. Symptoms include fever, muscle and abdominal pain, vomiting and bleeding.

The Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) met Oct. 3 to review and discuss information provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Healthcare providers throughout the DCCCD were provided preparedness checklists, which included a review of symptoms and protocols related to the Ebola virus.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the man diagnosed with the virus, arrived in Dallas from Liberia on Sept. 20.

According to the Associated Press, when Duncan filled out health questions at the airport, he failed to mention that he’d had contact with an infected person in Liberia.

Duncan became ill on Sept. 24 and went to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital emergency room. Though he said he’d come to the U.S. from West Africa, he was diagnosed with an infection and sent home.

He returned to the hospital by ambulance on Sept. 26, was admitted and at press time was being kept in isolation in stable but serious condition.

Four members of a family the U.S. Ebola patient was visiting were confined under armed guard Thursday for noncompliance with a request not to leave their apartment, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

Health officials have been in contact with people who have possibly had contact with Duncan. The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is the worst ever recorded.

As of Sept. 29, a total of 3,091 deaths have been reported. The first outbreak occurred in 1976 and over the subsequent years there have been outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Guinea and Liberia.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appealed to President Barack Obama for assistance in fighting this deadly outbreak.

Obama responded by sending 3,000 U.S. military members, medical corps members and advisors to help train Liberian health care workers to try to stop the spread of this disease.

Updates on the Ebola virus in Dallas will be monitored and reported by the Health Center.

The Associated Press and Nguyen Duong contributed to this story.

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MOVIES

Violence justly personified RICKY MILLER Entertainment Editor

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“The Equalizer” is a flick that relishes the violence factor.

It is just mean-spirited. One of the villains, Teddy (Marton Csokas), kills without an ounce of empathy on his face, just a mean look shrouded with a hidden smirk and joy.

It’s as if he’s just doing his job, even if it was just executing a girl like he was picking up bagels for a loved one.

This is a Denzel Washington vehicle through and through.

He’s on the screen at least more than an hour of the movie’s 131 minute running time.

The main part of the movie deals with Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz “Kick-Ass,” “Hugo,” “Let Me In”), a lost teen girl who is forced into prostitution as a way of supporting herself.

After a meeting with some not so very nice people (i.e. her pimp), Teri ends up as a resident of the local hospital.

The supporting cast members all give various degrees of merit necessary for the storyline. Besides Moretz, Bill Pullman (“Independence Day,” “Ruthless People”),

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Top 10 action movies … so far

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JAIME ZAPATA III Staff Writer

As far as action movies go, there are several to choose from since they continue to get a lot of attention. There are many franchises to choose from as well, so there can be a little variety in one movie per franchise and how they leave a unique mark in cinema history.

(10) “Lethal Weapon” (1987) This is a buddy cop movie where oldschool Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is paired up with suicidal Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) to stop a drug ring. Their personalities clash big time.

(9) “Die Hard” (1988) New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in the middle of Nakatomia Plaza when a group of German terrorists take over the building. He slowly takes down the group one by one in order to save the hostages. He also gives us one of the most memorable sendoff lines ever; “Yippee-ki-yay, @#$%&$ &%$#@!.

(8) “Total Recall” (1990) After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character pays for a virtual memory trip, which makes him a secret agent on Mars, everyone is out to get to him. Taking on strange alien life forms and with GPS trackers implanted in him, his

life becomes a fight for survival. But is this a virtual dream or his real life?

(7) “Aliens” (1986) Yet another famous sci-fi movie made by James Cameron, which is a lot more exciting than its prequel. Ripley, (Sigourney Weaver) the lone survivor of the original movie, returns to the colonized alien planet with a military team for a search and destroy mission.

Unlike its prequel, there are more of these creatures to blow away, which makes things interesting with more heartpounding scenes and more battles.

(6) “Predator” (1987) When a military rescue mission goes wrong, the special ops find themselves being hunted from an alien hunter. They get picked off one by one. Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved, so you can expect a bloody fight about to happen.

(5) “The Fast and the Furious” (2001) This racing movie introduces Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) in the underground racing world. While looking for a group of racers who’ve been stealing trailers of goods, Brian has to keep his cover from being blown, race awesome cars and make it out alive while a new crew is trying to take over.

(4) “The Terminator” (1984) This sci-fi movie gave “I’ll be back” the intensity it was meant to have. When a killer cyborg is sent back in time to kill Sarah Con-

Melissa Leo (Oscar winner for “The Fighter,” “Prisoners”) and Johnny Skourtis as Ralphie, a rather big boned individual who gets training from Washington’s Robert McCall to get a much-needed security position at the store in which he works.

It is an independently owned and operated hardware store and Ralphie lost the weight and got in shape for the position.

The violence factor I talked about earlier goes into high tension in the latter half of the flick. It was taken out of the one-two steps of the later “Saw” flicks wherein elaborate death sequences are justified.

This flick is a reunion of sorts for Fuqua and Washington since he won the Best Actor Oscar for the mediocre yet hardcore “Training Day” in 2001.

It was a big hit, but to me it just dabbled in mediocrity. I know I gave it a C+ when it originally came out and after a recent viewing I’m sticking with my decision. Sure, his character was a mean-spirited jerk, but he was also a good father.

In “The Equalizer,” violence is used as a means to the end. Of course, it is disturbing, but it is also done for all the right reasons.

The villains meet their selected demises with just the right degree of flourish and flare.

As much as I wanted to like and respect this film, it gets a so-so rating. Nobody really seems to realize that the original “Equalizer” was Edward Woodward, a British actor who won an Emmy for the show in 1987.

Grade: B-

ner (Linda Hamilton) in order to prevent the leader of the human resistance from being born, we get to see what would happen if a self-aware machine decided to end humanity.

(3) “The Matrix” (1999) After being stuck in a virtual reality where machines use humans as double-A batteries, Neo wakes up in the real world.

He must fight deadly agents and SWAT teams with machine guns and dodge bullets in slow motion. With all this going on, this movie made philosophy, wearing black leather jackets and kung fu fighting exciting.

(2) “Taken” (2008) The great thing about this movie is that nobody expected it to be so realistic. Liam Neeson plays an Ex-CIA agent looking for his daughter in France. She was taken by a human trafficking ring. This movie could postpone your trip to Paris due to how close it hits to home.

(1) “The Dark Knight” (2008) The second movie made by Christopher Nolan takes the vigilante crime fighter, Batman (Christian Bale) to a whole new level when the Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger, comes around. With this new take on the Joker, you see a performance more psychotic than before. This movie shows how our society can be broken.

Report card: C u r r e n t theatrical rundown “22 Jump Street” Grade: C+ “Annabelle” C “Atlas Shrugged: Who is Jon Galt?” C“Begin Again” B “Boyhood” B“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” B “Dolphin Tale 2” B “The Drop” B “Earth to Echo” C“The Equalizer” B“The Expendables 3” C+ “The Fault in Our Stars” B+ “The Giver” C “Gone Girl” B“Godzilla” C+ “The Good Lie” B “Guardians of the Galaxy” A “Hercules” C+ “The Hundred-Foot Journey” B+ “If I Stay” B“Into the Storm” C“The Lost Boys” B“Lucy” B“Maleficent” B“M*A*S*H” (1970) A“The Maze Runner” C“A Most Wanted Man” B “Once Upon A Time in the West” A (Magnolia only 7:30) “Planes: Fire and Rescue” C“Psycho” (1960) A- (Revival screening, Angelika Plano, Oct. 16 only) “The Purge: Anarchy” C “The Shining” A- (Oct. 10, Angelika Mockingbird only) “Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” C“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” C “This is Where I Leave You” B“To Catch a Thief” A- (Revival screening, Angelika Mockingbird, Thursday, 8 p.m., free outside only) “Transformers: the Age of Extinction” C+ “A Walk Among the Tombstones” B+ “X-Men: Days of Future Past” A-

FEATURE

Fair fare: Food, family fun

Whether you’re going to the State Fair of Texas this year or can’t quite decide if you really want to attend, planning ahead can really save time and money.

Make sure to check out the official website before you go. The site has a list of discounts on the price of admission at bigtex.com/discounts. The website also has a daily schedule so you can decide what you plan on doing when you get there.

Those who take the DART Rail Service can save quite a bit of money on time and transportation. You can bring a cooler filled with food and drinks to the fair as long as there are no alcoholic beverages. You can save a lot of money on drinks that way, and if you want to eat non-fair food for lunch, you can.

And, while we’re on the subject, buy the fair food. Do not get something you can eat anywhere else at any time of the year. Get a specialty like deep-fried Sriracha balls, a Fletcher’s Corny Dog, some saltwater taffy or some freshly spun cotton candy.

All these things can help you enjoy the fair, going easy on your wallet or purse. The most important thing to remember is to have lots of fun.

—Alexander Taylor

The long line in front of Fletcher’s Corny Dog stand is a State Fair tradition dating back to 1942.

Texas-sized corn dogs are a State Fair staple worth the wait.

Staff photos Isai Diaz

The Texas Skyway provides an aerial view.

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A newly revamped Big Tex stands tall, welcoming millions of visitors to the country’s most attended state fair.

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LETTERS/CAMPUS

Letter to the editor

To the Editor: I am moved to write in response to a recent article by Pete Shannon that appeared on Pg. 2 of the September 16, 2014 issue of the Chronicle. (Full disclosure: Mr. Shannon has been a student of mine in many music performance classes and I consider him to be both an excellent student within the Richland Music Department and a good friend.)

The article purports to be a review of a recent recital by sitarist Neena Sharma, but in actuality is an insulting and misguided dismissal of Ms. Sharma’s artistry and of the style of music she plays. Claiming that the style of classical sitar music presented by Ms. Sharma might induce one to start drinking, Mr. Shannon disqualifies the validity of his own opinion in his fifth sentence, writing that the music, “could easily become a means of torture, especially for people like me unwilling to work harder at understanding it.” If Mr. Shannon is unwilling to make even a modest attempt to understand the music presented on a concert, then why should anybody be remotely interested in what he has to say about the performance at all?

Many in attendance at Ms. Sharma’s recital may have been listening to the sound of a sitar, or indeed, the style of Indian classical music for the first time. Judging by the enthusiastic response of the approximately 100 Richland students and other listeners present at the recital, many, if not most of those in attendance were genuinely interested in the musical offerings of Ms. Sharma, and pleased to be able to engage with a culture and style of music that was unfamiliar to them.

One of the chief functions of any college activity is to broaden the scope of one’s understanding and experience. The Music Department’s recital series, while open free of charge to all, is in fact a class taken by all who pursue individual music lessons at Richland. One of the chief purposes of the series is to expose students to a variety of musical styles and ideas.

The week before Ms. Sharma performed, the Richland Faculty Jazz Ensemble played an energetic set, and the week following Ms. Sharma featured members of the locally-based Ensemble 75, who gave a ravishing performance of chamber music from France and the Czech Republic. We strive to present a crosssection of musical creativity from around the world, and ask only that all who come to listen do so with open ears and an open mind (and of course, cell phones off!). Mr. Shannon admits in his article that he sought to distract himself during the performance rather than attempting to engage with the music in any way. How different might his experience have been had he focused on listening to the music?

Within the remarkable community of scholarship and inclusivity we enjoy here at Richland, ignorance must always be called out and reformed. I encourage every member of our community to confront the unfamiliar with the goal of understanding, and to avoid developing uninformed opinions. We owe these considerations to ourselves and to each other.

I hope that Mr. Shannon and the Chronicle will think carefully before publishing another article that does neither.

Respectfully yours, Jordan Kuspa Kuspa is a professor in the RLC Music Department.

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Top: The State Fair of Texas Ferris wheel, Bottom Left: Movie review “The Equalizer,” Bottom center: Play “Rashomon,” Bottom Right: Ebola

Dr. Clive Siegle’s innovative history texts.

History of the world: Part Richland ALEXANDER TAYLOR Staff Writer

When you open a textbook and flip through the pages, what is written inside often seems quite foreign. That can certainly be a bigger problem when the subject is United States history.

The Richland history department set out to change the disconnect felt by their students and in doing so started themselves on a journey to make the perfect textbook.

In 2004 a team headed by Dr. Clive Siegle contacted Pearson Custom Publishing with an intriguing idea; they wanted to add parts to the textbook that they had written themselves.

Interested by this proposition, and rather eager to be a part of the event, the publishing company gladly accepted.

Very quickly the faculty started writing articles to be published with the book. Each professor wrote about the part of American history that is their field of study and tied it into local and Texas history. The stories were then placed at the corresponding spots in the history book.

That project was mentioned in the Sept.

16 Chronicle article about faculty excellence and innovation. It is notable for winning the Richland Innovation of the Year Award for 2004-2005. Even after winning the award, Siegle and his team were not complacent. In an effort to improve even further, they decorated the cover with images of local landmarks. They wrote more articles to include in the textbook. They added a fully downloadable audio version with the purchase of the book. They also changed the binding to make it more flexible and durable [this is illustrated in the image above].

The hard work involved in improving the book won a renomination for the award in 2012-2013. This excellent example of innovation was expressed quite clearly by Siegle when he said “Innovation, after all, should be an ever-evolving journey toward the ultimate goal of perfection, and the two iterations of our textbook are steps in that direction.”

Fellow students, next time you read your textbook and feel like an isolated observer, remember that the world is connected to us all. It only takes a little innovation to close the gap.

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ENTERTAINMENT

A thought-provoking drama Copy Editor

Anyone looking for a thrilling story that combines murder, suspense, stage combat and the occult should look no further than the drama department’s production of “Rashomon.”

The play is scheduled to run at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday in Fannin Performance Hall, Room F-102.

Directed by drama chair Andy Long, “Rashomon,” based on Japanese stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, is adapted by Americans Fay and Michael Kanin.

“Akutagawa did a film version of this, but it had nothing to do with the play,” Long said.

“The play appeared for the first time ever on Broadway in 1959.”

“Rashomon” is the story of the wife of a samurai officer who is assaulted and her husband, who is killed by a roving bandit named Tajomaru, played by Jermaine Johnson.

The story is told by a woodcutter, but complications arise when at the trial different versions of the murder are told by the woodcutter, the wife, the dead samurai through a medium and Tajomaru.

“The play essentially asks the question, ‘What is truth?’” Long said. “You have to put yourself in the mindset of medieval Japan, feudal Japan where no one would ever dream of rising up against a samurai. They were the ruling class of Japan. If a samurai wanted to kill you for an imagined insult, he would not be punished.”

The story takes place around the year 1200.

Long said he chose this particular drama because of the large Asian population at Richland. Since he started four years ago here, he

has been searching for a play that would speak to that culture.

“We are serving the needs of our students.

I found this to be an area that we were lacking … of the multiple Japanese plays I read, this is the one I liked the best,” Long said. “This [‘Rashomon’] involves formality of language, formal dress and sword fighting.”

Long said the point of “Rashomon” is that “we each have our own perspective and we have to remember that our perspective is our truth, but that doesn’t make it ‘the truth.’” He also said that he thinks this play is very relevant today,.

“Rashomon” has a cast of nine, all Richland students. The actors and roles include: Jabin Lewis as the priest; Henser Reyes, woodcutter; Raied Makhamreh, wigmaker; Logan Vorster, deputy; Kevin Dang, the samurai; Harley Gonzales, the wife; Jordan Bechtol, the mother; and Audrey Clark as the medium.

Long said this play benefits drama students because of the stage combat.

“First of all, it’s martial arts-based combat because it’s Japanese. So it teaches them focus.

It teaches them discipline,” Long said. He has incorporated yoga techniques into rehearsals.

“Before I ever start any of these sessions to teach students how to do things like this, first we do exercises to work on trust and respect,” he said. “The No. 1 rule when you learn stage combat is safety first – safety over performance.”

Long said the audience probably has never heard of “Rashomon,” but they’ll be surprised by the events and exciting stage combat. It is more appropriate for those 11 and up.

“We here in America over the last 15 or 20 years, we’ve become fascinated with kung fu films, ninjas, samurais and sword fighting, so you’re going to see some of them live on stage,” he said.

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Tajomaru, the bandit, played by Jermaine Johnson, attacks the samurai, played by Kevin Dang.

This production of “Rashomon” will compete among seven colleges and universities in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Fort Worth Oct. 22-25, with the possibility of advancing to the national competition in Washington, D.C. in May.

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Batman franchise wings its way onto the small screen in ‘Gotham’ CHARLIE VANN Staff Writer

Comic book-based TV shows are not a thing of the past. “Smallville” was a popular hit for many years on CW33. It followed a young Clark Kent before his Superman days and ran from 2001 to 2011.

After “Smallville” ended, “Arrow” took its place. “Arrow,” which is about the DC Comics character The Green Arrow, has been a hit since its debut in 2012. Also, Marvel’s “Agents of Shield,” which is on ABC, has been a big hit as well.

Now another comic book-based show, Fox’s “Gotham,” has hit the airwaves. Any DC Comic reader or Batman fan knows that Gotham is where Batman resides. The city is full of corruption and crime, which drives Gotham billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne to become a crime-fighting vigilante known as Batman.

The show revolves around the murder of Wayne’s parents when he was a boy. In the show we see a young James Gordon, played by

The latest comic book-to-TV experiment joins Fox’s lineup.

Ben Mackenzie, before his time as the iconic Gotham police commissioner. Gordon, along with his hostile and somewhat crooked partner Harvey Bullock, played by Donal Logue, are the detectives on the case.

As a Batman fan, I was excited when I heard that Fox was launching this series. The fact that it is a crime drama is what makes the show much more interesting. I honestly

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don’t think there was another way of going about a “Gotham” origin story. The city has so much bad in it that there are many different story ideas you could probably come up with to base a show on.

I am glad they chose to do this story. The tragedy of the death of Wayne’s parents is what inspires him to eventually become a vigilante. What I really like about the show is

we are not only introduced to a young Bruce Wayne or Jim Gordon, but also a younger version of some of Batman’s foes, like Oswald Cobblepot (Penguin) and Edward Nygma (The Riddler). We even get to see a young Selina Kyle (Catwoman), as she prowls around Gotham as a 13-year-old on her own.

The first episode of “Gotham” threw a lot at viewers as far as the introduction of notable villains, but it does a good job at cutting to the chase of the murder of the elder Waynes.

I also like the good cop/bad cop feel you get with the two detectives, Gordon and Bullock.

One cool thing was coming up with an entirely new villain for the show in the character Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith.

Mooney is a ruthless crime boss who wants to be the head honcho of crime in Gotham.

After watching the first two episodes, I’m interested to see how the series moves forward.

The storyline is great and the cast and characters are even better. I really like the direction the show wants to go. I just hope the ratings will allow it to return for another season because, as a fan of the Batman universe, I know there is so much more they can do with this story.

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