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Vol. XLI Issue 3 January 27, 2015

President Obama meets YouTubers: Pg. 6

What does the Texas Legislature do? Pg. 3Richland play auditions: Pg. 5

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Mental illness: What’s to be done about it?

What do Adam Lanza, James Holmes and Jared Lee Loughner have in common?

If you’ve paid any attention to the violent acts these individuals committed, then you know, thanks to the drive-by media who gave these gunmen their 15 minutes of fame, that they all went on mass-murder sprees.

The question is, did you know these men-tally disturbed individuals and countless oth-ers before them either attempted to seek, were urged by family and friends to seek, refused to seek, or were already undergoing psychiatric care prior to picking up the gun?

Last month a report released by the Con-necticut Office of the Child Advocate profiled Sandy Hook shooter Lanza noting “missed opportunities” by Lanza’s mother, the school district and multiple health care providers. It identified “warning signs, red flags, or other lessons that could be learned from a review of [Lanza’s] life.”

Lanza is just one case where signs of mental illness were completely ignored.

JOE STUMPOStaff Writer

When it comes to mass shootings, mental illness is never the first thing mentioned as being the cause of that person’s rage. Instead, “the blame game” is pushed off on the AK-47 assault rifle the individual used, violent mov-ies, rock music, comic books and the Internet.

Whatever happened to blaming the person who pulled the trigger and the continuing breakdown of the nation’s mental health care system as the reason why so many of these mass shootings keep happening?

I couldn’t help but laugh when I read that the 10 families who lost their children in the Sandy Hook shootings in December 2012 filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the firearm Lanza used.

Here we go again! Distraught families file lawsuits blaming the gun when the real fo-cus needs to be how and whether or not the healthcare system is properly treating poten-tially violent individuals.

In a 2013 article on CNN.com titled, “‘My son is mentally ill’ so listen up,” more than 60 million adults – 1 in 4 in America suffer from mental illness ranging from panic disorders to depression.

Of those nearly 14 million, almost 6 in 100 live with a serious mental illness such

When will we start talking about it?as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or severe depression.

What I find especially troubling is the stig-ma “normal” people often attach to those who are being treated for mental illness.

I am willing to bet if someone told you that he or she is under psychiatric care and taking medications to help get their mind straight, the first thought going through your head will be, “Should I get myself a bulletproof vest in case that person decides one day to go postal?”

Maybe if people did some actual research on the different varieties of bipolar disorder, they wouldn’t jump to so many ridiculous conclusions.

Perhaps if people were not so consumed with their personal lives that when they see someone who may be troubled they could take time out of their hectic schedules and ask that person, “How’s it going?” instead of thinking, “Well that’s just so-so. That’s just the way they are. Nothing to worry about.”

Mental illness was sure to play a major role as jury selection began Jan. 20 in the trial of Aurora shooter Holmes in Colorado.

Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the murders of 12 people. The movie-theater shooting spree on July 20, 2012,

also injured 70 people. “The public is going to get an insight into

the mind of a killer who says he doesn’t know right from wrong,” said Alan Tuerkheimer, a Chicago-based jury consultant. “It is really rare. It just doesn’t usually come to this.”

I don’t know if Holmes’ lawyers will be able to spare him the death penalty.

What I do believe is the only way these mass shootings will end is when politicians and the drive-by media stop playing the blame game and start looking at what more can be done to treat the mentally ill.

Just ask any victim who survived Loughner’s attempted assassination on U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords in January 2011.

Loughner pleaded guilty to 19 charges of murder and attempted murder in August 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Maybe the next time another mass shoot-ing happens in Anywhere, USA, be it the local church, shopping mall, school, movie theater, restaurant, a military base or the workplace, in-stead of playing the blame game, start asking yourself what kind of psychological treatment was that individual who pulled the trigger getting, if any.

Q: Are these shoot-ers mass murderers or mental illness victims?

“I do not think it is a mental illness; proba-bly they are bullied a lot and they just get mad. They think everybody bullies them and they start shooting random people. I really do not think it is a mental problem.”

Brandon Lopez, 20, criminal justice major.

Q: Is the health sys-tem ready to diag-nose or treat mental illnesses?

“Mass murderers could have been in an ill-ness. They just don’t know what they are doing or sometimes people want attention. I think is most common for attention but it could be a mixture of both.”

Irma Arevalo, 18, business major.

Q: Would early treatment help?

“I believe it would have helped the situation more. The reason why they do that is because they feel there is nothing else, like no one is helping them. They feel helpless and they do not know what to do about it so I think they are driven to insanity really because there is nothing they can do. They just go crazy and that is why they start shooting and killing peo-ple.”

Corsha Gillis, 19, computer science major.

Q: Why, in your opinion, weren’t mass murderers treated in the past?

“If they were be treated before all of this happened it would have definitely prevent-ed all of that. I believe they weren’t treated because probably their peers weren’t aware of them being ill and maybe themselves they don’t even know they are ill so there is prob-ably no way for them to think about getting themselves checked by a doctor.”

Servando Luviano, 21, computer science Staff photos Isai Diaz

Students opine about mass murder and mental health issues

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Aspiring entrepreneurs now have a club

Some students on campus might have great ideas to start a business. Entrepreneurship is the fancy word used these days to describe the ability to start a business based on one’s own ideas.

Now, for the second time on campus, wan-nabe entrepreneurs have their own club where they can find some guidance on how to make their business dreams come true.

Sheena Earvin is the president of the En-trepreneurship Club, which is the only busi-

MARTA PLANELLSStaff Writer

ness major club at Richland. “We want to make a club for every major,

even though is a business major-based club. We are trying to make sure that all students of every major can be at the club.”

There are already 40 people in the club but they are expected to grow this semester to around 100 members. This is a club that has a collaborative environmental spirit, meaning that during sessions members are split up in groups to work together This is not a club to just sit down and listen to someone speak.

Taking the first step to commercialize your work is not as easy as it would seem. Where to go to seek money, how to obtain permits,

The 84th Texas Legislature is now in ses-sion through June 1, and voters are wondering what its members will accomplish.

How will new Gov. Greg Abbott’s leader-ship of the Lone Star State differ from previ-ous governor Rick Perry?

According to published reports in The Dal-las Morning News, Abbott advisers seem to think the more controversial issues, such as abortion and cracking down on illegal immi-gration, will go by the wayside. Instead, Ab-bott will be more low key.

“He’ll be a no-drama governor,” said top political adviser David Carney. “He will be somebody focused and prioritized and will work with the legislature.”

That is good news, based on the conflict going on in our federal government between President Barack Obama, Congress and the American people.

“Open carry [of handguns] will pass the

legislature in some form,” Carney said. Despite all the political rhetoric about Ab-

bott from the experts, I found one DMN writer whom I really admire. It’s Dave Lieber, whose column, “The Watchdog” works for us, Texas voters, who have complaints about questionable practices in business and govern-ment.

In Lieber’s Jan.16 column, he revealed what he thought was the “legislative package” for this session. I agree with Lieber that there’s fi-nally someone who is on the side of the hard-working taxpayers who are getting ripped off royally by the federal government through higher taxes, more regulations and constant gridlock between the president and Congress, even after the results of the Nov. 4 elections.

Lieber said that he gets an “unending stream of reader complaints” on five main issues. Chances are, you have experienced problems in one or more of them. They are:

“Texans are now required to give full sets of fingerprints when applying for a driver’s li-cense, renewing one in person or applying for a state ID card.”

Lieber says the problem is that the Texas Legislature never specifically voted for this change in policy. I’m wondering: Is this a vio-lation of our right to privacy or is it going to help prevent crime or terrorism in America?

“Credit and debit card surcharges” – Li-eber said it’s against state law for businesses to charge surcharges, except in government. He thinks we need a legislator to introduce a bill toward reinforcement.

“Roofer’s license” – Lieber said he hired a roofer after a hailstorm, but the guy acciden-tally did his neighbor’s roof instead of his.

“Auto insurance questions” – This concerns customers who are penalized for only asking questions about their policies but have never had a claim.

This one concerns my husband and me. We’ve gone to State Farm and asked questions about the policies on our cars, but how do we know if they aren’t penalizing us for doing so. I believe this is unacceptable. According to Lieber, one lawmaker, Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, has introduced a bill to try to stop auto insurance companies from doing this. It’s

finding a place to run a business … all these are questions that may pop up, so joining this group seems a smart move.

Kevin Wortley is the faculty adviser for this group and the person who started it last se-mester. He has helped the club officers make the list of the outside speakers who will be sharing their experiences and knowledge with the members of the club. For instance, the club is bringing two young and successful seri-al entrepreneurs, Josh Read and Tommy Swan-son, who both are under or in their 30s and have already started several businesses. Teach-ers from Richland will also be giving some tips about working in different areas.

The Entrepreneurship Club will have its first meeting this semester from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 and they will meet every other Thursday in Wichita Hall Room 103 at the same time. There are no requirements to join the club other than being either student, fac-ulty or staff at Richland. Free food and sweets will be provided for the first meeting.

The club staff has come up with an interest-ing list of speakers who will be sharing their knowledge with the club members during the meetings.

Wortley explained that every time you do anything it can be an opportunity to turn it into a business, so, why don’t you start now?

Texas Legislature: What’s in store for our state?Watson’s Senate Bill 1891.

“Fixing electricity’s sneaky costs”- Lieber said he gets the most complaints about elec-tricity companies as opposed to any other in-dustry in Texas.

Lieber plans to track these five topics for the next six months and see what happens in the legislature.

I’m not the only one who believes these five issues are of major importance to Texans. In a “Letter to the Editor” Jan. 16, someone in Dallas praised Lieber for “standing up for the taxpayers in this state.”

This reader said, “Sure, Texas is a great state for business, but at what cost to the average citizen? It’s time we get a fair shake and our elected representatives in Austin start repre-senting us and not the lobbyists. It’s totally insane when you need a license to braid hair, but you can roof anyone’s house with no other requirement other than maybe a building per-mit, if you bother to get one.”

“I still believe in the power of the people and that lobbyists are like cockroaches. They scatter in the bright light,” Lieber said.

JOYCE JACKSONCopy Editor

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“Birdman or (“The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”) B - Michael Keaton is a washed-up actor staging a one-man show on Broadway who deals with a variety of pre-dicaments and problems preceding the opening of his play.

“Fury” B+ - Brad Pitt is commander of a platoon of soldiers facing predicaments aplenty in Germany at the end of World War II.

“John Wick” B - Keanu Reeves is the title character

here, a former assassin-for-hire who gets pulled back into the seething underworld he thought he left behind.

“Stonehearst Asylum” C+ - This is an intriguing tale about various denizens of a mental institution that in-cludes Michael Caine, Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Kingsley.

“St. Vincent” B - Bill Murray is a curmudgeon of an old man who befriends a next door neighbor kid (Jaeden Lieberher) who learns to fend for himself in the everyday world.

Ricky’sTake 5

“Boyhood” — Director Richard Linklater has received nothing but ac-colades for this slice-of-life drama centering on a kid (Ellar Coltrane) and his parents, (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke). Significant because it has Oscar nominations for both picture, director and the two supporting actors. Grade: B-“The Boy Next Door” — Jennifer Lopez is a high school English teach-er who succumbs to sleeping with an 18-year-old student (Ryan Guzman). Rob Cohen directed the movie and the original “The Fast and The furious” in 2001. D

“The Humbling” — The once-great Al Pacino is Simon Axler, a person suffering from a midlife nervous breakdown who befriends a former fam-ily friend (Greta Gerwig), who happens to be a lesbian. C+ “The Wild” — Overpraised drama following the exploits of Reese With-erspoon’s Cheryl, who is taking a 1,000-mile-plus hike on the west coast. B-Available on Blu-ray: “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” — With this 2001 Steven Spielberg direct-ed gem, Haley Joel Osment is David, a robot who wants to be a real boy. A

“Taken 3” — Call it a minor disappointment, but with some moments of bona-fide suspense.

I’m referring to a role Liam Neeson has made all his own, that of former FBI agent David Mills, who always seems to be in trouble, one way or the other.

In this chapter, no one is missing, but rather, murdered. His ex-wife Leanore (Famke Janssen) ends up pushing up daisies. Throughout the flick, various entanglements occur that make Mills the main suspect of Leanore’s death. The antagonists of “Taken 3” try to make Mills the fall guy of the story.

The audience and everyone involved knows his innocence, but director Olivier Megaton returns to the same story with a few twists and turns.

I will say, however, this chapter improves greatly on all of the asinine shenanigans of the previous movie. That one just annoyed the bejesus out of me. I was so bored, I rolled my eyes and was just plain annoyed.

In a role he had just played as an authoritar-ian figure, Forest Whitaker is once again an FBI agent who has dealt with Mills and his predica-ment.

Remember in last year’s “The Last Stand,” Whitaker was agent John Banister who aids Schwarzenegger’s sheriff Ray Owens.

I hate to admit it, but I would not mind if they continued with this series.

Originally, writer Luc Besson said with the first “Taken,” he just wanted a single stand-alone story. It was a minor miracle that it found an audience. But as long as the studios can drag people to the theater, the cycle will never die, because that is ex-actly what sequels are made for: Sucker them in for one more bite!

Grade: C+ —Ricky Miller

‘TAKEN 3’: Disappointing, but keep 'em coming

Want to read my opinion of Clint Eastwood as director?

Well do ya, punk?

Everyone has a personal opinion about movies. I do too. Not just because I am a professional film critic, but also because I enjoy the experience of seeing a movie in the theater.

Clint Eastwood is an awesome direc-tor. I really enjoyed “Play Misty For Me,” a movie he did before I was even born.

With his latest flick, “American Snip-er,” he delves into the world of Chris Kyle (Oscar-nominated Bradley Coo-per), a sniper who claims to have killed more than 150 people.

The trouble is, for as many great mov-ies as he’s done (“Unforgiven,” “Pale Rider”, “Heartbreak Ridge” ), he’s done some overrated stuff, too. Namely, “Mys-tic River,” which to me felt like a glori-fied made-for-TV movie of the week.

And, lest I forget, that awful but fun pairing with Charlie Sheen that was

“The Rookie.” I’d probably give it a C+I noticed a lot of other film critics were

giving American sniper a grade of A and higher. To me, it was just a solid B+. I liked and respected it, but I’ve seen better.

I actually saw this in the theater with my dad who was a sniper spotter and worked sniper security in Vietnam. He has three bronze stars and Combat Infan-try Badge. He served under David Hack-worth, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross, eight Purple Hearts, ten Silver Stars, eight Bronze Stars and two CIBs, which are given to soldiers who have been in combat for a least 30 days.

Eastwood also did some awful and disappointing stuff like “True Crime,” “White Hunter, Black Heart,” “Abso-lute Power” and “Blood Work.” The A’s and higher in my book are Eastwood’s “A Perfect World,” Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Thunder-bolt and Lightfoot,” “Escape From Alca-traz” as well as the aforementioned “Play Misty for Me.”

RICKY MILLEREntertainment Editor

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The 'Horror' of auditionsAnil Chandy, 24, studying for an associate in arts. Audrey Clark, 18, studying for an associate of arts with

an emphasis in theater.Bismark Quintanilla, 20, theater major.

A turnout of the experienced and non-experienced alike auditioned for “Little Shop of Horrors” in Fannin Performance Hall Thursday. It was a success.

Gregory Lush, theater visiting scholar, also thought it was a great turnout. He said the department is really growing. “I was really encouraged by the turnout. The number and quality of our students continues to grow. I saw a number of our actors demonstrate tremendous growth in the past year, which is extremely gratifying. A few students weren’t quite as prepared as I would have liked, so that was a little disappointing, by and large, it was a great evening of auditions.”

Lush is always optimistic for his audition-ers. “You really want them to do well. And, of course, the better they are, the better the show will be.” He can’t wait for rehearsals to begin.

Theater major Audrey Clark, 18, grew up in a musically talented household.

“My mom was a theater major and taught theater for many years. We would sing along and play music in the house or in the car. We would watch musicals a lot, ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Mary Poppins.’ I took voice lessons for about a year on and off, so I kinda

developed it a little bit more in that way,” Clark said when asked where she learned to sing.

Clark, a homeschooled student, has been in theater since middle school, including a couple of plays outside of school. “I did this co-op that did theater shows for high school homeschoolers called Clavatis Players.”

Clark was nervous for this musical because she hasn’t done many musicals. “Singing in front of people, it was kind of nerve-wrack-ing,” she added.

Clark chose a song from the movie “Grease.” She felt that it was similar in style to “Little Shop of Horrors.”

“I love the movie ‘Grease’ . . . I always loved the character of Rizo.”

Even though the experienced perform-ers were nervous, the non-experienced ones were not afraid to take to the stage like Anil Chandy, 24, who is planning to transfer to UTD or American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

“I’m not a singer. I have never tried to sing before,” said Chandy. He had tried out for two other musicals before. One of them was here at Richland; “Fire and Blood” directed by faculty member Andy Long.

The other was the distressing-yet-humor-ous “Fiddler on the Roof.” “I got a callback and got cast for a Russian singer and a bottle dancer.”

Chandy tried out for the experience because he wants to be an actor, “The only thing that kind of makes me nervous is singing.”

Another theater major, 20-year-old Bismark Quintanilla, said he was nervous and wanted to audition again but just did not have enough time. “I messed up . . . leading up to it you may feel comfortable, but once you’re up there it’s something else. Sometimes it’s really just a fight between you and your nerves, and it’s a matter of trying to calm them down.”

Last year Quintanilla performed in the plays “Frog and Toad” and “Fire and Blood.” Since he was a kid, he learned to sing from listening to older music that his dad listened to and tried to mimic the sounds the singers would make. “From there I would sing all the time . . . There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t sing . . . It’s just a passion that I have. I love it.”

Before the auditions were posted, Quin-tanilla didn’t know what the “Little Shop of Horror” musical was about then last summer, “I saw the movie and read the script . . . I didn’t want to get lost.”

In the end Quintanilla came out with a positive attitude. “I know I could have done better. It is what it is. Whatever happens, happens.”

Staff photos Melanie Brandow

MELANIE BRANDOWEditor-in-Chief

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President Obama on YouTube: I liked it, kinda

Bethany Mota, 19, one of three YouTube personalities interviewing President Barack Obama in a live event in the East Room of the White House Thursday afternoon, candidly confessed she, “never really followed politics that much.”

Her statement encapsulated what should have been the defining goal of the 45-minute interview: To get younger people involved in politics. Well, that and an admission that most of us younger people did not watch the State of the Union address, but we heard and read something on the Internet that sounded scary and thought maybe we should be concerned about so can you like tell us some basic infor-mation without too much context or give us some keywords we can put them into Google or YouTube because they set up this whole thing.

Instead, each personality -- Hank Green, GloZell Green and Mota were given 15 min-

KISTEN S. CHETTYStaff Writer

utes to fire off catch-phrase questions sug-gested to them by their followers. The presi-dent then had even less time to answer these complex questions; for example, one asked by Green about the use of drones in war-fare. Apart from trying to keep a hold on a notoriously ADD-riddled audience, the ques-tions jumped incoherently from one topic to another. GloZell transitioned, if you can call it that, from a question on race relations and police brutality to what can we do about the “Castros.”

The combination of staccato, unconnected questions followed by quick responses became sometimes jarring, confusing and incomplete. In that way, it was very much like a discussion in the YouTube comment sections with less expletives and racial slurs.

However, with all my critiques I believe that it was a shaky but good first step in the right direction. Younger people require new ways to be reached, educated and motivated to get in-volved in politics. It is all well and good to say that young people should have watched the State of the Union address, but most didn’t.

At least this way some information, some ideas, some political content filtered through to the target audience. I hope.

President Obama really shined when he re-sponded to Mota about getting involved with politics. After attempting to use a rather en-dearing analogy of friends going to the mov-ies to explain politics, he said, “I think young people usually have good instincts, I just think that they sometimes get turned off by all the noise and yelling on TV.”

Sure, I thought it’s strange that they deco-rated the inside of the White House to look like a 19-year-old girls room. That 15 min-utes was not enough time to adequately speak on complex issues, and I disliked the blatant YouTube and Google image placement. But I think it did have some success in at least bring-ing some important issues to a large audience that needed to hear it. Not in a traditional fo-rum, but an effective one to spread the word.

Finally, in case you forgot you were on You-Tube, in a bold move they allowed comments on the video. At press time the top comment was “Illuminati puppet.”

Image courtesy youtube.com

Staff photos Isai Diaz“I felt like some were really good questions concerned about the future of America.”

Akash Ramesh, 17, RCHS

“I like him [Obama] coming talking about helping each other, helping our communities. Helping us build and grow.”Diana Lockhart, 43, bookstore employee

“I just thought some of the questions were kinda too easy. Nothing controversial.”

Andrew Schmidt, 18, Freshman undeclared

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Today 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.Faculty Jazz GroupFannin Performance Hall, Room 102Free to the public

Friday

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.Sgt. Jim Huggins, Texas Ranger Lecture on forensic scienceWichita Hall, Room 115

Upcoming Events

Wednesday

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. El Paso HallSpring Transfer FairRepresentatives from more than 50 universities will be in attendance

Feb. 3

Chronicle Issue 4 on newsstands

3:30 to 5 p.m. Opening jazz receptionBlack History MonthSabine Hall, Room 118

Inclement Weather Hotline:

Students: 972-238-6196Richland employees:972-238-6912Information available after 6 a.m.

Richland briefsWednesdayNorthlake 7 p.m.

SaturdayEastfield 2 p.m.

Feb. 4Mountain View 7 p.m.

Feb. 7Brookhaven 2 p.m.

Feb. 11 Cedar Valley 7 p.m.

BasketballscheduleRetired Texas Ranger speaks at club

Sgt. Jim Huggins, a retired Texas Ranger, will give a lecture from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday in

Wichita Hall, Room 115 on: Dying to get across the border, a first-hand perspective on inves-tigations using archaeological and forensic strategies.

Huggins lectures on forensic science at Baylor University. He holds a Master of Forensic Science degree and was named one of the top 15 crime scene investigation professors nation-wide. Huggins has inspired characters in more than 12 fictional Texas Ranger novels and has been a cast member of a TV reality show about cold case homicides.

The event is sponsored by the Richland Anthropology Club. For more information, contact club president Kaitlyn Smith at Kaitlyn_06@yahoo.com or the club or sponsor Dr. Timothy Sullivan at tsullivan@dcccd.edu.

Discounts available for students, employees

Thunderduck discounts are now available to Richland students and employees at participat-

ing businesses. A variety of discounts include: 10, 15 or 20 percent off with Student ID, buy one meal and get something free and free desserts, among others, based on the type of business.

Carter Bedford, Office of Student Life director, said the discount program is just another benefit for the Richland community.

Discounts are not offered at all business locations; some are only offered for students, who must show their current ID. Pick up a complete list of businesses and locations in the Office of Student Life in El Paso Hall, Room 040.

Participating businesses include: Afrah Restaurant, Alamo Draft House, AMC Theaters, Angelika Film Center, Arapaho Sticker & Lube Garage, Best Western Plus Dallas Conference Center, Brick Row Urban Village, Cappuccino Italian Bistro, Celebration Station, CertaPro Painters, CityLine Dental Center, Close To You – Specialty Wellness Center, Coffee Eiland, Dante’s Pizza, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Dr. David Frazee (eyecare), Elements Massage of Richardson, Fish-n-Tails, Gann Allstate Insurance, Garland Symphony Orchestra, Genera-tor Coffee House, Hyatt Place Garland, I Heart Yogurt, Mena’s Tex-Mex Grill, Poetry Place, Remote Control Hobbies, Richardson Symphony Orchestra, Seacrest Apartments, Studio Movie Grill, Tavern on Main Street, The UPS Store #3401, United Artists Galaxy Theatre Stadium 10,Whataburger and Zaxby’s.

Lizard Squad – offline, in jail

The Internet’s black hat hacker group known as Lizard Squad is finally coming to an abrupt end as members are arrested one by one.

It all started Dec. 25 when the secretive group attacked both Sony and Microsoft with DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks to their console services, anchoring the month’s highest revenue point of the year for both companies.

A week or two prior to the attacks, Lizard Squad was interviewed by a YouTube Media creator by the name of FaZe Keemstar (DramaAlert), known for his behind-the-scenes coverage gathered from and social media under the Twitter hashtag #DramaAlert, now truly an icon on the Internet and multiple news networks in Europe and North America.

During the interview, two sides of the controversy were present; Finest Squad and of course Lizard Squad. Finest Squad was created as a mirror image of Lizard Squad and Finest Squad swore to do everything it’s power to suppress Lizard Squad’s attacks,

JONATHAN JOHNSONStaff Writer

and obtain doxes (real names, alias, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers etc.) to all of its members for both authorities and other hackers.

During the interview, Lizard Squad’s 18-year-old English member, Jordie, claimed that both PlayStation and Xbox Live services were going down for Christmas. Finest Squad’s anonymous member shot back with, “What’s going to happen is I’m going to take their botnet offline; take that <expletive> down.”

A week earlier, Keemstar scheduled an interview with Lizard Squad, Finest Squad and the hacking activist group Anonymous, which joined the spotlight with its opinions about both groups for Finest Squad being frauds and making the point clearly to both

Keemstar and Lizard Squad stating, “We are not responsible for

Microsoft or Sony’s Infrastructure.”

Ironically, while Finest Squad’s

attempts at suppressing the Lizard Squad attack on

Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network failed, Lizard Squad

member “Jordie” (Jordan Cameron) has been arrested in Great Britain.

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