A dozen maple trees from the Richland Tree Farm were planted on campus to celebrate a very special Arbor Day on April 29. Although this is an annual event, this year was even more meaningful than usual, since the new trees replaced ones that were cut down last year due to the emerald ash borer beetle infestation that has been affecting North Texas for years.
Valentine’s Day season is right around the corner! As students across Dallas College look to woo their partner, the perfect date might be sitting right in front of them.
Richland has a load of romantic hideaways for student couples to enjoy themselves and further their education. Here’s the Chronicle’s suggestion for the perfect campus date.
Because Oct. 10 was Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to share a few thoughts about an article I read the other day on ushistory.org concerning the Trail of Tears. It stated that Andrew Jackson wanted to remove “native peoples” from their lands to “make room for settlers and often for speculators who made large profits from the purchase and sale of land.”
If this was the case, why not point settlers and speculators to the lands (modern-day Oklahoma) where the State of Georgia and Andrew Jackson wanted to expel natives? If the land was as good as Jackson made it out to be, why not take it for themselves? Was not this land already available? Would it not be easier for all parties involved to send “settlers” and “speculators” to the unpopulated lands, rather than to force a nation out of its territory, and then deal with a “Trail of Tears”’?
In previous years, Richland campus has hosted an annual charity event toward the end of the fall semester in conjunction with the Salvation Army and its Angel Tree charity drive. This year’s charity drive is called the Giving Tree. Kelly Sonnanstine, adviser for the Student Government Association and coordinator for Office of Student Life, said there is a change in the charity drive.
“In the past, Richland as a whole college, participated in the Salvation Army Angel Tree. This year, we were not able to make those arrangements, so the student government chose to do their own version. And so as to alleviate any confusion, they’ve called it the Giving Tree,” Sonnanstine said.
