Renegade Rip, issue 6, Nov. 16, 2022

The Renegade Rip
Vol. 99 ∙ No. 6 Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
Bakersfield College
Roundtable talks
about CRT
Veterans matter at
BC
“Wendell & Wild”
represents
News, Page # 2 News, Page # 3 Opinion, Page # 8
AMANDA HERNANDEZ/ THE RIPP
BC gaurd Rahmel Davis lays up the ball
against Reedley College on Nov. 12.
COURTESY OF DAVE SEY-
MOUR
Drone footage from BC’s
first Light up the night on
BLAKE BURTON/ THE RIP
BC Jazz combos move and grove
with original compositions.
JASPREET MULTANI/ THE RIPP
Cheryl Scott, director of the Bakersfield
College Foundation, talks about the new
edible garden
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News
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Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
Fliers question proposed BC
housing before midterms
By Anthony Vasquez
Editor-in-cheif
During the events of the 2022 Midterm elections, a dispute
between BC faculty occurred over the coalition for housing
security for students.
During the recent disputes, fliers were distributed around
the neighborhoods near the main campus which included
some negative remarks against the plan. The flier presents
a picture of a run-down apartment complex, a title that
states “Bakersfield College is building LOW INCOME
HOUSING next to your home,” which is then followed by a
statement that says “220 beds for low income residents (not
student dorms).”
The flier also claims that the student housing is a current
plan that is under the current KCCD Chancellor Sonya
Christain, dubbing it the “Sonya Christain Projects.”
Trustee Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg was also negatively called
out on the flier by mentioning her support of the project,
“This Project is supported by your KCCD Board Area 3
Trustee Nan Gomez-Heitzenberg. Good luck changing her
mind.” The statement views her support in a negative way
through the fact that they are falsely presenting the project
to be something that could be a harm to the neighborhood.
A bullet list of negative aspects of the idea is also in the
flier. A few of them include:
• “loud Parties”
• “safety issues”
• “crime”
• “crowded daily parking issues”
• “overflow of parking for events”
• “decrease in property values”
Communications professor, Christine Cruz-Boone stated
in a press release that was sent out on Nov. 7, “Bringing
back the residence halls to BC appeared to be supported by
the Bakersfield community until the appearance of the inflammatory
flyers this weekend.” Cruz-Boone also included
a statement made by English Professor Andrew Bond that
stated his support for the project and for the students at BC,
“fake news tactics like the ad circulated this weekend are all
too common in the Central Valley and often students are
cannon fodder for dirty political tactics, but we want them to
know their teachers stand with them.”
When asked about what the goals are for promoting the
student housing projects, and the support that they have
so far received, Cruz-Boone stated, “Our long term goal
is to help people understand why BC students need access
to housing security. Our short term goal is to counter any
misinformation about student centered development at our
college. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and
we have become a great hub for sharing questions and information
about why dorms are a huge gain for our students
and community”
BC Roundtable tackles CRT
By Nicolas Watson
Reporter
Bakersfield College hosted its final
session of The Renegade Roundtable
this semester, where a panel discussed
and debated timely political and social
issues amongst themselves and the audience.
This Nov. 9 installment tackled
Critical Race Theory – what it means,
what purpose it serves, and the myths
surrounding it. It was headlined by panelists
Savannah Andrasian from the English
department, Javier Llamas from
History, Dave Moton from English, and
Joe Saldivar from Biology and hosted
by Reggie Williams from Philosophy.
The panelists spent much of their
time trying to pin down exactly what
the highly publicized and controversial
Critical Race Theory exactly was, and
how its rise to the spotlight began.
They were generally in agreement on
where it came from, though Saldivar
did express his concern for the inability
to find the ‘principle’ paper, like in
other scientific fields. Overall, though,
a consensus was reached pretty quickly
that Critical Race Theory was the
study of historical racial injustices and
inequalities and how they continue to
impact the United States today.
The focus of the conversation then
turned to the dispelling of the various
myths that surround Critical Race
Theory, such as its confusion with other
similar programs, such as The New
York Times Magazine’s ‘1619 Project.’
This led to the panelists discussing
among themselves on how Critical
Race Theory, or the study of race itself
in school, should be handled in America.
While it was agreed upon that learning
about America’s history in regard
to race was vital, how exactly it should
be tackled was a point of divergence
for some of the panelists, where they
weren’t sure how it could be taught in a
digestible but also ‘child-friendly’ manner,
especially for younger children,
with one of the primary questions being
raised was “At what point do we educate
children on these topics?”
Those looking for more Renegade
Roundtable Events, however, will have
to wait for next semester, as this marked
the final talk of the semester.

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Veterans matter at BC
By Jocelynn Landon
Reporter
Bakersfield College hosted a veterans resource fair on Nov.
9th. This event was all to showcase the amount of support
that Bakersfield College and the community has for veterans
and their families.
“Take advantage of the resources… don’t wait, go get
help” stated one of the panel speakers.
Because of measure J, passed in November 2016 that allocated
$502 million bonds to provide funding on the Bakersfield
College campus, the main campus resulted in the
Veterans Resource Center.
Veterans and their dependents can go alongside people
who understand them and are out there trying to help them
every step of the way.
Faculty member Paul Beck was a major help in launching
the program. President Dr. Zav Dadabhoy spoke about
how he was one of the first faculty members to speak up
about how we can be more supportive of the veterans at Bakersfield
College. He understood and knew what they would
need to be more successful.
At the veterans resource center they provide an ample
amount of support from counseling, tuition assistance, peer
tutors, computers, and book vouchers. They are fostering a
community to make sure that they have what they need to
succeed. “Democracy needs to be protected and nurtured
and the veterans give their life limb and soul to protect our
democracy” stated Jenny Frank the centers manger. They
then went on to say that because of all the work that they do
for our country, it’s time they seek out the resources that are
available so that we can help them succeed. There were also
outside partners such as CSUB Veterans Center, American
Job Center, Bakersfield Behavioral Health, and CapK there
as well to talk about services and how they could help.
“Veterans, thank you for your service” states Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg,
the KCCD vice president of area 3. BC really
showed their praise for veterans by informing all of them
about the support from faculty, programs, and the community.
They thanked them and showed them how much they
have for them to have a more supportive and successful college
experience.
JOCELYNN LANDON/
THE RIP
(Left) Jenny Frank
speaking at the Veterans
Resource Fair
about the resources
that BC offers.
JOCELYNN LANDON/
THE RIP
(Right) Marines listening
to the guest
speakers thanking
them for their service.
JOCELYNN LANDON/THE RIP
Students asking recruiters how to get
involved in the military.

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Sportss
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Basketball falls to Reedley
By Amanda Hernandez
Reporter
Bakersfield College’s Renegades
basketball team lost to
Reedley College with a score
of 71-75 on Nov. 12.
In the beginning, Reedley
took the lead against Bakersfield
College, as they struggled
to defend the court.
Though many shots were
made by the Renegades,
Reedley had speed in their
favor.
As halftime approached,
Bakersfield College was
down by ten points with a
score of 25-35, still able to
make a comeback.
In the second half of the
game, the Renegades fought
hard while going back and
forth with their opponent.
The score was up and down
rapidly as both teams attempted
to take the win.
Andrew Townson had multiple
lay ups. His teammates,
Dusten Henderson Tyler
Silva and London Taylor all
contributed to the score with
their shots.
However, in the last minute
of the game, Reedley came
back fast and strong, scoring
four points on Bakersfield
College, finishing the game
and taking the win.
AMANDA HERNANDEZ/THE RIP
Sean Fry scores a free throw shot after being
fouled by Reedley.
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Ipreye Egbe drives the ball toward the basket
before passing off to a teammate.
AMANDA HERNANDEZ/THE RIP
Sean Fry thinks smart against Reedley when attempting to
put a lay up in the basket.

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Features
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BC celebrates opening of the
Edible Education Garden
By Jaspreet Multani
Reporter and Designer
Bakersfield College celebrated the
grand opening of the Edible Education
Garden on Nov. 3. This garden
will provide a learning space for students
in the culinary arts, nutrition,
and agriculture programs at BC. This
will benefit students through the BC
food Assistance program.
Executive Director for the Bakersfield
College Foundation Cheryl Scott
says the garden will also serve as a
learning space for the community.
“Students will learn the process of
growing their own fresh food as they
grow up, and then instilling those ideas
in their families as they go back home,”
Scott explained.
Scott says the garden will make a difference
for BC students to get handson
agriculture
training.
She also mentioned
that the
edible garden will
produce fresh food
for the Renegade
Pantry.
Scott concluded
by saying, “You
can’t learn everything
you need to
know about agriculture
by reading
it in a book, watching
videos, and
hearing people talk
about it, you need
to have hands-on.
That’s what this
project is for our
students.”
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BC president Zav Dadabhoy speaks at Edible Garden
ribbon cutting on Nov. 3
Binge-worthy for Turkey Day
By Jocelynn Landon
Reporter
“Love is Blind”
It’s your classical love show… except
they never see each other until after the
proposal. Love is blind is currently on
season 3 and is streaming on Netflix.
Is love really blind? Well in this show
you really see love get tested. They have
to fall in love with who they are on the
inside and not the outside.
There are ring conversations that
should have not happened, wine given
to dogs, squinty eyes, and blind men
who can’t see beauty that makes this
show captivating and entertaining to
say the least.
I recommend this show because it
really does dive deep into serious questions
and creates lots of good conversations.
“Elite”
Who doesn’t love a good murder mystery?
Elite, is based in Madrid at an exclusive
boarding school. I do watch the
dubbed version in English, rather than
Spanish and there are rarely times that
the voices don’t match.
Okay let’s get into it, there are questions
of morals, murderer, friends covering
up for murders, swimming pools,
fancy restaurants, fakes, LGBTQ+ representation,
and so much more. With
every season there is something fresh
making you want to solve the mystery
before they do. This show is drama
packed and there is always something
new to keep you entertained. Currently
they have five seasons, with season six
coming out mid November and can be
watched on Netflix.
“Gilmore Girls”
This one is perfect for curling up on
the couch, coffee, and watching with
your friends or family. This mother
daughter duo is the talk of the small
town Stars Hollow in Connecticut. As
Rory, a high school student, needs to go
to a private school in order to have a
better opportunity in getting into Harvard,
Lorelei, Rory’s mom, navigates
the issue of money with the help of
their grandparents. Throughout the
show there are boyfriends, 1,000 yellow
daisies, candy shops, and so so so much
coffee. I like Gilmore girls because of
how much each character grows and
the storyline of not only the main characters,
but side characters such as Paris,
Jess, and Lane. It has a total of seven
seasons, with an additional spin off
called Gilmore Girls: Year in the Life
and can be watched on Netflix.

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Campus
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BC hosts pathway event for
Kern high school seniors
By Jason Mena
Reporter
High school students swarmed
campus on Friday Nov. 4 as The
Kern High School District partnered
with Bakersfield College
to host the Early College Pathways
Program. A few faculty
put the event together including
Stephanie Baltazar, the lead
Program Director, and Ashley
Wagner, the Director of Outreach.
“We’re providing long- and
short-term certificates for full
time graduates and those looking
to transfer.” Says Director
Baltazar.
With over 1000 high school
students in attendance, 95% of
them being seniors, many BC
Staff members came to campus
and set up booths and helped
educate some of the future Renegades
in the fields of study they
teach.
SGA officials lead tours
throughout the campus, highlighting
key features of our institution,
and some staff even held
interactive labs for students to
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engage with. The tech lab provided
some of their robots that
had been engineered by previous
BC graduates to talk and
put on a show.
The campus Starbucks provided
free coffee to the students
and teachers while the “Folkloric
club” played festive music
and staged cultural dances
that some high school students
decided to participate in. Free
lunches were also provided with
complimentary BC backpacks
and other Renegade merchandise.
When students were interviewed
about their thoughts
about BC, most came to the
conclusion that they would
be planning to enroll. Uzziel
Roque, a MiraMonte student,
stated that he wanted to go to
BC and major in Astronomy,
“I’ve always wanted to work
with telescopes.” Says Roque,”
But I’m going to transfer to UC
San Diego to finish my major.”
Most of the other students
shared the same sentiment in
wanting to finish their education
at a UC or CSU.
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High school students observe Industrial Automation
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Opinion
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“Till” is a
movie not to
be forgotten
By Blake Burton
Reporter
“Till” tells the true story
through the eyes of Mamie
Till (played by Danielle
Deadwyler), the mother of
Emmett Till, who was brutally
murdered in a 1955
lynching. It is a very emotional
movie for the audience
to watch at the horror that
can occur in this world.
This movie was directed by
Chinonye Chukwu, mostly
known for her films in drama
such as her 2019 film “Clemency.”
This movie will have you
crying, angry and astonished
at some of the things that are
happening in the movie and
in real life.
Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall),
a 14-year-old boy got
lynched out of malice. He
was a young boy visiting
his aunt’s house to see his
cousins. During the trip to
his cousins’ house, he saw
a woman in the store and
called her beautiful and
said that she looked like a
movie star. In that time period,
Black people weren’t
allowed to talk to white
women in that way, so both
of his cousins pulled him
back and told him that he
might get into some trouble
for talking to white people
like that.
A few days later a few
men came by his aunt’s
house and Emmet got
called up to the door. They
took him to an abandoned
shed, and a few weeks later
he was pronounced dead.
This movie is very heart
wrenching. Imagine a mother
sending her only child to
his aunt’s house for a fun
time only to return home in
a coffin.
This ugly piece of American
history is shown well in
a movie should be seen by
all ages to educate people on
what happened to this child
and how something like this
should never happen to future
generations of people.
The crazy thing is that this
story took place 67 years
ago, but it took until March
29, 2022, for the Emmett
Till Antilynching Act, which
makes lynching a federal
hate crime, to become law.
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Monters are heroes
The Horror Files
While, they may bring up
thoughts of terror and shivers;
there no one that capture
the hearts of the public
other than monsters. Monsters
are beloved around the
world for how they terrorize
and fill people with fear but,
there might be more to this
love than scares.Our love for
monster draws from a feeling
of sympathy. Monsters
from their very formation
are sympathetic creatures
with most of them being the
victim of bad luck or tragedy
compared to any actions
they actually committed.
Monsters such as Frankenstein’s
monster, Jason Voorhees
and Leatherface are
victims of happenstance
with their formation of becoming
horror icons were
out of their control due to
their environment. Therefore,
audiences shed tear
when Frankenstein’s monster
is chase by pitchforks
and torches when all he
wanted was to be accepted.
The audience have a sense
of heartbreak when the
camera flashback to Jason
Voorhees being bullied as a
child because of his deformity.
Movie goers are filled
with pity when Leatherface
is ridicule by his brother and
father. Monsters provide a
sense of vicarious freedom.
Monsters are unique as they
are unconstrained by laws
of nature or man-made
laws allowing them to have
superhuman ability and
to enact any activity they
choose to partake in even
murder. While most people
are unwilling to partake in
By Eduardo Jr. Martinez
Reporter
Eduardo, Jr. Martinez
such activities in real life
monsters allow viewers to
participate in the dark side
of their imagination. These
monsters allow us to explore
the dark side of ourselves in a
safe and secure environment
without the fear of hurting
anyone by doing so. Monsters
allow for the redressing
of injustices. Although, the
often cliché about horror
movie monsters is that they
attack innocent individuals,
in some films monsters attack
those who deserve it.
Films such as Basket Case,
Leprechaun franchise, Dolls
are perfect examples of
monster redistributing their
own sense of justice taking
out their violent tendencies
on greedy, cruel and sexual
predators that well deserve
it. Monsters are very much
the dark and gore version
superheroes, before there
were superheroes, pulling
on our heartstrings with
their tragic origin stories,
dispensing their own sense
of justice and allow us to
live out our wildness imaginations
through them.

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Opinion
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Representation
in stop motion
animation
By Eduardo Jr. Martinez
Reporter
This girl has demons and
their names are Wendell and
Wild. “Wendell & Wild” is the
new stop motion film on Netflix
directed by Henry Selick with a
screenplay by Henry Selick and
Jordan Peele.
After the death of her parents,
Koniqua Elliot, or Kat (voiced
by Lyric Ross), has to go to Rust
Bank Catholic School while two
demons enlist her help to be
summoned to the land of the
living.
The stop motion animation
keeps the movie going at a very
fast pace, which works to its advantage
as it keeps the audience
participating in the movie while
being quite enjoyable. The film
also carries much of Jordan
Peele’s sense of humor in the
subversion of expectations.
Selick’s design of characters
and direction of stop motion
still remain as hallmarks. As
well, this film is not afraid to
use its PG-13 rating with many
of the scenes coming outside
of left field for a supposed children’s
film.
The film has excellent representation,
with characters and a
cast that represents a variety of
people of color.
This includes Asians, Native
Indigenous and Hispanics
within the film, especially with
the main Black lead and having
a trans character represented
within a stop motion film. Ross
really sells herself as a 13-yearold
punk girl and Keegan-Michael
Key and Jordan Peele
perform spectacularly as a comedic
duo of demonic brothers.
The movie soundtrack is
amazing, using punk and soul
to set the vibe for the rest of the
film and using it for comedic
elements and symbolizing characters.
The film gets heavy handed
in its themes surrounding the
prison industrial complex and
trauma. The flick uses the demons’
position in hell and the
school plans to Kat dealing with
the trauma of the death of her
parents help explore the school
to prison pipeline and children
that are dealing with trauma.
Still, the movie is very much
heartfelt with the theme family,
with Kat and her parents and
the demonic brothers, Wendell
and Wild, with their father
teaching the importance of the
parents’ role in protecting one’s
own child.
This film, while not in the
same league with Henry Selick’s
other works such as “Coraline”
and “The Nightmare Before
Christmas,” at least deserves a
watch for Jordan Peele’s writing
and wonderful representation
of characters.
It is also great to watch Henry
Selick return to stop motion after
13 years.
Jazz moves
and grooves
By Blake Burton
Reporter
Bakersfield College’s
Jazz program presented
“The Old and The
New” on Nov. 7. The
Audience members
were on the edge of
their seats to hear some
old and new jazz from
the performers.
This event was held
at BC’s outdoor theater
and was directed
by Professor Kris Tiner.
The concert featured
BC student musicians
playing works by Mary
Lou Williams, Billy
Strayhorn, and Count
Basie alongside new
classics by Pat Metheny.
This was a show you
didn’t want to miss. The
music that was played at
the theater was amazing.
This reviewer was
moving and grooving in
his seat all night.
One of the songs
that really stood out
was “Superstitious” by
BC jazz studies student
Andrea Sotelo. It was a
very good song and the
fact that it’s an original
composition she created
made the song even
more special.
Another song that
shined was “Starlight”
by Gina Fields. It had
this reviewer mesmerized
by the music and
the sound of her voice.
This was all in all was
a very good concert and
makes you want to go
to future events to enjoy
BC Jazz Combos’ music.
Renegade Events
Campus Events
Nov. 17-19: “Celestials: The Chiness Question.”
a play directed by Professor Kimberly
Chin, Edward Simonsen Indoor Theatre
Nov. 29: BC Concert Band, Classical, Contemporary
and Holiday Favorites, Edward Simonsen
Indoor Theatre, 7 p.m.
Nov. 30: BC/CSUB Orchestra, Classic and
Contemporary String Music, Edward Simonsen
Indoor Theatre, 7:30 p.m.