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Page 4 Renegades lose nailbiter Sportss The Renegade Rip www.therip.com By Gesus Garcia Reporter Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023 MLB Awards Race Sports Buzz By Honey Crowder Reporter The night of Sept. 30, Bakersfield College’s football team went up against archenemy El Camino College. The parking lots filled with fans that came to see Bakersfield College’s match, but Renegade fans were left disappointed with a score of 31-24, resulting in the end of the Gades 3-week win streak. The game held up to the expectations of tailgaters, coaches, and players alike as the teams battled it out and the scored, being mere inches of each other. However, this would change as the Warriors scored a touchdown during the last 2 minutes and 50 seconds of 4th quarter. Jeff Larma, member of the Helmet Club and alumni renegade football player, predicted that the game was destined to be a close game as the Warriors were a tough team, even back when he was playing. But Larma and other members of the BC Helmet Club are still proud of them. Running back coach Dereon Washington and head coach R. Todd Littlejohn stated that the team is set for a good season despite the result of Saturday’s match. They need to work on small mistakes, which caused injuries and penalties, Littlejohn stated. “We’ve been having a good season and have seen improvement with every game, this season is truly shaping up to be a worthy one.” Players such as Gabriel Zuniga, Jordan Norwood and Jalen Hankins claimed that the team is pulling it together and coming back more improved than before, taking each game as a learning experience. The Renegade’s next home game is set for Saturday, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. against the Allan Hancock Bulldogs. Tailgaters are asking for everyone to come on out and “support our boys as they give them hell on the field.” HONEY CROWDER/THE RIP Number 32, Cleveland Cj Tolbert, running the ball past the 20 yard line. HONEY CROWDER/THE RIP Player 28, Jordan Norwood, running the ball to El Camino’s goal. The MLB season is just a couple of weeks away from coming to an end, and there’s no better time to look at the awards race. This section will focus on the National League (NL) awards. Stats are as of Sept. 24. Whereas the AL MVP has been a one-horse race since the beginning of the summer, the NL MVP will come down to the wire. Atlanta Braves superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. has put up a season nobody has ever seen. He is the first player in history with a 30 homerun (HR)/60 stolen base season to go along with a 1.010 on-base plus slugging (OPS) and 7.8 wins above replacement (fWAR.) Despite that, he is not a runaway favorite as Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts has kept up in this tight race. Betts has played second base and outfield, which makes him more valuable than Acuña Jr. defensively. With his bat, Betts has hit 39 HR to go along with a 1.000 OPS and 8.2 fWAR. NL Cy Young is given to the best pitcher in the league, and San Diego Padres lefty Blake Snell is on the cusp of his 2nd Cy in his career. Snell has been thoroughly dominant since an early season slump, which is shown with a 1.26 earned run average (ERA) dating back to May 25th. De- Gesus Garcia spite Snell having command issues that lead to a lot of walks, a slump by his closest competitor in Chicago Cubs lefty Justin Steele, Snell’s Sept. 19 start vs the Colorado Rockies almost served as a coronation party after he didn’t give up a hit or run in 7 innings. The last award given out is for Rookie of the Year, and Arizona Diamondbacks speedster Corbin Carroll has been the favorite since Spring Training. Carroll has lived up to the hype, becoming the first rookie in MLB history with 25 HR and 50 stolen bases in a season. Carroll’s spectacular year has allowed the Diamondbacks to stay in the playoff hunt for the first time in six years. While the award winners won’t be known until the World Series concludes in November, it is interesting to spotlight the players contending for major hardware.
Page 5 Campus The Renegade Rip www.therip.com Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023 Panorama Music Summit By Jared Buys Reporter It was a moderately-crowded scene at the Simonsen Performing Ars Center at Bakersfield College on the evening of Sept. 21 as the Panorama Creative Music Summit. With several musical acts to perform, the night began with cordial introductions as the first piece was readied. This first piece, “In C” by composer Terry Riley, started with rhythmic tones looping again and again with subtle yet rapidly evolving variations. The brass section rang out, contrasting woodwinds that chimed aside it. Then came accordion and light percussion. The piece went along for some time with no significant crescendos or decrescendos. Though it was musically dissonant in some places, it was paired with expert precision that made the air feel as though the audience were seated inside an enormous clock. Then came sharp, staccato flute tones that sounded among a continuously plinking piano’s C note, hence the piece’s name. Once that came, a sudden upswell of crescendo as the chorus of instruments grew. Bits of electric guitar set a melodic pace as a cello set a bassline throughout. Later, a chime was struck that rang out reminiscent of a ship’s bell. The piece fluctuated in and out as it grew loud and soft and ended with a final, full-throated thrum, leaving only the metronome of plinking piano to fade off. The song ended and the stage was reset for the second half of night. This next part was the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, led by its founder, Tatsuya Nakatani, who travels around to different places with his instruments, inviting students at the places he visits to man each station. The last piece consisted of a 16-piece gong orchestra, arrayed around Nakatani, who conducted said orchestra from the front. Some students banged their gongs in a traditional sense, while others used custom-made bows that Nakatani built himself to run along the sides of the circular bronze instruments. Haunting, otherworldly sounds reverberated around the performing arts center for almost half an hour before Professor Kris Tiner, Director of Jazz Studies here at BC, closed out the P.C.M.S. with a Q &A, allowing Nakatani to have some interaction with the appreciative audience. Nakatani had his own merchandise and promotional material for sale at the front of the auditorium. Roundtable talks unions By Gesus Garcia Reporter Bakersfield College hosted its first segment of The Renegade Roundtable on Sept. 27. Five BC professors, Reggie Williams, Savannah Andrasian, Matthew Maddex, Javier Llamas, and Joe Saldivar led the discussion. The interdisciplinary panel gathered at the Levan Center to speak about labor unions and wages from both a past and present standpoint. The discussion begins with the panel talking about strikes seen this year. Three of the strikes mentioned were the pilot strike, the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike and the Writers Guild of America strike. Andrasian brought up the demands of the UAW workers which included a 15% increase in base payment, a 36-40% wage increase over the next 4 years and better retirement benefits. They discussed cost of living and how it plays a big role in determining what a “fair wage” is, determining that therefore strikes are very common in today’s day and age. Maddex began the history section of the discussion by talking about the early stages of labor strikes, as he explained how the 1768 New York tailors strike paved the way for labor unions. Known as the earliest recorded strike, a group of tailors gathered to protest a reduction of wages. To add on, Llamas stated that during the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the government was siding with big businesses which made life difficult for the workers. Nevertheless, the Progressive Era allowed for the introduction of 8-hour workdays and 40-hour work weeks, which benefited the workers. Llamas continued stating that unfortunately, it did not help the economy, as high wages and weak labor unions played a factor in the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Minimum wage was also discussed, and Saldivar advocated for students to take a finance class that helps them learn more about real-life economics. Regarding working a minimum wage job as a college student, Saldivar said, “You’re not supposed to live like that,” as students should grow and aspire better jobs afterwards. The next Renegade Roundtable is scheduled for Nov. 15, but Williams also invited students to GESUS GARCIA/THE RIP Guests listen to a discussion about labor unions at the Renegade Roundtable. the Gadfly Café, a similar roundtable gathering also held at the Levan Center, on Oct. 4. He stated that the main goal of the discussion is to gather and talk “civilly and respectfully” about social and political issues.
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