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The <strong>Renegade</strong> <strong>Rip</strong><br />
Vol. 100∙ No. 5 Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
Bakersfield College<br />
No more mold in the<br />
new STEM building<br />
News, Page 2<br />
College football<br />
heats up<br />
Sports, Page 4<br />
Opinion, Page 7<br />
“Spider-Man 2” exceeds<br />
“Noises expectations Off” full of<br />
fabulous chaos<br />
Opinion, Page 7<br />
SAMANTHA BRITT/THE RIP<br />
Alumni and present BC band members play at <strong>Renegade</strong><br />
Promenade on Oct. 21<br />
HONEY CROWDER /THE RIP<br />
The cast of “Electricidad” giving their final bow as the<br />
first night wraps up.<br />
HECTOR VIZCARRA/THE RIP<br />
An altar for Día de los Muertos in the process of being prepared<br />
ahead of the day.<br />
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News<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
M&O deals with mold at BC<br />
By Crystal Gutierrez<br />
Reporter<br />
A classroom in the new STEM building at BC had a mold<br />
problem the last few weeks, according to the Executive Dean<br />
of Instruction, Math, Science and Engineering, Stephen<br />
Waller.<br />
The mold was reported by “a staff member of M&O (Maiwho<br />
spotted the leak.”<br />
Waller ensured that he “relocated classes without delay to<br />
other physics labs to allow for repairs to be made. No classes<br />
were held in the impacted physics laboratory after [he]<br />
was told there was a water leak, nor were classes held in that<br />
room after M&O was aware there was a leak. All classes were<br />
relocated to other labs to allow for instruction to continue<br />
without interruptions.”<br />
Executive Director of Facilities & Operations, Marcos<br />
Rodriguez, explained that the leak was caused by workers<br />
striking an “irrigation valve in the outdoor landscape planter<br />
area on the exterior side of the STEM Building. The water<br />
made its way from the planter into the building and caused<br />
the flooding incident.” The valve ended up plugged so the<br />
water went the wrong way.<br />
Rodriguez outlined that to repair the leak “all water in<br />
the planter is now disconnected leaving the low water using<br />
plants to be irrigated during rain incidents as they occur.”<br />
They also need to bring an outside ‘remediation contractor’<br />
to run a series of fans for several days.<br />
They also brought another contractor “to check for mold<br />
spores in walls that were damaged, as well testing for air quality<br />
in the building for precautionary measures.”<br />
After all that they just needed to make sure “the moisture<br />
levels reached the threshold (displaying appropriate levels) as<br />
needed.”<br />
“The issue has been resolved and the building fully operational,”<br />
Marcos Rodriguez said, and “all carpets were replaced,<br />
walls repaired, and new rubber top base molding was<br />
installed.”<br />
No classes were affected by the leak/mold in the STEM<br />
building, and Rodriguez is confident that the leak and mold<br />
is resolved.<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong> Homecoming BBQ<br />
By Samantha Britt<br />
Copy Editor<br />
Bakersfield College Alumni Association had a BBQ Oct.<br />
21 from 12-3:30 p.m. to honor<br />
BC Alumni. Food, music, and<br />
vendors all came out to celebrate.<br />
Tickets for steaks were $25 and<br />
hotdogs $10 each. Fruity drinks<br />
and other sweet treats were also<br />
available to purchase during the<br />
event.<br />
BC’s band played right in front<br />
of the huddle on-stage. BC alumni<br />
band members performed in<br />
the event, playing jazzy music.<br />
Student life groups came to<br />
show support and allow people to<br />
learn about each group.<br />
Aliah Villasenor is just one of<br />
the many students a part of the<br />
agricultural club for BC. The<br />
club came out and we’re given<br />
plants to sell to help people show<br />
their support.<br />
SAMANTHA BRITT/THE RIP<br />
Aliah Villasenor with some of the other<br />
students apart of the Agriculture Club.<br />
Villasenor explained how the club uses networking, talking<br />
to student life and keeping up with professors to learn about<br />
these events to continue to share information about their<br />
club.<br />
Financial aid, Student Government,<br />
and job programs provided information<br />
about their programs as well.<br />
Small businesses and small vendors<br />
came to support and brought their<br />
products for people to purchase.<br />
An employee at BC that works for<br />
the EPOS program Karen Cid was<br />
just one of the many small businesses.<br />
Cid explained how BC reached out to<br />
her to attend this event for more outreach<br />
on small vendors and businesses.<br />
“These events are really good way<br />
for me to promote my small business,”<br />
Cid said.<br />
The event encouraged more people<br />
to participate and support the local<br />
small businesses that attend and was<br />
also an honoring way to show support<br />
for all BC alumni.
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News<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
BC hosts Manufacturing Day<br />
By Mason Almaguer<br />
Reporter<br />
Bakersfield College hosted Manufacturing<br />
Day near the football stadium for<br />
high schools in the city, last Friday, Oct.<br />
20<br />
Ṁany employers from the Bakersfield<br />
area came and set up booths for students<br />
to ask any questions about this line of<br />
work. College students were welcome to<br />
attend as well.<br />
BC wanted students to learn about all<br />
resources and options they have.<br />
According to BC’s Job Development<br />
Specialist, Anycia Reyes, the purpose of<br />
this was to “Inspire the next generation”<br />
and “connect with local employers.”<br />
Many fields of work were represented,<br />
such as robotics, welding, electrical<br />
engineering, and much more. They presented<br />
many industrial technology opportunities<br />
for the students that attened.<br />
The event had a great turnout from the<br />
number of students that attended.<br />
There were “over 1,000” students on<br />
campus, according to Reyes.<br />
The companies present there were<br />
GAF, Stratolaunch, AC Electric, BPS<br />
Supply Group, and plenty more. The<br />
event was even sponsored by institutions<br />
such as Chevron and AC Electric. Reyes<br />
stated there were over 30 establishments<br />
there on Manufacturing Day.<br />
There was a tour of the various technological<br />
disciplines.<br />
Reyes’ main lesson she wanted the academic<br />
hopefuls there to learn was, “If<br />
you can dream it, you can build it.”<br />
The event was done in specific sessions.<br />
The students had groups they were<br />
a part of that walked around the college<br />
to various areas to allow everyone to get<br />
a chance to se each booth.<br />
MASON ALMAGUER/THE RIP<br />
All of the students that attend<br />
Manufacturing Day hang around<br />
outside.<br />
Local artist speaks at BC<br />
By Ari Montez<br />
Reporter<br />
Local artist and art historian, Cuca<br />
Montoya, spoke about her experiences<br />
through her artwork in a lecture<br />
given at BC’s Levan Center on Oct.<br />
18. Montoya’s work was showcased<br />
on several panels during the event,<br />
and she touched on how the struggles<br />
of Hispanic farmworkers inspired her<br />
art. The artwork featured at the event<br />
was a part of a series titled “Bajo El<br />
Mismo Sol” or under the same sun.<br />
It was inspired by the grueling labor<br />
done by Hispanic farm workers.<br />
Her pieces are a vibrant display of<br />
colors that show the conditions of the<br />
workers. On the last six panels titled<br />
“The Burden of Labor” Montoya<br />
spent hours trying to accurately depict<br />
the intense heat in the fields through<br />
her art. Using shades of red orange<br />
and yellow. Montoya opened with a<br />
description of her early life. At the age<br />
of two her family moved to the U.S<br />
from Mexico, and her childhood was<br />
spent in East Bakersfield.<br />
ARI MONTEZ/THE RIP<br />
Cuca Montoya’s “In all the<br />
glittering multitude”<br />
Many of her pieces are based on farm workers that she<br />
would see growing up or knew personally within her family.<br />
“I understand that my artwork can sometimes be troubling<br />
to view,” she said. Montoya spoke about how the<br />
life of an immigrant worker isn’t easy and often<br />
pays little.<br />
When she was younger, she worked at an auto<br />
parts store in Lamont close to the fields. Montoya<br />
witnessed the immigrant guides or simply<br />
known as “coyotes” who would drop off people<br />
who were ready to work from the moment they<br />
stepped foot in the U.S.<br />
She spoke about how the immigrants often<br />
didn’t speak any English at all. It was even harder<br />
for those who spoke uncommon dialects like,<br />
“Zapoteco” or “Mixteco” which made communication<br />
difficult with the other workers.<br />
On their days off, the workers would spend their<br />
time in the parts store fixing their vans that would<br />
transport themselves and many other workers to<br />
the fields. She described this experience as a sort<br />
of basis for her inspiration and her journey in art.<br />
After the event, Montoya stated, “It takes a<br />
community to support an artist.” She wants her<br />
work to honor those who work endlessly and<br />
thanks those around her for support and making<br />
it possible.
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Sportss<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
Homecoming<br />
win for BC<br />
By Samantha Britt<br />
Copy Editor<br />
Homecoming was the highlight<br />
of the week for Bakersfield<br />
College, and the football<br />
team finished the week off<br />
with a successful win, defeating<br />
Moorpark College 25-17<br />
on Oct. 21.<br />
The game had a strong<br />
start, as quarterback Carson<br />
Woods started with a pass<br />
play to Jalen Richmond who<br />
scored the first touchdown<br />
for the <strong>Renegade</strong>s, but the<br />
kick was no good. Moorpark<br />
was right behind us scoring<br />
a touchdown, the <strong>Renegade</strong>s<br />
could not block the kick and<br />
they scored a touchdown<br />
along with the extra point for<br />
the field goal.<br />
After the first quarter, the<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong>s were behind 6-7<br />
and second and third quarters<br />
were not the strongest of the<br />
game.<br />
“They let their guard down<br />
second and third quarter,”<br />
Coach Little John said.<br />
During second quarter,<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong>s were still holding<br />
themselves back, but they put<br />
together a 10-play drive and<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong>s scored two more<br />
touchdowns.<br />
The defensive line was<br />
strong, fourth down and<br />
helped stop position get the<br />
ball back. This put the <strong>Renegade</strong>s<br />
back in the lead 18-7.<br />
During third quarter Moorpark<br />
managed to score a<br />
touchdown, along with a field<br />
goal that gave them three<br />
points on top of that. <strong>Renegade</strong>s<br />
set up another 10-play<br />
and scored another touchdown<br />
with a good field goal,<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK<br />
ELLIS<br />
BC player protects the ball<br />
from defenders as he runs<br />
with it during victory over<br />
Moorpark College on Oct.<br />
21.<br />
getting them the extra point<br />
and leaving third quarter with<br />
a score of 25-17.<br />
Fourth quarter was the most<br />
successful for the <strong>Renegade</strong>s<br />
to ensure the win.<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong>s were hungry for<br />
that win and were all working<br />
together and working for each<br />
other, while being encouraging<br />
to each other.<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong>s did not let<br />
Moorpark score the rest of<br />
the game, but also did not<br />
score. Ending the score 25-17<br />
and making the <strong>Renegade</strong>s<br />
4-3.<br />
Head Coach Little John explains<br />
how the production of<br />
plays were good this game.<br />
“It’s always nice to win,”<br />
Coach Little John said.<br />
The <strong>Renegade</strong>s will fight to<br />
continue their winning streak<br />
to make it to playoffs.<br />
College Ball<br />
Sports Buzz<br />
By Gesus Garcia<br />
Reporter<br />
The 2023 College Football<br />
season is more than<br />
halfway complete at the<br />
turn of the month.<br />
Although that may seem<br />
crazy to think about due to<br />
the season beginning just<br />
two months ago, we’re only<br />
a month away from the<br />
College Football Playoff<br />
(CFP) to be formally announced.<br />
We’ll look at some of the<br />
sport’s biggest contenders<br />
and what they must do in<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember to keep their<br />
championship hopes alive.<br />
The Georgia Bulldogs<br />
have won back-to-back national<br />
titles, and everyone<br />
else is looking to dethrone<br />
coach Kirby Smart’s team.<br />
They’ve been ranked #1<br />
throughout the entire season,<br />
even if they’ve looked<br />
subpar at times. Nevertheless,<br />
they have a great<br />
chance of finishing the regular<br />
season at 12-0, which<br />
would allow them to make<br />
the playoffs regardless of<br />
their conference championship<br />
result.<br />
Within the last couple of<br />
weeks, the “most dominant<br />
team” award would have<br />
to go to the Michigan Wolverines.<br />
Critics will point<br />
to their weak schedule,<br />
as they’ve yet to play an<br />
above-average team. But<br />
the sport’s top defense will<br />
have their work cut out for<br />
them, as they play a stout<br />
Penn State team on <strong>Nov</strong>.<br />
11, followed by the biggest<br />
game of the year when<br />
they host Ohio State two<br />
weeks later.<br />
That leads us to fellow<br />
Gesus Garcia<br />
contender Ohio State. Led<br />
by QB Kyle McCord, the<br />
Buckeyes struggled to begin<br />
the season, but now they’re<br />
on a roll. They also have<br />
the most impressive resume<br />
of any team, as they’ve<br />
beaten Notre Dame on<br />
the road while also beating<br />
Penn State. The winner of<br />
“The Game” between the<br />
Wolverines and Buckeyes<br />
will have clinched a spot in<br />
the Big Ten championship,<br />
and most importantly, a<br />
spot in the CFP.<br />
Out West, the nation has<br />
their eyes set on the Pac-<br />
12’s Washington Huskies.<br />
They defeated their rival<br />
Oregon Ducks 36-33 on<br />
Oct. 14, in what has arguably<br />
been the game of the<br />
year. Although their defense<br />
leaves for something<br />
to be desired, their offense<br />
can compete with anyone,<br />
and they’d be a tough opponent<br />
in the CFP.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember will be the<br />
best month yet for all college<br />
football fans. This is<br />
the time of the year when<br />
rivalry games are played,<br />
and most importantly,<br />
championship fates are decided.
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
Homecoming week activites<br />
By Natalie Flores<br />
Reporter<br />
Bakersfield College Student Goverment Association(SGA)<br />
kicked off homecoming week with a chalk competition for BC<br />
students to participate Monday, October 16. Participants in teams<br />
of five or less competed in a chalk art competition based on best<br />
artwork and the theme for the competition was Y2K. ASL club<br />
got 1st place, Nightmare Layers received 2nd place and Best of<br />
Both Worlds received third out of six teams that participated.<br />
“Activities like these are to get students involved and to give<br />
them a mental break between classes,” said Isabel Salazar, SBA<br />
Director of Student Activities. “Midterms just happened so we<br />
want to give students a space to socialize with friends.”<br />
Bakersfield College SGA is encouraging students to participate<br />
in various student-lead activities later to come this week in celebration<br />
of Bakersfield College Homecoming 2023, Oct 15 - 20<br />
leading up to the Bakersfield College football game on Saturday<br />
October 21.<br />
NATALIE FLORES/THERIP<br />
Judges review the illustrations on the sidewalk<br />
pathway<br />
Y2K themed karaoke event<br />
By Joaquin Machado<br />
Reporter<br />
It was time to celebrate good times at the<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong> Event Center on Thursday Oct<br />
19. From 3-6 p.m. students had the chance<br />
to sing their hearts out on the BC karaoke<br />
stage at the Y2K Karaoke homecoming<br />
event.<br />
The Office of Student Life hosted the<br />
Y2K Karaoke event as part of a series of<br />
events to celebrate Bakersfield College’s<br />
2023 Homecoming. The Y2K karaoke<br />
event encouraged students to come out and<br />
show their school pride by singing all their<br />
favorite songs, whether it was a throwback<br />
or one of today’s hits.<br />
To get on stage and sing your favorite<br />
songs all students had to do was fill out a slip<br />
of paper with their name and the title of the<br />
song and get ready to sing. Some students<br />
sang songs such as “Y.M.C.A” by The Village<br />
People, “Mariposa” by Mana, “Hand<br />
in Glove” by The Smiths, and “Are You<br />
Bored Yet?” by Wallows.<br />
According to the Office of Student Life,<br />
this event is one of many to showcase a “decade<br />
of progress and innovation.” They<br />
also said it was inspired by a “decade<br />
where many thought the world would be<br />
challenged by a global catastrophe but ultimately<br />
persevered.”<br />
The inspiration for the theme also<br />
comes at a time where the community<br />
is coming back together after lockdowns<br />
from the Coronavirus pandemic.<br />
Not only was this event a fun way to celebrate<br />
BC’s 2023 homecoming, but also<br />
an opportunity to de-stress in the middle<br />
of the semester.<br />
Students and staff in attendance at the<br />
Y2K Karaoke event and other homecoming<br />
events were encouraged to share<br />
their pride and pictures on social media<br />
with #BCY2KHomecoming and #BCS-<br />
GA<strong>Renegade</strong>s.<br />
JOAGUIN MACHADO/THE RIP<br />
Poster advertising for<br />
event
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Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
Shakespeare Festival’s<br />
“Electricidad” takes stage<br />
By Honey Crowder<br />
Reporter<br />
Electricidad, directed by Christina Goyenche and written<br />
by Luis Alfaro, debuted at the Bakersfield College Edward<br />
Simonsen outdoor theater on Oct. 19 as part of the Kern<br />
County Shakespeare Festival.<br />
For $16 dollars (or $10 with student identification) the cast<br />
tells the tale of Electricidad, a girl in the barrio who after her<br />
father’s death vows to enact revenge upon the killer who is no<br />
other than her mother who after years of abuse killed him in<br />
a bid for her own power.<br />
With her grandmother and gossiping ladies sweeping as a<br />
Greek chorus, Nino as the old man, and the entry of Chicano<br />
history the show that has been fought for to be staged for<br />
three years, according to the director Christina Goyenche, is<br />
finally hitting the big stage.<br />
Viewers describe it as a masterpiece. Noah White, an audience<br />
member, claims, “I was on the edge of my seat, the<br />
actors portrayed the emotions so well.”<br />
Another audience member, Cassie Mazza, also said,” The<br />
jokes were absolutely hilarious, and the emotions were crazy,<br />
when the father went up in flames the scream was unexpected.”<br />
Director and supporting actress Christina Goyeche said<br />
that the production was a great way to show off the talented<br />
Chicano/Latino cast especially with it being a mostly female<br />
cast. “I liked the story because it wasn’t just a story of murder<br />
but there truly is no bad guy, when you watch you just wish<br />
for everyone to heal,” Goyeneche stated.<br />
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STAFF<br />
Reporters/ Photographers:<br />
Mason Almaguer<br />
Jared Buys<br />
Julian Caro<br />
Maya Collins<br />
Breana “Honey” Crowder<br />
STAFF CONTINUED<br />
Reporters/photographers:<br />
Natalie Flores<br />
Gesus Garcia<br />
Trevor Glenn<br />
Crystal Gutierrez<br />
Jorge Gutierrez<br />
Marcos Huerta<br />
Joaquin Machado<br />
Ari Montez<br />
Lilli Smyth<br />
Sandra Terrel<br />
Hector Vizcarra<br />
Adviser.........................................Erin Auerbach<br />
Supporting actor Daniel Ramos, who plays Nino said,<br />
“Over all it brought the Chicano lifestyle to life, even the tattoos<br />
we use on set are associated with Chicano folklore. Chicano<br />
studies had stuck with me during the semester so when I<br />
found out about this play, I just knew I had to be a part of it.”<br />
And part of it he indeed was, acting as both the old man<br />
guiding the protagonist’s brother during his exile to Las Vegas<br />
and comic relief for the crowd as he references Cheech<br />
and Chong, Tupac, and other gangsters of yesteryear.<br />
Leading Lady Laylah Lievana explains that she had no<br />
prior experience acting but chose to go hearing that the<br />
Shakespeare festival could use more people for representation.<br />
“I finally accepted<br />
the role after much<br />
convincing from my<br />
brother, but I can only<br />
give all my thanks to<br />
the directors and supporting<br />
cast, especially<br />
Christina Goyeneche.<br />
I couldn’t do it without<br />
them and especially<br />
without her. I’m<br />
not quite sure what<br />
may come next, all I<br />
know now is that I’m<br />
in a drama class now.”<br />
HONEY CROWDER/THE RIP<br />
Electricidad’s barrio complete with roasted<br />
dead father on a brick alter.<br />
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“Spider-Man 2;” nearly perfect<br />
By Nic Peter Chavaria<br />
Digital Editor<br />
NIC PETER CHAVARIA/THE RIP<br />
Peter and Miles team up to defend<br />
New York from threats and look<br />
good while doing it.<br />
Friday, Oct. 20 saw the release of<br />
this year’s highly anticipated video<br />
game “Spider-Man 2.” Developed by<br />
Insomniac Games and published by<br />
Sony Interactive Entertainment, the<br />
game is both a direct and spiritual sequel<br />
to “Spider-Man (2018)” and “Spider-Man:<br />
Miles Morales.”<br />
Picking up years after the first two<br />
games, the story follows Peter Parker<br />
and Miles Morales in their day to day<br />
efforts as New York City’s crime fighting<br />
dynamic duo. With the return of<br />
Peter’s high school friend Harry Osborn,<br />
the debut of the Venom symbiote,<br />
and Kraven the Hunter making the<br />
Spider-Men his next prey, the trials and<br />
tribulations our heroes face push them<br />
to their absolute limit and determine<br />
how much forgiveness and redemption<br />
they are capable of.<br />
What really excels this game as a sequel<br />
is the improvement in graphics,<br />
gameplay, and story. Built on the already<br />
A-grade foundations by Insomniac,<br />
graphics go from impressive to<br />
near life-like, gameplay that makes you<br />
feel like a superhero, and the story from<br />
movie quality to award worthy.<br />
Every actor in this game absolutely<br />
kills it in their roles. Yuri Lowenthal<br />
and Nadji Jeter especially bring in top<br />
tier emotional performances as Peter<br />
and Miles respectively that have to earn<br />
them some awards down the line. On<br />
top of that, the power of the Playstation<br />
5 console makes every experience<br />
as buttery-smooth as possible. Loading<br />
times are almost non-existent, where<br />
booting up the game takes mere seconds.<br />
The two standouts in gameplay being<br />
the new additions of parrying in combat,<br />
and the Web-Wings in traversal.<br />
These mechanics add further depth to<br />
their respective mechanics, that figuratively<br />
and literally allow you to soar to<br />
greater heights. And it wouldn’t be a<br />
superhero game without alternate costumes.<br />
Boasting an absurd 78 costumes<br />
ranging from classic comics, Insomniac<br />
originals, and movie-inspired costumes,<br />
with an additional 3 alternate colorways<br />
for most of them this puts the<br />
count almost into the 170s.<br />
All in all, “Spider-Man 2” proves itself<br />
to not only be one of the best video<br />
games of the year, but by far the best<br />
Spider-Man game ever made.<br />
BC is in a league of its own<br />
By Julian Caro<br />
Reporter<br />
What do Princeton, Duke, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Cornell,<br />
Cal (Berkeley), Yale, and Radcliffe (Harvard) have to do<br />
with Bakersfield College? Not much, besides occupying the<br />
names of the streets that line BC’s Southern and Western<br />
perimeter, and seemingly pointing out what BC is not.<br />
However, the true beauty lies within its differences. So<br />
much so, that I’ve come to the conclusion that BC is just<br />
as significant as the institutions that name the surrounding<br />
streets.<br />
For one, our beloved community college is a diamond in<br />
the rough, with its greatness coming from within rather than<br />
being bolstered throughout its historical exterior.<br />
BC has a history spanning over 110 years, solidifying its<br />
role within our community as a true cornerstone of opportunity<br />
and possibility. It continues to do so, serving over 40,000<br />
students this year alone.<br />
Furthermore, its diverse student makeup includes 30% of<br />
students from the age of 20-29, and 22% who are 30 years of<br />
age or older, which shows exactly how BC is offering second<br />
chances to all those in need of one. Whether it’s previous<br />
dropouts, single mothers, or all those who life has chewed up<br />
and spit out, BC is here for everyone.<br />
BC continues to act as a glowing beacon of hope. It affords<br />
dreamers the ability to chase their most ambitious of dreams,<br />
nurtures a key sense of community, attracts first-generation<br />
students, and grants asylum to undocumented students.<br />
Our beloved community college opens its doors to all. It<br />
catches the ones who have fallen in between the cracks, and<br />
never does it close its doors to the community in which it was<br />
built to serve.<br />
All who attend BC share the common goal of bettering<br />
their lives through education. This beautiful quality is what<br />
unites everyone in a diverse campus. It’s a school of second<br />
chances and fearless dream chasing, one that would be nothing<br />
without its inhabitants, nothing without you.<br />
BC reverberates across an entire community and the lives<br />
of many, of an otherwise forgotten people, and this is why it<br />
has earned its rightful place amongst the greatest of higher<br />
learning institutions.<br />
So, to the house of misfits and those who are just trying to<br />
make it, to the forgotten ones and the ill-fated, to the dreamers<br />
and believers, BC was here for you yesterday, is here for<br />
you today, and will be here for you tomorrow. Faithfully reflecting<br />
its students, staff, and faculty, who are not fond of<br />
following suit, the renegade school is in a league of its own.
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The <strong>Renegade</strong> <strong>Rip</strong> www.therip.com<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 1, 2023<br />
A holiday to die<br />
for: Día de los<br />
Muertos<br />
<strong>Renegade</strong> Events<br />
Campus Events<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 1 - 30: BC Art Faculty Exhibition. Art<br />
showcase in the Jones Art Gallery Hours are<br />
Monday - Thursday, 2 - 5 p.m.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 1: Allensworth Careers in State Parks<br />
guest speaker at the Horticulture Lab. 11 a.m.<br />
By Hector Vizcarra<br />
Reporter<br />
Día de los Muertos or Day of the<br />
Dead, is the Mexican Holiday that<br />
derives from the Aztec’s tradition<br />
of honoring the dead.<br />
It is commonly mistaken as the<br />
Mexican version of Halloween, but<br />
it is a completely different holiday.<br />
The belief is that one day of the<br />
year the spirits of the dead come<br />
back to Earth to see their loved<br />
ones again.<br />
An alter or ofrenda for dead<br />
loved ones is made with pictures of<br />
them, their favorite dishes, candles,<br />
and bread and cups of water for<br />
the journey. The cempasúchil flower<br />
is used to make a trail to guide<br />
the spirit’s home.<br />
The holiday happens on <strong>Nov</strong>.<br />
1, also known as Día de Todos los<br />
Santos or Day of all Saints, to remember<br />
the babies and children<br />
who have died, and <strong>Nov</strong>. 2, for the<br />
adults. The holiday has evolved<br />
with time, but the spirit has always<br />
stayed the same.<br />
Different regions in Mexico celebrate<br />
in their own way.<br />
In the city of Pomuch, Campeche<br />
it is tradition to clean the bones of<br />
the dead.<br />
A Mexican travel Youtuber, with<br />
the username garytravel, puts this<br />
tradition on display in a video titled<br />
“La Tradición más Extraña de<br />
México.”<br />
In the video you can see that after<br />
around three years of a person being<br />
buried, the family will take the<br />
bones out and clean them.<br />
After the cleaning, they will place<br />
the bones in a box for future cleaning.<br />
This custom is more common<br />
in the lower regions of Mexico.<br />
A celebration of Día de los<br />
Muertos also looks very different<br />
to a Mexican who immigrated to<br />
another place. Mexican Americans<br />
who have family buried in Mexico<br />
might not be able to make the trip<br />
to Mexico every year and undocumented<br />
Mexicans can’t leave the<br />
country just to make a trip for the<br />
holiday.<br />
They might not have a grave to<br />
visit, but they can still remember<br />
their loved ones by putting them in<br />
their altar at home.<br />
Día de los Muertos shares a macabre<br />
and at times morbid feel like<br />
Halloween, but at the same time<br />
has the same joyful togetherness of<br />
Christmas.<br />
It can be hard to remember the<br />
loved ones a person has lost, but to<br />
gather in celebration for them with<br />
the loved ones that are still alive is a<br />
beautiful way to honor them.<br />
Ironically, Día de los Muertos<br />
serves as a reminder of life itself.<br />
How life can be morbid and joyful,<br />
heartbreaking and beautiful at the<br />
same time.<br />
Día de los Muertos shows that<br />
even in the pain and sadness of<br />
death, kindness, care, and love can<br />
come through.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 1: Gadfly Café at the Levan Center.<br />
12:30-1:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 2: The Planetarium Presents: “From<br />
Earth to the Universe.” Located at the<br />
Match-Science building 112 from 7:30 - 8:30<br />
p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for children<br />
and seniors.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 8: Stories of Hope and Redemption.<br />
Panel presenting formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs<br />
and how they’ve redefined their life<br />
narratives. 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m in the <strong>Renegade</strong><br />
Event Center.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 10: Deep Cuts and Conversations at<br />
the Levan Center. 1:30-2:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 10: Veterans Day Holiday<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 13: Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert. 7 -<br />
9:30 pm.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 13: Money Wise Financial Literacy<br />
Workshop: Car Buying. 2 - 3 p.m.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 10: The <strong>Renegade</strong> Roundtable at the<br />
Levan Center. 6-7:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 23 - 24: Thanksgiving Holiday.<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 30: Art, Architecture, and Archetypes<br />
at the Levan Center. 6-7:30 p.m.