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Vol. 82 · No. 2 www.therip.com Thursday, February 18, 2010 Outcry over BC prepares for new KCCD more budget woes By Gregory D. Cook position Multimedia editor Although Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposed state budget does not cut community college fund­ By Anthony B. Ellrodt ing as deeply as last year's did, the Kem Commu- Copy editor 11ity College District is still preparing for possible worst-case scenarios. A new administrative posit.ion has "We would love to have the governor's pro­ been created at the district level that posed budget," said Greg Chamberlain, president brought faculty and staff out from Ba­ of Bakersfield College. "But I do not believe his kersfield, Porterville and Cerro Coso budget will pass. Colleges to voice their concerns and • IJ "If the proposed budget makes it through the protests at the Feb. 5 meeting of the process and gets approved, Bakersfield College Kem Community College District would be very pleased. There would still have to Board of Trustees. I The new position, Associate Chan­ be some cuts, but they would not be as substan­ tial." cellor of Communication and Gov­ • The proposed state budget, released by Gov. ernment Relations, is reported to pay I II Scbwanenegger on Jan. 8, still calls for cuts to between $97,000 and $138,000 an­ II community college funding and programs, but nually and is slated to be fi lled some­ there are a few bright points. Overall, there would time in May or June of Ulis year. IT.I II be a $224 million increase in lligher education According to Andrea Garrison, presi­ Ill funding over last year's budget. Under t11e pro­ dent of the Commw1ity College As­ sociation, wllich is the representative posed state budget, student enrollment fees would remain at $26 per wlit, and $126 million would be union, her concern lies with fairness to used to fund enrollment growth. Tllis could mean KCCD students. "I think we should serve students a raise of up to 2.2 percent in the enrollment cap. "We have a maximum number of students that even though we're not getting paid for the stare wilJ fund us ro educate," said Chamber­ it," she said. "The adjunct faculty pay lain. "Right now, we are a couple of thousand rare is $57.50 an hour and if you do students above that cap. We are educating more the math, a new $100,000 a year salary students than we are being funded for." would save and reintroduce about 33 Chamberlain said that there is room for growth sections back into our catalog." in the proposed budget. "His [Schwarzenegger's] Garrison went on to indicate that if budget would bump that cap up a little bit," he the sections weren't added back inr.o said. He explained that alU10ugh course sections the catalog, the same money could be have been reduced over the last year, Bakersfield used to save two full-time facult y posi­ College is still "!Tying to meet the needs of the stu­ tions at BC. dents as best we can." Several staff and instructors spoke to The proposed budget would also cut $10 mil­ the Board regarding financial and per­ lion from part-time facu lt y compensation and sonnel cuts at aJI three campuses. another $10 million from extended opportunity Leslie Reiman, anatomy and physi­ programs and services (EOPS), a state-funded ology instructor at BC, spoke to U1e program provicling financial aid and counseling board regarding waitJisted students. DAVID KARNOWSKJ /THE RIP to students from low-income, educationally disad­ "I had to turn away 14 students from The Padre Hotel as captured from across the street in the 18th and Eye Street public parking structure on vantaged backgrounds. Another provision of the my class, 14," said Reiman. "I saw its reopening night Feb. 4. The hotel reopened after an e>..1:ensive remodeling project. budget would give individual commwlity college them break into tears because I had to districts greater flexibility as to how programs like tell them I couldn't accept them into EOPS a.re funded. my class." Please see BUDGET, Page 4 Howard Silver, resident of Ba­ kersfield, spoke in defense of Denise Bakersfield landmark Crawford, fo1mer director of the Work­ ability III program. "Removal of Denise Crawford will be a huge blow to students," he said. "I beg you to reconsider her release." In response, Chairman Stuart Will Padre Hotel reopens charged Board Chancellor Sandra Ser­ rano with finding a resolution to her release. By Laura Liera he had fire code violations, and our of protest toward Kathy Rosellini echoed the fom1er Reporter them, he built a mock nlissile that was affixed in the remarks but stated them to the Board direction of City Hall. "They took down U1e rocker it from the perspective of the coW1seling Located in the historic area of Bakersfield, the Padre used to have on the rooftop and the Alamo 1bmbstone department. Hotel has a llistory that has remained with the build­ sign is now gone as well," said White. "We've gone from 16 counselors to ing, although it has gone through recent renovatiorn,. The new Padre team managemem consists of Gra­ eight which is not enough to serve our Built in 1928, the Paclre Hotel was long known as ham Downes, principal of San Diego-based Graham students," she said. ··we've had to go one of the most popular gathering places in downtown Downes Architecture, who has partnered with Bret from individual cow1scling sessions to Bakersfield. In the 60s, the hotel was bought by Milton Miller, CEO of Eat Drink and Sleep, also based in San group sessions because we just don't "Spartacus" Miller, who ran the hotel for almost half Diego, to form Padre Hotel Partllers. RYAN GEORGE /THE RIP have the manpower to continue doing a century. All11ough Wllite has not been to the renovated Pa­ Bakersfield Col1ege student Eric VilJarreal what we need to do to help our stu­ Brad White, 40, network engineer at LightSpeed clre Hotel, he said, "It definitely looks much cleaner plays chess in the game room Feb. 10. dents succeed." Systems, remembers going to the Padre Hotel during because the 0U1er owner didn't maintain it real well. In a letter of resolution obtained by his teenage years. IL got real dirty, broken-down looking and kind of the Rip, t11e BC Academic Senate calls "I was a teenager in high school, and I used to work messed up." for the Board to suspend hiring both as a bicycle mechanic across the street, and during The completed project of the Padre Hotel features SGA plans lounge new administrative positions. our breaks me and my buddies would go to the lower 112 guests rooms and suites, a restaurant, a bar, night­ "TI1e Bakersfield College Academic floor of the hotel, called the Down-Towner Cafe, and club loW1ge and a 24-hour cafe. Senate calls upon the KCCD Board we would have breakfast and coffee," said White. The Having attended opening night, Ana Rodriguez, a reconstruction of Trustees to suspend the process of food served at U1e cafe was standard, like Denny's, 25-year-old Cal State Bakersfield student, likes the ar­ hiring both the General Counsel and with reasonable pricing and nor overly competitive. rangement of the bar and lounge along with the dress By Denise M. Gouzalez Associate Chancellor, Communication Miller wasn't the regular business owner clw"ing his code implementation 10 go in. Reporter and Government Relations positions ownership. "He would go 10 Goodwill or Salvation "The workers or secw·ity in the front see you from unW such time as the District can pub­ Army and buy trash bags full of clothes and toys and head to toe, and if your wearing a T-shirt, flip flops The Student Government Association at Ba­ licly document with objective data the die-hard homeless people would come in, and he would or sneakers, they won't let you into the special lounge kersfield College has decided to renovate the cost savings ancVor revenue genera­ give them jackets, a new pair of jeans or whatever they where there's couches and another bar," said Rodri­ game room in the cafeteria. 'The SGA will be re­ tion that would justify U1ese positions needed. 'They all congregated downtown ancl were all guez. constructing the game room into a new arcade and and that such positions are warranted drawn to the Padre because of that," said White. Misty Whiten, 30, training facilitator at LightSpeed study lounge room for all BC students. Shabzeb Shaheen, chief of staff from the SGA, based upon their existence at compa­ Bakersfield City Hall, in the 60s, let Miller know Please see PADRE, Page 4 rable districts." has taken the initiative to help start and complete Tom Burke, district chief financial the arcade renovation. He has been surveying stu­ officer, defended the Board 's decision Patrons of dents for two weeks about their suggestions and to create another position indicating the Padre opinions about what U1ey believe would make an the Board doesn't have one unified Hotel have acceptable atmosphere for students. Shaheen also voice to lobby for the district's inter­ a drink has surveyed students on their thoughts about a ests at the state and federal levels. at The study lounge included in the arcade room. "Lobbying efforts at all levels will Brimstone "J do tllink tllis project is a good idea to start combine and complement well with and proceed," said Shaheen. "After surveying stu­ Baron dents within the cafeteri a and around can1pus, it career and teclmical education;' he Feb.13. In said. "That in tum will enhance ow· seems that students would enjoy some new games addition as well as some classic old-school games installed ability to receive grant funding so to having we aren't in the crisis we're in now." for enjoyment." He further indicated that everyone is suites and The arcade completion date is set to be some­ facing cuts and reductions, even al the rooms, the time iJl April. No exact date has been established distTict level. hotel also yet due to waiting for board action meetings. The "We're in the budget development has bars SGA will have professionals do their part in paint­ process now and there will be reduc­ and a cafe. ing t11e game room and putting in new carpeting tions even in the Board's budget tl1at for brand new int.erior decor. Professionals will we don't want to see," he said. ''Unfor­ DAVID also be helping the SGA by installing most of the KAR NOW SKI tunately, we're all facing cuts." /THE RJP Please see LOUNG E, Page 4 FEATURES Page 2 The Renegade Rip I www.therip.com Thursday, February 18, 2010 Farmers market showcases organic produce

By Denise M. Gonzalez regular customers and new buyers every Saturday Reporter for the last 25 years at the fa1mers market. Farmers markets range in varieties of prod­ Farmers markets continue to expand and pro­ ucts sold. Joe Denney is a farmer who provides vide all-natural grown products to residents in residents with pure raw honey and three cooking Bakersfield. oils. The Kern Farmers Market Association was ''The pure raw honey products are continuously founded in 1980 by a group of local citizens and purchased due to its great taste and popularity," farmers. The current president, Charles Drew, has said Denney. One of the two honey products is managed the markets from 1981 to present called Orange, which is described to be made by Drew, who is a certified producer, takes the ini­ bees placed in citrus trees in the spring sea<;on. tiative to make sure that Bakersfield residents are The other product is Buckwheat Honey that is guaranteed to expect a year-round farmers market made by bees that are placed in a "smoothd' crop located at the Golden State Mall parking lot on in the fall season. Buckwheat is a wild grain, so 3201 F St. This year-round market is open to the the honey also has pollen from weeds and flowers. public every Saturday, rain or shine, from 8 a.m. The honey is priced from $10 to $18 and ranges to noon. from 250 milliliter to 500 milliliter bottles. "I am very appreciative of the expanding of Denney also produces cooking oils called Mis­ farmers markets in Bakersfield," said resident sion, Manzanilla, and Blood Orange Oil. Denney buyer Joan Steller. "I find myself rushing every mentioned how the top chef from Bakersfield Saturday morning to gather vegetables, fruits and College enjoys usi ng their oils for cooking dem­ bread because l prefer to buy these products than onsn-ations. Mission Oil is an all-around oil for in stores." dipping, salads, pasta, fish and chicken. It is light The Saturday farmers market provides Bakers­ and buttery and highly recommended by the pro­ field residents with hand-grown vegetables that ducers. Manzanilla is their most olive oil flavored. are planted by local farmers who enjoy providing It is ideal for pizza, sauteed foods, and as pasta all-naturnJ growing food. Organic produce and sauce, explained Denney. The Blood Orange Oil all-natural company products are also sold. is their distinct orange oil. Anne and Keith Stephens are two individuals "Our blood oranges are pressed with our olives. who provide residents with hand-grown vegeta­ Oil from the orange peels lends the orange flavor, bles and fruit. not the juice," said Denney. It is recommended for "We are well known for the freshness and qual­ salads, chicken, fi sh, grilled vegetables and rice. ity we provide for buyers," said Stephens. "My The oils are priced .from $10 to $18 and ranges wife grows everything from seeds and everyone from 250 milliliter to 500 milliliter bottles. DAVID KARNOWSKJ /THE RTP should expect to purchase well taken-care-of veg­ "I encourage everyone to come out to farmers Bakersfield residents John and Jaqueline Klemack stop for a taste of organic juices on etables. My job is to make sure I overlook and markets because it is a great experience and you display at the Farmers Market located at the Golden State Mall on Feb. 6. The market is guard our crop from intruders or animals." can buy everything from vegetables to bread and held every Saturday, and is the only location that has a market on a year-round basis. Both Anne and Keith have contributed to their juices," said buyer Adam Rodriguez. Bakersfield bars host Valentine's Day Eve Pub Crawl

By Kelly Ardis t11e pub crawl with a group of Editor in chief friends, sisters and cousi11s. " I came here to get drunk and While some people were plan­ to hang out," Jimenez said. Grab­ ning romantic evenings for the bing her bottle of Bud Light, she next day, others were hitting up added, "Here's my valentine!" five of Bakersfield's downtown Many of the bars had drink bai·s on Feb. 13 at the Valentine's specials and prizes were given Day Eve Pub Crawl. Starting to pub crawlers who wore red Above: Valentine's Day Eve Pub Crawl participants drink at 3 p.m., attendees traveled on or pink, including novelty hats, beverages and converse during the first pub visit at Sandrini's foot each hour from bar to bar, glow bracelets, beaded necklaces Italian & Basque Restaurant on Feb. 13. The crawl started at 3 starting with Sandrini's, then on and fake tattoos. Coats said she p.m. and lasted into the evening eventually coming to a close at to Fishlips Bar and Grill, Enso, would like to organize more pub the Padre Hotel. The Nile and finally ended the crawls in the future. festivities at the Padre Hotel. "I'm a big advocate for down­ Right: Participants in the Valentine's Day Eve Pub Crawl play Organizer Corrine Coats de­ town," said Coats. "Maybe not drinking games and drink beer at Fishlips on Feb. 13. cided to put on the Valentine's for free again, though. If we Day Eve Pub Crawl when she charge, the money can go to the couldn't find another pub crawl bars." PHOI'OS BY DAVID KARNOWSKI / THE RIP in town to go to. "I was looking for a pub crawl to go to, I thought it would be fun ," she said. "But there wasn't one to go to, so a friend suggest­ ed l make my own. This is the first time l've ever done anything like this." Although Coats admitted that "very little" planning went into This d€gree pays dividends the pub crawl, she did have to I make the schedule and fliers, promote the event predominantly i----~- through Facebook and talk to the bars to make sure they were able to hold the crowd Coats was ex­ pecting. The number of expected attendees stai1ed off at 30 to 60 Your degree front people, but by the time the event rolled around, Coats said she ex­ pected about 75. Fresno Pacific University: The main goal of the pub crawl, besides having a good a smart investment that never loses value. time, was to expose people to different bars in downtown Ba­ • 13-18 month programs • Financial aid available kersfield, including the Japanese restauraiit and bai· Enso and the • Evening classes, one night per week newly reopened Padre Hotel, said Coats. "Some of these bars are ones I like the most and some of them, Business Management I Christian Ministry and Leadership like Enso and the Padre, are new," said Coats on why the five Criminology & Restorative Justice Studies bars were chosen. "Other bai·s, like tJ1e AJley Cat, would be too Early Childhood Development I Liberal Arts small to hold so many people." Sisters Sara and Jenni Chaf­ Organizational Leadership I RN to BSN fin , 25 and 28 respectively, came with friends to t11e pub crawl hoping to have a good time and maybe find a Valentine. "We like to drink, we don't Call 661-617-3217 have men, and we're hoping to find one. We're having another or visit fresno.edu/value shot of love," said Chaffin. " I didn 't know about this until 30 minutes before we came. It's al­ most like St. Patrick's Day, but BAKERSFIELD it's better because we're all bit­ FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY CENTER ter." "We're not Irish, but we have 200 hearts!" added Sara. xxooo River Run Blvd. I Suite I Bakersfield I CA I 933xx Leticia Jimenez, 23 and a BC liberal studies major, came to FEATURES Page3 T h e Renegad e Rip I www.therip .com Thursday, February 18, 2010 Electronica duo 'breathes' entertainment into Jerry's

By Vincent Perez "I knew him (Even) from other bands. Our old bands had played News editor shows together [in Denver]. He was older than me so he would buy me cigarettes when I couldn't buy them. We ended up moving in to­ Denver natives Breathe Carolina, the electronica screamo duo of gether and I was dead broke;' said Schmitt. David Schmitt and Kyle Even, played at Jerry's Pizza in downtown Schmitt added about their first demos, "I already had some songs Bakersfield on the night of Feb. 12 to a sellout crowd. where I just sang on them. I loved how he screamed. I said, 'Just see Breathe Carolina last played in Bakersfield at the 2008 Rockin' what it sounds like [to scream on my track]' and he did it and we were Roots festival. Apart from Schmitt singing and Even screaming, both Iike 'Alright, this is cool' and kept going with it. It was kind of an ac­ members write and record the music. cidental thing but it all worked out for the right reasons." "We were just making music and having a good time. That was The Denver music scene has been great to Breathe Carolina ac­ pretty much it," said Schmitt swiftly about how Breathe Carolina cording to Schmitt. formed in 2007. "I love the Denver scene. The kids are really open to any kind of Hundreds packed into Jerry's to catch Breathe Carolina's "No music down there, so it's really cool. Anything really works there." Check Points in the Jungle" tour featuring L.A. up-and-comers Hy­ Breathe Carolina played all of last year's Vans Warped Tour and per Crush, Let's Get It, Queens Club and Breathe Carolina member the duo expressed their feelings about the 16-year tour, which they Joshua Andrew's (guitar/vocals/piano) own band, The Spin Cycle. are playing again this year. "We weren't too sure where we were going and that's just where "I always try to get really healthy before I go on Warped Tour. Last we were booked at. We're stoked;' said Schmitt. time, I went to the doctor and made sure everything was legit just Even said after the Jerry's performance, "It was hot down there. It because it's one of those tours where your body is unhealthy as hell," was fun. Kids were rowdy. That's our goal; I think that's any band's said Schmitt. goal: how rowdy you can get a crowd. We play Jerry's, we play any­ Schmitt added, "We were in a bus, we could sleep, but partying where, it doesn't matter to us." is out of control on Warped Tour. You 're in the sun all day long. You GREGORY D. COOK / THE Ra> Schmitt said, "I'm not sure if we are in southern California any­ don't want to sleep, so you just don't and you're sweating all day. Breathe Carolina vocalist Kyle Even dances around the more. [Playing] Bakersfield, the second time in a long time. For not Constantly, [you 're] dehydrated. [You 're] constantly drunk. [It's stage during a performance in the basement of Jerry's ever being here (Jerry's), it 's a good turnout. It seems cool. [It's] more about] just preparing your body." Pizza and Pub on Feb. 12. The band was formed in 2007 in [of a] quiet town compared to Denver or L.A." Schmitt talked about the differences between Warped and their Denver, Colo and has been performing ever since. The Denver band has been touring consistently since inception. own tours. "I' m pretty used to it. It gets rough being away from people for so "It's just different vibes. Warped Tour is like a festival everyday. Like Miley Cyrus, any of that shit. If it catches my ear, then it's good long ... this is what we do now," said Schmitt. So, [you] see all your good friends all the time. There's like fifty plus enough for me." Even added about touring, "You just go with the flow. [We] just bands, so it's definitely intense doing it everyday. I think they're both When asked what advice Schmitt has for younger bands, he re­ take it as it comes. Two years deep [touring]." fun in their own way." plied, "Just do whatever you want to do. Not try to sound like another Even reflected about Breathe Carolina's off time compared to their Fan criticism of Breathe Carolina and bands alike (B rokencyde, band. Just do reall y want you want to do. That's what is going to time on the road. Millionaires), since last year's Warped Tour have been made evi­ make you more successful, when you 're true to yourself. All the fans "We feel worthless when we're at home. We just sit around, watch dent. will be true to you, as well." T.V., play video games and kick it with our friends," said Even. "I think it's funny that so many people get worked up over it. If this Even reflected on his musical upbringing, and when asked what his "Touring gives us something to fill ourselves with. It gives us our genre wasn't doing what it is doing, no one would even care to hate influences were he said, "Backstreet Boys, man," Even said with a purpose. It's just something different; it's hard to describe the feeling. enough. People take time out of their day to write biogs and trash laugh. "[In] elementary school, I had this teacher; he pushed me to do It's surreal." [online]. It's like ' You really must have nothing to do, you just sit at solo stuff [in choir]. I don't know what it was about me why he chose Schmitt said he knew Even before the band's beginnings. home and talk shit all day.' It's like 'Sorry, we're out doing our thing me when I was in fourth grade." and you 're stuck at home writing trash.' Talk good or talk bad, I really A popular shoe chain is where Even first began screaming. don't care. It's good both ways;' said Schmitt. "I was working at Journey's, and I said to my manager, 'Teach me Other bands on Warped Tour have been vocal as well on their how to scream,' [then he said], 'First, you just got to try it,' so he put thoughts about the genre of electronica recently. on some music and it was blaring out of Journey's and I' m just trying "It's annoying when other bands talk shit about other bands. Hon­ to scream, it was funny at fi rst." estly, we're all here doing the same thing. Just because we have Even added, "It took a long time for me to finally figure out how to different music ... it doesn't matter, it's all the same," said Schmitt do it without killing my voice." profoundly. Even's main influence to scream came from metalcore Florida Schmitt said honestly about his future, "I think I will always do band Underoath's vocalist. something with music. These days, bands and lasting forever, it's like "Spencer Chamberlain from Underoath, kind of evolved of how I a fashion: it comes and it goes. We're just going to ride it out for as scream. I haven't done lows [like he can]. "Define the Great Line" long as we can. I have no idea. It could last for a week or five years." really inspired me to try do something different with my voice. Schmitt had a dream that gave the duo its name. I heard that when he did 'They're Only Chasing Safety," he was "I actually had a dream in ninth grade, and it was this lady named just trying to mimic their old singer's style [Dallas Taylor]. After I Carolina living my life and I could see everything she was doing. It heard that record, I was like 'let's evolve' and see what happens. I was a weird dream ... she kept tell ing me to breathe and it kind of definitely can't get as low as [Chamberlain]." GREGORY]). COOK /THE RIP just came like that." Even said with a carefree sense, "I have fun trying and trying to do Electronica band Breathe Carolina plays to a packed room Schmitt's musical likings vary widely, as he said, "I've been into something new." of fans during a performance in the basement at Jerry's John Mayer a lot lately. Lil' Wayne, I always listen to Lil' Wayne Breathe Carolina plans to keep touring and recording demos simul­ Pizza and Pub on Chester Avenue on Feb. 12. all the time; definitely a mix. I just like a good song, I don't care. taneously until they reach Warped Tour again in late June.

ANNIE STOCKMAN /TI-IE RIP Firefly hugs an opponent of the Washington Generals at Rabobank Arena on Feb. 11. Globetrotters visit Bakersfield and marvel fans

By Mateo M. Melero But in reality, the Globetrotters practice daily and Reporter as Hot Shot Branch said, "We play every day, sometimes twice a day, plus practice, plus travel." The citizens of Bakersfield had the chance to Formed in Chicago in 1926 to accommodate once more marvel in the basketball feats of the black basketball players who at the time were un­ At National University, » Guaranteed admission Harlem Globetrotters on Feb. 12 at Rabobank Are­ able to compete professionally, the Globetrotters we know you can't sit in class na. Never ceasing to awe and humor the crowd, compete as an exhibition team, touring Europe, » No enrollment fee fans were delighted with the antics of the teams the United States and various U.S. military out­ all day or lock yourself in a mascot Globie, dressing up as various celebrities posts around the world. » Flexible scheduling and teasing the Washington Generals sporadically. The game ended with the Globetrotters winning library - you've got work, family, Numerous mini games and skits were employed 85-73. Every fan was allowed an autograph after­ and friends. You're transferring » Unique one-course-per-month during the game and at one point, frustrated with ward, with the te.am taking positions around the the Globetrotters' domination over scoring, the cou1t to accommodate the fans. because you want to finish your format Generals' coach employed a hypnotizing device degree and move on into a new » over Dizzy Grant, which the Globetrotters could Scholarship programs only break with a major play. career. You want help, and at Fans were included in the show, with Grant fan ­ cying a female fan at one point and asking for a National University we'll give it kiss, only to be turned down because she was mar­ to you, with ... ried. Grant, in return, kissed the woman's husband, sending the spectators into a roar of laughter. During the game, the Generals were helpless against the Globetrotters' mastery of the red, white and blue sphere, standing dumbfounded as players such as Airport Greenup and Grant twisted, twirled The Unwersi,/y of Values and glided the ball around obstacles to score amid the applause of the fans. ANNIE STOCKMAN I TI-IE RIP Slam dunks and trick passes were a staple of the Handles and Slick with fan Myra at 1.800.NAT.UNIV I getinfo . nu.edu/transfer Globetrotter offense, and they made it look easy. Rabobank Arena on Feb. 11. NEWS Page 4 The Renegade Rip I www.therip.com Thursday, February 18, 2010

News Briefs Bakotopia postpones print issue Fundraiser for Bakersfield College Foundation By Brian N. Willhite and produce the magazine. product," said Molen. to continue keeping it a free publication Reporter "We just never made enough money to Bakotopia.com and Bakotopia Maga­ supported by advertisers and not have to The Petroleum Club of Ba­ cover the costs, and when the economy zine editor Matt Munoz is continuing in pass any of the costs on to the consum­ Bakotopia, one of Bakersfield's local kersfield will be opening up its went south last year, we just couldn't af­ his contlibutions to Bakotopia and has ers. cultm·e and arts magazines, has taken a doors for a special fund.raiser ford to keep on subsidizing the costs. So recently staited Bakotopia Radio with "We don't have any plans to chai·ge for break from p1int publication ai1d has re­ benefiting the Bakersfield Col­ we spent a lot of time looking at alter­ co-host Mirai1da Whitworth ailing Sun­ it. The advertising has to be there 'cause turned focus to the Web site that stru1ed lege Foundation. It started on Feb natives and crnnching numbers before day nights on KRAB Radio from 9-10 it's really, really hai·d to chai·ge for a it all. 15. but will continue until Feb. we came to the conclusion in December p.m. The show spotlights local ai1ists printed publication to cover your costs The magazine, which was basedoncit­ 20, from 6 to 9 p.m., each eve­ to put the p1int edition on hold," Molen and musicians and includes live pe1for­ without the advertising. The adve11is­ izen-submiued material, began publish­ ning. Both the Sl"Y Bar & G1ille, said. "We haven't completely eliminated mances in the studio by theu· guests. ing has to cover the majority of the cost, ing over two years ago. It was launched offering casual dining. and the the idea of print magazine, but the tl me "So we're kind of continuing to create otherwise you'd end up having to charge as an addition to the growing Web sit.e Three Sixty Dining Room, offer­ just wasn't 1ight now to keep it going." Bakotopia stuff, it's just not in this print $10 for an issue ofBakotopia, and that's Bakotopia.com, which is now operat­ ing fine dining, will be welcom­ Bakotopia is not ending altogether product that costs money to produce," not going to happen," Molen said. ing in its fifth year online, according to ing guests . Download the flier on though. In fact, a restructuring of the said Molen. In the meantime, readers can still Logai1 Molen, chief operating officer for the Bakersfield College website Web site is in progress which will in­ According to Molen, the website's look forward to getting their Bakotopia the Bakersfield Californian's interac­ at www.bakersfieldcollege.edu clude offering a downloadable version redesign is scheduled 1.0 be finished in content via the web and its other forms tive media division and Bakersfield.com to present to the hostess. This is of Bakotopia magazine. the second quaiter of 2010, while the available soon. which oversees Bakotopia magazine and how the Foundation is credited The online version of the magazine Printcasting component for the online "We're still committed to Bakotopia Bakotopia.com. for your meal. For more infor­ will be created using a program called magazine edition should be finished in a and the Web site ai1d the radio show and Bakotopia, however, is owned by a mation call Hannah Egland at "Printcasting," that will allow readers a couple of months. the different versions of it, so stopping company called Mercado N uevo, which 395-4850 for details. better experience in reading the maga­ "There's a test version on the Web the print publication is just another pa.it is a subsidiary of the Californian. Mer­ zine online ai1d the option to p1int it site 1ight now that's not very polished. of the evolution," said Molen. "I mean, cado Nuevo also owns MAS Magazine Family Skate Night at out in its entirety, according to Molen. It was built with first generation tools, we didn' t stait it with a print magazine, and The Bakersfield Voice, two other lo­ Readers will also be able to access the but we just rolJed out a software upgrade so it's not like we were pulling the plug Rollerama West cal publications. new Bakotopia Magazine through the last week so we should have a more pol­ on the core of the product.. The core has In late 2009, Molen and the team at use of RSS feeds. ished version up in a month or two," said always been the Web site." Family Skate Night at Roll­ Bakotopia and the Californian decided "We're looking at using those tools to Molen. Bakotopia Magazine printed 70 issues erama West is having special to end Bakotopia Magazine's p1int rnn, create a digital version of Bakotopia, so Reproducing a print version of Bako­ with the first issue going into print May family offers starting Feb. 20 citing insufficient income from advertis­ it'll be a magazine, it just won' t be ex­ topia in the future is not out of the ques­ 1, 2007, ai1d the last issue printing Dec. from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admis­ ers that wasn't meeting the costs to p1int actly like what we had with the printed tion yet either, however, they would like 24, 2009. sions of $30 include 4 (2 adult.s/2 children) tickets. skate rentals. one pizza and a pitcher of soda. Rollerama is located on 7850 Brimhall Road. For more infor­ mation contact. 589-7555. Fifth stage of cycle BC student Condors play Victoria

The Bakersfield Condors will be playing against the Victo1ia speaks out Salmon Kings, on Feb. 26 at 7 race to end at BC p.m. at the Rabobank Arena, located on 1001 Truxton Ave. Tickets prices range from $7 to By Gregory D. Cook Bakersfield, through Lindsay, Po1ter­ on abuse $25. For more infonnation on Multimedia editor ville and Glenville before climbing up tickets and game days, contact the Panorama bluffs three times for a 324-7825 or at bakersfieldcon­ The official routes for all of the cu·cuit finish at Bakersfield College. By Anthony B. Ellrodt dors.com. stages of this summer's Amgen 'lour Stage five will also have riders climb­ Copy editor of California have been released, con­ ing 14 percent grades up to a maxi­ Local "American Idol" finning Bakersfield College as the fin­ mum elevation of neai·Jy 3,500 feet.. Bakersfield College students contestant plays free show ish line of the fifth stage of the cycling Riders are expected to take five to six were given the opportunity to at­ race. hours to complete the stage. tend a speaker event on campus The race is the lai·gest professional Keffy Ryan, president of the Bakers­ A free concert featming local in which the topic was the awai·e­ cycling event in America and will chal­ field Spo11s Foundation, is happy with "American Idol'' contestant Jim ness, and preventing, of domestk lenge riders such as three-time Tour of the route. 'Tm very pleased with it," Ranger will be on Feb. 19 at New violence. California defending champion Levi said Ryai1. "This should be one of the Life Center located at 420 1 Stine What students found out at. the Leipheimer ai1d seven-time 'four de two stages that really breaks open the Road at 7 p.m. For more infor­ event, which was held in Science France champion Lance Armstt·ong race." He explained that stages with a and Enginee1'ing building 53 on mation contact New Life Center with a route of more than 800 miles lot of climbs serve to sepai-ate the 1id­ at [email protected] or at Feb. 10, was that the speaker, Stacy broken into eight daily stages begin­ ers from one another and offer better 661-83 1-2727. Crosley, is the daughter of Glenda viewing for the fans at. the finish. ning in Nevada City, Calif., on May COURTESY OF A.E.G. Crosley who was convicted of kill­ 16, ai1d ending in Thousand Oaks on "I wish it could be longer, but they "Camelot" at Rabobank This map shows the route of the fifth ing her husbai1d in 1986. May 23. do the run to Big Beai· the next day," According to the documentaiy Bakersfield wilJ host the finish of Ryan said, refeffing to the sixth stage stage of the Amgen Tour of California. Bakersfield will be showing t.hat was shown, titJed "Sin by Si­ the fifth stage of the race May 20. of the race, a grneling climb from Pas­ This stage of the race wiU take place the broadway play "Camelot" lence," Glenda was the first. woman Racers wilJ start in Visalia and follow adena to Big Beai·, which will see the on May 20, beginning in Visalia and at the Rabobank TI1eater on in California history to use the bat­ 121.5-mile course winding through 1iders climbing to neru·ly 8,000 feet at ending at the Bakersfield College Feb. 28. "Camelot" is based tered woman's defense. But be­ the foot.hills and mountains north of some points. campus on the T.H. White novel "TI1e ca.use of the nature of her crime, Once and Future King." TI1is the judge denied her defense, she story centers on King Arthur, was convicted of second-degree and the affair between Gue­ murder and was sentenced to 15 nevere and Lancelot. Ticket BUDGET: KCCD prepares for cuts yeai-s to life. prices are $25 to $45 plus The film highlighted a group called "Convicted Women Against fee and can be obtained from Continued from Page 1 is asking the three colleges of t.he Abuse," a group of women incai·­ tickemaster.com or by calling Also on the list of cuts is the distTict to continue to prepare for cerat.ed in the California Inst.itut.e 800-745-3000. competitive Cal Grant program. the worst. for Women in Chino founded by The program provides grants of up In an e-mail, Serrano asked col­ former inmate Brenda Clubine. New exhibit at Bakersfield to $1,550 to 22,500 students per lege presidents to continue to make The film also highlighted how yeai· that ai·e stai·ting college more plans for a 15 percent budget reduc­ Museum of Art the CWAA organization was in­ than one yeru· after they finished tion for the 2010-11 school yeru· stt·umental in getting domestic high school. Cutting the program, with the hope of reiI1stating some The Bakersfield Museum of violence laws chai1ged not only in which the budget calls "duplicative of those reductions if the budget Art will be hosting Andreas California, but nationwide. of other Cal Grant programs," frees proves to be favorable. Marks. director/curator of the In the film, Clubine pointed out up $45.5 million in the budget. "The KCCD governing board Clark Center for Japanese Art that none of the women are ex­ DAVID KARNOWSKI /THE RIP The proposed budget will now go believes that it is fiscally prndent and Culture on March 3 from pressing innocence in theu· c1imes. Bar-goers sit at the Brimstone Bar in to the state legislature for review, for each of us to continue planning 9:30-11 a.m. It will be a behind She also points out the desire for the Padre Hotel on Feb. 4, the day of the and recommended changes wilJ be to reduce our budget in alignment the scenes look at the Clark Cen­ the film to be used as a teaching suggested to the governor's office. with our mission," Serrano stated in ter plus a preview of the upcom­ hotel's reopening. tool to get the word out against do­ By May 14, the governor is required her e-mail. "And therefore, emerge ing Japanese ai1 exhibit. The mestic violence. "We need to get to submit a revised budget to the leg­ leaner and SITOnger." event is free to members, $4 for the message out that abuse is not islature, and it is this revised budget "What we ai·e ttying to do is shift non-member seniors, and $5 for PADRE: Reconstructed OK," she said. "It's also not OK to that will go before both houses of our resources in a way to handle adults. be silent." the legislature for final approval by our core mission of transfer, cai·eer Padre Hotel recently After the film was shown, Stacy June 15. Bakersfield College offers and technical education and basic spoke about her own life growing Revisions to last yeru·'s proposed skills," said Chamberlain. "So while up in the abusive household. skills workshops reopened to public budget reduced community college we may see reductions in some ar­ "It was the 1970s and 80s," Stacy funding up to 40 percent in some ar­ eas, and emphasis shifted from some Continued from Page 1 said. "If no one hit anyone in front Critical Academic Skills at Ba­ eas, causing numerous cuts t.o class courses to other areas, we have not Systems, enjoyed the Prospect Bai· and DJ mu­ of the cops, they didn't make any kersfield College will be offering sections and programs. That is why proposed anything beyond that." sic. "The dai1ce floor is a good size, the DJ is arrests. They just got things settled Essentials in Word Processing, KCCD chancellor Sandra Seffano awesome and they have a VIP loft upstairs you and left.." Basic Skills workshop with could rent.;' said Whiten. Stacy contfoued with the various Joyce Kirst on Feb. 23 at 11:45- Whiten characterized the Padre hotel as a ways she tried to escape the situa­ 12:45 p.m. in Library 148. "vintage nature of the origi nal Padre with a tion at. home. CAS will be offering Essen­ modern twist/cowboy glam." In the rooms up­ LOUNGE: SGA to open game room "I was around 9 years old when tials in Word Processing, Ad­ stairs, there is a custom design on the wallpaper I tt·ied diugs for the first time," she vanced Skills workshop with which "from faraway it looks like a damasked Continued from Page 1 room. So, after thinking of what can said at the event. "I did everything I Joyce Kirst on Feb. 25 at 11:45- print but when you get close to it, it has cow­ be done to fix this issue, the SGA 12:45 p.m. in L 148. classic and newer video game ma­ could to get removed from the situ­ boys ai1d guns, with an old western feel to it," chines. decided it was time to get some new ation I was living in." CAS will be offe1ing Comma said Whiten. The ai·cade will be open to all BC machines for the students to keep Stacy, and her son Zephan, ru·e Crimes, Part One: Clauses & As for the hotel's diink p1icing ai1d services, students at standat·d opening times them entertained and a well-round­ Phrases workshop with Gloria now students at BC and have not Rodriguez mentioned the prices for dI'inks were of the cafete1ia. The new game ma­ ed envu·onment to socialize. only moved forwai·d with their Dumler on Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. average but that the service was a bit slow. "The chines will be quaiter based, and the Shaheen has been meeting with ives, but have also become very to noon in Student Services 151 1 servers take your order, but take a long time to money wilJ be contributed back to companies and collected quot.es of active in educating the public on and March 3 from 1-2 p.m. get. you your drink, even if you go to the bar per­ the SGA for further campus proj­ popular video games to try t.o ensure how to prevent domestic violence, CAS will be offering Comma sonally, and the same goes when you're paying ects. a wide variety of genres. and how to get help if someone is Crimes. Part Two: Restrictive & the tab," she said. He is specifically looking into a Nom·esttictive Elements work­ "The completion of this project suffering at the hands of another One of the major problems she noticed for diverse feel of games from modem individual. shop with Glo1ia Dumler on Feb. should allow students a place to re­ slow service was the need for more employees. and some older class arcade games Glenda was up for pai·ole this 18 from noon to 1 p.m. and 3 at lax bet.ween classes and congregate "I went on opening night, ai1d there were only with one another all while enjoying for all to have an interest in. SS 151 and Mai·ch 3 from 2-3 past Januaiy, but was denied by the ai·ound four waitTesses going ai·ound ai1d to me classic ai·cade fm1," said Shaheen. Due to his urge to make the ai·­ pai·ole boai·d. She continues fight­ p.m. it seemed there were more secmity personnel The decision to get new arcade cade renovation of games to every­ ing on appeal to be released under CAS will be offering Subject­ in the front than actual people taking your or­ one's acceptance, Shaheen has had Verb Agreement workshop with games came across to the SGA after California's new domestic violence ders." noticing how rundown and umeli­ multiple one-on-one conversations laws. Debbie Cantrell on March 2 from The newly renovated PadI·e Hotel for many in able the old machines were. with students in regai·d to what they For more infonnation on Glenda 11 :30-12:30 p.m. at SS 151. Bakersfield came at a perfect. tl me and it.'s "defi­ Liule to no at.tention has been would like to see within the new Crosley, Clubine or CWAA, please nitely a breath of fresh air," said Whiten. ongoing in what is now the game project.. visit sinbysilence.com.