Exemplary Program Award'

CAMPUS Page 6 The Renegad e Rip I www.therip.com Wednesday, February 3, 2010 BC awarded 'Exemplary Program Award' By Denise Gonzalez California Community Board on campus succeed in school honored to win another state "These new strategies allow to develop curriculum courses Reporter of Governors who in turn issued work and future goals. level award for our depa1tment. students to focus on specific and interventions that will serve award checks for their respective A check for $4,000 was then The award is a reminder to the skills through special workshops to improve the students learning The Academic Senate for Cali programs. awarded to be used within the Kern County community and and classes while continuing to experiences. fornia Community Colleges hon In honor of the BC Academic campus program. This program constituents across the state that address their broader academic Along with other representa ored two schools that received Development program, Kim has initiated well-designed strat Bakersfield College is commit goals," as said in a press release tives in the Academic Develop the 2009 Exemplary Program berl y Van Horne took the ini egies to assist students in their ted to student success," said Van by BC president Greg Chamber ment department, Van Horne will Awards for best exemplifying tiative as the BC representative academic development needs. Horne. lain. continue to collaborate with the this year's theme, "Creating a and submitted a proposal. The The program strives to help stu Therefore, the ACDV works Van Horne advocates how administration, student services Bridge to Transfer or Career." proposal to ASCCC included the dents prepare to transfer to four to improve teaching and learning until all BC students are achiev and disciplines across campus Bakersfield College and San numerous programs, workshops year institutions and into career by building study, reading, writ ing their academic and career because according to Van Horne, ta Barbara City College were and courses that representatives opportunities. ing, info1mation competency and goals, the Academic Develop she positions students to be her the two schools chosen by the work on in order to help students "We are extremely proud and mathematic skills. ment department will continue number one priority. BC, CSUB collaborative STEM SGA sponsors project helps students transfer 'Ask Me' tables By Martin Chang to leave the tables with a smile. Reporter One problem that was not ex pected was the heavy rain that oc The Student Government As curred during the week. Because sociation of Bakersfield College of the weather, the tables were organized Ask Me tables the fi rst shut down for a shott time and the week of school in order to inform organizers did their best to work and help students in the new se around the problem. Newsom and mester. others "overcame and adapted" to The tables were placed in stra the weather. tegic places to help the most stu According to Mike Stepanovich, dents, such as outside the Fireside executive director of the BC Foun Room. At the tables, volunteers dation and a volunteer at the would help students and answer tables, many of the students did any questions they had. The tables seem a little flustered and stressed. ran from Jan. 19 to Jan. 21. Some students would come a few Also available to students were minutes before their classes and several pamphlets and handouts to ask for directions. Most of the aid students in the new semester. students were new to the campus These pamphlets and handouts in and some were even accompanied cluded info1mation on location of by their parents. Stepanovich felt classes, choices of majors, coun that he was helping students and seling, jobs available and financial saw a notable sense of relief from aid. the students after he had assisted According to Shawn Newsom, them. assistant to the dean of students When Newsom called for feed and the organizer of the Ask Me back, it was mostly positive. The tables, the goals of the tables were only complaints had to do with to help students new and old at the the weather. Newsom felt that the beginning of the semester. He says tables were "very successful." that the campus can be "really big" He felt that the tables accom and knows how overwhelming a plished exactly what they were new semester can be for students, meant to do which was help stu especially new ones. Newsom dents at the beginning of this further stated he wanted students spring semester. DAVID KARNOWSKI /TlfE RIP Bakersfield College political science major Rocky Blatto has his transcript reviewed by Cal. State University, Solar power to be Bakersfield transfer and matriculation specialist Marisa Marquez in the Fireside Room on Jan. 21. The two-day event was sponsored by a science, technology, engineering and math transfer project between BC and CSUB. added over parking SGA blown away by high winds By Michael Wafford school's power costs for the next Reporter 20 years. Chiang went on to say that the panels will generate the Bakersfield College, in an on equivalent electric usage of 293 going effo1t to become more homes per year by taking advan green, will be building a solar tage of the abundant sunlight in panel field. the area. The field will be one of Approved by the board of trust the few of its type located on a col ees in December 2009, the panels lege campus. will be constructed over the no1th Chiang said the panels wi ll ar east parking lot located on the cor ticulate, following the movement ner of Panorama and Mt.Vernon of the sun, to maximize efficien Avenues. cy. According to Amber Chiang, Several students and facu lty are director of Media Relations at BC, anticipating the project, such as the field will generate up to one geology professor Natalie Bursz third of the school's power once tyn. "I think that this project is a constructed while placing any un really amazing step fo1ward for used power back into Bakersfield's the college;' she said. power grid. Aside from generating energy, Through a series of rebates and the solar panels also have other incentives, the $8.3 mill ion project purposes. They will work as cov will be budget neutral, according ered parking for the northeast to Chiang. parking lot providing protection The project will lock in the for cars. school's power rate, as of the end Construction will begin after of the semester, solidifying the commencement in May. Administrator no longer on campus, may not return By Anthony B. Ellrodt Amber Chiang, director of Me Copy editor dia Relations at BC, stated the ad ministration will not comment on A main administrator of Bakers her absence. field College is not on campus this "This office will not delve into semester, which has some students Mildred Lovato's personal life, questioning the reason behind her and that's what we'd be doing if absence. we released info1mation regarding Vice President of Instruction her absence," she said. "Students Mildred Lovato is on adminis don 't need to know if an adminis DAVID KARNOWSKI /THE RIP trative leave according to Greg trator is returning to campus. All Bakersfield College Student Government Association president Kristi Newsom and senator Shawn Newsom hold Chamberlain, president of BC. the students need to be concerned down the gazebo covering in the Campus Center while maintenence workers try to tie it down Jan. 20. High winds "Mildred Lovato is on admin with, is that their education and during the first week of the spring semester almost uprooted the aging structure. The SGA is currently considering istrative leave due to personal and student services are moving for options on how to replace many of the older parts of the Campus Center. confidential reasons," he said. ward uninterrupted." OPINIONS Page 7 The Renegad e Rip I www.therip.com Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Staff Editorial Suggestionsf or SGA bud get TV host feud causes kerfuffle As of last December, Bakersfield College's Student Government Association had nearly $750.000 in vaii By Kelly Ardis Leno did receive better ratings, which is not After dreaming of hosting the show for years, fi ous accounts. This money. according to BC dean of Editor in chief surprisi11g since he had 17 years to eam them, as nally and rigtfully getting it, and moving his fam students Joyce Coleman, accumulated because previ opposed to O'B1ien's seven months. Leno had ily, his crew and their families from New York ous SGAs did not use it. SGA and Coleman want to "The Tonight Show" has been t11e greatest a t:,>reat following wi th the older crowd, where City to Los Angeles, he stepped down because spend this money on the students they represent, but tracljtion in late night television since its start in O'Brien's biggest following wa5 young adults. he favored the show's integrity over his own job. money in some of these accounts can only be spent on 1954. For decades, Americai1s have watched tl1e But the older crowd liked Leno because they He also said pushing the shows back would also specific areas of the college. show after the nightly got used to them; ce11ainly they'd get used to push back "Lare Night," which he said would be According to an article printed in the Dec. 2 issue of I BR IEN news, staying tuned for 0 'Brien. if NBC had given him the chance. In " unfair'' to his successor Jimmy Fallon. While The Renegade Rip. SGA's accounts and balances are O some laughs before bed.

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