BC Rapist Convicted of All Charges BC Continues Parking Lot Constructions
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BC students receive @bc_rip @bc_rip Ariana Grande’s new free supplies from SGA album is a mixed bag The Renegade Rip Campus, Page 4 Reviews, Page 10 www.therip.com The Renegade Rip Vol. 91 ∙ No. 1 Bakersfield College Thursday, September 6, 2018 BC rapist convicted of all charges By Paige Atkison terrorize, and robbery know what he was attack before his security arrived during During an investiga- Editor-in-Chief in the second degree. doing,” according to arrest was committed the assault and appre- tor follow-up in May, The charges brought court documents. He against a 19-year-old hended Robinson, who Robinson confessed to After a year of court against Robinson asked her if she be- Bakersfield College promptly hid in one of having “taken advan- proceedings, the assail- included three separate lieved in God and then student while she was the stalls. tage” of the first victim ant who perpetrated cases of sexual assaults stated that he did and at BC’s main campus. Robinson remained in detail- including that a sexual assault in the on women- the young- made regular attempts During the woman’s adamant that he was he had spoken to the Fine Arts restroom at est of which was a to attend church ser- restroom break before innocent and that victim about religion. BC’s main campus in 15-year-old girl. vices on Sundays. After a final exam, Robin- supernatural forces Despite the discrepan- Spring of 2017 has Robinson kidnaped the robbery, Robinson son followed into the may have forced him to cies in his testimony, been convicted. and assaulted the asked the victim if she Fine Arts building commit acts of vio- Robinson plead not Brandon Robinson, 15-year-old while she was angry with him. where he physically lence (an excuse he re- guilty to all 15 charges. 21, was convicted of was walking to school. During the jury trial, and sexually assaulted peated to press and law As a result of his the 15 felony charges Following the attack, Robinson was convict- her. Robinson turned enforcement). Howev- plea, his case went to he faced on Aug. 14. he held her at gunpoint ed on four charges spe- off the bathroom lights er, Robinson admitted trial in early July 2018. The charges range and solicited her for cific to sexual assaults to conceal his identity to committing many Robinson’s sentencing from sexual battery, money. While robbing committed against a before threatening to of the acts described in hearing is set for Sept. sexual assault, threat- the victim, Robinson minor. kill the victim if she the charges according 26, and he faces up to ening with intent to stated that he “didn’t Robinson’s final screamed. BC campus to court documents. life in prison. BC continues parking lot constructions By Rosa Salazar Reporter Bakersfield College’s parking lot renovations will be completed by the end of October of this year, according to Tamara Baker, the community relations of faculties, maintenance and opera- tions. Kern County residents voted to pass Measure J, a $504 million bond to renovate the Bakersfield College campus in November 2016. The money has been used for parking lot renovations as well as building construction. “We have finished three of the four phases or renovation; the very last phase is going to be P8 which is the student parking lot on University next to the football fields. That will close Septem- ber 4th along with two other staff parking lots and that’ll be closed till the end of October, and once that is completed we will have all new park- ing lots and we will be finished with that project,” she said. Parking lot P8 located on University Ave will JA’NELL GORE / THE RIP be closed from Sep. 4 2018 through Oct. 28 2018 Dozens of vehicles park along Mount Vernon Ave. in pedestrian and reserved parking spaces. all day. nicely paved…no potholes and to keep it clean.” Parking lot 16 which is located behind the “Sucks you pay for a parking [pass] and not find Brantley commented about paying for parking lot baseball fields near Haley Street and Universi- any parking and still be late,” she said. passes. ty Ave will be free for the 2018-2019 academic BC student Chris Brantley has not had any “If you’re paying for it, then let’s have some school year. problems parking on campus; additionally, he good parking lots; safe parking lots,” he said. BC student Kayla Sanchez parks by the solar doesn’t mind paying for a parking pass. BC student Stephanie Magallon has talked panels. Brantley said the money from the parking passes about her experience parking on campus. She de- “It’s honestly a struggle,” she said, “I just feel should be used for upkeeping and maintenance scribes her experience as “stressful because there’s like there’s not enough parking.” of the lots. too many cars...not enough parking.” Magallon Sanchez suggested paying for priority parking He said there should be security making sure and adding more parking spaces for people. people’s cars are safe and also, “make sure it’s Please see CONTINUED, Page 9 NEWS Page 2 The Renegade Rip www.therip.com Thursday, September 6, 2018 Kern County’s Hispanic Business Conference features staff from BC By Rosa Salazar struggles and experiences. One of the women who afraid to make mistakes. That’s totally fine. Just be Reporter spoke was Gabriela Mello, Vice President of com- you. And be proud of you. No excuses. Because we munity relations for Wells Fargo Bank. Mello gave try to reinvent ourselves and that’s totally fine, but The 24th annual Kern County Hispanic Business some advice for women. the true you is the best one to put forward, so just be Conference (KCHCC) and Exposition took place “Keep learning, keep stretching yourself. Don’t be real...talk to each other, make sure that you’re kind, at the Bakersfield Marriott at the Convention Cen- that you keep learning because this journey is not ter Aug. 30 from 1-7p.m. gonna end,” she said. The KCHCC is a non-profit organization that fo- One of the speakers at the convention was Pepe cuses as a Hispanic business resource. Serna, a Hollywood actor. He has been in movies According to Jay Tamsi, the President CEO of and TV shows including, “Lowriders,” “Scarface,” the KCHCC, the organization promotes and en- and “Downsizing.” Serna presented an improv hances business opportunities for their members. workshop where people participated in many activ- Tamsi said the majority of its members are His- ities such as stretching, speaking in front of a group, panic, but anyone is welcome to become a member and singing. regardless of ethnicity. Serna offered some advice to people that want to “Sixty percent of our membership is Hispanic, 40 get ahead. percent is non Hispanic,” he said. “You do not have “One of the things that I was saying in my show to be Hispanic to be in our chamber...so regardless was if you wanna know how to get to where you’re of ethnicity, [you’re] welcome to join our chamber, going is ask somebody who’s on their way back...ask you’re welcome to partake in our chamber, you’re somebody who’s successful,” he said. “And they’ll welcome to come to any of the events to make sure tell you. They’ll tell you all about it. People love to that this is the chamber that fits your needs,” he talk about their success, and how to build, how to said. make it happen.” The sponsors included Wells Fargo, Dignity One of the expositions at the convention was the Health, Kaiser Permanente, Chevron and Com- North of the River Chamber. It was represented by prehensive Blood and Cancer Center. Cathy Wolfe, the executive director and office man- One of the nine business workshops was named ager. According to Wolfe, the North of the River “Branding Yourself and Your Business.” The work- Chamber “has a lot of businesses that join it, so it’s shop was presented by Tamara Baker, who works in a chamber of commerce and one of the big things community relations for Bakersfield College. that we do is we have about four or five fundraisers The workshop covered topics such as branding, throughout the year that raise funds for our schol- creating brand strategy, and seven components for arships that we give to Frontier, Liberty, Centennial comprehensive brand strategy. One of the pieces and North High.” of advice that Baker gave was, “Make your brand Wolfe hopes to grow its memberships by Decem- human.” FRANCO CASTELO / THE RIP ber. Another workshop titled “Women Empower- Dr. Sandeep Walia, Ophthalmologist Dignity She said, “We are having a membership drive ment” was moderated by Olivia Garcia, a history Health – Mercy Memorial Hospitals and Jay September through December and we hope by the professor at Bakersfield College. The workshop Tamsi, CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of end of December to grow the 200 members.” had women in the business field that shared their Commerce (KCHCC) pose for a picture. Homelessness can affect the BC student body FRANCO CASTELO / THE RIP By Laura Lanfray instability. Reporter Bakersfield College Director of Stu- Raji Brar, Owner/Operator Countryside Market and Restaurant, dent Life, Nicky Damania, reminds Norma Rojas Mora, Director of communication and Community With homelessness on the rise across Relations for Bakersfield College and Gabriela Mello, Vice President students of the availability of com- Kern County, Bakersfield College as- munity resources for students.