Aaa 1rouD1e Pussycats ROCK mal\1n 1racKs Students should be sure that .. Josie and the Pussycats" is 'Gades track team does well they want a class before they a surprisingly funny rernake al Western Stale Conferencc add to prevent problems. of the l 970's cartoon. despite numerous injuries. Opinion, Page 2 Features, Page 3 Sports, Page 4 THE ......... NEGADE Vol. 72 No. 7 Bakersfield College April 20, 2001 Advertising space given in honor of new sign BY RACHEL CRIBBS is honoring KSFC by donating ad was really nice of them 10 do that for Schools, but no other ads have been money for the school." percent." Opinion Editor space to them . us." sold yet. The prices for ads are still Messages are currently running "I hope ad space is not an issue," 'The sign wouldn't even be there Kern Schools sends their being discussed at BC, so Kern every IO seconds. That means there Rush said. "We have a lot of srace Kern Schools Federal Credit without Kem Schools so we felt messages over to Rush almost every Schools is the only one with ads is a lot more space available to and BC events get top priority." Union donated a new sign to donating some space to them would month and he posts the ads. posted. advertisers. According to Verne Rush tries to post club events, or Bakersfield College this semester. help recognize their gift." said BC Currcnlly, however, the new sign is "We don't really have a price list Vegso, BC Athletics Marketing any student-related event first. The sign stands on the comer of Public Informations Specialist Brent running at "one sixth of its capacity" for the sign space yet," Rush said. Director. BC ads receive 50 percent "Our policy is anything that is of Mount Vernon and Unive~ity Ave. Rush. "We've had a long standing Rush said. BC activitie.s ace posted "So, there isn't much on there. We of the space available and revenue interest to the campus, then it In ex.change for the gift, the college friendship with Kem Schools so it on the sign as well as ads for Kem hope to sell more ads to bring in and Kern Schools receives 50 See SIGN, Page 5 Agriculture department to receive grant BY ELIZABETH GREGORY Campus Editor "We 're really excited and delighted. These Thanks t(. a new $100,000 are the of grant, the Bakersfield College kind things Agriculture Department is in that the school could line for some ma1or never afford to buy improvements. According to the Ag for itself with its Department's chairman, Bill limited budget." KeJly, the grant has been awarded through the California Community - Bill Kelly, Ag College's Chancellor's office. chairman Kelly said a new stall barn and equipment shed will be u.iiversity." built at the Ag Farm on According to Gregg Cluff, campus with money from the who is an agriculture professor grant, along with a new at Bakersfield College, the .irrigation sys<cm. grant was not just given for .. ..,..e're really excited and physical impcovemeni.s lo !he delighted." Kelly said. ''These Ag Department, but to further arc the kind of things that the the education of its students. school could never afford to Cluff said the Agriculture buy for it..<;elf with its limited Department has many students budget. So we're really that work towards A.S. thankful." degrees and certificates. He Kelly also praised the said those students later work Agriculture Department staff within the community. for its effl"rts in making the "In order to properly grant successful. service that type of student we In addition to all the new need more hands on work.," he changes, three Agricultu,·e said. "At the level they'll (the ·:• classrooms will be receiving students) be working at. they new ceiling-mounted digital will need to know how to use projectors and compute~ with a uactor, how to use irrigation .. --~~-... Internet connection. equipment, s~t up irrigation T OD E. WENSON I THE RIP The Agriculture equipment ... identify pl:mts Above, Ben Sampson, who won a bronze in tht-· extemporaneous speaking competition, gives his speech at the Spring Speech Depanment is located next to and go out in the field." the Applied Science and "It's (the µ-ant) awesome," Showcase. Below, Dr. Mark Staller explains the forensics events and BC speech course offerings to anendees at 1he showcase. Technology t>uilding on said BC student Sabrina ..,,-,... ". •''-'"' campus. Moncur who is majoring in _...,.-.....,• .. ~ Bakersfield College was crops. ' 0 Now we can apply BC debate team wows judges at ,-.~-·~;'>; ' the first comrnunit.y college in what we' re learning to the the state of California to h,1.vc: farm. and we don't have to an Agriculture Department. travel clear across 1cu,,n to look national speech championship which started around 1912. at soil." · 1b~re are now currently Moncur says that the BY LANELL HART College has competed in the small sweepstakes award for debate in the over 800 students taking classes originally travelled to Rip ~taff writ,r schools division:· said Associate large schools division. agriculture classes at BC. areas around the Grapevine to Professor of Communications Dr. Terry Cranfill was presented the Kelly believes they will a!so study soil. Ti,e Bakersfield College Speech Mark Staller. "This year, we took 11 Warre!I-Dahlin Fellowship Award as benefit from the enhanced Michael Poncella is also a and Debate Team struck gold at the students and eniered the large school the student "who best exemplifies technology and material !>tudent at Bakersfield College Phi Rho Pi Community College division. Our overall ranking, the spirit of compet:tion." provided from the grant. who is majoring in Geronomy. National Championships. including individual events, places Jason Giffard won BC's only '1be grants give students "I think the grant will The team traveled to Jacksonville, us tenth in the nation." individual gold medal for Lincoln lots of hands on experience," benefil everyone," Ponce Ila Fla., April 7· 14 over spring break to l11 all, BC's Speech anrl Debate Douglas Debate. Christine Stronach he said. "This makes said. compete against community colleges Team brought home one gold medal. and Giffard placed second, winning opportumue,; for them "Other people who aren't in from across the United States. four silver medals, two bronze a silver medal. for Cross· "For many years, Bakersfield medals, and the gold medal (students) more employable agriculture can go by (to) see See DEBATE, Page 5 LANELL HART /THE RIP when they graduate from BC the new -.::,anges and what's or acceptable for a four-year !:~;ng on," she said. Archive project seeks memorabilia · Project is looking have some central repository where said. "Just about a week ago, I large puddle at the time," she said. we have knowledge about what the overheard one of my fellow students "But these are treasures that you for historical items hislory was and who did things and in the advanced wood class - we' re don't want to let a puddle destroy or what i! was and why it happened and retirees, we take advanced wood - someone throw out." to preserve. all those kinds of things.'' talking about a bunch of old athletic The project has already gathered The project is made up of a small picture! he has of Bakersfield many items, Carlson said. BY JARROD M. GRAHAM group of current and retired BC College athletes that go back to the fa·erything from old photographs. Features Editor faculty and staff members, including '30s. And so I asked him about those newspaper clippings and videotapes Carlson, history professor Dr. Greg .. and I'm having copies made. But ;;f events to campus publications, With a long history that goes back Goodwin. media services manager we have photos of Frank 0:ITord, including copies of old course schedules, catalogs, the defunct to 1913, one would think that for all Kristin Rabe and D!. Robert Allison. Don Han. people like that, that go PHOTO COURTESY OF BC ARCHIVE PROJEt;T these years Bakersfield Coll~ge has retired vice president of instruction. back into the '30s and '40s, amazing Raconteur yearbook and The This photo was featured in 1965 BC yearbook. been keeping track of materials of According to Allison, the shots that we hadn't seen before. And Renegade Rip. thP- historical importance to the college. ~roject's immediate goal is to bring those things are all over town." In addition, the project is also the 1950s. researchers and 1he community at But according to Dr. Chuck together as many of these his1oriully There are also Many items looking for the histol)' of nofable BC "He's 93, sharp as a tack, and he large. Carlsoo, that hasn't been the case. significant items as possible by scattered all over campus. personalitie!> and is encouraging told us a lot of interesting stories ··1t's going to take us several Enter the Bakusfidd Col:~ge gening the word out to retired faculty Rabe re..cued se·fe:rd.l boxes of old people to write in their ,.iories and about the development of buildin2 years. I think. to get the basic data Archive Projec:1. and staff and the general public and student, faculty and event recollections of people or events. this campus," Goodwin said. - collec1ed and cataloged,'' he s3id. "It's a new project that we slatted asking for donations of these photographs l~ted in the basement Three weeks ago, Goodwin and Carlson sees the archi•,e as an .