He's a horny Jewish teenager, and he wants to be a baseball player or a professional writer. It's 1937 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the country is still in the grip of the Depression and on the brink of war. In dealing with chaotic times and chaotic hormones, life is not easy for 15-year-old Eugene Jerome, who has family concerns in the Neil Simon play "Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Water is unquestionably the world's most precious resource. It is the one thing that no living being can survive without. That is why the Bakersfield College geology club and MESA have joined together to inform students of water conservation. "Odyssey: The Journey of Water" is a project that the two clubs have designed to educate the students and faculty of Bakersfield College about water's past and its future.
The arts came together on the first annual "A Knight With the Arts" event on April 30. Bakersfield College's students and staff listened to music and performances given by the BC drumline, jazz band, the orchestra, chamber singers, choir and the concert band.
Religion can be used to justify war and is often a disguise for nationalism. So says retired Cal State Bakersfield professor Gary Kessler, who taught the philosophy of religion and other philosophy courses at CSUB from 1970 to 2004. Kessler, who currently resides in Bellingham, Washington and is the author of several books including "Eastern Ways of Being Religious," "Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader" as well as others, spoke to a group of Bakersfield College professors and students in the Executive Boardroom in CC4 April 23.
It had been almost 13 years since Bakersfield College has heard the beat of a drum … line, that is. The Bakersfield College drumline restarted three years ago, performing at BC football games with the help of Liberty and Bakersfield high schools' drumline coach Dave Ellis.