2008 Woodie Awards
Bakersfield College has a new performance drumline. Liberty High School band instructor Mark McGuire has started a drumline that he hopes to be successful, and he also leads the new band program at Bakersfield College. The drumline consists of 20 members originally from various local high schools.
State community college policies are adept at getting people in community colleges, but they are not good at getting them out. That is the judgment of Colleen Moore, research specialist for the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy. Moore, in collaboration with fellow researcher Nancy Shulock, compiled a report concerning obstacles to student success and degree completion titled "Rules of the Game: How State Policy Creates Barriers to Degree Completion and Impedes Student Success in the California Community Colleges.
Natalie Bursztyn, Bakersfield College professor of geology and Earth science, asked this question: "Why should people of Kern County care about global warming?" "Firstly, we are located in a bad geographic area, which is primarily responsible for the levels of pollution we get here.
BC football player Keyron Mackey was shot Friday, Feb. 9, at approximately 11 p.m. The 19-year-old freshman was exiting his car to walk into his south Bakersfield home when an unidentified person shot at him. "I didn't even really feel it, it felt like someone threw a rock at me," said Mackey as he explained what the experience was like.
Wasco residents marched on the streets on Feb. 6 to speak out about local farm workers getting evicted from their apartment complex. Late Tuesday afternoon, pedestrians started meeting around 5:30 p.m. in Wasco's Cormack Park. A planned march organized by Daniela Simunovic and a committee named, Por los Derechos de Nuestros Niños (For the Rights of our Children), started at 6 p.
Helping Other People Everywhere Inc. is a non-profit organization that cuts out the middleman in order to take all of its donations and selectively apply it directly to schools and other needy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Doreen and husband John Johnson, founders of HOPE Inc.
Ladders were up, and grapefruits and oranges were falling down. BC agriculture students picked oranges and grapefruits on campus Feb. 7-8 in an annual event. "The pickings lasted for two days. We have mostly students and staff helping out," said Bill Kelly, agriculture department chair.
Every spring the members of Women's History and More prepare a series of activities to honor Women's History Month. This year's events will include two speakers, two films and a production directed by BC theater arts professor Kimberly Chin. "We thought we were in good shape and that we had everything planned out since Christmas," said Patricia Thompson, who teaches sociology and anthropology at BC.
Heart-shaped balloons, roses and teddy bears were seen throughout BC on Feb. 14. Chocolate and roses may seem cliché to give on St. Valentine's Day, but BC students still prefer to give these gifts. Kalene Perez bought her boyfriend "a box of chocolate, a balloon with the words 'I love you' and a pillow covered with teddy bears.