Madeline Ruebush, Reporter
March 17, 2023 • No Comments
In collaboration with the SoCal and NorCal ACLU, as well as Project Rebound, the Rising Scholars Program hosted a “Know Your Rights!” event on campus on March 16 to help inform BC students of their rights during trial, arrests, and as a non-citizen. Lunch was made available for those attending and most attendees enjoyed a sandwich and chips before the talk began. Bryan Hirayama, lead faculty for the Rising Scholars, introduced the main speakers of the event: Emelia Garcia, an investigator with ACLU NorCal, Mayra Joachin, a secretary at the ACLU office in Bakersfield, Rosa Lopez, Senior Policy Advocate and Organizer at the Bakersfield ACLU office, and Emi MacLean, an attorney at ACLU NorCal. Joachin started the talk by discussing...
Nicolas "Peter" Chavaria, Reporter
March 17, 2023 • No Comments
BC professors Oliver Rosales and Andrew Bond were joined Monday night by Professor James N. Gregory for a Zoom webinar discussing the work Gregory has done in civil rights and the history it has within America. The beginning of the meeting had a brief introduction as to who Gregory was. Small topics brought up were the books he’s published, his career in teaching history at the University of Washington, and his time living in Bakersfield during the 1970s and 80s. The main focus of the webinar was presenting Gregory’s work as the director of the Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium and the projects within. The 3 projects focused on were the “America’s Great Migrations,” “Mapping American Social Movements,”...
Amanda Hernandez, Sports and Digital Editor
March 8, 2023 • No Comments
The Bakersfield College Journalism program received a report on Mar. 6 regarding damage to the news kiosk located by the Office of Student Life. According to the staff at the Office of Student Life, a student employee was utilizing a golf cart during his working hours and had no intention of causing damage to the kiosk. However, the impact of the collision caused enough damage to deem it nonfunctional and a potential hazard for students on campus. After receiving the report, the head professor of Journalism Erin Auerbach also assessed the damage and requested that it be replaced. The office of Student Life at BC has apologized for the incident and agreed to pay for the damages by replacing the kiosk with a new functional one. Unfortunately,...
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