The Renegade Rip has always been an outstanding community college publication. I have copies of The Rip from 1975-77 when I was a student here, and the work the students did then was vastly superior to the work of other community college newspapers from around the state. That being said, I felt compelled to write you to commend you and your staff for the publications you produced on March 21 and March 28. They were the finest editions of a community college newspaper that I have ever read.
These are brutal times for our nation, and for our state’s community colleges. There are many different points of view as to the cause of these problems and to the solutions to those problems. Yet your paper achieved an exemplary balance of opinions from virtually every side of the issue. Your reporting and editorials were accurate, well-written and informative, and the effort your writers expended on their articles was evident. The photographers did an exceptional job also, with some terrific sports pictures and some stirring photographs of the March in March demonstration in Sacramento. I particularly enjoyed the lighthearted features in theses issues, i.e., the cartoons and artwork, the BC Brains column, and the always enjoyable ‘Gade Feedback. In our grim national and state circumstances, we need to laugh now more than ever.
Again, kudos all around to you and your staff. You all did an outstanding job: layout, artwork, writers, photographers, cartoonists and printers alike. I’m sure your adviser, Kathy Freeman, is very proud of you all, as her guiding touch was also evident in the quality of work her students produced.