Bakersfield College administration’s forcing of The Renegade Rip to move to Fine Arts is bad news for both BC students and faculty.

Fine Arts is not centrally located on Campus which makes the newspaper difficult to find for both students and faculty.

The current administrators must not realize that newspapers need to be centrally located and easily accessible to their readers, such as The Rip is in Campus Center 1, or perhaps that part of their reasoning in moving The Rip, to make it not as accessible.

The Rip, although technically a class, is a student service and belongs in Campus Center. It is the voice for both BC students and faculty.

The location which administration is moving The Rip to does not have adequate wiring to handle all of the paper’s equipment, which will make it harder to come out on deadline. To top it all off, the location is smaller than our current location.

There must have not been adequate planning or research done. That can be the only logical explanation.

Does BC administration realize that The Rip is one of the top college papers in the state? They must not, or they would be expanding it, rather than downsizing it. When a program at a college is doing well and performing better than many four-year schools, it would seem that the administrators would either leave well enough alone, or expand the program.

Administration supposedly is moving The Rip, as part of their renovation process, but they are putting something else in Campus Center 1, rather than leaving it vacant to be renovated. They should move The Rip temporarily, renovate Campus Center, and then plan on moving it back.

It has been years since Memorial Stadium has been full for a football game. Are administrators going to tear that down, build a parking lot, and tell the BC football team to play on the soccer fields because attendance at the games has been down? No. Moving The Rip is just as ridiculous of an idea.

Tradition must not mean anything to BC’s current administration. The Rip has been in its current location at least since the 1960s. Past BC administrators probably had many opportunities to move The Rip from its current location.

BC needs to modernize, don’t get me wrong, but moving The Rip from its current location is not a step toward moderization. It is a step in the wrong direction.