May 1, 2019
Ken Albala, a professor of history and a food historian at the University of the Pacific, hosted a talk which situates food into a broader historical,...
Logan King, Reporter
April 26, 2019
Filed under Campus, News, Top Stories
Elections at Bakersfield College have ended seemingly without notice. The election this semester lacked candidates for the majority of open positions and...
Hilario Ismael Gomez, Reporter
April 26, 2019
Filed under Features
The Bakersfield College Performing Arts Department debuted their rendition of All in the Timing in the Black Box Theatre located within the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center from April 10 thru April 14.
For future performances, tickets can be purchased online or at the door.
All in the Timing is a collection of eight one-act plays by David Ives titled Sure Thing,...
Amir Guyton, Reporter
April 26, 2019
Filed under Features
The Kern County Music Educators’ Association and the Bakersfield College Jazz Studies Program hosted the fourth annual KCMEA Jazz Day at Bakersfield College in the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center on April. 11.
The all-day event the performances featured student jazz performers from local surrounding Kern County areas who all performed in the Edward Simonsen Performing...
Amy Sarmiento, Reporters
April 5, 2019
Filed under Features
KGET hosted their annual food drive for Golden Empire Gleaners outside the KGET studios in Downtown Bakersfield on March 28 and received a record-breaking amount of food and donations.
Gleaners received 17,000 pounds of food and $9,000 in cash in a single day during the food drive.
Gleaners is a non-profit organization that helps families with food insecurity.
"These ...
Bryana Lozoya, Digital Editor
April 5, 2019
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A meeting took place in Levinson Hall April 2 discussing the Transportation Services resolution that is being put up to vote in the upcoming BCSGA elec...
Bryana Lozoya, Digital Editor
April 5, 2019
Filed under Campus, News
Current representatives for the Bakersfield College Student Government Association (BCSGA) held a town hall on March 21 at Levinson Hall where students voiced concerns, ideas, and learned about current resolutions being brought to campus.
The main takeaways from the town hall meeting, other than student input, were current resolutions that are in the works for Bakersfield ...
April 4, 2019
“Dawn of the Space Age” took place in the William M Thomas Planetarium at Bakersfield College on March. 28.
It was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of t...
April 4, 2019
“Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity” was featured at the William M. Thomas Planetarium March 21.
This show was the second of five shows scheduled for t...
Amir Guyton, Reporter
March 15, 2019
Filed under Features
Bakersfield College held ‘Served Like a Girl’ on March 11.
It was hosted at the campuses Levan Center by BC’s Women’s History and More Committee where the Lysa Heslov’s directed film was screened.
The film ‘Served Like a Girl,’ was a film that explored the lives of several women who were military veterans. The film also showed the veterans’ strugglin...
Taylor Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2019
Filed under Features
Yale Ph.D candidate and journalist Hilary Matfess spoke at the “#BringBackOurGirls: Women and Conflict in North East Nigeria” event in the Levan Center at Bakersfield College about women in the Boko Haram insurgency and their role in war on March 6.
BC students and staff attended the event to listen to Matfess talk about her journalistic work focusing on Boko Hara...
Laura Lanfray, Feature Editor
March 15, 2019
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As part of a youth outreach program called Those Outspoken, inmates from the Taft Correctional Institution visited Bakersfield College for a Q&A session in the Levan Center on March 7.
Faculty and students were in attendance to listen to the inmates’ life stories and discuss some of the topics in Baz Dreisinger’s book, “Incarceration Nations,” a non-fiction...
