Studies in Race
Fears, slurs and incremental progress in HSU’s pursuit of diversity
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Studies in Race
The announcement just over a month ago from Humboldt State University President Rollin Richmond was confusing and alarming: An unidentified faculty member had resigned in fear after finding a note expressing racial hatred. Beyond that, the contents of the note were not released, nor was the identity of the faculty member, who had requested discretion.…
Florida Atty On Mc’ville Mall Watch
No, really. Personal injury lawyer Fred Zinober was sitting at his desk in Tampa, Fla., when he caught wind of that guy firing his rifle in the Rite-Aid parking lot in McKinleyville. Zinobar — fist pounding the desk!! — demanded to know, “Where Was Mall Security?” The incident may have been 2,500 miles away from…
L.A. Times: AMA Says Weed AOK
L.A. Times: AMA Says Weed AOK: Well, kinda. The American Medical Association yesterday urged the feds to stop pretending cannabis is in the same league as heroin and LSD, and worse than cocaine, morphine and meth — in other words, take it off the list of Schedule 1 drugs so researchers can study it without…
Seven-O-Heaven in the 415
Our goodwill — good Will? — ambassadors. Don’t ask …
Access Humboldt Off the Air
In case you were wondering why nothing’s on: On Wednesday, November 11th Access Humboldt channels (EDUC8, CIVIC 10, AH 11, and AH 12) will experience a temporary outage while we move our playback equipment to our new facilities. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our viewers and presenters and hope to restore the…
County’s Not-so-automatic Deposit
The vast majority of county employees who’ve signed up for automatic paycheck deposits were alarmed last week and into the weekend as, one by one, they discovered that their latest paychecks had not arrived on schedule. The snafu was the result of an as-yet-undetermined accounting error, Assistant County Administrative Officer Phil Smith-Hanes explained this afternoon,…
Marina Center Indemnification Agreement
By request. (79k, PDF)
One idea for today’s lunch
? You can read more about CR art prof Garth Johnson in next week’s Art Beat , but for now, drop everything and hustle to College of the Redwoods to hear this smart, funny and accomplished man breeze through the history of creative reuse. After the historical part – and, please note, our era is…
Bitter Homes and Gardens
As has been said before, we here in Humboldt County are blessed with an extravagant seasonal assortment of locally grown organic fruits and vegetables. But have you ever really ruminated about salad mix? It’s available — fresh-picked — year-round. Perhaps this comes as no great surprise at first, but think about it for a minute.…
Mos Def
Less Def. "Whoa, Mos Def is coming to Nocturnum?" I imagine quite a few Humboldtians were pleasantly surprised by the news while at the same time wondering why they hadn’t been alerted sooner. To their credit, People Productions, who in the last year have managed to lure Snoop Dogg, Nas and Mos Def’s fellow Black…
Don’t Wait Wait
In May 1990 I drove Interstate 44 from Albuquerque to Flagstaff with a U-Haul trailing my ’82 silver Civic sedan. The mesa surrounded me on both sides, the highway ran straight ahead to eternity, and out of the radio came voices I couldn’t understand. I drove through Navajo country listening to Navajo radio. Radio has…
Ivory Tower Brass
HSU President Rollin Richmond and Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert Snyder stopped by the Journal office Monday afternoon to palaver on an array of issues. Here are their thoughts on HSU’s diversity efforts. On the diversity report: Snyder: We’re committed to diversifying the campus — both students and faculty — and we’re committed to…
Tyler’s Premium Soaps
Previews Based on the nonfiction book by Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats is a comedy about a secret unit of our military that attempts to use psychic powers in Iraq. With George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. Rated R for language, some drug content and brief nudity. 93m. At the Broadway, Mill Creek…
Organic Neo-Tribal Electronica
It starts with swoops of electro-noise shifting into a violin line that’s punctured by what seems like unison clapping, then a thundering Balkan-style horn section with tubas and trumpets (sampled from the German/Romanian band, Fanfara Kalashnikov) chopped up, occasionally devolving into electro-stuttering. Low-end bass blips propel the song forward into clubland. Use your imagination and…
Schooling the Swine
Firefighters stood in line with school kids at Eureka’s Alice Birney Elementary School Tuesday morning, as nurses with the county’s public health office administered shots or nasal spray to each. It was the first day of Humboldt County’s massive inoculation campaign against swine flu, which is targeted first and foremost at youth and emergency personnel,…
Carlotta: Lotta Cars
Carlotta resident George Warren glanced left and right then walked to the centerline of Highway 36 pulling a measuring tape gripped on the other end by resident A.J. Doudna. Doudna, standing in Albert and Yvette Mendes’ front yard, backed up at Warren’s direction until he was almost standing under the breezeway that connects the two…
Rebutting Ron
Editor: Ron Ross misread “The Broken State” in his reply last week (“Don’t Blame Reagan,” Oct. 29). The lead article did not admit that “cutting taxes and slashing government regulation will spur private sector economic growth,” nor did it call for complete economic equality, as he asserts. In fact, the illuminating article Ross attacks simply…
Voodoo and the Flu
Editor: Regarding Dylan Fierro’s letter about the H1N1 virus (“Mailbox,” Oct. 29), there are rumors going around that the H1N1 vaccine is dangerous because it contains mercury. It is true that the vaccine contains mercury, but only in a small quantity — about 1 microgram (mcg). To put this into perspective, a six-ounce can of…
Arts Alive!
1. F ST. CAFÉ 1630 F St. Bill Pierson, Italian landscapes. 1a. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Ryan Cox; music by Josephine Johnson. 2. THE INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 411 12th St. Dia De Los Muertos: Celebrating the Days of the Dead exhibition. 3. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the Morris Graves Museum of…
The Man Who Didn’t Discover Humboldt Bay
In hindsight, it seems incredible that Humboldt Bay wasn’t discovered by European explorers until 1849. That’s when Josiah Gregg’s overland expedition from Weaverville stumbled on the bay, which was finally entered by sailing ships the following year. Many ships had sailed up and down the western seaboard previously, all of them missing one of the…
Acknowledgment
Once, strolling a Humboldt beach, a friend and…
Songs About Time
Matt Sharp left the band Weezer in 1997. Weezer has not made a great album since that time. A first-year psychology major knows correlation is not causation, but come on: Something happened. Surely when Sharp left, he took with him the je ne sais quoi that only a goofy, egotistical, falsetto-singing bassist can bring, no?…
