Once again — what, the last time was just in May? — the threat of a suspected pipe bomb had Humboldt State University all bound up and tense earlier this evening as men and women huddled in bright vests near the danger zone and others — campus security and campus housing staff hastily stuffed into yet more […]
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Bomb Threats at HSU
Finals week … Art Building CLOSED Monday, May 12, 2008 09:26 a.m. The Art Building area of campus has been CLOSED to all persons until further notice. The University Police Department is investigating a second bomb threat on campus. The Science B Complex area has also received a threat. The University has closed both areas […]
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Global warming? Whatever.
OK, first of all, the results of a new public opinion poll on global warming attitudes, reported on here, would seem to imply that nobody’s phone in worried-central Humboldt County rang during the pollsters’ phone survey. The survey found that the more people learn about global warming, the more apt they are to slip into […]
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‘Happiness’ Is Runner-Up
We’d heard that Jessica Knapp from North Coast Prep was chosen to go to Sacramento for the California Poetry Out Loud state finals, a contest that involves reciting other people’s poems. She didn’t win, but she did make it to the tie-breaking third round, as noted in this press release: Sacramento – Placer County student […]
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Believers and knowers unite!
Well, we don’t really know, do we? Bigfoot? No Bigfoot? Bigfatliars? Bigmisunderstoods? And in the spirit of open, collegial debate — indeed, in the interest of unfettered investigation by believers, if not scientists — U.C. Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology has put on display the plaster casts of tracks that some say were made by […]
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Redwood in NYC
Well, poor Johnny Redwood is gone, but one of his dreams, “Redwood Adventures TV,” is going straight to the top — New York — as a finalist in the TV pilot category at the NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, which starts this Friday. In case you’re there. More about it here.
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A Standardized Test
Faced with dueling press conferences, yesterday we wondered — how many notables would attend the California Education Coalition’s emergency summit on the proposed $4.8 billion cuts to K-12 education? And how many would instead head over to Democratic Central Committee HQ for the Patty Berg-Wes Chesbro lovefest? Well, this reader-submitted photo tells the tale. At […]
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Monday Morning Papers
The Chronicle reports that Humboldt State is now the last member of the California State University system to have no building named for private donors. Probably not for lack of trying. A new history — Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — is reviewed in the Chicago Tribune . According to the review, […]
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Wednesday Morning Papers
Evergreen Pulp is back in the running for that defunct Weyerhaeuser pulp mill in Cosmopolis, Wash. According to the Daily World, Evergreen’s bid involves a joint deal with the local public utilities district. Evergreen would get the mill and the PUD would get the mill’s biomass plant. Reporter Aaron Glantz has a piece about the […]
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VUB to close at the end of the month
Veteran’s day was Novemeber 11. Nonetheless, I didn’t hear anything on the The California Report about Humboldt State University’s Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program which lost its funding this past August . Humboldt’s VUB was the only program of its kind on the West Coast — you’d think that warrants some coverage. The VUB has […]