A couple hundred people took to the streets of Eureka on Thursday night to decry the election of Donald J. Trump in a protest Police Capt. Steve Watson called “passionate but peaceful.” Protesters gathered at the Old Town Gazebo, marched up to the Humboldt County Courthouse and back over the course of a couple of […]
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Starting the Conversation: HSU forum focuses on race, police
Against the national backdrop of a recent spate of high profile shootings of unarmed black people by law enforcement, students, police and community members gathered on the Humboldt State University campus Thursday evening for a far-reaching conversation on race and policing. Local law enforcement and members of the HSU black community sat side by side […]
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Feds Find Improper Care After Fisher Death at HSU
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently found that Humboldt State University failed to follow laboratory protocols as staff observed the declining health of a dying fisher for nearly a week without calling a veterinarian. The routine inspection report dated Aug. 3 includes a daily log kept by the animal’s caretakers in the days before the […]
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Style, Class
Dressing for the first day of class at Humboldt State University isn’t a high-pressure fashion emergency (you remember junior high). Students roll up in what’s comfortable and what speaks to their personalities and their pursuits. Photographer León Villagómez documented some incoming student style on Monday. You can follow him on Instagram @leonvillagomez and hey, us @northcoastjournal. […]
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A Graduation Day Downpour: An HSU Commencement Slideshow by Mark Larson
Rain fell during most of HSU’s first commencement ceremony on Saturday morning, the weather thematically appropriate for HSU’s informal motto: “I love Hills, Stairs & Umbrellas!” Most of the large crowd of attendees came prepared with umbrellas and rain gear, but HSU staff handed out free plastic ponchos to those who missed the weather forecast. […]
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A Celebration of Life for Lucille Vinyard
The “Mother of Redwood National Park,” a woman who once gave a funny, irreverent interview to the Journal about activism, widowhood and Ronald Reagan’s predilection for makeup, Lucille Vinyard, is being honored at Humboldt State University on Sunday, May 22. Vinyard, who passed away in December, a day after her friend and fellow activist, Susie […]
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Tight Club
Brett Walters is a wrestler, not a fighter. Watching the bespectacled 6-foot-3-inch, 169.5-pound Humboldt State University student and professed pacifist carefully peel a tangerine with his long fingers, it’s a stretch to imagine him calling himself Rocket Boy Brett and launching himself at some snarling tough guy in in the ring. “I get that a […]
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HSU Students in Fatal Sunday Car Crash Identified
The names of the three Humboldt State University students involved in a car crash on Sunday have been released. Anthropology major Robert Romeri was killed when his car struck a tree around 10 a.m. near Crescent City. His passengers, Alexis Galvan and Pearla Saole, were sent to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with injuries. From […]
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HSU Settles Suit with Ousted Indian Program Director
A former Humboldt State University program director and student mentor has settled the lawsuit she brought against the university last year, agreeing to accept $105,000 in exchange for dropping the suit and refraining from criticizing the school. Jacquelyn Bolman, former director of HSU’s Indian Natural Resources Science and Engineering Program, alleged in the federal lawsuit […]
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El Gañador
Humboldt State University’s bilingual student newspaper El Leñador was recently named California’s best non-weekly student newspaper. At its Excellence in Student Media awards banquet in Los Angeles, the California College Media Association tapped the now 3-year-old paper for its First Place prize for the category of Best Newspaper, with a judge noting that the Spanish-English […]
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The Van Kirk and Vinyard Research Collection: HSU Honors Humble Heroines
Susie Van Kirk would probably not have approved of Humboldt State University’s plan to immortalize her. The decades-long activist for homeless and environmental rights was not a fan of the spotlight, according to all who knew her, going as far as to ask her son not to hold a memorial service or write an obituary […]
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UPDATED: Birders Flock to Great Gray Owl
UPDATE: Local birder Rob Fowler was kind enough to send out some directions to the Great Gray Owl’s current location, as well as some tips to follow to make sure the bird stays happy and safe during its Humboldt visit. Find Fowler’s tips copied at the bottom of this post. PREVIOUSLY: The Humboldt County birding […]