Those nice people up at Humboldt State University are giddy over being voted the 12th friendliest college in the whole dang nation (in a survey by Niche.com). ’Course, they’ve got nothing on those Cougars in Provo (the No. 1 friendliest) nor Cougar brethren in Rexburg, and apparently no Lumberjack could hope to out-smile a good many […]
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HSU’s New Big Cop on Campus
Humboldt State University reached all the way across the nation to pluck its new chief of police, Donn G. Peterson, a major in the Broward County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office, who will begin at HSU in January. According to the HSU Lumberjack, Peterson was appointed the position but still needs to pass a background check. Current […]
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Ice Bucket Challenge, HSU Style
In the midst of one of the worst drought periods in California’s recorded history, it was a “sustainable” (drought-friendly) idea by Humboldt State University students and staff to do the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge on Sept. 12 by jumping into the Pacific Ocean in Trinidad Harbor. HSU and other campuses were responding to the original drought-friendly […]
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HSU Conference Focuses on Addiction, Social Change
“It’s not about quick fixes. It’s about commitment, persistence and showing up.” Virginia Belton, PhD candidate and founder of Redwood Palliative Psychology, says that our community is on the cusp of a change. With one of the highest drug-induced death rates in the state (far above the state average, according to the California Center on […]
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Accused HSU Lecturer Released After Child Porn Arrest
A Humboldt State University lecturer posted bail and was released from custody hours after his arrest on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography Friday. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office announced with a press release that — after a months-long investigation involving numerous federal and local agencies — detectives arrested Christopher Steven Haynes, a 64-year-old […]
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Best Ever? HSU Alum Retires, Takes Football Coaching Job
Did you know a Humboldt State University alum recently hung up his cleats a five-time champion regarded as the best quarterback in his league’s history? No? Well, that’s probably because the league in question is the somewhat obscure Indoor Football League. Chris Dixon, an Oakland native who led the Lumberjacks to an 8-12 record in […]
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Lisa Rossbacher’s First Day on Campus
It was beautifully gray-skied today up at Humboldt State University — just the weather the institution’s new president, Lisa Rossbacher, had been promised she could (happily) expect here in her new home county. After a surprise blast of welcoming horns from the Marching Lumberjacks, Rossbacher hiked around campus on her first official day, meeting staff […]
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Updated. Our Miss California Contender
Tonight, at the William Saroyan Theatre in toasty downtown Fresno, the winner of this year’s Miss California pageant will be crowned after a buoyant Broadway-themed spectacular. And among the 54 contending young women is one of our own: Humboldt State University kinesiology student Kathryn Faull, Miss Central California Regional 2014. If she wins, she competes […]
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Trimming for Ramen
The starving college student is a cliché for a reason. Balancing work, school and pleasure requires careful fiduciary planning, or a good hole to stick your head in. Students unable to get parental support or government aid (or whose financial backing doesn’t quite cover that college town rent) need jobs. Jobs! The results of a survey recently […]
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Fur Flies at 12th DA Debate
Humboldt County’s field of district attorney candidates sat down last night for what was their 12th debate in the race and, boy, things escalated quickly. The gloves came off, the nails came out and the fur flew. Held at Humboldt State University and put on by the nonprofit Humboldt Center for Constitutional Rights, the forum saw the […]
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Everything old is young again
The latest gizmo in the Sharper Image catalog is a sleek, portable, wireless writing device. The catalog promises “no compatibility issues with word documents or printers.” And you can use it to “Jot a quick letter, address an envelope, or write the next great American novel…” Best yet, it looks just like an old-fashioned manual […]
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Responding to Tragedy
The high school students, nearly 100 of them, gathered before dawn on April 10 at Los Angeles’ Union Station. Arthur Arzola, the smiling 26-year-old admissions counselor who personally recruited most of the students to attend Humboldt State University’s two-day Spring Preview event, was there to greet them. Hailing from more than three dozen Southern California […]