Humboldt State University has confirmed that Admissions Counselor Arthur Arzola was among the 10 people dead after a bus crash outside of Sacramento Thursday afternoon. Arzola, a regional recruiter based in the Los Angeles area, was accompanying a bus full of high school students up to Arcata to attend HSU’s Spring Preview event for prospective students. According […]
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Prospective HSU Students in Bus Crash
A fiery accident on Interstate 5 this afternoon involved a tour bus reportedly filled with high school students headed for Humboldt State University’s Spring Preview event. At least nine people are believed to have been killed in the wreck, which occurred in city of Orland, about 100 miles north of Sacarmento, at about 5:40 p.m. […]
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HSU Has a New President
After a months-long search, Humboldt State University has a new president to replace outgoing Rollin Richmond, who is retiring. Lisa A. Rossbacher, a geologist and geology professor who is currently president of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga., will be HSU’s first female president. Heck, it only took a hundred years! Here’s the news release from the university: […]
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In Absence
Eureka’s Catholics — and the Humboldt County community at large — was shocked last week when the popular pastor of St. Bernard Church, Father Eric Freed, was found killed on New Year’s Day in the church’s rectory where he lived. Now the church and its parishioners are figuring out how to move on, and, following […]
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Symphonious Holiday Cheer
The Humboldt State University Symphony will be performing at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. The afternoon’s performances will feature the Tchaikovsky favorite, “The Nutcracker Suite,” Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, four movements of Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances and a portion of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The entire day’s performance is directed […]
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Probing Pot
Ten years ago, the premise for a marijuana institute would have been laughed off of even Humboldt State University’s fertile and notoriously weed-friendly campus. Even one year ago, despite changing political climes and the increasing call for daylight on the North Coast’s shady marijuana industry, the academic minds who created the institute were unsure if […]
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Cycling Champs!
It must be our steep, steep hills whose harshest training trails were shaped by the original quick skidders, those ax-felled sylvan behemoths. The twists and turns were enhanced later by maniacal cyclists, we presume. And now our latest generation of bicyclists up at Humboldt State University has made cycling history, according to news from HSU […]
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These People Are Picking HSU’s Next President
A guild of university trustees, faculty bigwigs and community members — including one student rep — has assembled to choose Humboldt State University’s next president. Rollin Richmond, who has held the position since 2002, will leave at the end of the coming spring semester. The “Committee for the Selection of the President” — tasked with […]
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HSU: The Gateway Drug
A mission-style building with plaster walls and a red tile roof sits on the top of a hill in Arcata. From its perch, Founders Hall looks out on the rest of the mismatched buildings that make up the Humboldt State University campus. For 100 years, HSU’s roots have been growing into the surrounding community. From […]
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Bright Bird
If you happened to be hanging around the game pen up at Humboldt State University a couple autumns ago, you might have chanced upon a miserable huddle of characters puking their brains out like over-partied freshman. These guys were small and bright blue with pointy, soot-colored heads. And they’d just had some baaaad eggs. The […]