By|Charlotte Rutigliano For students like senior Criminology and Justice Studies major Emely Velez, taking an extra semester to graduate from college can be beneficial. “I came in as a transfer student and met all my requirements within the two-year span,”
By | Keaundrey Clark LJ: How are you fitting into your new job? DR: I bleed green and gold, and I love using the metaphor of sports to teach, so I couldn’t be happier with the role. However, there are
By | Skye Hopkins Humboldt State’s Head Football Coach Rob Smith said he believes the Lumberjacks are ready to take on the 2017 season after a successful fall camp. Smith is entering his 27th year of coaching and has spent
By Curran Daly David Josiah Lawson died in the early morning hours of April 15, after a fight and stabbing at an off-campus party. On May 7, Judge Dale Reinholtsen ordered the release of Kyle Zoellner, a Mckinleyville native detained
By Charlotte Rutigliano After spending the summer testing different data cloud services such as Dropbox, Box.com, Microsoft Onedrive, and Google Drive, Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Services Anna Kircher has said the university has selected Box.com. According to
By Curran C. Daly Sadly, a few members of the Lumberjack family will not be returning to HSU this fall. John Vayo John Vayo passed away on July 2, 2017. He was entering his last year in the undergraduate Social
By Iridian Casarez and Curran Daly What began as a vigil for HSU student David Josiah Lawson turned into a conversation about the safety and acceptance of people of color in the community. Four months after the death of HSU
By Danny Dunn This fall Humboldt State University will officially become a tobacco and smoke free campus. This ban includes all tobacco products such as, but not limited to cigarettes, tobacco pipes, and cigars along with electronic smoking devices like
The Realities of the US-Mexico Barrier By Kelly Bessem April 30, 2017 marked the fifth time the Door of Hope/Puerta de Esperanza was opened at the US-Mexico border near San Diego, Calif. to let family members from each country momentarily
By Juan Herrera Maintaining peace, resolving conflicts, protecting the environment and much more between nations is not an easy task, but someone has to do it. The organization in charge of doing so is the United Nations (U.N.). This group
By Erin Chessin About $150,000 is being subtracted from the HSU Library due to extreme budget cuts the school is facing. This means that $80,000 is coming out of library staff positions and $70,000 is coming out of the library’s
By | Charlotte Rutigliano World: Pope Francis urged the United States and North Korea on Saturday to defuse their increasingly tense standoff and avert a potentially horrific conflict. (New York Times Update – 4/29/2017) Nation: A federal judge on
By | Curran Daly Spring term began on January 17. Since the first Lumberjack issue of the semester, we have covered a wide range of topics within HSU and the local community. Here is a look at some of the
By | Andre Hascall It’s common knowledge that traveling outside of Humboldt county is a long trip. Plenty of students are getting ready to scurry down south to begin summer vacation, while families and friends of Humboldt State University graduates
By Alexandria Hasenstab Humboldt State University has not had a reported incident of blatant racism on campus in the past few years, however, the same cannot be said for the surrounding areas of Humboldt County. Several incidents of racist attacks,
By Sarahi Apaez April 11 marked the opening of a new center for undocumented students called Scholars Without Borders Center for Academic Excellence located at the MultiCultural Center. The students of the club F.R.E.E (Finding Resources and Empowerment through Education)
By Andre Hascall Consent culture has been a vital part of Humboldt State University since Check It, as student led movement to prevent sexual assault, arrived in 2014. That culture is growing further with the new themed dorms in Creekview.
Local -New housing development in Arcata A new housing development is in the works that will house around 800 students. The new 11 acres housing called ‘The Village’ will be located on St. Louis Road in Arcata. ‘The Village’ is
President Donald Trump would like to reduce corporate tax from 35 percent to 15 percent. The president ordered White House aides to draft a tax plan that slashes the corporate tax rate on Monday. President Trump and the first lady
By Charlotte Rutigliano For the past three years, the university has been operating two different child care centers, one located on campus at the corner of 14th and B streets and the other at the end of 10th street. According
By Curran Daly Highway 101 is closed from Leggett to 15 miles south of Garberville. A rockslide caused the closure that started on April 16. Initial reports said that the road would be opened by Wednesday, but subsequent rockslides lead
By Iridian Casarez Family, friends, students, faculty and community members filled the KBR to remember David Josiah Lawson. Lawson, a second year criminology major and president of Brothers United was stabbed and killed on the early morning of Saturday April 15.
By | Andrew George Butler Kyle Zoellner, the 23 year old McKinleyville man accused of murdering HSU student David ‘Josiah’ Lawson pleaded not guilty to murder late this afternoon. Zoellner also denied the District Attorney’s special allegation that he used