By Emma Wilson and Gabriel Zucker When Cal Poly Humboldt was built, there was no forethought about accessibility, due to prominent physical and financial challenges to updating campus. The hills and stairs that made the school unique ignored an entire
By Griffin Mancuso Through the usual hum of the Arcata plaza — cars driving by, dogs barking, construction noise — a chorus of passionate voices rang out. “No Trump, no KKK, no racist, fascist USA!” Dozens of Cal Poly Humboldt
By Brad Butterfield After three years of business, the Campus Store, Eureka has closed, leaving a mighty six-figure deficit in its wake. Alternatively, the off-campus Campus Store, Arcata, remains open despite a significantly larger deficit and far higher operating costs.
By Noah Pond On Oct. 14, Cal Poly Humboldt published a statement on their website titled, “Launch of On-campus Living Requirement for First and Second-Year Students.” This statement notified incoming freshmen for the Fall 2025 semester that the university would
By Brad Butterfield Cal Poly Humboldt’s projected enrollment of over 8,000 students for Fall 2024 has fallen short by a significant margin. Due to low enrollment, the university will lose millions in state funding for the 2024-25 academic year. Despite
By Emma Wilson and Gabriel Zucker Campus accessibility has been a long, ongoing issue for students and faculty combined. As a campus, there have been concerns for the accessibility of campus buildings and facilities. This led to a push by
Campus community speaks out on the changes to campus following April protest By Brad Butterfield Significant and lasting changes have come to campus in the wake of the pro-Palestine protest this April. Following the protest’s conclusion, multiple high level university
By Julia Kelm Hannah Grace has always been interested in art, starting with crayons as a child. It wasn’t until she turned 10 — when she began formal art lessons that continued in and out of high school — that
By Eli Farrington On Oct. 10, the Cal Poly Humboldt Presidential Search Committee held an open forum in the Van Duzer Theater. The committee included a handful of members of the Cal State University Board of Trustees, along with a
Cal Poly transition continues with groundbreaking of $100 million engineering and technology building By Savana Robinson Eight golden shovels dug into a long pile of dirt as dozens watched. Moments later, a countdown, then dirt flew. This commemorated the groundbreaking
By Barley Lewis-McCabe In a seminar lead by Sheria Gordon and Chrissy Holliday on Thursday, Oct. 3 in the Great Hall, students were presented with an overview of the Time Place Manner (TPM) regulations. The intent was to clear up
By Mia Costales On Sept. 27, Professor Rouhollah Aghasaleh received a letter titled “Notice of Investigation Outcome” from Provost Jenn Capps, ending their temporary teaching suspension and allowing them to be on campus for the first time since April 30.
By Jordan Huber EDIT: Updated with new information on the protest in the quad Pseudonyms have been used for sources in this article. On October 7, 2023, over 1200 people in Israel and its occupied territories were killed by Hamas
By Brad Butterfield From the initial police response, to the weeks-long “hard closure” of campus, and on to the busloads of police in riot gear which finally ended the pro-Palestine protest in April — the university administration’s decision-making during and
By Brad Butterfield The university-led police response to the pro-Palestinian protest on April 22 was unnecessary and operational planning was “regrettably deficient,” according to an independent review by the OIR Group, a police oversight and review firm. A week later,
By Barley Lewis-McCabe On Tuesday, Sept. 14, a man named Keith Darrell — who identifies himself as the Campus Preacher — visited the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. Campus preachers aren’t uncommon, or even unexpected given the school’s proximity to several
By Andres Felix Romero For the first time, Cal Poly Humboldt’s acting and prospective interim President Michael E. Spagna sat down with Lumberjack reporters for an interview to discuss his character and leadership philosophy. This Q&A took place on Tuesday,
How Cal Poly Humboldt plans to enforce Time, Place, Manner Policies change by Savana Robinson and Eli Farrington After a historic week-long protest and occupation at Cal Poly Humboldt, activism, which is at the heart of campus culture, may be
By Andres Felix Romero On July 11, 2024, a message was sent to the Cal Poly Humboldt community that the campus’ eighth president, Tom Jackson Jr., would be stepping down from his position in August 2024 for a faculty position.
By Mia Costales It was an unusually warm Thursday in Arcata and the hum of cars speeding past the D Street Community parking lot were reminiscent of the buzzing of cicadas. Nestled in the shady spot beneath the eyes of
By Madison Montiel Monday 4/22/24 4 p.m. Students enter Siemens hall – they previously organized a Pro-Palestinian sit-in with some original student protesters planning to hold a seder in the building, bringing games, books, and art supplies. 4:15 p.m. UPD
Walking down the fire trail from the cypress campus dorms, across the bridge, and going down to jolly giant creek around the redwood log, I noticed A LOT of cigarette buds, joint filters and papers. As students, there is a duty and importance of preserving our Arcata Community Forest behind our campus. It is important to keep it clean, triple check your surroundings, and pick up after yourself – especially those nasty cigarette butts and joint roaches.
