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Students, friends and faculty honor memory of departed professor

Terry Yard was in his fifties when he decided to go back to school for a degree in music. Deborah Clasquin, a piano instructor at HSU, told him it would be a piece of cake. She even helped Yard land a part-time accompanist job after he graduated. “She was always really encouraging,” Yard said. Full story

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Miles away from HSU

Wide receiver seeks greener pastures

For HSU sophomore wide receiver Kevin Miles, this semester marked his last time as a Jack. Miles put on the HSU green and gold jersey for the last time this spring, enjoying every second embarrassing, laughing and battling his former comrades on the field. Full story

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Editorial: Good Luck Grads

Finals are just around the corner. The end is in sight. It’s crunch time, people. For those of you graduating, next week’s exams and reports will be your last. No more camp-outs in the library slaving over a paper, or memorizing facts. And no more finals week. Full story

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Graduates pledge to take jobs that cause no harm to the earth

The room was nearly empty. The turn out was expected to at least be in the teens. Six people sat there waiting for more people to show up. They didn’t, but the Graduation Pledge Alliance program meeting went on. “I hoped we would have had some club representatives here,” said Brea Sorrells.

Shuck and Swallow

Oysters: Either you love ‘em or you hate ‘em. There are those who “shuck and swallow” on a regular basis and those who won’t touch the creature. But regardless of their spot in your heart, oysters have a unique place in the community culture of Humboldt County.

Rainy-day fund dries up

The only way that Environmental Science Major Jocelyn Orr found out about the $100,000 taken out of the Instructionally Related Activities reserves is via a sheet of paper handed to her by Associated Students President Sofia Pereira. It was an executive memo from President Rollin Richmond.

No cupcakes on the quad

Selling fresh baked bread on the Humboldt State University quad has been pretty successful for Sierra Leash the past five weeks. Along with her campus club, Students for Global Health, the Nursing junior racked in an average of $100 each time she sold her bread to raise funds for overseas hospitals’ medical supplies. 3 comments

Lyme disease is “a huge epidemic”

Four years ago, Sylvian Schwarz forgot where she lived while driving home on Highway 101. All of the sudden, she didn’t know her address or how to call her husband. This was not a case of amnesia, however, it was Lyme disease impairing Schwarz’s memory. 1 comment

Is the oath of allegiance unconstitutional?

Around the U.S., graduating seniors are taking finals, securing jobs, and preparing to walk down the aisle in commencement ceremonies. For one HSU alumni, who completed the Second Education Credential program, studying had nothing to do with whether or not he would receive his credentials. 2 comments

HSU to host West region Championships

Despite losing in last week’s California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship tournament, HSU softball will host the NCAA Division II West Region Championship’s first round this coming weekend. The Jacks went into last week’s tournament ranked No.

New Web site releases stress of everyday life

It’s raining, and you’re running late for class. You don’t have an umbrella and you have to make the trek from 4-hour parking up to Founders Hall. Interrupting your professor’s lecture is not an option. Mid-route, you run over a lawn of grass when it happens - everything moves in slow motion as your feet disappear beneath you and your hands scramble to brace your fall.

Free information can cost you

Public information is exactly that - public. That doesn’t mean you will get to see it. Ask a public university about their number of sexual assault complaints. Or even their suspensions for students smoking pot. They won’t answer. The school may have no problem sharing its numbers with you, but first the school would have to hand the numbers over.

Four steps to graduate next year

It seems like just yesterday you sat in lines of chairs on the field, playing with your tassel and batting around beach balls as your high school valedictorian spoke about his or her high hopes for college and the future. Three years and 60 units later, you’re officially a college junior, and it is time to prepare for graduation all over again.

Football profile

Rough road leads to HSU

Sam Cooke sung about change happening in the 1960s, but for the HSU football team, a change may happen soon with the help of senior defensive back Barry Davis Jr. Davis, who is a double major in Kinesiology and Religious Studies, has faith this upcoming season will demonstrate a turnaround in the attitudes of everyone on campus.

Commencement on the water

May is already here, which means two things: the end of school and the end of HSU sports. Luckily for rowing fans, the HSU Women’s Rowing Team has nothing but open water ahead of them. They traveled to the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships last weekend in Sacramento.

Gender-neutral housing expands

HSU is a national leading example of a supportive, socially just, on-campus housing community. It made leaps and bounds above most of the universities in the nation, and became the high standard that other university housing staffs look to meet. Gender-neutral housing is not to be confused with coed living.

Students, professors offer tips for passing finals

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and everyone is making plans for the summer. But with every semester’s end comes an unfortunate, but inevitable period of panic, cramming and sleep deprivation. That’s right. It’s time for finals.

Five things to do over the summer in Humboldt County

Summer is almost here. While hundreds of students prepare to head home, some students decide to stay in Humboldt County for the summer months. During the months of May through July the weather is pretty fantastic. It is a drastic change from the heavy wind and rain.

Ten-Minute Fun

Lights flicker on the darkened stage. A man is chained to a tree in the middle of the woods. His mother is there, threatening to leave him helpless for the bears to find, for one reason and one reason only: breakfast is no longer his favorite meal. “This is fucked up,” says the young man, played by Mason Daryl Lev, a 24-year-old Theater major.

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