I would like to comment a major systematic flaw in the US and how sad, disappointing, and frustrating it presents to me in the context of my personal experience as an international student in this country. According to MSNBC on May 25, 2010, American mothers were allowed to visit their children who are detainees in Iran caught crossing the unmarked border some 10 months ago.
Dear Editor, The Masah Trust would like to clarify a few statements made about our organization in your April 28 article, “Bridge to Sustainability—HSU students plan to transform Bridgeville.” First, although we do plan to rebuild most of the town, (“demolish” as the article reads) this only includes land within the deed that we are trying to purchase.
Dear Editor, Each time I climb the hill and approach the Balabanis quad (outside of the Van Duzer theatre) from a class in Harry Griffith Hall, the Natural Resources Building, or other buildings in that vicinity, I am constantly met with the smell, taste, and irritation of second-hand smoke which has been proven time and time again to be a serious health hazard.
College life is like a sunny day: when the opportunity presents its self, we take advantage of it. But the opportunity is often sporadic and unexpected. And unfortunately, every day must come to a close. This is college life.
On April 21, 2010, The Lumberjack ran an article with the headline: “Hemp Vs. Alcohol. What is S.A.F.E.R.?” The article itself is about the safety of recreational use of marijuana versus alcohol and never uses the word hemp. But this type of headline is exactly how hemp perpetually gets a bad rep.
To the Editor, I'd like to thank District Attorney Paul Gallegos for pursuing the illegal activities of the Big Oil & Tire Company and working to protect our community’s drinking water resources. Big Oil is a petroleum company that operates and maintains dozens of underground storage tanks between McKinleyville and Fortuna.
Editor, It was a Saturday night, I was walking to my friends residence on LK Wood after a punk show. While passing the sculpture building I had a whiskey induced impulse to smack a trashcan lid with my skateboard. I did, and it was glorious, no trash to clean up and no damage.
Dear Editor, On April 21, as I read (Bud in the Mud), “officer peered through binoculars,” I wondered if while law enforcement officers are spying on people using cannabis (marijuana) if a violent crime could have been prevented somewhere else? A sane or moral reason to continue cannabis (marijuana) prohibition, persecution and extermination doesn’t exist.
To The Editor, I’m a sophomore wildlife major here at HSU, and I read the Lumberjack every week. You know- over coffee in the depot, in boring lectures, wherever, whenever. Travis Turner, don’t know the guy except from his column, is humorous, witty, rational, profound and an overall great writer.
To the Editor: Reporter Zach St. George asked my view of the newly proposed MSF fee for his story in last week's paper. He quoted me correctly, saying that “I think it’s tragic that the state isn’t providing the funding for higher education.
For years student leaders on this campus having been asking: Why don't the students seem to care? But I think there's a more pressing question to ask: What's the problem with student leaders? Easy. We've lost all sense of what it is to not be a student leader.
Dear Lumberjack Editor, Several people have approached me to ask if I am still running for Associated Student President. Despite this being the second time I have not been included in The Lumberjack newspaper, let me assure everyone that I am, in fact, still running for AS President.
The Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society is very concerned about the recommendation of the Academic Senate to eliminate the Humboldt State University Nursing Program. Humboldt County is a rural, medically underserved area. The recommendation is in direct opposition to the needs of the community.
The proposal to eliminate the Nursing Program is just the most recent example of Rollin Richmond’s failed leadership at Humboldt State University. At a time when we needed an administration that fosters cooperation and a spirit of shared sacrifice in order to find just solutions to our current challenges, Rollin Richmond and Bob Snyder pursued a path of administrative expansion coupled with program eliminations based on threats and intimidation.
While the recent health care legislation is a mild step forward, it also symbolizes the dysfunction of our two-party system of democracy. By requiring everyone to buy insurance while allowing the health insurance industry to maintain its exemption from antitrust laws, this round of legislation effectively institutionalizes monopolies.
In the Harry Griffith Hall (HGH) building, there are photocopied signs that read “Racism and Hate Free Zone” taped to office doors. Not that I believe these signs, or for that matter any law, will change how people believe inside the HGH building on campus or in the world.
Consider for a moment that almost everyone you know and love is in mortal danger almost every day. It’s not from communism, global warming, or the secretive, neo-fascist one world government. No, it’s something far more subtle, and sinister.
The article titled “Administration Hands Down New Cuts” from the March 3rd issue contained a telling quote by Provost Robert Snyder; “It doesn’t make much sense to say that because we don’t have the art department open 12 months a year, that we don’t have to have the dean’s office all year.
As reported recently by The Lumberjack, several Academic Senators are concerned that the recommendations of the Cabinet for Institutional Change will create a power shift. They’re right. As the faculty members on the Cabinet, we are strongly in favor of a power shift.
To the Editor, After reading “Administration Hands Down New Cuts” (Online, March 2) and President Richmond’s e-mail, I have to say that I have never been more disappointed in our "fearless leaders" than I am now. Rather than take student interests to heart and make cuts to their own pocketbooks, our administrators have again elected to cut the salaries and hours of people who more directly affect the success of students at Humboldt State University on a daily basis.
I urge all HSU students and their parents to read the list below. If your program is eliminated, will your degree still have value? After mass eliminations, will a degree from HSU still have value? When does HSU cease to be a university? Geography, Political Science, Business Administration, Sociology, Kinesiology, Psychology, Anthropology, Mathematics, History, Recreation Administration, Economics, Women's Studies, Religious Studies, Biology, Natural Resources Planning & Interpretation, Wildlife, English, Social Work, Journalism, International Studies, Art, Native American Studies, Communication, Zoology, Ethnic Studies, Spanish, Forestry, Child Development, Environmental Science, Botany, Geology, Theatre, Film, and Dance, French, Music, Environmental Resources Engineering, Philosophy, Liberal Studies Elementary Education, Nursing, Fisheries Biology, Oceanography, Chemistry, Physics, Rangeland Resource Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science.
As someone who became vegan while in college, I enjoyed reading about AWARE’s call for more vegan options in HSU’s cafeterias (Skeels, Nov. 18). Kudos to Jenna and Mary Sue Savage for working with campus dining services to start dishing out more meat, egg, and dairy-free meals – and for empowering others to stand up for animals every time they sit down to eat.
First, the campus had several instances these last two years of racial harassment that were whispered and wondered about only after the fact, and then not much more. Next there was the debacle of, despite the event’s stated affiliation, what was the College Conservative Club’s endeavor to bring Walid Shoebat, a supposedly reformed terrorist to spread a fear-mongering message as the university’s first sanctioned presentation on solely Palestinian issues.
I picked up the paper today, and I see a story about knocking down Humboldt State University’s Natural Resource School a peg or two. While I see a lot wrong with what is being taught at this school, I could also see how this story illustrates we are not headed to a good place and to ask everyone if it isn’t time to stop ignoring the following story? In this country, we are a long ways down the road towards shutting down proper and wise use of natural resources.
Editor: To add to Ahron Sherman’s recent article on counseling services for students--we wish to acknowledge our colleagues at the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and direct students to CAPS as their primary support for mental health.
Dear Editor, I found the piece “European American Heritage Month” (Oct. 12) to be disturbing and dangerous, not merely naïve as other letters to the editor suggested. Some Humboldt State University faculty, staff and students are busy challenging the myth of colorblindness and how this myth normalizes the white experience, makes white privilege invisible, and hides the many strands of racism that continue to be found in American institutions.
Editor: Attention HSU students and faculty. Mike Wilson, an HSU graduate in engineering, is running as the incumbent for a second term as District 3 Harbor Commissioner. He is a candidate who has a fresh new vision for Humboldt Bay. He stands for progress that will help and serve student and faculty interests.
Editor: In your April 15, 2009 publication of The Lumberjack, there is an advertisement on Page 4 titled, “Are you a student?” by Bradley R. Smith. I have to admit that I was shocked to see this published in your paper and void of any editorial disclaimer.
Dear Readers: The Lumberjack made a horrible mistake. In the April 15 issue, we published an advertisement on page 4 labeled “Are You a Student?” The advertisement claims that Bradley R. Smith, a know holocaust revisionist, is doing a research project and is looking for people who can provide real information about someone who died during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, a concentration camp.
This is a letter to the editor of the HSU Lumberjack: On April 15, there was a very disturbing ad in the Lumberjack that requested research assistance titled “Can you provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?” It appeared prominently on Page 4 with smaller ads.
Editor: The Lumberjack chose Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to publish an ad from one of the most notorious Holocaust deniers, Bradley Smith. Here is some background on this notorious creep and his latest anti-Semitic campaign.
Editor, It was difficult to read the ad "Are you a student?" written by Holocaust denier, Bradley R. Smith in last week’s Lumberjack. Not only is the ad historically ignorant, ethically and morally wrong, it is also highly insulting, threatening and hateful.
Dear Editor, Your recent ad, which didn’t look like an ad, calling for “one person who can document one other who actually died in the Holocaust,” is shocking. I have always enjoyed living in a university community where open debate is sought, but like a round earth and the reality of gravity, why waste time with the obvious, except for nefarious reasons? I don’t personally know a single Chinese citizen, yet that hardly denies the existence of China.
Dear Editor, I’m writing to you because of an advertisement recently printed on Page 4 of your paper. The advertisement is for Committee For Open Debate on the Holocaust, and has disguised itself to look like a legitimate research project.
Dear Editors: I was shocked last week to discover that my university's student newspaper chose to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day by publishing an anti-Semitic paid advertisement. We faculty must be doing a terrible job if this is the sort of thing our student body chooses to publish.
Dear editor, I am writing you regarding the advertisement you ran in the April 15, 2009 issue of the Lumberjack, p. 4, which asks "Are you a student?" I find it deeply disturbing that you chose to accept a paid advertisement from a holocaust denial hate group, let alone so close to the holiday of Holocaust remembrance, Yom HaShoah.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR, HUMBOLDT LUMBERJACK I am shocked at the total lack of responsibility demonstrated by the management of The Lumberjack. To print the ad inserted by Bradley Smith and have it appear to be a legitimate research request as opposed to what it really is, a malicious tirade regarding acts, the killing of millions by the Nazis, which has been proven, seen first hand and known throughout the world, THE NAZI HOLOCAUST.
Editor: The Lumberjack recently ran an advertisement that clearly implies Holocaust denial on the part of its author. He does not believe anyone was gassed in Auschwitz. Hundreds of photographs and films exist which were taken by the Nazis themselves, as well as many others, including American GIs and journalists when they entered and liberated the death camps.
Lumberjack Editors, As I sat down with thirty or so others prepared to share the memory and grief of the six million on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance night, grief and disbelief filled the room. The recent Lumberjack was passed around, opened to page 4, where an ad began "Are You a Student.
Despite nearly 70 years of painstaking historical documentation across the globe, certain individuals refuse to believe the Nazi Holocaust ever happened. Disbelief makes some strange sense: the horrendous suffering of more than six million victims is unbelievable, as is the wretched depravity of the perpetrators.
With all of the budget crises these past years and continuously rising tuition and fees, our base inclination is to complain and demand more for our money. Don’t get me wrong. I too suffer from these economic woes and to be sure there are many changes I would initiate if I were King for a day.
A constant aroma of beer and tequila mixed with a splash of tanning oil in the air can mean only one thing: Spring break 2009. Along with hundreds of college students, five of my friends and I decided to trade our textbooks and midterms for tequila shots and cervezas.
Whenever you decide to share your life with a dog or cat there are a number of questions to consider. This is especially true if you are in a transitional state of existence, which often makes this the very time you want a nice furry kitty to snuggle up in your lap, or a dog to take with you on runs at the beach.
A fishing day event for children 15 years old and younger will be held at Freshwater Lagoon from 9:00 to noon on Saturday, May 2. The event is being hosted by Redwood National and State Parks, Humboldt Fish Action Council, AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project, California Department of Fish and Game, U.
Dear Editor, Obviously, I am not an ideal messenger but, contrary to the claim of crime-business politicians, education is NOT the top waster of tax dollars. Huge multi-billion dollar abuses are in state and local criminal justice and prison spending, from prosecutor to political appointee parole boards.
Dear Editor, My name is Kijana Tashiri Askari. I am a New Afrikan Black political prisoner of war. I am also the founder of a proposal entitled, “The New Afrikan Community Response Network.” The sole purpose for this proposal is to organize the oppressed free communities of Babylon around the central issues of combating the long-standing First Amendment violations/abuses that we, the captive class of prisoners, are routinely being subjected to.
Six Rivers Running Club would like to extend thanks to the many businesses and volunteer organizations that helped make the 2009 Foggy Bottom Milk Run & Walk a great success. Over 1,400 participants showed up in Ferndale for the 32nd annual event.
It seems the majority of continuing discussion concerning the Shoebat event has been based in personal projections of values onto the less-known systems of procedure already in place. I'll admit that even as a student government official, elected to represent and protect the interests of the campus masses, the intricacies of this bureaucracy can still elude me at times.
I have decided to send Sen. Barbara Boxer five bucks for tapes for her answering machine. It is not at all unusual when calling Boxer’s office to be advised that a message cannot be left because her answering machine is full. This is especially likely if there is legislation in process that inspires widespread conflicting opinions.
In reading the Feb. 25 letter to the editor titled “A picture of adoption,” I was saddened to hear that Ms. Rigge has experienced so many difficulties in her journey as an adopted adult. While adoption in this country has seen countless forms and is still, in many ways, evolving as an issue that society is grappling to better understand, I commend the individuals like Ms.
Life expectancy in the United States has fallen to the 29th highest in the world. Costa Ricans live longer. Infant mortality? We're 30th. Chronic illness now costs American business more than $1 trillion a year in lost productivity. The U.S. is the only rich country to not provide universal healthcare.
Guest columnist Joseph Clerici’s article in the March 4 edition of your paper spoke of the “need for a reinvestment in nuclear energy,” and I would like to clear the air in terms of real information about nuclear power. Nuclear power is nowhere near clean, nor is it an economically viable solution to the growing power dilemma in this country.
I attended the Walid Shoebat presentation, and can’t agree less with the writers of the letters published in the Feb. 25 edition of the Lumberjack. The Asian Pan Asian Student Alliance writes that “Mr. Shoebat has no business speaking about Islam if he is not a Muslim.
Those advocating for tax increases to be based on a simple majority need to ask and answer the following questions: 1. Is it easier for a simple majority of legislators to spend money or to stick to a budget? 2. Do those in a position to control tax increases promise to spend less or more? 3.
For many U.S. citizens, March 21 will be just another Saturday—another day off from work and school, another weekend to relax. But for an increasing number of others, March 21 will be a day filled with desperation at the lack of employment and healthcare, a day of mourning for the killed, missing, or wounded and a day of lost educational opportunities.
I don’t have space to address all the details in the many letters sent to the Lumberjack, but some of the most scathing accusations come from Gabe Shames, Associated Students council member and Student Affairs VP, whose first error is to accuse me of being the “known secretary” of the College Conservatives.
For the past six years, California has attempted to solve its budget problems with cuts to the California State University system. For the 2008/2009 academic years, the CSU was cut by more than $312 million. While these cuts may seem to be a quick solution to an ever-growing budget deficit, when we look deeper, we see that California’s decision to cut education is in fact a decision that will forever scar the future of our state.
Dear Editor, I enjoyed your recent issue highlighting sex and health. I am approaching middle age (43) and have not yet married. From this solo vantage, I want to share some perspective with some of your less-experienced readers. Specifically, I comment on the articles encouraging Abstinence and Solo Sex.
Dear Editor, In response to your article entitled “Condom myths Debunked” in the Feb. 11, issue of the Lumberjack, I’d just like to add that ribbed are the best. Studded are OK too, but ribbed are definitely highly recommended! Just my take.
Dear Editor: I wish to comment on several items in the Feb. 18 paper. First, the “CSU future looks bleak,” wherein a variety of people wimpy about having to share in the countrywide economic decline. The real reason the future of the schools is looking bleak is that studies now show that a bachelor’s degree is now equivalent to a roll of Charmin.
Another Missed Opportunity for U.S. Energy Policy
Pretty much anyone can find a bone of contention with the final draft of the federal stimulus bill that was passed in February. While the version that finally got President Obama’s signature retained many of the important provisions for job creation, and will aid those most in need through the extension of unemployment insurance and health-care benefits, many good long-term investments were unfortunately eliminated in the final rounds of political wrangling.
Dear Editor, I was an active participant in the demonstration in solidarity with Palestine that took place during Walid Shoebat's presentation on February 18, 2009. Mr. Shoebat's speech was hateful and disrespectful, not only to all Muslims but also to all peoples internationally that are in the same situation as Palestine.
Dear Editor, As students of color, we were deeply offended by Walid Shoebat's speech last Wednesday, February 18. Many of our club members are Muslims from parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Shoebat's presentation was disrespectful, hateful and was completely false in its claims about Islam, the Prophet and the entire Muslim world.
Dear Editor, As I’m sure most students have heard by now, there was a contentious Campus Conservatives presentation of the anti-Islam speaker, Walid Shoebat Wednesday night. The Campus Conservatives will no doubt attempt to spin the event to show how horrible we heathen liberal Humboldt students are.
Dear Editor, The California Department of Social Services Adoption Services in Arcata recently displayed photos of foster children as “art.” Well, adoption isn’t always a “pretty picture.” When adopted children become adults, they WILL be discriminated against.
Dear Editor, I have to be very critical of the article that was written about the Lunar New Years Celebration. Aside from the writing being what felt like extremely unenthusiastic, there were many errors that I was able to find. The author wrote that the Lunar New Year started on the first full moon, but it starts on the new moon (writing “first” would be redundant, like saying that January 1, New Years Day starts on the first day of the year).
Dear Editor, I am writing to remind your readers that we are currently in the Season For Nonviolence, which falls every year between the anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi (Jan. 30) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4). During this 64-day period, we are called upon to commemorate the teachings and example of these two great human beings.
Dear Editor, To whom does Michael Phelps have to apologize? Political representatives not paying their taxes? Good Christians caught in sex scandals? The man or woman who polishes off a case of beer or sits down to their fifth martini every night? A child-porn browser on the Internet? Or that CEO, perhaps even at Kellogg's cereal that canceled Phelps contract, who took a million dollar bonus while Americans suffer trying to pay their bills.
Those multiple-hundred students that attended and/or protested the "Confessions of a PLO Terrorist" speaker event in the Van Duzer on Wednesday, Feb. 18, don't need to explain the level of tension and back-and-forth aggression that preceded and surrounded Walid Shoebat's visit to campus.
