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A MOTHER’S DRIVE

Students lose jobs after merger

Administration maintains these events are not related Editor’s Note: It should be noted the Lumberjack’s News editor, Dajonea Robinson, was one of the laid off student assistants working for Housing and Resident Life

by Bailey Tennery Computer Science major, Zach Pole, was laid off before this fall semester. The rest of his coworkers lost their jobs as well. Pole said the money he earned paid for everything, such as his housing, phone bills, school necessities and the braces he once had.

Pole worked part time for Housing as a maintenance student assistant for two years.

Pole soon found out the work given to him wasn’t what he was supposed to be doing.

Director of Housing and Residence Life, Stephen St. Onge said over the past five years, the number of Housing and Residence Life maintenance student assistants has SEE JOBS n PAGE 3

Photo by Tony Wallin Charmaine Lawson, mother of Josiah Lawson, and Jill Larrabee, Justice for Josiah committee member, speak of accountability and safety at Sacramento State University on Oct 18 2018.

Something’s in the water

Humboldt State Charmaine Lawson travels to other campuses to talk student safety tests lead levels

by Tony Wallin in water sources It has been 18 months since the death of Humboldt State University student David Josiah Lawson. His murderer still walks free and case remains open.

Charmaine Lawson, Josiah Lawson’s mother, spoke at Sacramento State on Oct. 15 on a panel with Justice for Josiah committee member Jill Larrabee, and Courtney Wagner, the director and editor of “Unsolved Hate,” a documentary of Josiah Lawson’s murder.

Sacramento State was one of many campus stops for Charmaine Lawson during “Week of Action,” an event put together by Students for Quality Education to remember Josiah and discuss safety and the CSU’s accountability of Josiah Lawson’s murder.

Twenty-one of the 23 California State University campuses participated in “Week of Action.” Lawson was in-

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I never thought I would be sitting here right now. We have gotten so much attention because of students.”

vited to CSU San Francisco, Sacramento, Pomona and Fullerton.

“I never thought I’d be sitting here right now,” Charmaine Lawson said, “We have gotten so much attention because of students.”

Charmaine Lawson has also gained support of the California Faculty Administration. Charmaine Lawson said CFA has been amazing in the effort to hold the CSU accountable for Josiah Lawson’s murder and to better protect students.

Charmaine Lawson said

was being first investigated, Charmaine Lawson said Lt. Todd Dokweiler told her she could only speak with police chief Tom Chapman.

Charmaine Lawson said that Chapman was telling her false information and has since resigned from the police force.

“Chapman lied by saying San Jose and Eureka were helping with the case, but none of that was true,” Charmaine Lawson said.

Charmaine Lawson said Arcata City Manager Karen

Three drinking water fixtures on Humboldt State’s campus have been removed from service for having lead levels higher than Environmental Protection Agency standards.

Humboldt State is the third CSU to test its drinking water for lead with all three finding water sources containing higher than recommended lead levels.

Over the summer HSU decided to test some of its drinking water sources after two other CSUs tested drinking water on their campuses and found that some sources tested higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s benchmark of an acceptable level of lead in drinking water.

Since 1991 the EPA regards lead levels in drinking water

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— Charmaine Lawson David Josiah Lawson’s Mother that the CFA is helping by making postcards for people to sign, asking Humboldt County DA Maggie Fleming to excuse herself from the case.

“CFA has been instrumental in their action plan and their resources,” Charmaine Lawson said.

Charmaine Lawson told the crowd of CSU faculty, students and parents that she has had resistance from city officials, law enforcement and HSU administration since the beginning of the case.

For months, when the case

by Walter Hackett

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MOTHER FROM PAGE 1

Diemer, defended Chapman when she confronted her about Chapman’s lies.

“She defended the presence of the city instead of exposing the city for what it really stands for,” Charmaine Lawson said.

She said Diemer needs to go next.

When she tried to contact HSU President Lisa Rossbacher about her son’s murder, Charmaine Lawson said she never got a response. She said she called her twice and has yet to get a call back. Rossbacher’s resignation as HSU’s president is effective June 30, 2019.

“Lisa Rossbacher hasn’t even called me to offer her condolences,” Charmaine Lawson said.

Sacramento State CFA president Margarita Berta-Avila said one of the problems with the CSU system is recruiting potential students of color without informing them all the details of their possible future environment. The details that aren’t shared include the amount of students of color admitted and how isolated the area may be. Berta-Avila said there should be institutional policy guaranteeing new students will graduate and be safe.

“It shouldn’t be when someone is killed that change occurs,” Berta-Avila said.

Berta-Avila said the CFA got involved when Charmaine Lawson met with CSU Chancellor Timothy White. Berta-Avila said that when Charmaine Lawson stood in front of

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decreased. There used to be 10 student assistants, then six, then four, now none.

“The student assistant’s job was to assist the trade’s person,” St. Onge said. “Students can carry tools, and help support the person doing the work, but they can’t be doing the work themselves.”

However student assistants did more than assisting the tradesman.

“As silly as it sounds, we weren’t supposed to change a light bulb, or touch any tools,” Pole said. “Randy Davis was going to strictly enforce that.

He saw we wouldn’t be doing anything, so he laid us off.”

Randy Davis is the current Facilities Management Manager.

Over summer, Facilities and Housing merged into one department. The Associate Director of Housing Facilities, Steve Mackenzie, was previously in charge of the student assistants.

After Mackenzie was fired.

Davis took over as the Facilities Management Manager.

Along with Davis’ new position came the responsibility of student assistants.

“Technically yes, student assistants were doing jobs they weren’t supposed to be doing,” Davis said. “They were making screens and changing light bulbs where there’s potential arc flash, and electrical safety issues.”

English major, Kaitlin Stanfield worked as student assistant for maintenance for less than a year. She completed work orders, fixed vacuums, looked at heating units and de-lofted beds.

“We weren’t supposed to use any tools like drills,” Stanfield said. “But we could make screens, all we had to

Photo by Tony Wallin Charmaine Lawson (red hat) said she has been greatly supported by students and CFA in trying to hold CSU accountable for the murder of her son, David Josiah Lawson, who was a HSU student. Charmaine was in Sacramento on Oct 18 2018 and has traveled to four other campuses during Week of Action.

CSU administration to speak of her son’s murder, a police officer walked behind her and put his hand on his gun. Berta-Avila said that was the moment when CFA had to pursue action.

“The violation doesn’t stop — it continues off campus,” Berta-Avila said.

Jorge Quintana, a leader of Students for Quality Education at Sacramento State, said there is a difference between recruit-

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ing and having available space.

Quintana said CSUs don’t hold safe spaces for students of color. Quintana said moving forward means addressing the shortcomings of the university regarding safety and to make sure protocol is followed.

“It is CSU’s responsibility to keep us safe,” Quintana said.

Quintana said if the HSU president didn’t call Lawson and CSU hasn’t done anything to help, then this is clearly

I have also heard we weren’t needed. I also heard that Randy Davis, the guy in charge, didn’t want to deal with us.”

— Kaitlin Stanfield

do was saw frames.”

Stanfield said she wasn’t given a straight answer to why she was let go. Initially she was told there wasn’t enough money in the budget.

“I have also heard we weren’t needed. I also heard that Randy Davis, the guy in charge, didn’t want to deal with us,” she said.

Davis said he didn’t fire student assistants because he didn’t want to manage them.

He fired them because Housing was not complying with the Collective Bargaining

Former student assistant

Agreement.

Stephen St. Onge, said student assistants weren’t laid off due to a budget issue, but rather a health and safety issue.

The Collective Bargaining Agreement is a contract between employees who are a part of a union and the employers. There are 13 different types of union, each with their own unit under the agreement.

The type of work student assistants were doing was unit six work. That work is

an issue for students of color. Quintana said CSU hands are tied now that a student has died. Quintana said this is when educating students is needed.

“Whats most important is to remember Josiah,” Quintana said.

Quintana said CSU only cares when students are only doing good, but once they’re off campus or even struggling they stop caring. He said they

have a choice on who gets admitted and who stays, but don’t have a choice of being students of color [weird phrasing].

“Systemic racism and micro aggressions are happening all over CSU campuses,” Quintana said. “There are more police officers than counselors.”

meant for tradesman’s which includes electricians, plumbers or carpenters.

“Tradesmen came to me saying, ‘now you’re in charge’ what’s going to happen moving forward?” Davis said. “We have student assistants doing our work, and they shouldn’t be doing our work.”

Under the Housing’s and Residence Life job descriptions, it states student assistants working for maintenance can use drills, saws, hand tools and ladders. The job description contradicts the reasoning behind management’s decision to fire the student assistants.

Despite management saying student assistants weren’t supposed to be doing unit six work their jobs didn’t end immediately. Before their last day, management told them to change batteries for each key carded door.

“We have these students through August, we will

use them to do our planned work,” Davis said.

The doors included every entrance door and room door in the residence halls. Each battery took ten minutes.

“A few thousand battery change outs needed to happen. They used minimal tools.

They probably shouldn’t have been doing that,” St. Onge said. “Personally I wasn’t concerned about safety for using a screwdriver.”

St. Onge said the union has a powerful voice, but insists that firing the student assistants wasn’t a union decision but a management decision.

“It’s not the student assistants fault, they did nothing wrong,” St. Onge said. “Facilities had no student assistants working in area six, in Housing we had four. We shouldn’t have had any.”

Tony Wallin may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

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LIFE & ARTS

Full time student, part-time paramedic Freshman tells tales of working in the emergency room and toward their future

by Jonathan Bratthall Tideman Danielle Brown remembers the day a man was rushed into the emergency room where they found out that he had cut his own toe off and tried to super glue it back on.

“I was working in the emergency room as an EMT, so this happened when I first started,” said Danielle Brown, a Humboldt State University freshman. “He was coming to us about two weeks after it happened, he was septic and ended up having a blood clot in his heart.”

Brown is a HSU freshman currently majoring in cellular/molecular biology but she’s also a licensed paramedic in Arcata.

“The toe was dead and we immediately had to cut off the foot to stop the infection from spreading,” Brown said.

Brown has been a paramedic for close to two years now.

She started off as an emergency medical technician for six

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The toe was dead and we immediately had to cut off the foot to stop the infection from spreading.”

months where she completed the 1,700 hours she needed to become a licensed paramedic.

As a paramedic she helped out in various different locations in Los Angeles, responding to all types of medical emergencies.

As a paramedic, Brown is trained beyond the requirements for an EMT. “I have the ability to use over 150 different medications,” Brown said. “I can do CPR and I’m trained for any ‘in-field maneuvers’, anything you can think of that is needed in the field.”

Brown is always on call for the HSU campus as a paramedic. This means she responds to calls of people in need of medical assistance whenever her phone rings.

“I think I get a call at least once a week from some people next door needing some help,” Brown said.

According to Brown, the job gives her a high adrenaline rush. She’s literally always on

—Danielle Brown Emergency Medical Technician

her toes and no two days are the same.

“It’s always great to have the ‘go go go,’” Brown said.

In regards to the future with her career, Brown wants to go into emergency medicine. She hopes to progress from a paramedic to an ER doctor. She is doing this all because she not only likes helping people, but it also looks great on medical school applications.

Outside of the great parts of the job there are also some downsides, the main one being the fact that you never know what happens to the people you’ve helped afterwards.

“The EMTs and paramedics all have a saying which is ‘stitch em’ and ‘ditch em’,” Brown said. “You patch them up as quickly as you can and throw them on.”

Jonathan Bratthall Tideman may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

Photo by Ross Milne Danielle Brown poses in her paramedic uniform on Oct. 16.

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by Stella Stokes It’s Halloween month!

That means getting scared, terrified, mortified, traumatized and maybe getting a few laughs. There are a lot of horror movies, but only a few get into the spirit of Halloween.

Here is a list of rated R movies in no particular order: 1. “Cabin in the Woods” Without giving away too many spoilers, this is a fresh take on horror such as “Scream” was when it debuted. It is a parody and a love letter to horror and slasher films. It’s not just another rehash of “Evil Dead.”

Want to watch all the horror films? Check this out.

2. “Dead Alive” or “Braindead” This is a hard-to-find New Zealand gem directed by Peter Jackson, pre-Lord of the Rings. What would you do if your dear mother died and rose from the dead? Lock her in the basement, I guess, until more people rise from the dead and you just gotta take care of the situation at hand.

This movie is so bloody, there’s no way there’s that much red syrup in a body.

3. “Raw” Vegans can be scary. One drop of blood can awaken a

thirst (for more than one thing) in a young vegan girl in veterinarian school.

Sometimes the hunger can consume you. (No animals were been harmed in the making of this film.)

4. “Hereditary” This recent film is a classic in the making. A series of deaths plague a family, which causes a mother to open unsettling family secrets, some better left unearthed. This family drama clicks all the scary movie tropes: creepy children, possession, the occult and lots of beheadings.

5. “Cube” This came in the 90s, predating the “Saw” franchise.

When several strangers wake up in a dangerous maze, they’ll do anything to survive the maze and each other. It’s a Kafka-esque horror flick that puts you in a situation that you know nothing about who’s in charge and why you are there. Plus, there are some good bloody deaths.

6. “Get Out” This is another recent classic that earned Jordan Peele the award for best original script in the 2018 Oscars.

This isn’t another remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” When the main character visits his girlfriend’s family, there seems to be

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commentary that is more uncomfortable concerning his race. “Get Out” has great imagery and a tense atmosphere with a bloody crescendo.

7. “What We Do in The Shadows” Before “Thor: Ragnarok,” Taika Waititi did this mockumentary about three vampires living together as thirsty roommates. Hilarity ensues.

8. “Cannibal! The Musical” No list is complete without a musical. From the same people that brought together “The Book of Mormon” and “South Park,” this delightfully bloody story is brought to you by Troma Productions.

This company is notoriously raunchy, immature, and politically incorrect. Stab it again, with feeling!

9. “House of 1000 Corpses” Rob Zombie filmed this similarly to one of his music videos with rock n’ roll pacing and redneck serial killers.

Don’t go searching for urban legends, this one is real.

Stell Stokes may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

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WATER FROM PAGE 1

above 15 parts per billion to be the “action level.” Prior to 1991 the federal action level was 50 PPB. Sabrina Zink is an Environmental Health and Safety specialist at HSU. Zink said that buildings and fixtures at HSU were selected by prioritizing areas that children under the age of six could be exposed to lead; this is the most vulnerable age for lead exposure in humans.

After drinking sources were tested from fixtures that children regularly have access to, older buildings were targeted, and one building by original construction date per decade.

One hundred and twenty one drinking water sources were tested at HSU over the summer. Thirty seven of the 121 sources didn’t contain lead levels high enough to register detection during the test. Eighty one of the tested sources registered lead levels but fell below the EPA’s 15 PPB threshold. Three fixtures tested above or at 15 PPB and have since been removed from service.

Of the three that tested higher than the action level two were drinking fountains, and one was a sink. The fountains were in Forbes gym (16 PPB), and on the third floor of the library (86 PPB).

The third fixture, a sink in the bottom floor of the library (15 PPB), tested right at the EPA action level.

“We decided to abandon these fountains,” Zink said.

Zink said lead usually

Science finds its way into drinking water systems through the old fixtures and sometimes through dated fittings and solder.

The other two CSUs that tested drinking water on their campuses were Long Beach and Sacramento. Test results from these campuses revealed drinking water sources containing lead high marks of 127 and 390 PPB. A spokesperson for the EPA, said the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found that no safe blood level has been identified for lead, and all sources of lead exposure especially for children should be controlled or eliminated.

The EPA website states that children are particularly vulnerable to lead and that low levels of exposure in kids have been linked to learning disabilities and damage to the nervous system and exposure in adults can lead to decreased kidney function and reproductive problems.

According to Zink there is currently no mandate for lead testing in the drinking water at CSU’s though the chancellor’s office did recommend that drinking water should be tested.

“We aren’t required by any regulation or law to test,” Zink said. “We thought it was the right thing to do.”

The CDC website states that you cannot see, taste, or smell lead in drinking water and the only way to know is to have it tested.

Roxanne Moore works at North Coast Laboratories, an Arcata based business that provides drinking water lead testing as a service. Moore said that they charge $27

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Photo by Michael Weber A water fountain on the third floor of Humboldt State University’s library is out of service, on Oct. 15. Results from HSU’s summer water test released on Oct. 10 reported that lead particles in this fountains are higher than the EPA’s recommended limit.

per sample for lead water testing and the turnaround for results typically takes two to three weeks.

Starting at the beginning of 2018 a law in Calif. was enacted requiring that lead testing be carried out for drinking water for all k-12 public schools. So far, lead sampling for this initiative has tested 3,541 schools and

found 137 sites that have tested higher than the EPA action level of 15 PPB. In 1986 Congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to prohibit the use of fixtures, fittings, and solder containing certain amounts of lead in public drinking water systems.

Zink said that further lead testing is planned for campus

housing facilities.

“We are testing housing over Thanksgiving and Christmas break,” Zink said.

Walter Hackett may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

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by Deven Chavannes

T

he N-word is probably the most loaded word in the English language today.

Generally, it is understood that the use of the N-word is reserved for people of African-American descent. But there are views on the exceptions, or lack thereof, of the word’s usage.

Can Latinx people use it?

What about people who are mixed race? And if not, just how black do you need to be for the word to be deemed acceptable to say?

As someone who is mixed black & white, it is something that has always been on my mind. I personally don’t use the word, but not because I don’t believe I have the right to. I just didn’t grow up with it being used around me. To me, this is one of the biggest factors, other than race, for whether you should be using the word or not.

Larry Wilmore, former host of “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,” now has a podcast called “Black on the Air.” “White people, just don’t say n----, just don’t say it, just don’t say it and everything will be okay, trust me — you shouldn’t even want to

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the

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say it,” Wilmore said.

I think most of us can agree on that. But when you’re mixed race, like myself, the rules can get blurry. I grew up in a relatively well-off community where the N-word was never used.

It was never part of my surroundings growing up, and using it now feels forced and unnecessary.

Latinx people have had to endure racism in America just like African-Americans vhave, but they haven’t experienced the specific form of

racism that is anti-blackness.

This is where I start to take issue.

The N-word comes from the Latin word “niger”— which means “black.”

And you probably won’t hear someone who is African-American using derogatory terms that are originally intended for a different race.

I do think that it is great that some black communities have flipped the meaning of the N-word from a negative to a positive, but if they didn’t use it at all, then

there would be far less white kids, who love rap, running around and saying the N-word because they don’t know any better.

I also don’t think that other ethnic minorities should get a pass from saying it because they also experience racism. It’s a similar but different struggle.

When it comes down to it, the word is racist.

Deven Chavannes may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

SAFE INJECTION SITES A NECESSITY

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overnor Jerry Brown has just rejected the recently proposed bill, AB 186, that would approve entities in the city and county of San Francisco to operate overdose prevention programs for adults, including safe injection sites.

This is a dire mistake and needs to be immediately reversed.

Why should you care that a safe place for people to shoot up drugs was denied? Drug overdoses are the leading cause of unintentional deaths worldwide, according to ResearchGate.

The Centers of Disease Control estimated 72,000 people died last year from overdosing.

Safe injection sites can reduce not only deaths, but the stigmas that are attached to drug addicts.

Both the American Medical Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine define addiction under the standard disease model that is used for any other disease.

They say—like diabetes, cancer or heart disease—addiction is caused by a combination of environmental, biological and behavioral factors.

Why then do we continue to shame, guilt and dehumanize people who are suffering from addiction? We don’t throw people in prison for injecting insulin to stabilize their diabetes. So why then do we criminalize addicts instead of treating them medically?

America is still in a war with drugs, which ironically supplies the very opiates our government leaders say are destroying our country.

A study by the Canadian Family Physician found that

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safe injection sites lower mortality rate, decreases ambulance calls for treating overdoses, and decreases infections such as HIV and Hepatitis C. The study said there are currently 120 safe injection sites in 12 countries around the world and concluded that all of them have positive impacts for the addicts using their services and the community around them.

“Studies from other countries have shown that supervised injection facilities reduce the number of overdose deaths, reduce transmission rates of infectious disease, and increase the number of individuals initiating treatment for substance use disorders without increasing drug trafficking or crime in the areas where the facilities are located,” the American Medical Association said.

Governor Brown said he denied the bill because he wasn’t convinced the bill would lead to drug users getting treatment they need to get clean.

His assumption doesn’t make sense and isn’t supported by any evidence. The bill

itself says it will “provide access or referrals to substance use disorder treatment services, medical services, mental health services, and social services.” Every safe injection site provides either treatment options or referrals to treatment facilities.

Safe injection sites get misconstrued as being something that condones illegal activities and promotes criminal activities, but this isn’t the case.

Dr. Scott Wiener of Harvard Health Publishing said in his Harvard Health Blog he was against safe injection sites, until he visited a local needle exchange facility and experienced it for himself. He thought it was going to be dirty and unsterile but found it to look like a warm and welcoming living room.

“They are there to help people right when they are open to treatment for substance use disorder. The staff will help connect them to treatment resources, whether it is group therapy or medical treatment like buprenorphine (Suboxone) or methadone,” Dr. Wiener said after his visit.

Safe injection sites are about harm reduction. Not condoning crime. They educate participants on contracting infectious diseases, provide overdose prevention services as well as a clean and hygienic place that is safe and monitored by licensed medical staff that offer help and treatment.

As a clean and sober heroin addict, I know that addicts will continue to use needles regardless of having access to a safe injection site. By not offering safe spaces with available resources to get treatment, the government itself is condoning addict behavior when it should be doing all it can to help its citizens get help.

Governor Brown will now be remembered by addiction specialists and drug advocates as the person in power who didn’t do all he could to help those suffering from addiction.

The research shows safe injection sites work in all 12 countries they operate in.

America needs to be the thirteenth.

Tony Wallin may be contacted at thejack@humboldt.edu

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Sophomore squad leads the way

Four different underclass athletes stamp fast times including a first-place finish by McKinney

kind of went for it.”

Head Coach Jamey Harris will prepare both men’s and women’s squad for CCAA championships after this weekend’s final season invitational. “Big strides at a challenging course,” Harris said. “There’s real progress and we’ll carry that momentum going into the championships.”

Catch the Jacks Nov. 3rd in San Bernardino for the CCAA Championships.

by Matt Shiffler

Arcata, Calif- HSU men’s and women’s cross country teams competed early Saturday morning at the fog-filled Baywood Country Club in Arcata.

Women’s 6k sophomores Cessair McKinney and Kaylee Thompson place one and two helping the Jacks secure a team title.

McKinney and Thompson switch in placing from September’s Humboldt Invitational.

This weekend schools including Cal State Monterey Bay, Sonoma State, and Lane Community College couldn’t keep up with the HSU sophomores.

Both Jacks ran together at a close pace and ahead of the pack throughout.

“We race about the same, if you see her up in the front that means I should be up there too,” McKinney said. “I felt good about this race, it’s great for our conference meet in a few weeks, I believe we are ready to go.”

Cessair McKinney finishes with a winning time of 22:30 and an outstanding average mile time of 6:02. The competition for the Ladyjacks was from senior Hadley Clark a Monterey Bay runner placing third but 30 seconds behind McKinney’s time.

With about a kilometer left in the race, Kaylee Thompson taps McKinney on the side for encouragement and the teamwork has shown results in many of the Jacks meets. Off the course, you can find McKinney and Thomp-

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Women’s Place and Time Top 10 - 6K McKinney 22:30 1st Photo by Amanda Schultz HSU Lumberjack Elliott Portillo crosses the finish line at a steady pace earning him second place in the Lumberjack Invitational on Oct. 20.

son photobombing their coaches video interviews or doing energetic tandem forward rolls in the direction of the parking lot.

“I was just so happy that she won,” Thompson said.

On the men’s side they beat Monterey Bay but narrowly take second place and fall to Lane Community College by a team total of 10 minutes and a time of 2:13:36.

Sophomore Elliot Portillo also captures second place individually and 23 seconds from first with a time of 26:03. Carson Cohn is the next Jack to

cross the finish line with a 26:29 time that leads to a fifth-place ranking.

Both runners acknowledging the difficulty of the course were excited about their placings and final times. It isn’t the fastest and has problematic areas in the hills but they enjoyed this run.

Portillo attributes his teams’ strong performance at the meet to vision and being able to see the competition most of the race.

“We were able to keep the guy from laying in my sights, he made a move on the third lap to

gap me,” Portillo said. “I held heavy and had enough space between me and the next guy to secure second.”

Cohn started to see the progress he’s made throughout the season. Just being ten seconds slower than his PR is a huge accomplishment this weekend. He also was just 4 seconds slower than his Bronco Invitational time last week at a much faster course.

“It’s much more open here, you don’t get stuck in the single track behind guys,” Cohn said.

“Gutsy race, great time, I just

Thompson 22:51 2nd Gillick 23:34 8th Melville 23:46 10th

Men’s Place and Time Top 10 - 8K Portillo 26:03 2nd Cohn 26:29 5th Halter 26:57 9th Ruehrwein 26:58 10th

Soccer wins weekend match ups

by Alex Gonzalez

Women’s soccer kicked off the weekend with a 3-0 shutout against visitor University of California at Santa Cruz and the men followed with a 4-2 win over Sonoma State on Oct. 20 at College Creek Field.

“Going in we knew we only had 3 games left,” said senior midfielder MaKenna Dunn.

“We played like we had nothing to lose.”

The Lady Jacks didn’t take long to get on the board as they scored only three minutes into the game. Senior forward Jacquelyn Dompier was able to knock in a rebound off of Santa Cruz’s goalkeeper, Allie Mandel, into a wide open net to give the Jacks a 1-0 lead.

The Jacks then added another goal in the 27th minute as Dompier sent a cross in from the left side to senior midfielder Alex Jenkins for a one touch into the net.

“MVP goes to Jackie, she knew she wanted to score today” said Dunn.

Dompier, who was involved in all Lumberjack goals during the game, added her 2nd of the day at the 30:22 mark off a cross from sophomore midfielder Rose Harman.

The Green and Gold coasted for the rest of the game as they finished with a 3-0 victory, snapping from their two-game losing streak.

“Our focus was having fun,” Dompier said. “When we relax everything feels more natural and it allows you to find creative ways to score.”

While the Jacks offense was on display during the game, the defense also rose to the occasion as the Banana Slugs failed to record a single shot on goal during the second half.

Although it is late in the season, the Lady Jacks as a whole

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Photo by Matt Shiffler Marco Silveira #20 seemed to be apart of every offensive push down the pitch, creating problems for the Sonoma State defense.

are beginning to click and sophomore midfielder Haley Miller credits their communication.

“We’re a family first off and we talk it out in a positive way,” said Miller. “It’s tough having only one week left with each other but we want to communicate what’s going right or wrong to finish the season strong.”

Both HSU soccer teams have eyes set on ending their 2018 season strong as the men followed up with a 4-2 win over visitors Sonoma State.

“All week we worked on run ins from behind and quick passes,” said junior defender Gus Baxter. “We want to play quickly and train how we play.”

The practice worked well as the Jacks buzzed early throughout the first half of the game.

Gus Baxter was able to find the ball at the 21:28 mark to send a header in the goal, off of a pass from senior midfielder Daniel Allred.

Sonoma State’s Sebastian Santos tied the game eight minutes later as he was able to breakaway from Jack defenders.

“We have to be sharper in transition. We get caught up with what the ref is doing when we need to just stay sharp.” said

sophomore forward Marco Silveira.

HSU responded seven minutes later as Marco Silveira was able to find the net from a rebound off a Sonoma defender to give the Jacks a 2-1 lead.

The Jacks weren’t finished yet as Dalton Rice capitalized off a corner kick with a header in the 40th minute to give HSU a 3-1 lead before entering the half.

“We stayed dangerous,” said Silveira.

Deep into the second half the Green and Gold finished with another goal at the 70:10 mark.

Silveira kept the Jacks offense dangerous with a pass to freshman forward/midfielder Devin Hauenstein giving them a 4-1 lead.

Sonoma’s Sebastian Santos was left alone at the end of the game and knocked in his second goal of the match to set the final score at 4-2.

Women’s soccer will face Cal State Monterey Bay Thursday, Oct. 25 at 12:30 p.m. in another home game.

HSU Men’s Soccer will follow as they too face Cal State Monterey Bay at 3 p.m. at the College Creek Field.

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