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884 ACRES OF OPPORTUNITY Arcata secures funding for Jacoby Creek Forest for Humboldt State University research 12 miles from campus.

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Photo by Walter Hackett A giant moss covered old growth western red cedar Nov. 25 on HSU’s new Jacoby Creek forest.

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Photo by Deven Chavannes U.S Coast Guard Brenden Hilleary emerges from the water after leading a group to and from a rescue raft at the annual Coast Guard aviation training Oct. 11 at Big Lagoon Campground in Trinidad.

Prison strikes reveal need for educational resources

Retirement rhetoric

Research suggests bridging education and incarceration beneficial

by Tony Wallin

At least 95 percent of people incarcerated in state prisons will be released back to their communities. According to the National Reentry Resource Center, 9 million people are released each year.

Michihiro Sugata, who specializes in economic justice as an assistant professor of criminology and justice studies at Humboldt State University, said rural areas with high poverty rates have high incarceration rates. Sugataa sid this means many families in Humboldt County are directly affected by people in prison.

Humboldt county is just south of Del Norte county, home to Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s supermax state prison.

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9, prisoners in 17 states participated in boycotts, hunger strikes, work strikes and sitins. The nation wide prison strike was in response to the

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Bringing education to corrections would not only be morally great, but economically great.”

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deaths of seven prisoners in the April 15 riot in Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum state prison in South Carolina.

The strikes started on the anniversary of the 1971 prison rebellion in California’s San Quentin Prison, and ended on the anniversary of the famous

Photo by Tony Wallin Artwork of Pelican Bay Solitary Housing Unit by a prison inmate.

New York’s Attica Prison uprising of 1971. The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee demanded humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform, and the end of “modern day slavery.”

Sugata knows the social cost of incarceration is enormous, and that there are no direct social benefits for keeping people locked up. California has the largest public education system, as well as one of the largest prison systems — both competing for state funding.

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California State University Chancellor answers questions on Rossbacher retirement

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I don’t anticipate that any president on any campus will not have controversy.

The question is, how do you go into things that are difficult and engage the right people.”

by Alex Harris The process for Humboldt State University President Lisa Rossbacher’s retirement is underway and controversy looms in the search for a replacement.

CSU Chancellor Timothy White visited HSU on Oct. 9 to discuss the process of retirement for Rossbacher.

“We will be back on campus in early February,” White said. “With a joint committee of trustees, myself and many members of the community here.”

White said that the committee will also consist of an Associated Students member, staff, faculty and a university stakeholder representative.

— Timothy White CSU Chancellor

This committee will be used to create a job description for the presidential position so the best applicable candidates can apply. Ultimately the initial 40-60 applicants will be reduced to around six final SEE RETIREMENT n PAGE 3

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Presidential committee conundrum

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Confidential hiring process raises concerns

MAKING BLACK GOLD

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Associated Students have little confidence in HSU’s presidential search process.

As Humboldt State University’s president seat becomes vacant, a confidential selection process, along with a limited advisory committee, raises concerns about students’ input in deciding a new president.

“I understand the need to be confidential,” Associated Students Board Coordinator Casey Park said. “But I don’t see how you can fit 7,500 student voices into one student rep.”

Park is one of the many Associated Students members who attended a meeting with CSU Chancellor Timothy White and Vice Chancellor Loren Blanchard about a presidential candidate search process on Oct. 8 in the AS

University food waste feeds worm farm

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very two and a half weeks when school is in session, Humboldt State University sends about 18,000 pounds of food waste to a local worm farmer for composting.

According to HSU’s Facilities Management website, CSU sustainability policy calls for HSU to reduce its solid waste disposal rate by 80 percent by 2020.

The Facilities Management website also states that HSU employs two different compost operations. An off campus vermi-composting operation (vermi – relating to worms), and an on campus operation run by the Waste-Reduction and Resource Awareness Program.

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KHSU advisory board issued parking tickets After being instructed not to meet last month

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Parking tickets were issued to KHSU’s community advisory board members as they met for their monthly assembly on Sept. 26th. Both Humboldt State University president, Lisa Rossbacher, and KHSU general manager, Peter Fretwell, were sternly against the community advisory board from holding their meeting.

KHSU community advisory board is completely volunteer based and allows members of the community to have their voices heard at KHSU. Community advisory board member, Barbara Boerger, said that parking passes in the past were issued for attendees but because Fretwell denied them access to a room those passes weren’t issued.

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Vol. 113 No. 4 Wednesday, September 19, 2018

In Josiah’s memory

Leading a (Nerf) War

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17 going on 18 Monthly vigil a reminder of Josiah Lawson’s unsolved case

by Alex Harris

On the 15th of every month for the past 17 months the advocacy organization Justice for Josiah, which is led by his mother Charmaine Lawson, holds a vigil in memory of David Josiah Lawson in the wake of his murder.

This month the vigil was held at the Manila Community Center, adjacent to Josiah Lawson and his friends most cherished beach.

“I chose this spot today because my son loved the beach,” Charmaine Lawson said. “I wanted to be in a place were my sons presences was often.”

There were around 30 to 40 in attendance. Community members, Humboldt State University faculty members SEE LAWSON n PAGE 4

Ripple in the radio

Conflict continues within KHSU

by Tony Wallins

Live air shows after 10 p.m. could be headed towards syndication after new time changes at KHSU. The decision to limit the operations of KHSU from 7 a.m.

- 10 p.m. is the latest administrative decision that has left staff, volunteers and community at odds of where KHSU is heading.

Kimberly Comet is the director of risk management and safety at HSU and says that the majority of building hours on campus is 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. With KHSU moving buildings due to the construction for seismic retrofitting they are moving to a building that isn’t staffed by employees past 10 p.m.

“We are trying for consistency and safety for all,” Comet said.

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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT University sustainability assessments reveal strengths and weaknesses of campus-wide environmental impact

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by Walter Hackett

umboldt State University’s total energy consumption from clean and renewable resources is .07 percent, according to figures from a 2017 sustainability assessment report.

In another assessment, HSU ranked 31 out of 269 college institutions as being a sustainable “cool school” according to Sierra Club rankings.

The ranking was based on unique Sierra Club metrics which the Club said were designed to measure how a university is addressing the climate crisis. The ranking included scores from categories such as research, air & climate, energy, water, and waste.

According to the Sierra Club website, the organization ranks schools on sustainability in order to serve as a guide for prospective students, and to raise environmental standards on university grounds.

HSU sociology major Isaiah Hall said he wasn’t aware of the Sierra Club ranking. Hall, who plays on the Lumberjacks football team, said students would benefit if the university focused on sustainability upgrades such as LED lights and more solar panel arrays.

This was the first year HSU participated in Sierra

Club’s annual ranking system. Notable universities that ranked higher than HSU included: UC San Diego, Chico State and UC Irvine. Chico State was ranked 9.

In order to participate in the Sierra Club “cool school” ranking HSU had to forward data from a separate and more comprehensive university sustainability tracking report which was compiled in 2017.

The more extensive report, The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System, is an online tool that universities can use to measure their campus-wide sustainability.

Katie Koscielak works as a Sustainability Analyst for HSU and is responsible for coordinating the campus sustainability report.

Koscielak said compiling data for participation in the assessment was an expansive project spanning collaboration from 25 university departments.

Humboldt State has participated in two Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System reports. The first STAR report was in 2013. The latest report in 2017.

According to Koscielak between the first and latest reports HSU improved by 14 percent and went from a silver to gold rating. The reports are public and specific

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