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Since the beginning of my education here at Humboldt State University, I read the university vision statement in every syllabus without much thought. Af-ter realizing with panic that I would be graduating next semester, I finally stopped and thought: what have I ever done to fulfill this vision statement? For those of you who don’t know our university vision statement, here is the portion I am partial to:

“Humboldt State University will be the campus of choice for individuals who seek above all else to improve the human condition and our environment...We will be renowned for social and environmental responsibility and action.”

If you are like me, HSU was the choice for an individual who sought above all else to graduate on time and get a job so they could put a roof over their head. And, being a journalism student I probably damaged the environment with all the papers I wrote. (You see, if our department was better-funded we would have more ac-cess to technology-- therefore using less paper.) This thought frustrated me. I have come to love this school, and I really wanted to fulfill this statement to repay its kindness.

What I have concluded during my four years at HSU is that journalism is a kind of science. It is the science of examining the human race from a unique point of view, and then relaying our findings to others. Unlike the other arts, it is completely non-fiction, so we find the beauty (and the ugly) in life just as it is. The kind of journalist I want to be is someone who relays instances of astounding, inspiring humanity. I want to find ordinary people who do amazing things, converse with them face-to-face, and tell their story to the world, (whether they like it or not.) Basically, jour-nalists are a kind of loud-mouth scientist. Soapbox scientists. But it is the reporter’s responsibility to use that soapbox only for good journalism.

So, here it is! The Osprey Magazine staff ’s contribution to the HSU vision state-ment. We might not be out there actually stopping people from cutting down trees, but we strive to accurately report improvements in the human condition and our environment.

I make an oath to not give in to corrupt journalism, and to follow a path to find sanity in this world and discovering the beauty in it on the way.

Again, sorry for printing on actual paper.

Maya Reynolds, Editor in Chief

A Word From the Editor

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Since he started at Humboldt State University in 1997, George Estrada influenced students with his teaching style and personality.

Last year Estrada was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His doctors gave him six months to live. The fight for his life began.

Before he began at HSU, Estrada was an accomplished journalist. He worked as a reporter and columnist for the Oakland Tribune from the mid-70s through the mid-90s, and contributed a number of articles to the Associated Press. After those years in the field, Estrada decided to turn in his press pass for a piece of chalk and young minds to mold. He’s been teaching at HSU ever since.

Over a month ago his doctors gave him two weeks.

He lost the fight on Friday, Oct. 22 at 2 a.m. surrounded by his family in their home. He was 57.

“He just kept beating what the doctors told him.” said Garrett Purchio, a former student. He had the opportunity to visit Estrada before he died. “He looked very weak but was in strong spirits,” Purchio said. They spent the time talking about two of Estrada’s favorite subjects: sports and rock ‘n’ roll.

Before he died, friend and colleague Mark Larson used to visit frequently. They spent a lot of time talking about baseball, especially the San Francisco Giants. “I told him to hang on long enough to see the Giants make the playoffs and even the world series,” said Larson.

Purchio said he was always amazed by Estrada’s wealth of knowledge on obscure subjects, particularly music. “Every class I learned things I never knew about before,” he said.

“He didn’t like to just hear himself talk,” said Hilary Lebow, another journalism student. “He knew he could learn a lot from his students.” He never just stood there and lectured, Lebow recalls. To her, class with Estrada felt less like a lecture and more like a friendly dialogue.

“He’s the kind of teacher you want to remember your name,” said Lebow, “he’s just that cool.”

“He taught me the importance of connectedness in the journalism profession,” said journalism student, Adrian Emery. “He was a big fan of teamwork because that’s how the profession works.”

Joe Clerici graduated in 2008, he is now a copy and layout

designer at the San Francisco Examiner. He credits Estrada’s editing class with giving him the skills he uses every day at work. “I switched to Journalism from Psychology on a whim,” he said. “I was very intimidated. After the first class with him, I felt like I would be alright.”

Over the years Estrada taught Editing, Magazine Writing, Mass Media and the Popular Arts, International Mass Media, Travel Writing, and was the adviser for the Osprey.

“With the Osprey, George challenged the students to have content make a difference as well as improve the copy,” said Mark Larson. Within a couple of years of Estrada taking over the Osprey, it was winning national awards.

Estrada’s lectures went much deeper than just journalism said journalism student, Anthony Barstow. “He looked at culture, and the way people interact with one another. He looked at art and life, and how they influence each other,” he said.

John Osborn, a freelance writer for the North Coast Journal and Arcata Eye and HSU graduate, remembers Estrada always joking with him. “He

would call me ‘Ozzy’, and give me shit about drinking Pabst (Ozzy Osbourne’s beer of choice),” Osborn said with a chuckle.

Estrada’s lighthearted nature is noted by all of the students interviewed. They all recall his rock ‘n’ roll attitude, his jokes and stories from abroad. Every student saw the immense amount of love he has for his family.

“When his family was at the door, you knew the class was about to be over,” said Matt Drange, a student who now works for the Times-Standard as a staff writer. “You could tell family was his top priority.”

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The caps hit the ground, the band is playing “Pomp and Cir-cumstance” and you’re smiling like a six-year-old receiving a red bicycle on Christmas. Well, why not? You just graduated college, after all. Your parents are proud, your friends are ready to cel-ebrate and you’re ready for the real world. Or are you?

Because when your hangover subsides in the morning, the only things you can think about are bills and how mom and dad aren’t going to pay for them anymore.

It’s now several months since graduation. You’ve put out 57 bil-lion job applications. Okay fine, maybe only like 10. Whatever. But still — no job.

There’s a knock on the door. You peek through the peephole and see your overweight landlord facing the other way. He’s look-ing down at a clipboard and his butt crack rises above his Fruit of the Looms. His underwear was obviously white at some point. But not so much anymore. You back away from the door, looking around as though you were John Dillinger and sirens were ap-proaching. You panic.

Bob is here to collect the well-overdue rent. You remember the woman at the office once telling you that they frown upon people who don’t pay on time. You remember laughing.

“Who’s laughing now?” you think to yourself.

Panic.

There is one thing going for you. Since PG&E turned the lights off a few days ago, there’s no way for Bob to know you’re there. Small victory. You exhale and a wave of peace washes over your dirt-broke body.

“Mister?” Bob calls out.

He must’ve heard you move.

You drift into a frantic-fueled fantasy.

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In one simple, seamlessly executed motion, you run for the patio door. As you near it, you jump and flip directly through it. So talented, the glass doesn’t even break. The two-story high balcony proves no match for your Crouching Tiger style landing and with cheetah-like speed you escape to the local basketball court where you hide out.

You laugh hellishly and curse all that has brought your fiscal life to its knees. You were once an upstanding citizen. Paid rent. Paid bills. Even bought some Converse lo-tops from time-to-time. Now, a cynical serf, angry at the establishment. Eager to exact revenge.

This, of course, is not the answer.

So before you go declaring a jihad on academia and your loans, slow down. Hit rewind. Breathe. Forget about the ugly, two-size-too-small button down Bob was wearing. Stop imagining yourself fleeing his ire while you laugh like Dr. Claw. Just. Stop.

The problem is procrastination. If you wait to apply for jobs until after graduation, you’ll end up with nothing but you-know-what in hand. And perhaps imagining yourself flying through windows.

So start now. Right now. Hit the Career Center on campus. Score an internship. Because you really don’t want to end up 35 years old, waiting tables and slingin’ lattes to make ends meet.

Why are you still here? Put down the magazine. And maybe no one will get hurt.

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It takes guts and glory to be good at football. That, and more than $600,000. Humboldt State University’s impressive eight wins this season came at a price to students whose fees go toward supporting intercollegiate sports. This year, the athletics department will collect more than $3 million from students, sending a large portion of that to the football team.

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Above, the football team’s locker room is outfitted with leather couches and flat screen TV’s. Below, pictured is the locker room open to general HSU students.Photos by Elliot Golan

Provost Robert Snyder sits cross legged at his large office desk. Behind him, an array of manila folders in all colors sitting on wall shelves and tables frame his figure. He pulls out his phone, swipes a few times with his thumbs to bring up a calculator application and says, “If I had the football team’s budget, we could hire about 20 tenure-track professors.”

Like many at Humboldt State University, Snyder is caught between wanting to promote the school’s athletic programs and wanting to see the millions of dollars it receives used in other ways.

Because of budget issues, Snyder decided to hire five tenure-track professors each year over the next few years, compared to the 12 to 15 per year before the budget crisis.

Snyder sighs, folds his hands across his knee, shakes his head slightly and says, “It’s not clear to me what the right point of view is. It’s important to have athletics, and we can argue about how many teams and what not. I don’t know.”

Football’s hefty $600,000 price tag stands out in com-parison to what it costs to run other sports programs; the second most expensive being men’s basketball at just over $380,000. Cross country is the least expensive sport. The team’s budget for this year is $59,000. But HSU football is unique for several other reasons as well: It is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II program in California, it is the largest sport on campus with 105 men on its roster and last year it cost more than $750,000 to run.

That operational budget comes from the athletics depart-

ment which predicts about $4 million in expenses this year.

The athletics department, tucked in the northeast corner of campus, is physically and figuratively set apart from the rest of the school. Even though the department is relatively independent from academics, even considering the physical education classes that use the same facilities as the school-sponsored sports, it relies on student fees and student participation to operate.

It does not, however, rely on much else. Unlike academic departments, the athlet-ics department, via its athletic director, Dan Collen, reports directly to University President Rollin Richmond.

Anyone who meets Collen knows in-stantly that he is passionate about sports. He greets everyone with “Go ‘Jacks!” and says goodbye the same way. His history in athletics says the same thing. Collen start-ed at HSU playing basketball before creat-ing and coaching the men’s club volleyball team. He continued coaching volleyball at the high school and collegiate levels,

including the HSU women’s vol-leyball team, before taking over as the director of Center Activities and then assuming his current role as athletic director in 2001.

Collen says that his experience taught him the importance of sports. At HSU, Collen believes that sports provide valu-able life skills and lessons, a place to build community, outlets for students, marketing capabilities, unmatched revenue and diver-sity for the university. All this, he says, at the price of $446 per student through the Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fee.

Before 2007, HSU used state money to fund its athletics programs, pumping in somewhere around $2.6 million a year to the school’s 12 NCAA sports.

It was then, says Collen, that Richmond decided to save that state money on the academic side and cover budget deficits and use the IRA Fee to cover athletics. This year, the fee will collect $3,026,900 from student fees for athletics. In the case of a full-time student, the IRA Fee uses about $446 of a student’s yearly $556 for

athletics while the remain-ing $110 is split between the Humboldt Energy In-dependence Fund, the Jack Pass and the IRA Commit-tee which further divides that money between campus groups. Part-time students pay 60 percent of the full-time fee.

That $446 pays for athletes’ equipment and gear like uniforms, balls and some of the team shirts athletes wear. It pays for an athlete’s travel expenses like hotel stays and money for food. Through the IRA fee, students also pay the salaries and benefits of coaching staff, like Head Football Coach Rob Smith’s 2009 salary of more than $96,000.

The head football coach’s salary, listed with all of Humboldt State’s faculty and staff in state databases, is more than many depart-ment chairs and tenured faculty receive.

Renowned Redwood

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is perhaps Humboldt State University’s most famous professor. He may not coach a

sport, but his work brought attention to Humboldt State University when National Geographic featured him on its front page last year. His 2009 salary was about $81,000.

Smith said that he was too busy with the football team for an interview with the Osprey.

Smith’s salary surprises Associated Stu-dents President Iban Rodriguez.

“I think it’s sad when a football coach makes that much,” says Rodriguez. “If professors can get by on $60,000, why can’t he?”

Collen defended Smith’s near-six-figure salary with the number of people he supervises. Because of the large coaching staff required for football, Smith makes more money and is classified as a level II administrator on the state payroll.

By headcount, the fisheries biology de-partment is similar in size to the football team (107 students to 105 football play-ers). But last year, Smith received about $12,000 more for overseeing nine coaches while department chair Gary Hendrickson oversees 16 faculty members.

Collen cites many reasons for keeping sports on campus. Sports involve students, help to keep them fit, sports can create a feeling of community on campus and they help to sustain themselves by bringing in revenue.

The athletics department’s yearly budget plan shows that football is the most suc-cessful of HSU’s sports at raising money. The team brings countless dollars to the university in student fees and tuition because of its long roster; many football

athletes wouldn’t be at Humboldt paying fees if it weren’t for the

sport in the first place.

The athletics department projects that the team

will bring in close to $105,000 this year in

revenue from ticket sales, private dona-

tions, selling merchandise and other fundrais-

ing activities. California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo also paid the Lumberjacks $80,000 to play them for their first game. Collen gave the team $14,000 of that money for their operational budget and the remaining $66,000 to athletic scholarships.

Football coaches and the athletics department won’t use that money to reduce their use of IRA fees, however, but rather to fill out their operational budget in places that IRA money wouldn’t cover like recruiting expenses and scholar-ships.

Collen says another reason to keep athletics is that it is a strong vehicle for marketing HSU and recruiting students. In 2005, a university-sponsored survey re-vealed that only half of the 400 randomly interviewed California parents who were involved in their child’s college search knew that Humboldt State even existed.

Eddie Umeh was one of those people. The biology senior from Sacramento, Ca-lif., is a free safety on HSU’s football team. He says that if it weren’t for football, he wouldn’t be at Humboldt.

“I feel like I’m camping here,” he says. “Football is that important to me. I’ll stick it out.”

Collen says that having sports teams helps to let people know that the school exists.

“Athletics exposes people in the com-munity to the campus which helps to hook people,” says Collen. “We have 350 student athletes. That’s a major player in getting people to get here.”

Once student athletes are on campus, studies link organized sports to higher GPA, more community involvement and better recruitment and retention of tra-ditionally underrepresented students. The 2009 Equity in Athletics report at HSU showed students on athletic scholarships averaged a 56 percent graduation rate over four years compared to 48 percent of non-athletic students.

Rodriguez, however, sees the lack of campus diversity as unacceptable, “It’s sad that we have to use athletics to diversify our school.”

Humboldt State’s football program began in 1924. But even earlier, in 1903, West-ern Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., started their football program.

Last year, they cut it.

In 2009, Western Washington announced that it would eliminate its football pro-gram. The school reasoned that the need to reduce spending throughout the institution and the desire to keep high-profile sports teams on campus led to the elimination. The initial news release said that in order for the rest of its teams to compete at high levels, it needed more money, which it got by cutting football.

Western Washington Spokesman Paul Cocke says that between 2004 and 2009, the athletics department accumulated $200,000 in debt each year, which made making a “substantial cut” a crucial deci-sion. Cocke characterizes the elimina-tion as “agonizing,” but also “prudent and necessary.”

The money saved by eliminating the football team at Western Washington went back to the university to cover across-the-board cuts as well as to more adequately fund the school’s remaining sports pro-grams.

Western Washington’s decision devas-tated other football teams in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, like HSU, and raised concerns for football coaches and athletic directors across the west coast.

At rival Central Washington University, Athletic Director Jack Bishop is con-cerned for football programs in the region. He said that in Western Washington’s case, state budget cuts and a dwindling number of football teams created a difficult envi-ronment for the sport to thrive in.

“My concern for football is not having anyone else drop,” Bishop says, explaining that other programs in the Great North-west Athletic Conference might be at risk. The rest of HSU’s sports compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, and Women’s Crew competes indepen-dent of a conference.

Like Humboldt, Central Washington is now the only Division II program in its

The NCAA has three divisions that each have different rules on funding, scholarships, competitions, travel, etc. While California has several Division I and III teams, HSU has the only Division II team in the state. [ [

13A California resident pays $5,750 in student fees

Part of that is the IRA Fee at $556

Athletics receives $445 of that fee

IRA money for athletics totals $3,026,900

Private donations total

$831,635

Athletics budget total:

$3,829,336

$600,000 of student

and private money to football

Per football player, that is $5,714

state, and one of four Division II schools west of Colo-rado along with Humboldt State, Western Oregon University and Dixie State of Utah.

For years, Humboldt has been the only Division II football team in the state of California. When Western Washing-ton University eliminated its team, people started to question wheth-er that uniqueness was a source of pride or a sign that the school was behind the times in trimming its budget expenses to the absolute necessities.

“When Western first dropped, people said that what’s good for one is good for others,” Bishop says.

Provost Snyder has the same question, “I’ve been asked whether you’re on the leading edge or the trailing edge. And I’ve wondered about that.”

The decline in the number of programs in the Conference makes it harder for teams to qualify for the NCAA national competition and provides fewer teams to play. It also makes traveling to compete more expensive. Whereas Hum-boldt could travel a few hours outside the county for games in the past, competing now means a flight to Utah or long bus rides to Oregon or Washington.

Equipment Manager John Dostal says that each trip costs $30,000 in student fee money. Aside from transportation costs, which HSU also places on the backs of stu-dents, each athlete (in any sport) receives $30 for lodging each night and $10 per meal. A 3-day, 2-night trip can cost $150 per athlete at the expense of HSU students.

Students also pay for the $200 helmets, the $150 shoulder pads, the $20,000 set of uniforms, the girdles and the various hip and knee pads that football players use, the yearly $5,000-$7,000 helmet

inspection as well as the equipment of all other HSU sports. Each football player wears about $500 worth of gear at each game they play, not counting their cleats, which the football coaches bought in past years for the team at the price of $8,000-$10,000.

This year, football coaches spent $100-$200 per athlete on “Spirit Packs,” which included two T-shirts, two pairs of shorts, a sweatshirt and sweat pants that each player can keep.

For clothing, student money normally goes to team gear that the athletic department keeps year after year, like uniforms. But it is ultimately the head coach’s deci-sion as to how a team spends its budget, which Collen approves and disperses.

“Football is by far the most expensive sport, there’s no doubt about it,” says

Dostal. “Football gets a bad rep, but having a football program is a commitment. No other sport carries 105 guys. It’s an expensive sport to run, but I think it’s worth it.”

But religious studies senior Lydia Katz disagrees.

“I think it’s complete and utter bullshit,” he says.

Last year, Katz sat on a student-organized committee that tried to fight IRA fee money going to athletics. The group used a sit-in in the library to get people on board with their causes. Although a lack of direction prevented anything from happening, Katz still wants to bring attention to this use of student money.

“The IRA should go to the in-struction of students. It would be better serving the campus to focus

on things

that impact more of the campus,” says Katz. “We’re an academic school, we’re an environmen-tal school, we’re a socially aware school. We’re not an athlet-ics school.”

Provost Snyder says that it would be possible, though difficult, to restructure the IRA fee to go to differ-ent parts of campus. And while students like Katz and Rodriguez think about reallocating IRA money, HSU administrators are again trying to increase the IRA Fee to collect more money from money from students. The proposed increase would add about $30 a semester to the IRA Fee starting in the fall of 2011 for the next five years, making the IRA Fee $796 by 2015. HSU will have a referendum on Dec. 7, 8 and 9 to get a feel for how students see the IRA issue. In the end, it will be president Richmond’s decision whether or not to increase the fee.

HSU administration wants to raise the fee to adjust to the ris-ing costs of the Jack Pass, which

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There are jobs for college graduates. You just have to look in the right place.

Sean Leydon graduated in May from Humboldt State University with a degree in Studio Art. After graduation, he moved in with his parents in Sacramento and started to look for a job. A month later, the nonprofit Fun for the Public Interest hired him. Two days later, he was fired, he says, for not raising enough money. His next job at Real Estate Photo lasted for two weeks. Soon, Leydon found himself unemployed again: “I was stressed.”

After applying to more than a dozen places in Sacramento, he landed a job at North Cal Canvas, a photo studio, where he is the “one guy that does everything.” At the time of publication, he still works there.

He may have increased his odds of getting a better job if he looked elsewhere.

Street Legal Industries is a government consultation company in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Outside magazine ranks it as one of the “50

Dream Jobs” in the United States. Angel Nelson is a Human Resources representative at Street Legal. “Qualifications, skills and experience,” are what he looks for. He says it’s important to specify the job you want with your cover letter. And heads up; Street Legal is hiring.

College graduates should be prepared for job interviews and “never bad mouth another company,” says Maria Cornado, the Human Resource Manager at Arcata Associates Dryden Flight Research Center, a contractor company for the National Aero-nautics and Space Administration in Lancaster, Calif. “We prefer students who have a bachelor’s degree related to computer sci-ences,” she says. Dryden lists job openings every other month.

The world is your oyster, but if Humboldt County suits you best, there are a few jobs here too. Humboldt State University is one of the biggest employers in the county. “There’s always a steady flow of positions,” says Kristina Branum from HSU’s Hu-man Resource Department.

HSU posts new jobs every Friday on a bulletin board in Siemens Hall and online. You can also call the job line at (707) 826-4500.

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There are also jobs listed online at the Humboldt Alumni Career Network. Kim Seka, the Program Manager for Alumni Relations, says students can find resume and job tips on the site Career Beam.

Interview Stream, which is on the Humboldt Alumni Career Network, allows an applicant to practice an interview with a webcam and get feedback on the interview. Other helpful job websites are monster, ca-reerbuilder and hotjobs.

HSU senior Michelle De Young plans on applying for the Peace Corps after graduation. “Every intern-ship and job that I’ve had was through a connection,” she says. “I benefited from connections from other people who are close in my life.”

Even though connections are important, employers look for an applicant with job experience, education and skills. Marina Martinez is the human resource manager for Red Spin, which conducts security audits for banks and corporations in Car-pinteria. She says if an applicant does not have job experience, she looks closely at their education. Her advice: “apply for everything.” Martinez isn’t concerned with style and layout of a

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Rappin' With A Prophet By Danny Froloff

Amde "Anthony" Hamilton was born in February 1940, way ahead of his time. While the world hopped and bopped to the sounds of Motown and the British Invasion, he designed the blueprint for modern music and helped lay the foundation for hip-hop.

In 1967, shortly after the Watts Uprising, Hamilton, along with Otis O'Solomon and Richard Dedeaux, formed the spoken-word trio The Watts Prophets. As the world turned, black-conciousness found a new outlet to convey the struggle of the voiceless. The Prophets had their finger on the pulse, purging emotional truths in a pioneering, syncopated style, set to jazz cuts and drum beats. Just as Charlie Parker blew the roof off the jazz movement during the Harlem Renaissance, the prophets set out to create a new realm of expression, outside of the box and beyond the limitations of genre. The instrument became the voice and message was the human condition.

Since the release of "The Black Voices: On the Streets in Watts"(1969), the breath of influence can still be heard in countless samples by artists such as Dr.Dre, Nas, TooShort, DJ Quick and DJ Shadow, just to name a few. Hamilton has traveled the world promoting awareness through music and presently finds himself enjoying his golden years right here in Humboldt County.

Presently, Hamilton can be seen interacting with people at community functions or reciting his poetry on the Internet (arcatatv.com). With a walking stick in hand, given to him by his close friend Bob Marley, Amde Hamilton carries on the mystic tradition of teacher, story-teller and modern day prophet. With age, his hair has turned grey but that is no indication of the wealth of wisdom he has always contained.

Q: What was it like growing up in Watts?

A: We worked a lot. We had a family landscape business that kept us busy around the local community. It was over time that I realized that my community, as I knew it, had been destroyed. The Black Panthers had become lawyers and other community leaders were put in teaching positions but I always felt as though for some reason we (The Watts Prophets) were overlooked because some community members in charge feared us as militants.The media labeled us as militants. Somebody would say, "Don't invite the ‘prophets’ to speak. They'll just teach the kids how to swear." But we were poets. We just wrote what we saw whether it be sad, mad, glad, whatever. We are story-tellers. Q: Do you enjoy living in Humboldt County?

A: Let me tell you a story. We live in McKinleyvile and I needed to go to Eureka to pick up my car from the shop. I didn't have a ride, so I walked down to Central Avenue to a gas station and told the lady, "I need a ride to Eureka to pick up my car from the shop. I have $25 to give someone for a ride." She said, "Wait a minute." I went outside and a man came out and turned right back around and said, "I'm not taking that nigger anywhere." So I just walked to the next gas station and said to the next person "I'll pay you $25 for a ride to Eureka,” and this guy told me to get in. On the way over I go to pass him the money and he takes a five out and said, "You don't have to pay me $25 for a ride, man." That just tells me that half the people are good and the other half are still ignorant. But I really like Eureka and the surrounding area because they are real, working communities. They are still growing. They are in a state of becoming, and that is what I like about this area. I've worked with The Ink People and The Black Student Union at the university and find that many like-minded people live here. The community has been very good to me and my family. Q: When did you realize you had a gift for words and poetry?

A: It started when I was in a drug rehabilitation center/ psychiatric ward in Fort Worth Texas in the early sixties. I remember there was a doctor there who was really short and when he evaluated me, he sat behind a big desk on top of a huge stack of books. It was there I realized that writing set me free and that was when I met myself. Years later, I told my friend Don Cherry that I wanted to find my style and he said, "Are you crazy man, style is the death of creativity." That stuck with me.

Hamilton poses with his book of poetry. Photo by Daniel Froloff.

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Wisdom and Knowledge left college,Wisdom went east to a black feast.Knowledge went west in conquest,

Technology became life's test.

Wisdom hid 'cause what knowledge did.Hid away, 'til judgement day.

Knowledge moved on as far as the moon.Cracked the earth and took its worth.

Stole man some light, messed up the air poison everywhere.

Birth control became a goal and knowledgeable monsters gained control.

Souls were stole for mere gold.Technique was in the mind of mankind,

Floating in wine and sailing through life in a therapeutic way.

Learning new technical tricks.Books, not feelings was man’s thing.

Man checked out a book on how to cook,Took his light into a site.

Life has shown me all this pain,Labeled it an evil thing.

Into a book he would look,To label your brain schizoid or paranoid

Or some other technical jive,To make you look at you and not he.

But raise your black hand high,For knowledge without wisdom will surely die.

Wisdom hid 'cause what knowledge did,Hid away till judgement day....and that ain't very far away.

Wisdom and Knowledge By Amde Hamilton

Never before published photo of Hamilton with Bob Marley. Photo courtesy Amde Hamiton

Q: What part did the "Watts Prophets" play in the development of hip-hop?

A:We made an album in 1971: "Rapping Black in a White World." And that's when rap as an expression was born. Rap is an area of expression where you don’t need an instrument, only a brain and a voice. We would say, “Hey world, aren’t you scared? Hey world,

aren’t you scared? The situation is turning drastic, all your green grass is turning to plastic. Hey world, aren’t you afraid the fool called man is gonna blow you away,” and rap about the ecology before anybody was concerned with what it was. We knew what we wanted to do and we were completely successful at what we set out to accomplish, to open up an area of expression. Q: How do you feel about the hip-hop expression now that it has become so commercial?

A: I hung out with Damian Marley and Nas recently at one of their shows and Nas was talking about how hip-hop is dead and I said, “Yes!” It will do like any other expression or genre Jazz, Rock, Reggae whatever it will become stagnant but hip-hop will live on through the words of people speaking their minds telling their truths and stories. In every country people are rapping in many languages. Kids in community centers and churches are creating poetry and telling their stories; they’re beginning to interact and express themselves.

Q: Do you have a favorite Bob Marley song or lyric?

A: I love all Bob’s music.

Q: What do you make of the lyric in “Zimbabwe” when Bob says, “Every man has the right to decide his own destiny?”

The poem was titled "Wisdom and Knowledge" and it was dedicated to the Marley family. Amde can be seen reciting the poem at Bob Marley's funeral in the documentary film, "The Land of Look Behind."

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Droplets trickle down the master bay window from the inside of a small Arcata Victorian style living room, where 70 people wait in anticipation pressed against each other like human sardines. The only lighting is a soft glow from, what seems to be, reused Christmas house lights framing the backdrop of where the audience is staring. From the corner of the room, five silhouettes that make up Funeral Party take their places in front with no barriers to sepa-rate them from their anxious audience. The Arcata locals begin to jolt in des-peration as familiar guitar and bass melodies fill the gaps between the people, building up the energy for what’s to come next. Everyone in the room goes into full blast as the pounding of drums and the tambourine rattle spreads across the room, shooting straight to the cerebrum hitting the temporal lobe of everyone listening. All that’s left is an adrenaline rush.

With an upcoming album release and a UK tour, Funeral Party has grown beyond their home city of Los Angeles but still manages to stay true to their roots, playing in crowded living rooms and backyards. By request of Humboldt State’s only student-run radio station, KRFH, Funeral Party made a stop in Arcata on Nov. 7, between U.S. and UK tours in order to promote its upcoming album.

Fitting to its name, Funeral Party was created nearly four years ago on the hills of Founder Memorial Park, otherwise known as Dead Man’s Park for being encrusted by buried corpse that were left behind when the cemetery relocated. Funeral Party is formed by three Los Angeles natives – Chad Elliot (vocals and keyboard), James Torres (guitar), and Kimo Kauhola (bass and vocals) – whom together in live performances embody the upbeat and enthusiastic energy of today’s youth and create a unique indie - punk disco infused sound. “At first, it was just about playing music but we got more serious about it over the years,” said Torres.

Funeral Party was formed with little equipment and often had to borrow instru-ments and amplifiers from other local musicians. “Starting up with no equipment made us appreciate our outcome. If anything, I’m appreciative of every struggle just because it’s made us see our blessings,” said Elliot.

Once the band finally got its own equipment, the next hurdle would be to keep it. “We almost broke up when our van got stolen. It was like ‘the van is stolen and all our equipment is gone’,” said Elliot.

But that was far from the end of Funeral Party.

It was at a house show in Los Angeles where Funeral Party was approached by Lars Stalfors – engineer to Mars Volta and Matt & Kim. Stalfors recorded Funer-

Funeral PartyWords & Photography By Breanna Gomez

(From Top To Bottom) 1. Singer Chad Elliot and touring drummer Robert Shaffer.2. Guitarist James Torres.3. Bassist Kimo Kahoula

In Photos: Singer- Chad Elliot

Guitar- James Torres Bass- Kimo Kauhola

Keyboards- Tim Madrid (touring musician)Drums- Robert Shaffer (touring musician)

Funeral Party al Party’s first single “Chal-ice”, which soon became the anthem of the under-ground Los Angeles indie-punk dance scene. Funeral Party would soon after sign to Fearless records but dropped the label due to poor promotion and a lack of appeal to the record label’s “hardcore screamo” target audience. The band would later sign with its current record label, Sony RCA, and will soon release its first album Golden Age of Knowhere.

“We’re a huge generation of nothing and it’s a refer-ence to our generation,” explains Elliot about the title of their upcoming album.

Debuting with its signa-ture single NY Moves to the Sound of LA, a quirky, daring, and controversial song that pokes fun at trends,establishing Funeral Party’s up-tempo style. “It’s meant to insult New York and LA, which is why I sing 'pick up the trends you dumb Americans.' It's about hypocrisy,” said Elliot.

Already released U.S. single Finale, reaching #1 on Los Angeles KROQ radio sta-tion “Locals Only” chart, builds up energy as it gradually introduces each instrument and goes into full blast during the first verse. Followed up with its UK single “Just Because,” the band’s fastest song off its album, unveils Funeral Party’s spunky sound of keyboard and a rich dynamic blend of drums and guitar riffs.

With a U.S. tour, launched with Two Door Cinema Club, and a follow up UK tour with 30 Seconds to Mars, Funeral Party is on the fast track to stardom. Though its success is growing, Funeral Party stays modest by performing in small towns like Arcata, much more than most popular bands can say.

If you missed Funeral Party’s live show, you can listen to them on iTunes.

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This is one of those end-of-the-year lists. I reviewed recent recordings and shows by local musicians. For full disclosure, I’m in a local band: the Eureka-based Dreamgoatz, for

which I play synths n’ stuff. Touring throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, my bandmates and I share venues with obscure but insanely talented musicians. So, in the interest of sharing their sounds with more people, I included some of these artists and their

recent accomplishments on this list.

Janelle Monae:The ArchAndroid - This is one

of the most ambitious and musically diverse pop albums of the year. How many genres, like lush sequin hats, Monae and her gifted group of pro-ducers and performers try on during the course of the album (let alone a song) is dazzling and hard to quan-tify. Songs like “Faster,” “Oh Maker” and “Wondaland” are genius in their hypnotic fusions of phat Prince beats, David Bowie-esque vocal sensibilities, orchestral arrangements, and hip-hop sampling sunshine.

Tobacco: Maniac Meat - Hyperbolic

and absurd descriptions have been affixed to this album throughout the past few months. Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound describes it as “a big heaping psychedelic-hop mind-fuck.” And now it’s time for me to craft one of my own: Deliciously distorted hip-hop-junk-flop slath-ered with castrated cassette tape hiss, animalistic anxiety and vintage monophonic synthesizer slime.

Osprey Underground Music GuideBy Tom Vidosh

Images by Dreamgoat Oren Beckman

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Peace Season: Peace Season (EP) - Peace Season is Ar-

cata resident Kelley Donahue. A recent HSU Stu-dio Art graduate, she also just released a self-titled seven-song album into the universe: Peace Season, a pure, primal pop masterpiece.

“My intention is to make music that is happy but honest,” says Donahue. Peace Season is a soulful synthesis of raw acoustic sounds, soaring vocal har-monies and buzzing keyboards à l’Animal Collective or Portishead.

The Books: The Way Out - This is the fourth album by New York City-

originated sound-collage maestros Nick Zam-muto and Paul de Jong. For The Way Out, Zam-muto and de Jong expanded on their innovative sound by incorporating a more expansive low-end (808 kick-drums) synthetic percussion and more nuanced melodies, all among the chaos of intricately chopped-up samples.

Treasure Mammal: “Real Talk” (Single) When the Dreamgoatz went on tour to LA this sum-

mer, Treasure Mammal ring-leader Abelardo Gil, decked out in a torn-up rainbow spandex body suit, rubbing mayonnaise onto his testicles and throwing said mayo at some enthusiastic dancers, while big beats and Gil’s yelps thundered through the courtyard and down West Pico Blvd.

“The finale of the show is usually us taking the crowd to a beautiful climax where happiness is exploding everywhere and the crowd reflects on the liquid beauty and truth that has been splashed on them by these three men in spandex,” says Gil. “Next time I dip my balls in anything, it will probably be a bucket of the new KFC ‘Double Down’ sandwich.”

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Quinn Pitcock ran over opponents when they stood in his way, ran around them when they hesitated and dragged them along when they put hands on him.

The 6-foot-3, 295-pound All-American defensive tackle terror-ized offensive linemen when he played football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. His athleticism, size and ferocity prompted the Indianapo-lis Colts to pick him in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft. After a solid rookie season, he abruptly retired.

His reasons: depression and a video game addiction.

Video games pervade society. We play them on our phones, computers and televisions. But with our widespread use comes widespread excess, obsession and addiction. Obsessive gamers often lose jobs, lovers and friends. But many lose nothing, game as much as they want and live happy and productive lives. In some instances, video games make great social tools. In others, they allow people to avoid the world.

Quinn Pitcock grew up with the video game industry during the late 1980s and early 2000s. His parents bought him a Nintendo when he was 6 years old, a Nin-tendo 64 a few years later, a Sega Genesis after that and he started playing a friend’s X-Box in college.

As a child, his parents knew he liked games, but they saw it as normal kid behavior. “I played tons of sports; video games were never an issue,” says Pitcock.

In high school, video games

bored Pitcock, so he took a break and spent most of his free time with friends. Things changed at Ohio State, though. “A buddy and I played ‘Halo’ all the way through in one night,” says Pitcock. “It was the first time I did something like that.”

“Halo” is a first-person shooter, the type of game that loads play-ers up with guns and says: “Kill.” Players look through the eyes of on-screen characters as they scour digital battlefields for victims. Shooters showcase online multi-player modes that offer rewards, rankings and opportunities to play against real people.

Pitcock lived in the dorms at Ohio State, didn’t have a car and avoided alcohol during football season. So, he stayed inside and played video games with his buddies, which seemed like the healthiest choice at the time.

When he moved to Indianapolis, Pitcock bought Microsoft’s X-Box 360, connected it to the Internet and never looked back.

“X-Box Live got me,” says Pit-cock. “It was so easy to lose track of time.”

X-Box owners pay $50 a month for X-Box Live, which allows them to play their games online with other people.

Friends and family lived a few hours away in Ohio, yet Pitcock chose to come home every day from practice and play video games all night. Teammates often invited him out, but he declined so many times they stopped asking.

After he retired, Pitcock seclud-

ed himself and played non-stop. He woke up in the late afternoon and played until the crack of dawn day after day when he was at his worst. Pitcock says he ranked No. 55 in the world on “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,” a popular first-person shooter. The task took thousands of hours to complete. With no job or social life, he left himself nothing to do but play video games. He sank into depres-sion as the addiction commanded the next year of his life.

Just over a year ago, America’s first Internet and video game addiction rehabilitation clinic, reSTART, opened near Seattle. Its co-founder, Psychotherapist Hilarie Cash, says our brains require lov-ing, caring, and safe relationships with others. Known as “limbic resonance,” Cash says it’s essential to our well-being. Limbic refers to the region of the brain that deals with complex emotions and regu-lates how we feel. When hardcore gamers deny themselves meaning-ful relationships, emotions are deregulated and depression sets in. “People often go to the Internet in search of an adequate substitute,” says Cash. “But that’s like feeding sugar to a starving man.”

Video game designers pay psychologists to help them create addictive games that hold atten-tion, says Cash. Internet-based, open-ended games are the most dangerous because they offer mul-tiple layers of rewards. On the first layer, games use “intermittent re-inforcement,” which means players expect rewards but don’t know when they’re coming. People who play these types of games learn that if they want their rewards, they better keep playing, says Cash. Le

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Quinn Pitcock cools off at Seahawks training camp this past summer. Photo courtesy of Quinn Pitcock.

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the creation and progression of a fantasy character and the opportunity to “social-ize” but remain anonymous. On the third level, games offer people rewards through competition, cooperation and attainable status, says Cash.

Heavy video game addiction kills people’s confidence, says Cash. But, not everyone who plays excessively faces the same consequences.

Jeff Marshall didn’t say “momma” or

“dada” the day he uttered his first words. He said, “Atari.” He remembers the harmonic voice that announced “A-TAR-I” when someone clicked the system on.

When he got a bit older, the Eureka, Calif. native played “Zelda,” Nintendo’s fantasy-based sword and spells game. “It’s the first game I obsessed over,” says Mar-shall. “There was just so much to do.”

Marshall picks games apart until he mas-ters each detail. Structures within games stimulate his mind and offer escape just like books or good movies, says Marshall.

Cash says games make great escapes because rewards come much easier in the digital world than in the real world. Games allow us to escape social ills, she says.

Marshall’s long-time girlfriend Brenda Scott can’t remember a time when she didn’t play games. She and her younger brother Johnny grew up playing them together. They spent their share of time at the arcade as well. “We would go to the mall and he would play ‘Dance Dance Revolution’ to pick up chicks.”

Johnny Scott died in a car accident in 2006.

Around this time, some friends of Scott and Marshall started playing “World of

Warcraft,” an Internet-based game people pay $15 a month to play, and enticed the couple to join them. They bought comput-ers and started playing in the weeks after the tragedy.

Blizzard, the company that owns “World of Warcraft,” reported the game reached 12 million subscribers worldwide in October 2010.

The game demanded nearly all of Scott and Marshall’s time – they obliged. Since they started playing four years ago, Marshall spent 456 and Scott spent 476 days signed in to their respective accounts. That means the couple spent roughly a third of the last four years logged on to “World of Warcraft.”

That put a strain on their rela-tionship, and they almost broke up a couple years ago. Since then, they’ve started playing much more casually. “You lose time and then blame each other,” says Scott.

Marshall says his need to play ebbs and flows, but sometimes he gets what he calls “hermit mind” and wants to do nothing but play video games and be by himself. “I’ve always been a little bit anti-social.”

Cash says introverts with bright minds have strong vulnerabilities to video game addiction because games conquer their boredom with interactive reward systems. Although a high percentage of video game addicts have attention deficit hyperactiv-ity disorder or Asperger’s syndrome (a

form of Autism that affects people’s ability to socialize in face-to-face situations), Cash says

plenty of people suffer from video game addiction and show zero signs of brain or social disorders.

Despite the amount of time the couple spends playing, both Marshall and Scott deny it’s an addiction. Maybe in extreme cases you can call over-playing an addic-tion, Marshall says, but for the most part

it’s just an obsession. Some people watch hours and hours of TV while others know every football stat from the last 25 years; Marshall and Scott play video games.

The interaction games offer fascinates Scott. Just because games make great escapes, doesn’t mean people go through withdrawals when they can’t play, says Scott, who thinks video game addiction is rare if it even exists at all.

At reSTART, Cash says she sees plenty of people go through withdrawals. Like all ad-dictions, the brain develops a tolerance to whatever lights up its reward circuitry too much, for too long. Recovering addicts ex-perience irritability, restlessness, agitation and depression, which are similar to the symptoms of alcohol or drug withdrawals. When someone tries to quit heroin, they go through physical withdrawals because organs other than their brain developed a dependency to the drug.

Charles McNally, a friend of the Scott and Marshall, says it’s easy to slip into video game addiction with Internet-based games. Everything fell away when he started playing “Warcraft.” Photography,

Jeff Marshall explores “World of Warcraft” on his laptop with one of his max level characters while he enjoys a clove cigar. Photo by Breanna Gomez

As long as I can manipulate the controls, I’m there.

- Jeff Marshall -

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No matter how many hours he devoted to the game, it was never enough. On several occasions, McNally fell asleep at his computer, woke up and started playing again. “The game was so important at the time,” says McNally. “I don’t know why; those were some lonely days.”

Many friendships soured and remain in disrepair to this day. The time he spent addicted to “Warcraft” sucked all the fun out of all video games, says McNally, who hasn’t played a video game in over a year.

Marshall and Scott, however, don’t plan to stop playing anytime soon. “As long as I can manipulate the controls,” says Mar-shall. “I’m there.”

Couples like Marshall and Scott cut down on the adverse consequences of excessive video game-playing because they’re in a real-life relationship and have agreed on their lifestyle, Cash says. “It’s the life they’ve chosen, and it’s really not dangerous.”

Sometimes, video games benefit society. They often force people into social situations in order to play them, says Cash.

Glossy advertisement posters for popular games cover the walls, four rows of computers line the room, a whiteboard announces upcoming events and a hand-ful of teenagers sit in front of luminescent screens and play games of their choice.

Welcome to NuGames, an Internet café and gaming center on K Street in Arcata owned by Laura Montagna and her three children.

Montagna bought the shop three years ago from a guy who threw computer-gam-ing parties but lacked business skills. With help from her children, she cleaned it up and started running it like a business.

This is a great place for kids to social-ize, says Montagna. Kids get out of their

rooms and into social situations when they come to NuGames. They play similar games, strategize together and build friendships. “Some kids just aren’t jocks, and this is what they enjoy.”

Cash agrees. If there’s no risk and no excess, there’s no harm. Cash’s son played board games at a similar locale, which helped him become more socially active. “It was great!”

Laura Montagna’s 16-year-old twins Jeff Venturino and Gina Montagna work at NuGames. Her eldest son used to work in the shop, but he’s 18 years old and away at col-lege now. The shop offers memberships, so regular customers can play longer for less money. Membership is 600 strong, so familiar faces often fill the room, says Montagna. Once a month, NuGames hosts overnight gaming parties. The overnighters provide great opportunities for Montagna, her kids and the regulars to bond. “I feel

like it’s an extended family,” said Montagna. “I’m very motherly.”

Her youngest son, Jeff Venturino, says he plays video games no more than three hours a week. He works two part time jobs, writes poetry, cycles and attends high school, so his time is limited. However, when Montagna first bought the shop,

Venturino played “Warcraft” eight hours a day during one summer. “It took all my spare time,” says Venturino. “Now that I recognize all the themes, though, games are boring.”

Venturino thinks his overexposure to games pushed him to put them down quicker than other people. Maybe it takes

someone, who’s not surrounded by games, into their late 20s before they realize life doesn’t revolve around video games, he says.

One kid in three years showed signs of video game ad-diction, says Mon-

tagna. He played “Warcraft” and wouldn’t stop or leave. It got the point where she pulled his chair away from the computer and ushered him out of the shop. He couldn’t control himself, says Montagna.

For gaming parlors to remain safe havens, owners must act like

bartenders and cut people off when they’ve had too much, says Cash.

Still, Montagna is reluctant to say games have addictive properties. “People need to be personally responsible,” says Montagna. “Parents and community members must be accountable.”

As for Quinn Pitcock, he hasn’t played a game in seven months. He knew his game-playing was a problem, so he sought help and began the recovery process. “Cold

turkey didn’t work,” he says. “I needed to slowly kick the habit.”

After several relapses, he sold his X-Box accessories, shattered his games, stayed busy and forced himself out of the house. However, he can’t promise his gaming days are over forever.. The self-proclaimed introvert says he often wants to be in his house by himself – video game addiction

Gina and Laura Montagna sample the merchandise at NuGames, their family owned and operated Internet and gaming parlor in Arcata. Photo by Breanna Gomez

- Charles McNally -

The game was so important at the time. I don’t know why; those were some lonely days.

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By: Elliot Golan

Samba Moré performs in the square during Arts! Arcata on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. The group refers to itself as a “celebration band” and regularly works weddings and large parties.

Veterans for Peace, an anti-war group, stands still and silent on the southeast corner of the plaza on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. The group had posters with up-to-date casualty numbers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Julio Lopez, left, and Chris Ives, play violin on the patio of Cafe

Brio. The two Arcata High School students played exclusively clas-sical music composed for two violins.

“Sheik” (left) and “Wong,” compete in an art battle during a party thrown by KRFH.net on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. “It’s a battle for bragging rights,” said Sheik.

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PUSHINGFOR PEACEStory by Maya ReynoldsPhotography by Elliot Golan

Mark Chavez is riding his hand-made long board, carving up Highway 3 somewhere near Bremerton, Wash. He waves the peace sign to the cars whizzing by. A gigantic 18-wheeler swerves past from behind. He flashes the peace sign again; the trucker looks him straight in the eye and gives him the finger.

Chavez, 19, is the Peace Pilgrim of the new millennium. He invites whomever he meets to write messages in a journal he carries around in a heavy backpack. Chavez hopes to publish these journals so that they will serve as a source of inspiration. His plan is to long board from Washington to Maine on an adventure he dubs, “Pushing for Peace.”

A week-long visit to Humboldt State University in early September was one of the first stops of his pilgrim-age.

“My overall goal is to reach as many people as possible and inspire them to be peaceful,” Chavez says “That’s why I’m traveling on the long board I carved myself, because that’s what I can do with my own power. I will accept rides or places to stay if they are offered. But there is no way that I will solicit those things.”

Mark Chavez is riding his longboard across the United States in an effort to promote peace.

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Chavez, 19, stands with his long board on the HSU campus.

HSU undeclared major Tyler Plass also 19, writes in Chavez’ peace journal.

One night while with his brother and friends, Chavez took notice of John Lennon’s words during an interview: “If we all demanded peace instead of a new TV set, then there would be peace.”

Chavez decided to take it literally. He believes that Americans are engrossed in their materialistic lives. “You don’t understand the power of your own mind until you turn off your TV or iPod and take a walk with your own thoughts,” says Chavez.

“He’s always been a pretty poetic guy,” recalls Grant Rico, an HSU engineering sophomore who has known Chavez since high school. “At least he’s trying to do something, even though some people think he may not succeed.”

Rico and Chavez are from the Olympic Peninsula, home of Bangor Naval Base. According to the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Nuclear Posture Review Report of April 2010, the base alone posesses the west coast’s entire fleet of Trident nuclear submarines. They specialize in launching long-range nuclear missiles, and each can hold up to 192 warheads. Each has 10,000 times more the destruction capacity of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Growing up in such an environment, Chavez became repulsed with war and weapons.

During his trip to HSU, Chavez sits in the main quad with a poster painted with his slogan, “Pushing for Peace.” It is a hot day, and he’s wearing a teal Mickey Mouse cap and black cut-off jeans. Students drawn to him are awed by his optimism and courage.

Tiffany Latham, an accounting senior, says that Chavez’ journey

is revolutionary and meaningful.

“But I can’t join him because I have to go to class,’’ she says. But for the time being, she writes in his journal.

An older man with long white hair, bare chest and teal shorts approaches Chavez in the quad. “My name is Peace Light,” he tells Chavez, uncomfortably close to his face. “My name is Peace because you have to experience the peace and then manifest. Distinguish yourself,” says the old prophet. He spends time with Chavez reciting poems and songs from memory. They all have themes of war and hate being consequences of Manifest Destiny, a political mindset that the United States should strive to spread itself in the world.

Chavez looks elated to find someone to share his passion. “Do you know how many nuclear arms are in the hands of the C.F.I.?” Peace asks him. “What’s the C.F.I.?” pipe in several students

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whose attention is captured by the topless man. “Crazy fucking idiots. All of them,” exclaims Peace.

And he would find peace lovers again and again.

After he left HSU, Chavez headed south. A devout Christian a pick-up truck offered him a lift in. He told Chavez of how he sent an introductory note to his new neighbors. It said that if they needed anything from yard work, housework, a friend or financial help, that he was there for them.

In San Francisco, Chavez attended the 70,000-strong Power to the Peaceful. He met Susan Witka of Code Pink: Women for Peace, who offered Chavez a place to stay that night. She told him stories about a Code Pink protest of unmanned drone planes flying out of Nevada and about camping outside of U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house.

In Santa Cruz, Chavez stayed in a hostel where he made new friends with people from Australia, Japan, Denmark and England. Overcoming their language barriers, they too wrote

peace messages in his journal.

“It’s kind of sad how you make friends as fast as you part ways when you’re on the road,” he says.

A few weeks into the peace journey, Chavez’ pilgrimage came to a halt. Rough roads took their toll on his feet. A toe was

infected and he got sick.

“That illness just about broke my bank account,” he says.

He is living with his brother in Denver, Colo., and working to save money to get the journey restarted one day.

“I’m going to keep gathering peace messages in my journal,” says Chavez. “I’ll do whatever I can in Denver to

keep working towards my overall goal.”

And on his left foot, he has a tattoo with words to live by—the saying of the Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu: “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step.”

Mark Chavez peers through thec cut-out of his hand-made longboard.

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You don’t understand the power of your own mind until you turn off your T.V. or iPod and take a walk with your own thoughts.

-------------------------------------To follow Mark on his journey,

visit the “Pushing for Peace” Facebook page.

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Photos by Yohei Shiraishi Clockwise from top right: Redwood planks stacked awaiting to become surf boards. The plywood skeleton is used to shape the board. Three finished boards dsiplayed among the redwoods.

By Marisa Penkauskas

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A man presses forward in the icy slaps of the Pacific Ocean to reach his goal: to get beyond the break of the waves. With the duck-inspired dive in the instant before the wave collapses on him, he bursts down through the ocean’s outer layer and submerges beneath the foam. In this moment where fear turns to confidence, time slows down and the silence is thunderous. The water embraces every cell of his body and the world makes sense. This is the point that humans are racing toward – the fleeting feeling or state of mind of being completely in control of the universe through surfing.

This mind rush fuels a passion for Yohei Shiraishi. This feeling leaning toward an obsession is the feeling of being stoked. The “stoke,” specifically for him, is a fascination with the ocean that transfers into a lust for a rush in life and a passion for making surfboards.

Shiraishi didn’t always know of the “stoke.” In 1998, he moved from Nagoya, Japan to Los Angeles in search of the diversity, culture and color he saw portrayed in Hollywood films. He soon fell into digressive old habits of drinking and shopping. “The things that I did, although growing up in a different country, were the same kind of things,” he confesses.

He then escaped to Gilroy, a small garlic-loving town outside of Santa Cruz that changed his perspective. He met Jacob Patchen, who shares Shiraishi’s infatuation for waves and taught him the world cool. “The feeling of standing up and catching a wave is like I’m cheating reality and getting a taste of what it would feel like to be excluded from the laws of physics,” Patchen says.

In 2002, Shiraishi moved to Westhaven and started taking classes at Humboldt State University. “In my first year in Humboldt, I started surfing,” Shiraishi says. “It ruined my life.”

After becoming hooked on the ocean, Shiraishi needed to obtain a surfboard of his own. Instead of buying an expensive board that some machine routinely carves, he decided to make one out of the raw materials found in Humboldt. A curiosity turned into a hobby, which then turned into a business. After naming his surfboard-making company after a mix of his father’s and his name, he became the owner and shaper for Taiyo Surfboards. He channels his addiction to surfing into the unique redwood-based surfboards he creates.

Nestled between the rain-soaked redwood giants, in a warehouse filled with the rhythmic, slow drum beat of Animal Collective and the smell of freshly cut wood, Shiraishi uses a more intimate process than the one used for generic boards. With a buzz in his head from a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, he cuts 1-inch-wide pieces of plywood and pieces them together to form the raw skeleton of a surfboard. He then places strips of redwood on top of the hollow frame to form the outer skin of the board. He sands the wood down and

pours on a viscous protective shell of epoxy resin. He uses the surfboard shaping program, Aku Shaper, to create the

This page: Top photograph by Breanna Gomez. A beached Taiyo board. Bottom photograph by Yohei Shiraishi. Shiraishi’s workshop in West Haven.

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formula of a 3-dimensional design to model his boards after.

“Every time I make something, I find something wrong with it,” he says. “So I just always try to make the next one a little bit better.”

Shiraishi spends about 60 hours on each board. “If you glue something it will take an hour and you have to wait until the next day to work on the next step,” Shiraishi explains. In the wood-perfumed warehouse, he carves for about two months, always trying to improve his technique.

“Shiraishi’s boards have just gotten so much more hydrodynamic and functional,” says Tyson Cramer, a long-term friend and fellow surfer. The concern is that the mixture of redwood, bamboo and plywood creates a heavy product, but that’s just not the case. “His design is just changing to a point where that’s not an issue. There’s a lot of the shaper’s personality in a wooden board. It really feels like you go back in time,” says Cramer.

The art of perfecting the surfboard is ancient. In the early 1900s, Polynesian chiefs rode heavy, long surfboards called the “Olo”. Commoners would ride the “Alaia.” From this beginning, surfers evolved lighter foam boards with various glassing techniques. Approaching 2011, thanks to pro surfers always aspiring to transcend their own creativity, the wooden board is reinvented.

“You have this whole slew of pros out there who are basically making their careers based on being experimental or artsy,” says Monty Martin, owner of Greenhouse Board Shop in Arcata. Martin has hung Shiraishi’s redwood boards on the walls of his store in support.

Shiraishi relies on word-of-mouth and fellow surfers’ interest of the unique board that cuts through the waves at Camel Rock Beach in Trinidad as advertising. “People find my website,” he says. “That’s how they find me. Or people see my board out there and they’re curious.”

While experimenting with more environmentally-friendly shaping processes like using bamboo fiberglass, the “stoke” ensues for Shiraishi. He continues to search for better techniques to evolve the shaping process of his boards.

Before getting in the water, Shiraishi stretches his synthetic rubber suit, slowly but with all his strength, only to finally shove one foot through. Fighting the wetsuit and a hint of nausea already makes aches of pain shoot through his muscles before even touching the immense body of water. Nevertheless, he gets in.

“I needed the ocean to feel how I was supposed to feel,” Shiraishi says. “After all, my name is Yohei, which means Ocean & Peace.”

This page: Top photograph by Breanna Gomez. Shiraishi poses in his workshop next to a nearly finished board. Bottom photograph by Yohei Shiraishi . Tools of the trade.

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Photos by Yohei Shiraishi Clockwise from top left: A finished Taiyo paddle board stands in its natural environment. A Taiyo board floats on the water in Trinidad. Shirashi uses a wood shaver to smooth the redwood grain. More tools of the trade.

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PotiticsStory and Photography by Dylan Baumann

lthough Proposition 19 brought up a lot of controversial debates, it went up in smoke faster than this year’s harvest. Cannabis is the number one contributor to the welfare of the local economy. Before Proposition 19 lost, California citizens were anxious to see how it would have affected their lives. It became one of the largest national news stories and was internationally publicized. Richard Lee led and funded the Tax Cannabis 2010 campaign to place Proposition 19 on the November ballot. Lee is the founder of Oaksterdam University; the first educational institution for cannabis in the United States. Tax Cannabis 2010 claimed that the proposition could have yielded $1.4 billion dollars of tax revenue. They did not specify where they got that number or the amount of time it would have taken to generate. “The state has absolutely no business telling us what we can put into our bodies, and it is outrageous that a single person should go to jail for choosing to relax with a cannabis joint after a day’s work rather than a can of beer,” said Political Science Facilitator from Oakster-dam University, Matt Witemyre.

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“We need to band together

as a community.”

-Kevin Jodrey, Humboldt Patient Resource Center Cultivation Director

Proposition 19 would have allowed adults 21 years and older to possess, cultivate or transport cannabis for personal use. It would have permitted local governments to regulate and tax commercial production and sale, prohibited people from possessing it on school grounds, using it in public, smoking it with minors present, or providing it to anyone under 21. It would have maintained current prohibitions against driving while impaired and kept medicinal cannabis laws the same.

Some cannabis cultivators thought that Proposition 19 would have eliminated their income and devastated the local economy. They were worried that corporations would have capitalized on the market.

Kevin Jodrey, the buff-looking cultivation director at Humboldt Patient Resource Center on 6th Street in Arcata walked through the medicinal grow warehouse. He glared at the potent smelling indoor strains that were

growing and explained that he believes big corporations won’t want to risk facing lawsuits and probably won’t get involved unless cannabis becomes federally legalized. He also thought more private entities would have invested in the industry if the proposition had passed.

“It’s inevitable that the market is going to change…we need to band together as a community and we have the ability to take the position as industry leaders,” said Jodrey.

“I’m sympathetic for the people that are going to make less but everyone is making less, in this economy right now. I’d vote yes for Prop 19. I’m not for how Prop 19 is written in the sense that we’re going to legalize something but we don’t know how we’re going to regulate it, but if it reduces the number of people that go to prison for this medicine, than it’s the greater good. If you’re thinking you’re not going to vote yes for this proposition to protect your money and income, you got to think that your money isn’t going to be protected if you get incarcerated.

A close-up of OG Kush. Photo by Dylan Bauman

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Kyle Kushman, 20-year-long reporter for High Times; the largest cannabis magazine in the country, said, “We have to legalize come November. You have to tell your parents and grandparents to vote yes to send the message to other states that are trying to legalize and to get federal recognition.” Even though 19 didn’t pass, Kushman’s hopes of sending the legalization message to other states and gaining federal recognition became reality.

Humboldt County’s head sheriff Gary Philp opposed Proposition 19 and thought it would have a negative outcome. He thought it would have created more work for law

enforcement. “I think it’s a very poorly written proposition,” said Philp. “If there is going to be a legalization of marijuana, I don’t think it should be state to state, if it does become legal it needs to become federally legal. Supporters say that it would control and tax marijuana but I don’t think it would do either. I don’t really think it would have a positive impact on Humboldt County but we’d become a larger problem with distribution to other states.”

Many supporters of cannabis hope with more time, money and a better measure, their pipe dreams of legalization will come to fruition in the 2012 elections.

A flag supporting cannabis freedom. Photo by Dylan Bauman

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A Guide to Screenprinting

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They’re everywhere. You can’t walk down the street without someone having one on. You might even have several in your closet.

Screen-printed T-shirts, hoodies, jackets, pants, hats and socks are all around us. Nearly every image on an item of clothing is screen-printed. All those concert T-shirts: screen-printed. The team jerseys: screen-printed. That favorite hat.... well, you get the idea.

But where did this technique come from? And how do they get that ink onto your T-shirt?

“A silk-screen is a snapshot of your thought captured in time,” said David Neyra, owner of Humboldt Outfitters. The company screen prints hundreds of shirts each day. From design to finished product, everything is done in their shop on the plaza.

Screen-printing, also know as silk-screening or seriography, is the process of transferring an inked stencil onto a surface through a mesh screen.

The process originated in China around 1000 A.D. and made its way to Europe around the 18th century but did not become popular until the mid-1900s. The industrial version of the screen printer (as we know it today) was patented by Samuel Simon in 1907.

Screen printing in the U.S. was popularized in the 60s and 70s. Andy Warhol is largely credited with popularizing the process on canvas. It didn’t take long for others to figure out that the process could be applied to clothing “In the mid-70s press machines started to become more industrial grade,” said lead screen-printer for Humboldt Outfitters, Scott Paydon. After that, screen-printed T-shirts popped up everywhere.

Paydon has been in the screen-printing business for 14 years. He has been with Hum-boldt Outfitters for just over one month. “Anyone can put a design on a T-shirt,” he said, “but it takes practice and skill to make it look great.”

The basic steps are to create a design, transfer it onto a stretched mesh canvas, push ink through the mesh onto a surface and seal the ink. It’s a simple process to learn, but a tough one to master.

The first step is to create a design. With today’s technology, almost anything can be printed onto clothing. But most common, and easiest to explain, are one or two color logos.

The Humboldt logo seen all around the shop was the answer to a question. How to brand Humboldt without being too hippie or too generic?

“The concept of a Humboldt logo with a pot leaf behind it is not creative to me,” said Neyra. Eventually he came up with just the right logo, a row of redwoods with “Humboldt” lettering. “I wanted to create something that I could see on the street in New York or San Francisco that expressed what Humboldt is really about,” he said.

Once the design is finalized it gets printed out on a transparent film called vellum. A sepa-rate sheet needs to be printed for each color being used in the design. “All the colors are like puzzle pieces and when we press the shirts we try to put the puzzle back together,” said Paydon.

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A mesh screen is stretched across a frame is used to transfer the stencil.

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Next, it’s time to transfer the design onto the screen.

Traditionally, the mesh was made of silk, nylon, polyester or some other porous material. Now printers prefer a polymer-nylon blend because it is more durable and easier to clean.

The material is stretched over an aluminum or wooden frame. In the shop the screens are already attached to the frames (1).

The design is carefully placed on a light box and secured

with clear tape (2). The screen is then placed on top, with several weights to keep the emulsion on the screen from curling up.

This machine takes five minutes to transfer the design. Others may take more or less time depending on the strength of the bulb.

The screen printer then washes the screens to remove the emulsion and reveal the design (3). “It’s important not to blast the screen with the hose,” said Paydon, “it can remove detail from the design that you want.”

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After drying the screen well, he clamps it to the press (4, 5). The large machine has four vices in which screens are attached and four flat plates below which hold the fabric. Both layers rotate independently.

Once the screen is secure in the vices, portions are covered with a non-permeable material, such as paper, to create a stencil (6).

Plastisol, a plastic-based ink is smeared onto the covered portion of the mesh (7). If multiple colors are being used the lighter colors are done first.

Then the shirt is carefully positioned on the plate that holds the t-shirts (8). In this case the design is centered on the front of the shirt.

A “floodbar” is used to push ink evenly over the mesh (9). “The key to doing this correctly is putting the right amount of pressure on the floodbar,” said Paydon. If there is not enough pressure, the ink will not push all the way through the mesh. If there is too much pressure, or if it is uneven, there will be extra globs of ink built up in the corners of the design.

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The screen is then lifted carefully so the ink does not smudge. The shirt is moved under a heat lamp (10) to “spot flash” the ink. This temporarily sets the color so that another layer of ink or another color can be added to the design.

Finally, the shirt is removed and placed on a conveyor belt (11). It runs through an oven at about 320 degrees, this locks the ink into the fibers of the garment (12). By the time the final product reaches the end of the conveyor belt, Paydon has several more in the oven and on the press (13). Paydon can produce about 50 shirts (with a one-color, one-location design) on a manual press in one hour.

While professional equipment helps, the real key to a well produced garment is the quality of the tools and the skills of the printer. With the right ink and screen and some serious practice time, anyone can produce a design that will capture their moment and captivate those who see it.

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959 H Street, ArcataThis store has used furniture and kitchen items in generally good condition. It is also a good place to donate your unwanted stuff. Store manager Kelly Livingstone and more than 30 volunteers keep the thrift store organized and clean. “Everyone gives their own touch of love to make the shop work,” says Livingston.

575 H Street, ArcataFind vintage knickknacks like teapots, old-fashionedcameras, aprons and dishes. Mary Anderson and her sister Anne Hilt have owned the store for ten years.

College costs enough. Your décor shouldn’t. Here are some tips for sprucing up your space and wardrobe without busting your wallet.

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At this very moment your heart is beating. Close your eyes and listen. What else is going on inside of you right now? Are there bottled-up emotions inside of you waiting to burst out? Perhaps you need to express yourself.

Dance is an incredible avenue for self-expression, which is something we all need. Dance isn’t like any other art form; it involves being in the present moment using space and time. Sometimes you have to escape from your “body image,” and feel your inner self through moving. We see who we truly are through dance.

The Middle Eastern dance classes taught by Shoshanna (Rose Anthony) at Humboldt State University are always full. There are other many other dance classes offered at HSU such as dance techniques (modern), ballet, African, jazz/hip-hop, Latin, social, swing, tap, Mexican

folkloric dance, world dance expressions and more. There are also a few different dance clubs around campus. So, why is there so much interest in dance here?

“Dance is a terrific and healthy release of energy,” says African dance teacher Deborah Ketelsen. “It is interac-tive, joyful and just plain fun. Dance for me is a natural “high.” I am glad there is such a strong interest at HSU.”

Ballet dance teacher Erin Fernandez thinks that students incorporate dance classes into their schedules regardless of their major to balance out their aca-demic classes. “Dancing provides physical exercise that is enjoyable and stimulating

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Some students often attend the end of the semester’s “Eve of Dance” event, which often makes students want to take a dance class at HSU. “Dance feeds the soul, says jazz/hip-hop teacher Linda Maxwell. “I think students who have been in dance classes relate their love of dance to fellow students, who are then inspired to take classes.”

Some students don’t think they can dance, and won’t say it out loud. Perhaps you have never done it, or you think you’re not coordinated, or you don’t have the right body type. But, really everyone can dance. “I often hear my students say they never took ballet before because they were intimidated by strict teachers and the stereotypical ‘ballet body type,’” says Fernandez. “I hope that my students understand that anyone who wants to dance can dance, and that there is freshness and fun in ballet as well as in other dance styles.”

“I often tell students ‘to dance is your birthright,’” says Sharron Butcher, associate professor of dance at HSU. “I no longer believe dance is only for those well-trained enough to be on a stage. It is for everyone.

It is a joyful, revitalizing, freeing, and very healthy activity and experience. Because people from the beginning of time have used dance as celebration, ritual, art and storytelling, dancing also provides a tool to understand and feel unified with people from all over the world.”

Last September, the dance program survived the final cuts of the program prioritization process and the university de-cided to let the dance degree continue at HSU. The teachers are happy about this, as are the stu-dents. There are several different teachers at HSU that feel fortu-nate to teach dance. “I’ve been teaching dance at HSU since 1998, and love teaching dance here, I feel very at home here, very aligned with the values of this particular dance program,” says dance teacher Jandy Bergmann.

Many HSU students load their schedules with

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Freshman Christopher De Alba said he tries to avoid the

kitchen in the Redwood dorm on campus. “It is very messy,” De

Alba said. “It only has one of everything: a fridge, freezer, stove

and oven. The worst part is that people cannot clean up after

themselves. Instead of washing the dishes, they just throw them

underneath the sink.”

As a campus resident, the options for on-campus dining

are limited. The Jolly Giant Commons, or the “J” as students

call it, is the most popular destination. Students choose to eat

prepared food instead of making their own in the dorm room.

Many freshmen will admit to eating at the J or Depot more than

preparing their own meals, but it is not always because they want

to.

Freshman Sarah Fine said she cooks in her Cypress dorm

kitchen three to four times a week. “The J is simple and fast, but I

like to cook,” said Fine. “My classes on Mondays and Wednesdays

don’t get out until nine p.m. I’d rather just prepare my own

meal than try to rush to the J Grill.” Fine said she loves the

convenience of her kitchen, and even though she shares it with

eight other people, only two or three of them actually use it as

often as she does.

Fine is one of the luckier residents living on campus. Her

kitchen is for just nine people, while others, like De Alba, have to

share theirs with more than 50 students.

Arron Shelly, a senior currently in his fourth year of living on

campus, said that even though it takes more effort, he prefers to

cook his own meals. “It gives me the opportunity to choose foods

I really like,” he explained. “Plus, I’m just not as impressed with the

J as I was as a freshman.”

Jackie Robertson is another senior in her fourth year of living

in the dorms. Robertson explained that in her freshman year she

refused to use the kitchen in the Sunset dorm. “It smelt like fish

sticks or something else I can’t even describe,” said Robertson.

Her cooking situation became a little brighter when she lived on

the eighth floor of the Cypress dorm during her sophomore and

junior year. “I cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner, but I had to

use chairs as counter space,” Robertson said. “Other than that, I

wouldn’t use the kitchen. None of my suitemates would actually

use the dishwasher.”

Now, as a senior, Robertson lives in a two person room in the

brand new College Creek dorms. “The dining room table that is

provided actually makes me want to cook. I’ve already

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appliances already installed in her dorm, she also has her own

George Foreman Grill and Crock Pot.

Students living on campus are allowed certain cooking items

inside their dorm room. According to the Housing Facility

Regulations, microwaves, coffee pots and refrigerators smaller

than five cubic feet are allowed. Toaster

ovens and camping stoves are not. Even with

these allowed appliances, most dorm rooms,

especially in the canyon, are a bit small to

have a designated cooking space.

Cooper Rodgers, a freshman living in the

Canyon dorms could not be more displeased

with the outdated appliances provided in

the kitchen. “The kitchen sucks,” explained

Rodgers. “There is not enough counter space, and the stove and

oven look like they’re from the seventies.” With the only kitchen

sink provided on the ground floor, some students in the Canyon

choose to wash their dishes in the bathroom.

Although the kitchen is, in Rodgers’s opinion, less-than-

adequate, he is not confident with on-campus dining either.

“The J is hit or miss,” said Rodgers. “I’m not vegetarian, but

I honestly think the vegetarian meal options are much better

than the ones with meat.”

Even with negative critiques in quality and options, students

living off campus agree with the convenience of the J. Sophomore

Michael Lewis admitted that as a freshman living in the Canyon,

he ate in the J all the time. “I only used

the kitchen once,” said Lewis. “My friends

and I made cookies from scratch. It

took all day.” Now living off campus,

Lewis explained he still eats in the J just

as frequently. “I have a mini plan. When

I have an hour break during classes, I

usually run over to the J.”

Natalie Birkholz, a junior living for

the third year on campus, said she was surprised by how good

the food in the J was, so she tended to not prepare her own

meals. “I didn’t use the kitchen at all my sophomore year,” said

Birkholz. “One time, it took me 30 minutes to just boil water.

I think it’s the same kitchen my dad and uncle used when they

went here.”

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Cheap World Travel Destinations

By Jordan Sayre

Traveling overseas on a budget is possible, even from Humboldt County. A good way to save money on your trip is to avoid touristy destinations.

Instead of Rio, Rome or Paris, try Buenos Aires, Calcutta or Cairo.

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With its striking landscapes, cosmopolitan cities and spirited culture, Argentina is a frugal trav-eler’s paradise. There are low-cost attractions, such as Iguazu Falls or Perito Moreno Glacier Park. It is $20 for park admission. Or spend a day in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, with its cozy cafes and vibrant art galleries.

Buses in the city cost 50 cents a trip. The Milhouse Hostel in Bue-nos Aires offers beds for as low as $12 a night. From the capital you can travel to other cities by plane for as low as $40. A flight from Arcata to Buenos Aires goes for $900.

Argentina

While it may not have the wow factor of Rome or Paris, its prices are a bargain.

One of Bulgaria’s main attrac-tions is the long sandy Black Sea coastline surrounded by lush green mountains. The seaside town of Varna is known for its Baroque style architecture. Looking for an urban experience? Go to the capital, Sofia, and walk around the historic ruins, visit museums or check out the local cuisine.

Traveling throughout the coun-try is simple. Bus passes are less than $2 a day. Bulgaria also has trains that go all over the country for under $20. Hostel Sophia is $13 a night, which includes free Internet. Flights to Bulgaria from Arcata cost about $1,000.

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Go see the colossal Great Sphinx and the gigantic Pyramids of Giza. They are both free.

In Cairo, go to Khan Ali-Kalili, the biggest open-air market in the country. Test out your hag-gling skills to get a bargain on a souvenir. To make sure that you are getting a bargain, shop around before you make a final decision.

Stay at Meramees Hostel, which has beds for $8 and is located in the heart of the modern downtown and only a short trip away from visitor attractions. Flights out to Cairo run around $1,000. Don’t forget to plan a visit to your doctor to get updated on vaccines before you take off to prevent catching an illness such as malaria.

Egypt

Costa RicaWith seductive beaches, flour-

ishing rain forests and dynamic wildlife, Costa Rica is full of ad-venture. Visit Osa Peninsula, and explore the rain forest with exotic and endangered animals.

If you are an adrenaline junkie, take a trip inland to the volcanic town of Arenal where you can horseback ride, zoom down a zip line, or tour through the canopy of the cloud forest for $25.

Las Camas Hostel in Jaco has rooms for $12, which includes access to a swimming pool. Flights into the capital San Jose are under $700.

The Great Sphinx of Giza outside of Cairo. Stock Photo

Tropical beach of Costa Rica. Photo by Marisa Penkauskas.Travel continued on Page 61

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Foreman, Luke Besmer uses sal-vaged material to repair a door frame, the technique is called a Dutchman repair.

Carpenter, Kurt Hippen cleans the sustainably harvested red-wood staircase.

The CCAT solar trailer supplies the power for the construction.

A look down the long hallway of the hostel site.

Eco-friendly restoration techniques may soon help preserve the history of a lumber town that is rooted deep in the second story of the Samoa Cookhouse. Members of the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living (HBCSL) nonprofit group hope to sign a lease for a dollar a year to run a one-of-a-kind hostel above the cookhouse.

“We want to look to the future, but respect the past,” said HBCSL board member Lonny Grafman.

The idea of an eco-friendly hostel managed by HBCSL germi-nated roughly 10 years ago. If the lease for the second story of the cookhouse is signed soon, it will be the only hostel in Hum-boldt County and a large section of the California north coast.

HBCSL tried starting an eco-friendly hostel project in Eureka on a shut down logging mill site. The project plan failed and now they’re trying to start an eco-friendly hostel at another old log-ging mill site.

Some people think it’s weird and ironic that HBCSL has been attempting to start a eco-friendly hostel on old logging mill sites that are notorious for being detrimental to the environment.

Redwood Coast Energy Authority Executive Director and HBC-SL board member David Boyd doesn’t think it’s weird at all. “I think a part of sustainability is being connected to our heritage,”

said Boyd. “We can use the past to help influence our vision for the future. The natural resource extraction in the past was not sustainable but I think we want to acknowledge that and learn from it.” At first, Boyd said that it was a coincidence that both hostel sites have been on old logging mill properties and that they weren’t specifically trying to do that. However, he then said that maybe it wasn’t a coincidence because they wanted a site near the bay and that if you look at any empty land near the bay you’ll find connections to the old logging industry pretty much everywhere.

HBCSL’s original plan was a project called the “Humboldt Bay Eco-Hostel.” The site was located at the Eureka Bay waterfront near Halverson Park. After years of hard work and planning, workers at the site found that it had environmental contamina-tion: heavy metal and oil from years of lumber milling on the property. Eco-hostel project advocates tried to hire someone to find the property’s old insurance policies so that they could sue the insurance companies. They wanted to make them pay to clean up the contamination. They were unsuccessful in finding the old policies and last spring they came to the conclusion that they would not be able to use the site for the hostel.

“Eureka supporters were working on the project and it was very hard for them to see that project fail,” said Sean Armstrong,

55Humboldt State University natural resources conservation alumnus, project manager of Danco, and volunteer, consultant, co-founder, former board president and now vice president of HBCSL.

Armstrong decided to forfeit his position as board president of HBCSL to current president Maggy Herbelin. He gave up the position so there wouldn’t be a conflict of interest with him working for Danco, the property management company that HBCSL plans to sign a lease with. He remains on the board as vice president.

“What made Samoa more feasible is that we had stimulus funds,” said Armstrong. “The Samoa Cookhouse eco-hostel is formally adopted by HBCSL, but we don’t have a lease agree-ment yet. The project is being managed by Danco.”

Herbelin says HBCSL has to be careful about what they tell the community. “Our finger in the pie is Sean wanting to have the hostel run by him in the future,” said Herbelin. “At this time we have no formal agreement because we haven’t signed a lease. We would love to have a lease agreement for this project; it’s been a long hard road.”

When an eco-friendly historical restoration of the Samoa Cookhouse’s second story became a possibility as a site for a hostel earlier this year, HBCSL board members be-came interested and enthusiastic about the idea. If they sign a lease and open the hostel, they plan on joining the Hostelling International association.

“This is really a gamble, Samoa is a gamble, but if it takes off that’s great,” said HBCSL board member Heidi Benzonelli at an Oct. 26 board meeting. In regards to the emotions HBCSL board members have gone through over the planning of a hostel, Benzonelli said that she was going to the “eco-hostile” project meeting.

One of the main decisions made at the meeting was that the board is going to obtain an attorney for under $1500 to help settle on a lease agreement with Danco. The board members said they would like a response to their lease within 15 days of submitting it. They hope that if things go as planned, it won’t take more than a year to open the hostel.

In 2002, the entire town of Samoa was bought from Simpson Timber Company for $3 million by the Samoa Pacific Group; Dan Johnson, the CEO of Danco and Lane Devries, the CEO of Sun Valley Group floral company. The purchase included the Sa-moa Cookhouse, 99 houses, a post office, a closed-down gas sta-tion, a gift shop and a few other buildings. The $3 million dollars for the town was not the highest offer but the timber company wanted a buyer that wasn’t going to demolish the history of the town. Danco is now in charge of property management for the entire town.

“We are in negotiations with HBCSL in regards to signing a lease with them within the next six months. We’ve been look-ing at a possibility with these guys to run it as a nonprofit,” said Johnson. When Johnson was asked why he wanted the project to be run as a nonprofit he said, “We really haven’t thought about running it for profit, but maybe we should think about that.”

HBCSL’s main goal for the possibility of having the hostel at the

Samoa site is to provide affordable accommodations with an educational experience about eco-friendly living and historical preservation. The hostel would teach guests how to live a sustainable lifestyle through example. It would feature 21 historically preserved bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a community kitchen, a library, a computer room and a common room, all of which are currently being refurbished with eco-friendly work ethics in mind. HBCSL would like to offer some rooms for couples and some with bunk beds that would accom-modate multiple guests. Although it won’t help with reducing waste or being eco-friendly, an elevator will be installed to be in accordance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and make all feel welcome.

The Samoa Cookhouse was built in 1893. The cookhouse is be-low the hostel construction site and features a logging museum with intimidating antique saws. Red paint boasts the building’s appeal. It is the only restaurant in an old lumber cookhouse in all of the United States. The service at the cookhouse is overly friendly, so friendly in fact that the waitress might even try to kiss you on the cheek or forehead. They offer glutinous Ameri-can meals. There is one main entrée that changes daily and comes with soup, salad, dessert and tea or coffee. Documentar-

ian and grant writer for the project, Phyre Phoenix, said that the cookhouse might try to start offering local produce to appease the conscientious eco-hostel visitors.

The Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropri-ate Technology solar trailer is supplying power for construction of the project. The first thing you’ll notice as you pass the trailer and approach the back-right side of the cookhouse is the gor-geous redwood staircase that was recently installed to access the upstairs where the hostel would be. The staircase was made from sustainably harvested redwood that came from the Com-munity Forest near HSU.

The original use of the second story of the cookhouse was for the single waitresses to live. The space hasn’t been used since the mid fifties.

Foreman, Luke Besmer displaying an old door hinge and one that he refurbished.

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usable. We’re very aware of green washing and we’re not interested in it, we’re doing the best we can to be

eco-friendly and one way is reusing as much as possible,” said Phoenix. “From what I’ve heard this would be the first eco-teaching hostel in the country.”

This project would be innovating by offering both accom-modations and hands-on education about eco-friendly and historical preservation restorations.

“The eco-hostel is an experiential education immersion, a place to learn about sustainable living by actually doing it for a few days. Appropedia is the preeminent web resource on this topic, and the eco-hostel will be working with Appropedia.com to expand the experience beyond the Samoa campus to anyone with access to the internet,” said Armstrong.

“Appropedia is about sharing solutions with the world,” said Grafman, the founder of Appropedia.

Despite HBCSL not having a lease for the upstairs of the building, county funded workers, Phoenix, Luke Besmer, Kurt Hippen, Tony Jones and Mike Bishop are slowly making essen-tial repairs to the site.

One of the main objectives of the project is to have a mini-mal amount of waste. The workers say they’ve already cleaned out the majority of the waste in the Samoa site; one dump-ster full of debris in the attic, which was a result of the roof of the building catching on fire many times over the years. The building caught on fire because of the teepee burners that produced sparks when the logging mill was still running. Teepee burners were outlawed in California a long time ago and haven’t been used at the site for years. Throughout the building’s ceilings and attic space there are very old looking red pipes and sprinklers. Although they might not have been the most eco-friendly option when they were originally

installed years ago, the workers are planning on keeping them because replacing them with new ones would cause more waste.

Most of the repairs will be minor besides one major struc-tural problem in the corner of the building where the founda-tion is slipping. This repair will have to be made before the hostel opens.

The workers want to leave some parts of the building un-touched to not disturb its history, such as the bubbles on the walls from old fires. They plan on installing plaques informing guests of those types of historical features.

They plan to save the old radiators for the heating system, repair, patch and paint the old wood floor and repair old windows. One of the main repair techniques they have been using is called a Dutchman. A Dutchman repair is when a new or salvaged piece of material is used to replace a section of something, rather than replacing the whole thing.

Antique parts such as old hinges and porcelain doorknobs are being polished and salvaged so that they can be reused. Besmer, the foreman of the project, said they will not be able to use all the antique light fixtures because many of the old fixtures aren’t safe by current standards. They will still try to find something that looks similar to the old fixtures for historical purposes.

The workers say they hope to run the building on solar power if feasible. However, the foreman said it might not be an efficient option due to the foggy weather that is commonly prevalent at the bay. One of the plans is to have meters on the walls which will notify guests of the amount of electricity they’re consuming to remind them to conserve.

Phoenix said the old plumbing that is still functional will be used and he is hoping that low-flow toilets with a heavy or

light flush option will be installed.

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A silhouette of the Samoa Cookhouse building.

The workers admit that some of the products they use aren’t eco-friendly. For example, the paintbrush cleaner they use has acetone in it.

The original wall coat remains in the building, it is a lead-based paint that goes against current safety codes and is toxic if scratched. A workshop was held at the project site on Sep-tember 15 to demonstrate how to make eco-friendly paint. The people overseeing the project would like to see the walls painted with eco-friendly paints containing the raw ingredients of milk, eggs and wheat so that the rooms have reduced vola-tile organic compounds (VOCs), which are emitted as gases that can affect the environment and human health. The same ingredients used for the eco-paint are used in meals at the cookhouse.

“We’re exploring and experimenting with eco-paints but they don’t seem durable. So far, what we’ve seen is you can scratch it off easily,” said Besmer. He continued on saying that if it’s not durable enough, they will buy eco-friendly paint from the store.

The construction workers currently involved with the proj-ect are enrolled in a field techniques class for preservation through College of the Redwoods. California Energy Commis-sion grants pay for their education and Workforce Investment Act Grants pay for their labor. They make fourteen dollars an hour and work 30-40 hours a week.

“We have a great amount of paid labor from ARRA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] stimulus funded workers who are being trained in green building skills, but it still costs a lot of money to buy wool mattresses from Oregon’s sheep and Smartwood certified redwood from Arcata’s Community For-est,” said Armstrong.

The HBCSL board members estimated that they are going to need about $160,000 for a materials budget.

In addition to the workers under the Clean Energy Training Program

through CR, 20 California

Conservation Corps (CCC) members helped with the labor intensive debris clean out work and learned about historic restoration. HBCSL board member David Boyd said that it’s possible but he doesn’t know it as a fact that there may have been a cause and effect relationship between the risks of lead exposure from cleaning the building out and the CCC members leaving the project. He said they were required to do baseline blood testing before they were allowed to work and any lead exposure that the workers might have encountered would be the responsibility of the county and Danco because they are the ones currently managing the project. He said lead exposure won’t be an issue when the project is finished because the lead paint will be encapsulated and that it is only dangerous when it gets scratched off or exposed.

If HBCSL obtains a lease agreement and the hostel idea comes to fruition at this site, visitors will experience living and being educated in a minimal waste historical restoration of the old logging industry’s waitress’ sleeping quarters.

Armstong said HBCSL’s interest right now is just in a lease and that he doesn’t know if they want to buy the building in the future because he doesn’t know how they could get a bet-ter deal than the one dollar a year lease that was decided on. They would start with a ten year lease that could be renewed 3 times, which equates to a 40 year agreement. HBCSL board members said that the reason they shouldn’t have to pay rent for the building is because they will be putting lots of money into improving the building.

From a place for environmentally damaging, fried food eating, tree shrugging loggers to a place for eco-friendly, organic food-eating, tree-hugging hippies, this project represents the political contradictions of the people Humboldt County.

“There are ghosts up here, the place is haunted so they say, but they’re friendly ghosts,” said Besmer.

Visit eco-hostel.org for more information.

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Turkey Burger from Scratch1 lb. Lean Ground Turkey

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1 part lime juice (Don't use Real Lime or any processed/frozen juice)1 part tequila (Cheap tequila is OK. - white is better than gold)1 1/2 parts Triple Sec DIRECTIONSSqueeze fresh limes. Mix in a container.Wet rim of glass. Put Kosher salt on a plate and press rim of glass into salt.Fill glass with crushed ice then margarita! Strong - so be careful!

Margaritas (on the rocks)

Guacamole

1 ripe avocado, choppedSweet yellow onion - 1 tablespoon finely chopped/minced

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Ripe tomato - 2 tablespoons choppedFresh lemon - 1 teaspoon or to tasteSeasonall - 1/8 teaspoon or to taste

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Students remember his son, George Jr., peeking in through the window. Occasionally he tried to sneak into class without his father noticing. Estrada always noticed. “Wait outside ‘till we are done,” he would say sternly.

Estrada was concerned about financial settings for his family said Mark Larson. Fortunately, CSU spousal benefits are good. “It was a big relief for him to know that he can leave them in good care,” said Larson.

Still there is no way to sugar-coat losing a spouse--or a father.

Estrada’s love for his family and his love of life have kept him fighting cancer for so long.

“He’s a strong guy,” said Hilary Lebow, “He looked in the face of death and said ‘No thanks, I’m not ready just yet.’ He never let it control his life. He still came to class and taught for as long as he could.”

In an e-mail he sent to friends, colleagues and students before his death, Estrada said, “I feel fulfilled as a family man, scholar, author, journalist and musician.”

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A: You know, Bob wrote that song after a concert he held in Zimbabwe. He was performing, and at the time all the rebel soldiers were scattered around the hills. When the rebels heard the concert going on they came down from the hills with their guns and in their fatigues, and the crowd got scared and everyone left except Bob. Bob just kept on playing. When the promoters said, “Aren’t you afraid? We should leave.” Bob answered, “These are the people I’ve been waiting for, these are my people.” That’s what that song is about. Q: You lived for a time with Bob Marley. How did you come across meeting him?

A: I first met him at a concert in Los Angeles in 1979. I went to Jamaica as an ordained Ethiopian Orthodox Priest and lived with Bob in a duplex up until his death in 1981.We were about to start working on a collaboration of our words and his music when we heard Bob was sick in New York. He passed away before we could get started. At his funeral I shared a poem that was going to be one of the songs. The poem was titled “Wisdom and Knowledge”and it was dedicated to the Marley family.

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or not. He hopes to start a foundation for kids in danger or in the midst of video game addiction.

Cash says it’s hard for recovering game and Internet addicts because they must return to a world full of crav-ings, where computers and games are commonplace and 12-step programs are not.

The Seattle Seahawks invited Pitcock, who worked him-self back into football-playing shape over the last year, to training camp last summer. But Seattle cut Pitcock eight days before the start of the regular season. He says he felt strong and conditioned but never comfortable. “I just need more practice.”

Unfortunately, he may never get it.

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Perhaps you’re thinking, “why should I take a dance class?”

Jeffery O’Connor has been teaching a variety of social dance classes at HSU for 26 years he says dance helps people in different ways. “Look at our society,” says O’Connor. “We are becoming our cell phones, our com-puters and our iPods.” He says we are being becoming more internalistic, which is making us shy. This is why he thinks dance is a great way to interact with others; we are actually noticing each other and this can help with our social skills. He says that dance helps students learn about other cultures, with their body movement, and in cogni-tive learning.

O’Connor thinks everyone should take a least one dance class here at HSU because it is a “healthy lifetime activity.” How long can you do a sport for, maybe a few more years? Dance is something that you can use for the rest of your life.

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In New Delhi visit ancient temples, get a henna tattoo and walk through the fragrant outdoor spice markets.

If you are looking to relax head over to the beaches in Goa, and avoid the east beaches, which aren’t as clean. For cheap colorful nightlife look for bars on “ladies night,” for free drinks and admission.

Nirvana Hostel offers modern rooms for $12, which includes free breakfast and Internet. Getting around is easy because the bus system is extensive and has a cheap all-day pass for $10.

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provides free bus transportation to students, and the athletics department needs more money to cover contractual obligations to raise salaries and benefits of coaches and to keep up with operating expenses. With a stagnant income from student money and un-predictable revenue and fundraising money, the athlet-ics department will have to further cut its budgets in other areas like team travel and equipment expenses in order to fulfill their contracts, or it will have to cut sports, like Western Washington University did.

Rodriguez says that last semester students voted to not raise the fee and that if a similar measure ap-peared on this semester’s ballot, he would fight it.

“Students voted to not increase this fee and I have to represent them,” says Rodriguez. “Athletics is com-munity building, it is entertaining. But for the most part, the main purpose of college is education.”

Far from cutting a single sport, Rodriguez would consider cutting the entire IRA Fee, “I don’t think we would be worse off for cutting the IRA Fee. We’re a very eco-friendly campus. I think that’s a big part of it- we’re green, we’re interested in the environment but we don’t really have a sports personality.”

But cutting a sport like football is not as simple as firing the coaches, apologizing to the athletes and

pocketing the cash. Title IX, a federal law, requires that high school and collegiate athletics have gender equality in their sports. Eliminating the football team would mean either cutting women’s teams or adding a men’s team, defeating the purpose of the initial cut. Collen says that the need to comply with Title IX in the mid 1990s was the reason many California State Universities like Sonoma State, Chico State and San Francisco State eliminated their football programs. HSU was the first CSU to comply with Title IX, while other schools either eliminated men’s sports to even out their numbers, most often football.

Beyond the politics of sports lies the issue of money. Katz says that if he had the football team’s budget, he’d give it to the nursing department. With that money, Snyder would hire more professors, help the nursing department or invest it in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. And Collen... Collen wouldn’t give that money to another part of campus, even if he had to.

“I can’t say where I’d give $700,000 to; I just can’t say,” says Collen. “I’m biased, granted, but I see no better investments.”

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