CURRENT MISSION

I would like to learn what this service has to offer. If i can help others and if I can recieve help my self.. I am also looking to find a ride to Berkeley for thanksgiving. And find a ride to La for Winter break. I am willing to pitch in for gas etc etc

ABOUT ME

I am HSU student. I moved to Humboldt for school from Los Angeles. I am Originally from Armenia, but I lived most of my life in Russia Sweden and all over Europe given that my family enjoyed vacationing. I was unjustly roomed from on campus housing. I am going to attach my letter to the Housing Coordinator so you can be aware of what happen. I found an apartment close to school and I am doing good. I am just here to checkout this service , to help, and to receive help.

Dear Mr. Jeremy N.Davis,

My name is Erik Simonyan and I would like to state that I made a terrible choice in an incident I was involved in on Saturday, August 29, 2009. It is by far the stupidest action I have done in my life, given that it directly and literally spits in my future path of pursing higher education. I would like to start off by analyzing the day from my perspective before I support the bulletin points, a first hand unbiased perspective in my opinion. I take responsibility of my horrible actions and I would like to add that the whole incident is captured on camera. The unlucky day began as I absurdly decided to bring alcohol to the gazebo, I was fortunate enough to be greeted by a lovely and helpful CA who was kind enough to let me pour out my alcoholic beverage then recycle it. However, my luck turned as I was walking back to the sunset rooms from pouring out the beverage to recycle it. I was citied by a different CA and two other CA’s for having alcoholic beverage on campus. I was told to go into my room and stay there until morning. My day went on a downhill from that point because being in a mildly altered state I disobeyed the rule and went outside to the gazebo for a cigarette after staying about one hour thirty minutes in the room. As I was sitting down in the gazebo an individual from the third floor was throwing oranges. He threw one perfectly onto my back. At that very moment I was not angered or intended to do anything, I was neutral, almost turned the other cheek, as I should have done. However, I threw a mountain dew through his window out of frustration. He came down extremely frustrated yelling and cursing. He approached me and threatened me saying “ I am going to murder you man” and “ I keep seeing you out here “ etc. He threw a swing to my chin and we ended up fighting, bottom line there was a fight. I am not here to argue who is right or who is wrong, a fight occurred fists were thrown. Therefore resulting in a violation of Residence Hall Life and You Handbook.
Furthermore, I would like to state I am not here to justify my actions; I am not here to justify violence or alcohol, regardless if it was in defense of my life. Moreover, I would like to support the first and fourth bulletin point stating that there is new information/insight available that would have likely made a substantive difference in the outcome of the conference and that the outcome was determined without sufficient information/insight. I was physically harassed and verbal threatened; I did not know if the individual had a weapon nor did anyone else. It is natural instinct to defend yourself, especially if you don’t know the individual had a weapon or not. I would like to say my statement does not support violence in anyway, I have never been in a physical altercation in my life nor have I had altercations with authority/law outside of Humboldt. I am peaceful I believe the human mind is capable of solving anything. I am defending these two points given that nobody knew if the individual had a weapon. Thus making the decision accurate given that the rules state violence is not tolerate at all but yet not sufficient enough in this specific matter given that nobody knew if he had a weapon or not. Violence is never the answer, violence only creates more violence, violence is the problem, the more violence is added into a situation the more you go around the continuous and meaningless cycle of hate.
Ultimately, I would like to address my sincere and utmost love and value of education. For me personally education is the most important thing in an individual’s life, above family, love, and experience. I’ve been waiting for this moment to attend college for a long time, and would hate to have something like this ruin my chances at a good California education. I value education very intensely. Without education this world would not function. Education is something that empowers everything. When a new generation is up-and-coming, education is the deciding aspect in how and if the future will function. Education facilitates and permits people to accomplish and change things. I want to be one of those individual who accomplishes change. I can’t stand for the destruction of the natural world that is occurring in this hierarchal death machine of control. Something has to be done or this planet will brush us (humans) like a bad case of fleas. I want to do everything in my power to find a way that works not universally by for me individually, a way that is sustainable a way that is sane. Once again I apologize. I made a horrible mistake. It is a mistake that I will never make again. I’m sincerely, thrilled to be here at HSU and hope that this incident won’t affect my ability to obtain the education I am striving and dying for.

Utmost Sincerity and Consideration,

Erik Simonyan

PHILOSOPHY

I believe we are responsible and more powerful than we think we are. We should all be aware and awake to the things around us rather than mindlessly watching TV and accepting things the way they are shoved down our throats.

Interests

I am interested in education and learning. Not necessarily institutional learning but more of experience based learning.

• education
• walking
• tv
• cycling
• teaching
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

I recommend everyone read at least one book from this small list just to challenge yourself and what you learned through your cultural lenses
Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen
Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance -by Derrick Jensen
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things you can do to Stay in Denial-Jensen
A Language Older Than Words-Jensen
The Culture of make believe -Jensen
In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
various books by Noam Chomsky
A Little Matter of Genocide by Ward Churchill
The Pathology of Civilization by John Zerzan
Against Civilization by John Zerzan
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn- more books by Zinn
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn
The man who grew young by Daniel Quinn
The Tales of Adam by Daniel Quinn
The Book of the Damned by Daniel Quinn
Elements of Refusal,-John Zerzan
The Dot and the Line by Norton Juster
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Twilight of the Machinesby John Zerzan
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse
Death of Salesmen Miller
Demian by Hesse
White Noise-Dellilo
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
On Truth and On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
The Way of the Scout by Tom Brown, Jr.
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

endgame part 1 and part 2- just type in Derrick Jensen in google video and click on part 1 then part 2

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

movie: century of the self by adam curtis (on google-video)

poems by Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Rainer Maria Rilke

in the garden of peculiarities by jesus sepulveda
against his-story, against leviathan! by fredy perlman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sky Dived into an island by near Greece

Cyprus.