Andrew Crighton News Editor Paul Sivitz, an ISU Professor of History, has been involved with a project mapping early Philadelphia since 2009, and recently has released the newest map showing free African-Americans in 1790s Philadelphia. While still in graduate school at Montana State University, Sivitz’s  Ph.D. advisor, Billy Smith, approached […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor The ISU College of Arts and Letters hosted its second annual Humanities Cafe to promote and celebrate the diversity among the community. Individuals spoke on everything from personal experiences as a refugee to what it’s like to create ceramics. Mona Kashani Heern was born and lived […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor There has been an increasing trend over the past several years among college students, to use prescription medications like Adderall and Ritalin to increase their studying ability.The perception that these drugs can increase a student’s studying and learning performance has caused them to be taken outside […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor Idaho State University is currently one of two defendants in a lawsuit from a former employee, Kelly Pokorny. Pokorny was the former education director at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, and claims that her supervisor at the time, Herb Maschner, sexually harassed her beginning in […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor Kirk Hevener of the ISU Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences is part of a group that is working on a new way to treat Clostridium difficile, commonly called C. difficile or C. diff. Working with researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Hawaii, […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor ‘Creepy’ clowns are a growing national trend. Starting on the east coast there have been reports of people dressing up as clowns who have stared down women, followed people and knocked on doors. Things escalated when in South Carolina a clown allegedly tried to lure children […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor The 2016 presidential election features two of least liked candidates in history, as well perhaps two of the most divisive. Several weeks ago marked the beginning of the debates between the two candidates, with one squaring the vice presidential candidates together. At the time of writing […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor The second annual Pink Ribbon Tour took place Saturday October 1 in and around the Pocatello area. Hosted in October in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month, the event allowed 110 local cyclists to choose from one of four length circuits. All the benefits went to […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor October 14, 2016 marks the next Green Dot training session at ISU, but what is Green Dot anyway? Green Dot was developed by Dorothy Edwards at the University of Kentucky as a means to address sexual assault, domestic abuse and other forms of powerbased personal violence. […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor The planning stages of the Dakota Access Pipeline began in late 2014. The pipeline is intended to be approximately 1,172 miles long and carry crude oil from North Dakota through four states and end in Illinois. This project only caught the public’s attention a few months […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor As everyone knows, this November marks the next presidential election. But not everyone knows how to register to vote or how to vote, particularly if this is the first time that they’re voting since coming of age. The voter registration process is simple, but that doesn’t […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor On September 9, 2016 the Fall 2016 10th day enrollment numbers for Idaho State University were released. Tenth day numbers are used as a rough estimate of the number of students enrolled at ISU and how they are distributed throughout several categories. Overall enrollment is down […]

Andrew Crighton News Editor August 31, 2016 marked this academic year’s State of the University address delivered by President Arthur Vailas. During his presentation, Vailas discussed some of the highlights of the previous and upcoming years at Idaho State University. The first talking point was on university infrastructure. Of the […]