Andrew Crighton Life Editor February 14 is fast approaching. Short on ideas? Well here’s some coaching. Conventional Date Night Don’t fix what isn’t broken, be sure to impress with this tried and true date idea. Take opportunity to put your best duds on and show each other off over dinner; […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor The College, Not Cancer Act has been in the making since around July 2015, the end goal being the reduction of state university rates while simultaneously lowering smoking rates. The act calls for a $1.50 increase on the excise tax of cigarettes, which is currently 57 […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Hannah Sanger, environmental coordinator for the City of Pocatello, hosted two Portneuf River Visioning Working Group meetings on Jan. 27 and 28. The goal of the meetings was to reach out to the community about the current project the city is working on to revitalize the […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Election season is upon ISU. On Monday, Jan. 25, filing opened for ASISU candidates. Students who are interested in running for ASISU office positions can file their names and begin the work to become eligible for the election in mid-March. Hailey Dugan, the ASISU Election Commissioner, […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Black Rock and Sage (BR&S) has existed in some form or another since the ‘70s. It took its current name in 2002 and published all types of writings, solicited and unsolicited, from students and established writers. With the change of faculty advisers, BR&S changed as well. […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Two of the most recent buildings on the Idaho State University campus are the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center and the Rendezvous Complex, which cost $34 million and $43.5 million respectively. While both buildings cost large sums of money, they were funded in […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor There are currently many candidates to choose from when it comes to the 2016 presidential election. Two Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, and eleven candidates in the Republican field, with Donald Trump in first, Senator Ted Cruz second and Senator Marco Rubio third […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor The Greek gods drank nectar, but who needs it when there’s a plethora of local coffee houses brewing up their own elixirs? There are three local coffee shops within a 10 minute walk from the ISU campus: The College Market, Mocha Madness and CoHo Coffee (The […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Nov. 14, 2015 was a big day for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In front of the temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, as many as 1,500 individuals formally resigned from the church, and many stayed to protest afterwards. The leak of new […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Just over one year ago Pocatello became home to one of the seven mosques in Idaho. Located on Fifth Avenue, about two blocks from the ISU campus, it is run by The Islamic Society of Southeastern Idaho (ISSI). The ISSI was organized approximately 25 years ago […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Every student on campus has a story, and this is Kalon Ludvigson’s. Kalon Ludvigson, originally from Sterling, Utah, is a junior at ISU currently in the process of applying for entrance into the College of Pharmacy. Before he was a full time student, he competed on […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Universities are places of learning, for both students and faculty, and on Nov. 9, there was an opportunity for the faculty to learn about what it could do to help teach a certain demographic of the student population: student veterans. This event was […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor It’s time to kick off the holiday season, and what better way to do it than to get an early start on Christmas shopping? The ISU Women’s Club is holding its forty-fifth Annual Holiday Fair Friday Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Idaho State University is currently involved in an ongoing lawsuit. On Sept. 16, 2015, Jun Yu filed a claim through the U.S. District Court alleging he was victim to “deliberate and unlawful discrimination due to his national origin.” Yu was a graduate student seeking a Ph.D. […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor The Bengal is changing, and as with all change it will be accompanied by growing pains. In the search to begin writing and publishing articles that are more relevant to the student body, we are certain to find some avenues that work and others that don’t. […]