Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief And now my time has come. No more words from dead authors. No more song lyrics. No more referring to pieces of music. No more, no more, no more. I have but to acknowledge those who helped me in my time here, who made a significant impact […]
Enough is Enough Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I received an email from the ISU Office of the President a little over a day ago, which expressed the feelings of President Arthur C. Vailas on the events surrounding the recent anti-Islamic actions taken and messages left against students of that religion at […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Sometimes common sense just isn’t that common. Take, for instance, the wisdom of the man whose name will forever be linked with the phrase “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine. “Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I was informed on Friday, April 1, that ASISU has voted to cut the funding of The Bengal, in an effort to take us into the online and digital frontier. In this world, that is, the world presented and approved by ASISU, the print edition of The […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief So many things of late seem to fall under that broad description, that sad ending to a sad story. Ich ernannte die Elektrizität/Zum Gebein meiner Sinne/Und bevor ich erregt ausspie/Tötete ich das Morgen/Um zu sehen ob es tiefer fiel. Perhaps you had a chance to viddy with […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Running a newspaper has been a painful endeavor for me, mostly due to the number of times I have felt that I have let my superb staff down. “The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.” I have asked the very difficult of them over […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief There is a very special place within the gnarled, overgrown hedge ways of my heart, amidst that allocated for the Wu-Tang Clan, Bob Ross, Julia Childs, Gonzo (and Rizzo) from the Muppets, “ugly” music, “offensive” art, and wood wick candles, set aside specifically for the music of […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I am the man, the well-fed man, in charge of the terrible knob/The most pleasing thing about it, it’s almost a permanent job/When the atom war is over, and the world is split in three/A consolation I got, well maybe it’s not, there’ll be nobody left but […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief The system has failed. How do you react to those words? Systems of living, systems of power, systems of government, systems of academics, biological systems, astral systems, economic systems, mechanical systems, and many more make up and influence the ways in which we live and die as […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Take a good look at that face. Not exactly the visual rival of a Sid Viscious type right? You’d probably be surprised to learn that he got hooked on heroin, killed his girlfriend and was portrayed by Gary Oldman in a biopic…and rightly so, as all of […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I have struggled of late with the idea of fulfilling the further requirements of my editorial section, not due to any lack of ideas or content about which to write, but rather due to an overload. There are so many facets of Idaho State University that might […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief In the intervening weeks since the conclusion of the fall semester I have accomplished many things, but I am most proud of finally reading Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” the consequences of which were far reaching. Over the course of two sittings I ventured into the lives of […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain. Time to die.” Yeah, I typed that from memory, and who are you to say who is […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Yesterday, upon the stair, / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today, / I wish, I wish he’d go away… I need to preface what I am about to detail by saying two things: first, the story I am about to […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I’ve heard a lot of things about a lot of things since assuming the position, (the editor position that is) and a lot of them go something like this: Vailas is nothing more than a jackbooted Mussoliniesque dictator who asserts complete control as often as possible and […]