Madeleine Coles Staff Writer James Aho, a sociology professor emeritus at ISU, recently finished his novel, “Far-Right Fantasy: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics.” As the title suggests, the book discusses right-wing extremism and deals specifically with the similarities between extremists and the more conventional public population. Although this […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer Freshman Isabel Vara de Rey is not only a new addition to the ISU basketball team, but a new addition to the United States. Vara de Rey is from the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of Morocco, and explained that a main reason […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer ISU will be hosting the sixth annual Celebrate Idaho State event in the Pond Student Union on Wednesday, Feb. 10. While this event has been going on for six years, this year the committee planning the event hoped to change things up a little bit. “In […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer Sebastian and William Edin are twin brothers from Sweden who recently transferred to ISU to play tennis. The brothers have been playing tennis for virtually their whole lives, and began taking tennis classes when they were six-years-old. The Edin twins transferred to ISU from Young Harris […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer Marilyn Evans was at her granddaughter’s house on Dec. 29, 2016, when she received a call that her motorhome was on fire. When she got there she said that it was a mess. “It wasn’t burned on the inside,” Evans said, “but everything was blackened.” Evans […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer Of the many programs ISU offers, one of the most unknown is the robotics program. Students in the robotics program can learn software development, semiconductor testing, lasers and optics, national defense and telecommunications. In addition, students can also join the ISU robotics club. The robotics club […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer The fourth floor of Turner Hall has been undergoing renovations for several months. Over the summer, the showers in Turner Hall were completely redone. Craig Thompson, the Director of Housing at ISU, said that the showers had never been renovated before, and it was a project […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer There is no denying runners are tough, but Nate Houle, ISU’s new head cross country coach, takes it to another level. Houle was hired on at the end June of 2015, just months after undergoing surgery to remove a cancer that originated in his sinuses. In […]