Madison Shumway Life Editor In preparation for its Next Drag Superstar Event next January, ISU’s Student Activities Board hosted auditions on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 29 and 30 in the PSUB Ballroom. Performers hoping to steal the spotlight showcased their talents, including lip-syncing and stand-up comedy. Event organizers, talent judges and […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Walking into A Different Cup’s new 4th St. location, the old location of CoHo, it’s clear that the shop really does offer something different. Gone are the bright yellow walls and chaotic art pieces of its predecessor. In their place are clean white paint and wood […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor When ISU named former assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Iowa, Lyn Redington, as its new Vice President for Student Affairs last January, many students, staff and members of the community felt that the university was on the upswing. At the […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Recent Texas A&M Ph.D. graduate Alejandra Maldonado stood in front of a room full of high-schoolers and told them to close their eyes. Imagine a scientist, she instructed. She asked how many students had imagined a man. Many raised their hands. How many had imagined a […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Each year for nearly a half-century, shoppers have flocked to an annual holiday fair hosted by the ISU Women’s Club to purchase one-of-a-kind gifts and partake in homemade goodies. From the handmade wares offered by local artisans, to the carefully crafted quilts raffled every year, to […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Young people vote less than old people. That’s a fact. In the 2014 midterm election, only 23.1 percent of eligible voters age 18-34 showed up at the polls, compared to 50 percent of voters age 45-64 and 59.4 percent of voters age 65 and older. All […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor So, I recently returned to Tinder. If there were ever an appropriate time to use the cliche “mixed bag,” it’d be in reference to my experience with that infamous pink flame. I’ve enjoyed bizarre luck on the app. I dated, casually and at once, an adventurous […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Over the past three weeks, The Bengal has examined the salaries of university employees. The first report in the series focused on ISU’s 80 highest-paid employees, who mostly belong among upper administration. Subsequent reports analyzed how discipline and promotion affect faculty pay (to recap, significantly). In […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Last week’s installment of The Bengal’s series analyzing the salaries of ISU administrators and faculty confirmed that field influences pay. Business professors make more than professors in the health professions, and health professions professors make more than professors in humanities. The report also found that even […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor ISU students can access treadmills and ellipticals at Reed Gym throughout the semester with their student ID, but the Wellness Center also offers 24 fitness classes with the purchase of a GET-FIT passport. For $25, students can show up to any weekly cardio/strength or mind/body class, […]
This figure visualizes the range in faculty salary for each ISU college. Each college’s lowest, highest and median salary are expressed numerically. The colored boxes represent the majority of faculty within each college (the 25th to 75th percentile). The whiskers or lines extending from the boxes represent the lowest- and […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor From associate professors to transcript evaluators to administrative assistants to vice presidents, ISU employs 1,802 public personnel. Transparent Idaho, an accountability effort maintained by Idaho’s state controller, documents each employee’s salary and position. It also releases a list of the state’s 482 highest-paid employees, who all […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor When ISU students don Bengal Wednesday shirts or walk through halls emblazoned with tiger stripes, they might not realize how much consideration goes into selecting each shade of orange. Behind the school’s distinctive design lies decades of history and a marketing team dedicated to ensuring that […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Dear Badvice, Every semester, I tell myself I’ll stop procrastinating and turn in my assignments on time. Then finals roll around, and I break down during closed week because I have 5 papers to write and need a 107% on my final exam. How do I […]
Madison Shumway Life Editor Clayton Koff Staff Writer Last week, Bengals donned denim in support of sexual assault survivors. For the past four years, activists at ISU have hosted an event commemorating Denim Day, which takes place in response to a high-profile sexual assault case that involved blaming the victim […]