Madison Shumway Staff Writer Two members of this year’s women’s basketball team, Brooke Blair and Freya Newton are 7,000 miles from home, away from the crashing blue surf, white sand beaches and clear blue skies and into single digit temperatures with sub-zero windchill. The two hail from New Zealand and […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer In the United States, Christmas might bring to mind candy canes. In Romania, it’s a sweet bread, and in Sweden, it’s a coconut cookie. In France, the holiday treat of choice is a sugary cylinder known in English as a Yule log cake. These cultural differences, […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer As total enrollment at Idaho’s higher institutions fluctuates and the state’s Go On rate drops, the State Board of Education is getting creative. Last year, high school seniors received letters informing them of their admittance at Idaho’s public colleges and universities. While students still had to […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Cali Madsen clocked in, picked up her walkie-talkie and portable ticket machine and walked into the winter air. That day, the ISU ticket writer would patrol upper campus. It was her favorite location, and since she arrived first, she could call dibs. Bundled up in a […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer After starting 27 games as a true freshmen, Grace Kenyon was forced to the bench after an injury ended her sophmore season before it started. Kenyon tore her ACL, forcing her to sit out last season and use her one and only redshirt. Kenyon underwent surgery […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Strings of lights twinkle and holiday music blares every year in Old Town in a celebration of the Christmas season. Hundreds of community members and families will brave the cold the day after Thanksgiving to join in on the festive fun. This year, Old Town will […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer ISU’s cosmetology and radiographic sciences programs recently received academic excellence recognitions from the Community for Accredited Online Schools, a college accreditation information website. CFAOS ranked the cosmetology program as second in the nation and the radiologic technologist program as fourth. “We’re really honored by their including […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer On the last day of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, advocates met at the Rendezvous suites to discuss what community members and leaders can do to end domestic and dating violence. “Relationships Should Not Be Scary,” named in reference to Halloween, featured panelists Senator Mike Crapo, ISU […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer With a laboratory renovation planned for this summer and another $12 million project requested, the Gale Life Sciences Complex could look much different within the next few years. While smaller upgrades have been completed since the building’s construction in 1970, the complex has not yet undergone […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Taylor Day slips on a lab coat and starts her shift at the School of Nursing’s simulation lab. This week, she’s already taken inventory of various silicone body parts and painted a training model, giving his wincing face eyebrows, black eyes and a leaking head wound. […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Home to over 700,000 objects from animal skulls to arrowheads, the Idaho Museum of Natural History needs more space. As collections near full capacity, museum leadership pursues a decades-old dream: expanding into a new building of its own. “We’ve outgrown the old library that we’ve been […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer A holiday fair hosted by the ISU Women’s Club to raise money for student scholarships will take place on Nov. 4 and 5 in the SUB ballroom. The fair, which will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Whether it’s an earthquake, train derailment or simply a power outage, the Department of Public Safety has a plan for just about every possible campus emergency. Students got a glimpse of university emergency preparedness this month, when a recent tornado warning for nearby counties prompted a […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer On a fateful Tuesday next month, millions of Americans will huddle around TV screens and refresh their browsers as states color red or blue. For some, it’s a grim night—a high-stakes conclusion to a long and contentious campaign. But students in The American Presidency, a political […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Even as the United States makes huge advancements in many social and political arenas, progress in women’s political representation inches forward. Congress features a record-breaking 19.4 percent women, the country has never elected a female president and state legislatures average 24 percent female. Government in Idaho, […]