Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief Over the weekend, most of the staff of “The Bengal” got together for some ice breaking, an entertaining lecture from guest speaker Dr. Tom Terry and information on being the best journalists, photographers and advertisers we can be. In planning our “Bengal Boot Camp,” as we called […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief Sometime last semester I stumbled upon an article about procrastination that really changed the way I thought about my own procrastination and how to keep it to a minimum. We’ve all seen magazine and internet self-help articles about how to stop procrastinating. “Make working fun!” they proclaim, […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief Last week my column addressed the unfortunate topic of street harassment on campus. Though I was surprised to learn of these types of things happening on campus, I’ve always felt like Idaho State University’s campus is not as bad as many other places are. Ironically enough, I […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief On Saturday, Sept. 14, as many as 600 people will compete in the second annual Great ISU Ambush 5K, an obstacle race featuring mud pits, tire crawls, wall climbs and more. According to co-organizer Zara Sivertsen, two weeks before the race roughly 280 people had already registered […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend about how she was enjoying her first few days at Idaho State University when she said she had been catcalled in the Student Union parking lot. At first I was shocked. In four years here, I have […]
On Saturday, Sept. 14, as many as 600 people will compete in the second annual Great ISU Ambush 5K, an obstacle race featuring mud pits, tire crawls, wall climbs and more. According to co-organizer Zara Sivertsen, roughly 280 people are already registered in teams of four to compete in the […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief Each year, Idaho State University hosts a variety of events designed to welcome returning students and help first-timers get their bearings. The events, hosted throughout the first week of classes and the few days preceding the beginning of fall semester, make up ISU’s Week of Welcome and […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief Somehow another summer seems to have snuck by (seriously, are we sure it’s not mid-June?), but I have to admit that I’m happy to be back at “The Bengal” and on campus at ISU. Though the semester has barely started, I feel like I’m overwhelmed with the […]
With another year somehow coming to an end, a plethora of graduates will be leaving Idaho State University and moving on to the next stages in their lives, whatever those may be. Unfortunately, with one more semester left I can’t completely understand what graduates are going through, but with a […]
With the final week of spring semester finally upon us, our staff at “The Bengal” would like to offer a recap of the many events that made up this year before graduating seniors are out of here for good and the rest of us take a short break before starting […]
Special to our final issue this year is a two-page autograph poster as the center-fold in tomorrow’s Bengal Newspaper. Download your own copy to print (17″ x 11″ tabloid size). Gather all the memories you want to take with you, then… Be the change you want to see in the […]
When words get lost in translation Language is an interesting concept. It’s constantly changing, exists in various forms and allows us to relate and share the human experience in a concise way. It seems as though we often take for granted the freedoms language allows us until we’re faced with […]
The 14th annual Take Back the Night event will take place Friday, May 3, at 5:30 p.m. “The march will begin at Family Services Alliance (355 S Arthur Ave.) where we will pass out free Take Back the Night T-shirts and it will end at the Old Town Pavilion where […]
Growing up as a military dependent, it was never unusual to see service members in uniform, hear the deafening roar of F-16 jets or even have my dad leave for months at a time. In fact, what was more unusual was the idea that those things weren’t the reality for […]
Idaho State University’s Rotaract Club recently set aside plans to help build a school in the African country of Mali in favor of taking on a Rotary International project which aims to eradicate polio. Rotaract, which is a college-level equivalent of Rotary Club, was working with ISU student Brandon Comish’s […]