Judith Noonan Staff Writer Idaho State University boasts a proud team of dedicated officers to serve and protect the campus communities located in Pocatello, Meridian and Idaho Falls. It is the goal of these officers to be up to date on training, and they are constantly learning more ways to […]
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All about life on campus at Idaho State University. This includes club events, activities sponsored by Union Programs Council and the Student Activities Board.
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer The country of Pakistan is over 7,000 miles away from the United States, but Pakistan native and ISU student Haseeb Khan believes the distance, and difference is not as great as it seems. Khan began school at ISU in January and is a member of the […]
Olivia Love Staff Writer Diantha Smith is a Ph.D. student at ISU who has been proactive in showing love and support for international students. She knows first-hand what it is like to be in a foreign country and have to figure everything out. Because of this, she has been invested […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer History students at ISU recently participated in the Mis Memorias (My Memories) project as part of the 500 Years of Latino History initiative. “Essentially it’s an oral history project where students learn how to prepare and conduct oral histories, and then they go out and interview […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer When Lydia Wilkes accepted a job as an assistant professor at ISU last fall, many factors went into her decision. But in academic terms, Wilkes said she was excited with the roles that she would be able to fulfill at ISU. In January, Wilkes will be […]
Olivia Love Staff Writer The Gender Resource Center at ISU will be putting on an event called Denim Day on Wednesday, April 20. On this day, everyone is encouraged to wear jeans as a protest against the overturning of a rape case. In 1999, the Italian Supreme Court tried a […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor A lone male was seen distributing DVDs containing two Islamophobic videos onto people’s cars at ISU on Monday, April 4, 2016. It is believed that the man was from out of state. According to Stuart Summers, associate vice president of marketing and communications, one of the […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor When Patrick Brooks first arrived as the new director of bands for ISU in 1991, the university hadn’t had a marching band in around eight years. Since his arrival, the music department has grown exponentially. “That’s one of the things that attracted me to this position,” […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer The election results for next year’s Associated Students of Idaho State University (ASISU) positions are in, but if the voter turnout is anything to go by, not many students care. This year 205 students voted for the executive ticket, the president and vice president for the […]
Olivia Love Staff Writer ISU will host a free, one-day narrative conference in the Idaho Museum of Natural History on April 8. The event will have seven speakers in total, several from around the region and one all the way from Israel. “We have participants from the University of Idaho, […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer Bob Beason has been collecting comics all his life. The first comic he ever bought was a twelve cent Spider-Man #39, and his collection only grew from there. Eventually he had more boxes of comics than he knew what to do with, so he decided to […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Pocatello is nestled in the foothills of one of several mountain ranges, depending on how technical you want to be with your geography. Regardless of technicalities, the mountains in the surrounding area are different than the ragged peaks found in central and northern Idaho. The comparatively […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Recently there has been a lot of talk about brokered and contested conventions in the media. But what are they, and why do some prominent Republicans want one so badly? To understand a brokered/contested, or open, convention you need to first understand what is required of […]
Olivia Love Staff Writer On May 1, 1976 Richard Graves opened his very own record shop. Forty years later, that shop is going strong selling vinyl records and turning old VCR tapes into DVDs. Graves has always loved music and eventually was able to open up a branch of the […]
Andrew Crighton Life Editor Rafi Ahmed is the Vaccine Center Director at Emory University, and as such is the coordinator for a small team at Emory that is studying the recent news-breaking disease, Zika virus. At the 45th annual Frank Church Symposium, Ahmed presented a lecture and participated in a […]