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Logan Ramsey Associate Editor Recreational and medical marijuana is looking like it’s on track to becoming legal in all 50 states. More and more states legalize it every year, but there’s still holdouts all over the country and Idaho is one of these holdouts. It doesn’t look like marijuana will […]

Fallon Deatherage-Bradley News Editor Idaho gas prices are nearly 47.3 cents higher than they were this time last year. As of Sept. 9, the average price per gallon of unleaded gasoline in the state was $3.20, 35 cents more than the AAA’s estimated national average of $2.85. Idaho regularly ranks […]

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 […]

Fallon Deatherage-Bradley News Editor I had a near-perfect summer if you can forget about two incidents that soured it. The first was when a neighbor called the sheriff when he saw me driving home. Later, when I asked why he felt the need to call law enforcement after observing me […]

Dylon Harrison Staff Writer Over the course of an ISU student career, some will be faced with the ugliest monster in academia: academic dishonesty. For most, the lucky ones, it may only be encountering a paragraph on every syllabus with a strict warning, but for others, it could be another […]

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 […]

Logan Ramsey Associate Editor The thing about ISU’s campus that infuriates me the most as an off-campus student is the parking situation. In this regard, the structure of campus is severely lacking in where it needs to be, and the result is packed parking lots that don’t properly suit the […]

Renee Shaktivel Staff Writer 73 percent of students in fraternities or sororities have experienced some type of hazing during their affiliation, which is any action that recklessly endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student. This can also be a practice that creates risk of injury, discomfort, […]

Dylon Harrison Staff Writer Less than a year after the fire in Schubert Heights, another fire was found burning in another university-owned housing complex. A fire was found burning in a garbage can in a second-floor bathroom in South Complex’s Redfield dorm on the evening of Aug. 27. The fire […]

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 […]

Alex Mosher Staff Writer Over 58 different countries and 40 U.S. states come together to represent the diverse culture at ISU. Amongst the diversity is ISU’s undermined population of nontraditional students. A nontraditional student refers to a category of college students that begin their college career at the age 25 […]