“Speak up!” by Karsen Welch King
Month: April 2013
Business Professionals of America (BPA) is a national organization that competes at the state and national level in various competitive events. Members have the opportunity to act as officers for their local chapter as well as at the state and national level, and earn awards for service and competitive events. […]
A treatment summit presented by the Idaho Occupational Therapy Association will be hosted at ISU on April 13. The summit will be held in the auditorium of the Education Building. The all-day event will have different sessions aimed at improving the abilities of occupational therapists. This year’s topics include Aging […]
Andrea Vicic is a junior this season, yet this will be her first year being able to compete in outdoor track. Though she has ran for three entire indoor seasons with the Bengals, nagging injuries have kept her away from running with her team in the sunshine of outdoor track. […]
On Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m., the Idaho State University department of history will be hosting a Holocaust memorial event. Dr. Justin Dolan Stover, a lecturer in the history department, was key in organizing the event, hoping for a “solemn night of memorial commemoration.” “The program is very simple,” […]
Students attending Idaho State University while serving in the military may see their tuition aid cut as a result of the sequester. When the government sequester went into effect Friday, March 1, the military responded to budget cuts by indefinitely suspending its tuition assistance programs. Prior to the budget cuts, […]
ISU professor studies and speaks Welsh, Shoshoni and more Anthropology professor Chris Loether is the director of the American Indian Studies Program, director of the Linguistics Program, and co-director of the Shoshoni Language Project at Idaho State University. Growing up in a language-rich area inspired him to study multiple languages. […]
When Idaho State softball coach Julie Wright was looking to add a catcher to her roster she was approached separately by outfielder Courtney Dial and pitcher Kelsie Ott about a catcher out of Huntington Beach, Calif., that Wright needed to check out. When Wright took her players’ advice she found […]
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 […]
In the technological world we live in, identity theft and fraud have become areas of increased concern for people of all ages. ISU Credit Union Marketing Manager Rick Cheatum said though he doesn’t see a lot of it, college students can become victims of identity theft and fraud because they […]
Veterans’ Sanctuary offers helping hand An easily recognizable figure on campus is Kale Bergeson and his orange and black mohawk. What many may not know is that Bergeson is a former Marine. Now a junior at Idaho State University majoring in Human Resource Training and Development, Bergeson is the Career […]
Newspaper jobs offer laughs and learning It’s that time of year again when the feverish scramble to complete projects and papers before finals week begins. It’s also the time of year when we begin to assemble a new team here at “The Bengal” for the upcoming year. In the three […]
The Bengal newspaper is pleased to announce that we have multiple job positions open for the 2013-2014 school year. The deadline for all jobs and supplemental materials is Friday, April 19, by 5 p.m. Applications will be available in The Bengal newspaper office (located in the Hypostyle) and the Pond […]
The Secular Student Alliance at Idaho State University is a fairly new chapter of a national organization of secular students available to students on campus. The club, which is in its second year, tries to host speakers and activities while promoting a sense of community for secular students. “We aim […]
Autism Awareness Day was celebrated world-wide on April 2. Events were held on the Pocatello campus by Alpha Xi Delta, a sorority whose philanthropy is Autism Speaks. The campus event for Autism Awareness Day will be held Saturday, April 6, at 11:30 a.m. on the Hutchinson Quadrangle. Alpha Xi Delta […]