Brenna Patrick Staff Writer New cultural awareness is the goal of this year’s Indian Night, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 2. Tickets are $6 for ISU students, $7 for faculty and staff and $9 for the public. They can be purchased in the Rendezvous and PSUB from 10 a.m. […]
Year: 2013
Chris Banyas Staff Writer At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, Nathaniel Yabeney escaped from Fort Hall corrections officers. Yabeney was in the area of the Pocatello Regional Medical Center for treatment when he escaped but soon made his way into the area of the Idaho State University campus. […]
Princess Young Submitted by NIATEC Computers and the Internet have now become a part of everyday life for a majority of Americans today. Not only are Americans using technology for many of their daily activities, Americans of all ages have caught the “techno bug.” We don’t simply see adults exclusively […]
Michelle Schraudner Life Editor Election Day is Nov. 5 and the race for Pocatello mayor is heating up. The four candidates have participated in a televised forum and an NAACP debate but the question remains: why should people at Idaho State University vote for one candidate over the others? Building […]
Nicole Blanchard Editor-in-Chief In the year and a half that I’ve spent writing this column, I have tried my best to avoid recycling the same ideas and articles over and over again. Nobody likes a broken record, but it’s hard for me to get certain tracks out of my head, […]
Chris Banyas Staff Writer “I don’t know if I’m interesting but I’m a people.” This phrase was uttered by a man born and raised in India, who was educated there and in the U.S., and who eventually became an English professor at Idaho State University. After traveling the world in […]
Chris Banyas Staff Writer As of Oct. 16, the parking lot on the north side of Reed Gym, also known as lot G11, was closed, allegedly due to a tunnel collapse. Steam heat is provided to the various buildings of ISU through a series of tunnels that branch out from […]
Denim Millward Sports Editor For decades, mascots have been pumping up crowds, performing potentially dangerous stunts and wacky antics and utterly terrifying small children at sporting events. Their presence at collegiate sporting events is as expected as over-priced concessions and chest-painted teenagers. Often overlooked, the mascot is an integral part […]
SVEN ALSKOG Staff Writer When Idaho State University graduates Ashleigh Vella and John van Vliet exited Pocatello for their futures, each ventured all the way to Durham, England, to further their educations and continue their athletic pursuits. Vella was a member of the 2011-2012 Big Sky conference champion women’s basketball […]
Samantha Chaffin News Editor A trip to Paris, France, is many girls’ dream but a recent trip to Paris, Idaho, gave ISU student Rachel Munson the surprise of her life when her boyfriend proposed using a flashmob of singing high schoolers. On Wednesday, Oct. 2, Nelson Bishop and Munson took […]
Brenna Patrick Staff Writer The Idaho State-Civic Symphony appointed Grant Harville as the new director of the nearly 100-year-old orchestra this year. When Harville came to ISU, he said it was nice knowing there were good people waiting for him. It wasn’t just the staff and orchestra that he put […]
Michelle Schraudner Life Editor Halloween is fast approaching, which means it’s just about time to suit up! For college students, finding a great Halloween costume and not going broke can be a tricky line to toe. Since we at “The Bengal” understand the effort it takes to find easy, affordable […]
Sven Alskog Staff Writer Size alone can be intimidating for any incoming freshman at Idaho State University. With 14,489 students, ISU has a broad diversity of people, which is where newly-appointed emissaries step in and help make the transition into college life a smooth one. In previous years, ISU has […]
Kyle Griffith Submitted by NIATEC You may have come across the term ‘information assurance’ at one point or another. Okay, so maybe not. What you may have heard of is cyber security or computer security. These terms all refer to the same field. Something you might not know is that […]
Halloween is a difficult time of year for me. Not just because it falls around midterms, or because allergy-induced migraines have me in a painkiller coma, but because choosing a Halloween costume is, as a woman, a uniquely difficult endeavor. I like to be dead things for Halloween. I couldn’t […]