Lucas Gebhart Editor-in-Chief Thumbs up: Fall is almost here The first day of fall is a little over a week away. That means the weather will be cooler, football will be in full swing, baseball’s playoff race will be heating up and Sam Adams Octoberfest will make its yearly appearance. […]
Month: September 2018
Fallon Deatherage-Bradley News Editor Westwood Discount and Westwood Discount Too are Pocatello’s saving destinations. These stores are filled to the max with anything you’d find at a normal store, plus a few gag gifts you’d never know why you needed. Located at 1800 Garrett Way, both stores are located side-by-side […]
Photo Credit: Idaho State Athletics Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This season, the team is looking to build on what second-year head coach Dallen Atkin’s has built and is in the early stages of preparing for better results at the Big Sky Conference Championship this spring. Spirits were high as the […]
Photo Courtesy of Mark Liptak Seiji Wood Sports Editor The ISU women’s basketball team is gearing up to host its biggest alumni game in program history at the end of the month. Around 41 former players and five coaches are planning to return for this event held on Sept. 28. […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This Saturday, the Bengals will kickoff their second game of the season against the Cal Bears, a game in which ISU will get $625,000 for playing. After taking care of Division II Western State of Colorado, a game ISU won 45-10, the Bengals will now look […]
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Alex Mosher Staff Writer For most, college is the first time a person becomes financially independent. Monthly expenses such as rent, Wi-Fi, phone and car payments become student responsibility in what seems like a blink of an eye. “Budgeting is the key to financial stability, and yet only 41% of […]
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 […]
Clayton Koff Staff Writer I often contemplate why music is such a polarizing activity. It is one of the purest and most natural forms of enjoyment on the planet. As a species we are completely saturated in music, from movies, videogames, the radio and even the rhythmic sounds of nature. […]
Lucas Gebhart Editor-in-Chief Thumbs up: New direction for athletics I know I pump up President Satterlee a lot in this column, but he’s been pushing ISU in the right direction ever since he got here. The change in direction of athletics is another step to putting ISU on the map. […]
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 […]
Dylon Harrison Staff Writer For the first time since it opened in 1970, ISU’s Holt Arena may be getting an entire set of brand new seats. Currently, Holt Arena can seat 12,000 people for football games and 8,000 for basketball games. This number is not expected to change drastically if […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This year’s ISU cross country team is hoping for a stronger season by working together. Both the men’s and women’s teams have a large crop of returning runners and two enthusiastic captains, Jesse Allen, senior, and Rachel McGovern, junior, set the pace into the team’s new […]
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Photo-Credit: Idaho State Journal Logan Ramsey Associate Editor After a whirlwind of news surrounding the athletic program, ISU has officially announced that former athletic director Jeff Tingey will not be returning to the university after his paid leave ends. Tingey will remain on paid administrative leave until June 2019 when […]