By day, Daniel Shelden pours hours into grading speeches and lecturing as a Communications, Media, and Persuasion professor at Idaho State University.
By night, however, Shelden operates under a different mask. He might be a small-town Christmas tree farm girl for the Hallmark show as suggested by audience member #3 or be forced to finish the scene with a new accent each time he speaks.
“Let’s ‘Netflix and Chill,’” says Anthony from Tinder.
“Why are you single,” asks Sarah from Hinge.
“I mean you’re decent looking,” comments Luke from Duet.
“To the theatre department, APO is more than just a club,” says Kallis Shibahara, APO Secretary and theatre major.
APO, or Alpha Psi Omega, is an ISU honors fraternity, targeted towards any and all theatre lovers and majors. Like other fraternities on campus, this club has bigs and littles and hosts events and activities to connect its members.
For 1,901 minutes between March 10th at 9 a.m. and March 11th at 4:41 p.m., donors will contribute to a crowdfunding campaign designed specifically for the ISU Bengals.
Once December rolls around, most college students aren’t just anxious for winter break. Spotify sends a notification, and everyone in ten yards whips out their phones to check their annual Spotify Wrapped – the data collection showcase of your daily crashout and study music that you’ll skip through on at least ten different Instagram stories.
December 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ISU hosted its free public E-waste Collection Event. With a disposal drop-off system wrapping around the first floor of the Pond Student Union Building, the event was in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory, E-Cyclers of Idaho, Sunnking, and their project, “Comparing Strategies to Collect Battery-Containing Devices in States With and Without Electronics Recycling Laws.”
With a subtle cue from director and ISU assistant professor of applied voice and commercial music Jenna McLean, pianist Michael Evans strikes the first chord, followed instantly by Conner Huckaba on drums. McLean slips to the side, offering the occasional snap to keep everyone in rhythm.
If they’re going to die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population,” says Ebenezer Scrooge.
Since the Halloween candy-craze has ended, college students and Pocatello residents alike are turning in from the cold and doing their best to survive until winter break. And between homework and planning out Christmas gifts, it might be time for a fall reset.
Stephanie Christensen is pursuing a doctorate in Idaho State University’s Nursing Practice program with plans to become a nurse practitioner. But now, she’s role-playing 52-year-old Rachel, a woman experiencing all the Class A symptoms of menopause, in front of three judges and her professors. She only has three minutes to talk.
“I have so much free time, I don’t know what to do,” exclaimed no-college student ever.
“Anyone who wears a tiara and sequins is always going to be a winner,” is what we should say.
And a crowd favorite from Idaho State’s Production of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” “He craves attention slightly, but all good actors do,” is probably what the ISU theatre department preaches.
The week of October 20-25, you’ll see Student Activities Board, SAB, sanctioned events taking over Idaho State’s campus for Homecoming week.
The music roars through the speakers, the hypnotic rhythm catching even the most uninterested observers. Our bodies move in unison – stomp, stomp, clap, stomp, stomp, clap – overpowering the announcer and turning all eyes to Mason Reine.
Daniel Prior’s mind flashes through the past week of procedures, medical interventions, and surgery prep, hands flexing out of muscle memory to reach for a scalpel. He’s perched on a stable stepstool, arms reaching up, up, up, until his fingers slot into a calloused crevice.
In September, the Idaho State University College of Technology welding program received an anonymous one-time donation to fund personal air respirator protection hoods (PARP) for all 65 students currently enrolled in the welding program. The idea is that students will use them during the program and then be able to take them after graduation. The donation is valued at over $80,000.
