Kiran Pandey Staff Writer The ISU Career Center is hosting its annual Spring Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 21 inside the Pond Student Union Ballroom. The fair will provide an opportunity for students to interact with 72 companies across many industries. “Various local level companies, […]
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Feb. 7 ASISU voted to approve a matched deposit to Law Club in the amount of $103.33. ASISU heard budget presentations from KISU, The Bengal, the Student Activities Board and Student Organizations Feb. 14 ASISU will vote on club funding for Nerf Club and matched deposit for Survey Club. ASISU […]
Renee Shaktivel Staff Writer Every generation has been labeled without their agreement. Demographic expert Peter Francese said that the baby boomers were the first generation to be named and groups before like the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation were named after their era passed. However, Neil Howe named millennials […]
Pocatello’s Second Saturday contra dance will be held February 10 at the First Congregational UCC Church, 309 N. Garfield (behind Pocatello High School). The dance runs from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Mike Cottle from Salt Lake City will teach and call the dances, with lively music provided by a group […]
Dylon Harrison Staff Writer ISU’s College of Business will begin offering the state of Idaho’s first Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program starting in the Fall 2018 semester. Previously, if an Idaho student wanted to pursue an MHA degree, they were forced to either take the required courses completely online […]
Clayton Koff Staff Writer Brenda Tracy, rape survivor and leader of the #SetTheExpectation movement, is taking the country by storm one university at a time. She travels across the country, telling her story to encourage college students, especially athletes, to “set the expectation” and create an atmosphere where sexual assault […]
January 31 ASISU voted to approve a Nerf Club, the purpose of which is to “strengthen bonds of friendship, leadership, and to be educated in the production of Nerf guns,” and which will have a sister club in Logan, UT for cross-state Nerf wars. ASISU voted to approve matched deposit […]
Madeleine Coles Co-Editor in Chief and News Editor If the intricate symbiosis between a university and the town it calls home can be seen as a relationship, CommUniversity is its couples counselor. CommUniversity, a committee made up of university representatives and community leaders and businesses, has been dedicated to, as […]
Renee Shaktivel Staff Writer ISU has appointed Marvin Schulte as the new chair of the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Schulte has a long history and love of sciences. At the age of nine, he would sculpt hearts out of clay and built a personal laboratory on his family’s […]
Clayton Koff Staff Writer Leadership is changing in the ISU honors program following the retirement of former director Sherri Dienstfrey-Swanson. The search is on to fill the position. One potential candidate, current interim director Curt Anderson, spoke about his new position and his thoughts regarding the future of the honors […]
Kiran Pandey Staff Writer ISU College of Arts and Letters launched the Early College Program in the fall semester of last year to get high school students on campus and make them familiar with campus life. The number of participants in the program has increased from nine students in the […]
January 24 ASISU voted in support of a 1901 Student Alumni project to paint an “I” and an “S” on the stairs in the Rendezvous building, with an estimated project cost of $950. An update was given on the construction of new senate chambers, which will include two 70-inch TVs, […]
Kiran Pandey Staff Writer This semester, TRIO launches the Trio McNair Scholars Program to connect undergraduate students with research opportunities that prepare them for graduate school. The program serves first-generation college students with limited family incomes and members of groups that are underrepresented in graduate education. Students in their junior […]
Clayton Koff Staff Writer The ISU Department of Engineering has been hard at work on their newest project that they have dubbed a “quadracycle,” a sort of mountain bike designed for the disabled. The quadracycle started out as a senior design project where team members only had to show how […]