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All the news we can bring you on what is going on at Idaho State University. This includes information about your student fees, faculty and student concerns and our impact on the local community as a university of higher education.
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Home to over 700,000 objects from animal skulls to arrowheads, the Idaho Museum of Natural History needs more space. As collections near full capacity, museum leadership pursues a decades-old dream: expanding into a new building of its own. “We’ve outgrown the old library that we’ve been […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer The Idaho Museum of Natural History at ISU plays a pivotal role in education by being one of the first museums in America to have a 3-D virtual museum. This is exciting for Leif Tapanila, an associate professor of geosciences and the director of the museum, […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor Idaho State University is currently one of two defendants in a lawsuit from a former employee, Kelly Pokorny. Pokorny was the former education director at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, and claims that her supervisor at the time, Herb Maschner, sexually harassed her beginning in […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor Kirk Hevener of the ISU Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences is part of a group that is working on a new way to treat Clostridium difficile, commonly called C. difficile or C. diff. Working with researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Hawaii, […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor ‘Creepy’ clowns are a growing national trend. Starting on the east coast there have been reports of people dressing up as clowns who have stared down women, followed people and knocked on doors. Things escalated when in South Carolina a clown allegedly tried to lure children […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer What do you get when you combine mass media, Republican candidate Donald Trump and a very opinionated reporter? The answer was found at a presentation given by Vox.com reporter Sean Illing on October 17. Illing used his first visit to Idaho as an opportunity to educate […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer The new Executive Vice President and Provost Laura Woodworth-Ney held a presentation and Q&A session with ISU faculty on October 12. Questions about sexual harassment charges against a former ISU employee, a hiring freeze and allegations of failures and oppression by upper-administration set the tone. Woodworth-Ney […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Even as the United States makes huge advancements in many social and political arenas, progress in women’s political representation inches forward. Congress features a record-breaking 19.4 percent women, the country has never elected a female president and state legislatures average 24 percent female. Government in Idaho, […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Since the beginning of the semester, various groups have been seen on campus passing out informational pamphlets, Gideon bibles and the like to ISU students and faculty. Recently, a group caused a stir among students by setting up large, graphic posters of aborted fetuses. Members of […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor The 2016 presidential election features two of least liked candidates in history, as well perhaps two of the most divisive. Several weeks ago marked the beginning of the debates between the two candidates, with one squaring the vice presidential candidates together. At the time of writing […]
Teri Peterson and Eric Limbach will teach and call the dances, with the fabulous Wild Coyotes providing the live music. Saturday, October 8th from 7:30 to 10:00 pm at the First Congregational UCC Church, 309 N Garfield (behind Pocatello High School). The Wild Coyotes, from Pocatello in southeast Idaho, bring […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor The second annual Pink Ribbon Tour took place Saturday October 1 in and around the Pocatello area. Hosted in October in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month, the event allowed 110 local cyclists to choose from one of four length circuits. All the benefits went to […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor October 14, 2016 marks the next Green Dot training session at ISU, but what is Green Dot anyway? Green Dot was developed by Dorothy Edwards at the University of Kentucky as a means to address sexual assault, domestic abuse and other forms of powerbased personal violence. […]
Emily Crighton Editor-in-Chief In an effort to make the transition from community college to four-year institution easier for Idaho students, the Bengal Bound program launched September 29, 2016. While the partnership between Idaho State University and the College of Western Idaho informally existed in the past, the formal introduction of […]