Pocatello’s Second Saturday contra dance will be held November 12 with Teri Peterson and Eric Limbach teaching and calling the dances, with live music from Barley and Sage (Steve Marty, Bozeman, and Betsy Richards, Salt Lake City) playing the music. The beginners’ session at 7:30 pm is highly recommended for […]
News
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.
Andrew Crighton News Editor The ISU College of Arts and Letters hosted its second annual Humanities Cafe to promote and celebrate the diversity among the community. Individuals spoke on everything from personal experiences as a refugee to what it’s like to create ceramics. Mona Kashani Heern was born and lived […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor There has been an increasing trend over the past several years among college students, to use prescription medications like Adderall and Ritalin to increase their studying ability.The perception that these drugs can increase a student’s studying and learning performance has caused them to be taken outside […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer With a laboratory renovation planned for this summer and another $12 million project requested, the Gale Life Sciences Complex could look much different within the next few years. While smaller upgrades have been completed since the building’s construction in 1970, the complex has not yet undergone […]
Madeleine Coles Life Editor There is no doubt that some majors have much higher enrollment rates than others; this is true across the board. For example, more students will be majoring in business management than in 16th century French poetry at pretty much any college. ISU is no exception. While […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer The ISU Rupp Debate Society opened the community’s eyes when the iDebate Rwanda team visited campus. The topic of the debate was whether forgiveness or justice is more important in the wake of genocide. In 1994, Rwanda experienced a genocide involving the two major ethnic groups […]
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, […]