Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Sometimes common sense just isn’t that common. Take, for instance, the wisdom of the man whose name will forever be linked with the phrase “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine. “Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a […]
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Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor @IdahoSportsLG Okay, you got me. I don’t just play golf, I watch it. I don’t find it to be boring. How could it be boring? The Masters was last weekend, the most premier golf tournament in the world, the Super Bowl of golf if you will. […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I was informed on Friday, April 1, that ASISU has voted to cut the funding of The Bengal, in an effort to take us into the online and digital frontier. In this world, that is, the world presented and approved by ASISU, the print edition of The […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief So many things of late seem to fall under that broad description, that sad ending to a sad story. Ich ernannte die Elektrizität/Zum Gebein meiner Sinne/Und bevor ich erregt ausspie/Tötete ich das Morgen/Um zu sehen ob es tiefer fiel. Perhaps you had a chance to viddy with […]
I This morning sky, after the night’s tempest, is a pure and dazzling blue. The air–the delicious air!–is full of sweet resinous odors, shed from the countless pine-boughs broken and strewn by the gale. In the neighboring bamboo-grove I hear the flute-call of the bird that praises the Sutra of […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Running a newspaper has been a painful endeavor for me, mostly due to the number of times I have felt that I have let my superb staff down. “The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.” I have asked the very difficult of them over […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief There is a very special place within the gnarled, overgrown hedge ways of my heart, amidst that allocated for the Wu-Tang Clan, Bob Ross, Julia Childs, Gonzo (and Rizzo) from the Muppets, “ugly” music, “offensive” art, and wood wick candles, set aside specifically for the music of […]
Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney Dear fellow citizens: We are in the midst of hotly contested campaigns to determine the nominees in the 2016 presidential election, yet none of the candidates have even voiced concern about the nuclear war dangers we face. This reflects the underlying denial and […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I am the man, the well-fed man, in charge of the terrible knob/The most pleasing thing about it, it’s almost a permanent job/When the atom war is over, and the world is split in three/A consolation I got, well maybe it’s not, there’ll be nobody left but […]
Michele Alice An individual’s life is a continuum. If there is anything after death, I don’t know, but when does life begin? At conception? At birth? This seems to be the crux of the problem regarding both embryonic stem-cell research and abortion. On the most basic level, what distinguishes one […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief The system has failed. How do you react to those words? Systems of living, systems of power, systems of government, systems of academics, biological systems, astral systems, economic systems, mechanical systems, and many more make up and influence the ways in which we live and die as […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor In addition to being the Sports Editor, I also do broadcasting for IdahoSports.com, which streams high school sports over the internet. I am currently in a four week span where I will be covering three different basketball tournaments for two different jobs. The girl’s high school […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief Take a good look at that face. Not exactly the visual rival of a Sid Viscious type right? You’d probably be surprised to learn that he got hooked on heroin, killed his girlfriend and was portrayed by Gary Oldman in a biopic…and rightly so, as all of […]
Chris Banyas Editor-in-Chief I have struggled of late with the idea of fulfilling the further requirements of my editorial section, not due to any lack of ideas or content about which to write, but rather due to an overload. There are so many facets of Idaho State University that might […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor With his team down by one, Ethan Telfair casually jogged the ball up the floor watching the final seconds tick away. It was no secret who was going to take the final shot. Telfair got a high ball screen from Kyle Ingram and was immediately double […]