Lucas Gebhart and Madeleine Coles Co-Editors-in-Chief Over winter break, we incurred a change in our Editor-in-Chief position. This is normally something that occurs over the summer, not days before the spring semester is set to begin. However, we have tried our best to step up to the plate and get […]
Opinion
We have an opinion about just about everything and so do you! We’ll tell you ours if you share yours. Submit your opinion articles to bgchief@isu.edu.
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief This time of the year has become unnecessarily complicated in the amount of time that I have been alive. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings; which of these is correct? Are any of them incorrect? Is some random guy in front of me in the checkout […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief Travelling home for the holidays changes as you progress through your college career. It’s always good to see your family, drama and fights aside; but it does seem to become more of a task than a break, and the term home fits less and less every year […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor It’s a put up or shut up year for the Idaho State men’s basketball team. The big question surrounding the team this year is how they will fair without Ethan Telfair, a player whose NBA draft stock looked promising after his junior season, but for whatever […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief I may be one of a few in this category, but I believe that the vast majority of movies that have been made in the past five years are just terrible. For a while I wasn’t able to figure out why I thought that, but after feeling […]
Madeleine Coles News Editor Dear Badvice, How do I get girls’ numbers? Sincerely, Shy Guy Dear Shy Guy, Ah, the age old and noble pursuit of obtaining a female’s cellular contact information. There have been many tips and tricks males have used to gain such information over the years; some […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief So there was another shooting Sunday. Someone walked into a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas during their service and opened fire. At the time of writing this there were over 20 people reported dead. Included among those people is the pastor’s 14 year old daughter. This. This […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Recruiting is the lifeline of college football. It’s how a program gets, builds and maintains what it has going for it. If recruits go, so does the program. This is why Idaho State was smart to publicly announce that it was planning to keep head football […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief I’m sure that I am not the only one who has been told that college, or your twenties are going to be the best days of my life. I’ve had family tell me that, along with the fact that it seems to be a sort of common […]
Madeleine Coles News Editor Dear Badvice, I know all college students are supposed to be broke, but I seriously live paycheck to paycheck. How can I save any money? Sincerely, Broke as a Joke Dear Broke as a Joke, It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single college student, […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief The Bengal has been focusing quite heavily on concealed carry in Idaho. I don’t apologize for that because, not only do I find it interesting, but I also believe that it is an important topic. One of the reasons that I am so interested in the concealed […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief Being on a sleep schedule opposite the majority of the world has its benefits. For the past month or so, three to four days a week I am awake all night, go to sleep in the early morning and wake up in the late afternoon to start […]
Madeleine Coles News Editor Dear Badvice, Halloween is coming up, and I don’t know what to be. I want a costume that’s going to look sexy, but, living in Idaho, I don’t want to end up freezing. I also don’t want to have the same costume as every other girl. […]
Terry Ryan The Bengal recently published a column by Caldwell teacher Levi B. Cavener titled “Buckeye State Charter School Fraud Coming to Idaho Charter School Near You!” There were many inaccuracies in Cavener’s piece, almost too many to list. But I’d like to set the record straight on a few. […]
Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief Editor’s Note: This section contains my subjective opinions on the enhanced carry class. Next week will feature an interview I conducted with the instructor of the class. Two words sum up how I feel about this course that the state requires for an individual to receive an […]