Fulbright Scholarship Autumn Gomez is the recipient of the 2008 Fulbright Scholarship. She is the fourth ISU student to receive the Fulbright Scholarship in recent years. Gomez is a senior majoring in Spanish and International Studies. The Fulbright Scholarship will enable her to work as an English teaching assistant in the secondary schools of the Principality of Andorra.
The end is near. We have dead week then finals, then a long glorious summer vacation in which most of us will be working so that we can come back next year. Over the last few weeks I have been doing extensive research about the experiences of the different levels of students.
An online textbook company now offers college students a low-cost alternative to purchasing expensive textbooks. For a rental fee, students receive textbooks in the mail, use them for the semester and return them using a prepaid shipping label. CampusBookRentals.
Walkers will go around the clock in the battle against cancer during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. Teams will gather for an overnight relay against cancer. Relay For Life is a family-oriented team event where participants walk relay-style around the track and take part in fun activities off the track.
I THINK WE BOTH WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE BOY A man got into a shouting match with his ex-girlfriend at the video store where she works in Commerce City, Calif., as they argued about how to raise their four-year-old son. The two belong to different street gangs, and they disagreed about which one the boy should join when he grows up.
Ofelia Zepeda, Ph.D., began the special anthropology colloquium on Wednesday, April 9, by speaking her native language, Tohono O'odham, and translating. Tohono O'odham is native to southern Arizona, and as with many Native American languages, Tohono O'odham began and remains an oral language at heart.
Ofelia Zepeda, Poet Laureate, Regents Professor and MacArthur Fellow, shares one of her favorite stories. With a slight smile, Zepeda recounted her most enlightening experience working with native speakers. While working to devise a system of grammar for Tohono O'odham, Zepeda realized that an obstacle existed.
The Project Hope Advocacy Program at ISU is taking action against sexual violence. It encourages students to do the same by attending the ninth annual Take Back the Night. Take Back the Night begins Friday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. on the Bannock County Courthouse side steps.