Early Friday morning, while fog still covered the mountaintops and rain muddied the ground, a small group of dedicated mountain bikers waited patiently. It was just before 6 a.m., and the sun was sleepily fighting off the morning’s gray clouds. Finally, down Broadway Street they could see what they had been waiting for: the first shuttle of Bike Helena’s Spring Shuttle Fest.
Read MoreEvery year for the past six years, Boise State President Bob Kustra told his wife Kathy that he was going to retire. She learned to smile and nod her head, then watch as adamancy softened into hesitation with the start of the fall semester.
Six fall convocations later, President Kustra has decided to step down from his position. Though he announced his retirement in November, his official last day will be on June 30, after a new president is selected.
Read MoreWhen Jillian Kelley’s Tinder date came over to her apartment on Oct. 4, she was expecting to watch a movie and get to know him. They had planned to go downtown, but because she had homework, she invited him over for what she thought would be a short movie date. Within twenty minutes–and without asking for permission–he was on top of her, biting her breasts and kissing her, forcing her hands down his pants, fingering and choking her.
Read MoreWorld maps and math posters line the walls of the classroom where students gather for lectures every Tuesday evening. Computers sit on the tables, making the room comparable to any middle or high school classroom. Outside the classroom, however, are barbed wire fences and steel doors.
The students inside are men serving time at the Idaho State Correctional Center and are taught by volunteers from Boise State’s speech and debate team, the Talkin’ Broncos.
Read MoreQuicken Loans Arena, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was the first NBA arena to become “sensory inclusive.” Soon after, MetLife Stadium, field of the New York Giants, became certified in sensory inclusion. Boise State’s Taco Bell Arena has followed in the footsteps of some of the most prominent stadiums and arenas in the United States to become the first college arena to get the certification.
Carroll College welcomed its youngest class Monday as 470 children from Rossiter Elementary School replaced college students on campus.
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