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The Gem State may a lack major-league sports team, but the spirit of competition isn’t unfamiliar to Idahoans. This week, we shine the spotlight on two schools–Boise State and the University of Idaho–who embody the passions of Idaho sports fans!

Quick Facts

Boise State: Public research institution in Boise, Idaho with 17,000 undergraduates.
Idaho: Public research institution in Moscow, Idaho with 9,000 undergraduates.

1. Football Rivalry Record

Boise State: 21-17-1
Idaho: 17-21-1

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Having a hard time getting through those 50 pages of English Lit? Imagine if you had 1,000 pages to read. Every week. And it was in Latin.

Students at the tiny New Saint Andrews College in Idaho are saddled with assignments like that throughout their college career, and none of them are complaining.

Modern and ancient at the same time, Saint Andrews is relatively new, with a large percentage of enrollment from home-schoolers and a small, carefully selected student body. The actual age of the Idaho college has nothing to do with it’s classes, however, since N.S.A. aims to teach “classical Christian education”.

“Besides required coursework in Latin and Greek,” the New York Times reports, “students at N.S.A. study natural philosophy (mostly taxonomy and creationist science), the Western literary canon, Euclidean geometry and theology; they also practice public speaking at a weekly declamation.”

According to one alumnus, the students and professors at New Saint Andrews “want to be medieval Protestants.”

Uh, okay. Read More »