Ferris extends win­ning streak at home to 8–0 with sweep of Ohio State

The Ferris State hockey team is ranked 17th in the nation accord­ing to U.S. College Hockey Online after sweep­ing the Ohio State Buckeyes at home.

The Bulldogs improved to 8–0 at home this sea­son, adding to two more vic­to­ries to the already school-record home start. Ferris has outscored its oppo­nents 39–16 in eight home con­tests this season.

The team is 9−3−2 over­all and 4−2−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The team improved to third over­all in the CCHA with 16 points, behind only Miami and Michigan State. Ferris is unbeaten in its last six con­tests and has not lost since Oct. 31.
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Two shootout upsets count as a tie, but feel like a win for Ferris

The Bulldogs pulled out two shootout wins against the Red Hawks of Miami University of Ohio in CCHA action.

Ranked num­ber one head­ing into the matchup, the RedHawks fought the Bulldogs through two over­times and two shootouts in the series. For full game review and a look ahead as Ferris con­tin­ues to bat­tle for league stand­ing, visit the Sports Section.

Nicole Raymond has 20,000 words writ­ten and 30,000 more to go.

Raymond, a senior in the Technical Professional Communication pro­gram, is about half-way fin­ished writ­ing her novel for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

“It isn’t for class. I just love writ­ing,” said Raymond, who will be grad­u­at­ing in December.

Raymond said she has been strug­gling to find time to write her novel lately due to class assign­ments, work and main­tain­ing her blog on hor­ror movies, grue​somede​tails​.word​press​.com. (more…)

A look at drink­ing respon­si­bly for pleasure

Why do I drink? To answer hon­estly, I drink because I enjoy it. I don’t do it to escape some hor­ri­ble real­ity of life and I don’t do it to show off, I do it because it is enjoy­able and can enhance sit­u­a­tions if used properly.

I’m not one to go out and drink 15 cheap beers on a Friday night, but I do make my way out to those par­ties occa­sion­ally. I don’t go to the bar and order shots of whisky until I pass out, but I do like the atmos­phere of a bar and enjoy a few bour­bon and cokes with some friends.

If you are some­one who enjoys being three sheets to the wind and mak­ing a fool of your­self, by all means go ahead. As long as you don’t drive or throw up on me, that’s your choice. (more…)

The Bulldogs posted two shootout vic­to­ries over No. 1 Miami (Ohio)

The Ferris State hockey team upset nation­ally No. 1 ranked Miami (Ohio) with a pair of road shootout vic­to­ries over the weekend.

Ferris improved to 7−3−2 over­all this sea­son and 2−2−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) after earn­ing four points in the con­fer­ence stand­ings. Head coach Bob Daniels believes the team is improved, but must con­tinue to work on a few areas.

“After this week­end, I think we have a chance to be a very good team,” said Daniels. “But we have to con­tinue to work hard if we’re going to get there.” (more…)

Torch Staff Report

The new points sys­tem for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) includes one major change from last season.

Each win, whether in reg­u­la­tion or over­time, is worth three points instead of two. If two teams are tied after over­time, then there will be a shootout.

Each team receives one point for reach­ing the shootout and the win­ner receives an addi­tional point for a total of two. Any loss in reg­u­la­tion or over­time gar­ners zero points.

Last sea­son, the CCHA was the first Division I col­lege hockey league to add a shootout after over­time in an effort to reflect more closely the NHL sys­tem. The CCHA stand­ings include four columns, while the over­all stand­ings still have three. An addi­tional col­umn denot­ing shootout wins (SW) indi­cates the num­ber of post-overtime vic­to­ries the team has.

If a team reaches the shootout, it is recorded as a tie in the over­all stand­ings whether they win or lose. When a team’s CCHA record is given, it may con­tain four columns instead of three depend­ing on whether or not they have won a shootout. The Bulldogs have a con­fer­ence record of 2−2−2−2. The team has played six con­fer­ence games, but there are eight num­bers in the stand­ings. The first three num­bers com­bined give the num­ber of games played.

Both musi­cal groups will be per­form­ing a vari­ety of pieces for this week’s concert

The Ferris State University Symphony Band and the Ferris State University West Central Chamber Orchestra will both be per­form­ing con­certs this week.

The FSU Symphony Band was founded four years ago and is spon­sored by Ferris through the university’s Music for Life! Initiative. The band is com­prised of FSU stu­dents, mem­bers of the com­mu­nity, and some musi­cians from high schools across the region. The band con­sists mainly of Ferris students.

The band encour­ages stu­dents and com­mu­nity mem­bers to par­tic­i­pate if they are able. Ferris stu­dents are able to earn credit and schol­ar­ships by par­tic­i­pat­ing in the band. These stu­dents enroll in Music 160 in order to do so. Community mem­bers and high school stu­dents may par­tic­i­pate for free. (more…)

Student gov­ern­ment and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) are work­ing to improve cam­pus cross­walk safety.

Prior to the recent death of a stu­dent at a cross­walk, stu­dent gov­ern­ment and DPS’ Traffic Safety Team (TST), that has been in effect since 2003, is reley­ing on three E’s: engi­neer­ing, edu­ca­tion and enforcement.

The engi­neer­ing por­tion of TST is seek­ing to add cross­walk sign upgrades, cross­walk speed bumps and strobes to dis­play dri­ver speeds in order to enforce cam­pus speed lim­its. Morrison Street, next to Burger King, was also turned into a one-way street because of TST. Likewise, shrub­beries in the medi­ans have been added to dis­cour­age jay walk­ing.
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Being able to han­dle and learn from crit­i­cism is an impor­tant trait to have in order to be suc­cess­ful in our society.

Most of us will leave uni­ver­sity life and hope­fully find a great job that we love. Most of us will receive some type of feed­back that requires us to change how we per­form at that job and how we react and absorb that cri­tique is impor­tant. Right now we get that feed­back in the grades we receive on papers and assign­ments. It’s less direct, less per­sonal. It doesn’t feel so much like an attack on our integrity or a maneu­ver by an antag­o­nist, but an eval­u­a­tion of our effort. (more…)