As Ferris suits up to play their final reg­u­lar sea­son games Friday and Saturday night, the Bulldogs will still need to be aware of what may lie ahead of them in the CCHA post-season.

Miami locked up the No. 1 seed in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association two weeks ago, but the sec­ond through fourth seeds are still open.

Ferris State and Michigan State remained tied for sec­ond in the CCHA with 46 points after split­ting their series last week­end. The Bulldogs bat­tle Western Michigan in a home-and-home series and the Spartans play Bowling Green State in the final two games of the season.

Alaska is fourth in the con­fer­ence with 45 points and Nebraska-Omaha is fifth with 44 points. Nebraska-Omaha and Alaska have com­pleted their con­fer­ence sea­sons and can­not advance their posi­tions. Ferris can­not fin­ish worse than fifth or bet­ter than sec­ond in the CCHA stand­ings.
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Helen Degen Cohen, Miriam Brysk and John Guzlowski’s lives became inter­twined after the Holocaust through artis­tic expression.

These three sur­vivors of the Holocaust are part of a series of events begin­ning tonight to dis­cuss art in rela­tion with their expe­ri­ences dur­ing the Holocaust.

Holocaust Art: A Panel Discussion of Art, Literature, and Music is the event that brings these three artists to Big Rapids as a part of the “Art in the Holocaust” series in the Festival of Arts. The panel will talk about the inter­ac­tion between art and the Holocaust and allow the audi­ence to ask ques­tions through­out. (more…)

A 2006 grad­u­ate of Belding High School, Linebaugh went the major­ity of his col­lege career at Ferris phone­less. Using online net­work­ing Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook, Linebaugh still remained able to keep in close con­tact with both fam­ily and friends. (more…)

The Bulldogs remain tied for sec­ond with Michigan State in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) after split­ting two games with the Spartans.

After a week­end series that saw both teams pro­vide some offen­sive fire­power, and with 10 com­bined goals scored dur­ing the two games, the Bulldogs and Spartans remain tied for sec­ond in the con­fer­ence with 46 points each head­ing into the final week­end of the reg­u­lar sea­son. (more…)

Texting, Facebooking and Tweeting have opened many bor­ders in terms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and the “tech­nirev­o­lu­tion” just keeps expanding.

Being a jour­nal­ism stu­dent, it has come to my real­iza­tion that it is at times eas­ier to con­tact a source on Facebook for a story. Phone calls and e-mails are not always answered as quickly as a Facebook mes­sage. (more…)

 My e-mail inbox was vis­ited last week by a mes­sage from the University remind­ing me that the Graduation Fair was fast approach­ing; as a senior grad­u­at­ing in May of this year, that’s a bit daunt­ing. (more…)

Senior Alicia Thomas will start her pro­fes­sional career as an account exec­u­tive in the sales depart­ment with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Thomas, an adver­tis­ing major from Greenville, knew she wanted to work with a pro­fes­sional sports orga­ni­za­tion and her first choice was the Cavaliers due to their award-winning mar­ket­ing and sales team. (more…)

A pop­u­lar rumor cir­cu­lat­ing at Ferris is that if a student’s room­mate dies, they will receive straight A’s for that semester.

Anne-Marie Gillespie, edu­ca­tional coun­selor and assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the College of Arts and Sciences, said this rumor falls in the fic­tion cat­e­gory. (more…)

Ferris State University com­ple­ments its edu­ca­tion with job expe­ri­ence oppor­tu­ni­ties not often found at over­sized universities.

Any col­lege stu­dent under­stands that high grades are valu­able toward attain­ing a desir­able job upon grad­u­a­tion. Academics are not the only attribute employ­ers are look­ing for, how­ever. An intern­ship or work expe­ri­ence of some kind is more often than not what sets one stu­dent apart from another. (more…)