The satir­i­cal news­pa­per The Onion sells a t-shirt on its web site that says, “The sports team from my area is supe­rior to the sports team from your area.”

This irra­tional sup­port that many peo­ple have for pro­fes­sional sports teams is some­thing that I have always been baf­fled by, and this slo­gan makes a great com­men­tary on it. Die-hard fans who have no fam­ily or per­sonal ties to a team other than geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion will get their body tat­tooed with the team’s mas­cot or riot after a big game, but why? (more…)

“Make My Belly Full”

On Feb. 24 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., 15 per­cent of all food pur­chases at the Big Rapids Big Boy will be donated to My Sister’s Keeper to help assist the pre­ven­tion of child abuse. A flyer must be pre­sented at the time of pur­chase. Flyers can be obtained from any mem­ber of My Sister’s Keeper or a print­able ver­sion can be obtained by email­ing myskimums_ferrisstate@yahoo.com. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Shauni Harris at myskimums_ferrisstate@yahoo.com or call 313−850−5151. (more…)

College tuition and fees have gone through the roof as gov­ern­ment fund­ing has dried up. This comes at a par­tic­u­larly bad time as college-saving accounts have top­pled. At the same time, sup­ple­men­tal work for stu­dents has dried up as older American’s, laid-off from career-track jobs, will­ingly accept minimum-wage jobs just to bring in some cash.

College endow­ments also con­tinue to shrink, mak­ing it more dif­fi­cult for col­leges to offer grants and schol­ar­ships. Finally, pri­vate stu­dent loans are harder to obtain, with a drop in about 30 per­cent of loans as banks raised lend­ing stan­dards. (more…)

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Ward, a pro­fes­sor in the mar­ket­ing depart­ment, said his job is to pre­pare stu­dents for careers in the mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion, which requires him to know what is going on in the busi­ness and what is com­ing next. (more…)

A bill presently before the Senate looks to over­haul the col­lege loan and aid pro­grams and end the role pri­vate lenders have in stu­dent loans.

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which is strongly sup­ported by President Obama and his admin­is­tra­tion, looks to nation­al­ize the stu­dent lend­ing busi­ness and elim­i­nate fed­er­ally sub­si­dized pri­vate loans, essen­tially leav­ing the entire stu­dent loan indus­try in the hands of the gov­ern­ment. (more…)

Senior guard Austin Randel said the two losses were hard to han­dle as the Bulldogs made defen­sive stops at the end of the game. (more…)

The Ferris State men’s ten­nis sea­son began Feb. 20 with a 5–4 vic­tory over Lewis University (Ill.).

The Bulldogs are com­ing off a 14–8 sea­son over­all and a 6–1 record in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) last sea­son. The Bulldogs ended the 2009 sea­son by mak­ing it into the round of 32 in the Men’s NCAA Division II tour­na­ment last sea­son. (more…)

Campus Fun

Feb. 24–27

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, 11 a.m. — 4 p.m., Rankin Art Gallery

Feb. 24

Holocaust Art: A Panel Discussion of Art, Literature and Music, 7 p.m., IRC 120 (more…)