The national Rube Goldberg com­pe­ti­tion was held at Purdue University  where Ferris’ team com­peted, falling short of win­ning an award.

The task of the machine at this year’s com­pe­ti­tion, which took place the week­end of March 27, was to squeeze hand san­i­tizer from a bot­tle into a hand. There were 12 uni­ver­si­ties in atten­dance, along with 13 high schools that com­peted in a sep­a­rate competition.

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An unau­tho­rized account was cre­ated on the Ferris com­puter sys­tem in an appar­ent attempt to hack the school’s servers.

The account was noticed and deleted by uni­ver­sity staff the same day it was created, Monday, March 22.

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The Ferris State foot­ball pro­gram has added two new coaches for the upcom­ing foot­ball season.

The Bulldogs have hired Chris Boden to serve as the team’s new offen­sive coor­di­na­tor and Gary McGraw, who will coach the defen­sive backs. (more…)

Morgan Toms will be the sole can­di­date run­ning for Student Government pres­i­dent, which vot­ing opens for on Monday, March 29.

Toms is the only indi­vid­ual reg­is­tered to be on the bal­lot for President this spring, mak­ing the Wednesday, March 24 pre­sen­ta­tion, which is usu­ally held as a debate between can­di­dates, a speech and ques­tion and answer ses­sion. (more…)

Ferris junior forward/center Justin Keenan has been named to the 2009–2010 Division II State Farm Coaches’ All-America Team.

Keenan, who aver­aged a GLIAC-leading 21.1 points in con­fer­ence matchups, was one of 16 play­ers named to the team that was cho­sen by mem­bers of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

With the selec­tion, Keenan becomes the only Bulldog men’s bas­ket­ball player in pro­gram his­tory to gain All-American hon­ors at the Division II level. The pre­vi­ous four All-American selec­tions in pro­gram his­tory played at the NAIA level.

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After los­ing five straight matches in non­con­fer­ence play, the Bulldogs started GLIAC play hun­gry for redemp­tion. Ferris van­quished Michigan Tech with an 8–1 vic­tory on March 21 by sweep­ing Tech in sin­gles play and win­ning two of three dou­bles matches. (more…)

Spring fash­ion is all over the hottest run­ways and it’s time to update your look with these inter­est­ing new trends.

Pack up your boots and put those heavy win­ter jack­ets away to make room for all the lat­est spring looks. (more…)

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has seen its share of upsets in the first week­end, but the real “mad­ness” does not hap­pen on the court.

The grad­u­a­tion rate of male col­lege bas­ket­ball play­ers is one of the worst in the nation among col­lege ath­let­ics. The University of Maryland grad­u­ates only eight per­cent of its men’s bas­ket­ball ath­letes within six years of admit­tance. Statistically, only one of the Terrapins’ 13 bas­ket­ball play­ers on the 2009-10 team will grad­u­ate. (more…)

The Bulldogs dropped two close con­tests in the CCHA play­offs, ulti­mately cost­ing the team a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

After drop­ping an excit­ing 5–4 over­time semi­fi­nal con­test against then No. 12-ranked Northern Michigan on Friday, the nation­ally No. 8-ranked Bulldogs came out on the wrong end of a 2–1 loss against No. 2-ranked Miami (Ohio) in the third place game in the CCHA play­offs on Saturday. (more…)

Students expect­ing to get a col­lege expe­ri­ence sim­i­lar to more major Michigan uni­ver­si­ties are find­ing it dif­fi­cult to remain within the city limits.

Each week­end stu­dents are com­mut­ing to cities such as Grand Rapids and Lansing, leav­ing Big Rapids vir­tu­ally empty of stu­dents. As this trend con­tin­ues, more and more com­mu­nity mem­bers are begin­ning to view the uni­ver­sity as sim­ply a com­muter cam­pus. (more…)