Coming into the week with a record of 6–3, the Bulldogs tried to up their record along with their GLIAC standings.

On Friday, the Bulldogs took to the road to face off against Hillsdale. Even though indi­vid­ual play­ers had good games, the entire team strug­gled through­out the con­test as the Chargers would defeat the Bulldogs 3–1. (more…)

With Facebook Places, you can use your smart­phone to tell the world where you are.

But with a credit or debit card, you can tell the world where you are — and what you are buy­ing. (more…)

Members of Alpha Phi Alpha fra­ter­nity held a dis­cus­sion with stu­dents in the Rankin Center address­ing the con­tro­ver­sial use of the n-word in pop­u­lar culture.

Taking its ori­gins from the Spanish term “negro” and Latin term “niger” mean­ing black, the use of the n-word has many stu­dents split on both the accep­tance and intol­er­ance of its usage. (more…)

Ferris’ HVACR team took second-place in an inter­na­tional stu­dent engi­neer­ing competition.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) awarded Ferris’ stu­dent engi­neer­ing team sec­ond place in the System Selection cat­e­gory of its 2010 Student Design Competition.

Team mem­bers included Nathan Cazee, Dewayne Collins, Ryan Dribble, Sarah Kelley, Nathan Toland and Ben Quist.

The team selected and engi­neered an entire mechan­i­cal sys­tem for the Ginsberg Tower of Florida Hospital Orlando cam­pus. Opened in 2008, the $200 mil­lion hos­pi­tal build­ing con­tained 440 patient rooms, an emer­gency room area nearly the size of a foot­ball field and a car­dio­vas­cu­lar insti­tute. Approximately 15 sto­ries, it is the tallest of all the Florida Hospital buildings.

During the com­pe­ti­tion, uni­ver­si­ties were required to exam­ine the designs of three sys­tems that each team decided met the require­ments of the build­ing. Teams then deter­mined both the ben­e­fits and set­backs of each sys­tem, mak­ing appli­ca­tion rec­om­men­da­tions on each.

The team ulti­mately decided on solar absorp­tion chillers and series three Desiccant Wheel sys­tem work­ing with chilled beam ter­mi­nal units to mit­i­gate the high heat in the entirely glass struc­ture with high power den­sity throughout.

Ferris’ team put its sys­tems against the United States Green Building Council’s LEED green build­ing, ASHRAE stan­dards and var­i­ous local standards.

Ferris asso­ciate pro­fes­sor and ASHRAE advi­sor Mike Korcal said the stu­dent engi­neer­ing team spent much time work­ing on the hos­pi­tal. He said he is very proud of the work the team has done.

“In my opin­ion, this has been one of the most com­pli­cated build­ings the Ferris HVACR stu­dents have had to work on since first com­pet­ing in the ASHRAE design and equip­ment selec­tion com­pe­ti­tion,” Korcal said.

Ferris’ team will accept their second-place award at the 2011 ASHRAE Winter Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. n

McCormack, orig­i­nally from New Zealand, came to Ferris from England on Sept. 24 to share his story enti­tled “A Glimpse of Eternity: Do Heaven and Hell Exist?” (more…)

Luzia Tartari of the Hispanic Student Organization said Ferris has worked to enroll more Hispanic stu­dents for some time.

“The posi­tion of Hispanic Admissions Officer was cre­ated in 2003 as a part of the Hispanic Initiative on cam­pus,” said Tartari. She said she was hired to work specif­i­cally with this pop­u­la­tion. (more…)

The Bulldogs fin­ished sixth in the nation in team defense and led the nation in penalty killing last sea­son in part due to goal­tend­ing duo Pat Nagle and Taylor Nelson.

Nagle, a senior from Bloomfield and Nelson, a junior from Regina, Saskatchewan, fin­ished fourth and fifth in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) in goals against aver­age last sea­son. Nagle allowed 2.13 goals per game, while Nelson allowed 2.49 goals per game. (more…)

Ferris State com­peted in the Mary Fossum Invitational, an NCAA Division I tour­na­ment, held at Michigan State University Sept. 25–26.

The Bulldogs did not fare well against the com­pe­ti­tion con­sist­ing of Division I schools, such as Michigan State University, Kent State University (Ohio) and the University of Notre Dame, and ended up earn­ing a last-place fin­ish play­ing in the field of ten teams. (more…)

The women showed no ill effects from los­ing their first match of the year last week against Northwood as they steam­rolled Lake Superior State to start off their week­end. (more…)