The Ferris men’s ten­nis team lost its 21st con­sec­u­tive match to con­fer­ence foe Northwood on April 8.

Ferris started the match with inten­sity, win­ning two of three matches in dou­bles play. The Bulldogs could not hold on dur­ing sin­gles play, win­ning one of six match-ups. Northwood’s tri­umphant sin­gles play led to the 6–3 victory.

The Ferris tan­dem of senior cap­tain Kyle Revall and junior Steven Roberts upset the Timberwolves No. 22 nationally-ranked pair­ing of Peter Kazianschuetz and Frederic Schoelzel, 8–6 in dou­bles play. Ferris’ Ahmet Demir and Arin Enge also grabbed an 8–2 dou­bles vic­tory. (more…)

Morgan Toms, the sole can­di­date for Student Government President, has been elected as Student Government President-Elect after receiv­ing 203 out of 253 votes.

Toms, a junior in the busi­ness administration/legal stud­ies pro­gram, has many goals for the cam­pus and com­mu­nity. Among those goals include mak­ing Student Government more avail­able to RSOs (Registered Student Organizations) and putting an empha­sis on underclassmen.

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The Western Michigan Broncos have hired for­mer Ferris goalie and assis­tant coach Jeff Blashill as the fifth head coach in the hockey program’s history.

Prior to accept­ing the job at Western Michigan, Blashill served as the head coach of the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League for the pre­vi­ous two sea­sons. The Ice fin­ished as USHL cham­pi­ons in his first sea­son with the team and Blashill has com­piled a 72−43−5 record in two seasons.

Blashill served as an assis­tant under Bulldog head coach Bob Daniels from 1998–2001 before serv­ing as an assis­tant coach at Miami from 2002–2008. Blashill replaces Jim Culhane who was relieved of his coach­ing duties at the con­clu­sion of the 2009–2010 season.

Daniels said Blashill’s com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills and knowl­edge of the game of hockey will help him be suc­cess­ful as a col­le­giate coach. Blashill was a goal­tender at Ferris from 1994–1998, where he ranks in the top 12 in school his­tory in goals-against aver­age, vic­to­ries, and saves.

“I also think he will do an out­stand­ing job as he directs the recruit­ing efforts for Western Michigan,” said Daniels.

The lin­eage of col­lege head and assis­tant coaches runs deep through the Bob Daniels tree of coach­ing. Six for­mer Bulldog play­ers or assis­tant coaches have become assis­tants and head coaches at NCAA Division I hockey pro­grams after learn­ing under Daniels.

I lived in Illinois for my entire life up until I came to Ferris in the fall of 2006.

Upon arriv­ing that August, I was one of the many fresh­men who did not bring a car to school. My sopho­more year, how­ever, I was lucky enough to get a 1992 Toyota Camry from my aunt so that I could have a car to drive around town. It wasn’t until then that I real­ized one of the many dif­fer­ences between the auto­mo­tive cul­tures in Michigan and Illinois. (more…)

The annual International Festival of Cultures will cel­e­brate vary­ing back­grounds from around the world on Sunday, April 11.

“There will be dancers demon­strat­ing Latin Dancing, musi­cal instru­ments, singing, a piñata, and we are still adding enter­tain­ment,” said Shana Beisiegel, sec­re­tary of the International Center at FSU. (more…)

In this new tech­no­log­i­cal age even the most inti­mate acts are now being per­formed dig­i­tally through a phe­nom­e­non known as “sexting.”

“I view sex­ting as an inter­est­ing way of tex­ting,” said sopho­more Justin Aman. “I can see how it might be fun for couples.”

A gen­eral def­i­n­i­tion of sex­ting is described as the act of send­ing a sex­u­ally explicit and graphic mes­sage or pic­ture by cell phone. (more…)

The Bulldogs will play Northwood on Thursday in a bat­tle between Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) unbeatens.

Both teams are cur­rently unde­feated in con­fer­ence play as Ferris State is 4–0 within the GLIAC and the Timberwolves are 3–0. The Bulldogs are 8–5 over­all this sea­son and 4–0 in home con­tests. (more…)

The nation­ally 18th-ranked Bulldogs con­tin­ued their strong play by fin­ish­ing sec­ond at the NCAA-II Midwest Regional Tournament in Georgetown, Ky.

Coming off a sixth-place fin­ish at the UC-San Diego Southern California Intercollegiate on March 23 in Mission Viejo, Calif., the Bulldogs shot an opening-round best 279. The team shot 300 the sec­ond day and fin­ished with a two-round 579 (+3) team score on the par 72, 7,007-yard Cherry Blossom Golf Course to fin­ish sec­ond among the 24 com­pet­ing teams. The tour­na­ment was the sec­ond of three legs in the NCAA-II Midwest Regional Tournament. (more…)

Morgan Toms, the sole can­di­date for Student Government President, has been elected.

Toms, a junior in the busi­ness administration/legal stud­ies pro­gram, has many goals for the cam­pus and com­mu­nity. Among those goals include mak­ing Student Government more avail­able to RSOs (Registered Student Organizations) and putting an empha­sis on under­class­men. (more…)

Today’s soci­ety is becom­ing increas­ingly inno­v­a­tive in regards to exer­cis­ing by cre­at­ing new ways to keep fit and revamp­ing old activities.

Spring is here and the weather is warm­ing, which means peo­ple will begin to feel more active and want to shed those pounds gained over the win­ter and hol­i­days. There are many new and old options avail­able that are so enter­tain­ing you might not even real­ize you’re exer­cis­ing. (more…)