Video cour­tesy of the Ferris Rube Goldberg Team
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Junior defense­men Zach Redmond scored the game-winning goal for the No. 8 nation­ally ranked Ferris hockey team with 24 sec­onds remain­ing to beat Michigan.

Redmond took a pass from senior left wing Blair Riley and was able to get the puck past Michigan goal­tender Bryan Hogan to break a 2–2 tie and ulti­mately give the Bulldogs the win.

“We stayed dis­ci­plined and played hard­nosed hockey and with a lit­tle luck I was able to find the back of the net,” said Redmond.

Ferris struck first as senior Casey Haines cashed in off a turnover at 6:20 of the first period with a short-handed goal to give the Bulldogs an early 1–0 advan­tage.
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Photos by Kate Dupon, Ferris State Torch

Photos by Brandon Martinez, Web Editor

After arriv­ing in Big Rapids Thursday after­noon, the mem­bers of Theory of a Deadman decided to get out on the ice at the Ewigleben Sports Complex and shoot some pucks around.

The Canadian rock band, known as TOAD for short, came to Ferris to head­line the annual January Jams show. Dean Back, the band’s bassist, is no stranger to hav­ing some fun before a show after tours with bands like Motley Crue and Daughtry.

“The whole sum­mer with Motley Crue was a blast,” said Back. “Most of those guys have set­tled down, but Tommy [Lee] is still crazy.”

Back shared a story about Lee shoot­ing off fire­works from his tour bus after get­ting bored.

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The nation­ally No. 8-ranked Ferris hockey team could be with­out two key ath­letes this week­end against Michigan.

Senior Bulldog cap­tain Cody Chupp suf­fered a hip injury dur­ing Saturday’s con­test against Miami. He was taken to the hos­pi­tal, where X-rays came back neg­a­tive. Ferris head coach Bob Daniels said Chupp did not prac­tice Monday or Tuesday. Daniels said Chupp may play this week­end, but he will not make a final deci­sion until Friday morning.

“It’s going to be close,” said Daniels, “Certainly if he doesn’t play this week­end, I fully expect him to be ready for the two games at Ohio State.”
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The Bulldog hockey team was swept at home for the first time this sea­son at the hands of the No. 2 nation­ally ranked Miami RedHawks.

Ferris entered the series unbeaten in its pre­vi­ous 12 con­fer­ence con­tests and 11–0 at home this sea­son. Both streaks came to an end on Friday.

Through 24 games, the Bulldogs are 16−6−2 over­all and 10−4−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Ferris and Miami were tied for first in the CCHA stand­ings prior to the series and now the Bulldogs trail Miami by six points. (more…)

Driving in Michigan between November and April can often be treach­er­ous; with the eco­nomic down­turn and bud­get cuts, this win­ter is worse than ever.

Obviously the unpre­dictable, uncon­trol­lable weather is the influ­enc­ing fac­tor in the con­di­tion of the roads. History gives us a good indi­ca­tion that it will indeed be snowy and icy in Michigan dur­ing these win­ter months.

When storms come out of nowhere and cover the roads, it is under­stand­able that trucks are work­ing hard and can­not pos­si­bly clear every road. However, when a huge storm is pre­dicted a few days in advance and there are no salt trucks prepar­ing the roads, then we have a prob­lem. (more…)

Thomson, became inter­ested in brew­ing beer in grad­u­ate school. A mem­ber of his research group from Wisconsin was a home-brewer. He brought his beer to meet­ings and the deli­cious taste of the home­made beer sparked Thomson’s interest.

The main thing that pushed Thomson’s toward brew­ing was his wife. “I came home one day when we lived in New Orleans and she had bought all the stuff [brew­ing mate­ri­als] and it was just sit­ting out on the front room floor,” said Thomson. “I don’t know what made her decide to do that; I guess you would have to ask her. I’m really glad she did, though.” (more…)

In the spring 2010 semes­ter, Ian Mathison, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, said the phar­macy pro­gram has not lost stu­dents due to the cut of the Michigan Promise Scholarship.

“The dif­fer­ence is due to stu­dents chang­ing their pro­gram of study,” said Mathison.

In the fall 2009 semes­ter, 552 stu­dents were enrolled in the Pharmacy pro­gram. This semes­ter, 548 stu­dents are cur­rently enrolled. Mathiason said another cause for the decrease is a num­ber of stu­dents grad­u­ated in December 2009. (more…)