The Bulldog foot­ball team had not scored more than 50 points in a game since 2005, until Saturday.

Ferris racked up 52 points and 337 rush­ing yards in a vic­tory over the Tiffin Dragons Saturday night. Bulldog junior quar­ter­back Tom Schneider passed for four touch­downs and rushed for 77 yards. Senior wide receiver Chris Wilson caught four passes for 64 yards and two touch­downs in the win. (more…)

The Bulldogs claimed their first road win in nearly two sea­sons with a vic­tory over Ohio Dominican.

Despite rac­ing out to a 28–6 advan­tage by the third quar­ter, the Bulldogs let the Panthers claw back into the game with three third-quarter touch­downs, but two key stops in the final four min­utes of the con­test pre­served a 34–28 win for Ferris. (more…)

The “Hottest Show on the Earth” tour stopped in Michigan on Sept. 11 to com­mem­o­rate not just a home­com­ing, but also the tragedy that hap­pened on that day nearly a decade ago.

KISS per­formed at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Mich. on the anniver­sary of the 9/11 tragedy. Despite poor weather con­di­tions, the the­atre was packed and among atten­dees there were a few Ferris stu­dents enjoy­ing the show. (more…)

The phrase “actions speak louder than words” rings true when it comes to non­ver­bal body lan­guage, espe­cially in a class­room setting.

First impres­sions on the first day of classes are formed through both ver­bal and non­ver­bal signs from pro­fes­sors and stu­dents. It is impor­tant to be con­scious of not only what your words are say­ing, but also your body lan­guage. (more…)

The Jersey Shore is a show that many peo­ple don’t like to watch, but per­son­ally, I enjoy the show and watch it every week.

When the Jersey Shore first pre­miered on MTV it caught my atten­tion. I am of Italian descent and it inter­ested me to see a show about peo­ple of my eth­nic­ity. Therefore, I decided to give it a shot and ended up being thor­oughly enter­tained. (more…)

Ferris alum­nus Andrew Gallavan said the stu­dent loans he took out dur­ing his col­lege years are “sig­nif­i­cantly” higher than his hourly pay.

Gallavan, a grad­u­ate of Ferris’ tech­ni­cal and pro­fes­sional com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­gram, is among many recent col­lege grad­u­ates whose start­ing salaries are less than the amount of stu­dent loan debt received over their aca­d­e­mic careers. (more…)

Having the drive to play golf since her youth, junior Bryce Hetchler is liv­ing out her dream by play­ing with the Bulldog women’s golf team.

Before com­ing to Ferris to join the team, Hetchler got her start in com­pet­i­tive golf by trans­fer­ring to Fraser High School in Fraser, Mich. just so she could play golf on a women’s golf team.

“I actu­ally started golf when I was 6,” Hetchler said. “My dad taught me every­thing I knew about the game until about my senior year of high school.  He’s been the most impor­tant per­son in my life.”

Hetchler has led the Bulldogs on the links to start the sea­son, as she holds the top strokes per con­test aver­age at 78.2 strokes,.Since join­ing the Bulldog golf team, she has been named an All-American Scholar in con­sec­u­tive years while also earn­ing GLIAC Athlete of the Week awards last week.

“Bryce has improved and matured tremen­dously as a student-athlete since arriv­ing at Ferris State two years ago,” said Mike Mignano, who serves as the women’s golf coach. “Bryce has been an Academic All-American Scholar dur­ing her first two sea­sons as a Bulldog; with her work ethic she is able to bal­ance golf and school very well.”

Hetchler earned Athlete of the Week lau­rels with her play at the Lake Superior State Invitational, where Hetchler also claimed her first ever first-place vic­tory with a 12-over par 156 stroke. She cur­rently has a career aver­age of 80.95 and she is striv­ing to meet her goal to leave Ferris with an aver­age around 78 or lower and to ulti­mately be a Division II All-American.

Though Hetcler has show­cased her tal­ents early in the sea­son, her team­mates know Hetchler puts in the hard work required to win.

“Especially this year over all oth­ers, I don’t think I could be with­out any per­son that’s on the team,” Hetchler said. “The team sup­port is the best part.  It’s good to know whether you have a good day or bad day, your team will always be there to lift you up, and my team actu­ally does that.”

Mignano and Hetchler both agree on the impor­tance of help­ing each other and chal­leng­ing one another to improve not just them­selves, but them as a team.

“I am proud of the whole team and of Bryce for get­ting her first col­le­giate vic­tory,” Mignano said. “We have a very com­pet­i­tive ros­ter this sea­son and it makes for a chal­leng­ing envi­ron­ment where every­one is work­ing together to get bet­ter indi­vid­u­ally but also push their team­mates to con­tinue to improve.” n

I can’t bring myself to under­stand why MTV’s Jersey Shore is so fas­ci­nat­ing and pop­u­lar in society.

When the show first aired, I watched one episode and became imme­di­ately dis­gusted. The thought of idol­iz­ing a group of irre­spon­si­ble, igno­rant fame-hogs whose lives con­sist of par­ty­ing almost 24/7 and sleep­ing with strangers they meet in a club is very unap­peal­ing to me. (more…)

FLITE held a debate through Global Initiative regard­ing the con­tro­ver­sial issue of whether or not a mosque should be built two blocks from ground zero.

The issue has stirred con­tro­versy, as many Americans feel build­ing the wor­ship cen­ter would be a slap in the face to the fam­i­lies of those who died on Sept. 11. Some feel the mosque is being built as a vic­to­ri­ous dis­play from Muslims for what hap­pened on that day. (more…)

The Ferris State men’s golf team put forth a strong effort as it fin­ished fifth at the Great Lakes Region Tournament in South Haven. (more…)