The Bulldogs earned four points in the con­fer­ence stand­ings this week­end, grab­bing a 3–1 vic­tory on Friday against No. 16-ranked Western Michigan before los­ing a 5–4 in a shootout on Saturday.

Following a sweep at the hands of Lake Superior State the pre­vi­ous week­end, Ferris got back on the win­ning track in the first con­test against the Broncos, snap­ping Western’s three-game win­ning streak. (more…)

The Bulldog hockey team will be with­out its lead­ing scorer when it hosts the nation­ally No. 16-ranked Western Michigan Broncos in a con­fer­ence show­down this weekend.

The Torch inac­cu­rately reported on Wednesday that Bulldog senior cap­tain Zach Redmond played in the team’s pre­vi­ous series against Lake Superior State last week­end. Redmond suf­fered a bro­ken foot against the Miami RedHawks on Nov. 5 and did not travel to the U.P. with the team. (more…)

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With high expec­ta­tions and acco­lades dur­ing the pre­sea­son, the Bulldogs got down to back­ing up the expec­ta­tions with two home vic­to­ries to open the season.

As The Sporting News picked Ferris as one of its pos­si­ble break­through teams in Division II, the Bulldogs got off to a good start by pick­ing up vic­to­ries over Calvin and St. Joseph’s (Ind.) at Wink Arena. (more…)

The Joe Nichols con­cert for Autumn aLive brought Wink Arena to life on Veterans Day.

Nichols, a four-time Grammy nom­i­nated singer, came to Ferris from Nashville to play some of his hit songs includ­ing “Gimme that Girl” and “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.” (more…)

Students inter­ested in learn­ing about tele­vi­sion will have the oppor­tu­nity to do so with a class being offered in the spring 2011 semester.

Television Studio Techniques (TVPR 301) is a class that is not offered reg­u­larly, but will be avail­able to stu­dents who are not in the tele­vi­sion and dig­i­tal media pro­duc­tion pro­gram. (more…)

When I learned a uni­ver­sity was offer­ing a soci­ol­ogy course focused on Lady Gaga and “fame,” I thought it was a joke.

The University of South Carolina is, yes, offer­ing a course defined as “Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame.” There is actu­ally a class syl­labus on USC’s web­site. I don’t see how this class is going to be a use­ful asset in a student’s future. (more…)

After swim­ming through a sea of media that endorses per­fect shells of skin and coun­ter­feit images, we ask our­selves, what is beauty?

This image of a per­fect indi­vid­ual is ingrained in our heads and we often strive to emu­late that per­son. We are obsessed on how we look and what oth­ers think of us. This is appar­ent with the numer­ous mag­a­zines stud­ded out with glam­our mod­els and new diet tips. But, I ask myself, is this a pic­ture of per­fect beauty? Are we so wor­ried about what we look like that we lose sight of what true beauty is? (more…)

The FSU Symphony Band and the FSU West Central Chamber Orchestra will con­tinue this month’s musi­cal mon­tage with two more concerts.

The band is com­prised of the largest num­ber of Ferris stu­dents it’s seen in many years. The orches­tra is also reach­ing record break­ing num­bers this fall with the largest num­ber of string play­ers it has ever had and the largest num­ber of par­tic­i­pat­ing Ferris stu­dents. (more…)

Ferris RSO D-Saga is help­ing cre­ate a more open-minded cam­pus in Big Rapids.

The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (D-Saga) is an RSO at Ferris edu­cat­ing stu­dents on gay, les­bian, bisex­ual and trans­gen­dered (glbt) issues. (more…)