The Bulldogs showed what they were capa­ble of Saturday, as they upset the No. 19 nationally-ranked Findlay Oilers in thrilling fash­ion 86–77.

Ferris junior for­ward Justin Keenan dis­played why he is one of the best play­ers in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) as he scored a career-high 35 points. Keenan has won four straight GLIAC North Division “Player of the Week” hon­ors. (more…)

China has been in the news a lot lately.

The mas­sively pop­u­lated coun­try was the cen­ter of the recent con­tro­versy over Gmail accounts being hacked, as well as a sta­ple of many recent columns by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. (more…)

The Ferris Faculty Association held their “Critical Updates on Negotiations” meet­ing to dis­cuss issues asso­ci­ated with achiev­ing a new contract.

The FFA is an affil­i­ated unit of the Michigan and National Education Associations that con­sists of both fac­ulty and staff mem­bers, includ­ing the university’s administration.

Professor in man­u­fac­tur­ing & engi­neer­ing tech­nol­ogy and pres­i­dent of the Ferris Faculty Association James Rumpf said the meet­ing was “pri­mar­ily an update.” He said the goal of the FFA and the admin­is­tra­tion is to have a con­tract in place by the end of the spring 2010 semes­ter. (more…)

Dr. Seuss’ pri­vate art­work is on dis­play in a three-week exhibit at Rankin Art Gallery.

Seuss, as he is known to most of the world for his beloved children’s books, is actu­ally Theodor Geisel. (more…)

The Festival of the Arts is still in full swing with many events com­ing up this week.

Madcat, Kane and Maxwell Street Concert will be pre­sented at Ferris State University in Williams Auditorium. Admission is $3 for stu­dents and $5 for gen­eral admis­sion. The per­for­mance will be held on Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. (more…)

Students can pur­sue a hobby or inter­est by set­ting up a Registered Student Organization on campus.

Dennis Boyd Jr., chair­per­son of the Student Leadership and Activities Advisory Council (SLAAC) and senior in the new media print­ing and pub­lish­ing pro­gram, said many RSOs are started as hobby groups.

RSOs are set up based on inter­ests that con­sist of a vari­ety of things such as sports, pol­i­tics, faith, etc. (more…)

Every February, peo­ple across the nation pull out their wal­lets to spend money on their spe­cial some­one, but most peo­ple are unaware of how Valentine’s Day came to be.

The ori­gin of St. Valentine’s Day is still some­what of a mys­tery. One leg­end claims that Valentine was a priest in Rome dur­ing the third cen­tury. (more…)

The Ferris State foot­ball pro­gram added 24 new prospects as the team announced its 2010 recruit­ing class on National Signing Day.

Bulldog head coach Jeff Pierce made the offi­cial announce­ment at a press con­fer­ence on Feb. 3. (more…)

I really hope that the lit­er­ary mark of our life­time won’t involve vam­pires or wizards.

I enjoyed read­ing the Harry Potter book series immensely and feel that the draw they cre­ated to get young peo­ple read­ing is impor­tant. While I’m not a par­tic­u­lar fan of any­thing to do with vam­pires falling in love with non-vampires and were­wolves who get mixed up in all of it, there can be no doubt that read­ing some­thing is bet­ter than read­ing noth­ing. (more…)