For the women’s team, sopho­more Zoey Hohmann won the 400 meters with a time of 57.27 and fin­ished sec­ond in the 200-meter race. Senior Amy Joostberns fin­ished sec­ond in the dis­cus throw, while fresh­man Jessica Pilling fin­ished sec­ond in the ham­mer throw. (more…)

With more than 1,500 vol­un­teers and just over 200 houses, stu­dents from Ferris State University rounded up in the Quad to gather tools needed for a day devoted to the community.

Students went to local Big Rapids houses to rake, clean win­dows, paint and enjoy a day out­side while serv­ing the local com­mu­nity mem­bers that may not be able to do the work. The event is held annu­ally every April and with this year being its biggest year so far, Student Government has no plans on slow­ing down. (more…)

Across cam­pus, numer­ous Ferris stu­dent orga­ni­za­tions are answer­ing the call to Japan’s tragic tsunami disaster.

On April 7, FSU’s Asian Student Organization raised an esti­mated $120 from dona­tions in the quad for Japan’s dis­as­ter relief fund. (more…)

You know how they say don’t believe every­thing you hear? Well, don’t believe every­thing you read either.

As I over­heard con­ver­sa­tions last week about how Justin Bieber is com­ing to Ferris Fest, a sly smirk imme­di­ately crossed my face. All it took was for one or two peo­ple to read the front-page head­line of last week’s Torch and tell their friends with­out read­ing into it. (more…)

These faces were rep­re­sented by the 150 inter­na­tional stu­dents who show­cased their coun­tries at the 23rd International Festival of Cultures. (more…)

But while the Bulldogs fell short of that goal this year after an impres­sive run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament this sea­son, Keenan will have to set­tle for fin­ish­ing his Bulldog career as one of the most pro­lific play­ers in GLIAC his­tory. (more…)

The first Turn Up The Good event brought FSU a brand new genre of music that intro­duced Ferris stu­dents to a whole new musi­cal experience.

Wink Arena was packed with stu­dents last Thursday who turned out to see The Glitch Mob, Virtual Boy, Item9, and Ferris’ own Keaton Kidder. 1,548 stu­dents, com­mu­nity mem­bers, and even fac­ulty bought tick­ets and attended the per­for­mance. (more…)

Though Ferris State might get bashed some­times, we really do have a lot of great pro­grams depend­ing on what you’re going into.

For exam­ple, our health care pro­grams are really some­thing to be proud of, such as all our allied health, optom­e­try, and of course, our pres­ti­gious phar­macy pro­gram. (more…)

The Bulldogs sub­merged the Lake Superior State Lakers in both games of a sin­gle dou­ble­header April 2. Ferris trav­elled to Rockford High School to host the Lakers, in an attempt to avoid bad weather and field con­di­tions. But due to win­ter weather con­di­tions sched­uled dou­ble­head­ers on March 31 and April 3 were can­celled. (more…)

The Ferris Hospitality Gala Management team orga­nized the event, Cover the Seal in the quad by col­lect­ing loose change from Ferris stu­dents in order to raise money to help those who were dev­as­tated by the March 11 earthquake/tsunami in Japan.

The Hospitality Gala Management team worked together to come up with an idea to help the vic­tims affected by the dis­as­ter. In addi­tion, the Alumni Gold Club par­tic­i­pated in the event as well. (more…)