As finals started to get into full swing, a few stu­dents decided to get the party started early and attempt to start a rave/flash mob in the library. Word spread around Facebook quickly and by the start of the event over 950 peo­ple were “attend­ing”. The rave/flash mob caught so much atten­tion early that by the time the event was sup­posed to hap­pen, DPS and extra crowd con­trol were already lin­ing the library, check­ing bags for speak­ers and other poten­tial dis­rup­tive mate­ri­als. (more…)

Entertainment Unlimited’s last event of the year ended with a bang, lit­er­ally. As stu­dents rushed to be onstage and be hyp­no­tized by Sailesh Jiawan, who has been dubbed by MTV Europe as the “Best hyp­no­tist on the planet”. Sailesh quickly had the crowed laugh­ing with his “R-rated” show, tak­ing hyp­no­tism to a much dirt­ier level than other hyp­no­tists in the past. Volunteers per­formed in raunchy acts to an enthused crowd. (more…)

The FSU adjunct union will be pick­et­ing near the Timme Center for Student Services on April 28 in an attempt to bring campus-wide atten­tion to con­tract negotiations.

The Ferris Nontenure-Track Organization (FNTFO) began orga­niz­ing last spring and rep­re­sents an esti­mated 100 nontenure-track fac­ulty on Ferris’ Big Rapids cam­pus. (more…)

If I could give one piece of advice as I leave Ferris, it would be to get off your butt.

What I mean by that is while the occa­sional quiet night at home is nice, but do not make a habit out of it. So log out of World of Warcraft, put down the pipe, get off of Facebook and stop watch­ing Netflix. (more…)

The con­cert that is con­sid­ered by most to be the biggest Ferris State University event of the year was moved into Wink Arena this year due to inclement weather. The arena drew in a crowd so large that max­i­mum capac­ity was reached, and they had to begin turn­ing peo­ple away. (more…)

“This group pos­sesses the pas­sion to suc­ceed not only on the ice but in the class­room due to their com­mit­ment and work ethic,” said Ferris head coach Bob Daniels, who recently com­pleted his 19th sea­son at the helm for the Bulldogs and is the program’s all-time win­ningest coach. (more…)

Alex Lorenz, a sopho­more in the pub­lic rela­tions pro­gram, had an inter­est­ing intern­ship oppor­tu­nity that sparked a pas­sion within her to cre­ate the Student Fashion Alliance, a fash­ion reg­is­tered stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion on cam­pus. (more…)

The mem­ory of Dr. Ellen Haneline, for­mer Dean of the College of Allied Health Sciences, will live on through the newly estab­lished Ferris State University Ellen Haneline Scholarship.

The schol­ar­ship was cre­ated by her hus­band Dr. Douglas Haneline, a Ferris Language and Literature pro­fes­sor and his daugh­ter Elizabeth, a Ferris com­puter tech­ni­cian for a stu­dent in the allied health pro­gram. A cer­e­mony to intro­duce the new schol­ar­ship will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the atrium of the Michigan College of Optometry Building. (more…)

The Ferris men’s golf team trav­elled to Bath, Mich., on April 22–23 to get a feel for what the neu­tral course and field of com­pe­ti­tion for the GLIAC Tournament would be like in the fall season.

Ferris took on teams inter­ested in pre­view­ing the upcom­ing GLIAC Championship Tournament sched­uled for the 2011-12 sea­son at Eagle Eye Golf Club in Bath. (more…)

Or, at least, that’s the impres­sion the come­dian gave dur­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion on April 19 at Williams Auditorium. (more…)