On Sept. 27, You Beautiful Black Women (YBBW) hosted an FSU stu­dent pie throw in south quad.

The event, which allowed Ferris stu­dents to pie YBBW mem­bers for $1, raised money to help sup­port future YBBW events. The event was held from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. out­side Ferris’ Rock Café.

YBBW will be host­ing a meet and greet at West Campus Community Center on Sept. 29 from 5: 00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Joy Haley at 248−631−8952. (more…)

This year’s fall com­mence­ment cer­e­mony will require tick­ets for admission.

According to Administrative Assistant to the Associate Vice President Sherry Hayes, this new require­ment was put in place for the con­ve­nience of guests attend­ing graduation.

“We want every­one to be able to sit down and enjoy the cer­e­mony. Last December, we had stand­ing room only in one of the cer­e­monies; there­fore, we’ve decided we need to mon­i­tor it more closely,” Hayes said. (more…)

With a con­fer­ence switch loom­ing, Ferris State University stu­dents are eager to give their opin­ion on the future of the FSU men’s ice hockey team.

The new WCHA (Western Conference Hockey Association) extended an invi­ta­tion to FSU to join the con­fer­ence begin­ning in the 2013–14 sea­son. By accept­ing, FSU will be leav­ing the CCHA (Central Collegiate Hockey Association).

But what does the switch mean for fans? (more…)

There are many rea­sons col­lege stu­dents should attend class: to learn, get used to a rig­or­ous sched­ule, and meet new people.

But that doesn’t mean class should be manda­tory for stu­dents. The one thing that should never be taken away from stu­dents is their choice. Much of what a stu­dent learns in col­lege is not nec­es­sar­ily learned in class. Students learn many life lessons, become respon­si­ble and truly get to know who they are out­side of class. (more…)

A required atten­dance pol­icy should remain required by pro­fes­sors at Ferris State University.

For most stu­dents at Ferris, their first day of class began with a syl­labus stat­ing a required atten­dance pol­icy. The cur­rent edu­ca­tional mod­els in col­lege class­rooms are often struc­tured to pre­pare stu­dents for pro­fes­sional envi­ron­ments. This is evi­dent in the amount of group work, intern­ship require­ments and manda­tory atten­dance poli­cies degree pro­grams incor­po­rate. (more…)

Damaged vehi­cle

Sept. 11 at noon, a vehi­cle was reported dam­aged in Lot 3.

 

Domestic assault

Sept. 10 at 2:50 a.m., offi­cers assisted city police in a domes­tic assault on Maple and Michigan Avenue.
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I enjoy tak­ing walks and view­ing the beauty nature has to offer us. I look at the flow­ers, the trees, a Reese’s wrap­per, and a Bud Light can.

Yes, I meant to include the candy wrap­per and the beer can. These items are just as com­mon to see out­side as the dan­de­lions and the oak trees. We live in a time and day when it’s noth­ing out of the ordi­nary to see our trash spewed across the ground. (more…)

Bulldog Hall of Fame tick­ets on sale

Tickets are now on sale for the Class of 2011 Induction Banquet of Ferris State Universitiy’s Bulldog Athletic Hall of Fame.

The Bulldog Athletics Hall of Fame was estab­lished in 2000 to honor ath­letes and coaches who have made excep­tional con­tri­bu­tions to ath­let­ics. (more…)

Primus– Green Naugahyde

Released ear­lier this month (and for free if you Facebook liked the Southpark page), Primus gave the world another great album to tune out the world to. Listening to the new album lets you real­ize that even though the songs are dif­fer­ent, the for­mula is still the same: Les Claypool. Take the Claypool out of Primus and you wouldn’t have Primus. You can’t hear hardly any­thing else other than thump­ing base through­out this whole album, and it makes you want to turn the world off around you and just relax. The album is fan­tas­tic, but that only leads into another ques­tion: wasn’t there another crit­i­cally acclaimed bassist that released a new album with his band this year? (more…)