What do you want to be when you grow up?

By the time any self-respecting teenager hits his senior year of high school or his fresh­man year of col­lege, he wants to plug his ears and pre­tend the ques­tion doesn’t exist.

I have been there. Growing up I changed my mind about what I wanted to do with my life many times. I wanted to be a farmer, vet­eri­nar­ian, nurse, phar­ma­cist and teacher. By the time I entered Ferris State University, I still didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. (more…)

Let’s face it: we’re all going to accu­mu­late some form of stu­dent loan debt after we grad­u­ate. I’m going to have a steady amount of debt to pay back after I leave Ferris, and the major­ity of stu­dents on this cam­pus will too.

That doesn’t mean we have to leave $60,000 or more (although it’s not a guar­an­tee by any means); there are some resources and ways to lower your amount, even if it’s just by a lit­tle bit.

StudentLoanConsolidation​.Pro offers five ways to avoid debt. Read them care­fully: (more…)

Many uni­ver­si­ties show their school spirit and stu­dent tal­ent in a vari­ety of ways. For FSU stu­dent Carlvin Dorvilier, spread­ing school spirit will come in the form of a campus-wide lip dub video.

“This type of thing hasn’t been done before here, and if so, it hasn’t been done effec­tively,” said Dorvilier, a junior in advertising/integrated mar­ket­ing communications.

A lip dub is a form of video that joins lip-synching and audio dub­bing, show­ing a per­son or group of peo­ple lip-syncing to cre­ate a sim­ple music video. However, lip dubs are done in a sin­gle shot that trav­els through­out an area show­ing dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions. (more…)

“Yeah, oh well, who cares?”

How many times a day do you hear those words spo­ken on Ferris’ cam­pus? Every gen­er­a­tion has a flaw. Not every cohort of indi­vid­u­als is per­fect in any way, shape or form. One thing in par­tic­u­lar I’ve noticed about my gen­er­a­tion is we don’t seem to give a crap about much any­more unless it’s on our Facebook news feed or buzzes on our cell phones.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but at my time in col­lege, I’ve real­ized that many indi­vid­u­als in their late teens and early twen­ties don’t care too much about what goes on in our soci­ety any­more. College tuition goes up, I hear “It isn’t fair and col­lege is too expen­sive.” Some nat­ural dis­as­ter strikes, it’s usu­ally “Well, that just sucks.” (more…)

FSU men’s golfer earns GLIAC weekly honor

Sophomore Trent Davison was recently hon­ored as the GLIAC Men’s Golf Athlete of the Week. Davison tied for sec­ond place over­all in a field of 135 com­peti­tors as he led the Bulldogs to a runner-up fin­ish in the NCAA Fall Midwest Regional (Sept. 25–26). He was just three strokes behind the tour­na­ment cham­pi­ons as he recorded two rounds of 72 to fin­ish at 144 over­all. (more…)

The Cheap Nothing -
The Politics of Existence (more…)

Students have encoun­tered prob­lems such as not being able to find a seat, wait­ing in long lines dur­ing the din­ner rush, and even prob­lems with the “town­ies” and the com­mu­nity din­ing there. Most of the stu­dents who have a meal plan would agree the din­ing sit­u­a­tion has been “irritating.”

Many stu­dents feel it has gone too far and want some­thing to be done. There has been dis­cus­sion by stu­dents who have even heard of a pos­si­ble peti­tion cir­cu­lat­ing protest­ing the Rock. The peti­tion (if started) would most likely be to reopen Center Ice. Griffin Godlewski, a sopho­more in eng­lish edu­ca­tion, feels the peti­tion would be a good way for Dining Services to real­ize how strongly stu­dents feel. (more…)

The term CEO is not just for exec­u­tives anymore.

A team com­prised of Ferris stu­dents, Shirish Grover, the fac­ulty advi­sor, and Dean Donald Green is form­ing Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) on campus.

The group has national recog­ni­tion, but has not yet been approved by Ferris State University. Kristen Dzikowicz, a senior in busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion and the pres­i­dent of CEO, is hop­ing to change that. (more…)

For a moment on Sept. 28, Grand Valley State University’s twenty-four game win streak looked to be in dan­ger. Just under six min­utes into the game, FSU sopho­more mid­fielder Hillary Braun net­ted a goal to put the vis­it­ing Bulldogs on the score­board first.

The goal was the first allowed by GVSU on its home turf in nearly two years, and it gave the Bulldogs some much needed momen­tum to begin the game.

GVSU tied the game less than a minute later and added two more goals in the first half to give the Lakers a 3–1 lead going into half­time. That would end up being the final score of the game, as nei­ther team lit up the score­board in the sec­ond half. (more…)