It’s small, it’s black and it fits in my pocket. You guessed it, my cell phone.

Think back to our high school and mid­dle school days when we begged our par­ents to buy us cell phones. I’m not sure about you, but I know I did not get my first cell phone until I was in eleventh grade. Before that I would use my house phone or a friend’s cell phone, if they had one. Now, gosh, five years later, hav­ing a cell phone is part of life. It’s really rare to hear of some­one not hav­ing a cell phone, kind of like not hav­ing a Facebook. It’s weird. (more…)

Recently I lis­tened to Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger​.com on TED​.com. Hill talked about all the exces­sive stuff we keep in our lives and how we don’t really need any of it. He urges every­one to live an edited life. (more…)

St. Peter’s Lutheran School, located on West Bellevue Street, is receiv­ing the aid of two Ferris stu­dents at its annual fash­ion show.

Tirzah Price and Kristy Britton, alumni of St. Peter’s, have decided to donate some of their time to help the school raise funds to help sup­port itself.

“Being in a smaller set­ting in a pri­vate school is very dif­fer­ent from pub­lic schools,” Price said of her expe­ri­ence at St. Peter’s. “I really appre­ci­ate the sup­port I got there beyond the class­room.” (more…)

Dr. Khagendra Thapa, a pro­fes­sor in sur­vey­ing engi­neer­ing, is not only work­ing to pro­mote his pro­gram, but receiv­ing awards while express­ing his passion.

The walls inside Thapa’s office are cov­ered with awards and cer­tifi­cates. Included in the bunch is the FSU Distinguished Teacher Award from 2008. (more…)

The Ferris State University men’s and women’s cross coun­try teams fin­ished up the con­fer­ence sea­son at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference cham­pi­onships this weekend.

The men’s team fin­ished fourth in the tour­na­ment which is the high­est fin­ish ever for the Bulldogs.

“It was really excit­ing, nobody was dis­ap­pointed. The course was really muddy so it took guts, and it was just a great way to fin­ish off the sea­son,” FSU sopho­more run­ner David Silversmith said. (more…)

There was a recent arti­cle about three young women who escaped a sink­ing SUV after a direc­tion from a rental car GPS unit sent them down a boat launch and into the Mercer Slough near Bellevue, Wash.

The dri­ver appar­ently thought she was on a road while fol­low­ing her GPS unit just after mid­night — but she was actu­ally head­ing down the Sweyolocken boat launch. This was just a case of a lost dri­ver and a GPS sys­tem that didn’t quite live up to stan­dards. (more…)

Expired plates

Oct. 17 at 11:30 p.m., offi­cers stopped a vehi­cle with an expired plate on Campus Drive. The dri­ver was found to have a sus­pended license. (more…)

When Bonis was three years old, his father took him to an ice rink to learn to skate. Bonis ini­tially found dis­plea­sure in ice skat­ing because he didn’t have imme­di­ate success.

Bonis, like many who ice skate for the first time, imme­di­ately fell on his butt. (more…)

Recently, a col­lege in Missouri made drug test­ing manda­tory for all stu­dents, accord­ing to an arti­cle pub­lished on Oct. 10 in the New York Times.

Linn State Technical College informed its stu­dents they would be required to sub­mit a urine test that would be checked for all ille­gal drugs as a require­ment of enrolling there. I do not think this is a bad idea. (more…)

In the world of Division II women’s vol­ley­ball, there are not many teams which have shown the dom­i­nance that FSU has.

Probably because in the world of Division II women’s vol­ley­ball, there are not many teams with a player like FSU senior cap­tain Lisa Tobiczyk on their roster.

“Lisa is a fan­tas­tic leader, she has dili­gently worked to hone her nat­ural lead­er­ship instincts,” FSU head coach Tia Brandel-Wilhelm said. (more…)