FSU fresh­man Lyndsey Neidhardt, room­mate of deceased stu­dent Demia Davis, said her first meet­ing with Davis was one she will always remember.

Greeted with a huge hug by Davis in the lobby of Clark Hall, Neidhardt said the large amount of fam­ily that helped Davis move into their new room sur­prised her. (more…)

Charlene Strong, a gay rights activist, spoke at the Williams Auditorium advo­cat­ing for mar­riage equal­ity. Strong, who lost her part­ner for nine years dur­ing a flash flood and was denied access to see her in the hos­pi­tal due to Washington State not rec­og­niz­ing domes­tic part­ner­ships, recounted her story in har­row­ing detail. She con­tin­ued to dis­cuss how she got the state of Washington to pass a domes­tic part­ner­ship and now, Strong trav­els around the coun­try dis­cussing the issue. (more…)

Handwriting is some­thing most col­lege stu­dents avoid when­ever pos­si­ble, and now the pub­lic school sys­tem is mak­ing it even easier.

Many states are no longer requir­ing schools to teach cur­sive writ­ing. This deci­sion has been met with some con­tro­versy on the Internet. The older gen­er­a­tion seems more hos­tile to the idea, while the younger gen­er­a­tion is applaud­ing. (more…)

Coke ver­sus Pepsi. Cheese ver­sus pep­per­oni pizza. Michigan ver­sus Michigan State. Everyone has their stance about these divid­ing issues.

One debate that ranges between gamers is which mod­ern first-person shooter they should play. (more…)

How often do we assume the worst of peo­ple? How quickly do we uncon­sciously judge, even though we’d hate to have the same done to us?

There is noth­ing more painful than going through some­thing very dif­fi­cult in your own real­ity, know­ing that the world doesn’t wish to under­stand. So often our expla­na­tions of someone’s sit­u­a­tion or actions are cold, assum­ing and neg­a­tive. (more…)

Occupy Wall Street has been defined as a “lead­er­less resis­tance move­ment with peo­ple of many col­ors, gen­ders and polit­i­cal per­sua­sions.” The com­mon­al­ity between all sup­port­ers of the move­ment is they con­sider them­selves as the 99 per­cent that will no longer tol­er­ate the greed and cor­rup­tion of the 1 per­cent,” accord­ing to occu​py​wallst​.org. (more…)

I was shocked when I saw a stu­dent take a flyer, crum­ple it and throw it to the ground nearly five sec­onds after he received it.

I was appalled when an entire row of stu­dents asked a pre­sen­ter for an auto­graph prov­ing they attended the event and walked out of the room before the pre­sen­ta­tion even began. (more…)

Aesthetic Engineering is the com­bi­na­tion of fine arts and prob­lem solv­ing. (more…)

Ferris stu­dents have felt the effects of rais­ing tuition and a slow econ­omy, but Obama’s new stu­dent loan plan promises to help ease the pain.

Amidst the tur­moil, President Obama has come forth to announce his hopes for alle­vi­at­ing stu­dent loan debt. This plan will allow stu­dents to “pay as they earn” by con­sol­i­dat­ing their fed­eral loan pay­ments into a sin­gle pay­ment not to exceed 10 per­cent of their dis­cre­tionary income. The plan will also for­give debt after 20 years of pay­ment. (more…)

Several Bulldog vol­ley­ball play­ers named to All-GLIAC team

FSU vol­ley­ball coach Tia Brandel-Wilhem was named GLIAC “Coach of the Year.” Her Bulldog team has put together a 26–3 over­all record and fin­ished GLIAC play 18–1. Six play­ers earned all-conference hon­ors. Senior out­side hit­ter Ashley Huntey, junior set­ter Samantha Fordyce and junior middle-hitter Anne Sutton were awarded first team All-GLIAC sta­tus. Senior libero Lisa Tobiczyk and fresh­man mid­dle hit­ter Courtney Rehm were sec­ond team All-GLIAC hon­orees. In addi­tion, Rehm was named GLIAC “Freshman of the Year” while Tobiczyk was named GLIAC “Libero of the Year.” Junior out­side hit­ter Aly Brecht earned GLIAC Honorable Mention lau­rels. (more…)