Like mil­lions of Americans, I no longer have any type of health insur­ance. I found this out when I had to pay for some pre­scrip­tions out of pocket.

One pre­scrip­tion cost over $300, which I was not able to afford. Another one cost $30 that I had to pay for out of pocket. I was not pleased when I dis­cov­ered this. (more…)

This is my fourth year of col­lege and my sec­ond year while attend­ing Ferris.

In all of my semes­ters study­ing at a higher edu­ca­tion level, I can hon­estly say this has been my tough­est one. But, because of how dif­fi­cult this semes­ter has been, I have over­come some of the biggest chal­lenges through­out my career, encoun­tered numer­ous “learn­ing expe­ri­ences” and hope­fully have become a bet­ter indi­vid­ual. (more…)

He wasn’t dis­missed for ignor­ing reports of child molesta­tion. He wasn’t given the boot for vio­lat­ing NCAA law. For the first time in what seems like a very long time (con­sid­er­ing the scan­dals that dom­i­nate ESPN), a coach was fired for just plain los­ing. (more…)

It’s not every­day stu­dents attend­ing a school func­tion hear the “n-word,” much less com­ing from the stage.

However, those who attended 5-star come­dian W. Kamau Bell’s pre­sen­ta­tion on Dec. 1 in Williams Auditorium were in for a sur­prise. His can­did speech and frank dis­cus­sion about race kept stu­dents laugh­ing, but also forced them to con­front some touchy top­ics. (more…)

Ferris began Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play Dec. 1–3 with a road trip in Ohio, where they faced two GLIAC South Division teams.

The Tiffin Dragons of Tiffin, Ohio were the first team the Bulldogs faced in the GLIAC. Tiffin and the Bulldogs went into half time tied at 37 points. (more…)

Equipment issues

Nov. 24 at 1:45 p.m., offi­cers stopped a vehi­cle on Chestnut near State Street for equip­ment vio­la­tion. Two occu­pants of the vehi­cle were found to be MIP and were tick­eted. (more…)

The Internet the world has come to know today may become a lot more restricted if HR 3261 is passed.

House Resolution 3261 is also known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Representative Lamar Smith of Texas intro­duced the bill.

The bill, if signed into law, would expand the abil­i­ties of the legal sys­tem to fight the theft of intel­lec­tual prop­er­ties by going after web­sites found to be host­ing such con­tent. (more…)

I recently saw an older gen­tle­man hold­ing a sign in Big Rapids labeled “Hungry, will work for food.” While this wasn’t the first time I had come across the stranger, his reoc­cur­rences through­out the city had become of con­cern to me. As I began to ask local busi­ness own­ers within the city, a num­ber of them also reported see­ing home­less men fre­quently vis­it­ing their estab­lish­ments. (more…)

Global trade and com­merce brings the tech­no­log­i­cal world together. But this also can bring neg­a­tive impacts. Flooding in Thailand has dec­i­mated the pro­duc­tion of com­puter hard dri­ves, caus­ing prices to sky-rocket around the rest of the world. (more…)

Tom DeLuca returned to Ferris to put sev­eral stu­dents under his power and make them per­form for a large crowd in the Williams Auditorium. From hav­ing two bal­let dancers, a Chief of the Fun Police, FSU head cheer­leader who kept for­get­ting the mas­cot, DeLuca enter­tained in this Entertainment Unlimited show to wind down the Fall 2011 semester.