Like their pre­vi­ous meet­ing in Grand Rapids this ear­lier this sea­son, it came down to over­time between the Bulldogs and Lakers. But this time the Lakers came out on top 82–80 on a last-second bank shot as the clock hit 0:00.

The 21st-ranked Ferris men’s bas­ket­ball team bat­tled back from a slow start in the first half to knot the score at 34–34 at half­time. The sec­ond half proved no dif­fer­ent as both teams posted 34 points in the sec­ond 20 min­utes to dead­lock at 68–68 at the end of reg­u­la­tion. (more…)

The Ferris State hockey team secured a first-round bye in the CCHA Tournament for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive sea­son with two road vic­to­ries over Ohio State.

The Bulldogs defeated the Buckeyes 3–1 on Friday night, secur­ing five of the six con­fer­ence points from the week­end series. The Bulldogs topped the Buckeyes 1–0 in a shootout on Thursday night after a 2–2 tie through reg­u­la­tion and over­time. (more…)

As for­mer high school stu­dents, many col­lege stu­dents could prob­a­bly say that the tran­si­tion to a world on their own was one they looked for­ward to eagerly.

To most, col­lege offers a fresh start full of free­dom, good times, and a world where some­one can be who­ever he or she wants. It’s a chance to start with a fresh group of friends and new rela­tion­ships. No one knows each other, and essen­tially, no one can tell any­one else what to do. (more…)

There are 142 mil­lion Americans who are either over-weight or obese and that num­ber is only expected to rise in the upcom­ing years.

Where did the American peo­ple get all of these front butts, back tit­ties, and quadru­ple chins? (more…)

It is the end of an era as the destruc­tion of Carlisle Hall marks another step toward Ferris State’s Big Rapids Campus Master Plan.

Located on north cam­pus, the 55-year-old Carlisle Hall will be closed after spring 2011. This gives the cur­rent res­i­dents time to choose which Honors hall they will live in next school year. Student options are Helen-Ferris, Puterbaugh, Henderson or Ward, the newly refur­bished Honors res­i­dence hall. (more…)

Jonni Skiba, FSU stu­dent in her sec­ond year of phar­macy school, recently became engaged to the man of her dreams whom she has only seen for an esti­mated 60 days through­out their entire three-year relationship.

Relationships are some­thing that require con­stant care and work, which is hard enough to do when you’re together let alone when you’re apart. (more…)

The Bulldogs wanted to be the best this year. They knew they would have to beat the best down the stretch to get the GLIAC North crown. And with just one game left in the reg­u­lar sea­son, the Bulldogs are GLIAC North champs.

Saturday had all the mak­ings of the kind of excite­ment you see dur­ing March mad­ness: fans rush­ing the court, nets being cut down, team pho­tos with the Bulldogs let­ting every­one know they are num­ber one. And with all of it, it can almost be for­got­ten that senior cen­ter Justin Keenan is one point away from becom­ing the all-time lead­ing scorer in GLIAC his­tory. (more…)

I am one of the for­tu­nate seniors that have a job lined up after grad­u­a­tion in May.

Many of my friends have had trou­ble secur­ing jobs after grad­u­a­tion and some have cho­sen to go to grad­u­ate school. For those stu­dents who do not wish to con­tinue their edu­ca­tion after grad­u­a­tion, the num­ber of days before May 7 is dwin­dling quickly. The final 73 days of the semes­ter will be stress­ful for many grad­u­at­ing seniors. (more…)

FSU stu­dent Corey VanBuren always needed a phys­i­cal out­let to bring him peace. Growing up in Belding, VanBuren said he enjoyed phys­i­cal sports that gave him an adren­a­line rush.

“During high school, foot­ball was that out­let for those needs. After that was over, I didn’t know what to do with myself,” said VanBuren. (more…)

The hard­ships faced by mil­i­tary per­son­nel return­ing to school after serv­ing in the mil­i­tary are under­stood by few who haven’t expe­ri­enced it themselves.

The Political Engagement Project at FSU is spon­sor­ing “Why We Serve,” an infor­mal panel dis­cus­sion tak­ing place on Feb. 23 which gives stu­dents the chance to ask vet­eran stu­dents ques­tions about their time serv­ing and their expe­ri­ences adjust­ing to col­lege. The event is tak­ing place to help cel­e­brate President’s Week. (more…)