From sport­ing events to home­com­ing to recruit­ing, Brutus is often the first image peo­ple see when they get to Ferris. He is usu­ally the one cheer­ing the loud­est, caus­ing the most ruckus, and even the one­hav­ing time to make a kid smile at any event. (more…)

Too often are col­lege stu­dents looked upon in a neg­a­tive light. Rather it be our lack of protests, our choices in music or our style of dress, we are often unfairly portrayed.

For a gen­er­a­tion that is often referred to as being lazy, non-caring and rude, a bold state­ment is clearly being made when we see so many col­lege stu­dents involved in their com­mu­ni­ties. (more…)

The Ferris State University women’s golf team claimed its sec­ond tour­na­ment cham­pi­onship of the 2010-11 season.

The Bulldogs cap­tured a first place fin­ish at the Ohio Dominican Give 18 Fore Cancer Classic in Pataskala, Ohio, this week­end. The team recorded a 643 two-round team stroke total. (more…)

Traveling 450 miles to the great white north of Houghton Hancock is no easy trip.

Despite hav­ing only four vet­eran mem­bers, Ferris State University’s Baja team fin­ished eighth out of 46 teams at the Winter Baja event in Lake Linden. (more…)

Flash Mob raises aware­ness for char­ity event

On March 31st, many stu­dents stopped in sur­prise to watch as sev­eral stu­dents dropped their belong­ings and started to dance in for­ma­tion as a flash mob. (more…)

If you have to drive around cam­pus for 20 min­utes just to find a park­ing spot, it may be because Ferris State is the fastest grow­ing pub­lic uni­ver­sity in Michigan.

In 2000, the fall enroll­ment listed 9,847 stu­dents accord­ing to the 2010-11 Fact Book pub­lished by Institutional Research and Testing. Ten years later, Ferris’ enroll­ment for the fall 2010 semes­ter was 14,318. This rep­re­sents the largest num­ber of stu­dents enrolled in the school’s his­tory and a 45 per­cent increase in just a decade. (more…)

A team effort was pre­sented in a non-scoring event at Aquinas on April 1–2 fea­tur­ing sev­eral top place fin­ishes for the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs had a chance to bring the team together in the Grand Rapids Open hosted by Aquinas. The event fea­tured student-athletes from west Michigan schools that included Davenport University, Cornerstone University, Calvin, Aquinas, Hope, and Ferris State. (more…)

Behind a season-best out­ing from senior Kyle Wittenbach, the Bulldogs’ men’s golf team placed 11th out of 25 teams at the NCAA-II Midwest Region Tournament II this weekend.

At the two-round tour­na­ment, which was held at the Cherry Blossom Golf Course at Georgetown, Ky., Wittenbach posted a score of 144 on the week­end to fin­ish tied for sec­ond with Wayne State’s Steve Fedewa and Casey Pyne from Lewis University. Thomas Hay from Drury University claimed the first-place hon­ors with a one-under par score of 143 in two rounds of play. (more…)

Concert chaos

On Mar. 31 at 9:10 p.m., there was a report of a dis­or­derly sub­ject at the con­cert at Wink Arena. The sub­ject was lodged in the county jail for felo­nious assault.

Egged car

On Mar. 31 at 3:15 p.m., there was a report of a vehi­cle being struck by eggs next to the Rankin Center. (more…)