The Ferris State University women’s vol­ley­ball team nearly shutout every team they faced this past weekend.

FSU is now 4–0 to start the sea­son after host­ing the Ferris State Invitational Sept. 2 and 3. The team only dropped a sin­gle set in 13 sets over Labor Day Weekend.

The Bulldogs swept three schools in the tour­na­ment. Drury (Mo.), Southern Indiana, and California (Pa.) all fell to FSU by a 3–0 deci­sion. The only oppo­nent to chal­lenge the Bulldogs’ defense was Wisconsin-Parkside, though FSU still defeated them 3–1. (more…)

College cam­puses are lit­tered with stu­dents, cit­i­zens of the com­mu­nity, vis­i­tors, and fac­ulty mem­bers, all peo­ple with their own right to decide to smoke or not.

But more and more uni­ver­si­ties across the coun­try have decided peo­ple don’t have the priv­i­lege to light up a cig­a­rette or tobacco prod­uct on their campus.

I under­stand a pri­vate insti­tu­tion may estab­lish such a rule. It is their pri­vate prop­erty that they can dic­tate as they please. Public uni­ver­si­ties and col­leges do not own the same jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. (more…)

Smoking is absolutely unnec­es­sary on a col­lege cam­pus. I would love to see some sort of com­mit­tee will­ing to walk around Ferris politely ask­ing those smok­ing to stop. Smoking is a choice you get to make for your­self, but the deci­sion to smoke will never just affect your life. It will affect every­one and every­thing you encounter, plus it will also make you ugly and age faster than you have ever imag­ined. You will also need lots of Febreze because you will be smelly.

I hold my breath every time I encounter a smoker and avoid them when I can help it. I have used other entrances to build­ings on cam­pus just because a smoker was within the “proper dis­tance” from the front of a build­ing. (more…)

So long, CCHA! Ferris State University has accepted an invi­ta­tion to join the WCHA (Western Collegiate Hockey Association) begin­ning in the 2013–2014 season.

Due to the cre­ation of the new Big Ten hockey con­fer­ence, which took University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University and University of Minnesota from the WCHA and the CCHA (Central Collegiate Hockey Association,) the WCHA extended invi­ta­tions to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Bowling Green State University, Lake Superior State University, Western Michigan University and FSU to join the WCHA. (more…)

On Sept. 11, 2001, the lives of many were altered forever.

Now, ten years later, Ferris stu­dents look back on where they were on that tragic, his­toric day.

“I remem­ber them telling us to go home,” said Quillian Murphy, a sopho­more in psy­chol­ogy. Murphy said he and his class­mates were not exactly sure what was going on. (more…)

The audi­to­rium was silent as every­one waited to see what he would say.

“Photographer.” The student’s eyes widened with dis­be­lief. Craig Karges had just read his mind.

Moments later, with the help of ran­domly selected mem­bers of the audi­ence, Karges made a table lev­i­tate, moved a block of wood with his mind, and wrote on a chalk­board with­out touch­ing it. (more…)

Every nine sec­onds in the U.S. a woman is assaulted or beaten. An esti­mated 1.3 mil­lion women are vic­tims of phys­i­cal assault by an inti­mate part­ner each year.

WISE stands for “Women’s Information Service Inc.,” a domes­tic vio­lence and adult sex­ual assault ser­vice program.

The orga­ni­za­tion serves Mecosta, Osceola, and Newaygo coun­ties. WISE Shopper is a local non­profit store in down­town Big Rapids that gives what profit they earn from sales to WISE, a local women’s shel­ter. WISE pro­vides safety, sup­port, and advo­cacy ser­vices to vic­tims of domes­tic vio­lence and sex­ual assault. (more…)

With the 10th anniver­sary of 9/11 approach­ing, this is a good time to reflect on the oppor­tu­ni­ties the armed forces and civil ser­vice­men have given our country.

Many Ferris stu­dents can still remem­ber where they were the morn­ing they watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I still remem­ber sit­ting in a class­room watch­ing the news cov­er­age of the plane crash­ing into New York City’s North Tower. Students sit­ting along­side me in the class­room that day watched puz­zled, wait­ing for our teacher to explain how this event would impact his­tory. (more…)

As the 2011-12 school year begins, so does Kappa Kappa Psi, a new music fraternity/ reg­is­tered stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion on campus.

The RSO existed on Ferris’ cam­pus for a cou­ple of decades, but dis­ap­peared in the early 1990s due to the music pro­gram and the entire uni­ver­sity tak­ing a major finan­cial hit. Progress toward get­ting the group for­mu­lated again was brought about by Ferris stu­dents. (more…)