The Jim Crow Museum has now opened at their new loca­tion on the lower level of FLITE. The 1.3 mil­lion dol­lar gallery is set up in a 3,500 square foot exhibit after pre­vi­ously being located in a 500 square foot class­room. The museum con­tains sev­eral thou­sand pieces of mem­o­ra­bilia related to racism around the world. The museum is open week­days from 12-5pm.

Photos by Kate Dupon, Photo Editor

The Student Ambassadors, an RSO on cam­pus ded­i­cated to intro­duc­ing Ferris to high school stu­dents, will have a new name next year along with a few changes.

The pro­gram will no longer be named “Student Ambassadors;” it will be renamed “Student Recruiting Associates”. (more…)

The cur­rent Rankin Art Gallery exhibit, “Visionaries and Malcontents,” fea­tures oil paint­ings with titles that give small hints to whom the paint­ings feature.

Thomas Post, cre­ator of the paint­ings and pro­fes­sor of paint­ing and fine arts at Kendall College, doesn’t want peo­ple to eas­ily iden­tify who’s who.

“I didn’t want to lay it out there; I just give lit­tle clues—just a sound bite in the title to make it more intrigu­ing,” Post said. “People ask me all the time who are in my paint­ings. When you’re given the answer all the time, it’s easy to pass through. I want peo­ple to see the lay­ers.” (more…)

FSU Men’s Tennis

Junior

Port Huron/Northern (more…)

Not many teams can say that the player with the most RBI’s and the second-best bat­ting aver­age on the team also pitches.

Sophomore FSU pitcher and des­ig­nated hit­ter Amy Dunleavy has been given the chance to effect both the offense and defense this year.

Before Dunleavy arrived at Ferris, she bat­ted and pitched reg­u­larly for Canton High school in Canton, Mich. Though dur­ing her fresh­man year at Ferris, Dunleavy took a year off from hit­ting to focus on her pitch­ing and make adjust­ments. (more…)

A Ferris State University junior graphic design class is wrap­ping up its semes­ter brand­ing project for var­i­ous local non-profit organizations.

This project con­sisted of 21 stu­dents focus­ing on three dif­fer­ent clients: Artworks, Stage M, and a hypo­thet­i­cal recy­cling pro­gram for Ferris. The pur­pose of this assign­ment was to re-brand a local non-profit orga­ni­za­tion. (more…)

Softball team hit­ting on all cylinders

Six games were played this week for FSU’s soft­ball team, and they came away look­ing bet­ter than ever before. This past Wednesday the team trav­eled to Northwood University for a two-game set, and the Bulldogs ended up win­ning them both by the scores of 6–3 and 13–5, which ended up in a mercy rule in the fifth inning. After the Bulldogs had to post­pone April 20 matches against Saginaw Valley State University because of weather, they took on the Cardinals in four straight games span­ning two days. (more…)

Professional dress is some­thing most of us have donned at least once in our col­lege career, and I can only imag­ine how muti­nous you must feel at the prospect.

To make mat­ters worse, pro­fes­sional dress is hor­ri­ble for sum­mer weather. A full suit gets hot very fast and some minor busi­nesses do not have air con­di­tion­ing, not to men­tion Michigan, as many of us have expe­ri­enced, can get very hot in the sum­mer. (more…)

Emily Noffsinger, Ferris sopho­more in graphic design and this month’s Rankin Art Gallery Student Artist of the Month, is on a roll with artis­tic expres­sion, cre­at­ing orig­i­nal longboards.

Noffsinger began the process as a senior in high school, when an advanced place­ment class required her to turn in a con­cen­tra­tion, or 12 pieces of related art. Knowing Noffsinger would be pur­su­ing a degree in graphic design, her teacher sug­gested her stu­dent cre­ate a com­pany. Noffsinger would start by mak­ing a logo and then cre­ate the actual boards. (more…)

If you’re lonely and need some social inter­ac­tions, a new web ser­vice can help. GirlfriendHire allows girls to offer their “ser­vices” online, such as being your Facebook girl­friend, send­ing you a text mes­sage or writ­ing on your Facebook wall.

But not all offers involv­ing fake rela­tion­ships include teach­ing you how to use your iPhone, cre­ate a playlist of dub­step music, or help proof­read a home­work assign­ment, all for five dol­lars. (more…)