After their first round bye, Ferris State hockey con­tin­ues in their pur­suit of the Mason Cup by tak­ing on Bowling Green State this week­end. The Falcons upset Northern Michigan in the first round after enter­ing the CCHA play­offs as the low­est seeds.

FSU and BGSU are fac­ing off for their third series this year. During their four reg­u­lar sea­son face­offs, the Bulldogs won all four games by at least a two goal mar­gin after scor­ing at least four goals them­selves. (more…)

Small set­back

Lady Bulldogs took the GLIAC North Division title, a win over Findley Wednesday, a vic­tory against Tiffin Dragons in GLIAC semi­fi­nals Saturday, and a loss to Ashland Sunday.

Ferris took on the Dragons Saturday March 3 with a win 53–39 to move on in the tour­na­ment. But the Bulldogs fell short to fourth-ranked Ashland Sunday March 4 65–50. (more…)

According to Brandon Knap, Student Artist of the Month, this is the aspect of art that is hard­est for him to master.

Knap, FSU sopho­more in graphic design, has been draw­ing and doo­dling for as long as he can remem­ber. Now he strives to match his nat­ural tal­ent with per­se­ver­ance. (more…)

Television and Internet stream­ing has made our gen­er­a­tion a nation of watch­ers, but not doers.

I remem­ber play­ing out­side a lot as a child, swing­ing and run­ning down to the river with my puppy to watch the canoes go by. I would spend hours fight­ing off ene­mies and pre­tend­ing I was a wood nymph. I have an active imag­i­na­tion and did not need to Google ideas like I had to do with this arti­cle. (more…)

Lor & The Intrigue: Mainline This!

Muskegon band Lor & The Intrigue take the sound of ‘80s hair metal and bring it to 2012. Solid mixes on all songs and espe­cially detailed gui­tar work make this band stick out as an all-star rock n’ roll leg­end in the mak­ing. The lyrics lack a lot of depth, but instead the musi­cian­ship is focused on mak­ing the songs per­fect and tight-knit lit­tle balls of awe­some­ness. (more…)

Traveling on planes means you have to sit next to at least one stranger and pos­si­bly engage in awk­ward con­ver­sa­tions with some­one you don’t know.

A new pro­gram by Dutch air­line KLM will allow you to get to know your fel­low pas­sen­gers using Facebook or LinkedIn pro­file details. The deci­sion to share infor­ma­tion will be up to each indi­vid­ual trav­eler to select what infor­ma­tion goes pub­lic. (more…)

We’ve spent the past eight weeks try­ing to sur­vive through home­work, meet­ings, pre­sen­ta­tions and snow just wait­ing for spring break.

I’ve been count­ing down the days until this care-free week and now it’s almost here. Anyone who can afford a trip away from the cold weather will prob­a­bly be head­ing out of Big Rapids within the next few days. (more…)

It was recently announced that Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania has a vend­ing machine in their health facil­ity that pro­vides Plan B con­tra­cep­tives for students.

Plan B con­tra­cep­tives, sim­i­lar to the morning-after pill, are used after inter­course as an emer­gency mea­sure to pre­vent pregnancy.

The vend­ing machine has been on the cam­pus for two years and hasn’t drawn sig­nif­i­cant con­tro­versy or media atten­tion until recently. The machine is located in Shippensburg’s Etter Health Center, which is acces­si­ble to only stu­dents and fac­ulty. (more…)

Erupting vol­cano

Most Skilled

The Girls (Kellie Stout, Jennifer Chwastek, and Courtney Mourer)

Funky Heart Car

Best Idea for Healthy Heart Theme

Alpha Phi Alpha
Arrow Heart

Judges’ Choice

HCMA (Health Care Management Association)

Food Pyramid

Peoples’ Choice

Phi Sigma Kappa

Red Heart

Sculptures are located at the Karas Intramural Field located in West Campus near DPS.

I have two jobs. I work nearly 35 hours a week between the two of them. Before I was in school I worked full time. I know what it’s like to work in envi­ron­ments that don’t always seem fair, level or even remotely log­i­cal, but I do know about one thing sev­eral fac­ulty mem­bers don’t: job security.

Even in my part-time posi­tions I have more job secu­rity than that of a nontenured-track staff mem­ber here at Ferris. I have health insur­ance, life insur­ance, opti­cal, den­tal and dis­abil­ity cov­er­age. With good behav­ior and per­for­mance, I have full con­fi­dence I will still be employed six months from now. (more…)