It’s no secret music indus­try leg­end Whitney Houston died Feb. 11, and many peo­ple world­wide are mourn­ing the loss of what was con­sid­ered to be one of the great­est voices of our generation.

With Whitney’s trou­bled past, the media has made it their great­est effort to get all the lat­est infor­ma­tion out in the open about her death. The pop­u­lar­ity of social media has spread the word faster than most of us can even keep up with. (more…)

Michael Wade said Ferris has grown to be a more diverse cam­pus by pro­mot­ing and sup­port­ing more diversity-related initiatives.

Wade, the assis­tant direc­tor of the Office of Multicultural Student Services, said, “I believe the diversity-related changes at Ferris are so the cam­pus com­mu­nity can have the oppor­tu­ni­ties and take advan­tage of oppor­tu­ni­ties to fur­ther under­stand the wide scope of diver­sity.” (more…)

They wore suits and ties in hopes to raise $1,000 apiece from 1,000 peo­ple. $1 mil­lion dol­lars while gath­er­ing 322,609 sig­na­tures by July 9 is their first step toward legal­iz­ing mar­i­juana in Michigan.

At a news con­fer­ence Jan. 20 at Roberts River Walk Hotel & Residence in Detroit, a dozen mem­bers of the Committee for a Safer Michigan announced the kick­off cam­paign of their effort to put their legal­iza­tion ques­tion on Michigan’s November bal­lot. (more…)

Stolen prop­erty

Jan. 30 at 4 p.m., report of a stolen touch pad from Bond Hall.

Larceny com­plaint

Jan. 31 at 11 p.m., report of lar­ceny of cloth­ing in South Bond. Property was stolen on first floor in the laun­dry room. (more…)

Marijuana com­plaint

Jan. 28 at 10:15 a.m., offi­cers assisted hall staff at Miller Hall with a mar­i­juana com­plaint. During search, one sub­ject was found to have an out­stand­ing war­rant. The sub­ject was lodged in county jail. (more…)

Throughout the past six months there have been numer­ous changes in the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.

Last sum­mer, the cen­ter moved to the fourth floor of FLITE and added two Faculty-in-Residence team mem­bers, as well as two Instructional Technologists. (more…)

MIP at Miller

Jan. 22 at 12:45 a.m., offi­cers assisted hall staff at Miller Hall con­cern­ing loud sub­jects. Four peo­ple were tick­eted for MIP.

Marijuana com­plaint

Jan. 22 at 3:10 a.m., offi­cers assisted hall staff at Hallisy Hall for a mar­i­juana com­plaint. Two sub­jects were tick­eted MIP. (more…)

Festival of the Arts

Festival of the Arts is set to begin its fifth year next week with numer­ous activ­i­ties tak­ing place in down­town Big Rapids.

On Monday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m., Artworks will host the festival’s kick­off event, which is free and open to the pub­lic, cater­ing is pro­vided by the Blue Cow Café and Great Lakes Office Products. The month-long event holds work­shops and per­for­mances that fea­ture local cre­ative tal­ent in addi­tion to vis­its by regional and national artists and inno­va­tors. (more…)

Loud party

Jan. 13 at 11 p.m., offi­cers inves­ti­gated a loud party at West Campus Apartments. People were told to quiet down. (more…)

“Be kinder than nec­es­sary, for every­one you meet is fight­ing some kind of battle.”

A yel­low piece of paper was taped to the table of the host­ess stand with this say­ing writ­ten on it. I quickly read this as I waited to be seated at my table of the restau­rant. (more…)