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What’s More Important?

Controversy over death of music star vs. soldier

by Published: Feb 22, 2012

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…)

 
 

We’re All in This Together

Ferris strives to be culturally diverse

by Published: Feb 22, 2012

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…)

 
 

High vs. Drunk

Is marijuana considered a safer drug than alcohol?

by Published: Feb 15, 2012

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…)

 
 

Taco Bell Thieves

A round-up of this week’s crime across the FSU campus

by Published: Feb 15, 2012

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…)

 
 

Vandals, Thieves and Marijuana

A round-up of this week’s crime across the FSU campus

by Published: Feb 8, 2012

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…)

 
 

Center Finishes New Additions

Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning provides high quality, rich diversity opportunities for faculty and students

by Published: Feb 1, 2012

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…)

 
 

Multiple Marijuana Incidents

A round-up of this week’s crime across the FSU campus

by Published: Feb 1, 2012

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…)

 
 

Torch News Briefs January 25, 2012

by Published: Jan 26, 2012

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…)

 
 

Thefts and Parties

A round-up of this week’s crime across the FSU campus

by Published: Jan 25, 2012

Loud party

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

 
 

Changing Our Ways

How many times a day do you smile at someone?

by Published: Jan 19, 2012

“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…)