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…)

Ferris State University, as well as many dif­fer­ent com­mit­tees, planned a series of events to com­mem­o­rate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has held an impact on Ferris through­out the years.

“Diversity is one of the University’s core val­ues and we, the mem­bers of the University, are chal­lenged to embrace this value in our poli­cies and prac­tices,” David Pilgrim, vice pres­i­dent for Diversity and Inclusion, said. (more…)

Bomb threat

Jan. 12 at 8:10 a.m., cam­pus police were advised of a bomb threat that an employee found on their voice­mail in the Business Office at the Timme Center. FSU police advised the cam­pus com­mu­nity of the threat and coor­di­nated search of all cam­pus com­mu­nity to check for sus­pi­cious items. Investigations regard­ing the source of the call remain open. Anyone who wants emer­gency alerts is advised to update their con­tact infor­ma­tion on MyFSU. (more…)

A new keg law was imple­mented in Michigan, plac­ing more restric­tions on pur­chas­ing kegs.

The law spec­i­fies that all kegs sold must be tagged with an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion stat­ing who pur­chased the alco­hol and the tags must remain on the kegs in order to return them. Removing a tag from a keg will result in for­fei­ture of the deposit and a poten­tial mis­de­meanor charge that could bring up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine. (more…)

Equipment issues

Nov. 24 at 1:45 p.m., offi­cers stopped a vehi­cle on Chestnut near State Street for equip­ment vio­la­tion. Two occu­pants of the vehi­cle were found to be MIP and were tick­eted. (more…)

Ferris State University’s Global Initiative opens a chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion through a diverse reli­gious dia­logue and its Global Reflections series.

A group of eight joined together to attend the dia­logue. After being split into two groups, they began to par­tic­i­pate in an exer­cise in which they were told to choose either X or Y. (more…)