College is more than a place: it’s an experience.

Students say all the time that they “go to col­lege” and that may be true. Whether it’s in your home­town or 1,000 miles away, col­lege is so much more than a place to study. People attend a uni­ver­sity to get an edu­ca­tion. The edu­ca­tion they receive, how­ever, is not lim­ited to aca­d­e­mics. (more…)

Following an NCAA Division II Sweet Sixteen appear­ance, the Ferris State men’s bas­ket­ball team added two addi­tional ath­letes to its 2011 recruit­ing class.

Forward Tyrin Wade and guard Drew Lehman will join the bas­ket­ball team as fresh­man for the 2011–2012 sea­son. The Bulldogs pre­vi­ously inked 6–10 cen­ter Jared Stolicker and 5–10 guard Dietrich Lever dur­ing the early sign­ing period in November. (more…)

There are only two absolutes in life— Death and taxes.

Tax day may be daunt­ing for many Americans. Some peo­ple owe thou­sands of dol­lars to the fed­eral and state gov­ern­ments. This year, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has extended the date to file and pay your taxes until April 18. (more…)

The FSU men’s and women’s track teams com­peted at the Bulldog Invitational at Top Taggart Field on April 8 in their only home meet of the season.

For the women’s team, sopho­more Zoey Hohmann won the 400 meters with a time of 57.27 and fin­ished sec­ond in the 200-meter race. Senior Amy Joostberns fin­ished sec­ond in the dis­cus throw, while fresh­man Jessica Pilling fin­ished sec­ond in the ham­mer throw. (more…)

You know how they say don’t believe every­thing you hear? Well, don’t believe every­thing you read either.

As I over­heard con­ver­sa­tions last week about how Justin Bieber is com­ing to Ferris Fest, a sly smirk imme­di­ately crossed my face. All it took was for one or two peo­ple to read the front-page head­line of last week’s Torch and tell their friends with­out read­ing into it. (more…)

If you have to drive around cam­pus for 20 min­utes just to find a park­ing spot, it may be because Ferris State is the fastest grow­ing pub­lic uni­ver­sity in Michigan.

In 2000, the fall enroll­ment listed 9,847 stu­dents accord­ing to the 2010-11 Fact Book pub­lished by Institutional Research and Testing. Ten years later, Ferris’ enroll­ment for the fall 2010 semes­ter was 14,318. This rep­re­sents the largest num­ber of stu­dents enrolled in the school’s his­tory and a 45 per­cent increase in just a decade. (more…)

Ferris State University is cel­e­brat­ing the 10th anniver­sary of the con­struc­tion of FLITE Library on April 12 with a dec­o­ra­tive cake.

But it is not just any cake. The dessert will be in the shape of the award-winning build­ing as part of the cel­e­bra­tion of National Library Week April 10–16. (more…)

Let’s be hon­est, almost every sin­gle col­lege stu­dent con­sumes alco­hol at some point dur­ing his or her col­lege career.

For some stu­dents, drink­ing with friends is a social event that hap­pens many week­ends through­out the school year. (more…)

Bulldog goal­tender Pat Nagle signed a two-year entry-level con­tract with Tampa Bay Lightning this week, becom­ing the third Bulldog to ink a pro­fes­sional level con­tract this month.

Tampa Bay vice pres­i­dent and gen­eral man­ager Steve Yzerman made the announce­ment at a press con­fer­ence Tuesday. (more…)

College news­pa­pers across the nation pro­vide in-depth sto­ries behind the stu­dents that make a uni­ver­sity possible.

While main­stream national pub­li­ca­tions are filled with broad national news, col­lege news­pa­pers focus more on local and on-campus news. The growth of the Internet and yel­low jour­nal­ism over the past decade has taken its toll on news­pa­pers that used to rely heav­ily on daily sub­scribers. (more…)