Sunshine Week refers to the impor­tance of open gov­ern­ment and free­dom of infor­ma­tion to a suc­cess­ful democracy.

Sunshine Week 2011 is March 13–19 and seeks to involve the pub­lic in find­ing out what the gov­ern­ment is doing and why. (more…)

The Bulldog hockey team’s game against the Alaska Nanooks orig­i­nally sched­uled for Friday was moved to Sunday due to travel delays.

Ferris was sched­uled to fly out of Grand Rapids on Wednesday morn­ing, but was inevitably delayed due to blizzard-like con­di­tions. The Bulldogs were sup­posed to be in Fairbanks by Wednesday night, but did not arrive until Friday afternoon.

The teams and the CCHA agreed to move Friday’s con­test to Sunday at 7:05 p.m. local time. The teams will play tonight at 7:05 p.m. local time as orig­i­nally sched­uled. (more…)

As the monot­ony of the school year con­tin­ues, each day feels like a bat­tle just to get through it.

It often feels that each day rolls into the next and weeks turn into months in the blink of an eye. Halfway through my sopho­more year, I thought grad­u­a­tion day would never come. (more…)

Communication has been com­pletely rev­o­lu­tion­ized by tech­nol­ogy, but not nec­es­sar­ily for the better.

It has changed dra­mat­i­cally over the past 20 years. If you wanted to talk to your friend down the street, you jumped on your bike, rode to his house and talked in per­son. Now all it takes is pick­ing up your cell phone and send­ing a quick text. (more…)

The Ferris State men’s and women’s bas­ket­ball teams won Thursday night, mark­ing the fifth time this sea­son that both teams were vic­to­ri­ous on the same day.

The men’s team defeated the Michigan Tech Huskies 70–60, aveng­ing a three-point loss in Houghton ear­lier in the sea­son. The Bulldogs outscored the Huskies 40–32 in the sec­ond half. Ferris con­nected on 17 of 20 free-throw attempts and shot 46.2 per­cent from the field. (more…)

Many peo­ple believe the mis­con­cep­tion that the news­pa­per busi­ness is dying.

Don’t get me wrong; the fact that so many news­pa­pers have closed over the last three years seems grim. Just ask the Ann Arbor News or Rocky Mountain News. (more…)

The ris­ing cost of edu­ca­tion in the U.S. is caus­ing seri­ous prob­lems for stu­dents and finan­cial institutions.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the aver­age cost for under­grad­u­ate tuition and room and board for the 2007-08 aca­d­e­mic year at pub­lic insti­tu­tions was $11,578. For four-year insti­tu­tions, the fig­ure rose to $13,424. Since the num­bers are now three years old, the cost is undoubt­edly even higher than that. (more…)

A New Year’s res­o­lu­tion is a great way to make a pos­i­tive change in your life.

People make res­o­lu­tions rang­ing from quit­ting smok­ing to los­ing weight to spend­ing more time with their fam­i­lies. No mat­ter what the intended change is, it takes ded­i­ca­tion to truly change a bad habit. (more…)

Ferris State junior guard/forward Tricia Principe will travel to Glasgow, Scotland for a two-month graphic design intern­ship this summer.

Principe, a native of Kalamazoo and grad­u­ate of Mattawan High School, said she stud­ied abroad in Europe the past few sum­mers and loved it. (more…)

After sweep­ing Bowling Green in a road series over the week­end, the nation­ally No. 20-ranked Ferris hockey team moved into third in the CCHA standings.

Ferris improved its record to 11−8−4 over­all and 8−6−3−2 in the con­fer­ence. The Bulldogs jumped nation­ally No. 7-ranked Miami in the CCHA stand­ings after the RedHawks were swept by Ohio State dur­ing the week­end. However, Ferris has played more con­fer­ence games than any other team in the CCHA.

Ferris returns to the ice on Jan. 14 against nation­ally No. 8-ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor at 7:35 p.m. The team will host Michigan the fol­low­ing night in the series finale at 7:05 p.m. The Wolverines are sec­ond in the CCHA stand­ings with a 10−4−1 con­fer­ence record. (more…)