Cate Arroe has led an effort to stop the trend of student-owned dogs being aban­doned at the end of the year.

“I have heard hor­ror sto­ries about stu­dents aban­don­ing their pets at parks or in apart­ments or at the local shel­ter,” said Arroe. (more…)

My expe­ri­ence at Ferris State University was one with many vari­ables and mul­ti­ple paths that ulti­mately led me in unex­pected directions.

I came to Ferris for the hotel man­age­ment pro­gram in the fall of 2006. It took me around a semes­ter to real­ize that this field was not the right fit for me and that I wanted to do some­thing with the field of writ­ing. This is where I stepped into jour­nal­ism. (more…)

Starting next fall, Ferris stu­dents will have five new degree pro­grams to choose from.

Four of these pro­grams, energy sys­tems engi­neer­ing, mol­e­c­u­lar diag­nos­tics, allied health and fash­ion stud­ies, will be bach­e­lors pro­grams, while dietary food ser­vice man­age­ment will be an asso­ciate pro­gram. (more…)

Starting next fall, Ferris stu­dents will have five new degree pro­grams to choose from.

Four of these pro­grams, energy sys­tems engi­neer­ing, mol­e­c­u­lar diag­nos­tics, allied health and fash­ion stud­ies will be bach­e­lors pro­grams, while dietary food ser­vice man­age­ment will be an asso­ciate pro­gram. (more…)

The atti­tudes toward alco­hol that stu­dents have upon arriv­ing at Ferris vary greatly, but the pres­ence of drink­ing under­age on a col­lege cam­pus is often an inescapable reality.

For stu­dents who have been caught drink­ing under­age while at school, they are famil­iar with how the penal sys­tem treats this mat­ter, and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions are of a minor in pos­ses­sion (MIP) ticket. (more…)

I lived in Illinois for my entire life up until I came to Ferris in the fall of 2006.

Upon arriv­ing that August, I was one of the many fresh­men who did not bring a car to school. My sopho­more year, how­ever, I was lucky enough to get a 1992 Toyota Camry from my aunt so that I could have a car to drive around town. It wasn’t until then that I real­ized one of the many dif­fer­ences between the auto­mo­tive cul­tures in Michigan and Illinois. (more…)

The national Rube Goldberg com­pe­ti­tion was held at Purdue University on March 27 in which Ferris’ team com­peted, falling short of win­ning an award.

The task of the machine at this year’s com­pe­ti­tion was to squeeze hand san­i­tizer from a bot­tle into a hand. There were 12 uni­ver­si­ties in atten­dance, along with 13 high schools that com­peted in a sep­a­rate com­pe­ti­tion. (more…)

The national Rube Goldberg com­pe­ti­tion was held at Purdue University  where Ferris’ team com­peted, falling short of win­ning an award.

The task of the machine at this year’s com­pe­ti­tion, which took place the week­end of March 27, was to squeeze hand san­i­tizer from a bot­tle into a hand. There were 12 uni­ver­si­ties in atten­dance, along with 13 high schools that com­peted in a sep­a­rate competition.

(more…)

Graduate school is some­thing I decided I want to attend over the past few years.

Given my degree in jour­nal­ism, with minors in polit­i­cal sci­ence and phi­los­o­phy, I have many options of where, and what, I want to study. (more…)

It is a com­monly held notion that dur­ing the Middle Ages, the church cler­ics insti­tuted the prac­tice of not eat­ing meat on Fridays in Lent to help the Italian fish indus­try. From Catholic priests to Eastern Orthodox priests, inter­net resources to printed texts, this the­ory seems to hold no water.

During the sea­son of Lent, the Catholic tra­di­tion, along with other var­i­ous Christian denom­i­na­tions, observe the prac­tice of not eat­ing meat on Fridays, and often opt for fish instead. (more…)