You met Byron within your first week of school.

You wear the school uni­form: Uggs, leg­gings and a Northface if you’re a girl, cam­ou­flage if you’re a guy.

You have to dodge ice cream cones on the side­walk lead­ing to the Rock.

Hockey play­offs are the most impor­tant time of the year. (more…)

Six hours. Eight per­form­ers. Two stages. One free out­door festival.

Ferris Fest was held April 21 in the quad from noon to 6 p.m. Besides watch­ing musi­cal per­for­mances on the two stages, there were many other nov­el­ties and activ­i­ties to do.

There was a bounce house where stu­dents could relive their child­hoods. Human bowl­ing was a big hit; par­tic­i­pants were locked in a large round cage and rolled down a track. The photo booth and giant chair with acces­sories brought out the silly side of concert-goers. In addi­tion, there was free food pro­vided by Jet’s Pizza, Jimmy John’s and Buffalo Wild Wings. (more…)

It’s Pride Week at Ferris, which is sure to turn a few heads and raise some eyebrows.

Pride Week is a week of activ­i­ties ded­i­cated to pro­mot­ing tol­er­ance and spread­ing aware­ness and edu­ca­tion about the les­bian, gay, bisex­ual and trans­gen­der (LGBT) com­mu­nity at FSU.

Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA) is the RSO respon­si­ble for putting on all of the activ­i­ties for Pride Week. Brittany Meissner, social chair for DSAGA and Ferris senior in radi­og­ra­phy and health­care sys­tems, said every­one can learn some­thing from par­tic­i­pat­ing in Pride Week. (more…)

If you don’t have plans for April 21, you’re about to.

Ferris Fest is back, and it will be held from 12 to 6 p.m. in the quad. Most impor­tantly, it’s free.

There will be two stages, with musi­cians All Time Low, Travis Porter, KingRut and Pharoah and more. In addi­tion to the eight musi­cal per­for­mances, there will also be activ­i­ties such as a bounce house, photo booth and human bowl­ing. (more…)

There’s noth­ing like an Easter egg hunt to bring out the child in all of us.

Local chil­dren and their par­ents gath­ered on Top Taggert Field at 6 p.m. to find eggs. The egg hunt for stu­dents started at 8 p.m.

The eggs con­tained candy and coupons for items such as silly puz­zles and Racquet Center passes. The egg hunt for stu­dents and chil­dren lasted about 10 min­utes each. (more…)

Smoke fills the room. Beach balls skit­ter across the sur­face of the crowd. Colored strobe lights dart around, high­light­ing the soli­tary indi­vid­ual on stage.

Suddenly the beat drops and the room explodes into a flurry of activ­ity. Some peo­ple are fist bump­ing and wav­ing around glow sticks while oth­ers are full out break-dancing. (more…)

Spam, Velveeta and Jell-o take the spot­light in Darlene Kaczmarczyk’s thought-provoking dis­play in the Rankin Art Gallery.

Kaczmarczyk com­bines vin­tage adver­tise­ments with mod­ern pho­tographs to put them in a new light. For exam­ple, one of her most strik­ing works fea­tures a plate of gaudy, arti­fi­cial look­ing gelatin in a serene nat­ural set­ting. In the back­ground two horses graze. Through these types of con­trasts, Kaczmarczyk demon­strates the arti­fi­cial­ity and pre­served nature of our food.

Miles Skalnek, Ferris State University sopho­more in pre-pharmacy, was intrigued by a pic­ture depict­ing pig-shaped slices of spam in a field. His favorite work of art was one that showed a stalk of corn with candy corn grow­ing out of it. (more…)

It’s not a good feel­ing to be passed in a race by a child.

I was recently run­ning a 5k race and was feel­ing pretty good about my progress until I looked down and real­ized a five or six year old child and her mother were quickly dash­ing past me.

Needless to say, my con­fi­dence in my run­ning abil­ity was shot down the drain as I dis­cov­ered my accom­plish­ment of run­ning this race was attain­able by the younger coun­ter­parts of our soci­ety. (more…)

“Stick-to-it-ness.”

According to Brandon Knap, Student Artist of the Month, this is the aspect of art that is hard­est for him to master.

Knap, FSU sopho­more in graphic design, has been draw­ing and doo­dling for as long as he can remem­ber. Now he strives to match his nat­ural tal­ent with per­se­ver­ance. (more…)

Students paused and craned their necks as they were greeted with live music while fil­ing into The Rock on Valentine’s Day.

Many stu­dents were not aware that their evening meal would be accom­pa­nied by a live per­for­mance from a tal­ented musi­cian. Kurt Scobie, a Michigan native, set a roman­tic mood with a com­bi­na­tion of orig­i­nal songs and cover songs by musi­cians such as John Mayer and Jack Johnson. (more…)