An excited crowd filled Williams Auditorium for the pre­miere of Ferris Has Talent.

“I’ve never seen any­thing like this before, and it was just phe­nom­e­nal,” Samantha Gallup, Ferris fresh­man in early edu­ca­tion, said.

Trevor Charles took the stage for the first time with the sup­port of his fam­ily. After mak­ing sure his mother and broth­ers were in the audi­ence, he sang, a capella, “Little Things” by One Direction while the audi­ence clapped along. Despite his nerves, he was able to fin­ish the song and gather pos­i­tive feed­back from the judges. (more…)

Hope for some sun­shine, head out­side and be pre­pared for an after­noon of con­cert festivities.

This year Entertainment Unlimited (EU) will host Ferris Fest in the north quad on April 27. The show starts at noon and is free to the public.

The line-up con­sists of Midwest Skies, The Crane Wives, The Rouge, YelaWolf and Motion City Soundtrack. (more…)

Young women strive for the per­fect body.

Why? Because media and the enter­tain­ment indus­try have deval­ued what a healthy woman should look like and built up the bod­ies of super mod­els and celebri­ties, under pres­sure to remain thin.

You can see it any­where: “Lose five pounds in five days!” Or “Who has the best bikini body?” Magazines often have sep­a­rate beauty sec­tions focused on how young girls should attempt to look. (more…)

Students will be given the oppor­tu­nity to per­form on stage and show­case their var­i­ous talents.

Ferris Has Talent is a tal­ent show put together by Stephen Weiland and Joshua Miles. Both are res­i­dent advi­sors in Bond Hall.

Miles had the idea of Bond Has Talent for one of his pro­grams last semes­ter. Weiland co-hosted the event and Bond res­i­dents were able to show off their dif­fer­ent tal­ents. (more…)

Isaac Wilson
Freshman, music indus­try management

As an avid lover of the arts, Isaac Wilson seems like the right man to be in theater.

Since his junior year of high school, Wilson has delved into the­ater and has been involved in var­i­ous plays. However, the lead in a seri­ous drama is new for the musi­cally inclined man.

“I got into musi­cal the­ater, which com­bines two of my big­ger pas­sions. I love music and I love the­ater,” Wilson explained. (more…)

The elec­tronic music con­cert Turn Up the Good is set to take place once again at Ferris State.

Headliners include GRiZ, Break Science and The Floozies. The con­cert, spon­sored by Music Industry Management Association (MIMA), is set to take place Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. Doors will open to Wink Arena at 6 p.m.

Grant Kwiecinski, known as GRiZ, is a music pro­ducer from Detroit. He just released his lat­est album, “Mad Liberation.” (more…)

Melissa DiVietri, a self-proclaimed goal set­ter, excit­edly describes what she hopes to do with her art some­day. The tape recorder can barely keep up as she explains her paint­ings and dreams. DiVietri’s voice is sharp. It pierces the small office and rever­ber­ates off the wall.

She does not even notice.

She is sit­ting in the back room of the Rankin Art Gallery, a place DiVietri feels per­fectly at home in. (more…)

If Chelsea Bess can raise $1,500, she will shave her head.

As a Ferris senior in the advertising/integrated mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­gram and pres­i­dent of Ferris State AdGroup, Bess needed to come up with a fundraiser idea.

Each year, AdGroup com­petes in the National Student Advertising Competition, but the orga­ni­za­tion soon real­ized they had lit­tle funds to carry out the full adver­tis­ing cam­paign and enter in the com­pe­ti­tion. (more…)

“Martin and Music” was pre­sented by the Office of Multicultural Student Services to wrap up Black History Month.

Gerald Rivers was the voice of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the years, Rivers has com­mit­ted 20 of Dr. King’s speeches to mem­ory, which he per­formed to a small audi­ence in Williams Auditorium. With his boom­ing voice, crowd mem­bers instantly felt as though they were lis­ten­ing to the late Dr. King and his urgent mes­sage to “Stand up, do what you know is right, take action now!” (more…)

With flash­ing lights, blar­ing music and scream­ing fans, con­certs are an event unlike any other.
 
While many Ferris stu­dents com­plain that Big Rapids has noth­ing to offer, they often for­get that Grand Rapids is merely an hour drive away with end­less oppor­tu­ni­ties. Van Andel hosts big con­certs that are often worth the time and money. Maroon 5 was one such con­cert that many stu­dents may have enjoyed. (more…)