Thanksgiving. Some think of it as a break from the daily bus­tle to sit down and spend time with fam­ily and friends. NBA fans may now think of Thanksgiving as a time when NBA play­ers and own­ers came together to set­tle on the 2011-12 season.

While fran­tic pep­per spray wield­ing con­sumers rushed Wal-marts, Best Buys, and other retail­ers in hopes for mega mark­downs, the NBA came together to final­ize a deal on Black Friday. (more…)

A seven-hour flight and four-hour time dif­fer­ence caused some headaches for the Bulldogs as they faced the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nov. 18–19 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Ferris opened the series Nov. 18 with a 2–0 loss to Alaska. The Bulldogs lim­ited their penal­ties to one against Alaska for the open­ing night. (more…)

Last sea­son Nelson played in four games as he stepped aside while for­mer Ferris goal­tender Pat Nagle started 37 games to fin­ish his senior year. During Nelson’s fresh­man and sopho­more sea­son the two ten­ders split starts. (more…)

Pair of All-Americans after cross coun­try cham­pi­onships

The Ferris State women’s cross coun­try team fin­ished in eighth-place at the NCAA Division II National Championships Nov. 19 in Spokane, Wash. This fin­ish was the sec­ond in a row for the Bulldogs and is the high­est fin­ish in school his­tory. In senior Tina Muir’s last col­le­giate meet she placed a personal-best sixth-place over­all. (more…)

Several Bulldog vol­ley­ball play­ers named to All-GLIAC team

FSU vol­ley­ball coach Tia Brandel-Wilhem was named GLIAC “Coach of the Year.” Her Bulldog team has put together a 26–3 over­all record and fin­ished GLIAC play 18–1. Six play­ers earned all-conference hon­ors. Senior out­side hit­ter Ashley Huntey, junior set­ter Samantha Fordyce and junior middle-hitter Anne Sutton were awarded first team All-GLIAC sta­tus. Senior libero Lisa Tobiczyk and fresh­man mid­dle hit­ter Courtney Rehm were sec­ond team All-GLIAC hon­orees. In addi­tion, Rehm was named GLIAC “Freshman of the Year” while Tobiczyk was named GLIAC “Libero of the Year.” Junior out­side hit­ter Aly Brecht earned GLIAC Honorable Mention lau­rels. (more…)

FSU remains unde­feated at Ewigleben Ice Arena after claim­ing a 5–1 vic­tory Nov. 11 over Lake Superior in the open­ing night of a two-game series between the two nation­ally ranked teams. (more…)

Molden is faced with the chal­lenge of uti­liz­ing a team that lost four starters from last sea­son. This year’s team will have to make it to the GLIAC Championships with­out last season’s GLIAC Player of the Year Justin Keenan who led last year’s Bulldogs in scor­ing. (more…)

Women’s Volleyball cap­tures reg­u­lar sea­son title

Ferris vol­ley­ball com­pleted their regular-season 24–2 over­all and 18–1 in the GLIAC. The Bulldogs claimed a regular-season cham­pi­onship title and have the priv­i­lege of being the top seed in the GLIAC Tournament. The nation­ally 12th-ranked Bulldogs will host Wayne State University in the quar­ter­fi­nal round of the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Ewigleben Sports Arena. If the Bulldogs can defeat WSU, Ferris will go on to host the semi­fi­nals and finals of the tour­na­ment Nov. 12–13. The Bulldogs are unde­feated at home and have defeated WSU in their only meet­ing this year at the Ewigleben Sports Arena.

GLIAC adds more com­pe­ti­tion to its ros­ter

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has expanded by the addi­tion of two uni­ver­si­ties from Ohio. Malone University and Walsh University will offi­cially become mem­bers in the con­fer­ence on July 1, 2012. Malone and Walsh Universities will join a league that has 14 full mem­bers. Until the NCAA grants each insti­tu­tion full Division II mem­ber­ship, Malone and Walsh will be pro­vi­sional mem­bers of the GLIAC. For the 2012–13 sea­son, Malone and Walsh will not be eli­gi­ble for GLIAC post­sea­son cham­pi­onships or tour­na­ments for sports that have an NCAA Division II auto­matic qualification.

Get caught up with Ferris Basketball

The GLIAC pre­sea­son polls have been released for both men’s and women’s bas­ket­ball. The early sea­son con­sen­sus places the men to fin­ish third in the GLIAC North Division. Senior guard Jerrel Sanders was named. Ferris snagged a 91–78 pre­sea­son win against Grace Bible (Ill.) Nov. 2, after drop­ping their first exhi­bi­tion tilt to Michigan State. Ferris begins their reg­u­lar sea­son with back-to-back games Nov. 11–12. Ferris will begin the sea­son against NCAA Division I Michigan at 7 p.m. in Ann Arbor. Then Ferris will face Central Michigan the next evening in Mt. Pleasant also sched­uled for 7 p.m.

Member’s of the media took a vote deter­min­ing the women’s bas­ket­ball team’s fate for the upcom­ing sea­son. The media expects the women’s bas­ket­ball team to fin­ish fifth in the GLIAC North Division after the GLIAC pre­sea­son poll. Ferris is com­ing off a 13–13 record from the sea­son prior to this year. The Bulldogs lost their first exhi­bi­tion game of the pre­sea­son. The women’s bas­ket­ball team will begin the 2011-12 sea­son Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. against Lewis (Ill.) inside Wink Arena.

Bri Borgman named to All-GLIAC

Senior for­ward Bri Borgman fin­ished her Bulldog career with 35 goals, eight assists and 78 total points in 74 career matches. Her 10-goal, 22-point per­for­mance this sea­son led to her being named to the All-GLIAC team. She is ranked third in goals, fourth in points, and 10th in assists in the soc­cer program’s his­tory. Borgman also tal­lied 10 game win­ning goals in her career with the Bulldogs, rank­ing sec­ond in Ferris’ his­tory. The Bulldogs soc­cer team was knocked out of the GLIAC tour­na­ment against Ashland on Nov. 1 in a 1–0 deci­sion. The Bulldogs held an 11–4 shots advan­tage despite the loss. Ferris con­cluded the sea­son 7−9−3 overall.

Ferris went on the road to Ohio for the week­end to face Ohio Dominican University. FSU and ODU went to four sets, in which the Bulldogs claimed a 3–1 vic­tory on Oct. 29. Junior mid­dle hit­ter Anne Sutton led the Bulldogs offen­sive charge with 17 kills. (more…)

Current and incom­ing stu­dents at Ferris deserve to have the right to a pri­vate life that is not intruded on by our university.

With man­dated drug test­ing, the uni­ver­sity would be doing just that. Last week, an arti­cle in the Torch was pub­lished con­cern­ing man­dated drug tests. Don’t worry; you don’t have to start chug­ging gal­lons of water to flush your sys­tem. There won’t be any drug test­ing. (more…)