Two Ferris stu­dents have been charged with bur­glary for an inci­dent that occurred on Feb. 14 at a house in Mecosta Township.

Tyler Eggleston, 19, of Howard City, and Justin Chabeneau, 20, of Saint Clair Shores, were arraigned in the 77th District Court. They are cur­rently being held in the Mecosta County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

A flat-panel T.V. is among the items that were taken from the home.

The Mecosta County Sherriff’s Office and FSU Department of Public Safety worked together in response to this incident.

More infor­ma­tion will be posted as it becomes available.

As the uni­ver­sity con­tin­ues to make changes to its lot pro­ce­dures, many stu­dents are still find­ing it dif­fi­cult to avoid park­ing vio­la­tions.
Throughout cam­pus, stu­dents leav­ing classes are return­ing to find a bright yel­low enve­lope with a ticket tucked beneath the wiper blade on their car and secured in a wheel boot.

With ticket totals this semes­ter at approx­i­mately $58,775, stu­dents like sopho­more in pub­lic rela­tions Rebecca Berlin see fur­ther need in improv­ing the university’s park­ing pro­ce­dures. Berlin is one of many stu­dents on cam­pus who has felt dis­con­tent toward uni­ver­sity park­ing. (more…)

A new crime-reporting sys­tem, “Bulldogs Text Tip,” is avail­able for any­one in the Ferris com­mu­nity to report a crime via text message.

The Department of Public Safety (DPS) at Ferris decided to look more into con­duct crime report­ing, said Tricia Walding-Smith, assis­tant man­age­ment coor­di­na­tor of DPS. (more…)

At Ferris, there is no pol­icy or hard rule that states how long a stu­dent must wait for a pro­fes­sor if they are late.

“In 20 years, I’ve never been more than a cou­ple of min­utes late for class, and no one has ever left when I wasn’t there right at the begin­ning of the period,” said Associate Professor and President of the Ferris Faculty Association, Jim Rumpf. (more…)

The Pedestrian Safety Task Force has been work­ing to improve the safety of cross­walks and vis­i­bil­ity of sig­nage around campus.

In addi­tion to the vis­i­bil­ity of cross­walks, other options are being looked into. Student Government com­piled a study of cam­pus inter­sec­tions and cross­walks that was very help­ful to the task force, accord­ing to task force chair and vice pres­i­dent of admin­is­tra­tion and finance Jerry Scoby. (more…)

The FSU Baja team recently com­peted in the “Big Air” com­pe­ti­tion and came away vic­to­ri­ous for the sec­ond year in a row.

The Winter Baja Invitational com­pe­ti­tion took place at Michigan Technological University. Both of Ferris’ cars fin­ished in the top ten out of around 40 cars rep­re­sent­ing 18 dif­fer­ent schools. (more…)

Producer Curtis Chin edu­cated stu­dents Feb. 22 on the legacy of Vincent Chin with the pre­sen­ta­tion of the award-winning doc­u­men­tary “Vincent Who?”

Inspired by the 1982 death of Chinese American Vincent Chin, the doc­u­men­tary explored the events which led to one of the first Asian-American civil rights move­ments. Chin’s attack, which included racial slurs, was con­sid­ered by many in the Asian com­mu­nity to be a hate crime. (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…)

Recycling in the IRC

On March 3 bring all of your recy­clables to the IRC and Ferris Recyclers will trans­port them to the recy­cling cen­ter for you. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Angela Eick at angela.eick@gmail.com. (more…)

Two-car Accident

On Feb 24 at 9:55 a.m., there was a two-car acci­dent near the West Building. A car backed out and hit another vehicle.

Bumper Cars

On Feb 24 at 10 a.m., there was a two car acci­dent in Lot 38. A vehi­cle struck another parked vehi­cle. (more…)