Loud party

Jan. 13 at 11 p.m., offi­cers inves­ti­gated a loud party at West Campus Apartments. People were told to quiet down. (more…)

To many stu­dents, drink­ing seems to be a rite of pas­sage in col­lege life. In many cir­cles, alco­hol use is sim­ply the norm. Yet, nor­mal as it may seem, alco­hol use can carry some very real con­se­quences that many stu­dents may not understand.

A wide known fact is the legal age for drink­ing is 21. Anyone who drinks before this age can be con­victed with a minor in pos­ses­sion charge (MIP), which can result in sev­eral hun­dreds of dol­lars in fines, pro­ba­tion and at max­i­mum even jail time. (more…)

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has held an impact on Ferris through­out the years.

“Diversity is one of the University’s core val­ues and we, the mem­bers of the University, are chal­lenged to embrace this value in our poli­cies and prac­tices,” David Pilgrim, vice pres­i­dent for Diversity and Inclusion, said. (more…)

Bomb threat

Jan. 12 at 8:10 a.m., cam­pus police were advised of a bomb threat that an employee found on their voice­mail in the Business Office at the Timme Center. FSU police advised the cam­pus com­mu­nity of the threat and coor­di­nated search of all cam­pus com­mu­nity to check for sus­pi­cious items. Investigations regard­ing the source of the call remain open. Anyone who wants emer­gency alerts is advised to update their con­tact infor­ma­tion on MyFSU. (more…)

Ferris State University crim­i­nal jus­tice grad­u­ate Clarence Tariq Hammond III was shot and killed in a botched rob­bery near his home in Madison Heights.

The shoot­ing occurred Jan. 14 at approx­i­mately 12:30 a.m. in the park­ing lot of his apart­ment com­plex. Graduating in 2001, 33-year-old Hammond worked as a state prison cor­rec­tions offi­cer. (more…)

When it comes to being an effec­tive and con­ta­gious leader, Donté Hill has got it down. Just read it in his recently pub­lished book “Contagious Leadership: 13 Principles to Spreading a Winning Culture.”

Hill, a 2001 Ferris grad­u­ate, wrote this book to inspire and moti­vate peo­ple from all over to become a con­ta­gious leader and to shift their men­tal­ity to a pos­i­tive mind­set. (more…)

Enrollment increase for spring 2012 semes­ter

Ferris State University offi­cials are report­ing an increase in enroll­ment for the spring 2012 semester.

Ferris’ stu­dent pop­u­la­tion is up by 162 stu­dents from the spring 2011 semes­ter to 13,705 stu­dents, which is a one per­cent increase. According to a press release from University News, the area that expe­ri­enced a major­ity of growth between the spring semes­ters is in online edu­ca­tion, where the num­ber of stu­dents has increased from 147 to a total of 789 for spring 2012. (more…)

Gregory and his son, Karl, went on a trip to Kuito, Angola, Africa to train six men on how to drill water wells. Prior to tak­ing the trip, Gregory said his pas­tor had taken a cou­ple of well drillers over to Africa to train the men. The pas­tor became ill and could not go, so Gregory and his son vol­un­teered. (more…)

The law spec­i­fies that all kegs sold must be tagged with an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion stat­ing who pur­chased the alco­hol and the tags must remain on the kegs in order to return them. Removing a tag from a keg will result in for­fei­ture of the deposit and a poten­tial mis­de­meanor charge that could bring up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine. (more…)

However, it seems some of this tuition money may not be going to the best of use. It was dis­cov­ered some FSU stu­dent employ­ees have been fal­si­fy­ing their hour logs in Kronos in order to earn money for hours they did not work. (more…)