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Hardcore Boozing On St.Patrick’s Day Is Total Blarney

by Megan M. Coady, Opinions Editor Published: Mar 17, 2010

Does St. Patrick’s Day have his­tor­i­cal “drink­ing roots” or is the prac­tice of imbib­ing some mod­ern skew of the orig­i­nal celebration?

Irish and non-Irish alike are out in their finest, green­est attire today in cel­e­bra­tion of St. Patrick’s Day. Besides wear­ing green and eat­ing corned beef and cab­bage, the other activ­ity many peo­ple asso­ciate with the hol­i­day is drink­ing. (more…)

 
 

Only 15 Minutes

by Kelsey A. Schnell, Editor in Chief Published: Mar 17, 2010

The speed at which the day goes by can be daunt­ing. Weeks evap­o­rate and months turns into semes­ters and years.

In all of this mov­ing for­ward, we inevitably neglect the present. (more…)

 
 
 

More Cuts, Less Affordability

If These Cuts In Education Continue, College Is Going To Be Unaffordable For Many

by Jessica Smith, Ferris State Torch Published: Mar 17, 2010

Governor Jennifer Granholm has recently pro­posed to cut the Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) rate, which is not good news for stu­dents like me.

TIP is a pro­gram that helps aid stu­dents with spe­cial cir­cum­stances and stu­dents from low-income house­holds with pay­ing for col­lege tuition. In Granholm’s 2010-11 bud­get plan, she wants to cut TIP’s cur­rent rate of $316 per credit hour to $84 per credit hour. (more…)

 
 

Beneficial Procrastination

Missing The Deadlines For Grad School Is Helping Me Look Before I Leap

by Dan Hamilton, News Editor Published: Mar 17, 2010

Graduate school is some­thing I decided I want to attend over the past few years.

Given my degree in jour­nal­ism, with minors in polit­i­cal sci­ence and phi­los­o­phy, I have many options of where, and what, I want to study. (more…)

 
 

Griffin vs. Palin

Sarah Palin’s lashing out on Family Guy proves she needs to pony up and quit pouting when portrayed negatively in the public eye

by Jessica Smith, Ferris State Torch Published: Mar 3, 2010

The FOX ani­mated sit­com “Family Guy” knows how to push the but­tons of pub­lic figures.

During the Feb. 14 episode, the char­ac­ter Chris had a crush on a girl named Ellen with Down syn­drome and went out on a date with her. When he asked her about her par­ents’ jobs, she said, “My dad’s an accoun­tant and my mom’s the for­mer gov­er­nor of Alaska.”

That state­ment was meant to be a jab at 2008 vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date and, yes, for­mer gov­er­nor of Alaska Sarah Palin. Palin did not take the “joke” very well. Palin’s one-year-old son Trig has Down syn­drome. (more…)

 
 

Letter From the Editor: Voicemail Vexation

by Kelsey A. Schnell, Editor in Chief Published: Mar 3, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a let­ter from the edi­tor describ­ing my excite­ment at the pos­si­bil­ity of emerg­ing technologies.

I described my new found appre­ci­a­tion for Twitter, though cer­tainly not an obses­sion, and text mes­sag­ing replac­ing nor­mal con­ver­sa­tion. (more…)

 
 
 

Saddle Up the Zamboni, It’s Party Time!

by Megan M. Coady, Opinions Editor Published: Mar 3, 2010

After the Canadian women’s hockey team won Olympic gold on Feb. 25 they did what came nat­u­rally, they celebrated.

Smokin’ sto­gies, sip­pin’ bub­bly and hors­ing around on the Zamboni machine in vic­tory cel­e­bra­tion had major con­se­quences though. (more…)

 
 
Licensed for laughs: Gary Blied and Frank Marzano pose in their scrubs. Their intermission antics became an infamous part of Ferris hockey games. Photo Courtesy of FSU Photo Services

The Doctors

by Ted Halm, Ferris State University Web Content Manager, Advancement & Marketing Published: Mar 3, 2010

Licensed for laughs: Gary Blied and Frank Marzano pose in their scrubs. Their inter­mis­sion antics became an infa­mous part of Ferris hockey games. Photo Courtesy of FSU Photo Services

The pub­lic address announcer boomed: Ladies and gen­tle­men — There’s a car in the park­ing lot with its lights on — a pink Cadillac with leop­ard skin seats!!

Suddenly, two young men dressed in doc­tors’ scrubs leap from their seats at cen­ter ice, bump into each other, and run around in cir­cles like a crazy Marx-brothers skit.

Flash back to circa-1982 … it’s a Bulldog hockey game at Ferris State’s Ewigleben Ice Arena and the late Bill Buckingham, the beloved “voice of the Bulldogs,” has deliv­ered his ear-splitting queue to Frank Marzano and Gary “Bear” Blied, who go into their famil­iar fan-pleasing rou­tine. (more…)