We’ve all seen a pair of breasts before. Whether it was on ‘boob tube,’ in a movie, in a mag­a­zine or dur­ing our infancy when we were suck­ling from our moth­ers’ teats, boobs are a part of life.

A top­less bar is press­ing to set up shop in Stanwood just off of the express­way on Exit 131. The build­ing they’ve cho­sen to use has been up for sale for sev­eral years, lying empty and unprof­itable. With the eco­nomic cri­sis faced by many Americans, it’s good to see some entre­pre­neur­ial spirit com­ing to the area. (more…)

Professional dress is some­thing most of us have donned at least once in our col­lege career, and I can only imag­ine how muti­nous you must feel at the prospect.

To make mat­ters worse, pro­fes­sional dress is hor­ri­ble for sum­mer weather. A full suit gets hot very fast and some minor busi­nesses do not have air con­di­tion­ing, not to men­tion Michigan, as many of us have expe­ri­enced, can get very hot in the sum­mer. (more…)

Countless times I have been with friends and have been in deep con­ver­sa­tion when they whip out their phones and start tex­ting some­one else.

I sup­pose there’s a part of me that finds this nor­mal and not offen­sive, but still, is my con­ver­sa­tion that bor­ing? Is this other per­son more impor­tant and more inter­est­ing than I am? Honestly, yeah, they prob­a­bly are, but still, what hap­pened to being in the moment with some­one? (more…)

High cost acces­sories on cheap cars. It makes me laugh.

I saw a Ford F-250 from the late ‘90s with huge diesel stacks attached to it. Mind you, it had a gaso­line engine and it wasn’t being used for mudding. 

The truck owner had to have spent hours phys­i­cally bor­ing out the holes in the truck bed to attach an acces­sory that costs between $300 and $500 on a truck with a blue book value of about $4,000. I have no prob­lem with trucks; I hap­pen to drive one and love it.   (more…)

As the end of the semes­ter approaches, Ferris State University’s 2012 grad­u­at­ing class is prepar­ing to take a step for­ward into a new begin­ning. Graduation is not only a right of pas­sage for col­lege stu­dents, but also a time to reflect on our jour­ney into adulthood.

The sup­port­ing peo­ple and steps we have cho­sen that have helped us jour­ney from ori­en­ta­tion to com­mence­ment have become an inte­gral part of the devel­op­ment of our matu­rity these past few years. (more…)

Dear Editor,

We’d like to thank the Torch for its cov­er­age of the Ferris Nontenure-Track Faculty Organization’s 14-month-long con­tract nego­ti­a­tion with the uni­ver­sity. We feel that the process of estab­lish­ing our first con­tract with the uni­ver­sity be as trans­par­ent as pos­si­ble, and the Torch has been help­ful in that endeavor. Having said that, we feel the head­line “Drawn Out Ratification” is mis­lead­ing. The head­line implies that there has been an inex­plic­a­ble delay in either pre­sent­ing the con­tract to our mem­bers or get­ting con­sen­sus regard­ing the con­tract from our mem­bers, both of which are inac­cu­rate. (more…)

All right, I’ll admit it: There are times I catch myself get­ting caught up in the gos­sip world. I’m not proud of it, but I do.

I’m sure you are famil­iar with the phrase, “People who gos­sip with you will gos­sip about you.” There is a shred of truth to those words. I’m guilty of sit­ting down with some friends, con­vers­ing about other people’s daily lives. (more…)

While sit­ting in a class in Johnson Hall, I can hear the bass being played out­side, through the build­ing, in the street com­ing from stu­dents’ cars.

Not that I mind the dis­trac­tion from class, but I am always shocked I can hear the bass from so far away. I can’t help but think of why peo­ple are play­ing their music so loud, espe­cially the bass. It’s not cool and it’s espe­cially not good for your ears. (more…)