In Williams Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m., everyone will be able to enjoy versions of this popular pricing game. Students enrolled at Ferris will be able to participate, and contestants will be chosen right from the audience. Even if one doesn’t wish to compete in the prize-winning merriment, everyone can join in the fun by supporting friends, or by simply watching and being a part of the atmosphere.

Even though neither legendary host Bob Barker nor current host Drew Carey are able to attend, the most requested performer on the college circuit, the nationally touring folkrock/indie artist Nick Motil, takes the stage.

Motil’s laid-back attitude and cheerful, friendly disposition can only bring more entertainment to the stage; and entertain he will when he plays and performs songs at different intervals throughout the show. With influences from artists such as David Gray, Paul Simon, Dave Matthews, and Everclear, he offers a wide variety. Confident in the success of last week’s “Deal or no Deal,” EU is prepared for an eventful and entertaining twist of this game show, attempting to get as many people involved as they can. They intend to make the set for “The Price is Right” all through their own contribution, and aim to make the set look as authentic as possible. The set will include a variety of prizes, a spinning wheel, the equivalent of “Barker’s Beauties”, and even price-tag shaped nametags for contestants.

Student Engagement and Activities Coordinator Matt Eickhoff, “Our intentions with ‘The Price is Right’, as well as the whole Game Show Series, was to give students some fresh, new events to attend. ÜA series like this hasn’t been done to this level ever at Ferris, and we hope that students will choose to participate. ÜThese are great interactive events where students are actually the stars of the show.”Ü

So grab a few friends and come and enjoy one of the most unique and exciting events ever to come to Ferris. Not only will you be “honoring an important part of pop culture history,” you might even walk away with a fruitful surprise and a great story to tell everyone back home. Don’t miss out and come on down to play the Price is Right!

For more information on “The Price is Right” contact Matt Eickhoff either by phone, x2606, or by e-mail, eick2@ferris.edu.

I’ve been testing the beta for about two and a half weeks on my home PC with Windows Vista.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with the browser, you basically get the same package as on the Mac. Its highlights include tabbed browsing, built in RSS support and advanced security features. But these features are just about standard on any browser these days including Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The first thing I didn’t like is the required installation of Quicktime along with the browser. It’s slightly unnecessary, but I already had to download it to run iTunes, it wasn’t that big of a deal.

The Apple website claims that “Safari is the fastest browser on any platform.” Well I simply have to disagree. If it is faster, it must be by milliseconds. I couldn’t detect any speed difference from IE7 with text pages or heavy graphics. Furthermore, if you make the switch to Safari, you will most likely have to reinstall all your plugins and transferring bookmarks can be tricky for the novice user.

Something else that troubles me is that when you start both browsers, Safari takes up much more RAM. Safari eats up about 45Mb of RAM and IE7 takes about 9Mb. For people that don’t have the latest and greatest machines, this may mean a reduction in performance.

But some of the smallest details bother me the most. Some pages do not display properly on my widescreen monitor, which is becoming an industry standard. Most of the time the page is centered in the browser but sometimes it’s jammed to the left. Also my mouse’s built in browser buttons, including the scroll wheel click, aren’t supported either. This makes my browsing even slower. Also I had difficulty copying things from the browser into Office applications. And Google Documents doesn’t support it!

The basic user interface is rather easy to use once you figure out what the icons mean. The menu bars at the top of the screen take up slightly more space than in IE7 and even more when you use tabs. Bookmarking requires you to open a menu that takes up the whole screen, as opposed to just the left side in IE7.

Enough with the negatives; let me see if I can drum up so positives here.

Well, it displays web pages. The Ferris website works well. WebCT works too.

If you’ve been using it on your Mac it’s probably serving its purpose. But I don’t think it’s worth it to switch over from IE7 or Firefox. Apple has a few more bugs to work out before they lift Safari’s beta status.

The Safari 3 public beta is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X. If you want to give it a try yourself, go to apple.com and click on downloads.

The bands are brought to the campus by the College Age Ministry, the Lutheran Student Fellowship, and St. Peter’s Lutheran of Big Rapids.

“We’ve invited both groups to Ferris to give [students] the opportunity to hear two really great Christian groups,” says Dan Lochner, advisor to the Lutheran Student Fellowship and director of College Age Ministry.

Vicky Beeching has a strong academic background besides her musical background, having a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in theology from Britain’s esteemed Oxford College. She has also started a website, worshipinaction.com, and an organization meaning to show people that it is just as important to live Christian ideals as it is to sing about them.

The band opening for Beeching calls themselves Sevenglory. They are a group that plays rock with Christian themes and subjects. The group consists of Fred Butson as lead singer and on guitar, Gabe Johannes on percussion and background vocals, Caleb Johannes on bass and background vocals, and Josh Parsons on lead guitar. The band also has a new CD coming to stores on Oct. 30.

“I’ve asked [the bands] not just to promote our new Video Cafe worship experience but to encourage the kids to find a place to worship,” says Lochner.

The Video Caf» Lochner is talking about is a new style of worship that will be implemented at the St. Peter’s Lutheran on Sept. 23 with services starting at 11 a.m. The session will be quite a bit more relaxed than an actual mass with videos, discussions, food, and drink for the participants.

For more information on St. Peter’s Lutheran and their Video Caf»,visit www.videocafeworship.com. For more information on Sevenglory or Vicky Beeching they can both be found on Myspace and Beeching also has a separate site at www.vickybeeching.com.

Sandler plays Chuck Levine, firefighter and best friend to Larry Valentine (James), also a firefighter.

After Larry saves Chuck’s life, he calls in a favor from Chuck to pretend to be his domestic partner so his children can be named his insurance beneficiaries.

The two get married, move in together and that’s just the beginning. Jessica Biel plays Sandler’s unsuspecting love interest, while Dan Akroyd plays the uptight fire chief.

Rob Schneider, David Spade and Lance Bass all have cameo appearances in the film.

“Adam Sandler movies tend to appeal to the students here at Ferris,” said Matt Eickhoff, student engagement and activities coordinator. “We’ve had great attendance when we’ve shown his movies in the past.”

According to Eickhoff, the Big Screen Movie is an event that normally takes place during Welcome Week.

“Last year we had well over 1,000 students at the Big Screen Movie,” said Eickhoff, who also noted the event is one of the most well attended at Welcome Week.

This year the movie was relocated to Williams Auditorium due to rainy weather. Because the planning committee was still under contract for the outdoor screen and sound system, now seemed like the time to reschedule.

“We are hoping that even with the date change many students will come out to see the new movie,” stated Eickhoff.

The Big Screen Movie is sponsored mainly by Entertainment Unlimited (EU), with some help from the Welcome Week planning committee.

It is free to all students, faculty, staff and community members, and is set to start at 9 p.m.

The event is also one of 18 that EU is putting on this fall, the most events they have ever put on in one semester.

The movie is funded by the Student Activity Fee as allocated by the Finance Division of Student Government.

If anyone is interested in more information or needs special accommodations to attend this event please call 231-591-2610.

The idea was based upon the popular blog called “PostSecret.” The creator, Frank Warren, encouraged people to send in secrets that have never been told on decorated postcards, according to an interview with Warren on Quirkee.com.

Every Sunday, Warren posts about twenty of the secrets on the blog, postsecret.blogspot.com. One of the Sept. 16 posts was a picture of a dollar bill that read “I write inspirational messages on dollar bills in hopes of helping someone.”

“The blog has sort of a ‘cult following’, and it has been getting more exposure over the last year, with appearances by Mr. Warren on ‘Good Morning American’ and other national TV programs,” said Matt Eickhoff, student engagement and activities coordinator.

The postcards are decorated. They can have drawings, photographs, hand written text and typed words.

“We would love it if students would get creative with their postcards,” Eickhoff said.

After being decorated, the postcards for Ferris’ SecretShare event should be dropped off at the EU office (Rankin 130).

On Thursday night there will be a viewing reception from 7-9 p.m. Everyone can see the turned in postcards and enjoy music by acoustic duo the Chris Cauley and Chinua Hawk Project. MIMA is co-sponsoring this event and helping with the live music.

Why have this at Ferris?

“I think this is a great idea for Ferris students because it gives them the opportunity to get these secrets out and on paper,” Eickhoff said. “[Also,] sometimes its beneficial just to know that there is someone going through the same stuff that you are.”

EU will not post any postcards that are profaine or discriminatory. They are meant to be anonymous and the sender’s name should not be on the postcard.

To see examples of postcards, go to postsecret.blogspot.com.