Number of siblings - Three.

Number of siblings I get along with - three. This was not the case when we were younger, but we have been through a lot, and these are a few of the only people that I can talk to about anything with.

Number of Cable channels at my apartment - over 100.

Number of cable channels I actually watch - about five. The rest are no good and are a waste of money - take a hint cable providers, I'm not the only one that thinks this way.

Number of girls I've dated in college - two officially.

Number of girls I've dated in college that were actually worth my time - only one. (To all men - only date

deliberately.)

Amount of Debt that the state of Michigan owes- over $1.75 billion.

Amount of debt that I owe after four years of college - more than I like to admit (check out www.fastweb.com to not end up in my situation).

Mileage of my Suburban before engine 'transplant' - 9 m.p.g. on the highway (pout).

Mileage of my Suburban after engine 'transplant' - about 1 m.p.g.. This should be good inspiration to get the truck street legal so I can get a better estimate.

Mileage record of my Firebird - 31.5 m.p.g. on the highway (going 65 mph) (the same reason that I have never gotten a speeding ticket).

Date driver's licence obtained - Sept. 10, 2001. My mom let me take the car to school the next day. Did I mention that I am from Sault Ste. Marie - a border town? I have never seen so many police before or since.

Number of internships I've had during college - two. The more the merrier. The first one wasn't much good. I'm glad I had another one.

Percent of hours that I have enjoyed working at the Torch - more than 50. None of my work experiences have been 100 percent pleasurable, but I've learned that sticking with it is always worth the effort.

Have at least a 75 percent awesome year at Ferris!

She was (and I quote) “sick.” My first thought was “sick of what?” Was she sick as in stuffy nose, sneezing, coughing, and headache or sick as in sick of life?” Was she sick because she ate under cooked food and contracted food poisoning, or feeling sick because she was physically tired? I was silently praying that she had a major psychological problem.

Before she killed her son, her family doctor diagnosed her with depression. After she was convicted of murder and sentenced to 42 years in a maximum security prison, the prison psychologist diagnosed her with bipolar disorder.

Please understand the difference between the two. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, depression is “an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts.” Depression affects a person’s self-esteem and can last for days, weeks, months, or years. Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder. It affects a person’s overall ability to function, the person’s mood, and energy. It is extremely different from the everyday ups and downs a person goes through.

She said she killed her son because she “snapped.” She did not say she killed her son because she was depressed at the time, because she was having a bad day, or for any other reason besides the fact that she “snapped.” She sounded like she needed to be on “Snapped,” which is a television show that appears on Oxygen. I thought to myself that she needs help. You don’t just kill a person because you “snapped.” That’s unacceptable.

As the show continued she talked about what life was like for her. She talked about how sometimes life was wonderful and how sometimes she didn’t want to do anything. Remarks about her “wonderful husband” were made and she even talked about how she loved her kids. Friends of hers also commented about various aspects of her life. One friend described her as having obsessive compulsive disorder. Another said she knew she had more bad days than good ones.

Oprah asked if she really thought she was “someone else” when she killed her son. Her answer: yes. Oprah then explained (in a nice way) about how so many people do something wrong and then blame it on some type of disorder. I must say, I was happy she said that. Some people kill a person and blame it on bipolar disorder. Some burn down their house and say they did it because they were depressed. I guess you thought you wouldn’t be depressed when you realized you no longer have anywhere to live.

My point is this: she killed her son because she “snapped.” As I watched her testimony of what happened that particular day, I didn’t see one tear fall from her eyes. I heard a lot of sniffling and looked at what appeared to be a sad face, but I didn’t sense any real sympathy. I felt like she was using bipolar disorder as an excuse for why she killed her son. She knew nothing about the disorder before. Could she really be bipolar? Yes. Could she have really been depressed? Yes. She could have been hearing voices in her head and seeing ghosts, but when first asked why she killed her son; her answer was because she “snapped.”

There are many people living with depression and bipolar disorder. I realize that it’s a serious illness, but in my book it will never be an excuse to kill someone. I say that because it can be treated. Everybody knows when something is seriously wrong with them, and if you’re thinking about killing someone, They should seek professional help.

The first major problem is that low-paying jobs can’t take it; because a major part involves employer-paid insurance. Ronald Bailey wrote in Reason Magazine, “[Harvard Professor Regina] Herzlinger points out that if [retailers and banks] are required to pay an additional $5,000 for health insurance for a clerk earning $22,000, the companies will immediately start substituting capital for labor.” This means that clerks would be replaced by automated systems, and the formerly-uninsured would become the currently-unemployed.

Another problem with Clinton’s plan is the inclusion of prescription price caps. Unlike the market, the government doesn’t know which price levels are truly “fair.” Drug companies need to earn profits on prescription drugs because research is expensive, and, according to a John Stossel article, it costs $1 billion to get a new drug past the FDA.

With mandatory price caps, the decreased ability of prescription drug companies to discover and develop new drugs will be immeasurable, but it is certain that, as Stossel wrote, without new drugs, “We will suffer more pain and live shorter lives.”

The “rich” are supposed to pay for it. Clinton’s plan relies on tax increases for Americans earning over $250,000 per year. It sounds nice to say that the system would be funded by the rich, but the rich are funded by the poor and middle-class. When taxes on a rental property are increased, the landlord doesn’t pay. The renters pay in the form of higher rent fees.

In the same way, people who earn over $250,000 per year almost always have some control over the cost of their products and services. Tax increases result in price increases, and competition doesn’t keep prices down because competitors raise prices similarly, in response to the same tax increases.

In the end, if you’re rich enough to buy any products or services, and you probably are because, according to the Heritage Foundation, 62 percent of even America’s “impoverished” have cable or satellite TV, you can would to pay.

If the plan were enacted, prices would rise for healthy people because, according to the plan, “insurance companies will end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions or expectations of illness and ensure high value for every premium dollar...”  

Eliminating the ability to determine prices based on probability needlessly increases costs for those who have fewer risks, and it forces people to pay for reckless decisions other people make.

People with poor health, whether from smoking, obesity, inactivity, or genetics, or other causes, need more healthcare services, and cost more than healthy people. Even if they are charged less for insurance, the cost to cover them remains the same, so healthy people must pay more (involuntarily,) to cover the cost.

Contrary to Hillary’s statement, healthcare is not a human right. Clinton said, “It is long past time that Americans and the richest of all countries realize that health care is a right and not a privilege. And that goes especially for people who work hard every single day.” (That second sentence sounds like it came from “Animal Farm,” as it assumes that a basic human right can apply “especially” to a certain group.) But healthcare is not a human right, and the idea that it is a human right is incompatible with other human rights, physicians who charge for their labor, and dictionaries.

Healthcare, as a human right, would violate other human rights because it would require the involuntary work of others. If doctors are forced to provide healthcare, their rights to liberty are violated.

Healthcare could be a legal entitlement, but not a human right. People inaccurately apply the term, “human right,” to healthcare to add a sense of moral superiority to a political agenda. As Philip Barlow wrote in the British Medical Journal, “A more humble approach would achieve more in the long run.”

By Nakira Howard, Ferris State Torch

Let’s face it, people gossip, they always have and they always will. Does it have to continue?

There are plenty ways you can respond to the latest gossip you hear about your friend or about a celebrity, don’t let it hurt people.

Gossip is a, “rumor or talk of personal, sensational, or intimate nature. It is a person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts. It is trivial, chatty talk or writing,” according to answers.com Many things said about people are hurtful. For example, you will rarely hear someone say things such as “Do you know Madison, tall, pretty Madison with the pretty smile.” It would be more like “Do you know Madison, big, gummy Madison with the ugly teeth.”

When a rumor comes to you, be the one to take a stand. Make a rumor stop with you. Decide that you don’t want to take part in spreading hurtful rumors.

You don’t always have to be the audience. When someone comes up to you with a rumor, simply don’t listen. This individual may be simply out to hurt someone’s feelings, or to get satisfaction by making someone look worse than the individual is.

Try to be a peacemaker. If any individual wants to hurt someone by spreading lies or rumors, speak up. It is better to focus on the good things rather then all the controversy of someone’s personal life.

Respect the privacy of others. If you don’t want other people talking about the personal things in your life, don’t do it to others. When you hear personal information about a person, try to keep it to yourself.

Remember everything you hear or read is not always true. You may not know all the facts. Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. 

Graphic By Scott Carmichael, Graphic Designer / Web Editor

O‘Reilly continued on saying, “The band was excellent, but they were dressed in tuxedoes, and this is what white America doesn’t know, particularly people who don’t have a lot of interaction with black Americans. They think that the culture is dominated by Twista, Ludacris, and Snoop Dogg.”

“You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”

I used to listen to the “Radio Factor.” There is nothing on the radio at 11 p.m. and when I was in the mood to get angry, I would tune in. I would get to hear stupid opinion after stupid opinion from O’Reilly. Then people would call in who were even dumber. Then Geraldo Rivera would come in, completing the triumvirate of idiocy.

“If you listened to the full hour, it was a criticism of racism on the part of white Americans who are ignorant of the fact that there is no difference between white and black anymore,” O’Reilly told the AP, explaining his quote. “Circumstances may be different in their lives but we’re all Americans. Anyone who would be offended by that conversation would have to be looking to be offended.”

Originally when I heard his quotes, I was actually on O’Reilly’s side. I didn’t think what he was saying was racist at all. In fact, he was trying to say that race has no bearing on a person’s character. But if you examine what O’Reilly said, the root of the problems of his point of view and the point of view of people like him becomes evident.

O’Reilly is 58 years old. And it is now that he realizes that racism is a stupid concept? After dining at a restaurant of all things. And people take this guy’s opinion seriously?

What angers me the most about O’Reilly is when he talks about rappers. Oh, the outrage. He condemned Virginia Tech for having Nas perform at a benefit concert there. He said it “disgraced the victims” due to a previous weapons charge Nas had. He also called for a Pepsi boycott after they hired Ludacris to film a commercial.

Nevermind that you can turn on the television everyday in America and watch violence. Crime dramas dominate regular television. Gory depictions of murders are shown with regularity. Violence is a cultural issue in America. Blaming successful entertainers does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.

When you’re Bill O’Reilly, your only contact with minorities is in the media. That’s why he was so shocked when there wasn’t any gun violence at the black restaurant.

O’Reilly lives in his mansion, inside his gated community, watches television and gets outraged. Most elected officials and lawmakers are the same way. There is very little diversity in these circles. That’s why the justice system is so hard on minorities and the youth: to protect the ignorant concerns of those in power.

O’Reilly is the one of the main perpetrators of this ignorance in America. Entertainers aren’t the problem, free speech isn’t the problem, those who are different aren’t the problem. He is the problem.

Some people may be bound for grad school. In this case, grades are very important. When trying to get into a professional or doctoral field, society wants only the best, even if that means someone who has no social life. But that’s not to say that we should sacrifice our friends for a grade. If we constantly try to be shut-ins, our only friends being books, there will be a great mental suffering. Besides, friends can help you in your studies.

Many students form study groups, especially those who are in professional or doctoral programs. Friends care about each other and won’t let one another fail without trying.

According to Infoplease.com studying in a group can be more effective then studying alone. Infoplease recommended a group of three to five people to allow everyone time to talk and collaborate.

When it comes down to it, life isn’t our jobs, and it isn’t our grades. Tom Petty, a singer and musician, said this about college, “Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends.”

We need to remember that life is about being happy. One of the key rights given to us in the constitution is the right to the pursuit of happiness. Our forefathers knew that we as a race needed to be happy, and money, career success, and grades aren’t necessarily going to make us happy.

Benjamin Franklin said that, “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Learning is important.  Sometimes it gets very easy to let the attraction of social functions pull us away from our studies. While going out and having fun with friends is good, it shouldn’t become the only part of school. We as students need to be disciplined enough to know when we can hang out, and when we should stay home and study. We are in fact paying roughly $15,000 a year to attend this university; we should at least get a degree out of it.

If a test is coming up, we should study for it. If homework is due the next day, we should do it, and then hang out with friends. If a project is coming up three weeks down the road, we should schedule specific times to work on it throughout those three weeks. We shouldn't necessarily alienate all our friends for one week to get it done right away, but we also shouldn't put it off to the very last week.

Procrastination can be a huge problem, and it sometimes happens because we get caught up in hanging out with our friends. But nothing good comes from procrastination.

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task,” William James said.

I find that the more I procrastinate, the more the stress builds up in my head. When we’re stressed we become easily irritable, depressed, and unmotivated, which leads us in a downward spiral that is hard to recover from. This goes back to the whole idea of discipline.

“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back,” Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister said.

We need to know when things need to be done, and we need to do them.

Life is the accumulation of many things. Knowledge, love, friendship, careers, faith, and much more are all a part of it. All of those things can be equally as important to any certain person. Some people will put certain aspects above others, but the others will still be important. We can’t let our minds become consumed by any one thing. It’s as they say, “most things are good in moderation, in excess they can be detrimental.”

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die,” said Amelia Burr.

When growing up there is a “milestone” birthday every couple of years. Beginning at the young age of five, children learn that a birthday is a big deal, granted there’s nothing special about the ages of five through nine, it’s a big deal none the less.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was stoked to turn 10, and being one of the first of my friends to do so was even cooler. I was a double-digit-kid, and I was stoked. Three years later I became a teenager. Nothing is cooler than being 13.

I apologize to my parents for anything I may have done in this time of being a cool 13-year-old. Again in three years I was 16. While I didn’t have my 50 hours to receive my license, being 16 and knowing I would eventually be able to drive was good enough for me.

My 18th birthday was two weeks before the presidential election. My first election I would ever vote in, and it would be for who was president. I was in an Advanced Placement government class and researched all the options, including the person on the green ballot.

I wore my “I voted” sticker for three days before putting it under the bill of my visor. I strutted around telling anyone who would listen that I was an adult now. My parents handled it well, saying that now that I’m an adult, I can be independent: having my own apartment, paying for my own bills, and be on my own. That took me down a couple notches.

When I turned 19, all my friends kept telling me I could go to Canada. I live 20 minutes from the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor. I grew up watching the neighborhood kids going and coming from Canada. While it seemed cool I wasn’t in a hurry to drive the four hours to the bridge from Ferris.

Turning 20 was a big deal because I was no longer a teenager. While it was cool at 13, by the time I was 19 I was tired of being associated with 13-year-olds.

A couple weeks ago I couldn’t understand why my mouth felt like a dagger was being driven through my gums. After being in pain for a couple days I realized it was my wisdom tooth coming in. I give mad props to the toddlers who are teething and handling the pain so well, because I’m on the verge of going crazy.

Now that I have my “big person” tooth, and am about to join the big people club, I can’t help but feel depressed about the next landmark birthday being 40. When people yell “over the hill”, gag gifts decked out in black, and a cane with a horn, a mirror, and other gizmos attached come my way.

While a lot of adults use the phrase “age is just a number,” it’s not. Age is the right of passage. Age is the landmark of when the law says you are old enough (not always mature enough) to drive, vote, and drink. It’s been fun sitting at the “kiddie table” the last 20 years, but now I’m ready to join the big people club.

I’ve noticed that online colleges are becoming more and more popular. I’m thinking I should apply to one. Okay, maybe not apply to one, but schedule a couple on-line next semester. To have all online classes sounds lovely to me. I’ve taken a couple of classes online before, and so far I’ve had no complaints. The advantages of on-line classes outweigh the disadvantages.

All you have to do is sit in front of the computer. You don’t have to get dressed, drag books across campus, or watch the weather channel to figure out if you should carry an umbrella or wear a jacket. You can even fall asleep at your computer desk if you want to. You don’t have to worry about being late for class or trying to understand professors who have heavy accents. All you have to do is log on.

There’s no scheduling conflicts, missed family time, and you can do your homework whenever you’re ready. Best of all there’s no group projects.

Furthermore, online classes are great for individuals who have children, a full time job, or a really tight schedule. You don’t have to worry about leaving work early to make it to class on time or vice versa. You don’t have to find someone to pick the kids up from daycare because you can leave your computer and come back to the work later.

The fact is, online classes provided the same education as a traditional setting at a much cheaper price. There’s no paying for meal plans that you’ll hardly ever use, and no paying to live in residence halls with a roommate you can’t stand.

The Online Education Database reported that most online classes do not require books. Students are able to download what they need to complete the course, thus not paying $250.00 for a book they’ll use only twice.

Are there disadvantages to online classes? I’m sure there are. Some people need to hear things in order to understand. Some people could never sit in front of a computer screen to attend class and do homework. Some people need those office hours for extra help and some people would rather just sit in a classroom.

According OED, online classes are so popular because students can learn at their own pace. OED also reported that the majority of students who take online classes want to finish a program they have already started, are looking for a career change, or searching for career advancement. Some people even excel in their current profession while studying to begin a new one.

Whether you choose to take online classes, attend an online university, or attend a traditional university, chances are you will learn the equivalent educational material.

Tandem Bike This two seat bike can be used for lots of fun around campus. Photo by Ben Kramer, Photo Editor

The invention of the bicycle is perhaps the greatest invention man has ever conceived. It has provided a means of transportation, exercise, joy, art, entertainment, and glory for the many people who ride them. The bicycle is the childhood dream that never leaves you. The old saying, “it’s easy as riding a bike,” was coined because you never forget how to ride a bike. It’s the childhood memory that never leaves you.

“I’ll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes the picture of untrammeled womanhood,” Susan B. Anthony said.

A bicycle frees you. A person and a bicycle can go anywhere, with no limits. There’s no gas to buy, a bike can be had for under a $100, and it’s compact. It goes wherever you point it.

“The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created:  Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon,” Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist.

Imagine that. Talk about being free from fuel dependency. I use to commute by bicycle every day of the week in high school. I rode eight miles to school and eight miles back, all the way into December. I probably saved over $300 in gas money. On Tuesday nights I commuted to my community college class in Ionia. That was a 36 mile roundtrip. My average commute time was only about an hour and a half.

There’s a revolution happening in Africa right now. Bicycling Magazine has created a non-profit organization called Bike-Town. Over the past year they have been collecting recycled bikes, fixing them up, and giving them to African villages to help with AIDS relief. A lot of the bikes are being given to AIDS relief workers in Botswana, where HIV is present in 38% of the population. The bikes given enable the relief workers to transport HIV medications four to five times faster then by foot. The bikes are also given out to the villagers to use for exercise, getting groceries, and just for fun.

Bike Town is also donating hundreds of bikes to people in towns and cities all over the US. Bicycling finds people who can benefit the most from the bicycle, people with weight/health issues, financial issues, depression, and others. They give them the bikes and regularly check in with them. After a while their symptoms begin to disappear.

Bicycles can do a lot to liberate people. Many non-profits are donating bicycles to villages in Africa and to people all over the US who need them.

“Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life,” Frances Willard said in his book, “How I Learned to Ride a Bicycle”

People who were bound by the limitations of their feet no longer have to be. If we give them a bicycle we give them life. When you raise a child, don’t forget to give them their first bicycle. Don’t forget to teach them how to ride it. Teaching your kid to ride a bike will make him feel like a man, free to break out of the back yard. Give life, give a bike.

By Mo McNeil, Sports Editor

On Aug. 3, 2007, Rohrabacher introduced a House Resolution for the United States to boycott the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, China because of China’s alleged disregard for human values and human rights violations.

Rohrabacher stated that China is “bankrolling Darfur’s Genocide,” and has been trying to eliminate Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that incorporates Buddhist and Taoist principles along with mental exercise and healing techniques, which had 70 million practitioners in China in 1999.

China has also been accused of abusing democracy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists, Uigers and political dissidents.

By boycotting the 2008 Olympics, Rohrabacher is hoping to send a message to the Chinese government that these antics are not acceptable and will not be tolerated.

Rohrabacher wants the United States Government to take immediate action in boycotting the summer Olympics, unless the Government of the People’s Republic of China stops engaging in serious human rights violations, and stops supporting government human rights violations in Sudan, Burma, and North Korea.

“In 1936, Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics, giving Hitler a worldwide platform to showcase his fascist propaganda. It was wrong to support the Olympic venue then, and it’s wrong for the United States to support this prestigious event being held in a similarly fascist regime in 2008,” Rohrabacher stated in his press release.

I would like to point out that yes, what happened in Nazi Germany was horrible, but the 1936 bid was already awarded to Berlin prior to Hitler’s regime. In 1936 the Nazi party was picking up steam by making life for those not of Aryan race miserable.

Nazi’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had all of the anti-semantic posters removed, and everything was done to make sure the Olympic Games ran smoothly. Unfortunately, for the rest of the world everything went too smoothly.

Hitler and his thugs did everything to hide what was happening during the Olympics. According to Rohrabacher, China isn’t keeping the mass killings a secret.

If China isn’t keeping the mass killings a secret, then how is it that no one has heard of the games being boycotted until now? Granted our government doesn’t like to communicate with the rest of the nation, but I still feel like a news station would have mentioned this.

I wonder what would happen if the government, or at least those that support the idea of boycotting the 2008 Olympics, came out and told the public what they were thinking of doing. I’m sure everyone would support the idea of helping those that the Chinese repress.

I also wonder what the U.S. would say about the boycott. Would a boycott send the message that Rohrabacher wants to send? Or would the Chinese think the U.S. had an alternative motive?

I don’t know if boycotting the games will have the impact Rohrabacher is hoping for, and I don’t think punishing the athletes that have been training for the games is fair. I was under the impression that the purpose of the Olympic Games is about building ties with other countries.

Considering that the U.S. is under a microscope for all of their foreign relations, I don’t think boycotting the games is the best way to go. Now if we boycotted the games because the Chinese imports are taking out little kids with lead paint, I could understand it.

If the U.S boycotted the Olympics because the Olympic board suspended fast pitch softball from the games, because the U.S has won the gold medal in every games since it was introduced in 1996, I would understand that. That’s however another issue entirely.

I don’t understand why Rohrabacher thinks boycotting is the way to go. Remember in the movie “Miracle”, head coach Herb Brooks said that the USSR was thinking about boycotting the Olympics. Carter told the USSR that if they didn’t come to Lake Placid, the U.S. wouldn’t go over there that summer.

A government conflict is using the athletes, who have trained and waited their entire lives for this event, as pawns. The similarities between the 2008 Beijing and 1980 Winter Olympics are scary.

Our economy has seen better days, and the dollar being equal to the loon, the Canadian dollar, has only sent the U.S. into more despair. There’s a strong distrust of the government, people are out of jobs, and no one is sure when the next four years looked better than the previous four years.

The United States needed the 1980 Olympics and the miracle hockey team, just like the United States needs that team now. By boycotting the Olympics Rohrabacher is opening up a new can of worms.

What is happening between the Chinese government and its citizens is horrible, but I don’t think boycotting the games will send the message Rohrabacher is hoping for. The U.S. is all about bringing democracy and western values into Iran, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries; you’d think that we would also be over in China trying to do the same thing.

I understand the reason to boycott, I know something should be done, and I know that a message will be sent, but is it the right message?

Graphic By Scott Carmichael, Graphic Designer / Web Editor

I’m ashamed to be a Ferris State University student. I have attended this educational institute for three years now, and it is my feeling that for three years I have been misled. The occurances over the past week or so have led me to voice my opinion.

When you first arrive at the F.S.U. online homepage there is a small blurb about Ferris. It states “Students at Ferris State University get big-school resources with plenty of extracurricular activities in a relaxed, small-town setting in the heart of west-central Michigan. Let Ferris make a difference in your life.” For three students thus far this semester, this has a different meaning.

Where is Ferris in all of this? They send out short e-mails or post small paragraphs on the MyFSU login page, but what are they really doing? I do not believe this constitutes a “relaxed” feeling. This is fear, and anger. It makes me wonder how many rapes and attacks might have been kept from us, the student body.

I demand of President Eisler, and the head of campus police a detailed explaination of what their plan of action is to ensure it doesn’t happen again. I’m sure they both realize that even though enrollment numbers are up, after these percedings students will re-think attending Ferris.

-Joy Trute