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Officially
dedicated in October 1978, the stadium is centrally located on the
FSU campus and features a current seating capacity of 6,200.
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A
new electronic scoreboard was installed in June 2000.
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The playing field is surrounded by a new 400-meter, eightlane
track with a brick red urethane surface.
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The
sign for the Music Center building.
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Vandercook
Hall is named after Colonel Roy C. Vandercook who was the original
vice-chair of the Board of Trustees after Ferris became a state
school in 1950.
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Art
sculpture in the center of campus
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Ferris
State University
Ferris State University (FSU, Ferris) is a
public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan,
USA. Founded in 1884 as the Big Rapids Industrial School by
Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, an educator from New England who
later served as governor of the State of Michigan and finally
in the US Senate where he remained until his death in 1928.
The school was noteworthy at its time for accepting female
students beginning with its first graduating class. It is
also the only public university in Michigan to be founded
by an individual.
Today Ferris is the ninth largest university in the state
with 14,381 students studying on its main campus, at one of
the 19 off-campus locations across the state, or online.
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