When at first you don’t succeed, celebrate! Weird advice, I know, but when one opportunity does not work out, you never know what the next opportunity is going to be. Sometimes it will be even better than you imagined. Last fall I decided to apply for graduate schools, forgoing all […]
Author: MAGGIE JACKSON/ VN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Tuition increasing again, but by lower percentage
BY JACK WALSWORTH VN NEWS EDITOR Tuition at the University of Detroit Mercy is going up – yet again. This time, it will be a 3.5 percent increase. Word came in a mass email sent out over spring break by UDM President Antoine Garibaldi. He said it is the […]
Geek Week starts March 30, teams sought
BY ANNEMARIE NAGY VN STAFF WRITER What better way to celebrate the beginning of spring and hopefully some warm weather than participating in Geek Week, a treasure hunting-style game that includes cash prizes? Geek Week will be held on campus from March 30 to April 2. Teams of four […]
‘Rad’ stays positive despite firing
BY VITO CHIRCO VN SPORTS EDITOR Autumn Rademacher, known for years as “Coach Rad” on campus, refused to criticize her alma mater in her first media interview since being dismissed as head coach of the women’s basketball team. “I’m grateful and thankful for the players I was able to coach, […]
Questions mute spring hopes for Tigers team
The annual start of the Major League Baseball season – spring training – typically brings along with it a new reason to hope for every one of MLB’s 30 clubs. It also gives me and others a chance to get out of the funk – not the good kind that […]
Freshman dynamo
BY EMMA MUCCI VN Staff Writer Although she may only be 5-foot-4, Darianne Seward has made a huge impact as a freshman on the Detroit Titans women’s basketball team. She has already broken records, and she continues to make a major impact on the team. Her shift from high […]
Underclassmen drive Titan success
BY KARIC JONES VN STAFF WRITER Three games into the 2015 men’s lacrosse season, the Detroit Titans, powered by underclassmen, are off to a 2-1 start. This is largely due to solid play from freshmen Sean Birney and Mark Anstead, as well as sophomores Kyle Beauregard and Brad Harris. […]
Leading the way
BY VITO CHIRCO VN SPORTS EDITOR Though in the shadows of her admittedly faster and stronger brothers Mike and Sean, Kylie Birney has made quite the name for herself as a women’s lacrosse player. The second-oldest Birney athlete at UDM is a confident individual, sure of her skills on […]
‘Jupiter’ crashes, ‘McFarland’ inspires, ‘Fifty Shades’…
BY JOE OSTER VN STAFF WRITER And now, in the wake of the Oscars Sunday, a few brief reviews of recent movies. ‘JUPITER ASCENDING’ There’s a reason “Jupiter Ascending” was pushed from its initial July 2014 release, called a massive flop before it even opened and eventually dumped […]
Celebration traces to 1920s ‘Negro History Week’
BY Vershay Burks VN SPECIAL WRITER Black History Month comes to an end on Saturday, Feb. 28, but its purpose lives on throughout the year. “Sometimes I find it kind of odd that we have the shortest month to celebrate our black ancestry, but nevertheless it’s still our time […]
