Author: Jennifer Raptoplous

Features

Life inside Lansing-Reilly

It’s one of the lesser-known locations on the University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus. It’s also one of its most beautiful. Lansing-Reilly Hall, built in 1926, is home to the Jesuit priests who teach and work in and around Detroit Mercy. It’s one of the first buildings you see as you drive […]

News

Students to showcase work in animated film festival

On Friday, Dec. 16, a semester of hard work will culminate at the Detroit Mercy Animated Short Film Festival. Students in Professor Andrew Papa and Professor Jason Roche’s Computer Animation and Voice Acting class will be presenting their final projects at the festival to cap off the Fall semester. The festival […]

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One author’s Top 5 albums of the year

An extraordinary number of incredible, groundbreaking albums came out in 2022, proving yet again that the music industry is alive after the struggles of the coronavirus pandemic. From rock to country to even hyperpop, artists of all genres released albums that may go down as classics and be listened to for […]

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Quadeca showcases talent in new, dreary album

In a year that Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Ye each released an album, a white boy with a lisp out of Los Angeles took the title of “Al- bum of The Year” for many. Last month, American rapper and former YouTube star Ben Lasky, better known by his stage name “Quadeca,” […]

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Popular trio continue in ‘The Grand Tour’

Since 1977, the British Broadcasting Corporation has hosted a show called “Top Gear,” where car enthusiast hosts would show off cars in stunts, reviews, road trips and documentaries. The show had decent success, until 1988 when the BBC hired car journalist Jeremy Clarkson as its new show host. After 10 […]

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Passion for acting, directing drives popular theatre professor

When it comes to interesting professors here at the University of Detroit Mercy, few rival the passion and boisterous personality that accompany Associate Professor of Theatre Andrew Papa. Growing up in college towns with both of his parents being professors, a strong value on education was impressed on him from a […]

Sports

Junior loves lacrosse, wants to start car company

Ally Don Jean-Francois, a junior lacrosse player at Detroit Mercy, is Haitian and Bahamian, but doesn’t mind the cold of Detroit. Recruited from a high school in North Las Vegas, he has played lacrosse for eight years and is very passionate about the game. When asked why he picked Detroit Mercy, […]

Columnists

Off and running

The author is a junior guard on the men’s basketball team. As the basketball season came to a close last year with a loss in the quarterfinals of the Horizon League tournament, many people felt like we underachieved. So did I. This year, we are coming to reverse those feelings. […]