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Despite rain and Covid, Safety Street flourishes

BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER The annual campus Halloween celebration for local children took place on Friday, Oct. 23, in front of Titan field.  Volunteers were placed at the McNichols entrance gate and throughout campus in order to guide guests through the drive-thru event. Guests were greeted by […]

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Student leaders encourage classmates to vote

BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER A panel of Detroit Mercy students urged their classmates to vote in the Nov. 3 election during a recent online gathering. “When you don’t vote, you allow someone else to decide who gets to represent you and who makes decisions that will affect […]

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Private rooms now available at library

BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER If you’re a student looking for a private, quiet space to study on campus, the McNichols campus Library is now offering study spaces.  In the back corner of the first floor of the library is where you’ll find the study spaces.  There are four individual rooms available for reservation as long as […]

Sports

Esports: Dragons look for fantasy finish

BY RYAN RUTKOWSKI / VN STAFF WRITER The Shanghai Dragons look to make a storybook ending as the third season of the Overwatch League comes to a close. The Dragons join the Philadelphia Fusion, San Francisco Shock and Seoul Dynasty in the final double-elimination tournament of the year Oct. 8-10. […]

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Travel adventures: Visiting Barcelona

BY SARA MITRAKOVIC / VN STAFF WRITER I’m one of those people who spend free time searching for my next traveling destination. In high school, I chose Spanish as my second foreign language and, lucky for me, my professor was so good I became fluent by the time I graduated […]

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International student spotlight: Mateusz Jaskot in Poland

This is one in a series of stories about international Detroit Mercy students who are taking online courses and spending their semester back home overseas. BY SARA MITRAKOVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Mateusz Jaskot, a senior architecture student from Poland, is taking classes at Detroit Mercy as part of […]

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Detroit City captures fall championship

BY LUCIANO MARCON / VN SPECIAL WRITER The Detroit City FC men’s team won the National Independent Soccer Association fall championship against the Oakland Roots, 2-1, on Oct. 2. The team has won many trophies in the past, but this title is especially significant because this was the team’s first […]

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Underwood gets early jump on Christmas with album

BY ALY REIFF / VN STAFF WRITER Throughout the summer of 2020 country singer Carrie Underwood, a former American Idol winner, put the finishing touches on her new Christmas album, “My Gift,” which came out Sept. 25. In the past, Underwood has released holiday songs. But this is her first […]

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Most Detroit Mercy students asked admit to cheating

With classes mostly online, cheating has become easier, students say. / VN photo by Devonne Mccullough BY RYAN RUTKOWSKI / VN STAFF WRITER Academic fraud has been and always will be a large issue for universities, especially when 82% of undergraduates claim to have cheated before. The “82% problem,” according […]

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Students use masks to express selves

BY ALY REIFF / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy students are required to wear masks when on campus as one of the protocols to keep students and faculty members safe from the virus. But walking across campus these days, one notices that some masks speak a lot louder than others. […]