Saturday, September 21, 2024
The campus is fairly quiet this semester, with almost all classes online. / VN photo by Devonne Mccullough BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Many students are having difficulties getting used to an online schedule, but how are professors doing? Online education is unfamiliar to some professors as well. […]
David Byrne and Brendan Leonard in their Titan days. / Art courtesy of Detroit Titan Sports Info BY ANTHONY OCCHIUTO / VN STAFF WRITER Brendan Leonard and David Byrne, two Titans who have contributed to the golf team’s storied past, are adding to their successes in the professional ranks. After […]
BY JORGE REYNA / VN STAFF WRITER With this not being your typical NBA playoffs due to Covid-19, there have been a lot of unexpected turns. Like the Clippers committing one of the biggest chokes of the season or in playoff history and the Heat kicking out the number one […]
BY MADELYN RUSH / VN SPECIAL WRITER The American Dream is what brought Cristina Martinez and her nine siblings more than 4,000 miles from Valencia, Spain, to America in 2012. They were in search of a better life, in a foreign land. “I kept getting F’s in English class and […]
Photo by Tanaja Campbell BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER Aside from transforming classes, the pandemic has also brought big changes to the dining halls. “Business has changed drastically because of Covid,” said a staff member who works for Metz, the company that handles food services at Detroit Mercy. “We went from serving 700 people to […]
An architectural rendering of what the new digital media lab could look like. BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER An alumni committee is formulating a plan to raise $1.5 million to transform much of the lower level of Briggs Building into a state-of-the-art wing for communication studies. The department includes […]
BY MAXINE MOORE / VN COLULMNIST It was March 11 when the city of Detroit recorded its first case of “The Rona,” the latest coronavirus. My teammates and I were at the Royal Oak Hop Cat when a barrage of emails flooded our in-boxes: University of Detroit Mercy was pausing […]
This is one in a series of stories about international Detroit Mercy students who are taking online courses and spending their semester back at home overseas. BY SARA MITRAKOVIC / VN STAFF WRITER This is Iris Thioux. She’s a French student at Detroit Mercy, currently in the last year of […]
For those of you missing the McNichols campus, photographer Devonne Mccullough visited your old tramping grounds this week. Here are a few photos to remind you what it looks like.
The pandemic has left the McNichols campus feeling like a ghost town, according to one freshman. / Photo by Devonne Mccullough BY ALY REIFF and ANTHONY OCCHIUTO / VN STAFF WRITERS Many freshmen at Detroit Mercy aren’t thrilled with missing out on what they see as the full college experience. The pandemic is affecting […]
