BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy has decided to lower the number of credits required for bachelor degrees for incoming freshmen entering in fall 2020. The required number will drop from 126 credits to 120 credits. Students currently enrolled in an undergraduate program will still be required to take 126 credits, […]
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Visiting activists draw attention to deportation issues
Leni Alvarez and Fernando Jose Trejo Guevara. / Photo by Benjamin Blazevic BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Two young activists from Mexico and El Salvador visited Detroit Mercy to spread awareness of the lives of deportees and the creative efforts of young people in Central America. Fernando Jose […]
Free lunch, cart rides Tuesday on Day of Giving
BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER The Student Alumni Association is hosting its annual Day of Giving next week on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The purpose of this day is to inform students on the importance of alumni engagement with the university. Every year, the focus is on educating students, thanking donors and giving back to the community […]
Male on campus, female back home
BY NOLAN KROHA / VN STAFF WRITER Alex Smith hasn’t always been Alex Smith. And he still isn’t in all situations. A senior and a double major at Detroit Mercy, Smith was born female into a conservative-Catholic, “two-cow farm” family. Smith – the name is a pseudonym – went to a […]
50th year for Dudley Randall poetry contest
BY CLAIRE PATTERSON / VN NEWS EDITOR Professor Claire Crabtree remembers poet Dudley Randall. For thirty years, Randall judged the poetry contest that still carries his name two decades after his death. “I would bring the copies over to Mr. Randall and we would sit and talk together about the […]
Titans retire #24 of NBA champ Curerton
VN photo by JORGE REYNA BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR It’s every player’s dream to get his jersey retired, whether for high school, college or professional play. Earl “The Twirl” Cureton realized that honor last week, Jan. 23, as his legacy as one of the all-time Titan greats was cemented. […]
Willie Green, Eli Holman honored Saturday
BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR Sometimes, the weekend brings a busy mix of work, errands and family obligations. But for two former Titan basketball players, this past weekend brought an extraordinary honor. Eli Holman, 2012, and Willie Green, 2003, were inducted into the Titan Hall of Fame and saw […]
Kobe’s Mamba Mentality can live on in all of us
BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR On Sunday, the world was in a paused shock after hearing of the death of Kobe Bryant, who was only 41 years old. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among nine people who died on their way to her basketball game in […]
Many Dem-leaning students united in dislike of Trump
BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER The Iowa caucus will be held next week, but Detroit Mercy students who lean Democratic have no consensus favorite among the dozen seeking the party nomination. They are united by one factor, though: President Donald Trump. Freshman Zaria Reid is typical. She does not […]
Four years on campus topped expectations
BY SCOTT SPARKS / VN STAFF WRITER Coming into my freshman year at the university four years ago, I had no idea what to expect. I was thinking, “Oh my gosh, I hope I have friends and I hope I don’t fail out of school.” It was a lot different […]
