Sunday, September 22, 2024
BY BRANDON WENNER / VN STAFF WRITER After being suspended in November due to allegations of numerous violations, Kappa Delta Rho has been terminated on the Detroit Mercy campus by university officials. Student Life issued a statement late last week announcing the decision. “We regret that this was the decision as […]
BRANDON WENNER / STAFF WRITER Super Bowl 54 may have been uneventful but the free agency season, which opened March 13, has been anything but. The Pittsburgh Steelers have lost arguably the automatic one and two picks in fantasy football. Antonio Brown is now an Oakland Raider after Pittsburgh received third- […]
BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER You don’t have go far to find McNichols campus theatre alums on television, in movies or on stage. Examples abound, including Keegan-Michael Key, Ted Raimi, David Patrick Kelly, Angelina Fiordellisi, Anita Barone, Christopher Darga and Amy Yasbeck. Keegan-Michael Key is the best known of […]
BY VIRIDIANA CAMACHO / VN STAFF WRITER Student Edwin Jurado joined the LatinX Student Association (LXSA) because he “wanted to share his culture with the rest of the university.” A junior majoring in psychology, he is now LXSA’s president. Jurado said that when he started school here there weren’t many Latinos […]
BY EMILY JONES / VN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The name always gets noticed: Titan Hookers. Detroit Mercy’s new knitting and crocheting group aims to run group projects and help students who need to learn crocheting basics. The group was started by Karla Aickens, who works in the library, and Jacqui Al-Guweiri, who works […]
BY GANNON PACIONI / VN NEWS EDITOR Two candidates are campaigning to succeed Ben Westphal as student body president at Detroit Mercy. Westphal announced weeks ago that he would be stepping aside. Kenneth Donaldson and Nathan Wodwaski are running for the top Student Government Association position. The election is underway now, […]
By Claire Patterson / VN STAFF WRITER Filling your schedule with core classes is easy, but you still need to find time in your busy schedule for electives. Selecting one that is somewhat easy as well as fun can be tricky. If you are at a loss on what classes to […]
BY BRANDON WENNER / VN STAFF WRITER When you are hungry for Mexican food and you prefer a fast casual establishment, you probably head to either a Chipotle or Qdoba restaurant. However, which restaurant do you prefer? Although I used to prefer Qdoba, I am now a Chipotle convert. The reasons? […]
By Viridiana Camacho / VN STAFF WRITER Jasmina Cunmulaj, a senior with a double major in developmental psychology and English literature, knew the Women’s and Gender Studies minor was for her. “This has been one of my passions all along,” she said. “I just wasn’t in tune to it. But once […]
By Tiffeny Gripper and Crystal Green / VN STAFF WRITERS Racial ignorance abounds and we’re all impacted by it, according to a New York scholar and author who spoke Feb. 18 at Detroit Mercy. “Living in a racist society means we are all exposed to racial ignorance,” said Fleming, associate professor […]
