BY CRYSTAL EDMONDS GREEN / VN STAFF WRITER Classrooms can seem perilous to students with learning disabilities. But increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities are enrolling in two- and four-year colleges and universities. Nationally, 3.3 percent of all students who head off to college each year report having a […]
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Students share Valentine love tales
By Claire Patterson / VN STAFF WRITER Flowers, heart-shaped candy and love notes are all around us this week. When you find your perfect someone, you cannot wait for the day when you can spend Valentine’s Day with them. The day has finally come where you are not alone in bed […]
Sign up for intramural soccer, basketball, more
ikelball play was underway last week in the Fitness Center. it's just one of several intramural activities being offered this semester. VN photo / MARISSA BARRIUSO BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER Winter Intramural Sports have returned to the Detroit Mercy campus, hosted by the Fitness Center on campus. Registration is […]
Why the destruction of these Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley still matters
Boxer Joe Louis Barrow came of age in the Black Bottom neighborhood 1930s Detroit: Childern pose outside a store in the black bottom neighborhood that has longsince been erased in the name of urban renewal Reuther Library photo by EDWARD STANTON BY LUCIANO MARCON / VN COLUMNIST Named for the dark, fertile soil seen […]
Sleep may be culprit if gym, diet not showing results
BY GANNON PACIONI / VN COLUMNIST If you’ve been in a gym, worked with a fitness coach or even had an annoying fitness friend or family member, you’ve inevitably heard the quote, “It is about what you do the 23 hours outside of the gym that really is going to affect […]
What I love and don’t about our university
BY VIRIDIANA CAMACHO / VN COLUMNIST Detroit Mercy is Michigan’s largest Catholic University. Even then, I feel as if the campus is small. No complaints here. I love the campus size, especially during the winter. Because the campus is not wide, getting from Briggs to the student center is no more […]
Whitmer must stand firm over environment panel
Michigan is a state with a large outdoor recreation industry. It also has many abundant natural resources. From a business point of view, it would be smart of the legislators of our state to put time, effort and money into keeping this industry well running and by preserving Michigan’s environment. […]
GREGG’S & UPTOWN
By Tiffeny Gripper / VN STAFF WRITER Today when people hear the phrase “Detroit Barbeque,” they automatically think of Slow’s Bar BQ, the nationally known restaurant in Corktown. But Detroit has many neighborhood places. And 16 years before Slow’s even existed, locals near campus had Uptown BBQ & Soul food – […]
NY race scholar speaks Monday
BY CRYSTAL EDMONDS / VN STAFF WRITER A nationally recognized scholar on race matters will speak Monday, Feb. 18, on the McNichols Campus as part of Black History Month. Crystal M. Fleming, an associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at SUNY-Stony Brook, will discuss her new book, “How to Be […]
Free play tells of slave escape, love story
Ellen Craft and her husband William escaped slavery in disquise. Their story will be told on stage. BY CRYSTAL EDMONDS / VN STAFF WRITER A special one night-only love story will be presented by Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Thursday, Feb. 14, as part of Black History Month. “A Thousand Miles to […]
