Friday, November 15, 2024
VN photos / Marissa Barriuso Authentic food, festivties and good camaraderie highlightd the Chinese New Year celebration on McNicholas Campus on the evening of Feb. 8. Members of the Chinese Students and Scholars Assocation hosted the event, open to the university communnity
BY GANNON PACIONI / VN NEWS EDITOR Pouring in a sizzling 124 points in his first four games as a Titan, Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis went from an unknown 6-foot-1, 150-pound, lightly recruited freshman to the second overall point scorer in NCAA Division I basketball. Now at 640 points and averaging […]
By Claire Patterson / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy’s staff and faculty are taking part in a national challenge encouraging physical activity. The “Go Move Challenge” is a friendly, country-wide competition. It involves the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, which includes such schools such as Gonzaga, Georgetown, Loyola Chicago […]
Irish and German students used to face off in an annual tug-of-war battle, and pilot students here once had a thriving flight club, Photos courtesy of Pat Higo of the university archive BY EMILY JONES / VN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Detroit Mercy has many quirks, and some of these quirks are not well known […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
