Saturday, November 16, 2024
Varsity News photo / LOREAL DODSON Artist Rory Rennick (left), performing as Henry "Box" Brown and assisted by wife Angela, involved history professor Roy Finkenbine in his performance. BY DEEJ OSTER / VN EDITOR Magician and motivational artist Rory Rennick brought to life professor Henry “Box” Brown, a runaway slave […]
BY DEEJ OSTER / VN EDITOR A small group of Detroit Mercy students that put together a 50-plus-page bid has won the right to host the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference in 2019. Sophomores Kortney Hepting and Ben Westphal and juniors DeRoss Cullens, Sarah Hirschmann, Justin Elsesser and Tavala Luciow were […]
BY MIJAI LEWIS / VN STAFF WRITER A revived Commuter Student Association hopes to improve the campus experience for the more than one thousand Detroit Mercy undergraduate students who do not live on the grounds. Brandon Tatar, president of the association, wants to make it easier for commuter students to get […]
BY EMILY JONES / VARSITY NEWS COLUMNIST When I started this fateful, laborious journey (a.k.a. going to college), I was full of motivation and hope. I was ready to tackle everything thrown at me, and I worked tirelessly the first two years. Back then, I thought I knew exactly […]
BY KENNETH DONALDSON / VARSITY NEWS COLUMNIST Our country had another mass shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14. It occurred, like many others, at a high school – this time in Florida. The narrative remains the same: a sick or twisted individual manages to get his hands on some kind of […]
BY MICHAEL KOSTUCH / VN STAFF WRITER It was a normal class, on a normal day, in the normal Briggs Building. Students were working quietly and diligently on in-class writing. And then, in the blink of an eye, the day refused to be normal. Just before noon on Thursday, Feb. 8, […]
VN photo / JOHNATHAN ZHU BY TIFFENY GRIPPER / VN STAFF WRITER Chinese New Year is more than just the start of a new calendar, it is a huge holiday and a chance for families to spend time together. “It is like our Christmas,” said Yuping Yang, international student counselor […]
Photo courtesy of Detroit Titans Sports Info BY KAM CHATMAN / VN Staff Writer The Detroit Titans family has been stunned by news of the death of sports broadcaster Cliff Russell. Russell, 61, died of a heart attack Sunday evening at a Chicago hotel. The men’s basketball team was […]
BY LAUREN SHARKEY / VN STAFF WRITER Once a year, the smell of paczki donuts fills the student union and the library lobby on McNichols campus. That day – Paczki Day, Thursday, Feb. 8 – is almost here. Some people might think it is just an excuse to eat a type […]
BY EMILY JONES / VN STAFF WRITER You’ve seen them on campus: the students walking around leaving huge plumes of cotton candy-flavored trails in their wake. From hipsters to that one cool professor, more Detroit Mercy folks appear to be picking up vaping more than ever. But vaping may not be […]
