BY LAUREN SHARKEY / VN STAFF WRITER Campus Kitchen is a service-learning and leadership development organization focused on reducing food waste and increasing access to healthy food. The organization, coordinated on campus by Clara Gamalski, is partnering with the Detroit Food Policy Council to host a free movie night and panel […]
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Students, speaker explore MLK legacy
BY MIJAI LEWIS / VN STAFF WRITER Nationally known speaker Rasheed Ali Cromwell shared his thoughts on living Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in a Jan. 17 visit to Detroit Mercy. Cromwell asked students how King’s beliefs differed from those of Malcolm X, and then delivered a talk about perceptions. He […]
From New York subways to Ferndale venue
BY EMILY JONES / VN STAFF WRITER Have you heard of a genre called Brass House? If you haven’t, don’t get yourself down over it because the group Too Many Zooz are the ones who invented it – and the only ones playing it currently. Their style – which is coming […]
Students share stories behind their tattoos
BY MIJAI LEWIS and JALEEL HOGAN / VN STAFF WRITERS A tattoo is a work of art that can symbolize something significant to a person. People use their bodies as canvases in order to display these significant pieces of art with the world. Sophomore basketball player Ed Carter has a Jesus portrait […]
KENNETH DONALDSON: H&M fiasco points to diversity blind spots
BY KENNETH DONALDSON / VN COLUMNIST The popular clothing outfitter H & M came under fire after displaying a black boy modeling a sweatshirt featuring the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” This caused wide-scale backlash against the brand. Social media ignited with a slew of angry tweets expressing outrage and […]
EMILY JONES: Pangs of guilt greet return to meat eating
BY EMILY JONES / VN COLUMNIST Lately I’ve been feeling guilty. Maybe guilty isn’t the right word. If there’s anything I’ve learned from being a psychology major, it’s that the field has a concrete term for every behavior and emotion that you’ve felt but never put a name to. So […]
Kam’s Corner
With eight games played, the Detroit Mercy Titans men’s team have won four games and have lost four, already winning half of the games we won all season last year. The guys have worked extremely hard throughout the summer and fall to prepare for this season and you can see […]
The Jackson 2
BY OLANZO PALMER VN STAFF WRITER Jermaine Jackson is a legend among the Detroit Titan basketball players. The former league player of the year helped guide the team to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in the late 1990s before graduating in 1999. He played alongside stars like Rashad Phillips and Bacari […]
Spanish guard picks Detroit over exotic home
BY KAM CHATMAN VN STAFF WRITER It’s a good thing Aiora Preciado lives on campus. Her commute from home might be the longest in school history. The 5’ 10” freshman guard on the women’s basketball team comes to Detroit from Ibiza, Spain. Before joining the Titans, she was named best […]
Holocaust survivor shares story
BY META MISENER VN SPECIAL WRITER The difference between knowledge and wisdom, knowledge is what you know, and wisdom is what you do with that knowledge. Paula Marks Bolton, 91, is a survivor of the Holocaust, living in the Detroit area. She speaks twice a week and the Holocaust Memorial […]
