Saturday, November 16, 2024
Driving down Fairfield, Leya Bobbitt passes Detroit Mercy every morning on her way to work. Growing up right off Puritan, Bobbitt remembers walking to Detroit Mercy every year for Safety Street when she was a kid. Even as a youngster, Bobbitt knew Detroit Mercy was in her future. But almost […]
The men’s tennis team at Detroit Mercy is senior laden, with four of seven players in their final season. While they hope to lead this team to its many goals this season, they are also reflective about the time they have spent at the university. “We would like to end […]
After more than 31 years as a research librarian working on the first floor of the McNichols campus library, Sue Homant has retired. On her last day, she still placed the students’ chairs back under the tables. In a daze, she paused to recall all the changes that have occurred […]
My first semester as a sophomore, professor David Koukal incorporated something into his lecture of philosophy and Plato, which I never forgot: “Think of the word ‘sophomore’ and its relation to the Greek ‘sophia’ – the word for wisdom. Oftentimes, sophomores end up thinking they have more wisdom than they […]
Why has Peter Berg’s latest film, “Patriots Day,” gotten such a limited theatrical release? Is it anti-American? Anti-Muslim? Anti-government? Anti-diversity? No to all of the above. Then it must be poorly made, grossly inaccurate or boring. Nope. “Patriots Day” is about the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013. It isn’t flawless, […]
Is talent out of the picture, or to be more precise, out of motion pictures? We hear about “stars” and the “buzz” a film gets, but do moviemaking skills have anything to do with the big screen anymore? Has the business side of the artistic medium finally won? Think about […]
Muslim students attending a unity vigil at Detroit Mercy last week expressed disappointment over President Trump’s executive order barring refugees and suspending travel from seven mostly Muslim countries. Chemistry major Zeinab Bazzi, a junior, said that even though her homeland is not on the list she is afraid to travel […]
Every semester students must decide between getting physical textbooks or digitally downloaded them onto their devices. Studies have shown 92 percent of college students would rather use physical books than digital ones. What do UDM students prefer? Senior Taryn Garrison uses both physical books and eBooks. “It depends on the […]
The refugee situation in America – and Detroit – is going to get worse, Catholic Sister Nina Rodriquez told a Detroit Mercy audience at a “Refugees Among Us” panel discussion hosted last week by CLASA, the Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive. “Brother and sisters, we just want you to know […]
It was a half-century ago this school year that Robert “Bobby” Kennedy came to speak at the McNichols campus on his Michigan tri-county tour. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from New York, was three years removed from the Dallas murder of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and less than […]
