BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER “Food is such … a hug for people” – Rachael Ray.  The temperature has dropped and the leaves have turned in metro Detroit, and there's no better way to warm up than with bowl of your favorite comfort food.    It’s hard to indulge knowing Thanksgiving is just around […]

BY ALY REIFF / VN STAFF WRITER Luke Combs, an already successful country music singer, has just released his fourth album, “What You See Ain’t Always What You Get.” Combs’ new album includes 18 tracks and five brand new songs.  One of his new songs, “Forever After All,” has recently become the biggest first day stream of […]

BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER The annual campus Halloween celebration for local children took place on Friday, Oct. 23, in front of Titan field.  Volunteers were placed at the McNichols entrance gate and throughout campus in order to guide guests through the drive-thru event. Guests were greeted by […]

This is one in a series of stories about international Detroit Mercy students who are taking online courses and spending their semester back home overseas. BY SARA MITRAKOVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Mateusz Jaskot, a senior architecture student from Poland, is taking classes at Detroit Mercy as part of […]

BY LUCIANO MARCON / VN SPECIAL WRITER The Detroit City FC men’s team won the National Independent Soccer Association fall championship against the Oakland Roots, 2-1, on Oct. 2. The team has won many trophies in the past, but this title is especially significant because this was the team’s first […]

BY ALY REIFF / VN STAFF WRITER Detroit Mercy students are required to wear masks when on campus as one of the protocols to keep students and faculty members safe from the virus. But walking across campus these days, one notices that some masks speak a lot louder than others. […]

The campus is fairly quiet this semester, with almost all classes online. / VN photo by Devonne Mccullough BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Many students are having difficulties getting used to an online schedule, but how are professors doing? Online education is unfamiliar to some professors as well. […]

BY MADELYN RUSH / VN SPECIAL WRITER The American Dream is what brought Cristina Martinez and her nine siblings more than 4,000 miles from Valencia, Spain, to America in 2012. They were in search of a better life, in a foreign land. “I kept getting F’s in English class and […]

The pandemic has left the McNichols campus feeling like a ghost town, according to one freshman. / Photo by Devonne Mccullough BY ALY REIFF and ANTHONY OCCHIUTO / VN STAFF WRITERS Many freshmen at Detroit Mercy aren’t thrilled with missing out on what they see as the full college experience. The pandemic is affecting […]

For those of you missing the McNichols campus, photographer Devonne Mccullough visited your old tramping grounds this week. Here are a few photos to remind you what it looks like.