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Celebrating Chinese New Year

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

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Detroit Mercy staff, faculty competing in ‘Go Move’ event

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 […]

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Bet you didn’t know: trivia from university history

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 […]

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Students share Valentine love tales

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 […]

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GREGG’S & UPTOWN

By Tiffeny Gripper / VN STAFF WRITER Today when people hear the phrase “Detroit Barbeque,” they automatically think of Slow’s Bar BQ, the nationally known restaurant in Corktown. But Detroit has many neighborhood places. And 16 years before Slow’s even existed, locals near campus had Uptown BBQ & Soul food – […]

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Free play tells of slave escape, love story

Ellen Craft and her husband William escaped slavery in disquise. Their story will be told on stage.   BY CRYSTAL EDMONDS / VN STAFF WRITER A special one night-only love story will be presented by Detroit Mercy Theatre Company Thursday, Feb. 14, as part of Black History Month. “A Thousand Miles to […]

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Over time, student finds silver lining in family tragedy

BY EMILY JONES / VN CO-EDITOR Chelsea Short’s life changed forever on July 2, 2015, though she didn’t know it at the time. Short and her boyfriend’s second anniversary fell on that day. To celebrate, they planned to go out. As she was getting ready in her bedroom, Short heard what […]

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Students fight hunger, homelessness before holiday

BY MARISSA BARRIUSO / VN STAFF WRITER Before students head home to their families for Thanksgiving, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week will be happening across the country. Beginning Nov. 10, the week helps raise money and attention of hunger and homelessness. According to the hhweek.org website, “549,000 Americans are homeless […]

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Adjustments color experience for Asian students

BY ISAIAH WARREN / VN STAFF WRITER Coming to America from Wuxi City, China, Xiantong Wang noticed the blueness of the sky immediately. “I love it,” he said. “The air here is really fresh.” A 22-year-old mechanical engineering student, Wang said that he also enjoys the Detroit Mercy campus and prefers […]