State officials last week kicked off a new campaign to crackdown on underage drinking. Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, Michigan State Police Inspector James Wolf and others launched their “21 to Buy, Not Supply” campaign on the campus of Wayne State University. The campaign is targeted to students at the […]

Roughly 500 members of the class of 2020 began their Detroit Mercy careers with ice cream, open mic nights and lots of homework.   The university hosted a number of “Welcome Week” activities to help make the freshmen’s first experiences on campus pleasant. They also got to ease into their […]

Author Desiree Cooper came to UDM April 12 to discuss her new literary work “Know The Mother.”  The panel discussion took place in the architecture display room. Cooper’s book consists of many short fictional stories, “flash fiction” of less than a thousand words. “Flash fiction kind of parachutes you in […]

The UDM Theatre Company and the Digital Media Studies Program collaborated on a short comedy production called “Check Please.” It wasn’t the first time The Theatre Company has teamed up with the Digital Media Studies program. A couple years ago the two programs collaborated on the production of “Autobon.” In […]

For Mike Belotti, having a mental illness has been both the best and worst thing to happen to him. A husband and father of three, Belotti didn’t think anything was wrong with him until later in life when he began having manic episodes and ended up in a hospital one […]

In a month, I’ll be saying goodbye to college, so it’s only fitting that my final review at The Varsity News be a classic ’80s throwback college movie set on capturing the hallowed ground of American higher education through partying and sex jokes. “Everybody Wants Some!!” strives to seize […]

The Student Programming Board’s 13th annual Phenomenal Women’s Dinner honored Dr. Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster. Zimmerman-Oster has made many contributions to the university. She is not only a professor in the psychology department but also serves as director of the industrial/organizational psychology master’s degree program as well as director of the […]

In honor of its approaching 2018 centennial, The Varsity News is occasionally running stories from its archives. This issue’s installment includes three reviews of concerts by what were then up-and-coming musical acts that appeared at Calihan Hall between the late 1960s and early 1970s.     Elton different but not […]

BY KARIC JONES VN STAFF WRITER   Stories Untold sounds like a band you may have heard of or saw a post about back on myspace. But in reality, if you go to UDM and know senior math major Brenden Moloney even as a distant acquaintance, you have heard of […]