BY ALEXIS FLEMING / VN Staff Writer Detroit Mercy is not the only university settling into a new and different semester. The pandemic has changed the way classes, organizations and even sports will be running throughout the country, leaving many students struggling to get used to the new normal.   Darla Washington, a sophomore […]

Four winners have been honored in the fiftieth annual Dudley Randall poetry contest, sponsored by Detroit Mercy’s English department. Professor Mary-Catherine Harrison said the competition drew its most entries in recent memory. Mary Elizabeth Johnson, an English major, won first place for her poem “a shoplifter in Amity, New York […]

The McNichols campus resembles a ghost town. / VN photo by RYAN RUTKOWSKI   BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER Just a few weeks ago, it seemed Detroit Mercy students would have little to worry about related to the terrifying coronavirus that was mostly impacting people overseas. Little did we know this […]

Sara Mitrakovic of Slovenia is impacted by travel restrictions. / VN photo by SOPHIE TORCELLO   BY SOPHIE TORCELLO / VN STAFF WRITER Many Detroit Mercy students have been moving their belongings out of the dormitories and returning home because of the coronavirus pandemic. But that option doesn’t exist for […]

Empty parking lots are the new norm on the McNichols campus. / VN photo / SOPHIE TORCELLO   BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER The changes on campus brought about by the coronavirus pandemic are challenging students and staff at Detroit Mercy. Classes have moved online, all group activities have […]

BY VIRIDIANA CAMACHO / VN STAFF WRITER Students who participated in the interfaith dinner found common ground at the Detroit Mercy event Feb. 4. Clayton Blackwell, a local ministerial candidate in the Southern Michigan Conference of the Free Methodist Church USA, said the dinner was “a great opportunity to discuss common […]

An architectural rendering of the outdoor plaza. / Photo courtesy of Detroit Mercy Advancement   BY DEVONNE MCCULLOUGH / VN STAFF WRITER  For the first time in a half century, the Student Union at Detroit Mercy will be expanded and renovated. Construction is expected to begin in May and be finished within […]

Leni Alvarez and Fernando Jose Trejo Guevara. / Photo by Benjamin Blazevic   BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Two young activists from Mexico and El Salvador visited Detroit Mercy to spread awareness of the lives of deportees and the creative efforts of young people in Central America. Fernando Jose […]