Monday, September 16, 2024
BY ANTHONY OCCHIUTO The baseball season has started but it hasn’t been smooth, to say the least. MLB has had to postpone many games because of Covid-19 being spread in clubhouses and among teams around the league. This is because the commissioner has not laid out the proper structure to allow for games […]
TITAN GOLFER JAMES HILL IS AMONG THE DETROIT MERCY STUDENTS LIVING IN CANADA DURING THE PANDEMIC. BY ANTHONY OCCHIUTO / VN Staff Writer This semester is going to be different for Detroit Mercy’s Canadian students Being Canadian and living in Canada and now starting school online from home instead of being […]
The author at left with fellow Varsity News staffers at Washington Square Park in New York City. BY DEVONNE MCCULLOUGH / VN STAFF WRITER Being in New York City in mid-March, as the coronavirus scare first took hold, shattered my sense of calm into a million pieces. Seeing hundreds of people wearing […]
BY CLAIRE PATTERSON / VN NEWS EDITOR The coronavirus has done some real damage to the start of 2020. Tens of thousand of people have been affected, leading to a nearly nationwide quarantine. It is extremely difficult to come to grips with how the world is now. The state of […]
BY ADIA PALMER / VN STAFF WRITER As a college student, my mental health is always teetering. Some days I am happy and filled with light. On those days I ate a good breakfast, got to class on time, had a productive day at work, completed my homework at a decent […]
BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN COLUMNIST We need to stop blaming video games for violence when the problem is personal responsibility. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been playing video games for more than a decade. Saying that I play “a lot” of video games is an understatement. While it’s well […]
BY D.R. KOUKAL / VN GUEST COLUMNIST Though I was greatly saddened to receive the provost’s communication of Feb. 6 concerning recent “bias-related incidents” on our campus, I can’t say I was surprised, given the noxious climate of our current politics. The provost’s statement was for the most part strong and […]
BY SCOTT SPARKS / VN STAFF WRITER Coming into my freshman year at the university four years ago, I had no idea what to expect. I was thinking, “Oh my gosh, I hope I have friends and I hope I don’t fail out of school.” It was a lot different […]
BY VIRIDIANA CAMACHO / VN STAFF WRITER Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have decided to leave the British royal family. What does that mean exactly? For starters, it means they won’t have to live by the same rules that Prince Harry had to live under while being part of the royal […]
BY BENJAMIN BLAZEVIC / VN STAFF WRITER Some Americans are rather oblivious about the mindset of refugees. My parents were born in Bosnia / Herzegovina, a small country in the Balkans. They were both 17 when they came to the United States with their families due to a war. Whenever my […]
