If a basketball season is supposed to be a series of highs and lows, then, right now, both Titan hoops teams are higher than the temperature inside the Tommy Titan costume. Both the men and women have notched eye-popping road wins the past two weeks, snapping streaks that have stood more than a decade.

    I am a man finding his way in a woman's world.  Or so, that was my first thought last week, when I joined the latest social networking website known as Pinterest.  The online bulletin-board site allows users to collect images they like and then place those images (or pins) into neatly designed categories (known as boards).

    I am writing this letter in response to the "Missionaries on a mission?" column by VN Associate Editor Ally Levise.  Ms. Levise's description of what is mission work is off base and inaccurate. After graduating from UDM in 2006, I went on to do a year of mission work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

    At the restaurant where I work, I regularly wait on a father and son. We've chatted here and there, exchanging pleasantries. I know exactly what they'll ask for to eat and drink, because they get the same things every time. They know where I go to school, what my major is and some other small facts about my life, and I know some small facts about theirs.

    Forget everything you know about the men's lacrosse team. Throw away their dramatic run to the MAAC championship game last spring, disregard their best players and look past the fact that they're the first-ever Division I lacrosse team in Michigan.

    With a win against our longtime foe Loyola on Wednesday, Jan. 25, we were put back in the race for winning a Horizon League title. Our team is currently on a three-game winning streak. The win put us at .500, and we followed that up with a win against the Flames of UIC.

    Last year Sebastian Thrun, a research professor at Stanford University and Google fellow, taught more than 160,000 students with one class.  That's no typo. Thrun decided to make his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford available online – for free – and the people responded.

    I was happy to read your recent article on the economy ("UDM economics professors see no quick recovery for nation's troubles," The Varsity News, Dec. 7). Over the past five years I have watched with distress as the value of my home has plummeted and the funds in my retirement account have shrunk, and I know that countless others are in the same situation.

    I feel sort of bad always picking on religion. Sort of. I also realize that it probably seems antagonistic that I've repeatedly published columns that question religion in the newspaper at my Jesuit-Mercy university. But, for one thing, I think social institutions, such as religion, should always be questioned.