A wise man once said, “You got to give the people want they want.” The “Fast & Furious” franchise knows this and lives and dies with it. “Furious 7,” directed by James Wan, is more of the same. It plays to the inner 14-year-old boy in all of us, an […]
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Storytelling at heart of ‘Two Souls’
ldquo;I was born with a strange gift, or what they called a gift. It was really a curse. It's ruined my life. It made me the person that I am today, a freak, a mistake, someone to hate.” – Jodie Holmes, “Beyond Two Souls” Controlled. Manipulated. Isolated. These emotions and […]
Four years at UDM brought more than expected
This is the end of the road. And I can honestly say that I’ve done everything I ever wanted to and even more in my nearly four full years as an undergraduate student at UDM. I became the host of my own sports talkshow, rose to sports editor of the […]
From UDM to Peru?
After being voted Horizon League Goalkeeper of the 2014 season and Defensive Player of the Year, Nathan Steinwascher, who is in the 5-year MBA program at UDM, is using his rightfully earned titles to propel him toward the next level – a shot at a professional career. Many student-athletes who […]
Justice in Palestine aim of student group, leaders say
Bringing awareness is never easy, especially when it involves a hot-button global issue. But the University of Detroit Mercy, home to a plethora of clubs, has a new one this year related to Palestine. UDM Professor Diane Robinson-Dunn is the faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which […]
Not just a paycheck
quot;Facility Operations, this is Nikki. How can I help you?” – this is the phrase senior Nikki Coleman has said for three years every time she has picked up the phone in her position at University of Detroit Mercy. As a soon-to-be graduate of the business administration program, she knows […]
Fix lights, roads for better impression
The University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus is a gated university. There’s no getting around that. So what happens when the traffic lights go out on McNichols? Well, it’s not fun. As a commuter student, the past month or so has been frustrating when I look down McNichols off Livernois […]
Facts about core
Many thanks to The Varsity News for bringing the important matter of core curriculum revision to the attention of UDM students (“Proposed change to core curriculum divides faculty,” March 25). I want to point out that in this article, proponents do not in any way dispute the two facts underlying […]
So why bother traveling?
So why even bother? If the flights are long and the food is weird and the smog is slowly killing us all, what is the point of traveling? This is ultimately a question that we can only answer for ourselves, but since I am lucky enough to have my thoughts […]
Endings hardest part in life and writing
A few weeks before PTV, I received an email asking if I would be interested in writing a column from the perspective of an incoming freshman. If I didn’t say yes, I wouldn’t be writing this right now. Now I have been procrastinating writing my last column for The VN, […]