Tuesday, July 8, 2025
BY TANAJA CAMPBELL / VN STAFF WRITER The Student Alumni Association is hosting its annual Day of Giving next week on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The purpose of this day is to inform students on the importance of alumni engagement with the university. Every year, the focus is on educating students, thanking donors and giving back to the community […]
BY NOLAN KROHA / VN STAFF WRITER Alex Smith hasn’t always been Alex Smith. And he still isn’t in all situations. A senior and a double major at Detroit Mercy, Smith was born female into a conservative-Catholic, “two-cow farm” family. Smith – the name is a pseudonym – went to a […]
BY CLAIRE PATTERSON / VN NEWS EDITOR Professor Claire Crabtree remembers poet Dudley Randall. For thirty years, Randall judged the poetry contest that still carries his name two decades after his death. “I would bring the copies over to Mr. Randall and we would sit and talk together about the […]
VN photo by JORGE REYNA BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR It’s every player’s dream to get his jersey retired, whether for high school, college or professional play. Earl “The Twirl” Cureton realized that honor last week, Jan. 23, as his legacy as one of the all-time Titan greats was cemented. […]
BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR Sometimes, the weekend brings a busy mix of work, errands and family obligations. But for two former Titan basketball players, this past weekend brought an extraordinary honor. Eli Holman, 2012, and Willie Green, 2003, were inducted into the Titan Hall of Fame and saw […]
BY JORGE REYNA / VN SPORTS EDITOR On Sunday, the world was in a paused shock after hearing of the death of Kobe Bryant, who was only 41 years old. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among nine people who died on their way to her basketball game in […]
BY MAXINE MOORE / VN STAFF WRITER The Iowa caucus will be held next week, but Detroit Mercy students who lean Democratic have no consensus favorite among the dozen seeking the party nomination. They are united by one factor, though: President Donald Trump. Freshman Zaria Reid is typical. She does not […]
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 […]
Photo courtesy of UDM SPORTS INFO BY SOPHIE TORCELLO / VN STAFF WRITER Preparations for the upcoming women’s lacrosse season are underway at Detroit Mercy, with the team opening next week, Feb. 7, at Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois. “We just finished our first week of practice and we’ve started and ended really […]
