Wednesday, July 9, 2025
VN photo by LO DODSON BY MIJAI LEWIS / VN STAFF WRITER At the start of college life, most students picture how their dream dorm room will look. For sophomore Kyri Jackson, now an RA, the aim was chill vibes. “Just a relaxed environment where I can sleep and study,” she […]
Photo by U.S. Navy BY TIFFENY GRIPPER / VN STAFF WRITER “How many people have to die for things to change?” “They should raise the age for having a gun.” “Guns aren’t the problem. Mental illness is the problem.” “My AR-15 is for self-defense.” These are just a few of the […]
BY LAUREN SHARKEY / VN STAFF WRITER Well, that was an enlightening week. In my previous Varsity News article, before spring break, I announced I would be signing off social media for a week to see how it would feel and how it would impact me. I was a full-on social […]
Emily Jones, Johnathan Zhu, Deej Oster and Phylisha Drayton represented The Varsity News at a national college media conference. BY EMILY JONES / VN columnist Spring break brought me a wonderful opportunity to experience many new things. I felt as if I were in an entirely different country. In […]
BY EMILY JONES / VARSITY NEWS STAFF WRITER 2018 marks a special year for Detroit Mercy’s student-run literary journal, [sic]. This year is the 25th anniversary of the annual publication, a literary mash that contains short stories, poems, drawings, photographs and more. Never limited to one genre and covering […]
Varsity News photo / LOREAL DODSON Ophelia Joseph thougth she would feel isolated in the entrance booth, but she does not. BY TIFFENY GRIPPER / VARSITY NEWS STAFF WRITER Before you set foot on the Detroit Mercy campus, something comes between your car and the entrance to the university: […]
Varsity News photo / LOREAL DODSON Marcus Williams and George Eason work sorting mail for Detroit Mercy. BY LAUREN SHARKEY and MIJAI LEWIS / VARSITY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Every day, hundreds of pieces of mail arrive on campus. It falls to a crew of three men to handle most of it […]
Varsity News photo / LOREAL DODSON Artist Rory Rennick (left), performing as Henry "Box" Brown and assisted by wife Angela, involved history professor Roy Finkenbine in his performance. BY DEEJ OSTER / VN EDITOR Magician and motivational artist Rory Rennick brought to life professor Henry “Box” Brown, a runaway slave […]
BY DEEJ OSTER / VN EDITOR A small group of Detroit Mercy students that put together a 50-plus-page bid has won the right to host the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference in 2019. Sophomores Kortney Hepting and Ben Westphal and juniors DeRoss Cullens, Sarah Hirschmann, Justin Elsesser and Tavala Luciow were […]
BY MIJAI LEWIS / VN STAFF WRITER A revived Commuter Student Association hopes to improve the campus experience for the more than one thousand Detroit Mercy undergraduate students who do not live on the grounds. Brandon Tatar, president of the association, wants to make it easier for commuter students to get […]
