Dear freshmen, There’s a great quote by Ferris Bueller in the 1986 hit “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” The same could be said about your time at the University of Detroit Mercy. […]
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No hidden goals in seeking quotes
ldquo;Hello! Do you mind if I ask you a couple questions? I am a writer for The Varsity News.” “Umm… No, thanks.” Ah, the very answer no reporter ever wants to hear: “no.” More often than not, I find myself stuck in a situation where I need to get interviews […]
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 […]
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, […]
Judgments, lessons on NY subway
Mark it off my bucket list. I sat, slept and stood on the New York City subway – a reflection of the city’s fast-paced lifestyle – for both short and long periods of time during my four-day stay in the “City That Never Sleeps,” looking at the long and dreary […]
Cancelled classes plague liberal arts
Ah, registration season. It’s the time of year when engineering and science students worry and wonder, “Will I get the labs I want in time?” And when many of us ask, “Will – fill in professor’s name here – class be open?” I remember as a naïve freshman thinking that […]
Like anywhere, China has its bad days; they’re just smoggier
BY JONATHAN KRAUSE VN GUEST COLUMNIST China is full of confusing, eye-opening experiences where you get to learn about new cultures and eat lots of bugs. We've established that much already in my last few entries. It sounds completely perfect, right? Well, it’s not quite perfect. As with any […]
