It was finals week when I received an unexpected text message. The sender was a guy I had worked with last year and someone I hadn’t spoken to in months. So when I say this message was unexpected, it was very unexpected. He wanted to know if I wanted to […]
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Bidding farewell to childhood home
Over this past Christmas break I had to say goodbye to something that’s been apart of my family since 2001. The house I grew up in, my boyhood home so to speak. This didn’t come as a shock. I knew the day was coming when my parents bought a condo […]
From McNichols to China
UDM graduate Jonathan Krause accepted a teaching position in China and will be sharing his adventure in the coming issues of The Varsity News. BY Jonathan Krause VN GUEST COLUMNIST It was sitting rather innocuously in my in-box one cool, crisp spring morning. “Teach English abroad. All expenses […]
Real lessons flow from role at Fox Sports
ldquo;Don’t be a dumbass!” – I heard those four words a few times from my supervisor Mike Happy while serving as an editorial intern last term at FOX Sports Detroit. As digital content editor at FSD, Happy holds true to the highest standards in his line of work. A former […]
The view from where I stand
You’ve probably noticed me by now. At four-foot-six, I’m difficult to miss. My height is why I receive strange looks from some of my peers and, more often, from children brought by their mothers and fathers into the McNichols library or to basketball games at Calihan Hall. Once the children […]
Could Titans upset UM? Rashad says yes
The Titans defended the Hall – as in Calihan Hall – by stomping all over Rochester College of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Friday night, 77-54. Doesn’t say much about the Titans, right? It doesn’t and that’s because – no offense to Rochester College – the meat of the […]
Brazilian student finds U.S. people good, happy, helpful
Arriving in a new country filled with dreams – that was the beginning of my journey to obtain my master’s degree. After 17 hours of travel, I finally arrived at UDM. Arriving a week early gave me time to get around and try to know the place that would become […]
You don’t need the turkey, just the friends
It is my favorite time of year. The cold weather means breaking out the boots from storage, Christmas music is playing nonstop and calories really start to matter because Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Up until a few years ago, Thanksgiving was never really a big thing in the […]
This wasn’t my plan, but wow…
I love telling people how I got here, and even though you didn’t ask, I’m going to tell you, too. For me, “here” is my last semester of college; “here” is a stepping stone into a career as a financial planner; “here” is being called to start a church downriver […]
Confessions of a thrift shopper
ldquo;What do you do for fun?” That’s a question I get asked far too many times when I tell people I go to UDM. It doesn’t matter if it’s around campus or back home. Usually I respond by saying I explore the city, attend sporting events either downtown or in […]
