Friday, March 21, 2025
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When at first you don’t succeed, celebrate! Weird advice, I know, but when one opportunity does not work out, you never know what the next opportunity is going to be. Sometimes it will be even better than you imagined. Last fall I decided to apply for graduate schools, forgoing all […]
The annual start of the Major League Baseball season – spring training – typically brings along with it a new reason to hope for every one of MLB’s 30 clubs. It also gives me and others a chance to get out of the funk – not the good kind that […]
