Monday, March 24, 2025
The Student Programming Board (SPB) plans so you can play. At least that’s what our next shirts will say – anything but those ugly, ghastly and (most of all) plain white shirts we have now with those old-fashioned school colors. Don’t get me wrong: Red and blue are nice but […]
BY GINEARA HANNAH VN GUEST COLUMNIST “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King, Jr. For the month of February, we celebrate Black History Month and every black leader, activist and inventor who has had an impact on us. […]
In a couple days, I won’t be a lot of things. I won’t be cold. I won’t be worrying about classes or homework. I won’t be going to my internship. I won’t be in Detroit. I will be in the air. I will be over the Pacific Ocean. I will […]
Jon Krause, a UDM graduate who is teaching English in China, writes on his experiences for The Varsity News. By Jon Krause VN SPECIAL WRITER “Surely, my mother wouldn't approve of this,” I thought to myself as I picked an avian toenail out of my teeth. She had […]
Midterms are finally over and spring break is only a few days away. While many may be breathing a huge sigh of relief right about now, this part of the year is also a little bittersweet because we are now in the home stretch towards graduation. These past three-and-a-half years […]
I consider myself an upbeat and open-minded person. But some things get under my skin far more than I’d like to admit and when they do, it’s not easy to block them out. A conversation a couple weeks ago at my internship downtown was a prime example of this. I […]
UDM graduate Jon Krause is living and working in China. He is sharing his experiences through this column. By Jon Krause VN GUEST COLUMNIST Exhausted. Confused. Cranky. Scared. After a series of transports adding up to 18 hours of travel, I stepped outside into a world very unlike my own. […]
Valentine’s Day is my thing. Well, any holiday where baking and decorating are involved is sort of my thing. But Valentine’s Day is my designated holiday. I mean, who doesn’t love love? More chocolate than we actually need and over-priced flowers that only last a day or so are just […]
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 […]
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 […]
