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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dad gets home from a long day at work. Mom has dinner on the table, and all the kids are seated around the table at 6 p.m. on a weeknight. After eating dinner as a family, everyone enters the living room to watch the 6:30 evening news on either ABC, […]

This is my favorite time of the year. My family loves this season and growing up there was only one way to celebrate in my house: a scary-movie marathon. My family loves the horror genre. My older sisters, my brother and I grew up watching scary movies. My parents were […]