Monthly Archives: March 2015

When March Madness came to Detroit

The University of Detroit Mercy has hosted a few NCAA basketball tournaments in the past. The first was 1988 and a second time in 1991 where the games were played at the Pontiac Silverdome. There was also a third time at Ford Field in 2008, all as the Midwest Regional Basketball Championships. In 2009, the university was the host at Ford Field for the Final Four where the championship game saw University of North Carolina beat Michigan State. I think...

Northland Shopping Mall, Now Just a Memory

Its the end of an era-Northland Shopping Center is no more. The last company will be out in April, but the memories will last forever for all the long-time Detroit area residents. As a child, our family would sometimes make a trip to Northland after church, have some lunch and go window shopping through the mall. If I remember it right-stores were not open on Sundays back in those days. To take a trip through memory lane, here is a...

Libraries aren’t for just books anymore! Game On!

  Looking for something to do at the library? UDMercy Libraries/IDS is hosting a Video Game Night on Friday, March 13th from 6-9:00 PM. Games planned include: Halo:Master Chief Collection, Blur, Call of Duty:Advanced Warfare, Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and the ever popular Wii Sports.   This year we have something different! A demo of Oculus Rift. This device will let you feel like you are in a 3D virtual world. You can look up, down, side-to-side, even behind you....

McNichols Library Dedication, November 11, 1950

“What’s in the new University of Detroit Library besides 125,000 books? According to the Very Rev. Father Celestin Steiner, S.J., University president, there’s everything including the kitchen sink.” That was how the press release began with the announcement of a formal dedication of the library November 11, 1950. As the highlight of the University of Detroit’s homecoming week, the one million dollar library was dedicated by Edward Cardinal Mooney, archbishop of Detroit. When the library first opened, the stacks were...