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University of Detroit Mercy will once again face off against Oakland University for the Detroit Mercy vs. OU Donor Challenge, which started today and runs through 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
The winner is determined based on the number of donors during the competition timeline and will be announced during the Detroit Mercy\/Oakland University men\u2019s basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 23. The losing school\u2019s mascot must wear the winning team\u2019s mascot at the game.<\/p>\n
Detroit Mercy won the first and third challenge in 2016 and 2018 and OU came out on top on the final day to win in 2017. That\u2019s why this year\u2019s theme is \u201cThe War Continues.\u201d Detroit Mercy is running several crowdfunding campaigns and a special Day of Giving in conjunction with the challenge, so donors can direct their gifts to projects or programs that are most meaningful to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the enthusiastic support of Detroit Mercy\u2019s alumni, paired with student, faculty and staff participation, we expect that Tommy Titan will not have to wear the OU jersey again,\u201d said Judy Wernette, Director of Annual Giving at Detroit Mercy.<\/p>\n
To learn more about the Detroit Mercy vs. OU Donor Challenge, please visit\u00a0community.udmercy.edu\/dontwearthebear<\/a>\u00a0and watch a video about this initiative. You can also make your donation directly at\u00a0community.udmercy.edu\/donate<\/a>\u00a0starting Monday, Feb. 11. For additional information, please call 313-993-1250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University of Detroit Mercy will once again face off against Oakland University for the Detroit Mercy vs. OU Donor Challenge, which started today and runs through 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15. The winner is determined based on the number of donors during the competition timeline and will be announced during …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,9,17,4,10,7,6,8,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2019\/02\/Donor_challenge_photo.jpg?fit=550%2C289&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-z0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}