Intramurals up the ante
ESPN has deemed poker a sport. Now, too, has UTD. Texas Hold ‘Em, the betting card game popularized by the televised World Series of Poker, joins the slate of intramural sports scheduled for this year. “With all the interest in poker on ESPN, we wanted to get people involved who...
Life & Arts Briefs 09/07/04
<strong>’Basically Baroque’ tunes up classics</strong> Music goes Baroque with a talented ensemble of instruments and Senior Lecturer Kathryn Evans’ vocals. Favorite Baroque pieces including “O holder Tag,” “erwünschte Zeit” and three movements from “French Suite #14” by J.S. Bach will entertain the audience. The performance begins at 8 p.m. Sept....
‘Self-Study’ students explore identity
Vision and perception are explored in the Self Study Group Portfolio now on display in the Visual Arts Building. The project, part of the advanced photography course, was completed last spring. Associate professor Dr. Marilyn Waligore and her students chose a single image from their own work to contribute to...
Victim brings perspective to Rape Awareness Week
Repeatedly raped by an uncle when a child, Jaron Benjamin copes by telling his story. Benjamin spoke to 154 students, staff and faculty in the Student Union Galaxy Room as part of Date Rape Awareness week Aug. 30 – Sept. 3. The UNT senior serves as the coordinator for UNT-based...
Worries expressed over revised counseling policy
While many UTD students take on multiple roles in addition to being a student, common sense tells them their lives will be stressful. But for some students like Adrian Cook, the stresses of school and everyday life can be too much to handle alone. An Arts & Humanities graduate student,...
News Briefs 09/07/04
<strong>UTD No. 1 for CS degrees awarded</strong> According to a recent survey by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), UTD confers more computer science degrees than any other institution in the country. The survey indicated UTD’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) awarded a combined 592...
‘Take me out to the ballgame’
Standing room only ticket: $40. Dr. Pepper in a souvenir cup: $4.50 Discovering America’s pastime (and finding out that it’s actually not baseball): priceless. Now before I have you baseball purists calling for my head on a pike, let me explain how one pastime has supplanted baseball as America’s favorite....
Games’ lack of ads a 10
The Olympics are over now. The athletes are home, glowing from their Olympic experience – or perhaps glittering gold. In corporate America, the sponsor companies like Home Depot, Visa and Monster.com (which supplies “official online career management” for athletes with aspirations beyond Home Depot shelf-stacking) are counting up the gold...
UTD Archers take aim in D.C.
Fifteen students stumble nervously into the nation’s capital, each one, at least symbolically, wearing the UT System bumper sticker for others to see. Of the 15, five come from UTD, the rest from UT Austin. These are the members of the fall 2004 class of the Bill Archer Fellowship Program...
Still stacking library shelves
Although more and more publications are finding their way onto computer screens, it’s nice to see the McDermott Library celebrating the acquisition of its one-millionth volume. True, “Flora Londinenis” will be digitized and made available to countless students and literary scholars in an electronic format, but the presence of one...