Day: February 26, 2014
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Baseball wins first three games of season
Comets to play every team in American Southwest Conference for first time The baseball team opened up its season in Frisco from Feb. 14-16 with a 3-0 start — their first perfect start since 2008. The Comet beat Whitman College 11-5, the University of Puget Sound 6-4 and Hendrix College 7-1. Their perfect start came…
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Gamers — a growing group on campus
ATEC Building’s gaming library notable part of flourishing video game community Deep in the halls of the third floor of the Arts and Technology Building on campus is an archive of video games that students can play for fun and educational purposes called the gaming library. The library contains over 300 video games, board games…
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And the Oscar goes to …
Mercury film critics predict who will take home the gold for primary categories at 86th Academy Awards airing March 2. Best Picture – Shyam Vedantam Nominations: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, Gravity Picking a film to exemplify a great year in…
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UTDPD Police Blotter
Feb. 7 • A student reported his rear Texas license plate was stolen from his pickup truck while parked in the Phase 8 lot at around 4 p.m. • A student reported her laptop was taken out of her apartment in Phase 1 without her consent at around 9 p.m. Feb. 9 • Officers were…
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SG Report
A Center for Students in Recovery is set to open on campus. The center will provide specialized counseling for students with addictions and safe, sober events for those students. Although there is no confirmed date on when the center will be available to students, the center most likely will be located in the Phase I…
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Sleepless and slow
Cognitive health rests on a good night’s sleep When students juggle a lot of activities on a daily basis, one of the first things they cut out is sleep, but long-term sleep deprivation can lead to severe physiological effects — this was the message James Maas wanted to get across to his audience at his…
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Are you comfy in your own skin?
Events explore diversity in body image perceptions When Kevin Miller moved from his small Christian hometown to attend UTD, he had more opportunities to meet other gay men, but also began to feel the notion that maybe he didn’t fit the image ideal. “When I was in high school, I never really thought much about…
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Tobacco bans go unenforced
There’s nothing out of the ordinary about seeing someone smoking on campus. With more than 21,000 students, plus faculty and staff at UTD, the occasional smoker is only to be expected. However, many of the people who smoke on campus do so in direct violation of the tobacco-free policy. “The tobacco-free zone isn’t followed at…