Day: April 11, 2016
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Softball team’s luck looking up
New coach’s approach leads to team built around aggressive offense, needs to maintain success to turn program around The softball team may finally be turning a corner in its quest to rise from the mediocrity that has been plaguing it since last year, although fans may not realize it just by looking at their record…
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Pinpossible: Watercolor Mugs
I’ve been on a huge watercolor kick lately. I love the imperfection of using watercolors because they make everything look so much more real, rather than something that’s mass produced. The small problem is, however, that I’m terrible with watercolors or any other kind of paint for that matter. Wire, x-acto knives, yarn, etc., I’ve…
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Batman v Superman disappoints
Movie suffers from uneven storytelling, mediocre acting Zack Snyder’s latest filmmaking endeavor is an unfinished puzzle of jumbled ideas. Jesse Eisenberg’s neurotic Lex Luthor is a portrait analogy of Snyder’s vision. Eisenberg’s character focuses on his plan of pitting the two caped vigilantes against each other for his own ulterior motives. Snyder’s master plan with…
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Houses of the Holy: Latter-day Saints
Mormon senior finds peace, happiness at temple Editor’s note: This is the fifth part in a five-part series. The towering white marble walls of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dallas are covered in crawling gray veins that hold special meaning for interdisciplinary studies senior Mikaela Johnston. “I just…
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Q&A: Maria Klawe
Correction: In an earlier version of this article, Maria Klawe’s name was misspelled. The Mercury regrets this error. On April 8, Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., gave a lecture on the importance of recruiting more women into the tech industry as part of the Department of Computer Science’s Distinguished…
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Comet Closet set to open soon in JSOM
Service collects gently used professional attire, redistributes to students in need after they meet certain number of requirements A new service on campus has been collecting donations of professional attire to redistribute to students who need them to land jobs or internships. The service, called Comet Closet, was set up in 2015 and will be…
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Fallen Comets remembered
Family, friends, faculty gather on April 7 to commemorate the loss of eight students who passed away this academic year. Correction: In a previous version of this story, the number of students who passed away was incorrectly stated. The Mercury regrets this error. Eight students who passed away this academic year were commemorated at the annual…
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How Toyota came to UTD
University, international company partnered for campus exhibition The array of corporate flags and cars that accompanied Toyota’s on-campus celebration were all part of a large campaign to announce the company’s plans for the future as it moves its North American headquarters to Plano. What members of the UTD community may not realize, however, is that…
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HackUTD turns into major event
Tech event that orgininated within university hosts students from across state, world in second-annual coding contest A 1-year-old tradition on campus is quickly becoming a staple of the UTD community thanks to the dedication of students and professionals from across North Texas. More than 400 hackers, sponsors and volunteers gathered in the ECS building on…
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Game of Boards
Students create new game, get published, distributed by large firm A new board game with origins on campus may soon be available on store shelves across the country. ATEC junior Tomer Braff and senior Edward Stevenson created the chess-like board game Circular Reasoning in a game design class on campus. In 2014, after submitting their…