Day: April 24, 2017
Transfer of power
UTD’s baseball team, ranked 14th in the country, is seeing success this season after the addition of 13 transfer students to the roster....
Review: Mystery thriller
James Patterson, author of the Alex Cross and Maximum Ride series, told the Washington Post that his latest novel, The Black Book, was...
Keepers of the Earth
UTD’s sustainability efforts have grown to incorporate a student educator component with the creation of EcoReps this semester. In 2016, Thea Junt, the...
SG Report: April 24th
Foreign Affairs Leader of the Academic Affairs Committee Jonathan Schueler is continuing to work with his committee on evaluating the need for more...
Entrepreneurial lab opens for student use
Any UTD student with entrepreneurial ideas will have the opportunity to turn them into companies using the free resources of the Blackstone LaunchPad,...
Res Hall North closed to all upperclassmen
Starting next semester, Residence Hall North will be open exclusively to freshmen. As one of five residence halls on campus, North was the...
Counseling Center waitlist reflects increasing student demand for help
The current waitlist for the UTD Student Counseling Center has 127 people. A month and a half ago, there were 108 people on...
Democracy threatened by authoritarian ideas
In a previous version of this article the name of Lawrence Lessig’s book was incorrect, The Mercury regrets this error. America’s imperialist ambitions...
Ethical Hackers raise money to help repeal bill reducing internet privacy
A UTD group called Ethical Hackers is donating the profits from its first annual fundraiser to protest a federal bill overturning previous Federal...
New ‘Furious’ film proves to be worthy sequel
In “The Fate of the Furious,” the eighth installment of “The Fast and the Furious” franchise, director F. Gary Gray and writer Chris...
By The MercuryApril 24, 2017