Author: The UTD Mercury
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Comet Robotics aims for Mars
Unnathi Prakash | Mercury Staff Through the jungle of 3D printer filament, wires and scattered tools, hidden in the UTD Makerspace lab is a rover built for Mars. Founded to develop battle bots, Comet Robotics has embarked on its newest project to compete in the Mars Society University Rover Challenge. Officially founded in 2021 as…
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Rate My Professors: the backbone of Comets’ course selection
Aysha Bader | Mercury Staff One month into the new semester, Comets’ incoming expectations about their classes and professors formed through websites like Rate My Professors have been affirmed, challenged or complicated. Despite occasional discrepancies between the website’s ratings and students’ actual experiences, UTD students overwhelmingly use and trust Rate My Professors, marking its importance…
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Visiting Big Tex: Tips on how to make the best of your trip to the annual State Fair of Texas
Paola Martinez | Life & Arts Editor Big Tex smiles, welcoming visitors with open arms in his full cowboy get up — boots, hat, ascot. “Howdy, folks!” he says in his characteristic Texan drawl. The State Fair of Texas at Fair Park, an unmissable cultural landmark in Dallas, will open its doors from Sept. 27…
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FNCS rocks Dallas with weekend of high-stakes gaming
Mar Ologban | Mercury Staff The Fortnite Championship Series, commonly known as FNCS, was held at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth the weekend of Sept. 7 and 8. One hundred of the world’s best players from around the globe arrived at the arena to compete for $2 million in total prizes in the biggest competitive…
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Paxtonism: A wild and wicked saga about intimidation and overall political fuckery
Subheading: Raids on homes of Latino activists shockingly turn out to be a half-baked idea rife with intolerance and corruption Partha Kulkarni | Mercury Staff Some people vote one way and others vote another way. That is an inevitable fact in our socio-cultural climate. Personally, I am not nor do I aim to be interested…
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Senate Report: SG to increase Comet Cupboard support
Caden Brenner | Student Government Editor’s Note: Senate Reports are written by Student Government senators unaffiliated with The Mercury and seek to inform Comets about Student Government’s activities. During the Sept. 10 Student Government meeting, senators passed two motions to bring back a campus-wide fundraising competition that brings more items — and more awareness —…
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UTD gears up to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Nicholas Frazier | Mercury Staff The Office of Global Engagement will be hosting three events for Hispanic Heritage Month: “Nuestra Cultura, Nuestro Orgullo: Celebrating Latines Excellence” on Sept. 16 in Eugene McDermott Library, “Hispanic Culture and Traditions” on Sept. 27 in SU 2.905 and “El Baile” on Oct. 10 at the SSA’s gaming wall lounge,…
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From the back of a truck to a UTD dining venue, two UTD alums’ food journey
Paola Martinez | Life & Arts Editor When two UTD alumni and a few Dallas-area volunteers packed an Indian buffet restaurant into the back of a pickup truck to start selling lunches on UTD’s campus, they did not expect to garner booming interest — or ultimately, for those alumni to turn the to-go box meals…
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Opinion: Defending the disappearing democracy
Samhitha Palla | Mercury Staff The Texas government’s recent attempt to update its registered voters lists has the capacity to develop into another method of voter suppression, once again proving that Texas is hostile to its own voter base. Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the Texas government removed 1.1 million people from the state voter…
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Opinion: Wrong event, wrong outcome
Joshua Kalakoti | Mercury Staff On May 1, the pro-Palestine encampment at Chess Plaza was labeled as a cause for concern by the university due to the obstruction of the pedestrian path, which led to armed riot police being called on-campus to clear the protest, resulting in 21 arrests of students, faculty and community members.…