Author: The UTD Mercury
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Esports teams prepare to open spring tryouts
With tournaments and skirmishes continuing throughout the month, including its first tournament out of state, the esports teams are already planning for the spring semester. Both teams for “Overwatch” and “League of Legends” have played locally in tournaments and TESPA events against teams all over the country. The “League of Legends” teams went to Tulsa,…
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Pre-season polls bring hope for basketball
The women’s basketball team holds a strong position after initial polls from the American Southwest Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association ranked the team as the most likely to win the regional tournament. In the 2017-2018 season, the team qualified for the semifinals of the ASC Tournament. Its victories last season allowed it to participate…
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Volleyball, soccer teams lose out at ASC
Men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball advanced to the American Southwest Conference championships last week but ultimately lost, concluding a series of high-stakes seasons. Head volleyball coach Marci Allison began the volleyball program at UTD and has coached the UTD volleyball to five ASC championships. “Every year the conference is starting to become better…
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Wrestling to be reinstated as club sport
The wrestling club is seeking recognition from University Recreation to become a club sport again. The previous wrestling club was removed as a club sport in 2015 because it did not meet University Recreation requirements, which include communicating with the UREC office, submitting budgets, maintaining its constitution and attending regular meetings with UREC staff. Chris…
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UTD launches formalized pre-weekend programs
Several UTD departments have partnered to organize a recurring event where students can relax and de-stress on Fridays. Since the start of the fall semester, University Recreation, University Housing and the Student Wellness Center have been hosting an event called Friday After Class. On the first Friday of every month, students can go to the…
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Student veterans find welcome on campus
During a deployment to Afghanistan, Eric McCrory said he remembers sitting in a gunner’s hatch driving to Kabul thinking about the commotion surrounding him. “For about 98 percent of the time that I was over in Afghanistan, I felt very safe,” McCrory said. “But then there’s also that 1 percent of sheer terror … and…
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All-male dance team gains national recognition
UTD’s Bollywood fusion all-male dance team earned a spot in the first national dance competition of the 2018-2019 season. Bollywood fusion dance encompasses styles from hip hop to bhangra. The dance group applied to Texas Jhalak, a competition held in Austin, and recently received news of their acceptance. Finance junior Aneesh Bindingnavile and mechanical engineering…
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Road Warriors launches offshoot for freshmen
The New Students Programs office is working to involve commuter students more on campus with an initiative called the Freshman Commuter Program. The FCP will provide first-year commuter students with monthly luncheons or breakfasts for them to talk about their experiences on campus and at home or simply chat with fellow Comets. FCP is an…
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Community bookshelf comes to ATEC
In an effort to make research more accessible to the UTD community, a group of ATEC professors helped establish a small zine community bookshelf on the first floor of the ATEC building. Kim Knight, the associate dean of graduate studies at UTD, spearheaded the community bookshelf, which was put up at the beginning of the…
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Bookstore brings bargains to students
The UTD bookstore will adopt a new program to simplify the process of shopping for and using textbooks. Follett, the university’s bookstore partner, plans to use a new optimization tool known as Discover to make accessing textbooks a more seamless experience for both professors and students. Discover will launch in the spring of 2019 and…