THE UTD MERCURY

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  • Fall sports breakdown

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    The subtle changing of leaves means it’s time for UTD fall sports to start up again. Volleyball, women’s soccer and men’s soccer all have high hopes this season, but whether those hopes will yield results requires a complete breakdown of each sport. Roster The volleyball team, like last year, again lacks height, with zero players…

  • Program cultivates winning tradition

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    Dapo Ogunfeitimi stepped foot on UTD’s court for the first time as an incoming freshman. His eyes immediately became fixed on one thing — the basketball championship banners hanging from the rafters. The senior guard said he knew at that point he wanted to become part of the program’s winning tradition. The men’s basketball team…

  • Just for kicks

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    Nicholas Kirk wasn’t always an active person. His parents urged him to get involved in sports at the age of 10. That’s how Kirk and taekwondo crossed paths. Taekwondo is a Korean martial art, which traditionally was used as a form of self-defense, but was later developed into a sport. Kirk, a biomedical engineering graduate…

  • Alum launches clothing line

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    It’s safe to say Ali Mahmoud is a modern Renaissance man. The UTD alumnus is a medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, a husband, a businessman and fashion designer for Next Ummah, a fashion brand he founded during his time at UTD. Mahmoud said the word “ummah” refers to the…

  • Oldest driver helps settle int’l students

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    Comet Cruiser’s 883 West service to McCallum Boulevard is almost always full. Dennis Taylor, one of the longest-serving drivers for the Comet Cruiser service who operates the McCallum route, chats with students on the 15-minute journey, asking about their days, offering recommendations for restaurants in the city and reminding them to call their parents. A…

  • Gourmet Club offers taste of home

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    It was 7 p.m. in the Student Union. The regular hustle and bustle was in full swing. Behind the doors of the Gemini Room, however, a warm family dinner was underway. The Gourmet Club had its first meeting of the year on Aug. 29. Eighteen people showed up, but — if the past were any…

  • Alum to represent women in video games

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    An ATEC alumna, who is an arcade coordinator at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, has influenced the growth of the museum from the perspective of a woman in a field that has yet to be equally composed of both men and women.  After hearing about the National Videogame Museum’s vision to revive the world…

  • Students protest oil pipeline

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    The UTD College Democrats were among the allies of the American Indian Movement of Central Texas, which descended upon the headquarters of Energy Transfer Partners in Dallas on Friday to peacefully protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The construction of the pipeline, which will transport crude oil from the Bakken/Three Forks rock formations…

  • UTD fast-track medical program loses funding

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    The UT-Partnership in Advancing Clinical Transition program was discontinued after the Transformation In Medical Education initiative, which supports UT-PACT, did not grant additional funding. Students in UT-PACT were able to graduate from UTD in three years, continuing their medical education with automatic admission to UT Southwestern. An announcement saying, “UT Dallas and UT Southwestern have…