Author: The UTD Mercury
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Net neutrality needs to be mandated by law
The equality and balance of the Internet is imperil, and it needs to be stopped. Future contributions that can only be brought by the Internet are being threatened by those who want to put an end to all traces of net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that governments and Internet service providers, known as…
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UTD PD Blotter
Nov. 4 • An officer investigated a report of graffiti on the south side of the Activity Center around 2 p.m. Nov. 5 • A student was arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Waterview Parkway around midnight. • An unaffiliated man was issued a criminal trespass warning after being terminated from Chartwells.…
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Creative Collective
ArtSciLab, an interdisciplinary research lab, is running a crowdfunding campaign to raise efforts for its latest project, Creative Disturbance. The project aims to connect people from different fields through podcasts and social media platforms. ArtSciLab, a product of the arts and technology and emerging media and communication programs, aims to connect artists with scientists to…
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Sticky Situations
ATEC students have produced “Sticky,” a 107-second animated short film that expresses the circle of life through a young chameleon, a fly and a flower. “Sticky” is the second animated short film from the animation studio course. A team of 30 students, from the graduate and undergraduate levels, worked on the project. The original story…
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Galactic Gaming
A plane flies by overhead, ducking and twisting through mysterious alien ruins on an unknown mission of exploration. The horizon is infinite, as are the mysteries to uncover in the strange, inside-out world of “InnerSpace.” A group of arts and technology students first conceived the video game when they formed an indie game company, PolyKnight…
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A Glitch in the System
UTD’s newest art show explores glitch, a modern art form that creates patterns and designs through errors in the algorithmic flow of digital instruments. Glitch art, the aesthetic arrangement of bugs in the coding of a digital file, has gained popularity since software manipulation became possible. Glitch by meaning is a defect, but this art…
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Mercury Morning News 11/10
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Alumnus arrested and charged with cyberstalking
Alumnus arrested in connection to wrongful acquisition of sexually explicit photos; suspected victims include former students Nicholas Rotundo, a 2013 management information systems graduate, was arrested on Oct. 4 after the FBI accused him of obtaining inappropriate photos and videos of numerous women, including several former and current UTD students. According to affidavits from the…
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Scammers target students for money
A student called UTDPD on Oct. 16 to report a caller claiming to be an agent of the Internal Revenue Service to coax money from the student. The scammer asked the international student to deposit $460 for taxes at a location near Coit Road and threatened the student with an arrest warrant, said UTDPD Lt.…
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Suspected victim shares her story
When alumnus Nicholas Rotundo’s friends heard he had been charged for cyber-stalking and intrusion, they were shocked and couldn’t believe the news. During his time at UTD, Rotundo was involved with several student organizations, including Student Government, Mu Epsilon Kappa and the Student Union Activities Advisory Board. His friends described him as a computer savvy,…