Author: The UTD Mercury
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Worker death fuels protest against unsafe work conditions close to UTD
About two dozen demonstrators and observers met on a rainy, bitter cold Saturday on Nov. 23, at the construction site for State Farm regional headquarters on North Plano Rd, to honor the death of Rodolfo Santillan, a construction worker who lost his life at the site on Nov. 18. Santillan was employed by Capform Inc.,…
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Seniors reflect on women’s soccer season
The women’s soccer team had a tough loss in the American Southwest Conference tournament finals on Nov. 10, but some seniors still look back fondly on their UTD soccer career as the season comes to a close. The team won their first match in the ASC Championship Tournament against Mary-Hardin Baylor. The game looked like…
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Alumnus: “I just feel helpless”
Marketing alumnus Benedict Bernadas has family in the Leyte province of the eastern Philippines where Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, hit hardest on Nov. 9. Much of his family on both his father and mother’s side live in Tacloban City, where the storm left the most devastation. Bernadas said he knows that his…
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Heritage month draws mixed views
Efforts to honor Native American culture met with some skepticism Storyteller Amy Bruton-Bluemel sported her deep-red Chickasaw regalia as she spoke about the lives of Native Americans in the past and present at the Nov. 5 celebration for Native American Heritage Month set up by the Multicultural Center in the faculty dining room. Students got…
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Green campus in reach, if only sprinklers reached green grass
CLARISSA POLLACK Art and performance senior | 0 comments The rainy weather of late has helped our area out of drought. Fields are greener than they’ve ever been since I started at UTD, and it’s refreshing to watch that change grace Texas. Unfortunately, one thing has not changed: UTD continues to waste an incredible amount of one of…
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Ninpo Taijutsu Club trains students in mind, body
Students learn unarmed, defensive skills Ever Monday at 8 p.m., a group of students move in a line quietly in the Galaxy Rooms as they come to a mat, and with a quick chant of the specific move they are executing, each person flings onto the mat, landing effortlessly in a roll and is back…
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Friends mourn loss of fellow student
Some people thought it was a joke. When Dongkwon Shin posted a Facebook status to let friends know that Tam Hoang had died in the car accident they were both in earlier that day, Shin said some believed his Facebook had been hacked. The tragic news was true. And the events leading up to the…
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New ATEC’s first concert a huge success
The first musical concert “De Rerum Natura (2013)” played on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 9, to a sold out auditorium brimming with students, faculty and members of the community in the new Edith O’Donell building. In attendance were David Daniel, president of the university, Hobson Widenthal, provost and other members of the administration.Dennis Kratz,…
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Lady Comets win NCAA quarterfinals
The volleyball team defeated Pomona-Pitzer 25-18, 25-27, 25-17, 25-21 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament on Nov. 15. The Comets were picked to play in the NCAA tournament on the basis of their outstanding 30-8 record. The Comets had failed to win a single set in their two previous appearances in the tournament in…
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Watch the gypsy enthrall in George Bizet’s opera, Carmen
The Dallas Opera’s 2013-2014 season name “Love Transformed”opened Oct. 25 with the crowd favorite French opera, Carmen, by George Bizet and and will play until Nov. 10. Opening night had one of the largest bloc parties with a clicker count of 3,764 people who filled up Klyde Warren Park to watch a live simulcast from…