Author: The UTD Mercury

The Student Government Association (SGA) spent the summer hard at work for the students. Though most students do not take classes during the summer, UTD continues to change and progress, even throughout the summer months. While this summer meant SGA finished a lot of old projects, it also signified the beginning of many new ideas.…

In a time of national censorship and “patriotic” submissiveness, I applaud the Baylor Lariat’s recent controversial editorial. The Feb. 27 editorial defended San Francisco officials’ actions in providing marriage licenses to gay couples. It comes as no surprise that the conservative Baylor administration took offense to the stance. Baylor University is a private institution and…

Students looking for facts and fun scored big during Sexual Responsibility Week, which aimed to help students become more responsible about, well, sex. Health Education and the Peer Health Educators (PHEds) provided prizes, snacks and games along with pertinent statistics and information about sexual intercourse, sexually transmitted diseases and contraceptives throughout the week. “It has…

When the dust settled in Kerrville after the two-day, 36-hole Schreiner Invitational golf tournament, three of the top seven finishers were wearing UTD green and orange. The Comets – led by junior Peyton Cook who finished third individually – finished in second place, 10 strokes behind LeTourneau. Cook’s 152 was just six strokes off Schreiner’s…

The UTD men’s tennis team kept a firm grasp on its unblemished regular-season record, aceing American Southwest Conference (ASC) opponent LeTourneau, 7-0, and dominating McMurry, 5-2, on March 6. The home wins extended the Comets’ season mark to 3-0 with their only setback coming in a preseason exhibition match against Collin County Community College. “I…

The UTD softball team spent its spring break touring California, but they weren’t hopping from beach to beach. Instead, they hopped from diamond to diamond, surviving a grueling six-games-in-four-days schedule with a 2-4 record against nationally-ranked opponents. The Comets (7-7, 3-1) opened their West Coast swing with an 11-3 shellacking of Albion (MI) College March…

A new class of McDermott Scholars has just been selected, bringing a new crop from five different states to join their diverse counterparts in the scholarship’s fourth year. Eight men and eight women from Missouri, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas, were chosen from 100 nominations and 39 finalists, said Charles Leonard, director of…

Two and a half years ago, a very different person entered The Mercury newsroom than the one now leaving. As I make my farewell, I know that the future of my entire career owes much to my short past at a small college newspaper. When I first walked into the newsroom in September 2001, it…

The UTD women’s tennis team picked up its first American Southwest Conference (ASC) East division victory of the year, overpowering LeTourneau, 9-0. The victory opened a March 6 doubleheader for the Comets, who dropped the second match, 3-6, to McMurry. Head coach Jenny Dunn questioned the effectiveness of scheduling two matches in the same day,…

As the McDermott Library undertakes its spring cleaning this year, several university libraries will be reaping some recycled rewards through an exchange program spearheaded by UTD. UTD and the Arnulfo L. Oliveira Memorial Library at UT-Brownsville (UTB) have partnered in the exchange to send duplicate copies of books and paper copies of periodicals that exist…