Author: The UTD Mercury

What does it take to be a college journalist? Well, for starters it takes some skill and a whole lot of mental strength. We joke around the newsroom that we live our lives in two-week periods. The day starts and ends with newspaper. Interviews, classes, writing coaching all while trying to maintain a social life.…

Students, faculty and administrators alike are singing the praises of UTD’s new alma mater that was played for the first time at the May 8 commencement. The playing of the new alma mater represented the culmination of more than a year-long collaboration among students, faculty and administrators alike to realize outgoing UTD President Franklyn Jenifer’s…

UTD electrical engineering students played a high-tech game of “cat-and-mouse” in the third annual CatNMouse robotics competition in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science South building. The May 4 competition featured faux felines – robots constructed as senior design projects in a mobile communications class – chasing mechanical mice in a timed challenge. As in…

<strong>Top UTD athletes honored at banquet</strong> Senior right-handed pitcher Tony Adler and senior first baseman Candace Felts were named UTD male and female athletes of the year at the annual Comets Sports Banquet April 25. Also recognized were the MVPs and Comet Award recipients from each varsity team, as follows: Soccer: Men – Ali Morshedi…

(U-WIRE) MANHATTAN, Kan. – When looking at many of this summer’s movie releases, at first glance, it looks to be a season of mundane remakes and cheesy crossovers. However, the hype surrounding many of these flicks would testify otherwise. Here are some movies you might not want to miss, as well as a few you’d…

The UTD Bookstore’s ability to deliver more bang for a student’s book-buying buck depends, in part, on more professors turning their book lists in on time, according to bookstore officials. To promote its new 50 percent book buyback program, bookstore officials are offering pizza parties as rewards to academic departments whose professors comply with established…

The UTD baseball team advanced to the American Southwest Conference championship game before falling 6-2 to host McMurry. The Comets, runners-up in last year’s title game, fell behind early and couldn’t generate enough offense down the stretch to mount a comeback. “We were disappointed, very disappointed. We were fortunate to get there, but our goal…

<strong>Insert biased and unacceptable for a student newspaper</strong> As a long-time reader of The UTD Mercury, I was shocked and appalled at the last issue – rather at what was in it. At first thinking the insert was an ad for clothing I nearly threw it away, but then I took a closer look and…

The nation’s No.1-ranked softball team proved to be too much for the Comets, as East Texas Baptist (ETBU) overran UTD, 7-1, in the American Southwest Conference championship game May 1. ETBU scored three runs in the second and two more in the third and never looked back. UTD could only muster one run on seven…

Each of us, at some point, has dreamt of being a super hero – donning spandex, capes and masks and displaying our unique powers to protect others. “City of Heroes” captures that emotion while displaying a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and proving incredibly fun to play. The game takes place in Paragon City. The player…