Category: Archives
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Because the Party Don’t Stop
Coming back from Spring Break, the festivities continue at UTD with Springapalooza, Race 2BeAware 5K, VSA By Night, and Holi. Holi– Students gather in the intramural fields to celebrate the festival of colors on March 28. Super Happy Fun Fun Good Time Variety Show— Taiwanese Student Association member Paul Lai shoots boba toward his partner…
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‘A Rape On Campus’ as a lesson for student journalists, news consumers
As the UTD TV News Director, I spend a lot of time in the student media office reading other news publications, sitting in meetings about how to improve the organization and doing my research to understand journalism better as a whole. Yesterday, I sat down and read all 25 pages of “‘A Rape on Campus’…
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Share with me?
Shared economies are strange creations of a post-recession market. People are letting strangers live in their homes and driving unknown, drunk 21-year-olds in their cars after working 15-hour days, all for some extra cash. In the meantime, these billion-dollar shared economies like Airbnb and Uber are encroaching upon traditional travel industries, or so the hotels…
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Chancellor McRaven lays out plans to student journalists
UT System Chancellor William McRaven outlined his plans for the system in a conference with student journalists on March 31. McRaven, who started his tenure in January after retiring as four-star admiral in the United States Navy, said one of the biggest things he is concerned with is helping with affordability for students at all…
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These are a few of my favorite things (pens)
With the exception of one of my classes, I tend to subscribe to the age-old practice that handwriting notes is much better than typing notes. Particularly when it comes to my studies, I use pens and markers to illustrate and write all of my notes. A recent study by a Princeton researcher suggests that even…